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The Daily Mess Do Funeral Home People Watch Scary Movies Plus Too Much Green In Billiards · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Enjoy your exploration. Hates me, that question guy. You know,
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Speaker 1: the dude that's always asking questions because it's so much
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Speaker 1: fun when you start doing the research. For instance, do
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Speaker 1: people who work inside the world of death Do they
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Speaker 1: watch scary movies and a TV series like Dexter? Plus,
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Speaker 1: why are pool halls always green? I mean, come on now.
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Speaker 1: Isn't it time to kind of freshen things up a bit?
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Speaker 1: My name is Arrow. I'm a daily writer, a silent wolf.
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Speaker 1: I stand on the sidelines and do nothing but watch, listen, study,
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Speaker 1: by doing the research, the picture is always going to
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Speaker 1: become clearer. This is the daily mess. Do coroners or
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Speaker 1: other funeral home employees watch scary movies or even TV
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Speaker 1: shows like Dexter? Rule number one, working around death doesn't
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Speaker 1: automatically make somebody dislike fictional violence. They just have different reactions. Desensitization.
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Speaker 1: After seeing death as part of their job, dead bodies
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Speaker 1: on TV never seem disturbing to them. Number two, professional curiosity.
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Speaker 1: Funeral home employees take note of inaccuracies in how bodies, autopsies, embalming,
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Speaker 1: or even death investigations are portrayed. And how about those escapes?
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Speaker 1: Are some employees in the death field, do they really
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Speaker 1: kind of avoid that vibration that comes with taking care
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Speaker 1: of a dead body by watching these shows? Yeah, and no.
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Speaker 1: And there's always the dark humor that comes along with
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Speaker 1: every one of these episodes. It's a way to cope
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Speaker 1: with it, but it doesn't mean that you're short in
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Speaker 1: the department of disrespecting the word dead. Dexter is that
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Speaker 1: one show that many in the afterlife business do kind
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Speaker 1: of shy away from because it's like me in martial
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Speaker 1: arts movies. Yeah, that's not really how it goes down. Nope,
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Speaker 1: don't believe it. So let's break it down just a
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Speaker 1: bit here, a little bit further. Funeral home employees don't
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Speaker 1: see scary movies or binge watches as being great medicine.
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Speaker 1: And the reason why is because they've got some serious anxiety, stress,
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Speaker 1: and depression. When they go home at night, they don't
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Speaker 1: want to take home the job. Hey, coming up next,
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Speaker 1: pool halls. Have you been in one lately? Have you
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Speaker 1: seen one in a movie or a TV show? Why
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Speaker 1: are they always green? Hey, thanks for coming back to
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Speaker 1: The Daily Mess. Why do pool halls feature so much green?
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Speaker 1: It's inside a building, not outside. This seems like a no-brainer, right?
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Speaker 1: No matter how smoky the room is, how cluttered it
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Speaker 1: might be, or beer-soaked a pool hall is, it's going
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Speaker 1: to be sparkling green because of its association with the
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Speaker 1: billiard table. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That was way
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Speaker 1: too damn easy. Let's break this down even more. Early
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Speaker 1: billiard tables were bathed in green, and the reason why
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Speaker 1: is because they wanted it to represent the grass outside.
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Speaker 1: We just covered this a few seconds ago, but it's inside,
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Speaker 1: not outside. The early players and makers wanted that outdoor
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Speaker 1: lawn vibration. Such traditions have pretty much stuck, except there
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Speaker 1: are a few rule breakers today that have added in
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Speaker 1: the color blue, red, and I've even seen off-white. Here's
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Speaker 1: how pool hall owners reacted to the green felt on
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Speaker 1: billiard tables. Make everything green. It's not going to be
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Speaker 1: just the tables. Make it the walls, the chairs, the lamps,
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Speaker 1: the signs. Another practical reason leans on green being very
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Speaker 1: easy on our eyes. Oh, really? Especially when it comes
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Speaker 1: to those overhead lights that are brighter than the North
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Speaker 1: Pole on Christmas Eve. But has anyone protested the use
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Speaker 1: of so much green? You know, it just seems old-fashioned.
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Speaker 1: It's a visual fatigue. But then again, we've got the
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Speaker 1: blue and the gray tables, and they give off a
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Speaker 1: better view of the ball, and the biggest complaint is
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Speaker 1: it's not green. And because it's not sacred, people don't
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Speaker 1: want to change anything. I mean, some have, but most
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Speaker 1: never will. I'm Errol, and that's The Daily Mess.