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Episode 49: SPOOKY MONTH CONTINUES VAMPIRES! | The Vampire Diaries Review | Are Vampires Real? | New Orleans Vampire Speak Easy? | AITA · 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 Spooky Circus.
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Spooky.
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Week three, vampires.
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I love it.
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Vampires.
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I love it.
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Love your vampire makeup.
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And have you been bitten?
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I have.
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Oh.
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Yes, you drank the blood.
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I'm in the middle of changing.
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Your makeup looks good.
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Skipped another tiktok Pinterest.
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It was a Pinterest Pinterest.
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Love it.
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Thank you.
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Yes.
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Yes.
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Love it.
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Do you like my not washed hair?
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And I don't remember when this is mine, too I I really need to tonight's the night.
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thank god for dry shampoo is all i'm gonna say Well, and you were saying you used a dupe.
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Yes, um that our girl told us about nina pool.
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Love her there was a dupe at the dollar tree So for actually she calls it the five quarter store or something five quarter store since they raised their prices.
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Yes Took her advice and it worked good.
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Yes, ma'am.
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All right, and we'll have to look that one up.
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So, I had run to Gastonia this morning and, I didn't know that there's a, what's this store called?
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Pop something.
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Pop Socket.
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No.
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Pop Shelf.
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Okay, what's Pop Shelf?
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I had never heard of it before.
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Yeah.
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but Nina Poole mentions it.
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Okay.
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And it's kind of like, it's like a five below Ross.
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Okay.
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Vibe.
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They do have a ton of stuff that Nina recommends.
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So it's pretty close.
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Yeah.
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And she does say like pop shelf.
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I was like, what the heck is a pop shelf?
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Yeah.
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And when I went to Ross, I'm like, here's a pop shelf.
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So I'm gonna, and I mentioned this to you just a few minutes ago.
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I'm going to have to watch some of her videos take notes on things that I need.
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I screenshot everything.
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Yeah.
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But then I forget what the dupe is for.
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Yeah.
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I'm going to have to figure something out because I think she has a lot of great ideas and I need a lot of stuff, but I don't know what I need yet.
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So there's another girl, I'll send you her username, but she does Dollar Tree dupe hauls.
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Oh yeah.
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and she says what the dupe is for.
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Perfect.
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Yeah.
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I want to, I want to do that one.
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I want to know her too.
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Yeah, be her friend.
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Yes.
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I did get us the frownies dupes.
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Tell me about this.
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Nina says that the Dollar Tree brand, well I guess it's not the Dollar Tree brand, but it's at the Dollar Tree.
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Mm hmm.
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Um, the K Tape?
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Yeah, K Tape.
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K Tape.
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Mm hmm.
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is exactly a dupe.
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That's all it is.
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It's like a weaker version of K Tape my own face?
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Brian might be like, Whoa, I'm going to try it.
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Have you tried it yet?
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I have not.
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Okay.
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but she did say that you can put a face cream or whatever underneath it and it should still stick.
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Okay.
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Good to know.
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but the frownies does not have anything on it.
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It's just the tape.
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Yeah.
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This way you're getting a double dose.
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Yeah.
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I've been trying to do well for the past several years, do better about moisturizer and stuff.
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You know, the older you get, you realize you should have done this stuff.
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So, yeah.
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I just have to find moisturizers that are lightweight because I feel hot when I put them on.
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And I like the oils too.
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I have such dry skin.
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Like my skin just absorbs everything.
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so it doesn't bother you.
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I might give me all of it.
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Like the vat on my face of the Vaseline.
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Anyway, anyway, yeah, so the Queen Nina Pool.
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Yep.
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Everybody follow her.
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We love her.
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Yes, we do.
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And I love that she calls it the five Quarter store.
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I do too.
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I think that's cute.
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I'm gonna be using that.
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Because it is not the dollar store.
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Yeah, she is, obsessed with Beetlejuice.
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So every time now that I see something Beetlejuice, I'm like, well, she would love that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'm gonna get that for her.
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She needs to be our new bestie.
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Right, come on.
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There's plenty of room.
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Rex would love it.
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You would love Rex.
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so what were you going to teach at Max Porter?
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I had to go to T Mobile.
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Okay.
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And so I was down there anyway.
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So I was like, well, let me just stop everywhere.
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Jackson had to go to the dentist yesterday.
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We've spent so much time at the dentist over the past two months because so I went for a cleaning in the cleaning they found that he had a tooth that needed to be looked at get cavity filled so we went back you know because then they have to schedule for the cavity we went back they started messing with the cavity they were like this thing and I was Gosh, and um, I hate teeth stuff.
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I hate it, and I think I've kind of passed my hate of it on to him.
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So we went, we got the appointment for him to get the root canal pretty quick, found somebody in network, you know, did all that.
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He got in the root canal.
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He handled it really well.
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Well, then we had to go back to the regular dentist so they could do the impression at that point for the crown.
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So we went, we had that done and they have to send it off and make the crown.
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So we went yesterday for him to finally get the crown put on and like sealed and be done.
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He has a really bad gag reflex.
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And of course this is very bad too.
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So they put it, they put the crown on, they did the bite down things to take an x ray so they could see how it fits and dah, dah, dah, dah.
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When they did, and he bit, It chipped.
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So now, not, not his tooth, but the crown chipped.
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So now they have to remake.
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I'm like, Oh my gosh, I told Jackson, I was like, okay, not only is this expensive, you know, we tell our kids all the time, brush and floss, brush and floss.
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not only is it expensive cause I let him see the bill, but I was like, see how inconvenient this is.
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We're having to continue to go.
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So brush and floss everybody.
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Well, Dylan just had his cleaning last week.
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So we have invested so much into that.
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Yes.
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Is he still got braces?
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No.
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Oh, oh, he hasn't had them for like a year.
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Okay.
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We've had two rounds of braces.
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He's got like this like unicorn mouth.
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So he, his tooth was growing upside down and then it like shifted.
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So we had to shift teeth around.
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and it's just been like, A journey.
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Yeah.
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with the dentist.
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Yeah.
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And we have invested a, probably the cost of a truck.
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So I'm like, dude, yeah, I'm not paying for another round of braces.
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If you're not doing what you need to be doing, like that's going to be on you.
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but did I ever tell you when he was little, I mean, this is elementary school, like third grade, second grade.
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He, had a cavity.
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Okay.
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Only cavity he's ever had his whole life.
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And he goes in and, after a certain age, they don't let you go back with that, with your kids.
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And so he comes out and the hygienist was like, man, he's a trooper.
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And I'm like, Why?
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And she's like, he didn't want the Novocaine because Brandon was like, Oh, you're not going to be able to feel your face forever.
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And he was petrified to get Novocaine.
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So he was like, I don't want that.
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I don't want that.
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They, first of all, I was mad.
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Yeah, because would that not be something that you come out and ask the parent?
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are you okay with this?
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Absolutely.
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They let him not have any Novocaine and they did his filling.
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She's like, he didn't even flinch.
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Dylan's like, I didn't really feel it.
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Like he's got such a high pain tolerance.
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But yeah, so they come like, I hear the drill and I'm like, I know, I know.
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Me too.
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Me too.
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Knock me out.
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Me too.
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Give me the laughing gas.
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Yeah.
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The fact that they, I mean, I'm sure that we have, we have listeners actually that are hygienists and stuff and they could tell us, but when I worked in healthcare, like I would not call a child back and see them without their parent.
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I know that things have changed.
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Yeah.
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But I can't imagine doing a procedure on them where you have to sign.
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Saying 1 thing, and then the treatment plan is different.
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So that's cookie, yeah.
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I need to see his teeth now.
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I feel like maybe I just hadn't seen him since then.
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Or he's just been coming and going.
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Yeah.
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speaking of teeth, vampires.
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Yes.
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You read our book.
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You had read it before.
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Yes, I had.
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so you watched the vampire diary show, correct?
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Okay.
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So did I.
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And, at least the first couple of seasons.
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Yeah.
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And I had read this book, Right before it dropped, because they now said the book was turning into a TV show, so I'm like, let me read the book first.
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But this was like, I don't know, a million years ago.
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Okay, let's read the blurb first.
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This is the Vampire Diaries, book one, The Awakening by L.
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J.
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Smith.
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Elena Gilbert is a high school golden girl used to getting what she wants and who she wants.
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But when the boy she sets her sights on, the handsome and haunted Stefan, Isn't interested.
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She's confused.
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She could never know the real reason.
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Stefan is struggling to resist her.
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Stefan is a vampire and Elena is in danger by being around him.
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What's more Stefan's dark dangerous vampire brother Damon has just arrived in town and wherever Damon goes trouble always follows.
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I like the book.
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I was just having trouble.
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A lot of trouble.
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With the differences in the TV show and the book.
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A lot of trouble, just even the way they describe Alayna.
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Yeah, blonde hair and dark hair.
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Yes, yes.
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And her vibe is different in the book than in this, so obviously we're going to do spoilers, right?
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If you haven't read it or if you're going to read it and just fast forward, yep.
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so this is a young adult book.
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it's classified as YA.
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but I think if they did really well for adults as well, I mean like I do a hundred percent like young adult books.
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Yeah.
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Oh gosh.
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I love them.
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Yeah.
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So I'm good with it.
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so if that's not your thing, you know, Move on, move on.
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what, what was your reaction to it?
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Again, very different than the show.
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I hate reading the book.
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Second, I'd rather read that than watching maybe your show, but I did not like Elena in this.
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Okay.
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I did not like.
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I did not like her attitude.
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She's more of a Caroline vibe.
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Like she did like a, almost bratty, mean girlish, kind of snobby, kind of, and not that she, she wasn't kind of like that on the show, but I don't know.
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I just did not like her.
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I can't remember a specific situation, but I just did not like the vibe she gave.
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I cannot stand Stephan's accent.
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No, that too was, it was distracting.
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Salvatore.
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Right.
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I am not used to that.
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No, that was different.
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there were just so many things I got stuck on trying to move past.
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Yeah, the, the differences in them, the accent was another one where he was living was another one.
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Like there was just things that were just different.
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Going from one to the other, like Trying to move past what you already envisioned.
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Right.
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And I would almost get hung up on them.
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What they would say something and I would have a little discussion in my head and then I'd miss some of what they were talking about.
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But even with that said, it was still good.
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Like I said, still good.
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Yeah, definitely.
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I'm going to read the rest of them or listen when we get our hoopla back.
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Right.
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but I did like it.
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Yeah.
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The book had me from the start.
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I mean, I was invested, From the start, it wasn't something that I had to get over and I thought going back and forth in time was done really well, not get confused at all.
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Right?
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I agree.
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I like that.
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I always like when they do the back in time ones and I like it when they do like now 1st and then go back because I feel like I get kind of established with where we are.
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Yeah.
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So, yeah, didn't get confused in that.
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And it was explained really well.
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His past.
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Yeah.
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I thought she developed the characters really well.
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Mm hmm It's just going back to getting past the TV show characters, but I thought that she did really well knowing that the series is going on.
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It was just this 1 book.
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I would not be as right.
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Um, no, and there's more to come.
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Right?
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Yeah.
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But, she did develop them.
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Well, which is probably.
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Why as the book went on, I did not like Elena as much, just as her personality started coming out.
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I just, I don't know what it was.
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I just wasn't a fan.
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Yeah she was just like, you know, he's mine and y'all can just back off.
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Well, and it happened so fast.
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And she was still with Matt.
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Right.
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That's what got me too.
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I'm like, Dang And she said, I love you.
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Like after the first day, right?
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Oh, that was weird.
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Yeah.
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So it just, yeah.
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Now this was written in the nineties, I think.
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Yeah.
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91, something like that.
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Oh my gosh.
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So it's crazy to think how 30 years ago, I know.
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Oh my gosh.
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Elena is a grandma now.
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But yeah, the accents, I wasn't a fan.
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I wish that they could have just said that they were Italian without throwing that in there.
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It would've been much easier.
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Same.
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Because I kept picturing in my mind the ones from, Twilight, the, Italian ones that said they sat still for so long.
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Forgot part of the nevermind.
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It doesn't matter.
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It doesn't matter.
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are you team Stefan or team Damon?
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As of right now, Stefan.
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Okay.
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I'm Damon.
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Are you from the beginning?
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I, yeah.
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I mean, Even on the TV show.
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I was like from the start like Damon.
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I don't know why.
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I think I flipped a little bit and went Went back and forth a little bit when I watched the show.
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No.
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Who does she end up with?
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Damon.
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Does she?
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And they dated in real life didn't they?
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I think so.
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I don't know, like, you know, my bad judgment.
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Thought you were just going to say you like bad guys, bad boys, but that's related to your bad judgment.
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Were you, okay.
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And Twilight, J.
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Cooper, Edward.
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Um Jacob you didn't really feel any kind of way there.
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Probably jacob I was jacob percy or dawson percy 100 Dawson was weird like not weird but like Too.
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Yeah.
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Guy.
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Like overly.
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Yeah.
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I liked that shirt too.
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You know, people complain like, oh, there's no good guys out there.
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And it's because of people like me that won't the bad boy, but I want him to be secretly nice.
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You know?
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So you want him to be like last week's like, how do they say like, uh, uh, Lady in the streets.
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In the streets.
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Like I need like a gangster in the streets, But like, you know, not in the sheets, but you know, whatever.
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I mean, like, no, you're taking all this out.
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This is going like out really quick.
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I'm just letting you go.
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Just letting you go with it.
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I need him to be a badass, but also considerate of my feelings only.
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Okay.
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I can understand that.
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I, I can get behind that.
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You know, I saw something that said like, um, you know, Prince Charming will sacrifice you for the greater good, but the villain is going to sacrifice everything for you.
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And that's what I want.
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That is so true.
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That sums it up.
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Like I want the villain.
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That's going to sacrifice everything for me, like burn down the world for me.
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There is nothing wrong with that.
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Yeah.
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so the bad guy.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I get, I get that.
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Well, Brian is a bad guy.
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You can tell, right?
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He's like the sweetest person in the world.
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Anyway, are you going to read the rest?
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I am.
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One night.
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I'm able to, I know, I feel like they're on, we've been suspended, speaking of because we both, have used all of our listens on hoopla for the month next week.
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We will not be doing a book review, but one of our listeners did, suggest a podcast Yes.
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For us to listen to for Spooky Month is about, it's about a place haunted and, if the husband of the woman that got murdered got off scot free.
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Yes.
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It's called ghost story.
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Yeah, and it's by Wondery, but the name of it is Ghost Story.
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And I was trying to look to see how many episodes there are.
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It's like nine, eight.
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There's eight or nine.
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Yeah, there's eight and they're like anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour piece.
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So about like a book.
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I'm on the fifth.
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Yeah, I've listened to a few of them.
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Interesting.
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Yeah, so we will discuss that instead of a book next week.
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that's what we'll be discussing.
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If you guys want to listen to that, I'll put that in the show notes.
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so that you can easily find it.
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But, what would you rate our book this week?
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I want to give it like a seven or eight.
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But struggling because just my mental blocks.
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I was going, I was gonna go with an eight.
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Uh huh.
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for the same reasons.
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But I, I do think it was good.
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I will read some more of them.
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It's just one of those things that I think I'll kind of like keep on the back Yes.
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Yes.
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very different from our book last week though.
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Yes.
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Even though they're vampires and they're still, gory and bloody, they're not like the vampires that sparkle.
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It's still More chill than last week.
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Zero spice.
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Yes.
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No spice.
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Zero chili pepper.
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No chili pepper.
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So looking forward to doing the pod though.
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Yeah.
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Ghost story is the name of that.
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Did you do some vampire digging?
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I did.
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Did you?
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I did do some.
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This was probably like your jam because there was so much like history stuff.
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History.
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Yes, I did.
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But I will tell you so I went down the TikTok rabbit hole.
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There are so many people claiming to be vampires.
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Yeah.
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So many.
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And I don't believe anybody that admits that they're a vampire is a vampire.
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Rule number one in the how to be a vampire book.
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Yeah.
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What'd you get?
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As soon as you turn, I will be getting mine.
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You'll be getting yours soon.
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I won't tell you when I get it.
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No, I'll never know.
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I ended up watching a lot of those where people were answering questions, you know, and all that and making their fangs grow and yeah, just watched a lot of that.
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I believe in all of it.
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Like, yeah, bring it on.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, don't bring it on, but I mean yeah.
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Exist, but but be you.
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Halfly exist.
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Right.
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please just don't kill anybody.
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Yeah.
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Glamour, you know, do your glamoury, whatever.
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Right.
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Get your, your nutrition, however you need to get it.
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Yeah.
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But don't kill anybody.
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But don't kill anybody and don't come here.
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You are not invited here, so what, got me in a lot of these TikTok reels was the Everybody was, like, I'm a vampire.
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This is me through the ages.
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And it's like a, uh, that's what the comments were.
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Yeah, this is a, did you, did you see the 1 where the lady in New Orleans was?
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Oh, my gosh.
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A Lyft driver or whatever.
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Uber driver.
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Oh, no, no, but I'm glad you brought that up.
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Cause I want to tell you a story about New Orleans too, tell me yours.
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Okay.
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She's a ride share, Uber, Lyft, whatever.
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and a woman got into her car and she was driving her wherever.
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And, she said that she can't remember what the woman looks like.
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She can hear her voice in her head.
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But.
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As soon as she got out of the car She couldn't remember what the woman looked like And she said that the woman just touched her shoulder while she was driving They were like talking or whatever and she touched her shoulder and the lady was like, what are you doing?
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and she said, she's a Vampire, but she's an energy vampire.
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She like feeds off of okay energy not blood and I've heard I saw some of those too.
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and that there's four different she told us there's four different kinds of vampires there's regular blood sucking.
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there is the energy, there is tantric, like where they get the energy when you're canoodling, when you're doing the mattress dance.
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There was one more, I can't remember what it was.
18:13
I don't think I wrote it down.
18:14
but there was like different types of vampires.
18:16
So she said that, she can't even remember where she dropped her off at.
18:20
That is crazy.
18:22
That is crazy.
18:23
But you can hear her voice in her head.
18:25
Well, when I went down the rabbit hole, there was this one lady from New Orleans, and she was like, if you think it exists, New Orleans is where it's gonna be.
18:33
Like, there's, and then I went down that rabbit hole, people were like, the energy in New Orleans, and I would love to go because I'm the history nerd.
18:39
Well, I wanna go because I was like, they're like, give me all the super natural stuff.
18:43
That's what we need to, that's what, that's where we need to go.
18:45
Because Brian has no desire.
18:47
I'm down.
18:48
Okay, that would be so much fun.
18:50
But she was telling these stories.
18:51
So she used to work in a bar in the nineties and different entities would come in.
18:57
Then she said, one of them was, he said he was Michael, the archangel.
19:00
I did see this one.
19:01
Did you see that?
19:02
And she was like, I can't tell you what he told me.
19:06
She, she asked, what are you doing here?
19:07
And she said, he told me, and I know what he told me, but I physically can't say anyway, she had some stories about vampires to.
19:16
So yeah, I totally went down the rabbit hole and I I told you I believe all the things Yeah as long as everybody like coexistence nicely Let me just be okay.
19:26
You do you boo, right?
19:29
Well again, I don't believe that anybody that says they're vampire is a vampire.
19:34
They're doing it for a show or whatever, or they were really into goth.
19:38
And, uh, um, so I also listened to some podcasts cause I wasn't getting any concrete, real good stuff on TikTok.
19:45
I mean, I found like people saying that they were right, whatever.
19:48
but most of the people that have been interviewed as a vampire or whatever, um, all say they don't have any powers.
19:57
Like they don't have like the glamour power.
20:00
They don't have the mind control.
20:01
They don't have the speed.
20:02
So then it said that they Are just like a almost like a religion you can identify as a vampire, but they have I guess, like an occult?
20:10
Yeah.
20:11
Yeah.
20:12
And there is actually an Atlanta Vampire Alliance.
20:15
There were a lot in Atlanta in that area too.
20:19
So, according to them, I guess, from what they can tell, there's about 5, 000 people in the United States that identify as vampires.
20:27
Wow.
20:28
But, I'm like, I want the powers, right, if I'm gonna be a vampire, if I'm going through all this, and if I'm gonna live forever, I need to be able to run really fast, like, according to them, you don't live forever, so what's the point, do you not age, they don't age, these people are like, identify as, like, they do like the weird stuff, like, not weird, one guy does drink one, one, if you can't fight off the diseases that could be possibly transferred, it's like your system like, isn't immune.
20:57
Yeah.
20:58
Don't know.
20:58
I was like really, Got the ick.
21:00
Yeah from it.
21:02
Yeah.
21:03
Well, yeah, it sounds like they just want to be goth and drink blood and say they are but not have any other things which whatever, another, podcast had this girl on that it does like her.
21:16
As a vampire, um, her persona, and she did admit it.
21:19
That she gets dressed up in like the whole vampire, they, but she does identify as the energy vampire.
21:25
But to me, the way she was describing, I mean, she's super perky and upbeat and whatever, it's almost like a Reiki, they cleanse your whatever energy and stuff.
21:32
That's what it sounded like to me.
21:33
She's like, people come in have all this extra pent up energy and anxiety and I will work with them and, I take that from them and they leave feeling great.
21:40
Yeah, it's kind of like a masseuse.
21:44
This, the lady that used to do my massages would do something at the very end with my feet.
21:48
And she was like, I was like, Hey, you had that.
21:51
I was like, what are you doing?
21:52
She was like, you know, I'm, I'm waiting for a certain whatever and take the energy and I'm like, all right, take it girl.
21:58
I don't care.
22:00
Um, yeah.
22:01
New Orleans though was crazy.
22:03
The stories that came out of, and most of them were based in the South and Atlanta, New Orleans, that kind of thing.
22:08
Yeah.
22:08
did you watch anything on the, the vampire balls that are in New Orleans?
22:16
Vampire what balls?
22:18
No, like party party.
22:19
Yeah.
22:20
No, so come up.
22:22
So that's the thing that there's several of them throughout the year mostly in the winter though.
22:26
Guess the biggest 1 is the and rice vampire ball, and it's a 3 day ball, and people go all out everybody has their Whatever teeth and stuff in and, all the people that vampire stuff come from, like, all over the country.
22:39
Oh, I, when I watched a YouTube video on it, it wasn't necessarily that that 1, I just said, like, vampire balls.
22:46
Altogether, but it's like a goth rave.
22:49
I'm sorry.
22:50
I'm picturing like vampire balls My mind just went to Okay, so it was like a rave it was like a goth rave, okay Is what it looked like.
23:07
Yeah, but it was like tons and tons and tons of people all in their whole vampire corsets oh, yeah, the whole thing and yeah a lot of stuff.
23:16
Yeah, that's crazy Yeah, and then I saw that there's a vampire speakeasy in New Orleans.
23:22
Oh, I was like, that would be fun That would be fun.
23:25
I just don't want to drink blood and I don't want to give it No, I just want to, I want to, I want to be like, Hey, yeah, I was going to say I want to observe, but I don't want to observe anybody drinking blood or get bit.
23:36
As long as they like erase that memory.
23:39
Yeah.
23:39
That could happen.
23:40
Do they do that?
23:41
I don't know.
23:42
Not them.
23:42
They're just normal weirdos.
23:45
Yeah.
23:45
Normal weirdos.
23:46
Explain that one.
23:47
If I'm going to be a vampire, I want the, I want all the abilities.
23:50
Yeah.
23:51
100 percent at least a couple of them.
23:53
I want all of them.
23:54
Well, I mean, I want all of them, but give me something There's got to be some kind of a trade.
23:58
Would you want to be like an eternal being like to never I think I'd be so sad unless like my significant other was also, I don't, I wouldn't want to experience the loss over and over and over again.
24:12
Yeah.
24:13
And then you get to the point where everybody else has gone and it's just you.
24:16
And then, yeah.
24:17
So I think it'd be cool for a little while, like for the first hundred years.
24:21
Right.
24:21
Right.
24:22
Um, did you watch True Blood?
24:26
No, um, I actually read the books too, the Sookie Stackhouse.
24:29
Yes.
24:30
What'd you think?
24:31
Good?
24:31
like it's cheesy almost, but it was good.
24:34
I mean, yeah, you go into it knowing.
24:37
Yeah.
24:39
What it is.
24:40
Yeah.
24:40
I did watch a tick tock on this girl who, well, I watched two different ones.
24:44
One was this girl.
24:45
And she said, I am telling all of my followers.
24:48
You probably saw her too, like 13.
24:51
5 million or whatever, that I am a vampire.
24:54
So if something happens to me, you know, and then I watched another one.
24:58
Um, and it might actually have been the same girl, but she was like, I do not identify as a vampire anymore.
25:03
And I was like, well, I, Guess you can just change your mind.
25:06
She was like, people are asking if I am and I'm not anymore.
25:09
And I was like, okay, whatever.
25:12
I know it was that one was kind of weird.
25:15
Yeah, it was neat though.
25:17
You're right.
25:17
I did like the history of stuff.
25:19
Yeah, I knew that this is going to be your jam.
25:20
It was in, pictures that they would show on a lot of the stuff that I was looking at with, skeletons that had the fangs or that did have a spike through them, you know, in their caskets.
25:31
And it's just the bones with the spike.
25:33
Very cool.
25:34
Yeah, I saw a girl and she has natural things that's just how her teeth came in.
25:39
And she said that, everybody always asks her if she's a vampire.
25:42
But she said her husband is a descendant of like the Maryland vampire or whatever.
25:47
Some vampire from the 1800s or whatever.
25:50
That's, I guess, well known.
25:51
Yeah.
25:52
She said it's just so weird that she has natural things and she's been great to you.
25:56
Very weird.
25:57
That's very weird.
25:59
But yeah.
26:00
I don't know yeah.
26:01
Yeah.
26:02
so did you read about the casket girls or did you watch about the casket girls?
26:06
I went, I went deep into like the New Orleans history.
26:08
Yeah.
26:09
And there was three stories that really stood out to me and it was like, kind of like the beginning of the vampires in New Orleans.
26:15
No, tell me about the casket girls.
26:16
Okay.
26:17
So in the 1700s, there wasn't enough, Women, I guess, up to the liking of the men that was in New Orleans, the settlers.
26:24
And so the French king sent over women to help populate the new territory.
26:33
Okay.
26:35
In France, everybody is so pale.
26:36
Yeah.
26:37
They have like a very much lighter complexion.
26:39
And so when they got off, everybody noticed how pale they were.
26:43
And.
26:44
In the sun, they burned very quickly.
26:47
They flustered like, because they're not used to the sun here.
26:51
Yep.
26:51
So with them, they brought, it was called like, I can't say it in French, it's like caskets or something like that.
26:59
But which, they then called caskets here.
27:01
But it was basically just a trunk and it was supposed to hold the dowry.
27:05
So when they got married, they had a dowry to give.
27:07
Right, right.
27:09
And all the trunks were brought up, to the third level of this convent that they were staying at, which is still in New Orleans.
27:16
And the nuns brought them up, all the trunks up to the third floor, um, because they weren't supposed to be opened until the Till the wedding.
27:23
Till the exchange, whatever.
27:24
They found a husband or whatever.
27:26
So they were locked up and sealed into the third floor attic, shutters were sealed, doors were sealed.
27:32
The women were being treated very poorly.
27:34
They're, being, assaulted many of the girls had turned to, the oldest occupation in their country.
27:41
They were ladies of the evening.
27:42
They were.
27:44
so the king said, Nope, let's get these women back here, wrap it up, round them up and move them out.
27:52
Well, the nuns went to go get the caskets and they were empty.
27:58
They went up there completely full and they were completely empty and there was no signs that the seals were like, anything was opened up, nothing.
28:05
So then it, Started that they had brought vampires in these caskets with them And that the girls were also vampires because of the their complexion right and that you know They were sickly.
28:17
I mean you're in the boat for like six months right and totally different environment and everything here Yeah, so that they're saying is how vampires got here is these casket girls brought them in the caskets They were also vampires.
28:32
But the Pope came and blessed the, the convent.
28:37
They blessed every screw and nail.
28:39
All the shutters were sealed, sealed all the doors to that 3rd floor.
28:43
Everything, was blessed and sealed by the Pope.
28:48
That is great.
28:48
And it's still there and still sealed.
28:50
I thought you were going to say he went and blessed the brothels.
28:53
No, but, but then there's story and I don't know, I couldn't find like if it was true or not, but I did say see it on different sites.
28:59
There's a story reported from the 1970s that say two ghost hunters hid in the courtyard of the convent.
29:05
One evening after spotting a set of shutters half open, they had planned to photograph the vampires and kept a vigil through the night.
29:12
The bodies were found the next morning with a few scratches and drained of blood.
29:16
Ooh, that's wild.
29:18
That's crazy.
29:20
That's what I really want to go now.
29:22
I do too.
29:23
And you can actually tour the comment.
29:25
And you can go on vampire tours.
29:26
You can go on witch tours.
29:28
I want to do all the tours.
29:29
I know, I do too.
29:31
I want to go to the vampire speakeasy.
29:32
We're gonna do that.
29:33
we might hit a jazz bar.
29:35
Yeah.
29:35
So, because that's, that's local thing.
29:39
Who wants to go with us?
29:40
Right.
29:40
But I'm a hundred percent serious right now.
29:42
Yeah, me too.
29:43
I would love it.
29:44
That'd be so much fun.
29:45
So much fun.
29:46
And yeah, and we're not going to party.
29:49
No, I mean, you guys can.
29:50
Yeah, you can.
29:51
Be careful, and we need your location.
29:53
Right.
29:54
So that we can make sure that you don't get abducted by vampires.
29:56
Or witches.
29:57
Or ghouls.
29:59
Ghouls?
30:01
Yeah.
30:02
Ghouls?
30:03
Hi there, ghouls.
30:05
You're a ghoul digger.
30:06
yeah, that's, that's what we need to do.
30:08
That would be so much fun.
30:09
Yeah.
30:10
Okay.
30:11
Okay.
30:12
so the next weird thing was the Carter brothers.
30:15
Okay.
30:15
Did you hear about them?
30:16
No, but I'm loving you giving me these history lessons.
30:18
Oh my gosh.
30:19
Okay.
30:19
So the Carter brothers were, two brothers, John and Wayne, Nick and Aaron, John and Wayne.
30:27
Yeah.
30:29
John and Wayne.
30:30
So this girl escaped from this house and she like ran down the streets and found a police officer and was like, These two guys had me held captive, and they were doing the things Mm-Hmm.
30:43
the vampires do And the police didn't believe her.
30:46
And she's like, there's, there's more people there.
30:48
please help them.
30:49
You know, like, Mm-Hmm.
30:49
So they're like, okay, show us where this place is.
30:51
So she brings them back to this house because the brothers worked, on the docks.
30:56
Mm-Hmm.
30:56
And so they weren't home.
30:58
Okay.
30:58
didn't know the girl escaped, didn't know cops were involved.
31:01
Mm-Hmm.
31:01
so.
31:02
They go and get into this house and there's four people tied up slowly dripping and there was two people that were deceased.
31:10
Okay.
31:11
so they were like, Oh my God.
31:12
Right.
31:13
What in the world?
31:13
This chick was not lying.
31:15
Yeah.
31:15
so they decided to wait until the brothers got home.
31:18
They waited at the house and called in like extra people.
31:20
Cause she told them that they were vampires.
31:22
So they called in extra, Reinforcements and there was like about eight cops there.
31:26
Now, these guys are only like five foot six and not even 160 pounds okay.
31:31
Okay.
31:32
So they were not big guys, right?
31:34
they get home and eight cops tried to subdue them did not subdue them and they jumped off of the balcony and ran off.
31:41
So the next day they go to work and cops were there waiting for them.
31:45
So they said, well, you're going to have to kill us.
31:47
We are vampires and we're going to continue doing this.
31:49
Like we, this is how we survive.
31:50
Yeah.
31:51
They go to trial.
31:52
They get convicted and get sent to to death.
31:56
They get put into the family tomb.
31:57
Okay.
31:58
And then when the next person in their family died, they opened up the tomb.
32:02
They were gone.
32:03
No clothes, no bodies, no bones, no nothing.
32:06
Gone.
32:08
How would they have gotten out?
32:10
They're vampires.
32:11
Who knows?
32:12
Yeah, they got superpowers.
32:14
They're not like these new age ones.
32:16
New vampires are soft.
32:18
That is a wild They don't like these, do they?
32:21
They sure don't.
32:22
Jumped off the balcony and ran away.
32:24
Oh, and then, so the person that owns this house now said there was two men on the balcony and when they went to investigate, they jumped off the balcony and took off.
32:35
I wonder if they'd be invited in now, like, even though, like, they had owned it once.
32:39
Yes, because they don't own it anymore.
32:42
That's the rules.
32:42
I'm going to go by.
32:46
When you get that book later.
32:47
Let me know.
32:47
Okay, and then the Count of St.
32:51
Germain.
32:51
Yeah.
32:52
Did you know?
32:53
No, No, I mean, this sounds really familiar.
32:56
Okay.
32:56
He is known as the man that does not die and he knows everything.
33:00
Okay.
33:01
He is said to have created the Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter.
33:05
Oh, that's probably why I know the name.
33:06
Yeah, I don't know if they ever said his name.
33:08
Oh, but like, yeah, he was said to have created it.
33:11
And okay, the fountain, like whatever, like all the things.
33:14
Gotcha.
33:14
that makes you immortal.
33:16
There are accounts in history of people knowing him and like seeing him 50 years later, he was at a party and this lady was like, that must be the son.
33:24
That can't be the same guy, the same guy, because he has not aged at all.
33:29
So she went up to him.
33:30
She's like, Hey this sounds really weird.
33:32
Are you related to, and he's like, no, it's me.
33:35
And she was like, what?
33:37
And he was like 40.
33:38
Yeah.
33:39
He stopped aging at 40.
33:41
And I'd be like, why can't I stop aging at like 22?
33:43
I'd even take like.
33:46
30.
33:46
Yeah.
33:47
Yeah.
33:47
This is like the 40 business.
33:49
Mm-Hmm.
33:49
right?
33:50
No, the birds do not recommend.
33:52
so after he was like, no, it's me.
33:54
Like, what's up?
33:55
You know?
33:55
Oh yeah, we did this, you know, whatever.
33:57
He was like recounting different things from the past as if he had been there.
34:00
Mm-Hmm.
34:00
because he was, people started getting freaked out and calling him a vampire.
34:04
Mm-Hmm.
34:04
He dipped out.
34:05
Mm-Hmm.
34:06
It was like deuces over in Europe somewhere.
34:08
Gift out.
34:08
Came over to, new Orleans.
34:10
Mm-Hmm.
34:11
and.
34:11
He set up as like the rich dude, you know, very, affluent.
34:16
Yes.
34:16
He did all the parties, you know, he was, he was the main social guy.
34:21
Yeah.
34:21
Socialite.
34:22
That's what they called him.
34:23
Yes.
34:23
And he attacked a person in the vampire way, a woman.
34:28
Okay.
34:28
And she went to the police.
34:29
Or, however it got to the police and they came and questioned him and he was like, no, she was drunk.
34:34
she's delusional, whatever.
34:37
And they're like, well, you need to still come down to the station so we can take your statement.
34:41
He disappeared and was never seen from again.
34:43
Until later on in life where to go.
34:45
This time.
34:45
It doesn't say, he's been spotted there since that's crazy now with that, you know, how they show all these, like Jay Z has like a doppelganger from like the thirties, you know, like all these things.
34:57
And they're saying that, okay.
34:59
So there's like the theory of everybody's cloned.
35:01
Yeah.
35:02
Or there's the theory that they're Vampires.
35:05
I was going to bring that up because I went down that rabbit hole too.
35:08
I had so many rabbit holes.
35:09
It was like a rabbit family reunion but it was saying, Sophia Vergara, is that how you say her last name?
35:17
that where she won pictures of her, like in the 90s, and now, and she looks, and I know facelifts and money and all that makes a difference, but she looks the same.
35:25
Yeah.
35:26
Like all of these people that look the same.
35:30
I'm saying vampires and witches because Taylor Swift, yeah.
35:33
Did you see the witch, like the high priestess, that she looks like from like the sixties or whatever?
35:38
Yep.
35:39
Yep.
35:39
And they put her on the vampire list too.
35:41
So maybe she's both, I don't know.
35:42
But she was one that they.
35:44
Said that she was too, and then they were pointing out.
35:47
Now some of it is just like they're reaching, you know, like in her earrings, she has a da da da.
35:52
I'm like, her earrings just turned around.
35:53
Yeah.
35:53
Like, it's not supposed to look like that.
35:55
she's, she's not got like the call of Satan in her ear.
35:58
Yeah.
35:58
there's a lot of celebrities that have Uhhuh.
36:00
Yeah.
36:00
I don't know.
36:01
Yeah, that was Seeing the pictures of these people though.
36:06
They look identical.
36:07
If not better now.
36:08
Yeah, I don't know.
36:10
Creeps me out a little bit.
36:10
100%.
36:12
100%.
36:14
I'll probably do some more digging.
36:17
More rabbit holes there.
36:19
Yeah.
36:19
Because I'm just, it's, it was fascinating.
36:22
Yeah.
36:22
Very fascinating.
36:23
I don't know.
36:24
Freak you out.
36:24
No, when we go to, new Orleans, we'll do the Vampire tours.
36:28
You got some good food there too.
36:30
Yeah.
36:31
I'm so excited.
36:32
I know, I know.
36:34
It'll be a lot of fun.
36:35
We have to going like a semi warm month though.
36:38
Oh, yeah, because next, next spring.
36:40
Yeah.
36:41
It'll get warm there before it's warm here.
36:42
Yeah.
36:44
And not during Mardi Gras.
36:45
No.
36:46
These, these girls need to stay in.
36:48
Right.
36:49
Stay where you're supposed to.
36:50
So on that note, talking about celebrities.
36:53
Yeah.
36:53
Did you have any new P.
36:54
Diddy news?
36:55
I don't.
36:56
Is there more?
36:57
Um.
36:58
Your face looked like you knew stuff.
37:00
I don't know any.
37:00
I don't know any Diddy talk news.
37:03
just that more people are coming out and letting their names out.
37:06
Yeah.
37:06
As victims.
37:07
They're not.
37:08
Hiding behind the not hiding but like they're allowing their identities to be released, right?
37:12
I went back and even listened to Recap of the kim porter book again.
37:17
her name was amanda rollins cause of S-V-U-S-V-U a lot of these people, they're withholding it because they're still investigating them.
37:26
So like in that book a lot is, is black names are blacked out because I guess they're kind of waiting to see.
37:31
I did see, well, you know, all these videos are getting leaked and whatnot.
37:36
But there was a still image of JLo.
37:40
Okay.
37:41
Diddy.
37:42
And there was two dudes behind Diddy it was just like, a still surveillance image.
37:46
And then another female and JLo.
37:50
The two dudes and the female were all unclothed.
37:56
Okay.
37:57
JLo just had on like a little thong or something maybe.
38:00
But completely undressed otherwise.
38:02
Oh, okay.
38:03
did he look like he had, he had a t shirt on and like pants on still, it looked like.
38:07
Okay.
38:08
but it looked like they were cornering somebody and yelling at, or Aggressively going at somebody it just looked like somebody was cornered And these like these five people were it was weird Every time I think about j lo with p.
38:20
Diddy.
38:20
I think about her wearing that white the bandana and jenny from the block 100 I'm still i'm still cheating That was our song but everybody.
38:32
From the block It's like she is not from the block, right?
38:37
Right.
38:39
Absolutely.
38:40
So, yeah, whatever.
38:42
Yeah, they asked her what her favorite, thing from the bodega was.
38:45
And she gave like the most generic answer, even if you didn't know what was at the bodega.
38:49
Yeah, it would be at the, you know, yeah, the, did y'all have bodegas where you grew up?
38:54
That's just a New York thing, right?
38:56
no, we just had like, those are just like little corner grocery stores, right?
38:59
Yeah, that's what I've always thought and maybe have a deli in it.
39:03
No, a deli separate because they go to the deli.
39:05
Yeah, I don't know.
39:07
I'm not.
39:07
I'm not from.
39:07
I don't either.
39:09
I'm just totally going off law and order.
39:11
Um, I love that show.
39:16
Yeah.
39:16
Okay.
39:17
I did see that.
39:19
attorney in Texas that has the 120 victims did say that a lot of celebrities are just coming and offering to give money to get keep their name out of everything.
39:31
Oh, kind of like Heidi Fleiss's book way back when, but way worse, way worse.
39:36
I mean, this is, this is bad with the kids and the, did you go look up Allie Carter?
39:41
Oh, do that with like, all the trigger warnings.
39:43
Okay.
39:44
If you do.
39:44
Or did I And I just don't remember.
39:46
I, I would remember.
39:47
You remember?
39:47
Okay.
39:48
Okay.
39:48
No, I didn't.
39:49
I'll put that on my To-do list.
39:50
Yeah.
39:50
oh, I did see that he had did some, I didn't watch it, but he did some video for like, on social media and a lot of people are calling to have all platforms ban him from being able to Good.
40:01
Get on there.
40:02
Good.
40:02
I don't think he's been banned yet.
40:04
Yeah.
40:04
But they are trying to ban him because.
40:07
Potential, witness tampering or like, you know, sending out messages.
40:13
Intimidation kind of stuff like that.
40:15
Yeah.
40:15
A hundred percent.
40:16
Plus.
40:17
With all the children stuff, he doesn't need to have access to anywhere where there's any kind of kids ever.
40:21
I just still can't get over that.
40:23
There's a prison talk.
40:24
I know.
40:26
I know.
40:27
I agree.
40:28
I agree.
40:29
Speaking of prison.
40:30
I'll be, I'll be gone for the next few months.
40:35
No, I'm just kidding.
40:37
I've watched a little bit of the Menendez thing on Netflix.
40:42
It's like a non part series.
40:43
Okay.
40:44
How do you feel about that?
40:46
I feel like I don't think a lot of it is true.
40:51
it's very graphic, very graphic.
40:53
Yeah.
40:54
They, enhance things for TV.
40:57
So I think almost put a attraction relationship between Lyle and Eric, the brothers.
41:03
And they've come out, they're like, that's not true.
41:05
That, that didn't happen.
41:07
I hate, like, I, I like documentaries because like, I'm like, I want to know, right.
41:12
But then you just don't know what to believe.
41:13
Well, yeah.
41:15
So they killed their parents.
41:17
They admitted to killing their parents, but, and then they said they did it because they were abused by both of their parents.
41:23
Well, in the documentary, they're presenting, on the stand this way, like they're crying and trying to, you know, tortured and telling what happened.
41:34
And then it shows a clip of them on the phone talking to people, girls that, you know, how girls are.
41:40
and, they're like, yeah, did you see me?
41:42
I killed it.
41:42
Didn't I?
41:43
I made them, I told you I'd make them believe it.
41:44
And it's just like, Are you a psychopath that can flip that or are you really damaged?
41:53
I'm not done with it, but it's just.
41:56
Yeah, weird.
41:58
so I had said on the last episode that Dylan doesn't watch.
42:01
Well, so did he hear you say that?
42:04
I don't know if he heard it or not, but, the other night he was really tired.
42:07
I'm like, well, are you going to just come home early?
42:09
And he's like, yeah, I'm like, do you want to watch, the new season started?
42:12
And he was like, yeah.
42:13
He's been watching it with me every night.
42:14
We watched a couple last night.
42:16
Yeah.
42:16
The three of us did.
42:17
And I'm sure we'll probably watch more tonight.
42:19
How many episodes did you get in?
42:20
I think we're, we just finished the third episode.
42:22
Yeah.
42:22
Yeah, we're at about the same place.
42:24
Yeah, so it's good It is good last season kind of was like, yeah, uh huh Um, but I really like the start of this season.
42:30
I do too.
42:31
So I do too.
42:32
Jackson likes that show a lot.
42:34
Mm hmm Yeah, I actually started watching another show there's two seasons of it on hulu.
42:40
It is called tell me lies.
42:42
I feel like I've added that in my saved stuff.
42:45
Yeah, it's really good.
42:46
Is it pretty good?
42:47
Yeah, it's a little like, oh my gosh, it's real life enough that you believe it.
42:51
That it would happen, you know, but.
42:53
Yeah, a hundred percent.
42:54
Yeah.
42:54
I was going to see if I screenshotted it.
42:57
No, I did not.
43:00
That's not like family friendly, but yeah, well, and that's the thing, you know, they're getting older so they can, they can, I will let him watch a little bit more.
43:11
It's just the sexy stuff.
43:13
I know.
43:14
Like you can watch somebody get shot.
43:16
That's fine.
43:17
Yeah.
43:18
I don't want you to see boobies.
43:22
Yeah, um, we with Dylan, I don't know how old he is, but like we were watching scary movies like from like the 80s and like or 80s or not, you know, whatever.
43:30
Yeah.
43:31
Um, and.
43:33
Like boobs got shown and I was like You know, it's crazy the older movies are have so much nudity in them I don't remember it like oh, I know you're a little bit younger than me but like Porky's and I got those weren't my kind of movies, but That and then like the European vacation like the Christmas vacation stuff like just yeah.
43:59
No, it's crazy Like I don't remember That from like when I watched it when I was younger.
44:07
Yeah, but when you try to write it like PG or PG or whatever.
44:12
And yeah, we also watched one recently with John Candy Uncle Buck and I can't remember what the situation was in there, but I was like, this wouldn't fly today.
44:21
And then the gremlins when they say that there's no Santa and I was like Because we watched that when Dylan was like seven or something and I'm like, it's just a movie Dylan.
44:30
That's not true Well, there's a um, they're movie grown ups with Adam Sandler and uh, Sophia Whatever and she says something about there's no tooth fairy.
44:38
I was like there is that's just a it's just a movie Jackson Yeah, so, um, I yeah I didn't get I'm not growing up enough for this stuff this part of parenting.
44:52
I know I'm glad he's watching some stuff with you though.
44:55
Me too, because I missed, I missed that.
44:57
I know.
44:59
I know they're growing up.
45:02
Um, what do you want to do our, am I the ale?
45:04
I did buy it.
45:05
There was like the one and only vampire one I could find.
45:07
Perfect.
45:08
Perfect.
45:09
And it's not very long.
45:09
So, um, yeah, I'm down.
45:13
We ready.
45:14
Okay.
45:14
Okay.
45:15
So this is from the little vampire boy.
45:19
Am I the a hole for telling my son he's not a vampire?
45:24
I, 35 male, have a wife, 32, and two children, 4 year old boy and 5 year old girl.
45:29
Let's call the kids Ed and Bella.
45:32
Like a sense of humor.
45:33
The two of them have very different personalities.
45:36
Bella is shy and reserved.
45:37
You could take her on a 20 hour car ride and not get a peep from her.
45:41
Her brother's the opposite.
45:43
Ed is outgoing as they come.
45:44
He's restless, loud, and likely the most entertaining in the family.
45:48
His big shtick is coming up to us, holding his arms out like a bat and yelling vampire in this cute, gleeful voice.
45:54
He does this to other members of the family as well as to kids and adults at daycare and I was like, why are adults at daycare?
46:03
Okay, um He does this to other members of the family as well as the kids and adults at daycare and it's made him popular to everyone Unfortunately, he also does this to Bella.
46:13
Bella despises it and runs away scared and crying each time We don't fully know if she has an adverse reaction to vampires in general or if it's just Ed's impression that's scary to her.
46:26
We thank the former since she's also highly scared of, uh, the usual childhood fears, like the dark in the closet.
46:33
Either way, Ed repeatedly targets her with his vampire impression and I suspect he loves bullying her.
46:39
It's gotten to the point where Bella opened up to us about wishing she was an only child.
46:44
Well, that escalated quickly and wanted me to get rid of Ed, which broke my heart.
46:49
We tried different ways to please Ed.
46:52
No, we didn't.
46:53
We tried different ways to make Ed stop targeting Bella, like giving him time outs, talking sternly to him about Bella's feelings, taking away his toys for a time.
47:03
He often throws a fit, but after he calms down, we do get him to say sorry to Bella.
47:08
However, it just starts up the next day again and again.
47:12
The last time Ed came up to me and did his vampire act, I knelt down and told him calmly, and I'm quoting, listen, vampires are not real.
47:20
You are not a vampire.
47:22
You will never be a vampire, okay?
47:25
He went silent and walked away.
47:26
I had a feeling I'd said something terrible, but I brushed it off thinking it wouldn't affect him that much.
47:31
It's been a week, and there's been a noticeable change in him.
47:35
I haven't seen him play vampire anymore, not even with Bella.
47:39
And for the most part, Bella doesn't seem put off by him now.
47:42
But he hasn't smiled at me and he doesn't come up to me as much as his mom.
47:45
The hard part, however, has been at daycare today.
47:48
I asked the lady there, how he's been.
47:50
And she said, there's been a change in behavior in him.
47:53
He is much less outgoing and he has actually been playing with himself more.
47:58
What?
47:59
Oh, been playing by himself.
48:03
Let's just say he's been playing by himself more as Okay, let me start.
48:10
He is much less outgoing and has actually been playing by himself more.
48:14
I asked if he's been playing vampire at all and she said no.
48:18
When I told my wife she blamed me for all of this saying she's scared for the change in Ed.
48:22
I do feel at fault, but I couldn't think of any other way to fix this.
48:25
How could I allow Bella to hate her brother so?
48:28
And how could I have known that Ed wouldn't spring back?
48:31
Into form the next day like usually did I love my children equally and I want them to get along and not resent each other Now I feel like I robbed Peter to pay Paul Harming my son and his relationship with me.
48:42
Am I the a hole?
48:43
Am I a bad father?
48:45
Oh I know that's tough.
48:50
I don't think he's a bad father but I think it's a little, I mean, I don't know.
49:01
I don't, I don't know.
49:03
That's a, that's a tough 1.
49:07
Okay, so how old is the kid?
49:09
4 or 5?
49:10
But he's four.
49:11
Yeah.
49:11
Grossed off.
49:12
Um, you know, they did try to tell him several times over and over.
49:16
Yeah.
49:16
Not to do it or not to annoy the sister.
49:20
Um, I kind of feel like that this is like a, the gentle parenting doesn't work.
49:24
Yeah.
49:25
Um, situation.
49:26
Yeah.
49:27
For that child.
49:28
Yeah.
49:29
Yeah.
49:29
It works for other, I mean, other kids, but you know, sometimes you have to, well, he got attention from it, you know, he admitted that that made everybody laugh and he did it at daycare or wherever he was and everybody laughed and enjoyed it.
49:41
And he, you know, and now he can't use his stick anymore to get attention.
49:47
Yeah.
49:48
Um.
49:51
I'm surprised that he took it so hard.
49:54
I am too.
49:55
I mean, kids usually forget things.
49:57
Four year old, holding a grudge for a week.
49:59
Maybe he is a vampire.
50:01
And he is just, maybe he's 97, 000 years old.
50:08
Oh, that's sad that he stopped aging at four then.
50:15
That would be terrible.
50:15
It'd be terrible to be stuck at four.
50:18
To get on the TikTok and see all these people that identify as vampires and they are vampires.
50:22
Right, four year old, go get on TikTok like you should.
50:25
We are good at advice.
50:28
Well, I, okay, I agree with you.
50:30
It's a little, little a holing.
50:32
Yeah.
50:34
But he did try the nice way.
50:37
Yeah, I think yeah, I think he could have like if that's what he said I mean, I know he was in the moment and he wasn't trying to plan out his words But he could have been like you're you're not a vampire Then you know, so like then I'd be like, you know Adults tell you you could be anything you want to be when you grow up and he just told his kid He's never gonna be that.
50:57
Yeah, I know and that's which is really weird for his son to latch on to that But hey, they do have cool capes.
51:05
Um the count.
51:06
Yes.
51:07
That's what I was picturing the cereal guy Did I ever tell you about the customer service?
51:11
Um, email that I responded to and referred him to the count.
51:15
No, who's the count?
51:18
The bloodsucker count?
51:19
No, the count from Sesame Street.
51:23
Why?
51:23
Because he couldn't count?
51:24
Yeah.
51:26
Oh my gosh.
51:28
I just realized that the count counts.
51:33
I never got to have some.
51:40
Oh my gosh.
51:42
I am almost 47 years old and I did not put that together until literally just now.
51:49
Okay.
51:50
So, like, I don't know if it was astonishment or just joy or embarrassment.
51:57
Maybe a little bit of all of it.
52:00
The count counts.
52:01
Um, yeah, well, I don't know what whatever the male version of a Karen is.
52:06
Um, you know, we had our orders being fulfilled on a certain amount of business days.
52:11
And he was like, it has been, I think it was like seven business days is what we're supposed to be.
52:15
And he was counting the weekends.
52:17
Oh, and I'm like, that's not like, it's business days, Monday through Friday.
52:21
And I mean, he just kept responding to email.
52:23
I just be like, I mean, just a Not very pleasant person.
52:29
And so I sent him a link to the YouTube, learning how to count to 10.
52:38
That's hilarious.
52:38
When you respond to that, I said, let me know if you have any questions.
52:42
Steph, that's kind of genius though.
52:46
Did he send anything back?
52:46
He responded like you are so unprofessional and I'm gonna like make a complaint to your company.
52:51
I'm like, I'm the owner so That's always great.
52:55
That's always great So Brian used to work his dad owned movie rental stores and Brian was the teenager and he worked there well, there was somebody that was like cussing up a storm and or brian wouldn't let them like he was following the rules he wouldn't let them do whatever because of you know the rules whether it was rent pay fees i don't know and the lady was like i need to speak to the manager i need to speak to him now and brian maybe the owner or something and Brian picked up the phone.
53:22
Hey, dad, there's somebody here that wants to talk to you.
53:26
And they were all mad.
53:27
Oh my gosh.
53:30
That's a pretty good flex though.
53:31
Well, we, I won't say which job this was, but, um, I was in a call center and the, my friend was like right across from me.
53:38
And so when any, but he would complain, like, I want to speak to the manager.
53:43
Our manager knew though, like, she was like, if you guys can handle it, handle it.
53:45
Like, I don't have time for this.
53:47
Right.
53:47
Um, but yeah, we would just transfer them across.
53:49
You are her manager.
53:53
That's great.
53:55
Um, are there any more Sesame Street secrets I need to know?
53:59
Um, like, did any of the other characters have any?
54:03
Does their name mean something that I don't know about?
54:06
I don't think Snuffleupagus.
54:08
No.
54:09
Big Bird's a big bird.
54:10
He is.
54:11
I just feel like I'm missing out on the whole.
54:13
Who is your favorite character?
54:15
Snuffleupagus.
54:16
Was it?
54:17
How about you?
54:17
Um, I didn't really have, like, I didn't, like, I wasn't a big Sesame Street fan, but Dylan really liked Sesame Street.
54:23
Yeah.
54:23
Um, and he loved Grover.
54:26
Oh, yeah.
54:27
And, He had Super Grover shoes.
54:30
Did he?
54:32
And he had Elmo shoes.
54:33
Like, um, cause like, New Balance, um, had come out, like, when he was Yeah, like one two had come out with a full Sesame Street line.
54:41
Oh, and so he had the Elmos and the Super Grovers I had a book when I was little I still have it about Being the monster at the end of the book and being scared of the dark and it was Grover was the monster at the end Of the book and how can you be scared of Grover?
54:54
Oh my god.
54:54
He's so goofy.
54:55
Uh huh.
54:56
Um Dylan used to, yeah, did Jackson watch the same things over and over and over?
55:04
Yes, yes.
55:05
So Dylan had the Elmo goes to the firehouse or fire station or whatever.
55:11
Um, the DVD.
55:12
Yeah.
55:12
And so it would, I mean, it's on repeat.
55:14
Yeah, like high pitch.
55:17
And so, um, Elmo was no longer named Elmo in our house.
55:20
He was Helmo.
55:21
And we're like, no.
55:25
Yeah.
55:26
Yeah.
55:26
Jackson liked Tom's the train a lot.
55:28
And so he watched a lot of those, and it was just over and yeah.
55:34
Dylan was a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
55:36
Oh, Jackson had a phase.
55:37
Yeah, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
55:38
And our elf on the shelf was named Tootles because of the handy helper.
55:43
Yeah, I'll still sometimes say, um, I need a mouse good tool.
55:47
And Jackson will laugh and he'll remember it.
55:49
But he liked that.
55:50
He liked Tom and Jerry.
55:52
Oh, really?
55:52
Yeah.
55:53
He did not like scary, anything remotely scary.
55:57
So Scooby Doo was a big no.
55:59
Yeah, anything like that.
56:00
Um, but he loved Tom and Jerry, loved Tom and Jerry and, um, Thomas.
56:05
Those were his two.
56:06
So Dylan loved the movie Chicken Little.
56:10
And before, like, he could, like, really communicate, like, at the end of the movie, they play a song, um, like, I forgot whatever the song was, but at the end, the pig does, like, this, like, little shuffle dance.
56:23
Uh huh.
56:24
And, um, We, every time we would have, we had like the soundtrack in the car and we would have it on and he'd be like at one specific spot.
56:32
And I'm like, what is he like, like, why, like, what is he doing?
56:35
And like, I finally connected it that he was demonstrating the dance on a TV.
56:40
You finally connected it.
56:41
Like I just finally connected that the count counts.
56:44
Yes.
56:45
But this went on for like a good, like four months.
56:47
And I'm like, I read this one.
56:49
That's pretty cool.
56:50
Specific thought he's like, so we used to watch, um, two and a half men.
56:55
Okay.
56:55
And that's hilarious.
56:57
Well, um, Charlie Sheen's is creep though.
57:01
He is a creep.
57:02
I like him better when he's off when it's Ashton Kutcher.
57:04
Have you seen the ones with Ashton Kutcher?
57:06
I think he's a creep now too, but anyway, he is.
57:08
Yeah.
57:08
Um, so we would watch it and Jackson would sing.
57:11
And again, very little men, men, men, men, men.
57:14
And I was like, okay, he's starting to absorb what they're doing.
57:16
It's Yeah.
57:18
I was like, we can't watch this one anymore.
57:20
Yeah.
57:21
Yeah.
57:22
Um, I, yeah.
57:23
Elmo, no.
57:27
He had all like this, like the talking toys too, like that, like people, Oh yeah.
57:31
And so if, even if, if it wasn't on, Oh yeah.
57:35
He still had like a, a, we had a rapping Elmo.
57:38
Like he like did like hip hop.
57:39
That's probably pretty cool.
57:40
No, it wasn't.
57:41
It wasn't.
57:42
No.
57:43
For him, he loved it.
57:44
He loved it.
57:44
Yeah.
57:44
Um, there was a show about with rappers on a train, a kid show.
57:51
I don't know.
57:52
We had, um, the Solange Knowles hip hop nursery rhymes, and that's what Dylan grew up on.
57:58
Like, that's what we didn't play like regular.
58:00
Right.
58:00
And he went to like, actual daycare, not the home daycare.
58:03
Yeah.
58:04
Um, when he started an actual daycare, I picked him up 1 day and the teacher was like, What version of Old MacDonald does Dylan know?
58:15
And I was like, what?
58:16
And she's like, well, he keeps telling me that it's wrong.
58:18
And he was trying to wrap it.
58:20
He was, she was doing like a regular version of it.
58:22
And he only knew the Solange version.
58:26
Nursery rhyme version where I was like, well, where's my dogs that that is so funny.
58:33
That is so funny.
58:34
Yeah.
58:35
He didn't know like a regular regular.
58:37
And he's like, that's not how it goes.
58:38
Yeah.
58:39
Yeah.
58:40
I was ready to throw down with it.
58:41
Did you know that they changed the ABC song?
58:43
Yes.
58:45
And so when somebody had commented that on our pictures of our games in our group, I was like, ooh, I don't know if I could do it now, depending on which version they go off of.
58:55
Well, we still wouldn't miss any words.
58:57
Well.
58:58
We would just sing it in a different cadence.
59:02
Didn't they move letters around?
59:04
No, they just split the break.
59:06
Oh.
59:07
Yeah.
59:07
I, Mm-Hmm.
59:08
But I can't remember where they did somewhere around element of P.
59:10
Element P, yeah.
59:11
Yeah.
59:11
They, they split that up a little bit differently.
59:13
Mm-Hmm.
59:13
Like why, why mess with like, if, if it's broke, don't, I mean, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.
59:19
apparently some idiot kids thought it was all one letter or something.
59:22
Well, yeah, I know.
59:26
Well, Micah didn't know that there was another version of Only Devils.
59:32
I didn't know that the count counted, so here we are.
59:37
Oh my goodness.
59:37
Yes.
59:38
Well, anything else going on?
59:41
Not right now.
59:42
Now we can start planning our trip.
59:44
A hundred percent.
59:45
Yeah.
59:46
A hundred percent.
59:46
I'm dead serious.
59:47
Yeah.
59:48
Um, I'll start looking into that just to see kind of what's involved and I'm looking forward to it.
59:55
figuring it out.
59:56
I was going to suggest, but this can be for next year once they fix the roads, um, Nashville.
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Right.
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Um, cause there is so much cool stuff to do there.
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Yeah.
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But that can be the next year.
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Okay.
1:00:09
Okay.
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That sounds good.
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Um, Savannah is also a really fun place.
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Yes.
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So a very spooky place.
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Mm-Hmm.
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Lots of Mm-Hmm.
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And Ghosties.
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Yeah.
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Um, um, so I'm looking forward that like three hours away.
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I know it's not bad.
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No.
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Um, I'm looking forward to next week.
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No book.
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No book.
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But we're doing the podcast ghost story.
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So find it.
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We'll link it stuff will link it.
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Who we kidding?
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I don't I don't do anything Um, but Step Will, Steph will link that and we'll discuss.
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It's really interesting.
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So I think you, you.
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Guys and girls will like it.
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Yeah.
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So, um, you guys listen to that this week and we will discuss for next week.
1:00:47
Sounds good.
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Make sure you like, follow, leave a review and, um, all the things.
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Yep.
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Thanks.
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Thanks.
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Bye.
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Bye.
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I was trying to not get mad at people because I always end up saying like, yeah, do it.
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And I'm trying to not be nasty to people.
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I like it nasty.