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Monday Mini: Why Do People Love (and Hate) Haunted Houses? · Stuff Mom Never Told You

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to Stephane.
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  Speaker 1: Never told your prediction of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all, I have made a huge mistake, and in the
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  Speaker 2: name of my anxieties and insecurities, I have committed to
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  Speaker 2: joining dear co host Annie and friend of course, in
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  Speaker 2: attending Halloween Horror Night in Hollywood Universal. I swore to
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  Speaker 2: you Annie a long time ago I would never go
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  Speaker 2: to a haunted house, and now here I am going
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  Speaker 2: to ten of them? Twelve of them? How many is there?
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  Speaker 1: There's eight, There's ten in Orlando. There's eight in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, wow, really there's less the surprising it's much smaller. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I would think I knew that, but still that's still
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  Speaker 2: surprising to me. And I have tried my best to
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  Speaker 2: prepare through TikTok videos, Like there's been so many creators
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  Speaker 2: who've actually taken videos inside of them, so I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I'm very thankful for them. I'm sure other people
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  Speaker 2: are like, why are you doing this? But I'm very
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  Speaker 2: thankful to them. So I can at least know what
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  Speaker 2: to expect just a little bit. But in the end,
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll see if I actually survive.
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  Speaker 1: You know that is a whole genre of horror movies
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  Speaker 1: based on.
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  Speaker 2: I've actually read some incidences and I'm like, oh no,
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  Speaker 2: why And unfortunately we have already gone to this by
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  Speaker 2: the time this episode comes out, I believe, So I
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  Speaker 2: can't even get any advice from y'all. You can tell
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  Speaker 2: me your stories, but I can't get any advice. But
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  Speaker 2: we'll update you when we get back if we get
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  Speaker 2: back dot dot dot. Uh. So all of this when
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  Speaker 2: I say my in securities and anxieties, ay, you are
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  Speaker 2: prepared to go by yourself, an excited to do so,
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  Speaker 2: and in my own insecurities and anxieties, the thought of
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  Speaker 2: you going alone really really really makes me uncomfortable and
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  Speaker 2: very very very upset. So I was trying to plot
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  Speaker 2: where my partner goes with you. Unfortunately he has work
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  Speaker 2: coming up and cannot go, so I'm very I was
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  Speaker 2: like son of up okay, and I plotted in like
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna come with you. Because again, even though you
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  Speaker 2: are very fine with it, I am not very fine
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  Speaker 2: with it. Like it's all me projecting onto you. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm pushing myself to this point and every time I
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  Speaker 2: think about it, like literally Sunday night, I was sitting
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  Speaker 2: with my partner and I do a deep sigh, and
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  Speaker 2: I've been sighing a lot more. My mummy sigh has
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  Speaker 2: come back and listeners. I think we've talked about this
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  Speaker 2: when I first joined where the mummy that they discovered
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  Speaker 2: does this funky sigh, And apparently I did it and
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know it and Andy would laugh every time I
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  Speaker 2: did it.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hm.
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  Speaker 2: And it's come back because I stopped for a while,
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  Speaker 2: it's come back.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's because I'm thinking this time, next week or
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  Speaker 2: this time at this point, I'm going to be in
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  Speaker 2: a haunted house, and so there's a lot of terror
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  Speaker 2: ahead of time. But I'm trying. I'm getting there. I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to prep. My biggest anxiety at this point, outside
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  Speaker 2: of like actually falling out, is that, uh, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: panic you and I'm going to ruin your time. But
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  Speaker 2: I think the times that we've had where I've done
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  Speaker 2: something that I was uncomfortable with, it become almost comedic.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what I'm hoping for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, we'll see. It is very like a
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  Speaker 1: more intense version of like the Haunted Mansion, which.
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  Speaker 2: I don't love. Like, it's not my favorite, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: not screaming at it, but I am.
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  Speaker 1: Holding on to people. Yeah it's Oh, I could go
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  Speaker 1: into the science about hanted houses, but it's every fourth
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  Speaker 1: person they kind of try to scare. It's mostly jump scares.
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  Speaker 1: It was one that I don't think they have at Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't scary at all, but it was cool.
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  Speaker 1: We had like like pumpkins growing out of bodies and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Set design was really good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping that by the time I come out of it,
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  Speaker 2: I'll be okay because jump scares doesn't really bother me
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  Speaker 2: and I think they're funny. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: like being in presence of people made up or large
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  Speaker 2: objects freak me the hell out. So this is this
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  Speaker 2: is gonna be interesting. I've already warned Ay that I'll
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  Speaker 2: probably be tugging at her and at the very least
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  Speaker 2: I could at least wait outside of this whatever haunted
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  Speaker 2: houses for her if it gets too stressful. At least
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  Speaker 2: I'll be there with her at Hollywood, Like that's the
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  Speaker 2: biggest point. But yeah, I'm doing this for you, I
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  Speaker 2: love you. But also it's projection. I absolutely take it
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  Speaker 2: on to myself.
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  Speaker 1: I was very confused when you offered. I was like, what,
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  Speaker 1: But I.
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  Speaker 2: Think it's gonna be fun stories tell Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I said in my recent happy hour, you
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  Speaker 1: might be laughing at me because I do the most
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  Speaker 1: like gone scream. It sounds very goofy, and I do
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  Speaker 1: it a lot, so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's exciting. So because it's quite funny, I purposely
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  Speaker 2: tried not to scare you because I know you get
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  Speaker 2: really traumatized by that. But you enjoyed this. So I
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  Speaker 2: thought it'd be interesting to see what kind of data
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  Speaker 2: was on who loves and hates haunted houses and whether
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  Speaker 2: it was a gender thing. But it turns out there's
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  Speaker 2: really no data for that. But there is that on
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  Speaker 2: the sexism within the industry, which you apparently already did
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  Speaker 2: when I was sick. Apologies I missed that one. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of depiction of it being texast i e.
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  Speaker 2: Domestic violence being used in haunted houses, and apparently recently,
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  Speaker 2: as in like a day or two ago, haunted House
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  Speaker 2: in Alabama came under fire for its depiction of the
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  Speaker 2: domestic violence in their haunted houses. It's not the first
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  Speaker 2: time that a haunted house has come under fire in
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  Speaker 2: the United States, so that apparently is a thing. And
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  Speaker 2: I actually think that I've seen this in hell houses,
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  Speaker 2: which are Christian haunted houses trying to convert people to Christianity,
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  Speaker 2: and they use things like that, which I find even
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  Speaker 2: more horrifying.
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  Speaker 1: But yep, I believe I have as well. One thing
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  Speaker 1: I talked about in this episode, the episode I did
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  Speaker 1: about sexism in the Hanted House is was this movie
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  Speaker 1: that I like, but is it very good called Haunted House. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't say that. I won't say it's like a
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  Speaker 1: decent found foot of Torent movie, but it's about a
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  Speaker 1: hanted house and it goes wrong. But I rewatched it
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  Speaker 1: after I did that, and I was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 1: is even more It had even more bad things that
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  Speaker 1: I forgot.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the one where they all buy a house,
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  Speaker 2: is it now?
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  Speaker 1: So they like set up a haunted house and then
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  Speaker 1: of course you know demons or whatever you know. But
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  Speaker 1: there's like a whole plot where you get to the end,
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  Speaker 1: and this was like the big thing they found was
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  Speaker 1: not only like is it mostly men who are making
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  Speaker 1: money from hunted houses, but like usually the end victim
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  Speaker 1: is a woman who is scantily claud who is being
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  Speaker 1: tortured or heard or whatever. And at the plot point
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  Speaker 1: of this is that same thing. You get to the
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  Speaker 1: end room and here's this woman who's like in her
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  Speaker 1: underwear and raw and she's getting about to be murdered.
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  Speaker 1: But they had a bunch of jokes that were not
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  Speaker 1: jokes because we've talked about this too, about like oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's so rapy around her, and like all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: of oh weeah no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. Yeah. So one data didn't show all of the
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  Speaker 2: what who enjoyed it necessarily, but it did show the
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  Speaker 2: age range and at the top of the list for
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  Speaker 2: the haunted houses are teenagers and college students, which he
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  Speaker 2: talked about how they're like, this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: things where they dare each other. Yeah, And to be honest,
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  Speaker 2: I as a teenager wanted to try to find ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was more of college student. I loved
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  Speaker 2: like the ghost shows. I still I haven't watched them
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  Speaker 2: in years because I'm like, you finally get to the
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  Speaker 2: point they're like they never show ghosts, like they're like,
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  Speaker 2: oh there's one. Oh, They're like, well, son of them.
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  Speaker 2: I want to see it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to see it.
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  Speaker 2: It just becomes like irritating at this point. But I did.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed like the real ghost stories, even though I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little freaked out by it. But I'd rather go
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  Speaker 2: to that than these jump scares. But I digress. But
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  Speaker 2: it is mainly teenagers and college students, not mainly. They
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  Speaker 2: are at the top of the list. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone enjoys them apparently or hates them one the other.
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  Speaker 2: But I did find a different source that have talked
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  Speaker 2: about a number of reasons why people love these and
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  Speaker 2: they have a scientific study showing something that I think
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  Speaker 2: explains your love for these houses. And in this it
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  Speaker 2: was a Times article. It says, according to a study
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  Speaker 2: recently published in the journal Emotion, after having a voluntary
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  Speaker 2: scare experience, the researchers found people were in better moods
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  Speaker 2: and had decreased brain activity overall. Quote we think is
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  Speaker 2: very similar, at least at a physiological level and neurological level,
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  Speaker 2: to the runners high experience, where you're really pushing yourself
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  Speaker 2: and your sympathetic nervous system is in go mode, explains
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  Speaker 2: study co author Margie Kerr, a sociologist at the University
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  Speaker 2: of Pittsburgh who studies fear. Once you're out of the
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  Speaker 2: scary situation, when where there is never any real threat
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  Speaker 2: to begin with, the feel good endorphins course through the body.
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  Speaker 2: She says it is a reprioritizing of energy of focus
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  Speaker 2: into your body. You're grounded, not being caught up in thinking.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, okay, that explains any to the core.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's true, and we've talked about this. We
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  Speaker 1: did a whole episode on fear that you can check out.
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  Speaker 1: But like, that's the same reason why a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people like roller coasters and horror movies, which I do.
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  Speaker 1: But like when I would go in these haunted houses,
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  Speaker 1: I was with a scream, like scream and then I
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  Speaker 1: would laugh like it was the immediate like oh fear.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that was amazing, Yeah, like because it was just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you feel these emotions and I'm just walking through, like
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  Speaker 1: looking at every corner, I'm looking up. But they're like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's just my That's what I'm thinking about
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  Speaker 1: in that moment. Yeah. Right.
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  Speaker 2: So in the same study they talked about the people
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  Speaker 2: they evaluated. So here's some of the findings after going
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  Speaker 2: through the Haunted House. About half of the people reported
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  Speaker 2: being in a better mood, while thirty three percent reported
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  Speaker 2: no significant change and seventeen percent reported worse mood. There
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  Speaker 2: were no significant gender differences. Most people said they felt
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  Speaker 2: happy after going through the Haunted House, while fewer people
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  Speaker 2: reported feeling tired and anxious after the haunted than they
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: did before. Mood increases were particularly significant among people who
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  Speaker 2: said they had quote challenged their fears and among those
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  Speaker 2: who described the experience as intense and thrilling. Afterwards, people
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  Speaker 2: feel great. It's kind of like the idea of pain
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  Speaker 2: offset you feel better when the pain is removed. Kurr
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  Speaker 2: explains a lot of activity in the body is in anticipation,
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  Speaker 2: and it's in that conclusion where the enjoyment really comes
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  Speaker 2: in this year, So you're going to be in that
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  Speaker 2: like seventy percent sixty seven percent where we'll see for
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  Speaker 2: me okay, okay, or the fifty percent of other So
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  Speaker 2: they go on to explain that brain, the brain kind
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  Speaker 2: of gets to rest during this time that being scared
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  Speaker 2: interrupts their thinking. So the researchers compare this experience to
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  Speaker 2: exposure therapy but fun, and also to meditation. They write
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  Speaker 2: this isn't necessarily a bad thing. Decreased brain activity mean
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  Speaker 2: that people were processing information more efficiently, or it could
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  Speaker 2: simply suggest that they were in a subdued zen state,
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  Speaker 2: almost aChn to meditation Carsas. Considering that quite a few
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  Speaker 2: participants said they felt somewhat dazed after the experience, the
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  Speaker 2: second explanation seems likely carsas did you feel that way?
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  Speaker 2: Do you feel dazed after one of these experiences?
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  Speaker 1: Kind of? I feel like I feel like the Runners
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  Speaker 1: high is a very apt I would say comparison, because
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  Speaker 1: what I do think when I come out, it's sort
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  Speaker 1: of a very like buzzing, like joyous. Oh that was
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  Speaker 1: so fun, like just release and I do I like,
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  Speaker 1: I totally as someone whose brain does not stop a
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  Speaker 1: lot of times, this makes sense to me. But it's
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  Speaker 1: also like when you go with somebody, like there was
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  Speaker 1: one I don't think they have this one at Hollywood Studios,
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  Speaker 1: but it was really fun. There was one where you know,
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  Speaker 1: by this time, we've been through like five hundred houses,
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  Speaker 1: and you're kind of like, I know the tricks of
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  Speaker 1: the Hunt house, but wow. And so my friend Marissa
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: and I it was a yetie bass haunted house and
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: right when you came in. It was like this music
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  Speaker 1: and she and I were like dancing like and then this,
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  Speaker 1: yet they jumped out it only screamed so hard and
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: then we laughed and we like hug each other and
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  Speaker 1: it was just like a really fun because we looked
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  Speaker 1: so goofy, but we allowed ourselves to just scream and
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  Speaker 1: look silly like. I don't know, I enjoy it quite a.
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  Speaker 2: I did find an article where someone talked about why
• 13:37
  Speaker 2: they hated it, and one of them was because of
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  Speaker 2: those photos. I was surprised, jump pot, She's like, see
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  Speaker 2: this is what you get. Why would you want to
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  Speaker 2: do this to yourself?
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  Speaker 1: I love those as a famous hont house in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: fear Factory where they have the cameras set up right
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  Speaker 1: when the scary thing happens and if you are looking
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  Speaker 1: to like brighten up your day.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they talked about how, yes, we as the outsider
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  Speaker 2: will always enjoy these pictures, but you, as a person
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  Speaker 2: who participated, why would you do this to yourself? And
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  Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty clearly Yeah, that's probably it all. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: besides these scientific reasons, we also have those who use
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  Speaker 2: haunted houses as a dating scheme. Yeah, In fact, one
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  Speaker 2: Haunted House advertised six great reasons to bring your girlfriend. Yes,
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: they said girlfriend to their haunted house. Yes, it's a
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  Speaker 2: sexist and it's heteronormative, like that's the way they wrote
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  Speaker 2: this up. Number one, you get to see her scared face, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I could get any scared face anytime.
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: Just I just even if I'm sitting next to her,
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: I'll have to do singing ah, and you'll be like
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: what ye Literally, I just grunted she was like two
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: seconds ago while we were talking to each other over internets,
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  Speaker 2: So and now whatever. My partner and I love scaring
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  Speaker 2: each other because we think it's hilarious, unless something like
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: if we're holding a knife and don't do that, but like,
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  Speaker 2: outside of that, we do do that to each other.
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  Speaker 1: M hm. You're also seeing me scary pictures, which I
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: find very funny.
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  Speaker 2: I try to put a new one up and I'm
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: last thing. I'm logged out, so I have to get
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: that back from you. I try to send one every
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  Speaker 2: Halloween where it's just like you're unexpected.
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  Speaker 1: I love them. And then the.
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  Speaker 2: Second reason was that it's relatively inexpensive, and right here,
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: our trip is not inexpensive, So that's a lie. Of
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: course we're doing something extra.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's a wide variety of costs. I would
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  Speaker 1: say there's some cheap ones and there's some really expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Some in between. I think this is the better, Like
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: whatever you can, you can find one at whatever rate
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: you want to go, so it's going to be on
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: par with what you pay for. I know there's that
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: one place where you can win like five to ten
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars more twenty thousand dollars if you make it
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: through and there's no rules except for don't kill the person.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and they hire apparently like a fin to purposely
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: do things. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: See there was one in it near Atlanta that was
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: rumored to do that, and then I went to it
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  Speaker 1: and that was all. It was not scary at all,
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  Speaker 1: and I did not get any money.
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  Speaker 2: What was the one that's like the thirteen floors? Is
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that the one you're talking about? Yeah, and then everyone's like,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: if you can make it to the final floor, you
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: get money.
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  Speaker 1: But nah No. But a clown sneezed in my face
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure that's where I got swine flu.
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  Speaker 2: New Fear Unlocked Okay. Number three is she'll want to
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: stay close to you the entire time. And I'm already
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: threatened to Annie with a backpack leage because she keeps
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: talking about running away. So maybe this is her trick,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: trying to get me close to you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you're figured me out so quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I get you. You'll have the chance to show her
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: you can protect her, and he's already talked about running away,
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  Speaker 2: so I guess that's not a boy no, which I
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  Speaker 2: find hilarious, Like, really, this is how you're gonna off
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  Speaker 2: you can protect her at fat Okay, yep, you'll get
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: a chance to show off your bravery.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I have so many thoughts about this, but I'll
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: let you finish up, uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: And then it'll be hilarious so you can also make
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  Speaker 2: fun of her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So, as she said, this is very sexist, but
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: also the running joke is it's the opposite. What happens
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: is this guy invites you on a date, right he goes.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen this happen. It was not a very scary
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  Speaker 1: hunted house in my small town. It was perfectly fine,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: and it was very scary. First room, he freaks out,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: runs out the exit, leaves her by herself, and we
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  Speaker 1: adopt her into our group. Like it's a running joke
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  Speaker 1: that they all these dudes think they're gonna look really
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: cool in it. But then there's screams.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen Madia videos where and it also it was
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: like it can also tell you they didnt abandon many
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: of them, Like what the hell? Yes, while you're useless,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: So I'm doing my own thing type of thing, which
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: is quite funny. Yeah, so Annie, I see your tricks.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: I'm sure this will be the best date ever.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: We'll report back to y'all. I think this is going
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: to be like, so this is our first this is
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the Monday Mini after the fact that pre recorded. So
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: we'll come back and do another Monday many and let
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: you know how it went.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, we will. And I hope that you have a
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: good time.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Only time will tell.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: The only time will tell.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure you have a good time,
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: so no need to worry about me. I'll figure it out.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that I have a ton of bracelets, so amazing. Yes, yes,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: so I appreciate it. I think it will be somewhat fun.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: It's funny to me.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Too.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: Every time we go to LA we have some kind
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: of date thing.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Every time, and thus far we've been making some good
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: stories on our travels, so that's true.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Oh one, Well, thanks Samantha. Thanks to you listeners. If
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you have I think this might come out before I
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: think it might be too late for a US.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:13
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