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🎪 Mothman, the Jersey Devil & Appalachian Legends | Cryptid Encounters, Bigfoot & Spooky Lore · This Is My Circus

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I'm Stephanie.
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I'm Meredith.
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And welcome to This Is My Circus.
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This Is My Circus.
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Nope, this is not my circus, this is my spooky circus.
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I was like,"It's not?
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What did I miss?"'Cause it's spooky season.
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It is spooky season.
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It is spooky sea- And I actually got, I'm so behind.
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I usually put, my Halloween stuff out, October 1.
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It's done and I'm excited about it.
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Well, I just pulled it all out, like, this weekend, so, the 11th- Mm 12th, whatever.
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And, I had some Halloween T-shirts and stuff.
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I was like,"I just can't even, right now." Yeah.
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I'm not feeling anything this year.
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I'm so un- whatever.
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Mm-hmm.
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Unfestive?
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Yeah.
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Is that the right word?
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Yeah.
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I don't know.
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And I'm not sad, I'm not down, I'm just not in the mood.
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Yeah.
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And I wanna be.
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Me too.
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I just don't know how to.
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You know I love Halloween.
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Oh, yeah.
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I'm just- Yeah.
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And then occasionally, like, I'll be scrolling and a Christmas song will pop up and I'm like,"Oh, no.""We are not there yet.
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Keep going, keep going.
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Definitely not there yet." No.
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Mm-mm.
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Yeah, I feel like this is just, a, I don't know.
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And, like, yeah, I'm not down either, I'm just- It's just- Just not there well, the 87-degree weather doesn't help.
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True.
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I really need that to, to get to a good place and stay.
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Well, after the rain this weekend, I figured that was gonna be, like, the big drop in the temperature- Yeah and it wasn't.
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We still have our freaking air conditioner on in our house.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's why I, I'm just ready to cut that.
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I need it to have a little bit break before it gets cold.
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Yeah.
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well, what else is going on in your world?
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So, not much.
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We had a busy weekend, but nothing, like, super major.
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Biggie's aunties like to babysit him sometime.
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Have I talked about Biggie on here?
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I don't know.
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Oh my gosh, okay, so we got a puppy.
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Well, I think we did talk about puppy, but we didn't- We didn't we haven't gone in depth, yeah.
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Okay.
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So, Labor Day weekend, actually, we took, guardianship of this dog.
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We have custody.
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And, He, he's a mix.
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He's young.
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We didn't know how young.
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He had walked up into, somebody's yard I just met on Facebook, and she had posted pictures and I was like,"Oh, he's adorable," along with, like, 1,000 other people, right?
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They took him, chipped.
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They had him for about a week, and nothing.
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Nobody was claiming him or, or whatever, and we had just lost Emmy, you know, this summer, and, I knew we wanted another dog.
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But, but was not ready, and you and I had talked because I was talking to you and I was like,"This dog is so depressed," and you were like,"I'll meet you.
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What about-" We need to do.
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Yeah I'm talking about Louie, our, our original- Yeah our OG.
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Um- I was like, um, I'm- Clifford's always down to play.
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Yeah.
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So you just let me know when.
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Yeah.
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And it really sealed the deal when I saw Louie looking out the window, and a little dog was outside, a, a French bulldog, which is adorable- Mm-hmm outside.
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And he went and got a toy in his mouth and stood at the window with the toy, and I was like,"Oh, my God.
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Okay, here we go." So about that same time I saw these, people post that they had found the dog or whatever, and I knew that this was a incredibly busy time with just, with everything that's going on.
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And I was like, I would love to have that dog," since nobody's claimed him and they couldn't keep him, but I just can't.
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And they were like,"You know, well, what's, what's the hold up?
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What is it?" And I was like,"Well, we got a lot of college visits coming up.
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My wedding business.
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Every Saturday pretty much is taken.
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And they're like,"We'll keep it on Saturdays." And I was like, Well, that just took my excuses away." Yeah.
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So I ended up getting him, and they've kept him several times for me, um, his aunties.
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I love calling them that.
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But and we got him.
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His, his name was originally Hank, but it didn't fit.
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Mm-hmm.
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So now he's Biggie, and that's perfect.
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And he already, like, responds to it.
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I love that so much.
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Yeah.
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He's the weirdest looking little guy.
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I showed you pictures but, He is adorable.
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He- He is he does not look weird.
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He is the cutest- He is just different.
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He's j- he's different.
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So- He's adorable we, I did do a DNA test- because I was dying to know, just give me an idea on how big he's gonna be.
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So he had his vet visits, and they're like,"Well, we think he's about this old," because of his teeth and everything.
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So still just kinda up in the air.
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I think now he's about 13 or 14 weeks old.
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He's doing great with potty training and stuff.
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And when I did the DNA thing, I was like,"This is gonna be a nightmare." They send you...
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Have you done one before?
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No, but I can't keep, get the,"I just took a DNA test." I'm 100%.
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They send you, like, a mascara spoolie is what it looks like.
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Okay and you're supposed to swab the cheek.
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And I'm like, I have no idea how this is gonna happen, because this little bitey dinosaur, you know how they are.
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And, he's got a lot of droopy skin.
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Turns out he does have a lot of boxer in him, so he does have a lot of droopy skin.
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That's im- immediately what I thought he was.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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He definitely, he looks it.
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So anyway, ended up not being a problem at all.
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As soon as I stuck it in his mouth, he thought it was something to bite on.
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Perfect.
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So we did all that.
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We got the results back a couple of weeks later.
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So he is a 34% boxer, and he's about 35% of a terrier between pit bull, um, and then he's 2% bulldog Aw.
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He's also a little bit of a German shepherd and, and Great Pyrenees, which is so weird.
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He's 2% chow chow- 1% husky, and 1% dachshund, and then 1% Polynesian street dog, which that sounds like something from a food truck to me.
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What?
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Right, right.
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Like, that is the craziest- It isn't a, isn't it a crazy mix?
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And I put it all in chat.
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I was like, it gave me, a family tree.
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It went all the way back to, like,"Okay, this is probably the mom's parents," and then put, like, a bulldog into something.
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Like, all the way back, and I was like,"This is really cool." So mostly boxer and pit, but a little randomness thrown in, and he hollers at me like a husky.
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Aw.
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Yeah, I know you've seen the videos- Yeah where huskies are just like that.
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Yeah, a husky growing up.
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Yeah.
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Yes.
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Oh, did you?
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Uh-huh.
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So well, I basically have a husky now.
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So with that said, we had some things going on on Sunday that, they were like,"Can we, can we have Becky for the day?" And I was like,"Absolutely." Please.
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I know.
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I know, and it works out great.
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He does great in his crate, like he has from the beginning, but I just feel bad him being in there.
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Same.
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You know, you know.
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Mm-hmm.
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Even though he really likes it.
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Like, when we're home and the door's open, he'll go in there sometimes and just lay down, but it's once, when you shut the door and I give him, the busy stuff to do in there, like the peanut butter and stuff.
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After that stuff is gone, then he's just, yelling at Louie, like, to get him out.
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What does Louie do?
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Louie loves him.
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It took a minute.
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So Louie was always the baby, um, of course.
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We had Dudley and then Emmy and Louie, and- It took him a minute to figure out that this was something he could play with.
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Uh-huh.
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Um, and he, but he, they love each other.
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Okay.
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They really do.
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I think when he's in his crate like that it bothers Louie, but they play constantly.
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Good.
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They chase each other.
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Um, yeah.
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There's, like our sofa's off the wall, and there's like a sofa table behind it, and Louie can't fit through there, but Biggie can.
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And Biggie knows- For now.
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Right.
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And he'll run, and he'll do it a- and go.
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And it, it's just really cute to watch them, so.
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Yeah.
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It's fun.
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he's doing okay.
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It's, puppies are just hard.
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We've talked about this 1,000 times.
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Puppies are hard.
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Did I tell you about Clifford's ear- No the other week?
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Oh.
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Oh my gosh.
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So- he was doing, he goes on his hind legs and he does like this dinosaur roar.
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Like, and he's like, just like,"Rar." Mm-hmm.
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He hasn't done it to Rex in a long time, but he did it to Rex the other day, and Rex just went He wouldn't have it.
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No.
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And bit him, and bit his ear, and ears bleed like crazy.
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Yeah.
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Like a head wound, it doesn't stop bleeding.
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Right.
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He got his face a little bit.
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And so ear is bleeding pre- like- Yeah terribly.
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It's scary.
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And, and he's got, the floppy ears, so it's not like it's on the top of his head.
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Mm-hmm.
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It's hanging.
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So I'm, looking up online what to do.
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Mm-hmm.
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Asking chat.
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Chat's like,"Oh, well, if it's this, send me a picture." Right.
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And I'm trying to like wipe it off- Yeah and not send a picture.
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And so I get him in the bathtub'cause I'm trying to clean it with, the antiseptic stuff, and he keeps shaking his head.
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Well, every time he shakes his head it restarts the bleeding.
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And when I tell you it looked like a freaking crime scene.
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There was blood- Oh, blood spatter.
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everywhere.
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Oh my gosh.
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On the walls, all over the tub, all over the floor, the toilet, the sink.
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Oh my gosh.
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The floor.
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I, I was cleaning blood for two and a half hours.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was on the ceiling.
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Like, everywhere.
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It was everywhere.
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That's hilarious.
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That's terrible.
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It, it was insanity.
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So then I'm running to Food Lion getting gauze'cause it was like 9:30 at night.
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Nothing was open.
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Oh.
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I run there, get gauze.
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Like, I'm trying to, gauze his head.
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He'll, every time I do that, he, knocks it off, so I'm- Of course"What am I gonna do?" So I'm on TikTok and it said somebody had cut off, like, a long-sleeve shirt- Mm-hmm and, stuck it over the dog's head so he couldn't move it.
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So I'm like,"Well, my, my T-shirts aren't gonna fit him because- Right he's a bigger dog." Yeah.
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So I cut up my leggings.
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His, he looked like a little old lady.
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I think I took a picture.
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Was it like a turtleneck but, above her his- It was the funniest thing.
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Oh.
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Like, he was- My gosh pitiful.
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And I gave him one of Rex's anxiety pills.
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Yeah.
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Because, he- Well, he probably was continuing to mess with it and, it wasn't hurting.
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He was just- He was just trying to get that off- Yeah and it was something different and weird.
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Oh my gosh.
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It was the funniest freaking thing.
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That's hilarious.
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Well, it was funny.
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It, like- No, but it is now.
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Yeah.
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It is.
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I, I hate he got hurt.
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He's okay though, right?
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Oh, he's fine now.
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Yeah.
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Oh my gosh.
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He does look like a little, like...
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He does.
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He looks pitiful.
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That's hilarious, though.
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How long did you leave it?
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Just, like, overnight or something?
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Overnight, yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then this, in the morning it wasn't bleeding anymore.
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Yeah.
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But yeah.
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That's hila- he does look like the sh- the, the cone of shame or something.
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Well, I'm glad he's okay.
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I'm glad that you have that picture to share.
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Yeah.
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So went on a date this week, a real date, like- Tell me all about- a grown-up date.
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Yeah.
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So you went to...
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rH Rooftop.
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And it's in the South Park area?
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Mm-hmm.
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Oh.
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So we got all dressed and fancy.
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Awesome.
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Actually did my makeup and hair.
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You looked really pretty.
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Thank you.
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You're welcome.
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So it was nice.
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It was, like, a beautiful restaurant.
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Mm-hmm.
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Food was good.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um- What did you get?
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I got, roasted chicken- Mm-hmm and potatoes- Yeah and a glass of wine.
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Yeah.
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And he got the wagyu rib eye, and potatoes, and green beans, and a glass of wine.
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That all sounds really good.
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It was delicious.
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Yeah.
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Good.
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So yeah, it was fun.
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That is a lot of fun.
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I enjoy going to a nice restaurant every once in a while.
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And I wanna do it some.
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I can't imagine these people that do that often, though.
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That's a lot of work.
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Do you know how long it took me to get ready?
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So it either took you a really long time or, like, not long at all.
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Well, I just question everything.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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So I was trying to figure out what to wear and, I was gonna put it up for a vote- Right with my- I was looking forward to that my group.
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Yeah.
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And'cause it was, I was down to two dresses.
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Okay.
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And so he's like,"Do you know what you're wearing?" And I said,"It's up for a vote." And he said,"Well, do I get a vote?" And I was like,"Do you wanna vote?" And he said yes, so I'm like,"Well, then it doesn't really need to go up for a vote." No, nobody else's opinion really matters.
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Yeah.
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You're the only one seeing it.
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Well, I'm glad you had a nice time.
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Yeah, it was good.
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Good.
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So yeah.
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Yeah.
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That's- That's it.
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Mm-hmm.
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We're kind of exciting yet boring, you know?
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We are boring.
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But we have some exciting things to talk about this week.
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So we're talking about creepy stuff.
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Yeah.
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It's, like, all the weird encounters, like the cryptoids and all the lore- Mm-hmm um, throughout the country.
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Yeah, I love it.
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So not all of the lore, but some of the lore.
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Some of the lore.
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We don't have time for all the lore.
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Yes.
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Okay, so let's start with Mothman.
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Is that okay?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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'Cause that's kinda close.
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Yeah.
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Which, it, West Virginia.
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Yeah.
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They're not known for much, but they are known for the Mothman.
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Great.
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so the Mothman is supposedly a giant winged humanoid which, you know what?
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With all the alien shit that's coming out- Mm-hmm that the government is admitting to, it might be one of the various alien whatevers.
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I just think it's funny that we just throw"-oid" on the end of everything.
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Yeah.
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Like humanoid.
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Yeah.
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Cryptoid.
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Yeah.
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We have a great vocabulary.
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English is a great language.
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Okay, so Mothman is supposedly a giant winged humanoid standing six to seven feet tall with glowing red eyes and wings spanning approximately 10 feet.
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Now, that's terrifying.
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That is terrifying.
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Unlike a bird, it allegedly doesn't need to flap those wings, it just glides, sometimes at incredible speeds.
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But there's another layer to this legend.
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Mothman is considered by some believers to be the omen of impending disaster.
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On December 15th, 1967, the Silver Bridge connecting Point Pleasant to West Virginia to Ohio collapsed, killing 46 people.
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Because of the preceding Mothman sightings, some later interpreters linked the creature to the tragedy.
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There's no evidence of this, but that's what they just assumed because why not?
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There is a documented encounter by a actual person, people.
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Mm-hmm.
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Which I think this is hysterical because this lady's last name is Scarberry That is funny.
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That sounds made up Or maybe Scarberry, but I think Scareberry.
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Scareberry is more fun.
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Yeah.
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So Linda Scareberry Or Scarberry, whichever.
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But I'm going with Scareberry'cause it's spooky month.
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Yes.
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On November 15th, 1966, Linda and Roger Scareberry and their friends Steve and Mary Mallette were driving near an abandoned World War II ammunition facility known as the TNT Area.
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According to their accounts, they spotted the towering figure with enormous wings and bright red eyes.
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The creature appeared to rise into the air as they tried to escape.
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Like, I would freak out.
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I would think that I wasn't really seeing what was there.
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I would think I was seeing Batman.
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Would you be looking for the bat signal?
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I'd be like,"Hey, Batman." So that it followed their car even when they reached extremely high speeds.
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Oh my God.
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They went to authorities, and their experience became a newspaper story.
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What makes this interesting, four named witnesses reported the original encounter, and their encounter s- reached local newspapers almost immediately.
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Their fear was real even though the identity of what they saw remains unverified.
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Mm.
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So then, people were trying to figure out, like, okay, well, what really was it?
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Right, right.
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Is it like this, like, alien Mothman guy- Right humanoid, whatever.
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So people were saying, maybe it was a large owl, which how can you mistake a 10-foot wingspan for an owl?
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Yeah, let's pick another bird that's a little bit bigger- Yeah if we're gonna say that's what it is.
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they were saying, because they saw it at a distance that that's why they thought it was so big.
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But I'm like, well, wouldn't that make it look smaller if they saw it at a distance?
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Like it says on the mirror, objects may be closer.
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Doesn't make any sense.
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Mm-mm.
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Were they tripping on mushrooms?
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Maybe.
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I think- Maybe.
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Maybe something.
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It was the'60s.
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Mm-hmm.
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Mm-hmm.
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There was a lot happening in the'60s.
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So if I'm driving down the road and a seven-foot tall bird man, Mothman, whatever it is, chasing my car, keeping up with my car- That's crazy with glowing red eyes.
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But then that I'm like, okay, so, were they seeing taillights?
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What were they- Right actually seeing?
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Right.
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What...
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Were they on something?
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Right.
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I don't know.
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Well, if they were chasing them, it wouldn't be taillights, though.
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Well, I don't know.
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I'm just like- Right I'm trying to- I, yeah, trying to make it make sense.
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Yeah.
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And what's creepy about that is it wasn't just, like, a quick, like,"Did I see that?" No, they were It, it was a pursuit, like- And all four of them saw it.
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It wasn't Right one saw it.
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Right.
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So w- what is it?
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That is creepy.
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And now they have, a Mothman, Day every year, like a celebration.
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What do you do on Mothman Day?
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They have, all vendors.
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You know how we have, like, the Strawberry Festival?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Like, they have a Mothman Festival.
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That's their claim to fame.
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Okay.
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And, thousand, like 15,000 people go every year.
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Maybe that appeases the Mothman monster, and it's like it keeps him happy.
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He's like,"Oh, look at this.
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They love me.
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They throw the festival so I won't kill them." Yeah, I don't know.
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I just- Should everybody wear wings?
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Maybe.
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Dress up like a moth?
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Oh, yeah.
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It's, like, a ugly s- insect, too.
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And I wonder why they came up with Mothman.
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Like, why not- not Butterfly Man?
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Cicada?
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Do you remember that one year where they were so loud?
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Gosh, yes.
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That was crazy.
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That was terrible.
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Yeah, it felt like it was never gonna stop.
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Yeah.
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All the time.
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Yeah.
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Mm-mm.
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Did you hear about the Wampus Cat?
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No.
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So, this is on the Appalachian Trail.
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Okay.
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And, depending on who's telling the story, then it could be, like, a combination of, a wild cat or a supernatural creature, and an animal that just makes a terrifying scream.
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So some say it has glowing eyes and it can stand on its back legs.
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There's reports of it having six legs.
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Oh, God.
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It's like four isn't terrifying enough.
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And can you imagine...
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Okay.
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So we're- Right.
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So we were just talking about puppies earlier, right?
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So can you imagine a baby Wampus Cat?
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there's different stories where this cat came from.
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Some say it's a woman who's transformed into a cat.
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I know, like in The Hunger Games.
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But why does she have six legs, then?
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I don't know.
17:04
That's a good question.
17:06
Well, maybe the other versions where they say that it's a mysterious creature just prowling around farms and mountain communities, making horrible noises.
17:14
And, frightening the livestock.
17:17
Those poor cows.
17:19
I know.
17:19
Well, you've heard, mountain lions, screech, and- The coyotes?
17:23
Yes.
17:24
Those kind of freak me out.
17:24
So I'm assuming it's something like that.
17:26
Ooh.
17:26
So it's been described online as an ancient Cherokee legend.
17:31
Okay.
17:31
I feel like a lot of things come from, Native American- Yeah folklore.
17:35
But historians have had trouble tracing those to, traditional Cherokee sources.
17:39
Mm-hmm.
17:39
But the name itself has appeared in a lot of the, just regional language- Yeah that, that's around.
17:45
And again, depending on who's telling the story, depends on what you're gonna get.
17:48
But the part that makes it a little more believable is because people do say that they hear that scream when they see this thing, and they're like,"Um, nope." That's so freaky.
17:59
Do you, do you have a picture?
18:00
I don't have a picture.
18:01
Oh.
18:01
But I'll look it up real quick.
18:02
oh, there's a statue Huh Oh, it's got six legs.
18:06
Yep.
18:06
Oof.
18:07
Oh, time out.
18:08
Huh?
18:09
That mascot is at Conway High School, which is on the way to Myrtle Beach from here.
18:14
It's great.
18:15
It's fun.
18:15
I wonder what their, mascot costume Like the two- The extra, the extra legs Yeah.
18:21
And then, like, the two arms are, like, tied together, so.
18:23
Oh, poor wombats.
18:25
Not wombats, wampus.
18:29
Okay, what you got?
18:30
Well, you know, I'm originally from Jersey, so this one was like, whoo.
18:33
Yeah.
18:33
the Jersey Devil.
18:34
Oh.
18:35
So according to the best-known version of the story, a woman called Mother Leeds was pregnant with her 13th child.
18:42
Okay.
18:42
13th- That's a lot child.
18:44
Already a folklore and not real.
18:46
Oh my gosh.
18:48
So apparently 12 children were already pushing her limits, and when she found out that she was pregnant again, she allegedly cursed the unborn baby and wished it were a devil.
18:58
Why would you wish something inside of you was a devil?
19:01
And that just makes those toddler years real tough.
19:04
Yeah.
19:05
And yeah, toddler are terrible too.
19:08
And then can you imagine the teenage years when you literally have the devil?
19:11
Oh, sweet Jesus.
19:13
Exactly.
19:14
That's what's needed.
19:17
So when it was born, the child supposedly transformed into a terrifying creature with a horse-like head, bat wings, hooves, and a tail with a horrible scream.
19:26
We're back to the screaming.
19:27
Yeah.
19:28
It escaped through the chimney and disappeared into the Pine Barrens.
19:30
Over time, residents blamed the Jersey Devil for strange noises, mysterious tracks, livestock attacks, and frightening encounters in the woods.
19:38
Mother Leeds' story is a folklore, and they don't know exactly where it- Mm-hmm originated.
19:42
Right.
19:42
But during January 1909, people across southern New Jersey and Philadelphia area reported strange hoofprints and sightings of bizarre flying creatures.
19:51
That's what gets me, when there's different forms of proof, evidence.
19:55
Yeah.
19:56
Newspapers cover the reports extensively, and the story created a regional sensation.
20:00
Did you hear anything about that growing up?
20:02
No.
20:03
Mm-mm.
20:03
Yeah.
20:04
No., you hear some of'em, like, Slender Man and stuff.
20:06
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:07
But yeah.
20:08
Yeah.
20:08
Some of these I'm like, I've grown up here.
20:09
But I feel like the Jersey Devil is a mascot of some kind of team, I think like hockey or something.
20:15
I don't know.
20:15
Well, maybe they'll play the Wombats or whatever they're called.
20:19
What are they called?
20:20
I already forgot the name.
20:21
Wombus.
20:21
But, an entire community can't all be- Mm-hmm hallucinating the same stuff.
20:27
Right.
20:28
Right?
20:28
Right.
20:29
I don't know.
20:30
The animals that are, like, mixed body parts freak me out.
20:33
Like the sphinxes and the, I think they're griffins, all of those things where it's just Yeah.
20:38
Yeah.
20:39
It's like, yeah.
20:40
I'm not a fan.
20:41
Mm-mm.
20:41
I'm not a fan.
20:42
Real quick before we move on to something else Mm-hmm there are specific rules about the Appalachian Mountains.
20:48
Have you heard these?
20:50
Um, yeah.
20:50
Well, I mean, I've heard some of them, but give me the breakdown'cause- Okay well, one, I don't wanna go there.
20:54
I'm scared.
20:55
I grew up camping in the Appalachian Mountains.
20:58
Nice.
20:58
Cherokee and Maggie Valley, like, and I'm talking tent camping.
21:02
I'm not talking- Oh, I've never camped.
21:03
Do I look like I would now?
21:05
But my mom, my sister, and I, that's where our vacations were, and I never knew about...
21:10
Thank God, or I would've freaked myself out listening to this stuff.
21:13
So the rules.
21:14
Okay.
21:15
Never whistle while in the woods at night.
21:18
Apparently, that can, like, attract something to you that you didn't want finding you.
21:23
Um, some say that something might whistle back And then what?
21:27
If you don't, don't, just don't respond.
21:29
Just pass out.
21:30
Let's get to wherever you can go.
21:32
Just go away.
21:34
Get indoors.
21:34
Yeah.
21:35
And but, see, now I freak myself out'cause, like, that's how I'll get Biggie to come back to me at night, like I'll whistle and now, now it's gonna be in my head that...
21:43
Yeah.
21:43
So anyway, rule number two, if you hear someone calling your name from the woods, don't answer.
21:47
I did hear that one.
21:49
Um, and it, it says, like, it sounds like somebody you might know.
21:53
Now, can you imagine we're glamping, we're not camping.
21:56
Okay.
21:57
We're glamping, and we're, we're like this, just chatting, and you hear my voice call you from the woods.
22:03
No.
22:04
That is insane, but that's the kind of situation that people say would happen.
22:08
Yeah.
22:08
So, if somebody calls you from the woods, don't go.
22:10
Just, it's okay.
22:11
Don't worry about it.
22:12
If you hear something strange, this is, obvious.
22:14
If you hear something strange, don't go looking for it.
22:16
Yeah.
22:16
Just, like, write that one off.
22:17
It's okay.
22:18
You hear footsteps, like, eh, Don't worry about it.
22:21
You hear a scream.
22:22
No, you didn't.
22:22
Just keep going.
22:23
Keep going.
22:24
Um, and if the woods suddenly become completely silent, just leave.
22:30
Run.
22:31
Run the opposite direction, fast as you can.
22:36
Oh my gosh, listen, I would...
22:38
I, I'm not a survivor.
22:42
I have no survival skills.
22:44
Zero?
22:46
Zero.
22:47
Well, you know, animals can sense other predators, right?
22:50
And then they'll go quiet when stuff's around like that, so we just have to be smarter than the squirrels.
22:57
Can we do that?
22:58
Maybe, but I seriously am not a camper.
23:01
No, I would not be now.
23:03
No, Brian and I went camping, like, when we first got married with, like, a big group of friends and, and that was literally the last time.
23:14
All right, so, do you wanna play a game?
23:16
We always play games.
23:17
I like games.
23:17
And I like it, yeah.
23:19
All right, so we're gonna do rapid fire.
23:20
Okay.
23:21
Which creature do you think could actually exist?
23:24
All of them but most, like, that I really believe, Sasquatch.
23:28
Me too, yeah, same.
23:29
which one is most likely just to be a bear or a raccoon having a weird day?
23:35
The cat.
23:36
The cat, yeah.
23:37
But bigger than a raccoon.
23:39
Yeah, pro- yeah, yeah, I believe that one.
23:42
The cat.
23:42
The cat, sure, yeah.
23:43
It's like a bobcat.
23:44
It's probably a bobcat that's just screaming.
23:46
And somebody was drunk and just saw six legs.
23:48
Oh, my God, there's s- yeah.
23:51
Which one would scare you the most if you encountered it alone?
23:54
Oh, I don't think I'd be scared of Bigfoot.
23:56
I don't think so either.
23:57
I mean, like, I'm gonna respectfully- Be like,"Hey, girl." And why are they always girls?
24:01
I don't know.
24:02
I feel like w- I always reference them as being girls.
24:05
Wait.
24:05
You wouldn't wanna be alone if it was.
24:06
I...
24:07
Right.
24:08
Wait, what was the question?
24:09
Which would I be afraid of?
24:10
Which, what, what would you be scared of the most out of, like, all the lore?
24:12
That Mothman was terry, but like Slender Man would be.
24:14
Yeah.
24:15
Did I say terry?
24:16
I meant scary.
24:18
Or, the skinwalkers.
24:20
Yeah.
24:20
They're- Those yeah.
24:21
Mm-mm.
24:22
Yeah.
24:22
No, thank you.
24:23
Yeah.
24:24
Would you rather encounter Mothman or Lizardman?
24:29
Lizardman You would?
24:31
Well, yeah.
24:32
How about you?
24:32
I, I don't know.
24:33
I feel like Mothman has got more methods of transportation.
24:36
At least with Lizardman I feel like we're on even ground.
24:39
Okay, I agree.
24:40
But like reptiles freak me out so bad.
24:42
Yeah.
24:43
Yeah, I get that too.
24:44
I feel like I can carry a can of Raid and- See, I need like a big, like a Nerf gun, like a big bazooka full of...
24:54
For a 10-foot wingspan Mothman.
24:57
If a cryptid showed up in your backyard, would you record it or would you run?
25:01
I'd probably run.
25:02
You?
25:02
Yeah.
25:04
But I think that's our generation.
25:06
We're not the ones who immediately whip out our phones to record things.
25:08
Maybe I do have a little bit of self-preservation, but like I- But that's it and it depends on which thingy.
25:13
If it was one of them little gnomes- Yeah I think I would probably record it.
25:18
After I make friends.
25:21
I would record it from the window.
25:24
Yeah.
25:26
Would you spend one night camping alone in the, let's say the Apo- what?
25:30
The Appalachian.
25:30
There you go.
25:31
Mm-hmm.
25:31
Mountains,'cause you know I can't say that word.
25:33
Um, for$10,000?
25:36
Yeah.
25:37
So would I.
25:38
No self-preservation.
25:39
Yeah, no.
25:40
I figure I can make it from sundown to sun up.
25:43
Um, I just, I don't know why I feel like this because I have no survival skills at all.
25:48
Like I wanna survive, I just don't have the skills to do it.
25:51
Same.
25:52
Me, I'm like thinking Mothman's Batman.
25:54
Yeah.
25:55
You're like pointing, standing in the middle of the street.
25:59
If you found undeniable proof of a cryptoid, would you give it to scientists or would you keep it a secret?
26:04
I'm telling you at least.
26:06
Yeah.
26:08
Do you count as a scientist?
26:11
Well, we can keep it together.
26:12
Yeah.
26:13
Okay.
26:13
Yeah.
26:14
I mean, yeah, probably.
26:15
I don't, I don't even know how to go about telling somebody that I found something that should be- No inspected.
26:20
Like- Like, I would, I would be calling you and being like- Right"What do I do?" I mean, I'd be like,"You ain't gonna believe this." which creature sounds most like a government experiment gone wrong?
26:33
The six-legged thing.
26:34
I'd say Dogman.
26:36
Oh, yeah.
26:37
Dogman's kinda like- Yeah.
26:39
Mm-hmm.
26:40
Mm.
26:41
Is it possible that some of the cryptid witnesses are telling the truth even if their explanation is wrong?
26:47
Yes.
26:47
I agree'cause panicking.
26:50
Right.
26:50
Well, and it's just like they say when they are interviewing witnesses from a crime.
26:53
They'll interview five people, and some people will say,"I don't know, red hat, a blue hat, or a black hat." Like, nobody get, gets everything right.
26:59
Yeah.
26:59
So yeah.
27:00
Mm.
27:00
What's scarier, a monster living in the woods or finding out the government knew about it all along?
27:05
The monster in the woods Yeah.
27:08
I mean, the government knows all of it, and- I don't think there's anything that they don't have access to- Yeah so I guess I'm already just screwed up in the head about that one.
27:16
If Mothman appeared outside your window, would you assume something terrible was going on, or that he was just being nosy?
27:23
I would think that there was something terrible, like, that he was attracted to, something about me was something he needed to have.
27:29
Mm., I would panic.
27:31
Yeah.
27:32
I, yeah.
27:32
I would, I would close the blinds.
27:34
That would work.
27:36
Sorry.
27:36
That would work.
27:37
We're closed.
27:38
if the Fresno Nightcrawlers showed up wearing- Ugh actual pants, would they become less creepy?
27:46
More.
27:48
More creepy.
27:49
Weird things wearing pants is not...
27:52
I feel like I, like I just had Men in Black flash in my head Is there any amount of money that would convince you to swim alone in Loch Ness at night?
28:00
Oh, yeah, I would.
28:01
You would?
28:02
Oh, yeah.
28:02
I mean, there's an amount of money, I don't know what it is, but yeah, I'd do it.
28:05
That's one place I would love to go and see.
28:07
That's one that I'm obsessed with is Loch Ness Monster, and there's not a lot about it.
28:12
Yeah.
28:13
So yeah, I'd do it'cause I'm an idiot and no survival skills apparently.
28:16
I'd be jumping in right along with you.
28:17
You would.
28:18
Cannonball.
28:19
Yeah.
28:21
Can I ride you?
28:22
Yeah.
28:23
Come here, Nessie.
28:26
How many people have to report seeing the same creature before you start believing them?
28:31
One?
28:34
I need at least two separate instances.
28:38
No, you're, you're good with just, like, somebody- I believe in all that because of all the- I do believe in all of it, but I also think that, not everything in my imagination exists.
28:50
Um, I totally do.
28:55
'Cause there's some weird shit there.
28:57
Same.
28:58
And I believe in all of it.
29:00
I think it's maybe more credible if there's two separate instances.
29:03
Not like me and you seeing the same thing at the same time- Yeah because w- we could make up some good stuff.
29:08
But, like, me and you on different days- Seeing it seeing it, yeah.
29:11
What would you do if you saw a deer standing upright and staring directly in your bedroom window?
29:16
Oh my gosh, that's, that's another Appalachian one- Yeah that's about the freaking deer that...
29:20
Oh, freak out, and probably call Brian and he'd shoot it about the head or something.
29:28
Do you eat that deer meat?
29:29
Ew, I don't think so.
29:30
Uh, no.
29:32
It's like an alien form of- I know, but people are s- people are stupid and- Oh my God, no they can be...
29:37
No.
29:37
No.
29:38
That was...
29:38
No.
29:38
That was all of that.
29:42
No, thank you.
29:42
No, thank you.
29:43
That was fun, though.
29:44
There's so many- Yeah many, many weird stories like that.
29:48
Well, so, okay, so with all this alien stuff that had come out- Mm-hmm with the government stuff.
29:51
Mm-hmm.
29:52
Um, I have O negative blood.
29:55
Same, yep.
29:55
And I'm Rh negative.
29:57
Yes, me too.
29:58
You are too?
29:58
Yep.
29:58
So I keep getting all this stuff now on, blood types for whatever reason.
30:02
Yeah, yeah.
30:02
And it says that the Rh negative is, like, it's not human.
30:09
Like- That tracks.
30:11
It does.
30:13
And, and that it is a possibility that Rh negative is from the merpeople.
30:20
We might be mermaids.
30:22
That also tracks.
30:24
So- I don't wanna be a scary mermaid, though like, I wanna be Ariel.
30:26
Uh-huh.
30:27
But I don't wanna lose my voice.
30:29
Well- And I'm not going to lose my fins for a man.
30:31
No.
30:32
No, definitely not,'cause I don't wanna be where the people are, no.
30:38
But yeah, there's all this stuff that- That's really crazy it's like, like from like the ancient, ancient, ancient times- Mm-hmm before there was like human people- Mm-hmm, yep and it was whatever was here before that.
30:47
That's crazy.
30:48
Yeah.
30:48
Now, is Dylan a different blood type than you?
30:50
I don't know.
30:51
So- I've never had the blood type done Jackson was a different blood type, and I don't know what test they do to determine that in pregnancy, and when they did that, because I was negative and he's positive, I had to have shots.
31:03
Yeah, yeah.
31:03
That, yeah, same, same.
31:04
So I, I, I'm assuming that's the blood type thing, so I guess he's something positive.
31:07
Yeah.
31:08
But yeah.
31:08
Yeah,'cause the RH negative will attack- Yeah the fetus- Yeah if, if you don't have the special shot.
31:13
'Cause of our alien bodies, we'll attack the humanoids.
31:16
Yeah.
31:17
Yeah.
31:18
Crazy.
31:19
So we're either aliens or we're mermaids.
31:22
Totally going with mermaids.
31:24
100% going with mermaids.
31:25
So when there's like this, alien invasion that they're calling for- Mm-hmm maybe we're gonna be the leaders It all makes sense See where I'm going with this?
31:34
It all makes sense.
31:37
We are going to be the leaders, and we're going to save the world.
31:40
We're the leaders of this random country.
31:42
Or, uh, planet or whatever.
31:45
I guess it'd be a water planet because we're mermaids.
31:47
But it's, like, 75% water, isn't it?
31:49
Or- Mm-hmm yeah, so.
31:51
I'm saying we might save the world.
31:56
Everybody doubts us.
31:58
Haters.
32:00
That's crazy.
32:01
Yeah.
32:02
So.
32:02
Interesting, though.
32:03
There's your weird bit for the day.
32:05
There's my weird bit for the day.
32:07
So I was looking for an Am I The A-Hole- Uh-huh for, just, lore and creatures or whatever, and I've got one about Sasquatch.
32:15
Okay.
32:16
Ooh, I love Sasquatch.
32:17
I do, too.
32:18
But let me just say that I put into the Google machine- Mm-hmm am I the asshole Bigfoot?
32:23
Okay, that's all I put, that's all I put in there.
32:26
AI is telling me, yes, if you are Sasquatch and you're creeping around people's private property throwing rocks at campers or lurking in bathrooms, windows, or commenting on strangers, anomalies, then you are definitely the asshole.
32:40
Well, there we go.
32:41
Okay.
32:42
I have questions.
32:44
I have a lot of questions.
32:46
First of all, Sasquatches don't have phones.
32:51
Or do they?
32:53
Like, how would a Sasquatch be Googling something?
32:55
Because it found somebody's phone and just started Googling.
32:59
Ooh, let me Google.
33:00
I can't believe that that's what AI said.
33:02
It's funny.
33:03
Okay.
33:03
Am I the a-hole if I insist on believing in Bigfoot?
33:06
Okay, yours is much better.
33:08
My family doesn't have faith in Bigfoot.
33:10
I do.
33:11
This last weekend at a family party, folks started ridiculing Bigfoot believers.
33:15
I suggested that there's more physical evidence for Bigfoot than Jesus.
33:19
Awkwardness ensued.
33:21
Grandma might have fainted, and when I said that Bigfoot might be Cain, they took away my plate." That's all of it.
33:29
Grandma.
33:31
Don't take the plate.
33:34
Rude.
33:37
No, you're not the a-hole.
33:38
No, Grandma is.
33:41
That's hilarious, though.
33:43
Yeah.
33:43
I don't believe he's a A-hole.
33:45
You believe in what you wanna believe.
33:46
Yeah.
33:47
I don't think, I don't think so either.
33:48
Yeah.
33:48
I do, but we've talked about that before, but we believe in all of it.
33:51
I do.
33:51
But I just don't believe that all the weirdness in my brain could really come out of my brain.
33:58
Yeah, well, I don't know.
34:01
You're like,"I don't know about that." Like, all the things like the Mothman, sure, that can exist, but there's no way there's a combination of all the weirdness.
34:09
And- I think everything is a possibility at this point.
34:12
I- You're probably right I, I don't know.
34:15
The world is crazy.
34:16
You're right.
34:17
It is.
34:17
All, the weird things that, wash up on shore after- Yeah, you're right.
34:21
I- It could be our mermaid relatives.
34:24
It's our people.
34:25
It's Aunt who's coming.
34:26
Maybe that's why I always, walk into things.
34:28
I'm not supposed to have feet, I'm supposed to have fins.
34:31
That makes a lot of sense.
34:34
Some of it's making sense now.
34:35
We both love the beach, and nobody else on this planet does.
34:38
No.
34:38
Just we both love the water.
34:40
Mm-hmm.
34:41
But not lakes.
34:42
No.
34:43
I don't like lakes.
34:45
Only if it's Nessie.
34:48
Only if it's Nessie.
34:50
Yeah.
34:50
So I know we're gonna talk about a doc.
34:52
Yes.
34:52
But before we do, do you wanna tell the people what we're gonna do next week?
34:55
Sure.
34:56
So these people can be prepared for the homework we're gonna give them.
34:59
If they leave us apparently.
35:02
So we will watch the movie The Witches, which is on Peacock, but it's from 1990, so obviously it's gonna be a little- It's not fresh the graphics are not gonna be as they would be today, But okay.
35:16
Yes, Okay, I'm excited about that we're not gonna do a doc, we're gonna do a regular movie this week.
35:20
Yeah, yeah.
35:20
We're, we're switching it up a little bit.
35:22
Yeah.
35:22
All right.
35:23
Yeah, cool.
35:24
So you wanna talk about our doc that we did watch this week?
35:26
Yes, we can.
35:28
Oh my gosh.
35:29
So we watched Sasqwatch.
35:31
Yes.
35:31
And it was on- Hulu Hulu, and it was three eps.
35:35
Yes.
35:36
Off the top, what'd you think?
35:37
Well, I don't think I read the description in, I didn't realize it was about pot.
35:41
The whole thing was about pot?
35:42
Yeah, like marijuana- Yeah growing.
35:44
Yeah, same.
35:46
The first ep is kinda s- kind of Bigfoot-y, and then after that you're just learning about all of the issues with growing, cannabis in the northern part of California.
35:56
Yeah.
35:56
But, first episode's called Grabbing at Smoke.
35:59
Yeah.
35:59
The whole first episode was about three growers that were supposedly attacked by a Bigfoot- Right and killed.
36:04
Right.
36:04
And so they start on this journey of trying to figure out if Bigfoot is really killing people.
36:09
Right.
36:09
So we follow this investigative journalist named David Holthouse through this whole thing, and he's the one who, had been, in northern California working and, had heard about this mauling, basically, of three workers.
36:24
And, it's just kind of been on his mind forever and he's like,"I just really wanna get to the bottom of it," because the dude that he overhears telling about the situation says it was Bigfoot.
36:34
Right.
36:35
But really he can't find anybody else that- Right believes this.
36:38
Well, yes, especially because the graphics in this are terrible.
36:43
Yeah.
36:44
I couldn't get past that in the beginning.
36:46
I was like,"Okay, lock in, lock in, lock in." But yeah, he's, he's just trying to figure out,"Is there anybody else who can tell me that this is really true?" And all this kind of stuff.
36:56
Um, and yeah, nobody's ever really validating his story at all.
36:59
No.
37:00
Nope.
37:01
And then he starts doing the whole thing,"Was this real or was I tripping" kind of thing, which is comical considering all of the cannabis stories that are going on in this also.
37:11
Yeah.
37:12
Basically all we hear about is weed, growing weed.
37:14
Yes.
37:14
And The whole, the Emerald Triangle where this was, we hear that's the three counties- Yeah in California.
37:21
And yeah, we just hear a lot about that and how it's just perfect, growing conditions and everything is great, and, that it's great to grow things there.
37:29
How much money they made how much money they made and why everybody wanted to just make that money, which of course everybody wants to make money, but, we hear a lot of that.
37:37
Well, and they did show, the very bad, video of Bigfoot- Yes that they did see.
37:43
Yes.
37:44
Was, like she looks over her shoulder.
37:45
Yeah.
37:47
And then they were talking about, like, that sh- they make noise when they're basically, like it's mating season.
37:54
Yeah, and they smell musky.
37:56
Yes.
37:57
They smell sweet, musky.
37:59
They smell sweet and musky.
38:01
One thing that I really liked is the, some of the people we were talking to were called Back to the Landers.
38:06
Yeah.
38:07
And they were just basically a bunch of hippies.
38:09
Yeah.
38:09
just trying to find somewhere to live where they could get back to nature.
38:13
Yeah.
38:13
That's what they wanted to do was get back and then they started growing the cannabis and doing other things there, Yeah Very strange introduction to this because- It was very misleading- Yeah the title and then the first episode, I think we're gonna find out what happened to these men at the end, and spoiler, we really don't.
38:31
Right.
38:32
Um, but, uh- But we go in thinking we're learning about Bigfoot more about Bigfoot and Bigfoot sightings and all of that.
38:38
And we're getting history lessons on- Right marijuana farms.
38:40
Right.
38:41
Really the only reference to, To actual Bigfoot was what you were talking about when she looks over her shoulder, and that was, a Patterson and Gimlin film from 1967, and everybody has seen this.
38:53
When they said,"It's the gold standard," I was like,"I have no idea what you're talking about." And then they played it, and I was like,"I know exactly what you're talking about." Yeah.
39:00
And it's just, these two dudes who were, like, just riding around trying to find proof of Bigfoot, and one day they saw her across a river, and she turns and looks over her shoulder, and then she keeps on walking.
39:10
But there was some drama with that because then we find out from another dude that they actually told him to dress up as Bigfoot so it wasn't even real.
39:18
Yeah.
39:18
And then there's still, beef there because they're neighbors, and he's like,"He doesn't wave to me." And his wife pipes up and she's like,"He does wave, but he won't speak." And she's, off-camera.
39:29
I'm like,"Oh my God, This is from 1967.
39:32
That's 60 years worth of trauma right there they're trying to get past." Yeah.
39:36
And the other thing I like, so we meet all these people through this whole thing, and some of them, I'm like,"What?" But there are some real characters in here.
39:43
First of all, a couple that I really liked they were Wayne and I don't know if it's Georges- Uh-huh was his name, but they're Sasquatch hunters and life partners.
39:51
Like, immediately they start arguing.
39:53
He's like,"Well, you think Bigfoot can teleport, and I don't think Bigfoot..." Like, immediately, it's a gay couple and they're just immediately sassy pants are on and they are both pissed off.
40:02
The other people I really liked were the back to the landers that I mentioned because they are exactly what you think they would be.
40:08
Yeah.
40:09
And they're talking about how they lived in these, places where there was one kerosene lamp and no electricity and outhouses and all that kind of stuff.
40:16
But then there's one dude that I really like, and I just liked him because of his name.
40:21
And his name was, it was like Ghost Dancer or something like that.
40:25
And I'm like,"How did you just come- Ghost Dance.
40:28
Like, how did you just come up with that?" And we meet him, and we see his title is he is a former, cannabis farmer, and I'm like,"Sure." Yeah.
40:37
Sure.
40:38
Wink, wink.
40:38
Right.
40:38
Yeah.
40:38
And then the next thing, we're sitting in his, really primitive, rustic living room, and he's got a mason jar.
40:44
And I don't know the right terms, but he just pulls out a big chunk of bud.
40:47
Is that the right word?
40:48
Yeah.
40:48
That's like the size of a baseball, and I'm like,"Oh my gosh.
40:52
Here we go, folks." Yeah.
40:55
But that first ep is all over the place.
40:56
Yes.
40:57
Honestly, this entire thing was all over the place it was all over the place.
41:00
We're meeting people, and most of them are either farmers, just reporters or investigative journalists or, you know, everything.
41:06
But then at the very end of this first ep, we bounce back to David, who is our main guy, and he's like,"Hey, I just got in touch with this dude named Razor, and we're gonna chat because he thinks that, um, he knows what I'm talking about with these three dead dudes." Yeah.
41:19
And all of a sudden, they just, keep throwing that in there.
41:21
Yeah.
41:22
And it's like- Yeah It's like an afterthought.
41:24
Right, and then it just stops.
41:26
Yeah.
41:27
So we go into episode two.
41:29
Yep.
41:30
Episode two was- Moves away from paranormal storyline altogether All together.
41:33
So it starts at the very beginning, picking up where it dropped off in episode one, where he's talking to he, he being David, he had hired a PI- Right to help him figure out who these people were that were killed,'cause he can't even find that.
41:47
Right.
41:47
He can't find any information on who it was.
41:49
It-'Cause it didn't happen My Bigfoot does not murder people.
41:52
She does not.
41:54
She's helpful.
41:55
But the PI is, sends him these texts, and he's like,"Hey, I'm out.
42:00
I don't want anything to do with this.
42:02
Be careful and good luck." And David can't get back in touch with him at all.
42:05
Yeah.
42:06
So, You know why?
42:07
'Cause it's a cartel, it's not Bigfoot.
42:11
Yeah.
42:12
And then- You're talking drugs, Right what is your logical thought process here?
42:16
Yeah.
42:17
Yeah.
42:17
Just saying like,"I'm out." Yeah.
42:19
"Good luck." You're talking about farms and farms and farms of marijuana, and three dead Mexican workers.
42:26
Mm-hmm.
42:27
You're gonna tell me that's not cartel?
42:28
Right.
42:29
Yep.
42:29
And then we go back and we talk to Bob some more, and Bob is the one that he says that the dudes with the movie had paid him$1,000 to do the thing, to be the Sasquatch hoaxer is what his title was.
42:40
Mm-hmm.
42:40
He said that they told him,"You can't tell anybody," and he's like,"I've denied it for 35 years, and now it's time." He says,"You can even see my jeans and my wallet in the thing," and I'm like,"I can't really see that, but if that's your story and you're sticking to it, then that sounds, that sounds great." Yeah.
42:57
So we start randomly seeing, news articles and, just glimpses of this Sky Rock Road.
43:06
Right.
43:06
Start hearing about Sky Rock Road.
43:08
And Razor's talking about that, our new friend Razor.
43:11
He says it's really secluded, it's far away.
43:14
Once you start getting in that area, you don't just get there by accident.
43:17
You have to kinda know where you're going to get there.
43:19
And then we started hearing, this was new to me, I had no idea, you know, I'm a drug virgin.
43:24
Um, cannabis isn't hard to grow, but it's hard- Not- Where they're just talking about cannabis more.
43:31
It's not hard to grow.
43:32
Almost gave us a little lesson.
43:33
We...
43:33
Yeah, yeah, like these, these are the optimal- Right.
43:36
These are the conditions that you want.
43:38
And they were like,"But it's hard to protect." Right.
43:40
And you're not only protecting it from, you know- Criminals criminals who wanna come steal my crops, and I thought of the Cypress Hill song.
43:47
Okay.
43:48
But then this is when the DEA, and then we hear about CAMP, and CAMP stands for the Campaign Against Marijuana Planting, where they're just, like, military helicopters flying over and, like, dropping people from ropes and just, like, axes, like, just chopping down their marijuana plants and trees.
44:04
It's just lighting it on fire.
44:05
Well, they did show one clip- Lighting- of that.
44:07
Yeah, I saw.
44:07
And I, I, yeah, but- Yeah, that was like- I know.
44:09
Yeah.
44:10
I know.
44:10
And then you get everybody high.
44:11
Right.
44:12
And everybody's happy then.
44:13
Everybody's happy.
44:14
And then everybody's like,"What are we even doing?
44:16
Grow it back." True.
44:20
So basically the second episode is all about, like, the violent side- Mm-hmm of growing marijuana.
44:23
Mm-hmm.
44:24
And they brought in the Hells Angel- I mean, the Hells Angels came into the, into play- Yep at one point.
44:28
Yep.
44:28
Um, they didn't say that they did the killings, but they were- Right very in the area.
44:33
Yes.
44:34
Um- Yes being there.
44:35
And, and it's not just like we were saying, it's not just the violence from the, from the criminals, but, like, these DEA agents kinda had a, you know, they had a little ego about'em, and they were just- Going through everybody.
44:47
They were, they were killing people who weren't even, related.
44:50
And we meet some of them.
44:52
Mm-hmm.
44:52
Some of these people that they had issues with and interacted with had nothing to do with the drug thing, but they, mine is bigger than yours and had to do this stuff.
45:01
And they look like your typical law enforcement.
45:03
And I'm a law enforcement fan.
45:05
Yeah.
45:05
But they do look like typical law enforcement.
45:07
Yeah.
45:07
And then randomly, cause that's what this is all about, random, we found out that David was, sexually assaulted at seven years old.
45:14
Yeah.
45:15
Why throw that in there?
45:16
What relevance?
45:18
Zero.
45:18
And here is my note.
45:20
I'm getting lost in the boredom, let's do something with this,'cause we're just doing a lot of nonsense at this point.
45:25
Yes.
45:26
We do meet, Diana right about now.
45:29
Okay.
45:29
And Diana had moved from Mexico at seven years old, and she's, probably in her 20s or something now.
45:34
We start seeing some clips of, cars with license tags blacked out., This is where we see a lot of blacked out faces, and voices start to get the voice box translator'cause nobody wants to be identified because it's not Bigfoot, it's the cartel.
45:46
Right.
45:47
Allegedly.
45:48
Right., This really had nothing to do with Bigfoot.
45:52
Nothing to do.
45:53
And then at the very end, again, we're back to David and the, the murder of the three people.
45:59
Diana says her uncle died, and then we get a random voice on the phone says,"This is me." Yeah.
46:05
This is who, and what do you know, and what are we doing?
46:07
So we're going into episode three.
46:10
So we've completely lost the plot for the entire documentary.
46:12
Uh-huh.
46:12
Uh-huh.
46:13
And- It was terrible.
46:14
They led me on with the whole Sasquatch title.
46:16
Yeah.
46:16
Episode three is called Monsters Among Us.
46:19
Yeah.
46:19
Oh, my note when I was trying to write Brian was the author of Searching for Sasquatch, and I wrote Assquatch.
46:31
Just snorted Eyesquatch.
46:35
That's, that must have been, I must have been projecting what I felt.
46:38
And I don't, all of a sudden, I don't know why he's here, and I'm looking at him like we're getting introduced to one more person with really bad hair.
46:45
Yeah.
46:46
He had, hair like he should be on, a$20 bill or something.
46:48
Uh-huh.
46:49
We just randomly meet him, and then we're back talk, talking to David again who's got his source with the voice box thing.
46:54
that entire thing just sucked.
46:55
It did suck, and then I have more blah, blah, blah.
46:58
Yeah.
46:58
Um, we finally do talk to Diana, who is Hugo's niece.
47:02
Hugo was someone that was killed in 2013.
47:06
They randomly told us he was tall and skinny, and he wanted to be a dope farmer, but he didn't think of, all the consequences.
47:12
And I'm like, that's a, again, a bunch of random facts that you're just gonna give us.
47:17
So we start meeting some of the investigators into some of the things going on there.
47:22
Yeah.
47:23
We meet the, lead investigator in the case.
47:25
No idea what his name is or how to pronounce it.
47:27
Um, but he just got that case about Hugo by default'cause he was the only Spanish-speaking- Yeah investigator.
47:34
Then we find that an important development in this stupid documentary, um, that a powerful figure in the local drug trade was reportedly nicknamed Bigfoot.
47:45
Yes.
47:46
So- Gary Bigfoot, I think is his name so when people said that thr- th- three men were killed by Bigfoot It wasn't our queen lady Bigfoot No, it wasn't our princess.
47:55
It was not.
47:56
It was a human being named Bigfoot.
48:01
Yep.
48:02
And so David's still trying to do some research.
48:05
I guess he's just continuing to Google, don't know what, but he keeps seeing common threads, about people that were murdered around this time.
48:13
And, they are saying that the murders were done on orders by a powerful person.
48:19
Mm-hmm.
48:19
They say there was a local girl strung out on heroin and meth, and, they killed her.
48:25
And also some people said that he just effed with the wrong guy's daughter, and that's why.
48:30
Yeah.
48:31
So there's a lot of murders up and down this Spy Creek Road, whatever it is.
48:34
And we hear again that this is not somewhere you just go for a fun drive.
48:38
You've got to have a destination in mind.
48:40
It's huge.
48:40
Yeah.
48:41
Huge.
48:41
Giantic.
48:43
David also says, people who know why and who killed Hugo, but they'll never tell.
48:49
And we meet another investigator, but he won't even share his face or anything because he's on a hit list.
48:56
So that's a lot of fun.
49:00
So we find out that Hugo was found in a tent, and, he was targeted because of his connections or his lack of connections or we don't really know why.
49:10
Yeah.
49:10
And I don't know why we're stuck on this Hugo dude when I still wanna know about the other three guys that were killed, but randomly we're not gonna talk about those.
49:18
We talked to Tom Allman, who's a county sheriff, and he says that they have a lot of immigrants that work on these farms die.
49:26
Mm-hmm.
49:27
But they're not identifiable, and everybody's like,"I don't know where they came from and who they are." He said he would just walk on properties and there'd be a dead body there.
49:34
But there's no identifying marks and no ID.
49:36
There's no DNA in the system or anything like that.
49:38
But they're like, how many more bodies were there that we never found?
49:42
Yeah.
49:43
From whatever.
49:44
Right, and a lot, yeah., Did you like this?
49:46
I didn't like it.
49:47
No.
49:47
We can stop talking about it any time you want to.
49:49
Okay.
49:49
I mean, it just was not my vibe.
49:51
it was completely different and- Yeah misleading.
49:53
So- 100%.
49:54
I do wanna say that I thought this was, like, the best part, well, no, outside of that haircut, and me saying Sasquatch this was a really creepy area with a lot of missing people.
50:03
Yeah.
50:03
And Oh, that's, that is what I was gonna say, actually.
50:06
The missing people in Northern California in this, called the Emerald Counties, it's like the three side by side, rate per capita is by far the highest in the United States.
50:14
That's sweet Jesus.
50:15
And that's crazy to me.
50:17
I feel like that's a random spot.
50:19
Yeah.
50:19
And I don't feel like it's, like, super, like- Right busy.
50:23
Right Mm.
50:24
So anyway, don't watch this one either.
50:26
We have, apparently have a really, bad gift of picking crappy- Yeah docs.
50:31
We watched it so you didn't have to.
50:33
Yeah, that's what we're gonna start calling this segment, what did we watch so you don't have to.
50:36
I wanna know more about Bigfoot, not Pie.
50:38
Yeah.
50:39
Yeah.
50:40
I- That could be a bumper sticker.
50:43
Put it on a shirt.
50:45
Bigfoot, not Pie.
50:46
Thank you guys so much for joining us for our spooky month.
50:49
Next week is witches.
50:50
Yes.
50:50
And we are gonna watch the movie The Witches.
50:53
So- It'll be fun I've seen this movie before when I was little.
50:56
It creeped me out.
50:56
I was, like, petrified.
50:58
Really?
50:58
As a little kid, like- Okay like, it's just weird.
51:00
We have to watch it.
51:01
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51:01
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51:03
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51:06
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51:07
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51:08
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