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- Elephants: The start is a group chat called Elephants, which makes sense. Because we never forget and because nobody knows when to let it go. Halloween: Welcome back to Race Different. I'm Evan. I'm Shelly. Christina. And Sadi. And today we're gonna talk all things Halloween. Because it is only a few days away and it is my favorite holiday of all times. Christmas can go on. Halloween's where it's at. All the blood guts, haunted houses, scares. My favorite thing to do is scare Shelly. Now you know why I don't like it. It's my favorite pastime. I just I'm just making sure that her heart is staying up and jumping and awake. so our stays very active around this time of the year. So our elephant in the room is would you stay all night in a haunted house for a million dollars? And I'm gonna I'm gonna throw in some qualifiers. You're allowed to s to bring someone with you. The million dollars is tax free, so you're gonna get the entire million dollars. And it is a traditional haunted house, meaning not like the ones you pay to go through, but one that has ghosts and poltergeists and scary things. Okay. Alright? I'm a no. A million dollars is not enough money. No thank you. I agree. I think I will find other ways to get a million dollars, but that's not one of Like and subscribe, by the way, guys. Please. I'll write a book. Sadia? I think if I could take someone I think I could. It's me and you. Yep, we got it. We're splitting a million? No. we each get a million. We each get a million. Now we're changing the rules again. Okay, okay. You never said we have to split it. Two million dollars. Yeah, did it say that Each person. Did it say that each person would get the million dollars? That wasn't said. No, you're right, I was not explicit. So there we go with that. If I stay the night in a haunted house, I get a million dollars. So stay the night. What would be d Okay, so Sadia, you and I are the only two actually staying in this haunted house, but we're gonna be rich. Yes. And we're not sharing. You're just gonna buy the coffee every time. Saudia was like, I'm gonna share with my mom. I can already hear it. So what what would be too far in the haunted house? What like what one thing If I'm guaranteed to survive I d never guaranteed that. Ooh. Never. So dying would be too far for her. Yeah. Dying would be too far for that's my boundary. I need my boundary. All right, so dying's too much, but let's back up a couple steps. Like, what is one thing you would see in a haunted house that would be too far? I don't know. An actual dead body? As long as it's not my dead body. Fair. I think that's fair. See I think I'd be okay with seeing ghosts. I totally would. I think that would be okay. Or like stuff moving. I think if it if it was anything that tried to harm me, that's where it would be too far. Like a chainsaw? screw chainsaws. I like That's her boundary. Yeah, that's our boundary. I have a hard a hard stop like at a chainsaw. Yeah. Pineapple, pineapple. You're throwing out your danger word? Yeah. Yeah. Do not Pasco. So Chucky type vibes you're okay with? Chainsaw Massacre is a no? Well for me that's not haunted house. Do you mean like if a doll was haunted and was walking across the the floor with a knife then I I mean that That feels like something that might try and harm me and then that's where my boundary li lies. But if it was just a doll walking across, I would be creeped out. Like a d demonet demonetized? Demonetized. Demonetized. So it's demonic money. Therefore it's demonetized. Demonetize. Denomic? No, what is it? no. Denomic. What is it, guys? It's not a number. The doll is is Like a denominator? Demon now I'm afraid to say it. We've been around him too long. Demonic. Denomic? No. Demonic. Demonic doll. Demonic. A demon doll? Yes, a demon doll. I don't how do you know it's a demon? Well If that doll is up and walking, it is a demon. Yes. Huh. What is it called when when It can't be when a 'cause ghosts can take Ghost or demons. Hundred percent. Okay, what about Farber, the friendly ghost? Demon. She stands on that. Yeah. Shelly Shelly doesn't we don't live in the same world. Let's just say that. We live in Sure we do. We live in no. We live in two different worlds when it comes to Halloween. When it comes to Halloween It's all demonic. I think ghosts I think there can be good ghosts. I think some some I think there's angels and I think there's demons. Uh-huh. So sure. I mean those are the good ones and the bad ones. Yeah. Are you tomato tomato? Like No, I don't think so. So then all ghosts are demons in your eyes. There's angels and there's demons. So where do which one's a ghost? No ghosts. they just don't exist? No. No such thing as a ghost. No. What's a spirit? There's an angel and there's a demon. You can tell she she only has one answer for you, Savia. Okay, but the spirit okay, the Holy Spirit. There's the Holy Spirit. Yes. Okay. she was about to do angels and demons. Like we got a word. There's the Holy Spirit, but that's completely ghost. Spirit, holy ghosts, same thing. Okay, so there are ghosts. No, I don't think so. They say them two different they say them like they're two different things. The fall I a ghost. Huh? have y'all been to the railroad tracks? Those are ghosts. Those are ghosts. like there's some people that don't have they they didn't finish whatever needed to be finished and so then they finish they come back as a ghost and finish. I don't even think they come back. I don't think they ever leave. They have unfinished business. No. The spirits of those children stayed there to prevent it from happening to other people. Protect others. No the road so if y'all don't know this there's girl tracks in San Antonio. It sounds like and so long ago, I don't know what year it was. There was a bus full of kids. And somehow there's a train hit the bus full of kids and everyone died. And so now if you go to the railroad tracks and you stop on on the on these tracks in your car, the kids, these ghosts, these spirits We're not sure what they are. They're either angels or demons, per Shelly. Yeah. Per Shelly. But they're gonna push you. They push you off and then you can see their handprints on the back of your car. So they're not demons. They're good. They saved you. Demons don't have hands. Here's the scientific reality. Uh-oh. Did you ask Google? Investigators and engineering experts have debunked the urgent urban legend. The road actually sits on a subtle slope or optical illusion grade. that causes neutral cars to to roll. Okay, but what explains the handprint? And there was no local crash. The handprints. Powdery residue often comes from condensation, road dust, or previous visitors rather than spectral children. Ruin are fun. I know because I'm telling y'all it's not true. But what about Layarona? Who? La Yarona. Tell me about that one. Ooh. Let Shelly D bunking. That's like one of the I don't know if it's a river or a body of water somewhere in San Antonio. Actually I think near us somewhere. Woman Hollering Creek? Mm. Was it a lady and her kid? Her kid, yeah. Yeah. it's actually out on fifteen eighteen. Shelley's gonna go to the Google again. evan: Still listening? Then you're officially part of the herd. Hit like, subscribe, and follow Raise Different, an elephant podcast, so you don't miss the next episode. Now back to the opinions no one ever asked for. Halloween: So woman hollering creek let me look this up. woman hollering creek. Uh-huh. Legends. Famous short story. It's a short story. young Mexican woman marries a man and moves from her hometown in Mexico to Seguin. she expects romantic love. like the one she sees in a Spanish language soap opera. Her dream fades as she faces poverty, extreme loneliness, and physical abuse from her husband. She lives near a creek with the unusual name Woman Hollering. During her second pregnancy, she finally asked to see a doctor for help. A sympathetic female clinic worker, and her independent truck driving sister help her escape. As they drive across the creek toward the bus station. they let out a loud cry. And that's where the creek gets the name from. You miss the part where she like drowns her kids. It did not say that. really putting a damper on my Halloween dreams. Okay. So the story that I found was according to the legend, Vallarona was once a beautiful woman named Maria. In many variations of the tale, Maria's husband was an unfaithful or abusive man who treated their two sons more affectionately than he did his wife. Out of jealousy, rage, and despair, she said to have lured her sons to a nearby river and drowned them before drowning herself after realizing what she had done. Maria's ghost, now Layarona, is forced to wander the earth searching for her lost sons. She can be identified by her loud wailing cries Mis hijos, mis hijos, donde stan mis hijos. Did you know what she said, right? My sons, my sons, where are my sons? Woo Good job, Shelly. Thank you. So she yelled from Utah. So she's looking for her children that she drowned herself. And so people I've never heard anybody yelling this out anywhere. because you go out at night so often. At the creek. Right. No surprise. Of course you will never hear it. I'm just saying. I've never heard anybody say, Did you hear that woman yelling at the creek? Maybe we go to Hans of the Creek at nighttime one day. yeah. Let's do it. Let's hang out. So Shelley will never hear you. Y'all can go. And if y'all can record it for me, I will believe you. But until then, I don't believe you. I mean recording devices devices don't work on stuff like that. sure. Well because it's not true. Not everything has to be seen or heard to be true. This is true. I agree with that. I agree with that. I agree with that. One for Evan. Somebody touching my hair. Stop it. Y'all won't be messing with me. Y'all won't be messing with me when we're talking about Halloween. It's the ghost. And ghosts? No thank you. The ghost. Which one of us four do y'all think could survive in a horror movie? Not Shelly. I would die first. I think Or should we rank us? She would be the one we're You are the blonde and I feel like if if we're going by horror movie rules, you would probably be the first one to run upstairs and hide in like a closet. Yeah. And yes, I think you would be the first one to go. Yeah, I would be. trip you'd be that girl that like trips and I mean that would be the story of my life right and he's walking slow yeah and you're like yeah yeah definitely yeah make it. I don't I agree. Okay, Sadia is very clumsy as well. I am very clumsy. I just I so Sadia her version of the scary movie is like she runs into the middle of the room is like, I don't know where to go. Where do I go? my god, where do I go? She dies. Yes, no, that that was it. And Christina, would you make it? I think Christina and I would be the two left. I mean Christina couldn't build a spreadsheet to get out of it, so Yeah, but she's expertise. But she's very wise. So she has she has tools in her toolbox that you don't know about. Yeah, it could be a little tactical, you Yeah. She turned that military brain on. So Evan just said that Sadia and I don't have tools. Yeah, we have toolbox. That's not what I said. Our toolbox is empty. I don't think you have haunted house tools. I don't think we have haunted house tools. However, I'm more than welcome to go into a haunted house with Sadia. Maybe that's because I'm gonna like push her down first. I don't know. you one hundred percent like. Survival of the fittest. You know it's so funny. You love to go to haunted houses, but you're the first one to stand behind somebody and you would 100% Push them into the into the danger. I feel like that is being smart. You put a human shield between you and the danger. Are you sure you want to go with her? She would she would push you into the danger to save herself. I don't do it, I do it very subconsciously. she would I think that makes it better. Definitely does that make it better. Okay guys, if you died today, who in the group would you hunt first? I would choose Shelly. Shelly! I would also choose Shelly because she said ghosts weren't real and we have to show her how real they are. I would say get behind me, Satan. whatever. If you were a ghost What petty thing would you do to scare people? Or in this case, what petty thing would we do to scare Shelly? I mean it doesn't take much, right? I think Well what'd you do? Well so you have to be more thoughtful because I think for most people you could just move something around and that would creep them out enough, but Shelly wouldn't remember. So It would have to be more thoughtful than that. Wow. you couldn't rearrange her entire living room and she probably wouldn't recognize it. No. She'd probably go to sit down on her couch and sit on the floor and blame someone else. Blame my kids. I think I'd have to start slamming stuff when she's home alone. That would probably freak me out. knocking stuff off the shelves. what would be fun? setting up a like a dripping faucet and then they she goes and turns it off and then you do it again. And then you turn it off. And that would just annoy the fire out of me. Well then I could again I feel like something like that she'd just be like, Mark, fix it. The faucet's not working. The faucet keeps dripping. I tightened it three times. Or I'd blame it on the cats. Yeah. That's why we'd have to push stuff off the shelves that's like inside a hut. yes. Stuff the cats can't get to that you can't blame on them. time the sixth time it happens, she'd be like, Okay. I believe you now. I'm getting up I'm being a little freaked out now. Our house is full of demons, Mark. Okay, who would accidentally get everyone killed? Shelley too for some reason. She'd be in the front like trying to run and she'd trip. And then take us all down like a domino effect? Yes. Wow. No. Y'all have so little faith in me. I don't know, I kind of feel like this could be Evan though. I mean because she might be too bold and like outspoken perhaps and be like, We're right here. What do you do? And we'd be like, no, we're supposed to go this way. Lead us right into their trap. she would throw us all in there. Okay, so would y'all befriend the killer or at least try to? my gosh, yes. Yeah. I feel like that's how you live. Yeah. No You gotta get on his side. You always make friends with the killer. So that way you're safe. Shelly you haven't watched enough true crime. No, absolutely not. What do they call it when you become But the cycle the cycle killer's always gonna be the cycle killer no matter what. Yeah. Right. So you befriend them until you can take down. You almost use it against them later, right? Yeah, but it's gonna keep you alive. Yeah. I'm just gonna run fast. I mean you can run fast by hard? You have something up on us because you could probably run. I mean, I know you can run faster than Shelly and I I don't know about your mom, but I can't run faster than her right now. It would be quite it would be quite a scene. She'll be waddling away. Wait, guys! Who in the group would hear a noise downstairs and actually go investigate? Me. Not me. Not me. case it's because it's not something and and the ten percent chance that it is something at least I die first. That's then what is it? What do you mean? If it's not something then what is it? I mean it's like a book falling off the shelf or something. Like it's not it's not like something scary is what I'm trying to say. We're not in the haunted randomly fell off the shelf. Yeah. Remember ghosts aren't real Christina so it was an angel or a demon Like that. Why I'm married. I would wake up. Is that the only reason? Well, one of the reasons, yes. I would wake up my husband and say, I heard a noise, go find out what it was. How does that wake up look? Like this? Absolutely. Yes. Slap on the arm. I heard a noise. I need you to go see what the noise was. And I'm gonna sit right here until you do. Yeah, this brings me back to the conversation we were having outside of the podcast earlier of I was always told that the protector sleeps close to the door. And Shelly and I both are the ones that close to the Nope. Yeah, not me. But I still wake him up to go check out every Does that mean you face the door or you're closest to the door? I'm closest to the door. Do you face who where do you face? Is it back towards your door? Well Why would you set up a bedroom with with the headboard? sleep with Are gonna see if something comes in? But I'm closest to Yeah, so I'm gonna be the one that gets killed first. Yes. That's the way I look at it. were all in a horror movie who would say guys this isn't funny anymore the first sodi I was gonna say sodi or or shelly definitely From the beginning. She she wouldn't even be there. I would not want to play. Soki. Maybe all at the same time. maybe all at the same time. That's she misses stuff sometimes. That's true. Spend a lot of time in the bathroom. It's a problem. It's a problem. Okay, I have a would you rather? Okay. gosh. Would you rather deal with a ghost, demon, zombie, or serial killer? The ghosts, because they're not real. Zombie. And yes they are. But zombie. Just poke in the head? Yeah, you just poke in the head. Aren't zombies the ones that are like slow? it depends on the movie. There are fast zombie movies. Do you just have to take out their brain? I don't think I've ever watched a zombie movie. Yeah, all zombi all zombies, you kill them by shooting them through the head. Or like stabbing them through the head. Poke them in the head. Well, I think I was thinking stab. Stab through the head. You said poke. you were thinking like your finger? I don't want to get that close to you. Come here. Ha ha ha. you just stab them in the head. All zombie movies. You've never watched a zombie movie, Chris? Never, never. Never. I don't think I've seen one either. I mean there's just so many. I would say the funny zombie zombie land. I would that's the one I would go with. But they run. In Zombieland, the zombies run. I think I've seen that movie. They're not slow. If I had to deal with like the ghost from Casper, I think I'd I would choose the ghost out of all those four. yeah, 'cause he's friendly. No, even the other one. fat ones? Yeah. Those aren't really scary ghosts. But they're still ghosts. It didn't say what kind of ghosts are true. Those are ghosts. And if you don't know they're there, then they're scary. It's her question. Her rules. My rules. Christina, did you choose? What were the options again? You got a ghost, demon, zombie, or serial killer? Probably ghosts. Ghosts, yeah. I'd still be uncomfortable, but a ghost? I don't know how to kill a ghost. I don't know how to kill a demon. But I know how to kill a zombie. Serial killer, I don't know. The the human aspect kind of creeps me out, so I'm like We watched or we we are two true climbers to even mess with serial killers. Yeah. Got any other questions for us, Sadi? If a ghost on to the ghost again. Okay. If a ghost politely asks you to leave its house, are you leaving? Politely. Is it really their house or is it my house they're living in? Who had it first? It's almost like like a curfew, right? Like I wonder if something happens after a certain time. They're like, you better get out of here. And they warned you. And they warned you. Do they say can I leave can you leave please? Is that what they mean by politely? It's politely. it was polite. Yeah. It's like Casper before he gets crunk. Before he gets crunk? Yeah. Does Casper ever get crunk? Before the party happens? He's like, hey man, you gotta get out of here. My friends are coming over at 10. I think we're just gonna, you know, it's about to pop off. I don't know, ha I don't know. If it's my house I have questions, but if it's someone else's house I'm like, alright, see you later. Don't question the ghost. I think the ghost asked me to leave politely, I'm I'm gonna leave. I don't wanna stick around. No question I don't wanna stick around and find out. Yeah. That makes sense. They're not real, remember? Yeah, you're real. I don't know why it would be talking to me. Okay, next question. If your dream house was extremely cheap, your dream house Just for your for you, that's that one story ranchette with an office? With office. Okay. Extremely cheap. But someone died there. Are you still gonna buy it? People die in houses all the time. Yeah. I think I think people take that for granted that people die in houses all the time. What kind of death? Does it matter? maybe. Yeah, I think I think it matters. Maybe. It might. That's why I asked the question. If there's like blood splattered everywhere, I think it matters. But you wouldn't know that. I start ripping up the carpets or something and there's a chalk outline. Or it's just on the news. It's on the news one week and it's for sale the next week. I mean if Ooh, I want that house. I mean You're putting it up after a week. I mean you that's some good cleanup, room fast. Yeah. I'd have other questions if that's the case. bother me. If if I like if I didn't know the person and Honestly, I don't think it would bother me either. I just think it's so different when it's someone who passed away from like illness or age or Yeah. Like natural person. They were murdered. And then being murdered, yeah. Murderer. I don't know because I don't know because I think my I've lived in in three houses. I would say I remember vivid memories from two of them. They were both new builds. So I don't have memories of living in a house that other people have lived in previously. Yeah. Man. I know that's bougie life right there. my gosh. Dang, Christina. goodness. other questions? Your Halloween. my god. I think I'm delirious. She's yeah, she's getting delirious. No, I think we can herd vote it. Okay. What what are we herd voting? Well we started with whether or not you'd Stay in a haunted house overnight for a million dollars, did we change anyone's mind? I'm a yes. I'm a no. Big fat no. I'm a yes. But Shelly, if they're ghosts, then they're not real, right? It's just all the other scary stuff. If it's haunted, if y'all are saying it's haunted, there could be demons and demons are scary. Demons exist? Huh? Demons exist? Yeah, demons exist. Demons and angels. Yeah. Okay. No thank you. But demons are not the same as ghosts. What? Demons are not the same as ghosts? Demons are maybe in y'all's eyes they are, but demons are not something to be messed with in my eyes. She won't answer that question, is what she's saying. So are demons ghosts? think they're ghosts. No, I think they're something different. some sort of spirit. Like evil. So Shelly's a no. I'm a no. I'm still a no. Nope, not just. Just me and you, Sadia. We got it together. Alright. If any of y'all would stay in a haunted house for a million dollars, hit us up in the comments. Can't wait to hear what you got. Good luck, guys. Ooh. Stay safe this Halloween. Shelley: Thanks for joining us y'all. Like and subscribe to be part of the herd. Halloween: Do y'all have