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Ep. 142 - The Haunting of Helltown, Ohio & Halloween 2026. · Trudge Report

• 0:07
  SPEAKER_03: Ladies and gentlemen, good evening and welcome to another episode of Trudge Report.
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  SPEAKER_03: We are a recovery-based podcast.
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  SPEAKER_03: My name is Sean, and I am your host, joined by my good friends and fellow Trudgers.
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• 0:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I don't even know where to start.
• 0:44
  SPEAKER_03: Uh, those of you who will never watch this episode, you're you're totally missing out.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_03: Um, Greg, Greg, uh, Greg came in hot as the uh the orange teenage mutant ninja turtle, obviously.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, that's obviously what it is, right?
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Well, the only thing that's obvious around here is that you guys can't afford Hugh Jackman in the budget, so you're stuck with me.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: Your friendly neighborhood Deadpool.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, I don't know if we'll get sued by Disney for that.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: So maybe I'm your mostly alive Deadpool.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_03: Mostly alive, halfway alive, halfway Deadpool, partially alive pool, partially deceased pool.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_03: Greg is in uh full Deadpool costume in honor of Halloween.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_03: Um, very nice.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_03: And the background, you got the background going too.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's uh well done, sir.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_03: Well done.
• 1:34
  SPEAKER_00: Sitting in the mood, fellas.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Sit in the mood.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well done.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_03: Corey's upset now because he didn't participate.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't have that much life in me this week to do all that.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_02: Can't do it.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_02: No, not even near your favorite holiday of the year.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, I'm I'm in it, but we're we're not like I can't.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_01: It looks like Christmas over there.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_02: That's a that's a purple spider web.
• 1:55
  SPEAKER_02: Thank you very much.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_02: Behind that doesn't look like it.
• 1:59
  SPEAKER_02: Well, where's your fucking spider web?
• 2:01
  SPEAKER_02: Do you on my bushes outside decorated yesterday?
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever.
• 2:08
  SPEAKER_03: Very good.
• 2:09
  SPEAKER_03: Guys, this is uh last episode before Halloween.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_03: Last last chance to kill somebody.
• 2:15
  SPEAKER_03: Last chance to kill somebody and get away with it.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, just kidding.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_03: We might get in trouble for that too.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_01: Purge.
• 2:21
  SPEAKER_01: Purge it.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_03: Did anybody like the purge movies?
• 2:24
  SPEAKER_03: Did anybody I am morally and ethically opposed to those movies?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_01: See, I love it just for the fantasy of it happening.
• 2:32
  SPEAKER_02: I love it.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_02: That's the problem.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_01: I know that's exactly the problem.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_01: 100%.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: Seriously.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_02: No, seriously, take a poll right now.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_02: And we know where Sean stands on this, but like if if the purge was real today, what are you guys gonna do?
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_02: Well, I think we talked about this before.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, the last thing I'm doing is killing somebody.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_02: I I will be rich after it, for sure.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_02: I'm not gonna kill somebody though.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm into emptying my bank account for weapons.
• 2:59
  unknown: Yeah.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_02: I already have some weapons.
• 3:01
  SPEAKER_02: There's there's more fun illegal things to do than to kill somebody.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_02: It's ridiculous.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'd probably I'd probably just take advantage of all the stores being closed and go inside Lowe's and Home Depot.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Danny wouldn't have to pay for supplies for the rest of his life.
• 3:16
  SPEAKER_03: Exactly, dude.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'd stock up.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: Profit margin 99%.
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'm cutting the power to my house.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna get as many swords as I can find, and I'm gonna lather my naked body in baby oil and just wait for them to come.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: They're coming and they're coming hard.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_03: Actually, put some thought into that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, sorry.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_02: The bird sucks.
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  SPEAKER_02: I didn't like this movie.
• 3:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's a terrible idea.
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  SPEAKER_03: That's why that's what's wrong with our country, right there.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_03: Amongst other things.
• 3:50
  SPEAKER_01: At least the price of the I feel like it's a solution to a lot of problems.
• 3:54
  SPEAKER_03: The price of eggs are down.
• 3:56
  SPEAKER_01: Singular.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, dude.
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_02: Right there, Sean.
• 3:59
  SPEAKER_02: I promise you I will have barrels upon barrels of gasoline in the backyard after the purge.
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I thought you were gonna say eggs.
• 4:07
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, where are you gonna get the where are you gonna get the barrels from?
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna rob the gas stations.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_02: That's barrel.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna rob a barrel store and then I'm gonna get a bunch of gas.
• 4:17
  SPEAKER_02: I went to cracker barrel this morning.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_01: I missed that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Very fresh.
• 4:22
  SPEAKER_01: South Carolina Cracker Barrel coming to the light soon.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, brother.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_03: Where do we want to start, guys?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: What do we want to do?
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna go around the horn.
• 4:29
  SPEAKER_03: Greg, what's up, man?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_03: What are you up to over there?
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm living the dream up here in beautiful Ohio, man.
• 4:37
  SPEAKER_00: Just prepping for Halloween.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: You know, just uh I'm I got my list of people on that I'm uh may or may not assassinate in between now and then, and you know, just checking that off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other than that, things are wonderful.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_03: Steve Bushimi from Billy Madison.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_03: Remember yeah, lipstick and all, baby.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_03: Glad I called that guy.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_01: Boardwalk Empire.
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  SPEAKER_03: Man, I'm glad I'm sure I or what do you say?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_03: A man, I'm glad I called that guy.
• 5:05
  SPEAKER_00: One thing I I do have a gear to grind about, and uh somebody that might be on the list, I don't know uh quite yet or not, but people that like the the hidden fees in contracts, and I'm specifically talking about uh wedding contracts and uh the hidden fees that are not mentioned in the contract, nor were they mentioned at initial consult.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_03: Matter of fact, they never would have been mentioned at all if you didn't catch it.
• 5:33
  SPEAKER_00: Correct, correct.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: So now that's that's been uh uh an ordeal to to say the least.
• 5:38
  SPEAKER_00: I won't I won't uh specify too much on it quite yet.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see what happens.
• 5:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 5:45
  SPEAKER_03: Hidden fees in general, I think, are uh they suck.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_00: The worst, the worst.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: But the the the last place I want to feel like like I'm getting scammed is my wedding, you know?
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_03: I think that's a yeah, that's a deeper conversation, I think, in general.
• 6:03
  SPEAKER_03: Uh philosophical conversation that maybe we don't get into now, but no, I hope it works out.
• 6:11
  SPEAKER_00: Do you guys know what I had to do to get one to agree to marry me?
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the what I've had to go through, you know?
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 6:21
  SPEAKER_03: I can only imagine.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
• 6:22
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, exactly.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_03: It's hard to take you too seriously in that outfit, but she hates it.
• 6:27
  SPEAKER_03: She she she doesn't like this.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_03: Does she let you wear something?
• 6:31
  SPEAKER_03: We're gonna find out tonight.
• 6:34
  SPEAKER_03: So let's wrap this up.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_03: Can you just show up to work in that tomorrow?
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like just show up, pretend like nothing's wrong, nothing's going on.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_03: Just hey guys, have your mind.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_02: I'm wearing a ghost face mask for the office on Friday, that's for sure.
• 6:46
  SPEAKER_02: I might kill a board member.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_02: That's who I'm gonna kill.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_02: Let's cut that out of this thing.
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_01: Danny P, what's going on?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no much, man.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_01: We uh we decorated the house yesterday.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: We did uh went to Target and spent an astronomical amount of money because I don't feel like doing bargain shopping or shopping the year before.
• 7:06
  SPEAKER_01: So we uh spent crazy amounts of money on some decorations and we had fun decorating the house, and then I told my I was like, I was like, I really gotta mow the lawn first, but obviously, you know, she did not want to wait.
• 7:18
  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, all right, we're not dealing with this meltdown.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_01: So we decorate it, and then today I took it back down, mowed the lawn, and then redecorated because that's what we do.
• 7:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, we did that.
• 7:30
  SPEAKER_01: We had a softball tournament yesterday, it was awesome.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: Uh the all the kids dressed up and I dressed up and all that, and uh had a blast.
• 7:36
  SPEAKER_01: It was the first uh travel softball tournament, so it was pretty cool.
• 7:40
  SPEAKER_01: I was absolutely exhausted, never done that before.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was up 5 30 a.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: till about 3 30 p.m.
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  SPEAKER_01: all softball, and I was like dying yesterday.
• 7:49
  SPEAKER_01: Like I felt my age like hardcore, man.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_01: And uh, but it was good, man.
• 7:53
  SPEAKER_01: It was fun.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the girls hung in the whole entire time and they had a blast, so that was cool.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: But um, otherwise, uh everything's the same, man.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_01: Working nonstop work this morning.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Um Maya had uh she's uh starting basketball, she had basketball evaluations today.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_03: So Grace does hers on Tuesday.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, nice, nice, yeah.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_01: So that was that was cool.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_01: And then uh afterwards she was asking me to show her drills and stuff like that and dribbling, and and I was like, just remember you can only dribble one hand.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_01: So don't be the double double dribble monster.
• 8:26
  SPEAKER_01: Um man, but um, yeah, I mean she's intrigued, and you know, and she's she's way bigger.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: There was like probably like 10 girls at evaluations because they all don't make it, and there's these two girls, uh, this other girl mine is friends with that was on our softball team, and they're both like five feet tall, and they just I mean, they're playing, they're gonna stack down the middle.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, if they're on the same team, man, it's gonna be like Barclay and Rodman down in the lane.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: It's gonna be hysterical, it's gonna be so funny, but uh she's excited for a man.
• 8:55
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, any of that stuff, man.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 8:59
  SPEAKER_01: No, it's fun for them, fun with the girls and all that stuff.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_01: But um stuff.
• 9:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, all g all gravy and let's go, Giants, baby.
• 9:06
  SPEAKER_01: NFC Eats.
• 9:07
  SPEAKER_01: Good win today.
• 9:08
  SPEAKER_01: Good win for Cleveland, good win for for the Giants.
• 9:11
  SPEAKER_01: No, Browns Giants Super Bowl coming in hot.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 9:17
  SPEAKER_00: Or lukewarm.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 9:20
  SPEAKER_01: One egg at a time.
• 9:22
  SPEAKER_01: Choy, what's going on with you?
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: Nothing.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_02: Um more football.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_02: No more football.
• 9:30
  SPEAKER_02: Football season's over.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_02: Uh looks like fantasy season might be over as well.
• 9:34
  SPEAKER_02: So that's good news that I have nothing to look forward to.
• 9:37
  SPEAKER_02: Um better that way, than to be disappointed in the long run.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_02: And I don't know.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_02: We we carved pumpkins tonight.
• 9:45
  SPEAKER_02: That was fun.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_02: There's something about a fucking jack-o'-lantern just looking you dead in the face, it just gets you going, you know.
• 9:52
  SPEAKER_03: Get you breaked up.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_02: And um, I don't know.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_02: Today was Gabby's birthday, so very fresh this morning.
• 10:04
  SPEAKER_02: Very cool.
• 10:05
  SPEAKER_02: She's uh I think she's 25 again, according to her.
• 10:09
  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_03: Um That's such a that's such a played out joke by people though, when they say that's kind of stuff, like, oh how 25 again.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_03: And everybody has the uh has the uh has to laugh at it, you know.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_02: No worse than somebody calling themselves a recovering Catholic, though.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well that's a that's a thing.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah, that's a thing.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_02: Sean loves it.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_03: We we hear it at our recovery groups fairly often.
• 10:43
  SPEAKER_02: Uh it's been a while for me.
• 10:44
  SPEAKER_02: Last night was the first time in a while.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_02: Which I like.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: What is it?
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_01: What is it what does it mean?
• 10:50
  SPEAKER_03: That you had a uh somewhat bad or poor experience growing up as a Catholic.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_01: So you got your PP touched?
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_03: I I don't know about that.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_03: I don't I don't think it has to go that far.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_03: That's the only thing that came to my mind.
• 11:05
  SPEAKER_03: Possibly, but people say it.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_03: It's this stupid thing people say like they think it, I don't know, they wear it as like a badge of courage almost.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_02: They talk about like how like that, you know, allegedly that's a vengeful God and or whatever.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's usually attached to like them saying, Hey, my idea growing up of God was this mean, vengeful idea of God, or just punishing God.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_03: And now that I'm in recovery and I'm allowed to choose my own higher power, you know, I realize that you know whatever, it's just something they say.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_02: But like plenty of Catholics are getting sober and are happy as hell.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_03: So the my confirmation ruined my life.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's dumb.
• 11:41
  SPEAKER_03: It's dumb, but people say it.
• 11:44
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, we could have a whole list of we could have a whole episode on dumb things people say.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: My god, why would where's that trudge report episode at?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_03: I think we haven't we done that.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_03: I think we've touched on some of that stuff, but maybe it's time to like do a full-on deep dive again.
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_03: I got a list of things that pissed me off.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, you do you do four three or four things every Tuesday, Corey.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_02: Listen, here's the thing.
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_02: And when you're in a a a meeting, right?
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_02: Whatever meeting that may be, and somebody introduces themselves, you know, it's it's typically well known from TV and whatnot that you're like, hi, my name is so and so, and I am a whatever meeting you're in, right?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_02: You're maybe you're a drug addict, maybe you're an alcoholic, depending on what kind of meeting you're in.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe you're a sex addict.
• 12:28
  SPEAKER_02: Maybe you're a sex addict.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_02: But like, here's the thing.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_02: Here's the thing, Sean.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: Gambler.
• 12:32
  SPEAKER_02: Here's the thing, though, dude.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_02: Many meetings I've been in.
• 12:36
  SPEAKER_02: People have found some fucking creative ways to introduce themselves.
• 12:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's a whole nother episode.
• 12:42
  SPEAKER_03: Well, they have to set themselves apart, Corey.
• 12:44
  SPEAKER_03: They have to be different.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, like just how about you just say you're a dumbass, because that would be closer to the truth.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:51
  SPEAKER_02: How about that?
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_02: There's some good ones.
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, we gotta get that going.
• 12:54
  SPEAKER_02: We got Yeah.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: I know.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_01: Where are the people?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, I was told that so early on, man, that this is what you do, this is how you introduce yourself because you're not special.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_01: Boom, done.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_02: You know, the the end.
• 13:05
  SPEAKER_02: Dan, you might remember this, dude.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_02: I don't I I can't remember if you were there, but there's a good chance you were.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_02: One thing that TCR did for me, for sure, is we had one one group that I remember based on literally, it was called meeting etiquette.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_02: And it was like, this is what you should and should not do in a meeting.
• 13:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, that's solid.
• 13:26
  SPEAKER_02: And our friend Allie led it, and it was a solid, solid discussion.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_03: The Allie that I'm thinking of?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_03: Uh-huh.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_02: It was solid.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_02: She was running our groups.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_02: She was like a she was like a year sober, I think.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_02: I want to say.
• 13:46
  SPEAKER_03: Interesting.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I I got taught.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_03: Papa Ron taught me all that stuff, man.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_03: Don't walk in front of people that are speaking.
• 13:54
  unknown: Yeah.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_03: Try not to get up at all.
• 13:56
  SPEAKER_03: During a share at all.
• 13:58
  SPEAKER_02: Well, during a share, though, at least.
• 13:59
  SPEAKER_03: Like the very least, but try not to at all.
• 14:01
  SPEAKER_03: Like sit your ass down for the hour.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_03: Like, it's not gonna kill you.
• 14:04
  SPEAKER_03: But yes, at least not during a share.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_03: Don't walk in front of people.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_03: Don't, you know, the whole bring a bigger cup.
• 14:11
  SPEAKER_03: Like, why are you getting up so many times, son?
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I just want more coffee.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: Cool.
• 14:14
  SPEAKER_03: Bring a bigger cup.
• 14:15
  SPEAKER_03: You know, oh, here's one.
• 14:17
  SPEAKER_02: If you show up late and you walk in and you go to sit down, maybe pick up the effing chair.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_03: Pick up the chair.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_03: People.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_02: When you you like you don't have to drag it out and bring all the attention to yourself.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: Hey, my name's Dan, and I'm here.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_02: And then they and then they sit down really loudly.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_02: They're like, oh my god.
• 14:40
  SPEAKER_02: And then we'll get the we'll get the obligatory, sorry I'm late, share.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_02: It's like, why don't you shut that off and pass?
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_03: No, no.
• 14:46
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the biggest one.
• 14:47
  SPEAKER_03: Not only that, but when you when you like, my name's so-and-so, sorry I was late, guys.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_03: Wait, what's the topic?
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, that's the worst.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_03: That one gets my gears the most.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: Shut up.
• 14:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_02: Sorry I'm late.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_02: I was actually sitting with a very sick and suffering newcomer trying to do God's work, helping that person.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_02: Like, great.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_02: Great.
• 15:08
  SPEAKER_02: Shut up.
• 15:10
  SPEAKER_02: Anyway, we're shoot- we're we're kind of quit excuse the phrase, we're kind of blowing our load right now.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_02: We gotta save this for an episode.
• 15:17
  SPEAKER_02: What does that mean?
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_02: I heard it somewhere.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_02: We're gonna cut that one out, too.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_02: What does that mean?
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_03: So all right.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_03: Um quick quick touch on on anything.
• 15:28
  SPEAKER_03: World series has been phenomenal.
• 15:29
  SPEAKER_03: I'm loving it every minute.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_03: So good, man.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: So good.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_01: Real baseball, baby.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_03: Small ball, stealing bases, catchers throwing people out.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_03: Contreras is throwing people out left and right.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 15:40
  SPEAKER_03: Love it.
• 15:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think I think the Brewers might sweep them though.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_03: Oh man.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, man.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_03: It's it's I mean, they're going back to the drop now.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: We'll see.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah.
• 15:49
  SPEAKER_03: Been phenomenal.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_03: Been some great college football on lately.
• 15:52
  SPEAKER_03: Like we said, shout out to the Giants, shout out to the Browns.
• 15:55
  SPEAKER_03: It was hot as sh.
• 15:56
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, it was hot as hell in there, wasn't it, Greg?
• 15:58
  SPEAKER_00: In that man, I couldn't do it.
• 16:01
  SPEAKER_00: We got an episode to do here, boys.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 16:04
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_02: Um Sean, make a non-trudge report announcement about the retreat.
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_02: Should we start announcing that?
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_03: We want to do it right here.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_03: It wouldn't quite be a non-trudge report announcement then.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's okay.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_03: Corey doesn't know he doesn't know what he's talking about.
• 16:23
  SPEAKER_03: But um, yeah, we are uh um myself, Corey, and uh we can name him Kyle Fiskus.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_03: I mean it's really 98% Kyle, you know.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_03: Well, he got the ball rolling.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_03: I'll give him all credit to that.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_03: He got the ball rolling, but we're we're helping out here.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, the Serenity on the Mountain retreat is uh it's back, boys.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_03: It is back, it's live.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_03: We got our first payment.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_03: Somebody actually paid already, which is really cool.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_03: Um none other than Sprinkler Steve.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_03: He paid, and uh, we got a whole registration sheet.
• 16:55
  SPEAKER_03: We got about 20 20 RSVPs so far, including uh Greg.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_03: Um Corey, we need to actually put one in just so it's official.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_03: Dan, you throw that in on that link whenever you get a chance.
• 17:05
  SPEAKER_03: You can pay later all the time.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_03: It is uh it is on next October.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_03: Um where is it?
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_03: It's at a place called Asbury Hills in Cleveland, South Carolina.
• 17:21
  SPEAKER_03: It is very close to the YMCA campground that we all used to go on, and um we're gonna do it.
• 17:27
  SPEAKER_03: We're having more information to come, but we are very excited.
• 17:30
  SPEAKER_03: Men only, sorry ladies, men only.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_03: Uh the women do their own thing.
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_01: You can get actual men too, like men from birth.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I guess spiritually we won't I I I actually had not to go down this rabbit hole.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_03: I actually had a thought about our friend Corey that you know who I'm talking about that was posting TikToks.
• 17:53
  SPEAKER_03: I was like, what do we do?
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_03: Do we say no?
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_03: Do we like pull them aside and be like, hey, sure, but do we get them their own special cabin?
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I don't know.
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_02: I don't fucking care.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_02: Just I'm just hoping that they don't, yeah.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know, man.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_01: Has this uh has this place been scouted or to make sure we're not gonna fall into a wrong turn situation?
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so Catholic.
• 18:17
  SPEAKER_01: I'm ready for that.
• 18:18
  SPEAKER_03: I'm ready.
• 18:19
  SPEAKER_03: Catherine went the women had one.
• 18:22
  SPEAKER_03: The women just had one like last weekend or the weekend before that at this same campground.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, all right.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_03: And Catherine went to it at this campground like year before last, and she said it was really cool.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_03: Nothing is quite Serenity on the Mountain, the the original.
• 18:37
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know if it will be, but it's time to maybe it's time to you know form some new experiences and some new traditions and stuff, while keeping a lot of the same flavor and a lot of the same stuff.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_03: But um I'm gonna get working on the program and the the schedule of events here pretty soon and kind of what we're gonna do.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_03: I've got some thoughts in my head and stuff, but the campground itself, I think it looks way more modern, and it looks like it's bigger and there's way more stuff to do.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_03: So um, so there's that.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_03: And I think the food's probably gonna be better.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_03: It is more expensive, but uh we were getting a we were getting a steal back then.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was the drop in the bucket, yeah.
• 19:15
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and like let's be honest, the food, there was a lot of food, but it wasn't the greatest food, right?
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_03: Like it was it was okay.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: I can't even remember it was I mean that's what I mean.
• 19:26
  SPEAKER_01: It made you feel you were in the woods, you know what I mean?
• 19:28
  SPEAKER_01: Like that's what it's just slapped.
• 19:30
  SPEAKER_03: The salad bar was always the best, I thought.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_03: The salad bar always was the best, but but like you know, when you're bringing, you know, 400 broiled hamburgers out, like it just you know, I don't know.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: But you just it's that's one of those you gotta just pretend it's meat, right?
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: In your mind.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: You have to tell you you have to tell yourself.
• 19:49
  SPEAKER_03: Or he does.
• 19:51
  SPEAKER_03: Pretends it's meat.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_03: But yeah, so we're excited.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_03: It's really happening.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_03: Um, we got a whole email account set up.
• 20:01
  SPEAKER_03: We got the the jot form, so when you submit the form, it comes directly to the email.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_03: I got my Zell set up for payments.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have physical forms and registrations like we used to as well.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_03: We'll have those this week, Corey, right?
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_03: Sometime this week.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I forgot all about it.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_02: It's basically done though.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_03: Corey's on that.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_03: He's on it, though.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: He's on it.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_03: Um it's done, it's done.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's pretty much done.
• 20:21
  SPEAKER_03: We just got to change a couple of those dates and stuff, but yeah, it's uh it's happening, guys.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: It's happening.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_03: So very excited.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: Freaking awesome.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, does that the the amenities is whatever, it's about the brothers.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_03: It is about the brothers.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_03: I and I do think I do think the amenities are gonna be honestly pretty good, but it is totally 100% about the brothers.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_03: I am still staying in the roadway in Thursday night, just so you guys know.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_03: Like well, that's what I'm saying.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, it's all got to be the same.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, cracker barrel, like dude, like yeah, Italian joint, yep.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 20:50
  SPEAKER_01: The whole yeah, the same, the same sleeping on the floor of the hotel room, obviously.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: While sleeping Constantine's truck and just pulled up with a semi Greg, I want to sleep on the floor of the hotel room, and I want to watch Cops again.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_02: That episode of Cops, I've never forgotten episode of Cops again.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, it was hilarious.
• 21:08
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, dude got dropped by a taser.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_02: It was the guy laughed for like 20 minutes.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_00: Are we inviting the Ocala boys so there can be like a secret feud?
• 21:17
  SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, we're gonna we're gonna put the word out to everyone.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_03: Like, I've like we've already put the word out to a bunch of people here.
• 21:24
  SPEAKER_03: I I've talked to some of the old timers already.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_03: Um, yeah, there's no reason not to, because like we from what I understand, we can they can accommodate like up to hundreds of people.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: So well, here's here it is.
• 21:37
  SPEAKER_00: We're anybody listening to the trudge report, you want to come on a banger retreat, dude?
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, hit us up.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_03: That's right.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_03: Specifically, though, specifically, for men, sober men seeking to enhance their spiritual way of living.
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_03: Doesn't matter how long sobriety you have, yeah, doesn't matter at all.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_03: Could be one day, could be a couple hours, could be thirty five years.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_03: Technically, you you could be smoking weed there and we'll still let you live.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_03: We'll still let you live.
• 22:05
  SPEAKER_03: Technically, we wouldn't kick you out.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_03: We would we would prefer no one's drunk or high, but you know what?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_03: At the same time, you know, how to get a talking to.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_01: It's a home walk home.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: Home walk home.
• 22:15
  SPEAKER_03: You will fuck we'll fuck your drinking up, that's for sure.
• 22:18
  SPEAKER_03: You will not be the same after that.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_03: One thing we'll do to you.
• 22:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_03: We'll take you on a hike and we'll come back for you Sunday morning.
• 22:26
  SPEAKER_02: Oh dude, that hike was I'm just out of shape.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_02: I'm way more out of shape than I was back then, and that hike was rough back up the mountain.
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
• 22:36
  SPEAKER_00: I'm ready for it now.
• 22:38
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a little bit lighter.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_02: A little better shape.
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_02: I'm a little heavier.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm feeling those 42 years right now, brother.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but yeah, what's up?
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_03: They they got all kinds like when I say there's more to do, there's there looks like so much to do with this thing.
• 22:55
  SPEAKER_01: We gotta bring the whiffle ball.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_01: No tackle football.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_01: We're not doing injuries.
• 22:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we can't be coming home to our wives and girlfriends all bent up.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, not doing that.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_02: I told Kyle that Sean wanted to do a live trudge report episode.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 23:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think he bought it really upset.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, well, we could just record it because it would have no service so we'll have to record it and then you could just let it rip.
• 23:20
  SPEAKER_01: That's true.
• 23:21
  SPEAKER_02: That is one problem though, Dan, is this place has Wi-Fi.
• 23:24
  SPEAKER_03: So we don't have to tell people that.
• 23:27
  SPEAKER_03: No, I was gonna say don't.
• 23:28
  SPEAKER_02: Well they're gonna find it.
• 23:29
  SPEAKER_02: They're gonna find it.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_02: It's gonna separate the men from the boys.
• 23:32
  SPEAKER_02: Alright.
• 23:33
  SPEAKER_02: It is.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_01: My phone's going, yeah.
• 23:35
  SPEAKER_01: I'm going in my bag, bro.
• 23:37
  SPEAKER_03: Is it is it inappropriate to watch like World Series baseball and college football on the roof?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_03: I would never I would never listen to it.
• 23:45
  SPEAKER_01: You can only listen to it like meeting Constantine on the mountain, Yankees and that's the.
• 23:49
  SPEAKER_03: They used to listen to Clemson football games on the radio.
• 23:51
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, all right, deal.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_03: I'm fine with that.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, fine with that.
• 23:54
  SPEAKER_01: Radio listens okay when you're trying to get service on the top of the mountain with a Russian.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_02: I do not think God agrees.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_01: It does.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_02: I don't think out of your understanding.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_01: I've already talked to him, Corey.
• 24:09
  SPEAKER_01: Transylvania County.
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_02: Yep.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_02: Alright, before we move on, real quick, I just want to mention, check this shit out, dude.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_02: My mic's damn broke.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_02: It's limp.
• 24:19
  SPEAKER_02: It's limp.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_02: So that's why I'm holding it.
• 24:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm holding it like this, which is very awkward.
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, double fisting.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_00: You'll get it as a pack of them gas station pills.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_00: It'll it'll progress.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's a little bit more.
• 24:31
  SPEAKER_00: Little horny goatweed.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have like a bloody nose or something like that.
• 24:34
  SPEAKER_03: I think Bill DeLuca still has a stash of horny goatweed.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 24:38
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta, you gotta, you can't go limp on her birthday, bro.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta tighten up.
• 24:42
  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_03: A little blue chew?
• 24:50
  SPEAKER_03: Little blue chew gold.
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_03: Greg, what are we doing tonight?
• 24:53
  SPEAKER_03: What are we take us take us on a ride?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_03: We we gotta get this back on track.
• 24:58
  SPEAKER_03: My god.
• 24:59
  SPEAKER_03: This thing has never been on track.
• 25:00
  SPEAKER_01: Greg's shoulder keeps disappearing and it's cracking me up.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you guys, you guys haven't seen it.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_00: I got I'm I'm actually this is this is a strap that's got two katanas uh yes in the back of it.
• 25:10
  SPEAKER_00: You just can't see it because the AI background here hold on.
• 25:14
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry, before we move on.
• 25:15
  SPEAKER_02: What is uh what's Peyton being?
• 25:18
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, he's Wolverine.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, sick, okay.
• 25:20
  SPEAKER_02: Hell yeah.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_02: Wolverine's al was always my favorite, dude.
• 25:25
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, sick.
• 25:26
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 25:27
  SPEAKER_00: No, it's gonna be awesome.
• 25:28
  SPEAKER_01: Freaking boys are so safe, man.
• 25:30
  SPEAKER_01: Girls are it's it sucks with girls, dude.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_01: Crapshoot.
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's no fun.
• 25:35
  SPEAKER_00: Yep.
• 25:36
  SPEAKER_02: Well, we got we got wa wait a minute, wait a minute.
• 25:39
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: I'm sorry.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_02: Did we have we discussed what we're all being families are being?
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_03: I think so, but go ahead, you go.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_02: I'll do it quick.
• 25:48
  SPEAKER_02: We're we're being we're doing Star Wars, so I'm mannequin, Gabby's Padme, and then we got Luke Skywalker, and then we got Princess Lane.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_03: I got listen.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_03: I got a I got a thing from Padme, alright?
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_03: I'll let her know.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: I'll let her know.
• 26:01
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm just saying, I'd gotta listen.
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_02: No, I get it.
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_02: This dress is fucking ridiculous.
• 26:08
  SPEAKER_02: She's wearing the dress from like episode two.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_02: And and I'm like, yeah, it's it's bad.
• 26:14
  SPEAKER_00: Nobody wanted to be Obi-Wan.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_00: He's the he's the biggest G out of everybody there.
• 26:18
  SPEAKER_03: He is.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_03: What are they being?
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_03: So she's Padme, what's Lucy?
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_03: Princess Leia.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_00: And no, I guess that works Skywalker.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: That tracks because you guys are all parents.
• 26:29
  SPEAKER_00: Happy family until you kill everybody.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_03: I by turning to the and we take this back to the very beginning of this episode.
• 26:38
  unknown: Yeah.
• 26:40
  SPEAKER_03: Where are we all being, Dan?
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I will be the super trooper, and Maya is being a cowgirl.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_03: Nice.
• 26:48
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, I see what you mean now about girls versus boys.
• 26:51
  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 26:52
  SPEAKER_01: Yep.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_01: Mine aren't there yet.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Sleeveless shirt and you know, all that fun stuff.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: No, no.
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: Gregory?
• 26:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, yeah, so we got the whole family is doing superheroes, except uh one section of the family that wanted to do Harry Potter, which doesn't fit in with the rest.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_03: They're superheroes, man.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_03: No.
• 27:12
  SPEAKER_03: Um they might uh they might make your superhero disappear, though.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 27:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh but yeah, Peyton and I are gonna be Deadpool and Wolverine, and Lauren is being Shigo from Kim Possible.
• 27:26
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wow, that's a that's a deep cut, right there.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_03: It is a deep cut.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_00: She ain't messing around, boy.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_00: She knew exactly what she wanted and she went for it.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: And it looks awesome.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_03: We're we're God, I feel so stupid now.
• 27:42
  SPEAKER_03: We're the old McDonald family.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_03: No way.
• 27:46
  SPEAKER_03: It's like McDonald had a farm.
• 27:48
  SPEAKER_03: It's the lightest thing ever.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_03: Good good job, Greg.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_03: Oh my god.
• 27:54
  SPEAKER_03: Um I have I have a pair of overalls that actually are super comfortable and they fit like super comfy, and I have a straw hat, and um, and I was told that I have to get a white shirt without any holes in it, but I said real farmers, their their white shirts have holes in them.
• 28:11
  SPEAKER_03: Uh thank you very much.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_03: And then um Catherine is a cow.
• 28:16
  SPEAKER_03: Uh like one of the inflatable ones?
• 28:19
  SPEAKER_03: No, no, that's no.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_03: You can you can lose me with that.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_03: Just like an actual cow, like not a cow girl, but an actual cow.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_03: Not gonna be nearly as attractive, I'm sure.
• 28:29
  SPEAKER_03: Um and uh Grace is a dog, Sophia is a pig, and the baby is either a chicken or a duck.
• 28:39
  SPEAKER_03: I don't remember which one.
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: I feel like a street child abuse when you dress the baby.
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: So I felt like my son.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_03: The girls, this was the girls' idea, they are pumped about it.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_03: They're like, oh my god, yes, oh my god.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_01: But the baby, the baby has no idea.
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_01: Like when my son was little and we put him in a money costume.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_01: I was like, this dude's probably like, what is this family?
• 28:58
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 28:59
  SPEAKER_01: He's gonna hate it, but that's alright.
• 29:02
  SPEAKER_01: Good.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_02: We all have a plan.
• 29:04
  SPEAKER_03: So yeah, we're going to our friend's house that we go every year, their neighborhood does a I mean, does it big time, does it, and then they have a party at their house.
• 29:13
  SPEAKER_03: Not like a party, but just like everybody that we're with goes back to their house, a bunch of food and stuff and all that.
• 29:18
  SPEAKER_03: So let's get it.
• 29:20
  SPEAKER_01: Go ahead, go ahead.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_02: I'm parking in Michael's driveway.
• 29:25
  SPEAKER_01: I say it's gotta be awesome for you guys, man, because you guys me and Greg got to run the gauntlet.
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_01: You don't, it could be 40 degrees and rainy, man.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: You know, we got you.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: Guys, it's been beautiful here the last week or so.
• 29:37
  SPEAKER_03: Like it's been beautiful.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's gonna be like 80, 85 on fucking Halloween.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_02: I'm gonna be dying.
• 29:44
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, it was free.
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_02: Last year was freezing.
• 29:46
  SPEAKER_00: I think that time of the evening, man, it'll be nice.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: Last year was cold.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: Two years ago it was 80 degrees.
• 29:52
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that's crazy.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_03: All right.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_03: Anyway, Greg, take us on a ride real quick.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, speaking of Helltown or uh Ohio, we're gonna talk about Helltown.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: Um local legend uh around these parts.
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: So, yeah, keeping in the spirit of Halloween and and spooky shit and somewhat real shit, and a little bit of all that uh mixed in together.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um, Helltown is one of Northeast Ohio's uh most notorious urban legend.
• 30:21
  SPEAKER_00: The story blends uh real communities, displacement, abandoned homes, a controversial natural park project, reports of environmental contamination, and a collection of increasingly disturbing tales about ghosts, satanic rituals, mutant creatures.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, disappearances.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um Helltown obviously isn't the real name.
• 30:46
  SPEAKER_00: This is the name it's been given in urban legend, but uh it's the Boston and Boston Mills area of Boston Township in Summit County, which is I would say maybe 20 to 25 minutes south of Cleveland.
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_03: And none of that's actually in Boston.
• 31:02
  SPEAKER_00: Massachusetts, no.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's Danny's neck of the woods.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: Way to confuse our listeners.
• 31:07
  SPEAKER_00: No, I'm just kidding.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, indeed.
• 31:08
  SPEAKER_00: No, Boston Township, um, also known for its great skiing hills um and natural waterfalls.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the area lies within the landscape of today's Nat Kyoga Valley National Park.
• 31:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's it's full of abandoned buildings, blocked off roads uh that once attracted thrill seekers, um, which kind of helped propel this into local legend.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: Um the name itself became part of the mystery.
• 31:36
  SPEAKER_00: Was this place uh was this a place with a genuinely dark history, or did its appearance create the reputation?
• 31:43
  SPEAKER_00: So the real history before this place became Helltown, it was an early settlement in in uh the the beginning of the 1800s.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_00: Um settlers included Alfred Wolcott and Jane Stanford, who helped uh establish the community.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's located right on a canal, so that was part of like the boom of that little area, right?
• 32:04
  SPEAKER_00: Uh where the Ohio and Erie Canal uh meet.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: And of course that brought commerce, transportation, mills, taverns, and other businesses to the city.
• 32:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then in the late 1800s, um railroads obviously were were becoming more of a thing.
• 32:19
  SPEAKER_00: So uh that also uh competed with canal traffic, um, which started to kind of decline uh the canal-based economy there.
• 32:29
  SPEAKER_00: In the early 1900s, the area went through even more economic decline with the uh the 1913 flood, which caused damage to the canal system and changes in industry further reduced the importance of the old village.
• 32:43
  SPEAKER_00: Fast forward all the way 70 years.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um the turning point was that um the the federal government stepped in and decided that they were going to acquire that land and transform it into the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, right?
• 32:59
  SPEAKER_00: So they basically came into this town, which at this point um was was full of lower income people, and they basically bought up all the land and told everybody to move out.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what they did.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: So that that land acquisition began in 1974, um, where legislation uh established the Cyago Valley National Recreation Area and enabled the federal government to acquire the land for the project.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_00: The National Park Service began purchasing properties from residents throughout the valley.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_00: Some homeowners sold their properties, others experienced the process as uh coercive and deeply uh disruptive because the government basically used eminent domain, which like I said, allowed them to come in and be like, hey, here's here's what we think your property is worth.
• 33:47
  SPEAKER_00: Get out, right?
• 33:49
  SPEAKER_00: Um houses were vacated and boarded up uh while plans for the park developed, but the park's development did not immediately remove all the structures, so a lot of empty houses, uh street signs, neglected properties remained in the landscape, which uh the result of that ended up being like a community in transition.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of residents lost their homes and familiar surroundings while outsiders began speculating about why the area had emptied.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: So all this kind of forced and helped create the legends in which uh Hell Town kind of grew, right?
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_00: So uh the chemical uh contamination uh mystery um was uh was was one that was real big big in that, and that that's where like the the mutant legends uh kind of history came in.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_00: But there was basically a a big dump that operated as a salvage yard and waste disposal site um in between 1948 and 1980 in that same area.
• 34:50
  SPEAKER_00: Uh industrial municipal waste were was dumped there, including hazardous materials.
• 34:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the National Park Service took control of the property in 1985 and discovered the extent of the contamination which was being kept secretive.
• 35:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um so then the site became uh a subject of a major environmental cleanup, including all the toxic chemicals and and soil, and that continued on for decades all the way up until 2020.
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_00: So basically you've got this huge area down in the valley of this, and and I mean, I know uh uh Corey's seen a little bit of it when he came up.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know if Dan's seen it at all, but like the Cuyoga Valley National Park is massive, it's not just like a one little park, it's it uh it encompasses two separate counties, it's it's uh several cities all in one.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's a it's a massive, massive um park.
• 35:46
  SPEAKER_00: So this is just one section of it, but essentially, yeah, they it was like just this ghost town in the middle of of nowhere in this park, right?
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_00: And and so again, all these kind of urban legends and stuff kind of popped up about it throughout the years and between the the mid-70s all the way up until the present day.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um and the the reality of of that whole thing has kind of pushed um the the folklore and the urban legend of it.
• 36:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um the chemical contamination story uh became mixed with rumors that the government had cleared out Helltown because of a toxic spill, secret experiments, and mutated animals.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the crucial distinction is that the dump was real and the contamination was real, but there was no credible credible evidence that the site created giant mutant snakes, even though that's what that uh is what has been perpetuated over the snakes are mutants, dude.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_02: Those things are snakes are fine.
• 36:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, some of them big boys, dude.
• 36:46
  SPEAKER_00: And they're weird.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_00: They're weird.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_03: Snakes are my nickname growing up was uh was Boa Constrictor.
• 36:54
  SPEAKER_03: So use your use your imagination with that one.
• 36:59
  SPEAKER_03: True story.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_03: Oh yeah.
• 37:01
  SPEAKER_02: That's a true story, huh?
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, everybody knows that.
• 37:06
  SPEAKER_00: So there's there's a lot of uh of uh local uh urban legends, ghost stories that surround this place.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um I'm gonna highlight a couple of them.
• 37:15
  SPEAKER_00: Legend number one, the satanic church.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_00: So the story behind this is that an old church in the area, which is real, there then there's documented photos of it and everything like that, was allegedly taken over by a satanic cult with rumors of black masses, human sacrifice, and occult rituals.
• 37:33
  SPEAKER_00: Stories often point to inverted crosses or unusual religious imagery as supposed evidence.
• 37:41
  SPEAKER_00: The actual reality behind this is the church image imagery and the claims of satanic activity should not be treated as proof of a cult.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: The existence of the church and its architectural details are while true, don't substantiate ritual stories.
• 37:59
  SPEAKER_00: Um but that poses the question to you guys like why why do we look at uh abandoned structures and and especially churches?
• 38:06
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and uh you know, those kind of automatically become settings for stories about evil and Satanism, do you think?
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_02: Abandoned buildings do kind of freak me out.
• 38:19
  SPEAKER_02: I never really thought about it.
• 38:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they're uh dude, we used to because we used to build cell phone towers, right?
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_01: And we put them on top of buildings.
• 38:25
  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of those buildings would be vacant.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know what I mean?
• 38:29
  SPEAKER_01: And and dude, it was I mean, there was one in Bridgeport, Connecticut called Shot Tower.
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's where they used to make ammunition, you know what I mean.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_01: So that went out in like the 80s or whatever, and that place was uh, I mean, scary, man.
• 38:42
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, like six six floors up into a you know what I mean, a stack and all that stuff.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_01: And there'd be a red you drive on the highway, there's a red light on at night up in the tower, and then it's like no one's there, and like stuff like that during the day, and it's like I mean, it's just always it's like it's creepy, super scary.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_01: You get you get detached from somebody, you're like, this this could be bad.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: I I think too, like something about you know, kind of along the lines of what you were saying, something about a place that should be inhabited and should be like full of people and bustling and people working and all that, and for it to be completely empty, like a six-story building, like you were saying, is there's something eerie and unsettling about it, isn't it?
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I swear you can name like at least six horror movies that involve an empty church, too.
• 39:32
  SPEAKER_02: Like with like one of the like a one of the Annabelle's there like the guy he he brings Annabelle to a uh to an empty church to like cleanse it or something.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_03: I don't know the answer to that.
• 39:44
  SPEAKER_03: I just know I do know that the the scariest type of horror to me is the the religious type of horror.
• 39:50
  SPEAKER_03: That is to me, that's the one that that that you know exorcisms and occults and say satanic stuff, that stuff gets me, man.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_03: That's well what's what's weird about that shit keeps me on guard at night, like speaking of uh holy water being a recovering Catholic.
• 40:09
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, speaking of speaking of I mean the Catholic Church like is open about the fact that they've done exorcisms or like sanctioned exorcisms and shit.
• 40:21
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so like it's just it's weird because there's it's there's like whether you believe it or not, there there's some reality there.
• 40:27
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that might be that might be why it's so scary, is because it's some of it's born from like actual events and truth.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_03: Um, and I would just for the record, uh, so my mom doesn't yell at me.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_03: I am not classifying myself as a recovering Catholic.
• 40:42
  SPEAKER_03: I had a very wonderful, wonderful Catholic upbringing, and I love God and I love Jesus.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_03: Thank you.
• 40:49
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, go ahead, Greg.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_02: I I say that in jest.
• 40:52
  SPEAKER_03: I know, I know, but yeah, I I I agree with you.
• 40:55
  SPEAKER_03: I just I just don't want my mom.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_03: She uh she gave me a full breakdown of her thoughts on the Janine episode, Greg.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
• 41:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_03: No, it wasn't bad.
• 41:05
  SPEAKER_03: It just she just she just gives me her thoughts.
• 41:10
  SPEAKER_03: I I can't wait to hear what she says about this one.
• 41:13
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 41:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Legend 2, the haunted school bus.
• 41:18
  SPEAKER_00: An abandoned school bus.
• 41:22
  SPEAKER_00: Right, so the story an abandoned school bus supposedly became the scene of a terrible tragedy involving children.
• 41:29
  SPEAKER_00: Some versions claim a killer murdered children on the bus.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_00: Others say the children's spirits remain nearby.
• 41:35
  SPEAKER_00: Other tellings describe shadowy figures, strange noises, or eerie activity around the vehicle.
• 41:42
  SPEAKER_00: The reality check behind this, there is no reliable evidence establishing the alleged mass murder or haunting as a real event, but the bus is itself has become an iconic prop in the local legend.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_00: And I think that that is on your way up into what still remains of the actual town.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_00: There is an abandoned school bus.
• 42:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um and again, does an abandoned vehicle make a story feel more believable because it's something people can picture?
• 42:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um you know what why why do we find stories involving children so emotionally disturbing?
• 42:19
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I think that that's probably a gimme there, but I can't watch Law and Order SVU, man.
• 42:25
  SPEAKER_03: I can't do it.
• 42:26
  SPEAKER_03: I just can't do it.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_03: I got the kids up there, man.
• 42:31
  SPEAKER_02: Well, also, like, the same thing though.
• 42:35
  SPEAKER_02: Some of the some like the best horror movies involve like a ghost child for some reason.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_02: You know what I mean?
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: Like the conjuring.
• 42:41
  SPEAKER_02: There's a little ghost child running around the fucking house.
• 42:43
  SPEAKER_02: Like it's weird.
• 42:45
  SPEAKER_02: Not in Scream.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_02: Well, that was different.
• 42:48
  SPEAKER_02: I'm just kidding.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_02: That wasn't paranormal.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_02: But um, yeah.
• 42:54
  SPEAKER_02: Creepy shit.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_03: Yep.
• 42:56
  SPEAKER_03: The two little girls from The Shining.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 42:58
  SPEAKER_03: Uh yeah, that movie's all time.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_03: Or what's the one, what's the omen?
• 43:03
  SPEAKER_03: That kid?
• 43:04
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, Damien.
• 43:05
  SPEAKER_03: Damien.
• 43:08
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking Damien.
• 43:10
  SPEAKER_00: Alright.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Legend 3, Cry Baby Bridge.
• 43:14
  SPEAKER_00: Um So the story a bridge in the helltown lore is said to be haunted by the spirit of an infant who died after being thrown or dropped from the bridge.
• 43:25
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, the biggest thing.
• 43:26
  SPEAKER_00: In some versions, visitors claim to hear a baby crying nearby.
• 43:31
  SPEAKER_00: Other variations claim that cars left near the bridge become covered with unexplained dust or children's handprints.
• 43:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's amazing.
• 43:42
  SPEAKER_03: That's creepy.
• 43:43
  SPEAKER_03: So reality check Crybaby Bridge.
• 43:47
  SPEAKER_03: It's called what?
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_03: Raccoons.
• 43:50
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
• 43:52
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the uh the reality check is Crybaby Bridge is a widespread American urban legend motif, variations on.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_00: It exists all over America in our in our lore in our movies.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and uh there is a lack of any kind of evidence um establishing a specific tragic event behind the Helltown version of it.
• 44:15
  SPEAKER_00: However, there is a bridge, and that is what it's nicknamed.
• 44:18
  SPEAKER_00: Cry baby.
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: You know what?
• 44:19
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the thing.
• 44:20
  SPEAKER_03: Here's the thing.
• 44:21
  SPEAKER_03: They can't all be false, right?
• 44:24
  SPEAKER_03: Like out of all these things across our our country or whatever, because everyone's gonna have there's always gonna be an explanation for why something isn't true or it isn't or it is false or whatever.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_03: They're not all false.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_03: I'll just say that much.
• 44:40
  SPEAKER_03: There's a true one out there somewhere, yeah.
• 44:42
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and here's the thing I mean, I don't know about you guys, but like the town that I grew up in, we had all kinds of the we had the one house that some guy back in the 1800s went nuts and murdered his family, and or we had one uh you know, graveyard that was like an older graveyard, and you didn't want to go there because that's where the devil worshippers were at.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_00: So oh shit.
• 45:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like why the these town, why do towns all over the country have the all everybody has their own little urban legends?
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_00: Like you guys had them.
• 45:14
  SPEAKER_01: We had the we had the mongloids.
• 45:17
  SPEAKER_01: The mongloids, the mongloids, those are very, very real, my friend.
• 45:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so there was this place it's in North Bradford, man.
• 45:26
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if it's still there, but you used to drive in, and like as soon as you drove into the area, like if you drove it down the road to go to the like these like little houses where like people lived, and uh there you there would be cops or like government agency would like make sure that you don't go in there, like there was like a no-trespassing federal government thing to go in that place, and you'd have to like sneak in, and there's all kinds of like legends of what like was going on up there and all that stuff, man.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god, yeah.
• 45:53
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we used to get hammered and try to get in there all the time.
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_00: Corey, Sean, what about you guys?
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_00: Urban legends?
• 46:06
  SPEAKER_00: Um your your own town's urban legends growing up?
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_03: I honestly don't know.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_02: I don't remember.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you guys have heard of the I mean this is this is more mainstream, but uh you guys have heard of the Jersey Devil.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_02: Of course.
• 46:22
  SPEAKER_02: A hockey team dropped the box.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's where it's from.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_02: I can't believe they named a hockey team after that either.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_01: They're still allowed to be named it.
• 46:29
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, fuck them.
• 46:31
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, that'll change.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, the Jersey Devil supposedly was like part part child, I think, part goat, some shit.
• 46:39
  SPEAKER_02: And like lived in the pine barrens in Jersey.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_02: That wasn't so localized.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_02: I don't know about like where I'm from.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_02: We did have one house that I did I did go into that was very abandoned and beat the hell up.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_02: And I friends used to say that they saw weird shit in there, but I don't know if it was a urban legend.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_01: I feel I feel lucky that.
• 47:00
  SPEAKER_01: I mean, you guys would know this.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure Blair Witch was shot in Connecticut, right?
• 47:04
  SPEAKER_01: In the woods?
• 47:05
  SPEAKER_00: Um Maryland.
• 47:07
  SPEAKER_00: Maryland.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: Maryland?
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_01: You sure?
• 47:09
  SPEAKER_00: I thought it was Connecticut.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_00: It was supposed to take place in Maryland.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
• 47:14
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it was shot in Connecticut.
• 47:15
  SPEAKER_01: I think because I remember going super upstate Connecticut one time to a road where it was the same like thing.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_01: Like you walk, you park your car and you walk deep into the woods.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_01: You know, I mean, obviously, again, we were fucked up.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_01: And we could walk Greg's right, Maryland.
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: Is it?
• 47:31
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't know what it was then, but it was something in like super upstate Connecticut with the old graveyard and all that jazz.
• 47:37
  SPEAKER_01: And all and we and we used to do this stuff all the time, and like I said, even like working, man.
• 47:42
  SPEAKER_01: Like I worked uh uh in Meriden, Connecticut.
• 47:44
  SPEAKER_01: I'm pretty sure they shot an episode of whatever MTV thing used to do or Ghost Hunters or whatever, in old psych word in Meriden, Connecticut.
• 47:52
  SPEAKER_03: MTV Cribs.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_02: Well, yeah, here's the thing, Dan.
• 47:56
  SPEAKER_02: Here's the thing.
• 47:57
  SPEAKER_02: Connecticut's haunted as fuck, dude.
• 47:59
  SPEAKER_02: I don't even know if you're real, all right.
• 48:01
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I mean it's I can name like six movies that are based out of Connecticut.
• 48:06
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, dude, it's wild, right?
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I was like thinking I was like, you you guys got nothing.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, I got like six off the top of my dome about playing.
• 48:15
  SPEAKER_02: I think I think the conjuring, the first conjuring was in Connecticut.
• 48:18
  SPEAKER_02: Yep, yeah.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, there's several.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I don't that that's kind of wild.
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_03: I don't trust you at all now.
• 48:26
  SPEAKER_03: I don't think I don't remember any urban legends grow.
• 48:29
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, I know there were had to be some, I'm sure, in Virginia, but I don't I don't remember.
• 48:34
  SPEAKER_00: I have some good civil war ghosts in Virginia, boy.
• 48:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_02: Florida just says Florida man, not the same thing.
• 48:43
  SPEAKER_02: Not at all.
• 48:45
  SPEAKER_02: And and we have zombies, we do have zombies that eat faces, but prolific nonetheless.
• 48:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:52
  SPEAKER_00: All right, moving on.
• 48:54
  SPEAKER_00: Onward, brothers.
• 48:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh legend legend number five, the end of the world.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_00: Really story.
• 49:00
  SPEAKER_00: Uh a dead end road associated with Helltown area earned the nickname End of the World.
• 49:06
  SPEAKER_00: Tales describe eerie silence, strange sounds, unexplained car trouble, or a feeling that something is watching.
• 49:15
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, these these accounts are anecdotal and vary by the storyteller, a remote road, poor visibility, and the expectation of encountering something frightening can all influence how an ordinary experience is interpreted.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um why do we think that dead end and isolated roads make people feel uneasy, boys?
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because you can't get out of them.
• 49:44
  SPEAKER_02: Dead end.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_02: That dude, that whole thing about feeling that somebody's watching, you guys ever like have to shut off all the lights in your house and you just run to your bedroom?
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_03: Running up the stairs in my old childhood home.
• 49:56
  SPEAKER_03: Fucking scared the crap out of me.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_00: Going up the stairs, dude.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_03: I would run up those stairs so fast.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_03: There's somebody behind you.
• 50:04
  SPEAKER_03: And I would just sometimes I would leave the light on downstairs, and then my mom would yell at me the next morning because I left the light on all night.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_03: Well, does she did she know it was a matter of life and death?
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_03: I tried to explain it to her, but she wasn't having it.
• 50:16
  unknown: Yeah.
• 50:17
  SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, and that that kind of ties into it.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_03: She was too busy teaching me about a punishing God.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_03: No, I'm just kidding.
• 50:22
  SPEAKER_03: I'm just kidding.
• 50:23
  SPEAKER_00: Just kidding.
• 50:24
  SPEAKER_00: But you guys ever like convinced yourself that something is wrong, something's paranormal, because you're already scared, you're already frightened, you're you're already freaked out, and then you're just Corey thought he was dying a few months ago.
• 50:38
  SPEAKER_03: Well, there is that was a year.
• 50:39
  SPEAKER_03: That was a year ago.
• 50:41
  SPEAKER_03: I've I've recorded.
• 50:42
  SPEAKER_03: Um, I don't actually know if I ever I gotta like I've I've I've been on I've noted this on this podcast before.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_03: I I'm not as big into horror as you guys are.
• 50:53
  SPEAKER_03: Like I'm I'm down with it, like I don't like hate it, but I have not, I don't think I've ever convinced myself that something was wrong like that, you know.
• 51:03
  SPEAKER_03: Maybe I'm sure I have, but I don't know, maybe I have.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't think I can't really think of anything.
• 51:07
  SPEAKER_01: I can't think of anything.
• 51:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, off the top of my head, I can't really think of anything that I just don't, I just like the the religious horror stuff.
• 51:13
  SPEAKER_03: That's the stuff that scares me.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_03: Stuff freaks me out.
• 51:17
  SPEAKER_02: It's the best though, too.
• 51:18
  SPEAKER_03: Like it is, it's like the supernatural of it, too.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_03: It's like yeah, you know, the exorcist.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_03: It's all time.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_03: Just yeah, or like the nun, all the nun movies and that whole genre of things.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_03: Like that stuff's freaky.
• 51:32
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, indeed.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: All right, moving onwards, the haunted cemetery.
• 51:38
  SPEAKER_00: So Boston Cemetery and nearby historic grounds are sometimes associated with apparitions, shadowy figures, unexplained movement, and ghostly encounters.
• 51:48
  SPEAKER_00: Some tellings describe a figure appearing among the graves or someone seeing a person who seems to vanish.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_00: The reality check of this cemetery ghost stories are common again across all areas of the United States, and the existence of historic graves is factual.
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_00: Claims of spirits appearing there remain unverified.
• 52:08
  SPEAKER_00: Boys, how do we feel about cemeteries?
• 52:12
  SPEAKER_03: Well, people are dying to get in there, obviously.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_03: First and foremost.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_03: There's a bunch of dead people in there.
• 52:28
  SPEAKER_03: How do you think it feels?
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_03: Of course, that's like probably the most normal and natural, scary thing, you know.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, but there's ones that are set, man, that are I mean, those them graveyards, them cemeteries from 1640.
• 52:39
  SPEAKER_03: And the trees, those old moss trees.
• 52:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, dude.
• 52:43
  SPEAKER_01: That's where you used to ride your bikes in the woods, and then all of a sudden you pop out in a cemetery.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_01: Did you guys ever do that as a kid?
• 52:48
  SPEAKER_01: When you're just riding through the air and you pop out, you're like, oh, oh no.
• 52:53
  SPEAKER_01: Turn around.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, there's uh there's a couple old cemeteries actually up by Corey's neck of the woods in Jersey and across the bridge in Delaware.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_03: Fort St.
• 53:04
  SPEAKER_03: Lucy.
• 53:05
  SPEAKER_03: Where it's like that's just the walking dead there.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, build one outside.
• 53:11
  SPEAKER_00: But no, like there's some cemeteries that I went to up there where it's yeah, like all the the grave markers are like 1600s, 1700s, like very, very old, dilapidated, falling apart, old uh mausoleums and stuff in there, you know.
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, those are the scary mausoleums are that freaks me out, dude.
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, like a file file cabinet for dead people.
• 53:36
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, don't vampires, obviously.
• 53:40
  SPEAKER_03: Or vampires.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 53:42
  SPEAKER_01: If I if I win the lotto, I'm just gonna mausoleum myself right in the middle of town.
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_01: Great.
• 53:52
  SPEAKER_03: Great use of your money.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_00: So a couple other uh disturbing stories, uh just random things that have been reported over time, human sacrifice and occult activity.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: Uh rumors claim that the helltown areas were used for ritual killings.
• 54:09
  SPEAKER_00: Again, those remain unstand unsubstantiated.
• 54:13
  SPEAKER_00: Uh government cover-ups uh suggesting that officials knew about dangerous contamination and deliberately concealed the truth behind it.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_00: The documented contamination history, I'm sorry, is real, but that does not prove a coordinated paranormal cover-up.
• 54:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um throughout the abandoned homes in the area, ghostly figures um have been reported by visitors and storytellers.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um and uh, you know, the the town that supposedly vanished overnight.
• 54:43
  SPEAKER_00: So again, the the stories of like everybody in the in the town just you know vanished and then that they were suddenly gone.
• 54:51
  SPEAKER_00: Um what actually happened to Helltown is that uh the abandoned buildings, um most of them that gave Helltown its distinctive appearance uh in the early 2000s and in the late 90s when it was popular were gradually removed or demolished.
• 55:08
  SPEAKER_00: There are a few that still stand, um but most of them have already been uh removed or changed substantially.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um Helltown survives primarily as a name attached to local fork folklore, online stories, and paranormal discussions.
• 55:25
  SPEAKER_00: But Boston and the surrounding area still have a real history and present-day community.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_00: Calling the area an abandoned ghost town is kind of misleading.
• 55:34
  SPEAKER_00: Um and the nearby national park is a real destination for hiking, nature, and history, not an officially designated haunted attraction.
• 55:44
  SPEAKER_00: However, I do plan at some point on taking a little trip to verify myself.
• 55:51
  SPEAKER_00: I want to go.
• 55:52
  SPEAKER_02: I want to go to the thing.
• 55:54
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather do this than a haunted house that you pay for for people to jump out at you and shit.
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_02: I'd rather do that.
• 56:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's there's actually several really good podcasts to listen to.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_00: Now, granted, whether or not it's just people spooking for no reason, but there's there's a couple good podcasts on it.
• 56:10
  SPEAKER_00: They're entertaining.
• 56:12
  SPEAKER_02: I'm already I'm planning on TikToking the hell out of this thing.
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_03: I remember uh one of the ones I did get into, and I did it when we did our serial killer stuff, Black Dahlia Murders.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_03: I remember watching the show that came out on TNT Um with Chris Pine, I think the actor, and it was a great show, and it it got me thinking, and I wanted to listen to more.
• 56:33
  SPEAKER_03: And they were bait the show was based off or born from uh some podcast that they had.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_03: And I remember listening to the podcast, and it was fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
• 56:45
  SPEAKER_03: So there's some stuff there.
• 56:48
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 56:51
  SPEAKER_00: So, Dan, whenever you want to take a drive up, dude, we'll go through Helltown.
• 56:54
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, dude, I'm down.
• 56:55
  SPEAKER_01: 100%.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_03: Dan's got an Airbnb in there.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, 100%.
• 56:59
  SPEAKER_03: I'm I'm I'm all that's where we should go for your bachelor party, Greg.
• 57:02
  SPEAKER_00: Open an Airbnb.
• 57:03
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I like that idea even better.
• 57:07
  unknown: Yes.
• 57:08
  SPEAKER_03: That's the last thing I want to do when I'm getting Airbnb is going like a spooky journey with you, knucklehead.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, there'll be people that will pay so much.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know there will be.
• 57:17
  SPEAKER_01: It's a great idea.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_01: Not me.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_01: You gotta pay 2,000.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_02: You gotta pay$2,000 a night to stay at the Warren's house.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 57:24
  SPEAKER_02: That's$2,000 a night.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_02: And people pay.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's idiotic.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_01: No thing.
• 57:29
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, it never Dan's Dan's mausoleum makes more sense.
• 57:33
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_03: Sure.
• 57:36
  SPEAKER_03: Well boys, Greg, thank you.
• 57:39
  SPEAKER_03: That was very interesting.
• 57:41
  SPEAKER_03: Um Halloween's coming.
• 57:44
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody be safe.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody have a good time.
• 57:49
  SPEAKER_03: Keep your children in front of you.
• 57:51
  SPEAKER_03: Don't let them get away.
• 57:55
  SPEAKER_00: And uh don't bother checking your kids' uh candy for drugs, though, because they're way too damn expensive to be put in there.
• 58:04
  SPEAKER_01: I'm putting a camera out front for the uh candy drop out front today because I just want to see.
• 58:08
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna I'm gonna do a uh a pool on which kids see if there's a the neighborhood kids steal all the candy or who's doing it.
• 58:16
  SPEAKER_03: And then you're just gonna ride by throughout the rest of your ride by, and when you see them, you just no cap guns.
• 58:22
  SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna cap gun it.
• 58:25
  SPEAKER_01: Mine is a cowgirl.
• 58:26
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah, that's true.
• 58:29
  SPEAKER_02: No, dude.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_02: I I put some out a few years ago.
• 58:32
  SPEAKER_02: It was actually at Shannon's house, and uh I put some out, closed the door, heard something, like you know, children, went outside, bowl gone, dude.
• 58:45
  SPEAKER_02: Nice gone.
• 58:46
  SPEAKER_02: I'm like, you fucking little bastards.
• 58:48
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, over 13, I'm beating your ass.
• 58:50
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 58:52
  SPEAKER_02: And if and if my kids ever pull that move, yeah, beating their ass.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's like you're not gonna be that kid.
• 58:59
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, definitely not.
• 59:01
  SPEAKER_02: Take one.
• 59:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm just gonna put just gonna put X Lacks in all of it.
• 59:05
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
• 59:08
  SPEAKER_02: I yeah, it is crazy.
• 59:10
  SPEAKER_02: I know we're ending.
• 59:11
  SPEAKER_02: It is crazy to hear like reports of like drugs and kids, like who's giving away their drugs?
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_03: Uh what are you doing?
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_03: That's a good point.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yeah.
• 59:19
  SPEAKER_03: It's wild.
• 59:21
  SPEAKER_03: That's mental health right there if you're giving away your drugs.
• 59:23
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you're wonderful.
• 59:24
  SPEAKER_03: Tune into next week's episode of Trudge Report.
• 59:27
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 59:28
  SPEAKER_01: Corey swallows a Reese's with fentanyl.
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_01: What?
• 59:35
  SPEAKER_01: Must have been the neighbor.
• 59:36
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 59:37
  SPEAKER_01: I accidentally went back for a second one.
• 59:40
  SPEAKER_02: I better have another one just to make sure.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_03: Just to make sure all of her save the kids, obviously.
• 59:46
  SPEAKER_03: That Reese made me not out.
• 59:50
  SPEAKER_03: Happy Halloween, boys.
• 59:51
  SPEAKER_03: Have a good one.
• 59:52
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• 59:53
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• 59:57
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• 1:00:05
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• 1:00:12
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• 1:00:15
  SPEAKER_03: Good night.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_03: God bless.
• 1:00:16
  SPEAKER_03: Trudge the road of happy destiny.
• 1:00:19
  SPEAKER_03: Uh watch out for the dead end streets and the abandoned buildings, and we'll see you next week.
• 1:00:24
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