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48. Ghosts and Goals: Bell Witch and Paul the Psychic Octopus · Amigos, Afraid!

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Wow, he just took a big gulp of wine.
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Go how you doing? It's been a week.
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It's been. It's been a week.
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It is Thursday and it's it has been a week.
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It's. It's already Thursday.
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Yeah, I could have sworn we just recorded yesterday.
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It feels like it, but no, it has been a week to the day since
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last Thursday. Wow, it happens like all the
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time. That's crazy.
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It's crazy how like every day ends with why.
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Jerry, no. You can't just blow my mind like
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that. I was not ready.
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You had to give me warning. I got you.
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Next time I got you. I got you.
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Does every month end in Y? No, no, no.
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No. I answered that myself.
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This has been a long week only because I was on vacation the
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rest of last week even after we came back from our trip.
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So this Monday was my first day back in like 9 days.
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How did it feel? It was fun, Yeah.
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That first day back, I was like, damn, I kind of missed work.
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I don't know who I was in that moment.
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I don't know what overtook me. I don't know that man.
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But it was nice. We were just there teasing me
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Ando seeing like what I miss, like what's new with everyone.
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It was fun. And do they manage without you?
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Yeah, the building didn't burn down.
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Barely, unfortunately. I wanted to feel so important
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when I came back. No, they they needed you.
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They just said that to be nice. OK, that's what I'm hoping.
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Welcome back, guys. Welcome back to the Daily BJ.
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I'm Brian. I'm oh, you're going to get me.
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One day. I'm Brian.
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And I'm Jerry. And he's Jerry.
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And I'm Brian. Oh my God, yeah, I'm at Berry
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and you're listening to the Daily BJ.
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That should have been our intro song the whole time.
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I. I honestly didn't even catch
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what song Is that a Britney song?
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No, it's a Brian original. What I thought it up right now.
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Right now, guys, I've been wanting to get into songwriting
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and look at me. Someone just trademarked that
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same. No, please don't.
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No, too late. I need to call a lawyer.
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And sue them. Speaking on what you just said,
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did you know that someone trademarked the term Hot Girl
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Walk? Smart.
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And she's preventing other people from hosting their own
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Hot Girl Walks. What, because she has a
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trademark? So she catches you on a hot girl
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walk you're getting. Sued.
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Allegedly. She's going to throw rocks at
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you. I don't know.
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Some girl was like, hey, guys, welcome to my not hot girl walk
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because I legally can't call it that anymore.
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What? Yeah.
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And then I went down a rabbit hole.
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There's a girl who trademarked it like 4:00-ish years ago,
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something like that. I, it barely got to my desk.
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I don't have full research, so I don't know which person to side
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with. Not yet.
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Imagine just being ahead of the curve like that.
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Be like, wow, that's the term that's going to blow up.
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Let me trademark. Yeah, I remember going on Hot
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Girl Walks like COVID time. So like, maybe it did get
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popular around then. I mean, four years ago, 2022.
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Yeah, I can math. So who knows, maybe maybe she's
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in the right to trademark Hot Girl Walk.
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We don't know. Maybe she was the 1st.
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Yeah. What have you been up to, Brian?
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Sports. Sports.
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Sadly, sports. Go sports.
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Wait, sorry. Before we move on to sports, I
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do want to shout out happy belated birthday to Matt.
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Happy birthday, Mr. Dungeon Master.
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DM. Happy birthday to YEAH.
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Hope you had a good one, big Papa.
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Yeah, we're seeing you today. Oh my God, it's D&D that's.
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Right. Yeah, we're going to see you
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literally tonight. Right after we published this.
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After for your birthday. Yep, it's like we planned it.
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We always do. We planned it for it to be your
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birthday this week. Yep, we knew it was going to be
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on Thursday. I remember years ago, years ago,
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we decided, we spoke to your mom and we said this is the day you
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have to birth him. So years later.
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Yeah, we report. It all falls together.
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It all falls in line. Happy birthday.
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Speaking of sports sports, you and Matt play baseball.
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Yeah, we do. Hot hot take.
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Hot take. Watching baseball is so boring
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to me. Watching many sports is so
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boring to me. But for some reason, things have
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changed this week. I don't like agree with you but
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I can see where you're coming from because baseball can be
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boring. There's baseball games that I've
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been to where they're scoreless into the 9th and they go after
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innings and then someone walks it off with a run.
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That sounds tough to watch. So like, I get it.
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I get it. I I've been there.
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But we watched the NBA Finals on Saturday.
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I watched a soccer game for the World Cup.
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That's right, you've also been watching soccer.
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Brian's a whole different. Person, I don't know who I am
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these. Days Brian is just he's on a
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he's on, he's on a new one. This has been the year I've
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watched the most soccer games. And have you enjoyed them?
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The Mexico one did make me slightly emotional, which I
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wasn't even fully paying attention to.
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Like I said, I was off of work. I threw it on the TV.
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I'm over here playing my games on my computer.
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And then I I hear the good and I turn over and I just see them
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all celebrating and they start hugging and then they start
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crying and then I start crying. Yeah.
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And you, like, try to join their bubble, like with their little
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group that they're like, yeah. Dang it, the corners of the TV
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just like, dig into my arms. Like I'm right there with.
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I got it. I got it.
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It's it's, it's the biggest stage for soccer.
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It's the FIFA World Cup. I know these players live the
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way they play the the game. They play and they live and.
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They they play in the live, but they hope to one day reach that
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stage and to score a goal in the FIFA World Cup.
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Yeah, that's the. Emotional part, I guess that's
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what made me like, Oh my God, he did it.
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He scored the first goal and it's the home game.
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Yeah, and I think the last time they met each other, Mexico and
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South Africa, was in the South African World Cup in 2. 1000,
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we're going to we're going to have a call back to this later
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in the episode. What?
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It's just a tight pretty boy. You just sit there.
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We'll get to it. I will say the basketball game
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was really fun to watch. Maybe it's because you guys got
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me in a really good like ambient spot and you guys are explaining
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the rules to me like I'm 5. Yeah.
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Jerry was was just like, you need to do do this sign and he'd
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get the fuck out of my way. 2010, yeah, we're good.
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Oh, interesting. Very poignant.
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I love that song. Thank you, 2010.
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Yeah. So, so to give you some
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background on that, guys, when we were in the Redwoods, we were
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watching, I think it was a game 3 or 4, I forget. 3.
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Let's go with three. Sure, or 4 and or three.
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And I was I was teaching Brian the ISO that Kobe, he has like a
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video where he's saying like he's doing this motion.
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He like puts his index fingers and thumbs together and then he
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like flares them out. But that means get the fuck out
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of my way. It's a 1V1.
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I want this. I know this guy can't guard me.
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It's like it's just telling everyone get the fuck out of my
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way. Wow, he's just throwing out like
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play signs. Yep, and everyone knows that's
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all you. I'm not even going to try to
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intervene. I'm going to leave that lane
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open for you versus this dude and you're going to score on
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him. So I was teaching Brian that and
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then I was having him do it. Then I was teaching him that
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like very stereotypical sports guy body language.
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And I'm like, dude, we got to teach you.
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You know, it's it, it's, it's your rite of passage.
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He was teaching me how to be straight acting during pride.
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There you go. Who else is going to do that for
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me? Thank you, Jerry.
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You're. Welcome.
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You're welcome. And and that's as an ally,
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that's the least I can do. There was so much to it.
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There was form, there was posture.
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The. Comments.
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Essence and and man spreading. Yeah, yeah, I'm Roboto.
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You know, just. Me and Jerry on the couch were
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taking up the entire space. No room for a lot of room on the
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couch, but no room leg room. No, no, it was knees to knees.
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It was kind of romantic. So he he learned, so that was
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that was a background. So I was ready.
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They got, they're prepping. Me.
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Yep, Yep. Fast forward to Saturday.
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We're watching it. We're at a brewery.
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The the environment electrifying people chanting the speakers of
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the big screen. Brian was locked in.
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I got Melissa in one ear telling me the rules, Jerry on the other
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being like man spread, man spread don't.
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Forget I'm teaching him plays, I'm showing him plays.
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A hey, remember what we reviewed, Remember what we did?
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And he did it guys. He was like, he was your local
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straight guy at the bar. That was just like screaming and
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yelling and just, yeah, and you could say.
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I had a psychic connection with the team, with the Knicks,
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because we were running for the Knicks.
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All for Mondani's New York. Yeah, this is for him.
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I'm doing this for him. And the Knicks didn't start off
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that great. And I was like, damn, how are
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they going to catch up? And they heard me.
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They proved me wrong. Because as soon as I started
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saying that shot shot 3 pointer, 2 pointer foul.
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Yep, after following his comment, they went like on a 15
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and two run, which cuts the lead and I think they took the lead
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like towards that end to that last quarter, yeah.
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Dude, people were like jumping out of their seats.
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I think it was the community of it all that really got me.
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But. Mostly you.
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Like, if it weren't for you, yeah.
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But if it weren't for you and you're like just your comments
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and your your energy, the Knicks would have lost.
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You're welcome, New York. Send me my check.
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Yeah. Why isn't he part of the parade?
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Why aren't? I part of the team, put me in
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coach, put me on the bench. At least I said.
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Timothy Chalamete. There you go, I'm.
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Ready to play today. But yeah, it was, it was really
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cool. It was really fun.
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I'm glad it was the Knicks. That's all I got to say.
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Same. Sucks to be the other team New
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York with that man who's real tall.
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So tall, never caught his name. Victor when?
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But yeah, Victor, tallest. Man I've ever seen.
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Put him in a movie, call him. Victor.
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Yeah, let's. Just go with Victor.
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Victor so tall, made everyone seem short.
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And then Jerry's like, they're all like, at minimum 6364.
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Yeah. Yeah, he's that's why they call
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him the alien. I don't even watch basketball.
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Me. Me neither.
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The basketball girly is Melissa I.
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Haven't watched basketball in like 6 years.
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I just stopped watching. It's OK.
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I I watch baseball aside from. All the sports I've been into
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these last couple days, I really want to do something.
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Sorry, how to take a drink? What do you what do you want to
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do? What do you how to do drink?
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To listen to me. Am I that insufferable?
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Wow, feelings hurt. I want to make you said it.
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I'm just projecting. I don't want to make a playlist.
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I want to make like seasonal playlists or monthly playlists.
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OK, because I'm all caught up with all my podcasts.
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OK, OK, so now I'm forced to listen to music.
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You would think I'd listen to so much music, but I get tired of
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music. I prefer to listen to a podcast
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on the way to work. Preferably the daily BG Oh.
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Of course, I'm the first one. I'm actually not the first one
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to listen. Every week.
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I think there's two people in the running that are awake and
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moving around during that time. I think it's either Melissa or
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Frenchy. Shout out to you all.
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Thank you because I think. Frenchie had mentioned that she
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listens to it on the way to work at like 7:00 in the morning or
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something. Yeah, wow.
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But I want to make seasonal playlists OK?
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Can I give you my honest opinion about playlists only?
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If it's good you. Know I think they're great OK I
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think you should I think you're going to and they're going to be
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amazing you. Knew I needed support.
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Yeah, of course, of course. Personally.
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Oh, I've tried that in the past and I just fall off.
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The most consistent playlist that I have is my dot X
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playlist, which is just all like my synth goth cold darkwave,
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which I've like. I've just over the years I've
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added to it avid, like I've curated it perfectly.
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And then on that Spotify DJ thing that that happened, that's
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what I would use to like mix them the songs and stuff you
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see. That is commitment.
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You're saying you're not committed to it.
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I don't know how long has that been, but.
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That's the only one that's hit. I've tried to do like a like a
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techno one, I've tried to do a rock 1 and it just those don't
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land for me. Go, Jerry.
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I'm at 0. You have one.
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You're right. You're right.
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Honestly so. Pat, pat yourself on the back.
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That's amazing. That's more so than I've done.
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I've made them in the past. Like I threw one on today, but
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that it's kind of what led me down the thought process 'cause
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that was a a specific snapshot of like summer of last year.
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So I want to recreate that. There's so much good music that
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I'm listening to now, hey. Brian, 6X specifically, here's
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something you've been listening to that you listened to.
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Last year you're triggering me. I have Spotify, DJ me and DJX.
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We got to break up. Hey, it's DJX.
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He's giving me the same things and I'm over it.
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I'm tired of it. He's giving you rap.
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There's nothing new. He only gives me rap music after
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9:00 PM and I don't listen to rap.
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Every time he's told me about DJX on Spotify, he's like, it
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starts playing rap out of nowhere and I don't listen to
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rap and I'm like, well, he clearly knows something you
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don't. I refuse to believe he is.
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Trying to put you on so hard. He's like, you're gonna like
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this rap song I. Will listen to girly pop rap but
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as soon as a man comes on, oh girl that's not for me.
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OK, OK, Probably one of the first times that you're like a
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man. Nah.
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No, not interested. I'll I think women make better
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music. That's what that's Yeah, I mean,
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a lot of Lady Gaga, a lot of women artists are just top of my
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list. Yeah, for sure.
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And I. Stand by that.
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Sorry if I hurt your feelings. Not sorry.
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You know what I think got me into sports?
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Heated rivalry sports. Yeah.
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Are you? Still waiting for them to kiss
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on TV. Oh my.
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God, I'm just wanting. I want to see them kiss in
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person. I want to be present for that.
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How do I become a a freaking PA for that show?
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How do? I go into sports, how do I?
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Heat a rivalry How do I? How do I heat a rivalry in real
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life? How do?
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I reheat my own rivalry. There you go.
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There you go. I think it's possible.
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You have the Honda Center, You have the Dodger Stadium.
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I don't. Care about hockey.
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I care about Connor's story and Hudson Williams.
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That's it. But.
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If you're in the hockey world, you tell me you wouldn't like
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invite them over to an event. A hockey event.
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I haven't looked at them enough, like real hockey players to
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like, be like, yeah, sure. Go on your deep dive and report
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back to us next week. OK, look, look.
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Sorry, just gave me homework. I looked.
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At all the starting lineups in the NHL.
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And. These are the hottest and these
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are the Yeah ranked one. To 50, I'm adding that to the
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list of things I need to do on my personal Tiktok.
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Oh, by the way, guys, we're in Tiktok payments.
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Oh that's right, follows on Tik Tok's Daily VJ.
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Our last two Tik Toks have gone like thousands of views.
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Pretty cool, so. Many comments I.
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Will say the last one we posted when we were at the Battery
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Point Lighthouse was really funny.
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It was really good. Thank you for those that
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continue the joke. And just as a reminder, in
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December, the lighthouse will turn 170 years I.
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Love that that's the information that we're going to carry with
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us until we die. That's my legacy honestly.
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That a joke that landed Legacy. His joke landed in 2026 Legacy.
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Someone played along to his joke in the comments and that's all
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he needed. That's a win.
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Thank you. I appreciate that year has been.
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Made you you. Know you know humor.
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You know the joke. You're it.
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You're him or her. Or them.
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It's pride. It's pride.
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So I appreciate y'all for getting that joke.
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It was really funny. I thought it was hilarious you
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cooked at. That one, thank you.
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You told me that I'm amazing. I'm showing Jerry the the edit
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as I'm working on it. It's like what should I add?
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And he said let me cook, give me the mic, and he did my one.
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Brain cell said Yep, we're rolling with this information
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the whole time. Three times.
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Fuck yeah, they're still. Wrong with some information I I
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guess I said Humboldt County Battery Point Lighthouse is not
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in Humboldt which in the episode I did clarify that it's Dell
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North Bay County but in the TikTok I said humble oops.
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I I appreciate it. I mean, thank you for those that
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have like corrected us and stuff like cool, that's awesome.
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Like you know, you're informing us and stuff.
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We're also going through a bunch of information, but at the end
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of the day. We're just two guys.
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We're just two dudes like. Just cut some slack.
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We're just two boys. Literally.
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I just thought I had one brain cell I.
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Know I didn't correct you either, my bad.
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The normal. He has no other brain cells to
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rub together. We just have one.
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And I share that and with your. Donation of 1099 a month you can
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make Jerry's wish come true of having a second joke this year
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go viral that would be. So cool guys, I would appreciate
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that. Start working, start writing.
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That's the thing, no one wants to work nowadays.
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Oh my God. OK, Kim Kardashian.
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OK, enough fun stuff. OK, Jerry, please can you
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enlighten me and tell me what haunted you this week?
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Brian, do you know what haunted me this week?
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I don't. That's why I asked.
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Do you want to know what haunted me this week?
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I don't. Know.
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Yeah, that's why I asked. More car stuff.
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Car stuff is the epitome. What is It is the bane of my
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existence and the object of all of my desires.
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Oh, he did seem a little. Aroused doing that oil change I.
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Did an oil change, guys, normally oil changes are super
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quick if you know how to do an oil change, like it's just two
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things. Look, there's like 3 things if
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you know, you know. But anyways, for some reason I
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couldn't unscrew that bolt pan, the oil oil pan bolt.
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It was so freaking hard. I I think I spent like what a
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good 40 minutes, yeah, trying to unscrew that by hand with like
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the wrench or the IT. Was dark by the time we started
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actually changing. Started with daylight.
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Semi started without daylight. So so that's been that's been
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what's haunted me this week. Just more car stuff.
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What I read about this week is a story that's considered one of
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the most famous hauntings in American history.
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Unlike most ghost stories where somebody sees a shadow figure or
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hears footsteps in the attic, this one allegedly involved
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physical attacks, conversations with a spirit and possibly even
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murder. Murder, murder, murder.
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We're talking about the Bell Witch today.
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Dang this sounds maybe. I've seen a ghost show on this
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but I don't know much it. Yeah, absolutely.
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Probably come up on Ghost Adventures, major ghost shows.
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There is a couple films, I don't know if they're like really big,
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but they they they've talked about this, add it to.
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The to the list. Before I get into it, OK, I have
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a question for you. What's the creepiest thing
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you've ever heard in your house at night that made you stop and
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go? What the hell was that?
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One time I was laying on this bed right here, right next to
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us. This one.
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Right here, the one that's unmade.
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Oh my God, I don't. Think I've ever told you the
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story? Hey, hey, hey, hey.
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It's haphazardly made. There was a time I thought
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someone, like, opened my door and I did have to, like, grab
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something heavy. I, like, grabbed whatever was on
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my night stand, and I'm like, hello.
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I opened my bedroom door and no, nothing.
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I walk into the kitchen thinking someone fully, like, came in.
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Yeah, because I thought I heard my door close.
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Wow. Might have been my neighbors
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just slamming it because the walls are thin.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was going to say that
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logically I feel like I would have gone there, but then again,
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I never. You see like the footsteps, like
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I hear them. I thought I heard them right
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here. No the.
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Footsteps are the toddler that lives upstairs.
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I I always lock my door. I I can't, I can't go to bed
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last night. I.
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Did my my closing shift and I realized my door had been open
19:48
all evening. Like not even fully closed,
19:52
allegedly. Yeah, yeah.
19:54
I can't go to bed without without locking it.
19:56
I have to remember. That's just the anxiety in me,
19:58
but that's OK. So the story starts in Tennessee
20:01
around 1817 with a farmer named Old McDonald.
20:04
I'm kidding. I was about to say Goodyear.
20:06
Good name named John Bell. Simple.
20:12
One day he's out walking his property when he spots something
20:15
strange in the field property to wanna walk.
20:20
He's walking his. Property.
20:22
He's out walking his property, OK.
20:23
OK, depending on. Who's telling the story?
20:26
It looked kind of like a dog, except it had the head of a
20:29
rabbit. His property on his property.
20:32
Oh, his property. Yeah.
20:33
Yeah, his property had. Oh, he saw.
20:35
This on the property. Yes, he saw this.
20:36
On his property, he supposedly shoots at the thing, but it
20:41
disappears, vanishes. He just walks.
20:43
His property with a gun. I mean, he's a.
20:45
Farmer. You have to and it's 18.
20:46
What, they're 18? 17 There's coyotes, there's
20:50
bears, there's, I don't know, there's bears in Tennessee, but
20:53
I feel like. There is, there's bears
20:54
everywhere. There's tigers.
20:56
Everywhere and sharks everywhere.
20:57
You never know. There's no body, there's no
21:00
blood, nothing. It's just gone now.
21:04
Could have been an animal he misidentified?
21:07
Maybe, but according to the legend, that wasn't the end of
21:11
it. It was just the beginning.
21:15
Brian, if you saw a rabbit headed dog staring at you from a
21:19
field, the field was staring back at you.
21:23
What's your immediate reaction to this creature?
21:26
Like right now. We're in 1817 right now.
21:28
I. I'm taking out my phone and I'm
21:31
zooming in with a good. Quality, not knowing.
21:33
Yeah, I'm like, hello. Yeah, yeah.
21:34
Not. Know I'm pinching.
21:36
Right now 2K. Pixelated camera no.
21:38
No super. Like we have. 4K cameras in our
21:41
phones like we have. No, we should not have grainy
21:44
UFO footage, but some of us. Have no storage, Brian.
21:46
Some of us can't even take video valid.
21:49
At that point it's just your word versus photographic
21:52
evidence. Got it.
21:53
No, I'd be scared. Yeah, I, I think it's pretty
21:55
freaky and it reminds me of like the oddities fair, like
21:58
conventions that they have around LA or Ontario where they
22:01
have like taxidermied what's Jack rabbits with antlers or
22:06
yeah, yeah, yeah, things like that.
22:07
Add that to the. List we have to go.
22:08
I would love to. Go to the oddities.
22:11
Why did I wish for that? I don't know.
22:13
So they don't hear you, so they don't they.
22:14
They're always listening. Not long after the weird
22:18
sighting, the Bell family started hearing noises around
22:21
their house. Not just the occasional Creek,
22:23
but talking. Nope.
22:25
There was scratching coming from outside the walls, knocking on
22:29
doors when nobody was outside, sounds of chains dragging.
22:33
The things were reported to be moving around at night.
22:37
At first they thought it might be animals outside.
22:39
They thought maybe somebody was messing with them.
22:41
Yeah, the bear is. Knocking on the door.
22:42
The Bear. The bear would be scratching.
22:44
What if it's scratching in the back on the side of your wall?
22:46
You never know. Yeah, they do that, but
22:49
eventually they couldn't explain it, and whatever was making the
22:52
noises seemed to be getting bolder.
22:56
Imagine trying to sleep at night in this very bed and something
23:00
scratches at your bedroom wall every single night.
23:03
No. I'm scared I have to.
23:05
That also stays completely closed, blinds fully closed.
23:09
My biggest fear, someone just looking like into my window.
23:11
Yeah. Yeah, 'cause I mean, it's right
23:13
there, yeah. It's a little hard 'cause I'm on
23:17
the 5th floor, so no one tried to come in to my fifth floor
23:21
apartment to the fifth floor. Apartment Fifth.
23:23
FIFTH, at that point I would just tell them to move in and
23:28
pay me half the rent. If you're going to be doing that
23:30
every single night, give me property.
23:31
Taxes. You're You're on my property,
23:33
you're on my. Property you're walking.
23:34
My property my. Property is my roommate, so
23:40
things started taking a dark turn.
23:42
Sorry. Just like footsies.
23:43
No, you're. Good.
23:44
You're good. Did you get scared?
23:47
I was like, what's happening? You know?
23:49
Yeah. I thought you saw.
23:50
No, I. It perfectly blends it because
23:52
your song has the same colour as like the little stripe.
23:56
Like so, John Bell's daughter Betsy became the main target.
24:02
LA Betsy, not Betsy. According to the stories, she'd
24:06
wake up with scratches on her face and arms.
24:09
Sometimes she'd feel something gank her hair.
24:12
Other times, she reported to getting slapped by something,
24:14
but nobody could see it. The attacks became so frequent
24:18
that neighbors were invited over to witness what was happening.
24:21
Guys, we're. Having creepy stuff overcome.
24:23
Watch dude like guys. My daughter's being attacked by
24:25
this ghost, by this entity. You have to come see this bring
24:28
up high. I feel like most people
24:30
experiment, like, oh really? I feel like most people
24:35
experiencing this or something paranormal keep it to
24:37
themselves. They're freaked out.
24:39
They're like, or maybe they told someone close, but to tell your
24:42
neighbors to come over, Like, what are they trying to prove?
24:44
Like, hey, we're not crazy. We swear this is happening.
24:46
Come check it out, please. Well, there.
24:48
There's something validating in in someone else experiencing
24:51
something, too. Like if I'm sorry, I hear weird
24:54
things here. If Jerry's in here and he's
24:55
like, oh, my God, yeah, you hear that, too.
24:58
Yeah. I would feel less crazy.
25:00
I think keeping it to yourself makes you more nervous.
25:04
Yeah. Makes your mind create things.
25:06
Talked about that 2 episodes ago.
25:07
Check it out. If your kid kept waking up with
25:09
unexplained scratches, would your first thought be ghost or
25:13
something else? No.
25:14
My first thought is they're looking for attention, OK.
25:16
OK, negative seeking behavior. Yeah, I'm going to be.
25:19
That parent that is like fully being oblivious on demonic stuff
25:25
happening in the house. Ignorance is bliss, you know,
25:26
just like the mom. And Hereditary.
25:28
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never seen that movie.
25:30
Oh, Jerry, it's all I need to watch it.
25:31
It's not good for you. For you specifically, it's not
25:34
good. OK, I.
25:35
Won't watch it. I'm going to watch Kill.
25:36
Birds. I'm not watching it.
25:39
I'm not. I'm just kidding.
25:41
There's no birds. No.
25:41
Birds are harmed. I don't think, I don't remember.
25:44
We'll see. I'll put it on the list.
25:45
I have a list of 1000 movies. So let's talk about this ghost
25:49
or entity. The thing haunting the Bell
25:53
family supposedly started talking and not making random
25:56
noises or whispering full on conversations.
26:00
Witnesses claimed it answered questions, told jokes, sang
26:05
songs, quoted Bible verses and carried on discussions with
26:09
visitors. Imagine walking into a house and
26:13
instead of seeing a ghost, you hear a ghost roasting everybody
26:17
in the room. Because according to some
26:19
accounts, that's basically what happened.
26:22
The Spirit apparently loved trash talking and eventually it
26:25
got named Kate Oh. I thought this ghost was like a
26:28
gay man just reading them. Most people know it by now as
26:32
the Bell Witch Bell because I was the name of the family, you
26:36
know, and. Which, because they were, they
26:38
couldn't say bitch it. You said it, you said it best.
26:42
So what do you think is worse, Brian?
26:43
A ghost that silently watches you from a corner, or one that
26:47
won't stop talking. It truly depends on the
26:52
conversation. What?
26:53
If you guys are just having a good old time, yeah, what if
26:55
you're just. Roasting each other like it
26:57
helps pass the time. It's 1817, we don't have phones,
27:00
TV. There's no TV, you're just
27:02
watching. You're.
27:03
Like watching the leaves fall for entertainment or something.
27:06
There's ticks. Oh.
27:07
I don't. Want to deal with those?
27:09
Just no TikTok. So the weird thing is that the
27:11
spirit didn't seem interested in terrorizing everyone equally,
27:14
just little Beth. It really hated John Bell.
27:18
Oh yeah. So the attack started with
27:20
Betsy, but it especially hated the farmer John Bell.
27:25
Was that the dad? Probably.
27:26
Yeah. According to the legend, it
27:28
constantly mocked him, called him names, threatened him, and
27:32
made his life miserable whenever it could.
27:35
Could you imagine being bullied by a ghost for years?
27:39
The bell, which was apparently involved with Betsy's love life,
27:43
the daughters. She was engaged to a young man
27:45
named Joshua Gardner, and the spirit supposedly harassed a
27:48
couple so much that the relationship eventually fell
27:51
apart. She.
27:52
Said leave room for Jesus and for the Bell witch, the ghost
27:55
said. You deserve so much better.
27:56
Like Nah, I don't approve of this dude.
27:58
You know what she probably did? She did the freaking the Bloody
28:01
Mary original thing to find her freaking lover.
28:03
Yeah, that's. Right and miss.
28:05
Betsy said not Betsy and Miss Bell witch said that's not the
28:09
one like Kate. Kate was like, no, that's not,
28:12
that's not her, no. That's not him.
28:15
Kate 3. Times in the mirror and she said
28:16
get the fuck out got. It got it, got it, and a beer
28:23
appeared, so add that to the. List of Tik Toks to make.
28:27
We can make that on our TikTok account.
28:29
You got it. Then comes a part that makes
28:31
this legend famous. Years into the haunting, John
28:35
Bell became seriously ill. Oh.
28:37
No, his health. Continued getting worse until
28:40
one day the family reportedly found a small vial filled with
28:43
an unknown liquid. Nobody knew where it came from.
28:47
This is where folklore and history start blending together
28:51
because according to later accounts of the legend, after a
28:53
mysterious bio of dark liquid was discovered near John Bell's
28:57
bedside, the Bell Witch allegedly claimed
29:00
responsibility. One version says the entity
29:03
boasted that it had poison Bell while he slept.
29:06
The story became one of the most famous parts of the legend and
29:09
is the reason the Bell Witch is often called the only ghost in
29:13
American folklore accused of murder.
29:16
However, historians point out that these details come from
29:20
accounts recorded decades after the events and can't be
29:23
independently verified. A spirit claiming responsibility
29:27
I think is the wildest part and why it's so famous.
29:30
A spirit talking. That much?
29:32
Yeah. Joking.
29:33
Singing, quoting Bible verses out.
29:35
I think that was pretty. You know what?
29:37
No, that's not a ghost. Someone's living in the walls.
29:40
It's a squatter. It's a squatter.
29:41
It's a squatter. The bell squatter.
29:46
This is the squat witch the squat.
29:48
Witch that's the the origins of squatters.
29:51
Look it up. Yeah, Butcher's dictionary.
29:52
It's the bell Witch. She lived.
29:54
In the walls, yeah. John Bell died shortly after.
29:58
Now, obviously there's no way to prove that any of that happened,
30:01
but that's the legend. And that's why the Bell Witch is
30:04
often called the only ghost in American folklore accused of
30:07
killing someone. It wasn't just haunting them, it
30:09
wasn't just scaring them, but it was killing them.
30:12
What's scarier to you, oh demon, a ghost, or a witch?
30:23
Not all witches are scary. Agree the.
30:27
Bell Witch, though, sounds like she she has a vendetta.
30:32
I feel like we could be friends. So I'm going to say demon.
30:34
OK? Because a ghost, they don't know
30:37
what's going on. They they truly don't.
30:39
Yeah. They're just doing their best
30:40
sometimes. Just like living in a cycle.
30:42
Yeah. A demon, though, he's not like
30:48
he, she, they. They're not over here.
30:50
Just like roasting me. Roasting is fun.
30:54
Speaking in tongues, That's scary.
30:56
Yeah. One's absorbing life and just
31:00
leeching from you and the other one is giving you life and
31:02
telling you jokes and. Slay Mama, Slay Miss Kate.
31:07
Last question, if someone offered you $50,000, would you
31:11
spend one night completely alone in the Bell Witch house?
31:14
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely no phone.
31:17
No flashlight, no we're. Going to keep each other
31:19
entertained. She knows so many stories. 1817
31:24
Imagine how much like how much older the spirit or the the the
31:28
witch is. I know she's had time to.
31:31
Yeah, yeah, for sure. She's charged.
31:33
She's charged up. She sees a lot of death.
31:35
Is that, do we know that building still alive or that
31:37
building still around? That's a great.
31:39
Question I don't in Tennessee, I don't remember.
31:41
I'm sure it has to be. It is it is, it is.
31:43
I did see a picture of it I. Wonder if it's on Airbnb.
31:46
Which house can I rent a night? Is it $50,000?
31:50
You pay me. That is a scary looking house.
31:56
It's all brick. Brick has something to do with
31:58
haunts I think that's. Just a sign.
32:00
Oh, I thought it was that. Building behind it, yeah, so did
32:03
I. But I think that's just that,
32:04
the sign house. Once Upon a time, a house was
32:08
here, yeah. It like that's the year like the
32:11
original, like I think, oh, that's.
32:12
Gone. That's a wooden shack.
32:14
So I think that's. Where it stood.
32:15
So the the the sign, the sign itself is there.
32:17
What did I say? Last week, ghosts.
32:19
They don't exist. Outside, they don't exist.
32:21
Outside OH. My God, there was one episode of
32:24
Ghost Adventures where they were ghost hunting a demon just on a
32:28
bridge just outside. Not a troll I I guess I
32:34
remember. It was a scary episode.
32:35
Wow. Then I saw a separate video that
32:37
was like Ghost Adventures is the most fake ghost hunting show in
32:40
existence. Zac Bagans.
32:43
I want. To go to his museum, so do I.
32:44
I've seen people do like me before the Haunted museum and
32:48
then me after and they look terrible.
32:50
All that energy sucked out of you, Yeah.
32:52
What's in there? What's behind those walls?
32:54
Well, isn't the. It's in Vegas, I think.
32:56
Yeah, it's the. Annabelle doll hit it or or
32:59
stored there, I don't know. Add that to the list, Your
33:03
information's old Annabelle killed that man.
33:06
You're right. Get on my heart attack.
33:07
You're right. And he rests in peace.
33:10
Wow. God damn.
33:11
We did the episode. Like he that was a long time
33:14
ago, a year ago. So I also wanted to comment that
33:16
this is the first like paranormal case that I've talked
33:20
about in a while. I think I've talked about
33:21
cryptids and more. Yeah, these past couple, just
33:24
cause we've been like full of trade places.
33:26
Yeah, I was all like ghost, ghost, ghost the last couple of
33:28
weeks. That was your bed.
33:30
I know Jerry keeps making squeaking noises.
33:32
That sound like he's just too in it's.
33:34
It's the bed. So yeah, that was that was a
33:36
cool little change. I am glad I did some research on
33:40
that and that was cool. So if I'm ever in Tennessee, you
33:43
know I'll be by that sign so I can get.
33:45
Out Hello Kate. Bring him here.
33:47
Do the Kate Kate Kate challenge? No, because then.
33:50
I might take the cotton. So, yeah.
33:52
Beer, right? I was a cat, he said.
33:54
Tea no. Well, Jerry, I love that.
33:57
Thank you, Brian. I want to look.
33:58
Into that more, thank you. But can you tell me what haunted
34:02
you this week? Well, I stated at the top of
34:06
this episode, I've been haunted by sports and I was just doing
34:11
my he he ha ha on my social media, as per usual, go sports.
34:16
And I came across something very relevant to what's happening in
34:22
the world right now with the World Cup.
34:24
OK, but also right up our alley of being very kind of weird,
34:29
kind of silly, kind of he he ha ha.
34:32
I feel like this story is going to take us back a little bit too
34:35
early episodes. But Jerry, did you know octopus
34:40
or psychic? Or so they thought back during
34:43
the 2010 FIFA World Cup when Paul the Octopus correctly
34:48
predicted the outcome of each of Germany's games.
34:51
What? I heard that and immediately
34:54
thought, yeah, octopuses are definitely aliens.
34:59
What do you? Mean an octopus correctly picked
35:01
who is going to win World Cup games, and you're going to be
35:04
shocked to see how many they guessed correctly.
35:09
Jerry, you're a big soccer fan, and if memory serves me right,
35:12
you come from a big Kusasur family.
35:14
Yes. Did you ever catch wind of this
35:17
back in 2010? I know we were all a little
35:20
distracted by Shakira's waka waka that that.
35:23
That was world. Cup that song.
35:24
Was the World Cup. I was 1312 years old, 09798 Oh,
35:36
you're so young. Sorry.
35:38
I was 12 years old. So I think I was just more
35:41
enamoured by the uniforms, the Mexico uniforms at the time.
35:44
I still have that jersey. It's so fucking iconic.
35:46
The Jabulani, which was at the ball that they used in that
35:49
World Cup. I was like, what?
35:50
The what is that like? What the?
35:51
Fuck, did you just call me? I had never, ever, ever heard
35:55
about an octopus. And you texted me something in
35:57
the morning. Yeah.
35:59
And I, I just ignored it because I'm like, I don't understand
36:01
what he what you're saying. Like what he said psychic
36:05
octopus goes crazy. That's you said something else
36:10
which now makes sense. I said no wait what?
36:12
Where you at? No idea so.
36:15
Funny is when I mentioned to Jerry yesterday, because we we
36:20
sometimes will give each other some information of like, well,
36:22
what, what ballpark we're going to be in for the episode.
36:25
Yeah, all I said was psychic octopus.
36:27
Yep. I had a.
36:28
Full on message typed out of explaining it that I never said.
36:33
Amazing. And this morning?
36:34
When I want to go text you, it was there and I'm like, let me
36:37
send it now. Now I'm going to keep them in
36:39
the dark. Yeah, just to.
36:40
See, I appreciate that. Thank you.
36:41
All I thought was you're calling me that because I have an
36:44
octopus tattooed on me. Or Paul because I texted you.
36:47
Let me see. That looks like a Paul.
36:50
Wow, do. You know what kind of octopus it
36:52
was a common. Octopus.
36:54
Wow, I knew the the scientific name but I forgot it but I did
36:58
Google it because there's sit tight, sit tight.
37:02
I'm sitting. I'm sitting I.
37:04
Have vague vague, vague recollections of this because I
37:09
was a YouTube kid like early on I was I was on their ad block on
37:13
watching YouTube because I was like 1314 I was not interested
37:18
in no in no soccer, but this, this was a big thing.
37:22
So if some of you guys are of a certain age, you maybe are aware
37:26
of Paul the Octopus. Back in 2010, Paul the Octopus
37:31
had just celebrated his 2nd birthday.
37:34
On any given day, he would be lounging around his tank at Sea
37:37
Life Aquarium in the German city of Oberhausen.
37:42
Little did he know his life and ultimately the lives of soccer
37:46
fans around the world would be forever changed as the word
37:52
spread of his existence, the aquarium would be inundated with
37:54
visitors and media from all across Europe hoping to see the
37:57
Magic octopus in action. Dubbed the Psychic Octopus, Paul
38:01
became an overnight worldwide celebrity for accurately
38:04
predicting Germany's World Cup wins and defeats.
38:09
Based on his. Predictions alone betters made
38:12
fortunes, Graham Sharp, the media relations director at
38:16
London's William Hill, says. I've seen a lot of things in my
38:19
lifetime, but this is the first time I've ever seen people
38:22
making their picks based on what an octopus tells them.
38:25
And I'll say that in German. Nope, he's English.
38:29
Oh, just kidding, he continues. We heard people coming in saying
38:33
they didn't know how to place a bet, but heard about this German
38:35
octopus and wanted to bet with him.
38:37
It's ludicrous, but he kept getting it right.
38:40
It's one of the finest tipping feats ever.
38:44
So how was an octopus voicing its opinions with its mouth?
38:50
The team at Sea Life Center would place two boxes, clear OK,
38:55
with one singular muscle inside of it.
38:59
And on the front of the boxes would be the respective teams
39:02
flex OK. One box would be labeled Germany
39:06
with the other labeled whatever team that they're going to be
39:08
competing against either that day or the next day.
39:13
Paul would then be released and whatever box he opened first
39:16
would be labeled his prediction. What is not as well known is
39:21
that Paul had already been making predictions for a while.
39:24
His first soccer prediction was during the Euro 2008 tournament.
39:28
In a similar manner, flags were lowered to his tank and whatever
39:31
he gravitated to 1st would be called his prediction.
39:34
During that tournament, he correctly guessed the outcome of
39:36
four out of 6 Germany games. That's crazy.
39:40
So what changed? The Internet 2008 to 2010 Crazy
39:46
jump and where we're at with social media.
39:49
In 2010, YouTube had turned 5 years old and had become the
39:52
primary site for video sharing. In that same year, Facebook hit
39:55
a record-breaking 500 million user base.
39:59
Seeing an easy way to reach larger audiences.
40:02
Sea Life Center got to work. Good.
40:06
Do you remember the early eras of viral videos?
40:11
Yes, but I can't like Charlie. Bit my finger.
40:16
It's it's within that era where it kind of felt like everyone
40:21
had seen a video. If it had gone viral, you could
40:25
bring it up to anyone and they they would know.
40:28
Back then the. Internet was so small.
40:30
Yeah, it was for reference. Now in 2026, a TikTok can have
40:34
millions of views over a million likes and it's could still be
40:39
considered niche like a very specific topic back then.
40:45
Millions of views. Why was this octopus not on
40:47
Ellen? This was prime.
40:51
If you're in a viral video, you go on Ellen Ellen for.
40:54
Sure. And re enacting or talking about
40:56
damn Daniel. Yeah yeah, target.
40:59
Target the guy from target just for being hot and white.
41:02
Wow, that's so true. As a 2010 FIFA World Cup
41:08
approach, Sea Life Center put Paul front and center on
41:11
YouTube. 16 years ago this week, Paul made his first prediction
41:17
for Germany in the game of Germany versus Australia.
41:20
He picked Germany as the winner and on June 13th, 2010, Germany
41:24
won four to zero. Damn.
41:27
Next Paul's presented with Germany and Serbia.
41:31
Paul picked Serbia instead of Germany.
41:36
The Germans held their breath. They're like, no way.
41:38
OK, it's over. We're done here.
41:39
Yeah. Paul.
41:41
Not real. He's not psychic.
41:44
However, on June 18th, Germany loses to Serbia 0 to 1.
41:49
Whoa, the Germans. Went wild, dude.
41:54
They believed that Paul had turned its back on them.
41:57
Many called for him to be turned into calamari.
41:59
There was headlines. We're cooking up Paul.
42:01
Yeah, Yeah. How dare he be right against us?
42:06
So sad. Death threats in sports, are we
42:08
surprised? Are we surprised The aquarium
42:11
went so far as to install additional security cameras just
42:15
because maybe there was some validity to this threat?
42:20
The following game was Germany versus Ghana.
42:23
Without hesitation, Paul ran to Germany, raising hopes for
42:26
another victory. And on June 23rd, Germany won
42:29
against Ghana. One to zero.
42:31
Wow. That's so cool.
42:33
With three correct guesses in a row, Paul became an unstoppable
42:37
force. As he should his win.
42:39
Streak continued. He would go on to predict
42:42
Germany's wins against England, Argentina and the devastating
42:46
loss to Spain in the semifinals. But it also ended up predicting
42:51
Germany's third place win against What a why?
42:56
After predicting Spain would beat Germany, Spain became so
42:59
invested in Paul that the then Spanish Prime Minister, Jose
43:02
Luis Rodriguez Zapatera jokingly offered him protection because
43:07
Germans were threatening to eat him.
43:09
Oh my. Goodness, Sharp the.
43:12
The guy I mentioned earlier, the betting guy, he said we had
43:17
people coming in asking who Paul had picked before they placed
43:20
their bets. I'm sure there were a lot more
43:22
people too, who were a little embarrassed to tell you they
43:26
made their bet based on what the octopus said.
43:32
Would you be embarrassed to say that you're placing bets based
43:34
on an octopus? No.
43:36
With pride I mean 9 brains, three hearts.
43:40
Why would I be ashamed of that? Why would I be embarrassed?
43:43
This alien is predicting my bets in my.
43:48
Current mindset is just funny to me like this.
43:51
This octopus is, yeah, is on a roll.
43:55
All my money. It reminds me of the whole
43:56
freaking GameStop thing during COVID where people were buying
44:00
stocks in GameStop just to like as a meme, but then people were
44:04
making money early on. It's to me, it's the same
44:07
mentality. I also want to say that I would
44:10
probably do it just because of meme culture 'cause I think we
44:14
are so far rotted in our brains. Why not?
44:18
Yeah, yeah. I think more people would play
44:22
into it now. I think it's so.
44:23
Funny to just be like, oh, this this squirrel decided my last
44:27
five bets that got it right and I'm still making money Like
44:30
that's so wacky. Why would you not?
44:32
It's not the. Only time we've been putting a
44:33
lot of faith into these animals. Do you remember no bones days
44:37
with the dog on TikTok? If he stood up it was a good
44:40
bones day and if it wasn't it was a no bones day.
44:43
Remember when he passed away? Yeah, yeah.
44:48
And for how many decades have we used a freaking hedgehog looking
44:54
at a shadow? Yep, to see if we're going to
44:55
have a couple more weeks of winter.
44:59
Since the beginning of time it feels then why?
45:01
Can't Octopus be psychic and correctly predict who's going to
45:05
win? They are.
45:06
They really are. That's why I got a tattooed on
45:07
me. Now you're.
45:08
Psychic you got Paul. Inked into your small tattooed
45:12
on my bicep. OK so same betting guy claims
45:16
that Paul's predictions made about half £1,000,000.
45:20
It was the first time in his thirty years that he had seen
45:22
such a widely orchestrated use of a non human tipster.
45:27
Paul even predicted the championship correctly selecting
45:30
Spain as the winner against the Netherlands.
45:33
All in all, Paul was 8 for eight on bets.
45:36
Whoa. Multiple countries would cut to
45:39
Paul during the broadcast to see him make his predictions for the
45:42
coming games. They would stop whatever is
45:44
airing 'cause they're like Paul is making his his bets.
45:47
He's seeing who's gonna win. I am.
45:50
Confident that if we go on YouTube or just online we can
45:53
find live streams or no the videos are.
45:55
There I looked at them. I wanna see.
45:56
Them I will show them. To you.
45:57
I wanna see them, but they're really interesting because in
46:00
some of them, Yahoo instantly gravitate to one, open it right
46:03
away. But in some other ones, he's
46:05
like kind of caught in between them.
46:08
But the final decision is the one that he opens and eats the
46:11
the muscle that's on the inside. Yeah.
46:13
And it's just one singular muscle, same size in each one.
46:18
That's good. That's a good.
46:19
That's some quality entertainment right there.
46:23
After picking Spain as a championship winner, one
46:25
broadcast commenter said that Spain had removed octopus from
46:28
its menus for the entire country.
46:30
Good. He was literally the talk of the
46:33
Internet. The videos of him making his
46:36
selections raked in millions of views, taking up the top spots
46:39
of the most viewed videos for that entire run.
46:42
Are octopus psychic? Yes.
46:45
Who? Knows the odds of Paul randomly
46:49
predicting all eight wins correctly is A1 in 256 chance,
46:53
which is .39%. That's very, very, very small.
47:00
Let it be known that's also very similar odds to finding a shiny
47:04
Pokémon with a shiny charm. No way.
47:08
And chaining them in different games.
47:09
Yes, that's amazing. So you could you in my
47:13
perception of this perspective, it's not all that impossible.
47:18
I've caught so many shiny Pokémon so those odds may seem
47:23
very low, but you can do something 236 times and just one
47:29
of those times do you have to fully get it right?
47:32
It's like flipping a coin 8 times and it being heads every
47:35
single time. Let's do.
47:36
It right now I don't have a coin.
47:37
Neither do I I'm. Just kidding, but.
47:39
It's the exact same odds because it's 5050.
47:41
You don't know. Yeah, there are hundreds of
47:45
other animals allegedly making predictions right now for the
47:48
2026 World Cup in Mexico. The Guadalajara Zoo is currently
47:52
having their own animals make predictions in very similar way.
47:56
They, I think, have lions, elephants, I.
48:00
Didn't. There was more that I saw on a
48:01
TikTok but doing the exact same thing.
48:03
They're just having them guess at the end of the day.
48:08
I believe honestly it's it's all due to chance.
48:11
I don't think this octopus is psychic.
48:13
I'm so sorry. Yeah, the other slim, but out of
48:17
maybe hundreds of animals making these predictions, the most
48:22
famous 1 is going to be the one who's getting the most right.
48:25
There could be 0 correlation and it just so.
48:27
Happens that that animal has three hearts and nine brains
48:32
with blue blood. Unfortunately, Paul passed away
48:38
that same year. Yeah, I guess when you're an
48:42
octopus, you don't keep winning when the momentum is going.
48:47
Maybe Paul wanted to go out with a flawless run.
48:50
We'll never know. Except we will, because Stefan
48:57
Portillo, the manager of Sea Life Center at the time, said
48:59
that Paul died peacefully of natural causes.
49:01
According to them, the common octopus has a short lifespan,
49:04
averaging about one to two years.
49:06
I wanted. To say that earlier, but I'm
49:07
like, I'm not going to be that. Actually, Brian, did you know
49:10
that? That's why I told.
49:11
You also to wait OK, that's why I.
49:12
Just shut up and I waited for you to finish.
49:13
So there it is. Yeah, they have a very short
49:16
life lifespan. That's why I.
49:18
Knew the scientific name because I'm like that's shady.
49:20
What do you mean? It died right after making all
49:22
these predictions and making people thousands of dollars.
49:25
Someone had something to do with this but no, the species I
49:28
looked up it did say it was one or two years on average because
49:31
their breeding habits are terrible.
49:35
Sucks. So sorry that sucks.
49:38
What do you think? Was Paul psychic or did luck
49:40
just happen to strike eight times?
49:43
Once, maybe twice. OK, coincidence. 3 times 45678
49:56
No, that's not coincidence. Paul was psychic, but the
50:00
chance? Is there I could accurately
50:02
predict something 8 times and that is 101 in a 230 something
50:06
chance? And have you?
50:08
No, you're not psychic. Why are you being so mean?
50:14
Because I'm always. Going to take the animal side
50:17
always. OK PETA, I am literally a druid.
50:21
Yeah, I wonder what? PETA had to say about this,
50:24
probably mad that it was in the captivity.
50:25
Good reason with good reason. Was it did they ever like I I
50:31
have follow up questions. Was Paul injured, rehabilitated,
50:35
stayed in I that don't have that.
50:37
Information. Unfortunately, no, that's fine.
50:39
That's that's all good. Like when?
50:40
They did, and the World Cup they did give him an honorary trophy.
50:45
Not FIFA. Oh OK, it's going to be aquarium
50:49
people gave him. A World Cup they gave him a.
50:51
Replica There's a really cute picture of him on it.
50:53
That's what I want to show you the.
50:56
FIFA came down and they put a whole replica World Cup trophy.
51:00
Oh my God, I didn't. Save it.
51:03
No, Paul the Octopus. World Cup.
51:07
Trophy. I saved it on my iPad, that's
51:08
why. Wow.
51:10
That's so cool. Look at him.
51:14
That's so cool. He's so tiny.
51:15
Oh yeah. Yeah, it's a little replica
51:17
World Cup. That's cool.
51:19
And like these are the boxes. That's when he.
51:22
Picked Spain to win. That's so.
51:23
Cool. Yeah, it's a little.
51:26
That's adorable. I really want to find one like I
51:30
obviously respect wildlife. Please do not like grab things
51:34
if you don't know, especially the.
51:35
Turtles in Hawaii. Any animals just in general, But
51:39
I, I know there's a lot of videos that I see like like in,
51:42
in the, what are they called the tide pods, tide pools, tide
51:46
pods. Oops, no, we eat those, but no,
51:49
the tide pools and yummy snacks and they'll be like, oh, look at
51:53
this tiny blue ring octopus and you know you're not supposed to
51:56
touch blue ring octopus or might be venomous, but they just look
51:59
so cute and they're just like there's yeah they're just there
52:01
and they're like floating or swimming.
52:03
I I wanted, I want to live that. I want to go to some tide pools,
52:06
so you're. Afraid of the ocean, but.
52:08
Tide pools are cool because they have little ecosystems.
52:10
Wonderful wave comes. Well, you wish you were in the
52:14
forest instead. Well, I would go.
52:15
During low tide that when tide pools are are are actually at
52:19
their peak. Yeah, at their.
52:20
Peak so that I know there's no waves coming in, but at that
52:23
point I would still prefer to be in the forest.
52:26
OK. Thank you friend.
52:27
That was awesome. Thank you for isn't that.
52:29
Isn't that cute? Super cute.
52:30
Wacky. Story and on theme to what's
52:33
going on. Yeah, since you're now a sports
52:35
guy, keeping that. Momentum going.
52:37
My song recommendation for the week is Waka Waka by Shakira.
52:41
That's a. Great fucking.
52:42
Song No, I'm going to. Recommend her new song for the
52:46
World Cup, Die Die. Here you.
52:48
Go. It's going to look it up.
52:49
It's a good one, Motionless. And I also dropped a new song
52:52
today with Skyler Grey. Oh my God.
52:54
Promote that one. I'm promoting that one.
52:55
Do your job as a. Fan Jerry.
52:56
I'm going. That was my recommendation.
52:58
I just wanted to piggyback off of you first.
53:01
They have a new song called RIP featuring Skyler Grey.
53:08
Oh my. God, they did it for Paul.
53:11
The key. Rest in peace.
53:13
Rest in Paul, rest in Paul, everyone.
53:17
That's my song. That's my song.
53:20
Hope you guys. Enjoyed the episode.
53:22
I did. That was fun recording this in
53:24
the moment I was having fun. Good one.
53:26
Yeah, it was. Fun and it was wacky.
53:27
Love it also. It could be the glass of wine I
53:29
had because I feel real warm and real silly.
53:32
That's a full glass that I see right next to you.
53:34
I've. That's my second glass.
53:36
You didn't see me pour it. You went all the way down to the
53:39
first floor, went back up to the fifth floor.
53:41
To my kitchen on the 1st floor on the 1st.
53:43
Floor refilled your cup where there's no.
53:45
Windows for you to look in exactly and.
53:48
Now you have a full cup again. OK, I'll chug, I'll chug.
53:51
Bye. Cheers everyone.
53:52
Have a good Thursday. Adios.