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Westfield, NJ Home The Inspiration For The Addams Family · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: We're talking about if you would buy a haunted house
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  Speaker 1: or would you buy a home where something bad happened.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have texted in at 44363.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Most of it has been no way, no thank you
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  Speaker 3: on the haunted house, LOL. But we have from 917,
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  Speaker 3: my grandmother bought a house where someone was shot and
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  Speaker 3: killed upstairs because of gambling and there have been no issues.
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  Speaker 3: 631 says, good morning. There's a show on TV, HGTV.
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  Speaker 3: It's called The Scariest House in America. It's pretty cute.
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  Speaker 3: It's all these people that buy homes knowing that it's paranormal, ghost,
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  Speaker 3: weird things happening there. It's a really good show. Watch it.
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  Speaker 3: I do watch it.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen that on my guide, Scariest House.
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  Speaker 3: It's a fun one.
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  Speaker 2: I never watched it. I thought it was just a
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  Speaker 2: really bad home.
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  Speaker 1: No, no.
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  Speaker 2: Like a big fixer-upper.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's got a history, and the house is usually
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  Speaker 3: a very weird design. And a great host. She's a comedian,
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  Speaker 3: which is not great. coming to me at the moment,
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  Speaker 3: but it's a fun show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And now what about, we got to mop up
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  Speaker 1: this Addams Family mess. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Because we're not sure. Because I think, first of all,
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  Speaker 2: you're more right than I am. But Westfield, New Jersey. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There's a home associated with the Addams Family.
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  Speaker 3: Charles Addams. Thank you, 201. Charles Addams grew up in
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  Speaker 3: Westfield on Elm Street. That's where they got the street
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  Speaker 3: name for Nightmare on Elm Street. And the inspiration for
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  Speaker 3: the television show house is Westfield, New Jersey on Elm Street.
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  Speaker 3: And it's got a historical landmark next to it. So
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  Speaker 3: you can actually go see the house.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of your favorite theme songs of
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  Speaker 2: all time, as is mine. They're creepy and they're kooky.
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  Speaker 2: Sing it. Mysterious and spooky. They're all together kooky. The
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  Speaker 2: Addams Family. Now, what else about this house is fun?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it was the inspiration for the TV series. And
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  Speaker 3: Charles Adams didn't write a traditional novel or script. He
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  Speaker 3: created a single panel macabre comic strip that started back
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  Speaker 3: in August 6th of 1938.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was a comic strip before a TV show.
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  Speaker 3: So then TV producer David Levy wanted to adapt it
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  Speaker 3: into a TV series in 1964. Charles Adams came on
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  Speaker 3: board to name the characters. So the Adams family, Charles Adams,
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  Speaker 3: he helped name Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Lurch,
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  Speaker 3: and Grandmama.
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  Speaker 1: What was it about the 60s and these TV show
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  Speaker 1: sitcoms that were kind of like had creepy people in it?
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  Speaker 2: Like, so you had Adam's family.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Munsters was around the same time.
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  Speaker 3: You know how it is now. Like one thing takes
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  Speaker 3: off and then.
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  Speaker 2: Other people try to replicate it a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Inspires.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. What do you have coming up
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  Speaker 1: in the news, Christine?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to check out the headlines. Oh, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to love this, Cubby. The biggest mistake that husbands make.
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  Speaker 2: I do them all. We'll find out next at Light FM.