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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's my penis.
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  Speaker 2: Hello and welcome to American Top 40. I'm Casey Kasem.
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  Speaker 3: Monday, Monday, so good to me Monday morning, it was
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  Speaker 3: all I hoped it would be Oh, Monday morning, Monday morning, couldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Guarantee Hello and welcome back to Murder Monday.
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  Speaker 4: Halloween edition Murder Monday. have a very interesting topic for
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  Speaker 4: us today. And it's one you might be familiar with,
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  Speaker 4: but before we put the cart before the horse, a
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  Speaker 4: couple of you said that you wanted to see more
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  Speaker 4: paranormal for the Halloween 2026 Route 666 extravaganza. So I
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  Speaker 4: found a clip for you. I might you know, look
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  Speaker 4: at some more paranormal stuff for another show this week
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  Speaker 4: or next week, but I found this clip of Danny
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  Speaker 4: McBride talking about the craziest paranormal experiences he's ever had,
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  Speaker 4: and not gonna lie, the second one kinda shocked me,
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  Speaker 4: cause it's, if it's true, it's some of the craziest
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  Speaker 4: shit I've ever heard. So, I wanted to open us
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  Speaker 4: up with a little spooky moment coming from the one
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  Speaker 4: and only Danny McBride. How's everybody doing out there? Happy Monday.
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  Speaker 4: It's another beautiful day in the murder hood, and I'm
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  Speaker 4: so happy you're here to join me. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 4: and queue up clip number one.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever met a ghost before? You know what?
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  Speaker 2: I have a fucking crazy ghost story. I think I have.
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  Speaker 2: I think I've encountered ghosts twice in my life.
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  Speaker 3: Two?
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  Speaker 2: Two of them, yeah. Okay. Not the same one. Really different. No, different.
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  Speaker 2: When I first moved to L.A., I was living in Burbank,
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  Speaker 2: and I was the night manager of the Holiday Inn
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  Speaker 2: there in Burbank. And I used to just come to work,
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  Speaker 2: and I'd work on scripts late at night. Nothing was
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  Speaker 2: going on there. But there was rumors about a guy
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  Speaker 2: who jumped off the roof of that Holiday Inn. There's
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  Speaker 2: a bar upstairs. And none of the housekeeping or staff
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  Speaker 2: liked going up there because they said that there would
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  Speaker 2: be someone up there who would whistle at them, that
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  Speaker 2: the ghost of this dude was up there. And so
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  Speaker 2: at night, I would oftentimes... go up and just walk
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  Speaker 2: around and challenge him. I wanted to see if he
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  Speaker 2: was up there. It would be completely dark and I
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  Speaker 2: would say, come for me. Come reveal yourself to me.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing would ever happen. Then this one night I was
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  Speaker 2: up there and I was doing the same old shit. Come,
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  Speaker 2: show me what you got. All of a sudden I
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  Speaker 2: felt that there was something in there with me. I
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh God, there is something here. I kind
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  Speaker 2: of ran back to the elevator. I don't even know
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  Speaker 2: how to explain it. I could just tell that it
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  Speaker 2: was I talked shit and something showed up. I could
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  Speaker 2: feel it. It went in you? It was just around me.
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  Speaker 2: The hairs on the back of my neck were standing up.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm hitting the button for the elevator. And the
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  Speaker 2: door opens. I come inside. The door shuts. Stays shut
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  Speaker 2: for a second. And it just opens back up again.
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  Speaker 2: Like something opened the fucking door up. Because the ghost
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  Speaker 2: needs the door to open. He was like, I was
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  Speaker 2: planning on going down. The ghost can't pass through. So
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  Speaker 2: he's got to press the button. And then on the
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  Speaker 2: way down, the elevator stopped at every single floor going down. Really?
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  Speaker 2: That was my first experience with a supernatural entity.
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  Speaker 3: And that was the day after the pool party at
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  Speaker 3: David Geffen's?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It was the spirit of my innocence. Yeah, maybe a little. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then what's the other time you met a ghost?
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  Speaker 2: The other time is a little darker.
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  Speaker 3: You went pottery?
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  Speaker 2: It's a little more fucked up. I didn't make pottery,
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  Speaker 2: and it ended with one of my buddies, like he
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  Speaker 2: woke up in the middle of the night and was
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  Speaker 2: completely on fire. and his room was on fire, he
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  Speaker 2: was on fire. For real. I lived in West Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: in this shitty apartment complex. This is serious. This is
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  Speaker 2: very fucking serious, okay? This is ghost shit. We lived
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  Speaker 2: in this apartment, and there was like six of us
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  Speaker 2: living in this two-bedroom apartment, and everybody was just smoking
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  Speaker 2: weed and slipping around on the couch. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was a halfway house. Everyone was moving in and out.
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  Speaker 2: My buddy had a room, so he was one of
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  Speaker 2: the lucky ones, And every time he was in his
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  Speaker 2: room for any amount of time, when he came out,
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  Speaker 2: he always seemed different. Like he just seemed off. And
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  Speaker 2: it was strange. He'd have like a weird look in
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  Speaker 2: his eye. And I started kind of like taking note
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  Speaker 2: of this. And I'm like, something is up with him.
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  Speaker 2: When he's there, he's fucking strange when he comes out.
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  Speaker 2: There's something off about it. And then in his part
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  Speaker 2: of the house, you could sense that there was some
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  Speaker 2: weird energy there, and mainly from his bathroom. It felt
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  Speaker 2: like whatever was there, that's where the weird energy in
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  Speaker 2: the house was mainly there. Well, I was like writing.
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  Speaker 2: I would always start documenting this stuff. I'd get a
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  Speaker 2: buzz on and just start like, you know, writing what
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  Speaker 2: I was observing about my buddy. And I told one
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  Speaker 2: of our neighbors like, yeah, I think that they're, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, don't say this to him, but I feel
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  Speaker 2: like he's losing his mind because I think there's like
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  Speaker 2: a spirit that's like living in the bathroom of his room.
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  Speaker 2: And that's, I know it sounds nuts, but that's it.
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  Speaker 2: My neighbor, she told me, she's like, it's so weird
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  Speaker 2: you're saying this. because he literally has come to me
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  Speaker 2: and was crying saying that there's a fucking thing living
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  Speaker 2: in his bathroom, and at nighttime it shows him stuff.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, what? It shows him stuff? What the
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  Speaker 2: fuck does that mean? And so she's like, you should
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  Speaker 2: talk to him about it. So I talked to my
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  Speaker 2: buddy about it, and I'm like, you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: trying to say I think you're nuts, but I've had
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  Speaker 2: this weird theory that there's something that lives in your bathroom. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, our friend said that you told her the
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  Speaker 2: same thing, so that, like, we should talk. She's like,
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  Speaker 2: you said it shows you stuff. What does it show you?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, it, like, I don't know. It will just, like,
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  Speaker 2: show me things and say stuff. And it was like, well, that's.
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  Speaker 2: So I moved out of that place then. And a
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  Speaker 2: few months had passed. And this is when I went
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  Speaker 2: back to Virginia and I was substitute teaching. And I
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  Speaker 2: was going to go visit my buds back in L.A.
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  Speaker 2: And so I called that friend. I'm like. yo, what's
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  Speaker 2: been happening with you? What's going on with the ghost?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, you know what? Everything had been fine.
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  Speaker 2: And then it hadn't been around. And weirdly last week
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  Speaker 2: it showed up again. And this time it grabbed ahold
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  Speaker 2: of my arm and burned my arm. And I'm like, what?
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, yeah. And he's like, and so he's like,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't really been sleeping in my room because it's
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  Speaker 2: like gotten weird. And I'm like, oh man, that's nuts.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm coming out to LA and I'm getting up
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  Speaker 2: on an early flight, and there's a message from my
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  Speaker 2: friend on the phone, like before I got on the plane.
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  Speaker 2: It's him, but it's not him. It's like a weird version.
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  Speaker 2: And he's like, how does it feel to be a
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  Speaker 2: burnt black tomato? How does it feel to be a
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  Speaker 2: burnt black tomato? I'm like, what the fuck? What is
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  Speaker 2: he on right now? I'm thinking he's drunk. I call
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  Speaker 2: his phone. No one answers. I call again. The roommate
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  Speaker 2: picks up, and he's like, oh, God, you haven't heard.
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  Speaker 2: He's in the hospital. He woke up, and his whole
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  Speaker 2: entire room was on fire. And including himself. And so
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  Speaker 2: I went back to like, he has no recollection of that,
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  Speaker 2: making that phone call or calling me or anything. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he got bad third degree burns on like most of
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  Speaker 2: his body. He's one of the writers on Halloween and gemstones.
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  Speaker 2: So he's, he lived, he conquered the ghosts, but that,
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  Speaker 2: that was, that was my other experience with the paranormal.
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  Speaker 3: And he went to the hospital.
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  Speaker 2: They said, yeah, it sounds like a ghost. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: think they maybe thought that. I think they thought that.
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  Speaker 2: The apartment complex tried to sue him because I think
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  Speaker 2: they were like, we don't know what's going on. But
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  Speaker 2: it was really weird when you'd go into that apartment,
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  Speaker 2: nothing else in the apartment was touched. But his room
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  Speaker 2: was just completely scorched. And then just the bathroom door
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  Speaker 2: opened with the light on, spirit in there cackling away.
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  Speaker 2: And he's fine now? He's fine now.
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  Speaker 3: He has kids? He has kids.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have kids.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: He burned his penis off. Yeah, he burned it? Really? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I don't know. I've never asked. I'm assuming. Really? Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Hit him up.
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  Speaker 3: Text him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll call him. Are you still a burnt black tomato? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, if that shit is true, that is
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  Speaker 4: the craziest shit of all time. And I have had
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  Speaker 4: some of my own paranormal experiences. So that one, even
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  Speaker 4: though it's like a second degree, it didn't happen to
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  Speaker 4: him directly. It happened to his friend. That's some of
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  Speaker 4: the craziest shit I've ever heard, if that's true. Marilyn
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  Speaker 4: Manson has an equally weird, odd, paranormal story. Maybe I
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  Speaker 4: could find a clip of it. If I can't, oh well.
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  Speaker 4: But he was on an episode of Celebrity Ghost Stories,
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  Speaker 4: and wow. Just wow. Some of the shit that goes
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  Speaker 4: on in this world. But speaking of Marilyn Manson, we're
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  Speaker 4: going to be talking quite a bit tonight about one
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  Speaker 4: of his pals, one of his confidants. his besties, and
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  Speaker 4: that's Johnny Depp. And more specifically, we're going to be
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  Speaker 4: talking about Johnny Depp and the Viper Room and a
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  Speaker 4: little incident that occurred on Halloween night, 1993. Again, you
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  Speaker 4: may be familiar with this case, but you haven't learned
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  Speaker 4: everything there is to learn. Trust me, because I'm still
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  Speaker 4: learning stuff myself, and I thought I knew everything there
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  Speaker 4: was to know. We're going to be breaking down and
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  Speaker 4: discussing the tragic events of River Phoenix's overdose on Halloween night, 1993.
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  Speaker 4: There's more to this story, people. There's more to this
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  Speaker 4: story than meets the eye, and we're going to be
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  Speaker 4: talking about all of it tonight. So buckle up, because
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  Speaker 4: it's Murder Monday Halloween Edition on the 2026 Route 666
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  Speaker 4: Halloween Extravaganza. Before we begin.
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  Speaker 1: If you love.
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  Speaker 4: What I do, leave a five-star review, and if you're new, welcome,
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  Speaker 4: and if you're a long-time listener, welcome back. Tonight is
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  Speaker 4: the night, or morning, whenever you happen to be listening
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  Speaker 4: to this. We've discussed a lot of cases here on
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  Speaker 4: Murder Monday, from the infamous to the obscure, but never
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  Speaker 4: something this convoluted. And It's because the mainstream and River
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  Speaker 4: Phoenix's mom in particular have done a great job in
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  Speaker 4: covering up the actual true events that took place that night.
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  Speaker 4: So let's travel back in time, shall we? Not too
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  Speaker 4: far back in time. I was born in 94. So
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to do myself dirty like that and
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  Speaker 4: say it was forever ago because... that would mean I'm
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  Speaker 4: old and I'm not ready to go there quite yet.
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  Speaker 4: So let's jump back just a few blips in time
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  Speaker 4: to October 31st, 1993. The Viper Room. Sunset Boulevard. A
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  Speaker 4: 23-year-old golden boy steps out of a black limousine. River Phoenix.
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  Speaker 4: The man who was supposed to be bigger than Depp,
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  Speaker 4: bigger than Reeves, the actor James Cameron once called the
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  Speaker 4: next Brando. But by 1.51 a.m., he was dead on
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  Speaker 4: the sidewalk outside the Viper Room. And for over 30 years, people,
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  Speaker 4: the official story's been simple. He was a junkie, cracked-out,
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  Speaker 4: crack-headed asshole, overdosed, and yes, it was tragic, but case closed.
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  Speaker 4: But that was a lie. And finally, tonight, we are
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  Speaker 4: going over all of the fine details surrounding this horrific
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  Speaker 4: Halloween tragedy and the people who were there that night
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  Speaker 4: that are now talking. And, you know, one of the
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  Speaker 4: things that makes it really sad is he wasn't just
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  Speaker 4: another child actor. They have this weird past, okay, because
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  Speaker 4: they were raised in, my opinion, a satanic cult under
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  Speaker 4: the guise of Christianity. It was called the Children of
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  Speaker 4: God cult. And it was a group that openly practiced
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  Speaker 4: child sex abuse. Again, under the guise of religious freedom.
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  Speaker 4: I don't... Religious ritualism. It's disgusting.
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  Speaker 1: It's depraved.
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  Speaker 4: And River and Joaquin and all the fuckheads were forced
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  Speaker 4: to perform sexual acts on adults before they were even
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  Speaker 4: old enough to understand... what was being done to them.
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  Speaker 4: By 1993, River was actually clean on paper. He was
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  Speaker 4: filming a movie called Dark Blood. I've never seen it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it did very well. He was known
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  Speaker 4: to be vegan, sober, spiritual, and outwardly healing. He was, um,
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  Speaker 4: like an activist and he had his hand in a
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  Speaker 4: lot of pots he was talking about how hollywood is
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  Speaker 4: a masquerade and he didn't care if he won awards
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  Speaker 4: and i've talked about river in the past he was
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  Speaker 4: really trying to break open some shit he was really
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  Speaker 4: trying to get the message out there a lot like
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  Speaker 4: what we do about the satanism involved in hollywood and
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  Speaker 4: now he's had it firsthand he grew up in The
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  Speaker 4: damn children of God cult. So he gets it. He
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  Speaker 4: understands the cult mindset. He understands mind control. He understands manipulation.
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  Speaker 4: He was raised this way. He was sexually abused. He
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  Speaker 4: gets it. He was a child actor for Christ's sakes.
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  Speaker 4: And his mom is a dirtball scumbag. But we'll get
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  Speaker 4: into that in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: But.
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  Speaker 4: The events that led up to his passing, usually people
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  Speaker 4: throw this blanket over him. That, oh, he was a
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  Speaker 4: junkie asshole. We all loved him, poor River. But he
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  Speaker 4: was a junkie asshole, and he overdid it that night,
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  Speaker 4: and he killed his fucking self.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't, though.
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  Speaker 4: He was actually, he had his act together. He was
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  Speaker 4: cleaned up, sober, vegan and shit, spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 4: Sadly, yes, River Phoenix died of a tragic overdose outside
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  Speaker 4: of the Viper Room. But the question is, was he
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  Speaker 4: given the lethal speedball in the early hours of Halloween
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  Speaker 4: on this very sacred ritual night? Unwittingly, he unwittingly took
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  Speaker 4: this lethal amount and Because it was given to him secretly,
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  Speaker 4: slipped into something, and he had zero idea what he
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  Speaker 4: had just ingested. Okay, that's the question. And you gotta think, people.
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  Speaker 4: It's Halloween night, one of the most sacred nights in Satanism.
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  Speaker 4: And at the time of his death, he was on
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  Speaker 4: his way to becoming a huge Hollywood star. And let's
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  Speaker 4: set the scene a little bit about the Viper Room.
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: A young Johnny Depp, before he got really, really famous,
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  Speaker 4: before he got really, really rich, like he is now,
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  Speaker 4: a young Johnny Depp with a fellow actor, Sal Janko,
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  Speaker 4: opened the Viper Room in 1993. The club itself has
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  Speaker 4: hosted numerous legendary musical acts and also has been used
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  Speaker 4: on the big screen in a variety of movie scenes
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  Speaker 4: and It's iconic, it's legendary, it's the place of nightmares
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  Speaker 4: and dreams come true. Hard drugs and sluts, bimbos and whores,
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  Speaker 4: snorting coke off each other's dildoids, and listening to the
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  Speaker 4: Red Hot Chili Peppers. I mean, it's just a satanic
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  Speaker 4: den of.
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  Speaker 1: Thieves, but... Sheesh! What a cliffhanger.
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