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hey weirdos I'm Ash and I'm Elena and this is [Music] morbid just kidding it's special I'm
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just a sad clown so I'm being sad a sad clown sad sad gel clown and a lot of you
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probably know who I am but if you don't who are you I'm the lead singer I'm I'm mama Meritus oh honey I love it yeah I'm
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mama I decided to keep the the high pony the high pony mama merid oh I did keep the [ __ ] you
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mhm it's Halloween y'all I can't move too much cuz I'm my hat Teeters and I can't move my face
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and also I can't laugh really well so this is going to be an adventure it was kind of awesome cuz Ash laughed earlier
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and she went it sounded like a scary clown well so there you go well it's also we're
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getting used to being like we don't film a lot so this is an experience maybe we
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should start maybe like once a week we should just get into a wild ass costume and just like start I think for listener
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Tales we should just be in costume I kind of love that idea and just film our listener Tales because we can be silly
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goofy with those yeah you know I think that would be really fun what do you guys think I'm into it I heard you say
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you're into it so maybe we should do that I'm trying to think of something in a clown meme like what what you
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guys what do you guys think I don't think you're supposed to talk while you mine but I don't think so either but
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that's that might be the whole purpose of miming well I'm not a mime all right I'm a freaking clown it's true but you
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know what it's listener Tales today it's Halloween we're excited Halloween a few
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of you guessed right too cuz I posted a photo with my like freaky eye I which hopefully you can see well I didn't even
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post a teaser yeah and a lot of people guess mine um somebody thought I was David Bowie and I was like valid well
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next listener Tales maybe you should be you were him from Labyrinth before yeah now I needed to be another era
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Ziggy yeah Ziggy Stardust that' be a fun and then I could be like a famous rocker
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oh the gears are turning I'm just I have a theme of famous rockers going on yeah
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I like that I like that um also happy Halloween cuz it's legit Halloween right now it's Halloween it's not Halloween
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when we recorded this no but we're in the Halloween spirit you better believe oh we stay in the Halloween spirit so
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it's Halloween now yeah where you are it's Halloween where you are in the future and in the past it's not
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Halloween yet but it's Halloween every day in our hearts so it's true here we are it is and that's why we're going to
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do this more often but it's listener Tales we're going to do some Halloween themed listener tales and of course this
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is why we decided to make this a fun spooky event that I think we're going to do all the time now I think it's going
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to be great but let's get to the tales it's listener Tales it's brought to you by you for you from you and all about
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you that's go also go look at oh yeah twins oh I been TS bumped my MK oh wait I can't smile don't smile twins anytime
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I'm excited I think I'm just going to go that'll be your excit to do the opposite
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yeah I like it all right well the first one was written specifically for me you didn't say that but I decided it was um
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and this is from Cara and it's fine to use their name and it says a shadowman shook some ass on my stairs as soon as
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we saw this one I was like that's for ash I said thank you that is for ash all right so let's start our already ruined
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it let's start off by saying I'm not sure of my house 101 years old built during prohibition is actually haunted
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or just something something that things pass through I have distinct memories during my childhood of blind shooting
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closed on their own and then periods of time where things were normal the biggest and spookiest set of ghostly
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happenings happened about four years ago during my senior year of high school right around Halloween Halloween
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throughout October things ramped up over time it started one night when I was up
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late working on a class project my twin brother came in and told me he was going
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to go to bed and walked out of the kitchen where I was a few minutes later I heard the distinct sound sound of the
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footrest of our recliner being snapped down so I assumed it's my bro and he sat back down for a sec and I wait nothing
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no one just me and panic [ __ ] that suddenly spawned that suddenly spawned in due to my fear I go and check yep
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he'd gone to bed 10 minutes prior when he told me cool cool cool I was totally fine having a ghost to chill in my
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living room and return to my project if I don't address it it'll stop right that's how all problems in life work
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wrong you don't address it it'll just go away wrong the next week I'm at our side
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door about to walk uh out to the car where my brother was waiting to go meet our parents for dinner and as I open the
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door I hear something sprinting through the kitchen toward me no I make terrified eye contact nope with my
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brother clearly conveyed my inner monologue of holy [ __ ] I'm about to shuffle off this Mortal coil without my
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consent because some invisible boogeyman is going to run me down right now before
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I finally came to my sent my senses and slammed the house door somehow this still didn't spookify me too badly I'll
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just keep ignoring it and it'll go away yes nope wrong again some time passes it's now the very end of October if my
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memory serves correct buckle up my spooky [ __ ] this is where [ __ ] got real I thought [ __ ] already got I kind
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of felt that way too yeah well when I told my roommates this story we slept with the lights on for 2 days I just I
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need to describe the way my family's house is laid out for you to clearly visualize what comes next I was about to
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laugh my hat off at you I'mma laugh my hat off or maybe I'm so scared that my hat just popped off she's not going to
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laugh her ass off she's going to laugh her hat off I'm going to laugh my hat off well our kitchen had a back
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staircase that links up to the main staircase it's super Steep and runs right up to the dishwasher so we don't
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use it it's just storage space for kitchen it's just a storage space for kitchen appliances and bages some bides
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bides I love a bid we love a bid can I side note really quick when me and Drew first got like a home of our own what
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the main thing he said to me that he wanted to do he said our house has to be a beverage house and I was like what's a
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beverage house and he said I always want to have like a bunch of different Beverages and you do and we do we are a
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beverage bage it was very important to him dream realized because realized I opened your refrigerator the other day
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and I day and I said oh my God the bites good the variety if anybody wants to sponsor us we have aani we have ollipop
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we have poppies we don't we don't um discriminate between the the good for your tummy sodas we have Gatorade for
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Drew we have orange juice most of the time we have seltzers for the Mikes we have laqua we have oh laqua sorry yeah
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laqua I thought it was lroy I think it's a a debate oh I have it on my face I have an itch on my
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face oh I want to like smack it but that doesn't work either I'm just going to lightly tap it it's really not helping
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it's not helping no I'm just kidding no it's on this side can you blow on it I don't want to blow coffee breath on I
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don't care blow on it Blow on it oh okay that worked thank you please leave that
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in anyway this took a this took a hard turn so our kitchen has a back stair oh nobody said that beverages so the base
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of those oh yes excuse me bages the base of those stairs is directly adjacent to
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the countertop that has the dishwasher the oven and the sink so I'm at the sink washing some pans from dinner late at
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night I'm the last one awake out of my peripheral vision to the left I can clearly see that staircase it's dark
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obviously as everyone's asleep I [ __ ] you not my heart ceased to beat as I see
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a figure at the top of that back staircase I freeze sudsy hands up and all and hold my breath for a second out
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of the corner of my eye I clearly see a very tall shadow figure she spied with her little eye bent down with his no
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this cannot be real I know it is but with his hands on his knees ass stuck out head cocked all the way to the side
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to stare at me he is in full twerking position ready to shake some ass like a teenut a prom in front of all
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their teachers and chaperons but he has his his spooky head tilt like like head turned to the side
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and cocked so he could get a good look at little old hands on the knees but like uh he said hands on my knee shaken
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ass I'm a thought [ __ ] post me a pick I can't laugh F to go you saw it what you say
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I'm just letting it go I'm like if it cracks It crack it cracks cra it was good at first well I was not cool with
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being perceived by this spooky Shadow bastard I did not want to be perceived and definitely not cool with his spooky
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ass shaking ass shaking stance side note I know I sounded like some cool Brave badass who totally wasn't afraid but
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homies I was about 3 seconds away from melting into a bottle of fear and evicting myself from the property
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immediately I don't blame you I turn to confirm what I'm seeing and it's gone I love that somebody just came to
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shake ass with you in the afterlife that's my favorite he was and he didn't even shake ass he just got in the
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position he got ready to shake ass but then he knew he was trying to see if you were ready and you like he was doing
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what the ghosties were doing in the Amityville Horror they were like are you ready for a dance off like the marching
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band I think they were literally like are you ready for it and you said and he was like you're not ready for it and he
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just got out he knew you weren't ready for his twerking abilities would have gotten off it was about
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to let's go he would have been like okay let's go you should have shook ass with
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him Shake twerk but like you could have figured it out in the moment I would have you got believe in you I would have
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you know I've literally watched Tik Tok videos to learn how to twerk yes I do know that about I I can't do it so if
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anybody wants to help me out call me don't call me but like DM me DM me and teach me how to twerk call me beat be if
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if you want to teach me how to twerk if you want to teach me how to twerk cuz I love Stallion and she has so many great
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songs to shake ass to but doesn't she do that like thing y exactly I don't want to put my tongue out and get black all
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over it you got to just like stick it to the front oh okay oh I have to do it yeah of course wait I don't want to hold
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on cuz I Sparkles one two three yeah I love it all right so I know for a fact this wasn't so it's Halloween guys have
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TS I know for a fact this wasn't some trick of the light or my imagination this was a solid figure enough so that I
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was 100% positive one of my siblings was playing a prank on me and just standing
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there to scare me but now there was nothing there so I finished washing my dishes and went to the bed for went to
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bed forcing myself not to run when I hit the landing on the stairs where he had been very cool casual mindful of me very
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Demir very Demir very cutesy cutesy of you weirdly enough after all that things stopped for a while my younger sister
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started to experience things though like her foot being yanked while sleeping at
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night after I went away to college uh-uh no I try not to think of that when I visit home for our in our shared room
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but that's the tale now most of my friends refuse to come to my family home oh I'd come you're like I'm there girl
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I'm there I'll go shake ass with that ghost once I learn how to twerk yeah uh and your friends are scared to come due
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to a fear that this spooky twerking tool is still on my stairs I try hard not to
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think of him when I'm the last one up at night but he hasn't bothered me since maybe I ignored him for long enough that
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he skedaddled off to haunt someone else keep it weird but not so weird that I have to call you out Cara not so weird
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that you don't shake ass with the ghost on your stairs Cara I understand that that was a scary situation because like
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yeah totally if a ghost or a Damon is trying to have a dance off with you you got to show him what your mom you got to
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shake what your mama gave you you have to shake it like a Polaroid picture precisely so you really need to but you
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know what I probably would have been scared too and ran out of my house so I would have been too that's that's my
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real me talking so tough me is like I don't know I would have thrown ass I would thrown ass with that
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time wow Cara I love that see that was my spooky clown laugh again I didn't even mean to do
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it oh I don't like that I like it don't show this to Drew I think he would leave
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John I sent a picture to him uh cuz he was picking up the girls from school and he just said my God and then she said
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when you sent the picture of you a picture of this and I said Twins and he said totes M goat totes M goats
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and I was like you're going to be scared when I come downstairs Drew said a you a
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cute little sad clown but I think if he heard me laugh like that he would not he
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say you're a scary little sad clown he would say get out of my presents so my next listener tale is called Halloween
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listener tale my ghostly exboyfriend and a New Orleans psychic oh no Debbie said
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this is a beautiful tale but it might make you cry oh [ __ ] I can't cry I'm already cry no dub dub this is from
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Chelsea Hi Chelsea Hi Chelsea Chelsea um I've been watching old episodes of Southern Charm and there's a Chelsea on
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there oh I loved Chelsea yeah and the really terrible Ashley girl was like Chelsea when she was trying when she was
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trying to explain why she was a dick Ashley Chelsea all right my name ised me on
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Twitter who did Ashley oh she blocked you on Twitter she blocked me on Twitter yeah that's hardcore I know uh so this
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says my name is Chelsea and as I mentioned above I'm a Louisiana girl hey Chelsea hi born in and raised is just
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North of New Orleans I was raised Catholic and while I no longer identify as religious I would say I am still
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quite spiritual my Catholic upbringing has left a few imprints on who I am as a person and namely a deep seated belief
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in a higher power whatever you want to call him or her something greater than ourselves a strong conviction that there
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is more to this world and the next than we see Andor an understanding and an openness to signs and messages from the
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other side yeah I agree I actually love that I think that's a that's a beautiful
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belief system that's pretty much exactly what I believe yeah I don't believe that
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I'm psychic or Clairvoyant in any way but I've always felt a closeness or openness to messages from loved ones who
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have passed on and I could write another two or three listener Tales just with stories of interactions with my grandma
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mama mama after her passing okay so please write those stories yeah I got to hear about mama mama mama more than 10
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years ago I moved to Houston Texas after grad school to take a job and start building my career while living in
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Houston I met and started dating a nice Greek boy named Teddy oh we love Teddy Teddy was and still to this day is the
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kindest person I have ever met good cuz I was like we love teddy and then I was like do we love teddy I know I got fight
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Teddy but I'm glad I don't have to fight Teddy we would have squared up for you Chelsea we would have but you know what
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Teddy good job hey Teddy Once Upon introducing Teddy to a group of my friends one of my friends asked me how
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it felt to be the worst person in the relationship oh you know we're all out there we're all out there somewhere I'm
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the worst person in the relationship are you the worst person in the relationship probably yeah you are
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yeah you are like yeah don't lie I think you're right we're the worst wor ones here we are that's awesome he was joking
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but he was 100% right whatever traits I imagine God uses to judge the goodness of a person selflessness loyalty
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patience Etc Teddy was off the charts and all of them Teddy after dating for about a year I
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woke up one morning to find Teddy having a fullblown seizure beside me holy [ __ ]
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the turn yeah that took a quick left after months of testing doctors visits and additional seizures always at night
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and always in his sleep we would find a brain tumor lodged in his right temporal
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lobe we quickly scheduled surgery and the tumor was removed successfully and identified as benign oh good but
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unfortunately the Caesar cesure continued and when they did I was always the only person there since they only
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happened at night while we were sleeping he lived with them I can't imagine that
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I really can't no you're an angel he lived with them and managed his condition with medication as best as he
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could I'm a strong believer that just because something isn't forever doesn't mean it wasn't real my relationship with
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Teddy is an example of this after almost 3.5 years together life was pulling the
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Two of Us in different directions we broke up and went our separate ways both sad but with nothing but love and
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respect in our hearts for one another I moved back to Louisiana and he stayed in
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Texas the fact that you still say he's like one of the most kind people you've ever met it's like such a mature
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relationship it really is fast forward a year and a half and I was dating the man
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who spoiler alert is now my husband David who who hey David day day we were on our first day day day day we were on
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I just nicknamed your husband for you all right we were on our first big trip as a couple in Mexico when I received a
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phone call from my best friend back in Houston oh no my heart is about to sink oh no when I answered she asked to speak
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to my boyfriend it struck me as weird but I handed over the phone when David hung up I knew exactly that something
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was wrong David then had the devastating task of telling me that Teddy was gone he had passed in his sleep as a result
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of a seizure he had been alone oh oh that's awful I'll tell you one thing ladies it takes a strong man to watch
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the woman he loves grieve openly and Sav ually over another man but he did that's
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good one David for Life another great one he held me while I sobbed and screamed and blame myself if I had only
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been there if we hadn't broken up I could have saved him when I told him I didn't know what to do with myself or my
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thoughts he asked me to tell him about Teddy what a I just got I got a full body like what an amazing man we spent
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that entire night talking about my ex-boyfriend with David giving me all the space and support I needed to not
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crumble into a iivan I knew after that night that I would marry David hell yeah you did that's
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awesome okay you're probably like [ __ ] get to the spooky Park which is exactly
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what I'm doing now but you needed the background context we did and I appreciate you telling us the months
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following Teddy's death were weird heavy it sounds insane but I could feel him that doesn't sound insane at all strange
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things were happening in my house never threatening or scary but I could feel his presence lights would flicker an
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untouched book on my book shelf became mysteriously dogeared to a particularly meaningful passage that's beautiful
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damn would be so much yeah she literally won't let me borrow her books because I
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dog ear the pages it's true I don't dog gear pages I can't handle it you're insane I'm a bookm markerly I like my
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books to be in the right condition I think they look well loved if they've been dog geared a lot no not a great I
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was going to say it's a great personal debate we'll do a poll yeah we will except I'll I might lose that one I
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don't know I don't know one time when I had a fever and chills my AC broke making my house a toasty 83° oh I would
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die that's horrible once my fever broke and the chills went away the AC turned back on like nothing had happened it's
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just like Teddy to be taking care of someone from the afterlife wow Halloween night of that year Halloween Halloween I
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happened to be back in Houston on a business trip I was invited to celebrate with some of my and Teddy's mutual
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friends and headed over to their house for dinner that night a wicked thunderstorm came rolling through
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Houston knocking out the power at their house and generally upping The Spook Factor since we were now dining by
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candlelight all through the evening our host had music playing in the background
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via her phone at some point her phone stopped working and try as she might the music would not come back on we chucked
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it up to the storm messing with service and continued our conversation in silence for another 30 minutes or so
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eventually as we knew it would the conversation turned to Teddy as the storm continued to rage we discussed how
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much we all missed him and agreed on the general tragedy of the situation I confessed the guilt I was carrying
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around how if we hadn't broken up I would have likely been there to intervene I told them about the weird
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experiences I was having in my house and that's when our host phone started playing music again on its own stop it a
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completely different song and genre than it had been earlier the song was a newer
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one I had heard in passing but never really listen to the lyrics until that moment we all sat in silence while the
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song played each listen listening to the words and listening at each other with w
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and looking at each other with wide eyes it was happier by besal I love besal oh
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my God I have Goosebumps if you're unfamiliar the lyrics are to paraphrase lately I've been thinking I want you to
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be happier even though I might not like this I want you to be happier and so that means I'll have to leave oh my God
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I my Goosebumps have Goosebumps I was just I felt that holy [ __ ] the song is about a couple who is breaking up
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because they know what's best for them even though they are heartbroken with the guy acknowledging that he's
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going to walk away so that she can be happier everyone in the I'm like about to cry everyone in the room was looking
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at me some with Goosebumps on their arms some With Tears in their eyes and it was
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clear that they were all interpreting the same message as I was Teddy was telling me that it was okay that he
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heard me that he didn't blame me and that he was going to back off with the ghosty [ __ ] since it was freaking me out
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a bit LOL I immediately felt a weight lift off my shoulders after that night I did not feel his presence around me
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anymore I felt that he had moved on to wherever he was supposed to be I didn't hear from him again
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until 2 years later in October 2020 in the midst of the pandemic David and I were engaged and tentatively planning
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our wedding thanks Co my spooky witchy Bachelor at Extravaganza which was originally planned in sa Massachusetts
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that's M was I it had to be cancelled due to travel restrictions so plan B Was A Bachelor at hallow weekend here in
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Louisiana which is still [ __ ] cool I think that even be better yeah complete with outdoor social distancing friendly
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activities for a small group of my closest friends one of these activities was hiring a real life French Quarter
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psychic medium to come read tarot cards for us as part of our glamp out at our farm north of Nola oh my God this is
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cool sh why didn't you invite me chelse why didn't you invite us the open air was a good setting for group activities
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and the sweeping Live Oaks were an excellent backdrop for some witchery I'm obsessed I feel so cozy just thinking
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about that it feels like a book the psychic began by reading tarot for everyone in attendance and this lady was
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the real deal as in I sat down and was crying with the first three sentences out of her mouth first thing she said to
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me before even touching the cards was your people on the other side are very loud they're telling me that you're
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worried you won't be able to have children and they're telling me that that's not going to be a problem it will
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happen almost immediately oh my God this woman did not know me she had no way of
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knowing that I've known known since I was 16 that I have a condition that could impact my fertility and that
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knowledge had hung over me like a dark cloud every day of my life spoiler alert she was correct so you didn't have any
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issue that's amazing what's wild too that's weird that you had that like feeling that you were worried about it I
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also had that feeling from a very young age and it's like I knew it and I did have trouble I know it's wild but then I
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got my babies now after reading tarot she transitioned into a mediumship session where she opened herself up to
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messages from the other side after a few messages for some of my friends all of which were scarily accurate she suddenly
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said I'm feeling the presence of a young man and he's showing me a teddy bear with a tea on it oh I immediately went
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cold Teddy's last name started with a t and one of his nicknames was Teddy te stop she proceeded to tell me that he
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sees everything happening in your life and he's so happy for you he supported my marriage he likes David she also
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added he wants you to know that there's nothing you could have done to present prevent what happened to him even if you
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had been there it was over so quickly and he wasn't scared or in pain oh that must have been like such a weight off
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your shoulders again seriously she finally said he wants you to know that you were the love of his life and he's
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so grateful for that I'm going to sob right now literally I had to close my eyes so that they wouldn't start forming
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tears it's like actual tears yes let me tell you the sabs that left my body it truly felt like the most beautiful gift
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of closure knowing that he was okay hey knowing that he was happy and happy for me it's an experience that has stuck
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with me and will be with me forever I now see teddy as one of my guardian angels up there conspiring with my mama
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and paa Mama watching over me and my beautiful growing family David and I did indeed get pregnant almost immediately
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after our wedding our son was born 2 days after our first anniversary and we are currently expecting our Second Son
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yes chelse David continues to be an amazingly supportive partner and father to our children
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we still talk about Teddy remember his birthday every year and we travel up to New England together to attend Teddy's
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sister's wedding a few years ago where we bonded where he bonded with Teddy's dad and stayed up until 400 a.m.
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drinking with Teddy's best friends that's amazing I love D my favorite person ever David rocks David now loves
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Teddy's family as much as I do and we try to see them regularly his family will be a part of our children's lives
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and I plan to share his story with my sons when they are old enough to understand I think this is the most
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beautiful we've ever received truly I hope they see it as an example of finding a
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beautiful Silver Lining around life's darkest clouds proof that people come into our lives for a reason and that not
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all love stories end with forever some love stories end in this world but go on into the next and I hope they see their
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father as an incredible an example of an incredible emotional maturity a paragon
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of non-toxic masculinity and an illustration of the kind of supportive partner they should strive to be one day
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wow yes amazing thank you if you've made it this far into reading this rather lengthy NOA we can't all be bestselling
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novelist Selena I love you but I felt this story had to be extracted from the inside of my head and put to paper I
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have attached some pictures to this email so you can put some faces with names and add some color to the story
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why are you all so beautiful you and Teddy are the cutest things I've ever seen and so are you and David and your
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child David and your baby wow oh and they made it to last year and you got to go to the ropes Mansion you got to go to
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Allison's house stop it I love it oh my God these are great pictures wona and Reba wona and Reba
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Rona and Reba not sad just sleepy oh my God I love it honestly Chelsea that story was one of the most beautiful
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Stories We have had in listening Tales so thank you for that Gorge Gorge Gorge you and David forever Teddy forever I'm
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going to remember that story forever that was an amazing story thank you for sending that was beautiful all right my
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next one is listener tale trick-or treat or clowns I love it hey all right I can't open it because
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I'm silly yes I can this is from Megan Megan Megan I don't know why I said it like that oh
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oh she did it now we'll work on the head tilt next yeah the Tilt W that just made me really
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happy all right to properly tell this story I got so bossed in there to properly tell off on me what were you
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saying today that you like couldn't unist she couldn't stop saying pist all right to properly tell this
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story I need to start with the setting this happened in 2014 on the spookiest day of the year 1 2 3
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Halloween my family had moved about an hour away from our old house in 2013 the new neighborhood we moved to was known
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for Halloween so much that people drove to trick-or treat there were even more known for ch Christmas which leads to a
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lot of traffic during the holidays but everybody passed out candy and loads of people decorated to give some
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perspective we would buy a bag of candy every single time we went shopping in September and October just to have
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enough to pass out before the night ended and sometimes that wasn't even enough wow I want to go to there I do
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too at the time of this particular Halloween I was about 11 and my older sister Aon was around 12 so we were
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still at the age where trick-or-treating was something we looked forward to we invited my sister's best friend who
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lived an hour away to spend the night trick-or-treating with us since the neighborhood was so known for being the
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spot to go naturally we had to coordinate costumes or what was the point Erin and her best friend were
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Tweedle D and Tweedle Dum but instead of fat suits they wore tutos and suspenders
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I love that I love that that's great a it was Alice and wore a little blue dress with a white apron and had a black
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bow tied in my hair adorable we all looked very cute and unassuming which is cutesy cutesy very demure very mindful
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which is probably why we looked like easy targets that night uh-oh I'm scared now to understand what happened I'm
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going to give you a quick and simple layout of the neighborhood we lived near the end of a Long Street that connected
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to two major streets in the neighborhood keep in mind that we had moved there recently and weren't super familiar with
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the area however it was very safe and my mom who always supervised us outside thought it was fine for the three of us
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to go alone while she stayed and passed out candy she helped us pick an easy route uh of three streets that formed a
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triangle we would walk on the Main Street close to our house and then take a turn uh onto a street par to ours from
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there we would turn onto the other Main Street that connected to the one we lived on just to make our way back even
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though this was a safe neighborhood and the route was was simple I was pretty terrified to go alone we had never done
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that never done that before let alone in a new neighborhood I was always the child who could hardly bear to be out of
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sight of an adult that's literally your middle yeah my sister on the other hand relished in the opportunity to have no
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supervision and she and her friend were excited your oldest y the night started off pretty nor
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it was still light out when we left but by the time we had gotten to the second Main Road it was dark we amassed a good
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amount of candy by that point and we're about to turn back onto our street however this is when things got a little
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strange as we were about to turn back onto the street from the corner of my eye I saw a lone trick-or-treater across
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the street he was dressed in all black clothing and wore a Halloween clown mask that covered his whole face scary I
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don't like that this by itself wasn't unusual but what was strange is that he didn't have a bag to hold candy oh yeah
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no instead he had a baseball bat nope I thought to myself huh that's odd huh huh
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but he was on the other side of the road so it wasn't a problem well actually it
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was a problem because pretty soon after noticing this person I realized he wasn't alone trailing behind us was
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another person in all black and wearing that same clown Halloween mask obscure and it obscured his whole face this
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person didn't have a bat but instead was simply dragging a golf club along the sidewalk behind him what the [ __ ] where
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are where is any help what's happening I'm scared I mom pick me up I'm scared the rest all happened very quickly it
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was dark and I don't know where they came from but in the blink of an eye the two people turned into three then four
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then five then suddenly 10 people were dispersed around the street what the [ __ ] all wore the same clown masks and
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had bats or golf clubs the ones on the other side of the street crossed the road and came towards us at the same
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time the ones on the street got closer to us and started forming a circle no we were surrounded there were at least
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three on each side to the left and right of us a few behind us and one in front they were dragging their clubs and
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banging their bats on the concrete ew what [ __ ] like truly like [ __ ] you get a life what is particularly strange
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and something I do not understand to this day is that the street was empty I was thinking that this whole time where
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is everybody is there an adult to help you this was the most popular uh neighborhood to trick or treat in
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however besides these strange boys and the looming Darkness we were the only ones on that street was this some like
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weird elaborate hazing ritual that your neighborhood had oh my God maybe that' be kind of Welcome to the neighborhood
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we're going to scare the [ __ ] out of see if you can [ __ ] hang were they just
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waiting for someone to walk by when the street was clear were they hiding did they have some sort of signal yeah
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however the answers to these questions were irrelevant because the reality was they were getting closer by the second
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if I reached out I could touch one before my arm was even fully straightened oh no oh that's too much in
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my personal space yeah of course it is get out of my [ __ ] bubble no get out of my [ __ ] bubble
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like get out remember how I said that I was scared to go and my sister wasn't yes this is where that shifts Ain and
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her friend who were in front of me slowed down and came closer to me we were all frazzled with a look uh and
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with a look silently asked each other what do we do for some reason that alludes me to this day the dominant
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emotion that I was feeling wasn't fear but anger looking back I should have approached the situation with more
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caution but I was pretty pissed I would be too I kind of love you were piss yeah
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in my mind these had to be neighborhood boys picking on the little girls wearing
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Tut chos and dresses exact and just trying to scare them so [ __ ] them so I immediately decided that if they were
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going to try to get a rise out of us the best thing we could do was not give them
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one yeah I whispered to my friend uh my sister and her friend keep walking yeah and we did what they didn't know was
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that we were on the street we lived on so we just had to last them unfortunately for us they kept walking
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too what oh I want to I want to junk punch every single one of [ __ ] so hard hit them with their golf clubs yeah like
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G uh it almost looked like a security detail for a celebrity except you know uh the fact that they were threatening
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us except a very weird one yeah kind of like Paparazzi actually in a situation like that logic is the first thing we
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abandon we certainly had cell phones and could have called for help but we just kept walking besides even if we got our
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phones out they were close enough to just grab them after what felt like several minutes but I'm sure it was only
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a moment I switched tactics I must have heard this from some television show but
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I turned to the closest one on my left and said in the most intimidating voice at 11 year sorry I said in the most
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intimidating voice an 11-year-old girl dressed as Alice in Wonderland could muster I will cut you oh my God I'm
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obsessed I will cut you honestly I would have ran honest I would get the [ __ ] out
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of there I believe it cuz anybody dressed as Alice in Wonderland saying I'm to cut in
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their face that's scary yeah you did the right thing I will cut you that's right
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she said this is embarrassing but I hope it makes you laugh it did it's not embarrassing you should not be
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embarrassed it's iconic I needed them to know that we were not scared and what they were doing wasn't working so they
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should just give up it didn't deter these boys but it served to L confidence get a life get a life it didn't deter
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these boys but it served to lend confidence to my sister and her friend they continued to walk and when they got
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close to the mask person in the front they just pushed him out of the way with our heads up but not making eye contact
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we continued because what else was there to do really yeah we could start to see
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other trick-or-treaters in the distance our luck changed then and just as quickly as they came these MK boys were
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gone Without a Trace what they just left they just like poofed into the air so they just menaced you and then left and
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then left [ __ ] them that don't ruin somebody's Halloween like that I'll find them I will and we'll junk punch every
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single one of them dressed like this dressed like this how scary would that be that that would show them clown meat
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clown clown meat clown are you ready I love it the dread was replaced by a flood of relief and we were safe
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again after that I don't think we resumed trick-or-treating and uh just went home for the night oh that's a
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bummer I know I'm sorry understand it we did tell my mom what happened while we were tra uh trading candy in
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the kitchen she wasn't thrilled that we engaged with them but wasn't too worried
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it did sink in later that night to me at least how that situation could have gone
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so differently yeah I can't say I was particularly traumatized but that was the last year I went trick-or-treating
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oh that makes me sad you were 11 yeah oh that makes me really sad dude I was like
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15 when I stopped trick-or-treating I got to the point where people are like we're not giving you we're not you're
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too old for this yeah um however Halloween remains my favorite holiday and I celebrate it every year good thank
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you for reading this and I hope everyone keeps it weird but not aware that you surround children and try to scare them
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by banging baseball bats and golf clubs because that's just not cool P.S I retold the story to my mom as I was
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writing this and she seemed confused and said was it really that bad didn't some
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boys just follow you I suppose that when we told her at the time we left out a lot of details I guess and when I
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recounted it like this she was appalled she somehow didn't know about the weapons or the clown MK and said that if
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she did know that she would have been on the hunt for these boys parents okay oops I'm I knew that had to be a missing
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link there cuz I was like if my kids come home and tell me that a bunch of boys with weapons and
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clown Mouse surrounded can I interrupt you I know exactly what you would do she would do yep she whenever elen's mou she
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always crunches ready and it's always so good and that would be I'd be like we're
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we're off i' be like you ladies stay at home and I'd be like Mama and D are going to go call TI I'm going we're
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going to go make some friends in the neighborhood oh I would and then we would never see those boys again like
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when I tell you like the rage I had for you in that moment I wanted to [ __ ] strangle these boys Neary don't ruin
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someone's Halloween Halloween's supposed to be fun and people need to consent in
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being scared don't be a dick be cool don't be all like uncool don't do that and definitely don't [ __ ] scare kids
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like what the hell get a life let them live she stressed as Alice in Wonderland I know like let her live go they they
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did their costumes together for this yeah I'm not I'm not impressed by them that's impress of me much if you're
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listening boys who did that I'm not impressed oh they're not listening because they are not this cool no
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they're not they are Los they're not this cool they're not this cool they do not this is so cool they are not on this
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level cosplay equals cool are you on the level no no you're not the answer is no
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you could never be so my next one first of all love you so sad that that happened to you all right mine is
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entitled how I thought I was going to be killed by papier-mâché mask wearing psycho whoa and it's by be hi I love
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that name like and it says like the Bumble like the Bumble says hello lovely ladies of all that is all that is dark
00:39:39
weird and spoopy my name is be like the Bumble a family nickname which you are more than welcome to use as I consider
00:39:46
you and all other weirdos listening as family I love them you are our family I discovered your absolute gift of a
00:39:52
podcast at the beginning of 2022 and it has kept me laughing through many a commute and hard times seriously you
00:39:58
guys remind me so much of me and my sister which is a huge Comfort since we live on opposite sides of the Pacific
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damn oh I could never live far you you and I was going to move to New York and we just couldn't even handle it couldn't
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do it yeah couldn't do it thank you for all you do you two are Delights never change your badass bitching ways I love
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iton total side note Ash I'm a Libra so is Mikey Mikey is a Libra which makes us
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air sign besties we are air sign besties I can't really decide how to segue from
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that to my story but here we go I'm not a writer like Elena Q as sharing the link to the Butcher and the ren tiny
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url.com thee butcher in the R I don't know if that still exists don't go there but but it's there uh congrats Elena
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can't wait to read it update I got it all downloaded on my Kindle and ready to go so I hope this is not too convoluted
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thank you so much be for Life the tale begins 5 years ago on hallowen I know I'm writing and sending
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you this in July but the spirit store that lives in my heart can no longer be contained in this withered summer summer
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husk of a body any longer I'm obsessed with you I've never related to a sentence more truly in a small town on
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Japan's southernmost and largest island I hope I say this right caushi kushu I believe it's kushu yeah I will leave out
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of out the prefecture in town as I still live here and don't want to cause any potential embarrassment for parties
00:41:19
involved I will call it goldfish town because as the nickname might may suggest it is famous for breeding around
00:41:25
30 different varieties of goldfish woot woot goldfish Town represents that's really cool in random that's the funnest
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fact so a bit of background the first time I came to live in Japan I was working as an ALT assistant language
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teacher I worked at two elementary schools and one Middle School helping teach English in the class classroom in
00:41:43
the classroom in the classroom it was a wonderful experience and such a privilege working with the students and
00:41:48
teachers a goldfish Town always had two alts and we split the schools as there was a total of two middle schools and
00:41:54
four elementary schools there was some quick map there was some quick Maths for you ladies which I will not be doing
00:42:00
again the alt departments were literally right next to each other so me and the other alt code name e were super besties
00:42:08
we always hung out shared meals had many a laughs and a cries in each other's apartment she is still a bestie to this
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day I ride or die a ride or die [ __ ] you which you'll definitely see in this story a a final person to mention in is
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our supervisor n de plume spelling French I loved it n de plume okay the sweetest woman alive and who we
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literally referred to as our Japanese mother she's super kind and friendly and always made sure we were looked after n
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the plume mama okay so let's get into the dirty Deets what happened on Halloween five nights ago tell five
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years ago what happened on Halloween five nights ago that makes no sense I just got white on my finger oh no um
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Halloween in Japan is more of an adult holiday going out drinking going to cough streum parties which is fun but we
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don't get little Ghoulies and goblins running up to our doors screaming for the sweets or else threatening tricks I
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kind of love that actually see I want I need the trick-or-treaters no I love the
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trick-or-treaters but I hate driving on Halloween night cuz I get so nervous yeah I just won't well I have to yeah
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yeah just won't yeah our Apartments were on the second floor in buildings facing
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each other a literal minute walk and a lot of huffing upstairs this Halloween we had both planned quiet evenings me at
00:43:20
home reading cozy mysteries for my October mystery readathon drinking cocoa the nectar of fall and
00:43:27
at the gym being a ripped goddess I love how different both of your evenings wereing we didn't have any plans to meet
00:43:34
up the night that night and other than e anyone else coming to my door is a big it's going to be a no for me dog moment
00:43:40
yes yes yeah our Apartments were around 20 years old but thankfully had a modern
00:43:45
doorbell system camera where there was some when someone rang the doorbell I could see who it was on the screen in my
00:43:50
kitchen foreshadowing well that's cool quite handy for dodging the Jehovah's Witnesses yes they're out here no shade
00:43:57
just as I said I'm a millennial hermit crab who wants to chill in her shell in peace oh I feel that I feel that so I'm
00:44:03
home alone at my kitchen table drinking Coco enjoying my book Feeling the holy Halloween spirit when the doorbell rings
00:44:09
uh knowing it's E I think maybe I was getting some trick or treaters not e oh excuse me knowing it's not e sorry I
00:44:16
can't read how dare you I have a contact in uh knowing it's not e I think maybe I
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was getting some trick-or-treaters panicking that I would have to share some of my time of the month all the
00:44:26
month stash can't chocolate with them uh but what I see freezes my blood on the screen is a person I can't tell the
00:44:33
gender as their clothes are baggy and the fact that they are wearing a large paper mâché spelling French again you
00:44:39
did great uh head the head has painted on wide staring blue eyes a small neutral mouth slightly open no and dark
00:44:47
brown hair parted to the side very serial killer style I hate it very not cutesy cutesy very not I stop breathing
00:44:54
because I'm afraid whatever is on the other side of the door will will hear me the doorbell rings again and I can see
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the head move closer to the door cam like it's looking through the peephole get the [ __ ] off my property I slowly
00:45:05
slide over the table where I left my phone after grabbing it I wait until my little door cam goes dark and I hear
00:45:11
footsteps or seed down the stairs outside I think I stood there for a good 5 minutes my ears straining to hear
00:45:16
anything but feeling like the whole world is silent and only I exist oh that's beautiful that is beautiful you
00:45:22
are a writer yeah I run back to the screen to take a picture of the figure to send to E telling her not to worry
00:45:28
I'm alive but this thing was at my doorstep and if she could come back from the gym I would love her forever like
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the true Queen she is she immediately called me saying there she'd be there in 15 minutes and to stay put with a knife
00:45:39
in hand next I messaged our supervisor Kay the photo now I know I know at this point you guys are all screaming to call
00:45:46
the police I was kind of thinking it in my head a little bit was I was but I wasn't judging you yet I wasn't but
00:45:52
honestly I didn't know what constituted an emergency in Japan fair enough fair enough and my Japanese is conversational
00:45:59
how do I explain that a soul sucking papier-mâché demon stood outside my door valid hard things yeah Kay also called
00:46:06
immediately and said she and her husband were on their way over thankfully they live 5 minutes away so I didn't wait
00:46:11
long to get a message saying they were coming up and I will never forget them coming up the stairs if I hadn't been so
00:46:17
scared at the time I would have laughed K my 5 foot tall supervisor is running up the stairs calling for me followed by
00:46:24
her 6'3 husband cigarette dang dangling cavalierly out of one side of his mouth and a golf club slung casually over his
00:46:32
shoulder [ __ ] icon a king that's what you use a golf club for not to scare little kids to save to protect your girl
00:46:41
yeah does anyone else smell a potential ghost hunting demon slaying show pitch here yes I kind of do oh my God that
00:46:47
would make a great show you should do that he's always got to have a cigarette or like a toothpick hanging out of his
00:46:53
mouth Yes anyway back to the papier-mâché waking nightmare I told them that I had no idea who this person
00:46:59
was and showed them the picture which they agreed was really [ __ ] up by that time e had returned home and also came
00:47:05
roaring up the stairs ready to slap this kindergarten craft project gone wrong I
00:47:09
assured her I was okay and said she should check the door cam to see if they came to her door too they hadn't since
00:47:15
she hadn't been visited by crafty killer TM I spent I spent the night at her place over the next few weeks I was on
00:47:22
high alert I was always waiting to hear the doorbell ring and see that face again but whoever had have been never
00:47:27
came back and I eventually settled down a bit that's when they strike fast forward to Before Christmas e and I were
00:47:34
having a small Christmas party with our goldfish Town alt Senpai a term of respect used for a person who is usually
00:47:40
older more experienced than your than you at life job Etc School Etc Senpai v v and her husband H were that's who they
00:47:50
were there was a period v was the pred V was the predecessor at my school but she
00:47:57
still lived in goldfish town and had met and married her husband there too we had
00:48:02
decided on doing a potluck dinner at our apartment and everyone arrived with plenty of yummies and toe oh love that
00:48:08
exactly as long as you know the people if I know your kitchen I'll eat it if I haven't seen your kitchen I'm not eat it
00:48:13
as we got to prepping we were just chatting and catching up when e brings up the Halloween incident about how
00:48:18
creepy it was and how scared we had all been after that dinner was almost ready and we were about to sit down when V's
00:48:24
husband started whispering to her in Japanese I'm nervous I couldn't really hear what they were saying but she then
00:48:29
said louder in English I'm sorry just say I'm Sorry by this point e and I were blatantly dropping those Eaves and
00:48:36
asking if everything was okay when V's husband said I'm sorry on Halloween that was me in The Mask shut up I love that
00:48:44
it came up at a Christmas dinner and that he was like I don't know how the was like say sorry [ __ ] apolog sorry
00:48:52
I was [ __ ] dumb struck Gob smacked flabbergast and other big shocked words I couldn't
00:49:00
[ __ ] believe it it was you why why did you come here on Halloween wearing that mask H went on to tell me that he
00:49:07
and V had made Halloween goodie bags and wanted to give one to me and Eve I love
00:49:13
that it was like a good kind thing and you were scared for months it was so pure the reason he didn't show up to EAS
00:49:20
place was because he didn't know which apartment she lived in my apartment actually used to be V's old place in her
00:49:26
alt day days so he was hoping that I would tell him when I answered the door for my treat but why that terrifying DIY
00:49:32
y serial killer face when a when a witches had or Dracula teeth would have gotten his trick-or treat intentions
00:49:38
across just fine honestly apparently the mask is from one of his favorite movies
00:49:43
a movie called Frank starring Michael fast Bender Who plays a lead singer in a band and he wears the mask because he
00:49:49
gives him the confidence to perform due to his mental health issues oh that sounds like a beautiful such intense I
00:49:56
love that I can't get over this is so pure but so scary this is hilarious I don't think I
00:50:02
have ever I can ever see that movie because of how much the MK scares the living [ __ ] out of me it is scary they
00:50:07
attached a picture but you know what H said it's very moving it sounds like it would be I attached a picture of the
00:50:13
mask from the movie but H's was handmade which somehow made it more terrifying yeah that usually does happen apparently
00:50:19
H really wanted to participate in Halloween re rivalry and now there was were enough Americans to do it we all
00:50:25
had a good laugh about it and honestly I'm glad we could solve the Halloween mystery sorry to pull the spoopy rug
00:50:30
from under you ladies but I hope it gave you some good Goosebumps and laughs thanks for reading my story and I hope
00:50:36
you keep it weird but not so weird that you make your own papier-mâché head from
00:50:39
an obscure Michael fast Bender film and try to drop off Halloween treats in a country that doesn't really celebrate
00:50:44
Halloween thus scaring the living [ __ ] out of you weird oh my God love you bye
00:50:49
also I don't know if we can zoom but this is the is the mask that would [ __ ] me up that's so scary that would [ __ ] me
00:50:57
right up yeah the [ __ ] up right the [ __ ] up that was so good and picture that
00:51:04
homemade no be I would have been [ __ ] in my pants along with you B I would have
00:51:08
done I love that that's like a rock star's mask I love it he's got to he's got to figure out the band Ghost oh my
00:51:14
God all right last one you guys last one listener tale Halloween time my dad attacked my friends and I with a
00:51:22
chainsaw oh [ __ ] yay [ __ ] oh [ __ ] see that coming all right hey spooky bachos bachos I love I used to say that
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all the time yes I got to bring that back I've been obsessed with you girls for years and I have yet to find another
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podcast and podcasters I love as much as you thank you we have a lot of great network shows I go back and relisten to
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multiple episodes some because you cover them so well some because they're hilarious Carl and most because I just
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love the sound of your voices my toddler calls you the ghost girls because he hears you talking in the car but he
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can't you that's adorable I love that when I discovered your podcast I came home and told my husband I have found my
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spirit besties oh I love that thank you we are besties and I made him listen to multiple episodes he looked at me and
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said well when are we moving because he's supportive like that I love him I'm very much a mix of the two of you Ash
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Stevie Nix is also my fairy witchy godmother and Elena I too hate the heat love all things spooky and haunting and
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suffer from migraines [ __ ] hell yeah [ __ ] I truly feel hell yeah I truly feel like I'm hanging out with you
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girlss when I'm listening to your show and it fills my social cup I love that thank you man you really are meant to be
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our best you are because we don't really love we don't have like my social cup is
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like a shock glass it's like so easy to fill yeah all right so on to my story this is a story so many of my friends
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know or friends of my friends know and they still talk about it to this day and our old age as we reminisce about our
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youthful Shenanigans from early high school and even Middle School Elder Millennial what what M younger
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Millennial not jenzy Zenni friend jenzi still Millennial zillennial no like isn't that what you're Tex no it's just
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Millennial it's just the younger years Sni zillennial is made up that's not a real generation yeah there you go I'm
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gonna fight you before we get into the details I must give you some backstory on where
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The Morbid scary movie loving Terror chasing Halloween devotion comes from in my family my grandma Marge I love that
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Marge my dad's mom was a Huge Horror fan and collected pretty much everything she
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could horror themed from stickers she'd put in sticker books to cups and even a Chucky doll that moved on its own okay
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Marge is awesome Marge forever Marge forever yes I [ __ ] you not and I have cousins to back me up on this but that's
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for another time that's awesome I saw some horror movies way too young as did a lot of my family members on my dad's
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side same he was one of five kids so it's gotten pretty large with the kids having kids and then those kids having
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kids and it has started many Traditions even though my grandma March passed away
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when when I was still pretty young I'm sorry my family attributes our love of the spooky spooky to her as it's
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trickled down our family line this is what you have to look forward to yes side note after she passed away I for
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some reason wanted the Chucky doll and my dad's response was well don't come crying to me if it comes after you in
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the middle of the night your dad sounds awesome needless to say that 5-year-old did not take the doll and now sits in my
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aunt's basement in Atlanta now this spooky devotion hasn't struck with hasn't stuck with every family member
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but most of us share the love of Halloween and all the things that Encompass that now to the meat and
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potatoes and yams wink wink my story we on the Y growing up and only child my dad was like [ __ ] that multiple sibling
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[ __ ] my parents always allowed me to have friends over mainly because it kept me entertained and out of their hair but
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I digress my parents house became a spot that all of my friends knew they could come to over the years show up
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unannounced and just chat have spur the moment play date or sleepover or even a large Gathering of friends oh your
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parents are great I know that's awesome Halloween is Halloween was always hosted
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at my house and my parents went all out decorations treats so many pizzas snacks
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scary movies hello Blockbuster Galore it was always a blast we would do haunted hay rides spooky cave walks uh Trail of
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Terror haunted houses you name it they took me and truckloads of my friends to it love best parents ever I can't wait
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to be a parent like that oh I can't wait one of these particular Halloween weekends uh was when I was a freshman in
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high school a large group of my friends and I went to see the new Texas Chainsaw
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Massacre in theaters followed by multiple movies at my house with all the fixing we rented yes
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rented the original Texas Chainsaw movies amongst others and hunkered down in my parents basement lights off of
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course and got cozy now picture it one of those huge comfy couches and giant chairs that could fit like four people
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on it and even more people on the floor and I'm sitting on the end of the couch closest to the wall and Tiny window that
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Peaks outside after a while I thought heard something outside and asked did anybody else hear that of course they
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all said no it was probably just the movie since we were watching a chainsaw movie and I thought I heard a chainsaw
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duh that'll do it I just shook my head thought I was hearing things and kept watching the movie a few more minutes
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later I heard the noise again but it was very clearly not the movie and my head snapped to the tiny window above my head
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where I could tell it was now pitch black outside so I couldn't see anything so I said seriously you guys didn't hear
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that and they said no Adrian you're dumb and you're trying to scare us there's nothing there third times the charm a
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few more minutes later I heard this worring noise again and this time my bestie Elise also heard it at this point
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we paused the movie and all anxiously awaited to hear the sound again nothing came quick side note earlier in the
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evening my friends and I were talking about the [ __ ] that always happens in scary movies like let's split up or
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let's hook up or let's go investigate all the classics right yeah so my buddy Alex jokingly said let's go investigate
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and we all ran upstairs uh we all ran up the stairs that led right out the back door to our Drive driveway and backyard
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keep in mind there are at least 10 of us if not more and Elise and I are the last
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ones out the door it's pitch black and Incredibly quiet and we immediately regretted this decision as they do in
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the movies of course our backyard was wide open to the other yards sow fences and the driveway wrapped around the
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house with lights on the side that were currently off as Alex and a couple other
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Brave dudes walked slowly around to look down the driveway slam goes the back door behind me and click goes the lock
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moments later the lights on the side of the house switch on and in the driveway is a giant 6'4 man with a mask and a
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chainsaw slowly hobbling towards us ready to tear us all apart in the calmest manner I'm obsessed with this it
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was as if a small drip of water landed among ants as we all went in different directions some screamed and ran through
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other backyards some froze in Terror and some of us like elely and I tried to frantically get back in the house but it
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was locked I love that you discovered in that moment who everyone was in a horror
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movie like you can now the debate is done you know who like it's no longer like oh you would be the person who does
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this in the horror movie you're like nope you would be the person who runs in the next yard I would run into the next
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yard that's your best bet as we were all trying not to pee our pants and vomit the insane amount of junk food we
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consumed and many of us had dispersed the man takes the mask off and a giant and with a giant grin my dad starts
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laughing hysterically your dad forever your dad I'm obsessed I love him my heart starts to slow a smidge as my
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mother unlocks the back door and is also laughing hysterically both very very proud that their plan was so successful
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as they should be your parents for [ __ ] ever Elite that is couple goals that is topnotch marriage and Top Notch
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parenting as far as I'm concerned so obsessed with that wow my brother did this to your Exo myboyfriend after
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watching Texas chaina massacre actually incredible yeah it took a bit for all my
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friends to gather back up at my house as you can imagine one of the guys lived on
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the Block behind me so he literally just went home he ran home to resume our evening but it was safe to say my dad
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set a precedent that night and it was one that none of us have ever forgotten my dad notice big wave around town it's
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always someone people remember and recognize and uh this just solidified his legacy now that I have kids of my
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own I have some goals to reach and at some point I have to Top This you got to I'm still friends with several of the
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people from that night and we all like to talk about it and tell the story to relive the trauma of my dad scaring us
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list to this day even those that weren't there know this story and now know who big wave is Big Wave for [ __ ] life
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big wave big wave big wave anyways that's my tale I hope you enjoyed it we did we did and I hope big wave gave you
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something new to Aspire to love you witches big wave is my new goal post big wave big wave honey five ever big wave
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for life big wave guys those were awesome my God that was so much fun what a beautiful mix of terrifying hilarious
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and so touching this was amazing I'm so glad that we got to get all dressed up and hang out with you guys and we're
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definitely going to do this again cuz this is just too fun it's too fun to read these Tales I love this as other
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people I'm already thinking about what I'm going to be next me to I'm already thinking about it so hopefully this is
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the beginning of something fun and we hope you guys liked it and you we hope you keep listening and we hope you keep
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it weird but not so weird that you don't throw ass with the shadow man because why wouldn't you throw ass with the
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shadow man not so weird that actually do keep it so weird that you have a ghostly
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ex-boyfriend who like um talks to you through a New Orleans psychic because that was the most beautiful thing I
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think I've ever heard in my life uh don't keep it so weird that you show up to somebody's uh door with a
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papier-mâché mask on to give them keep it so weird that you're going to give them a treat but like don't keep it so
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weird that you don't tell them who you are because that was so scary keep it so weird don't ever keep it so weird that
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you're following little girls on on Halloween night and trying to scare them [ __ ] that I'll kill you no um and and
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and and always keep it so weird that you're on big waves level never ever sink below big waves level big wave big
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wave big wave big wave happy Halloween we love you m [Music] oh I hope I hope that was caught on film
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we got to start the [ __ ] episode like that did you just hear her stomach it literally stomach yes sounded like a
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lava lamp the [ __ ]