October 27, 2023 • 32 mins
Just in time for Halloween, this one truly is a thrill! From their favorite costumes, to never told before stories from Hilarie’s epic Halloween parties of the past! Plus, real life paranormal experiences! How do we know they’re telling the truth? ...because they also divulge the last time they told a lie and to who and why!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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We're coming to you from California, Nashville, Tennessee, and New
York somewhere upstate. We're so excited we have a Q
and A for you today. So many of you send
in questions and we're happy to answer them for you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And I feel like we got some juicy ones.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I feel like Octopober questions are the best because everyone's
in kind of a mischievous mood to begin with. Yes,
let's just get in do it all right? Laura wants
to know what was your personal favorite Halloween costume and
what was the party that you wore it to? Or
like just event or just like space. We're just in
(01:03):
your own house, in your own house. Sometimes you just
need to wear a costume at home. If you're into
that sort of thing, tell us, I don't have a
cheerleader uniform at home.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh okay. Favorite Halloween costume One of mine was when
I there's a photo of that. We talked about it
on the tour. Coming to your Halloween Party as the
cast of Giant with Paul and Lee. That was really fun. Like,
I love a joint costume, or you're not alone, you
really need other people to complete the whole picture.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah right, I mean the standalone kind of thing is like.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, I get it, She's Liz Taylor, Like, yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Okay, But then then when everyone else joins in, was
Tyler involved in that one too?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So yeah, oh that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So Tyler was James Dean, Paul came in as Rock Hudson,
and Lee came in as the Cow like ay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Cow, which I love that about Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I love that. Yeah, I mean I love Halloween. You
guys know, this is like my super Bowl. In fact,
I just came from the middle school where I was
at eighth grade lunch and I was going from table
to table like reminding kids to come to our Halloween
festival on Sunday. And this kid that has typically like
been very rough on me as I was like, you
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guys call me and all the other mothers. You know,
the witches in town are put it on this haunted house.
And some kid made a derogatory remark about witches and
this little boy goes be respectful, and I was like, oh,
witches is how I get through to this thirteen year old.
So yeah, Halloween's my jam. I would say the most
meaningful Halloween I've had was when Gus was going through
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his Hamilton phase and like really really really needed me
to dress up with him, and he wanted to be
George Washington, which meant I had to be Alexander Hamilton.
So like wearing the wig and like the tight white
pants and the frills and stuff through town.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was an experience.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And it was when the show first came out, so
it wasn't the hit it is today, Like no one
knew what we were doing.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That was sweet. I love that.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I mean, well, Joy, you were talking about that one
year at Hills, which made me think. I think that
that was the same year that I love a good
costume that I can just recycle because it's like why not,
if it's great, I'm gonna wear it again.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Nobody's gonna remember.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
And I had like gone through one of my storage
bins and found an old red riding hood costume that
I had, and I had made the cape.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So it was like this huge.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Like hood that came down over the shoulders and it
was red satin on one side and black velvet on
the other and it went like down to the floor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I just loved it.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I'd made it years before for Halloween party in La
and then I was like, Oh, I just have this.
I'm gonna wear this again, and I loved it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It all happens at your house, Hill.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And my brother fell in love with you that year.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
My little brother was in college and like came to
visit from college and got probably way too drunk, and
Sophia was the one that held his Viking hair while
he threw up you because he was wearing away.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He was so sweet.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I was like, oh, honey, let's hold your hairbag. Everything's
gonna be okay. Just try to puke in a bush,
not in the house.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, what are we dressing up for this year?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
What are we doing this year?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What should we do this year?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I mean, I'm going as a witch, because well.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I was gonna say, should we just dress up as
the cast of hocus Pocus.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Hello, that's a no brainer.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
For my son's school. Their mascot is the Hawks, and
we're doing Hawk manner. And so I got this big
feather like collar. Oh, just to be a very extra fan.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I did that from Maria a couple of years ago.
She wanted to be young Maleficent. So I built those wings.
I got went and got a whole strip of all
these feathers, and I like built a wire frame set
of wings and did the whole Yeah, all the feathers
and everything. It was a really cool costume. It's fun
when you get to work with when you get to
make your own stuff. I don't know what am I
going to do this year? What are we What are
(05:19):
we going to do? I think we're probably going to
go as the Gilmour Girls because she's into it right now.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Yeah, I love a nostalgia costume. Also, I gotta be
honest with you, guys, I don't even know what day
Halloween is this year.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
It's a Tuesday, which is weird.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That always bums me out a little bit. Me too,
I prefer a weekend Halloween.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, Halloween should be one of those holidays that travels,
like it's always just on the Friday of the Saturday
of the week, you know, like Thanksgiving it's always on
the Thursday.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah, Like shouldn't it just be the last Saturday
of October?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Just a traveling holiday. What I wouldn't give?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
You know what, when we take over the government, that's
going to be our number one cause.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
To us, we'd like.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
To propose a bill that's right, Daylight savings and Halloween perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right, what we go next?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Well, this one's from Rasa Raisa, Rasa, Risa, Risa. We
don't know how to say your name, Rasa, but it's
super cool the way it's spelled.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It's very beautiful to look at. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I wish I wish I was more well educated on
how to say your name. But you asked us, what
do you take pictures of the mosts? What do you
take pictures of the most.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You guys, my best friend just told me so hard
yesterday for this. So we're up in Big Sir, and
we were going down the highway and it's like magic hour,
you know, the ocean looks moody, there's pink clouds out
and these huge green fields that stretched toward the ocean,
and this field that we'd driven by earlier in the
day was full of cows, like beautiful brown cows in
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the sunset.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
And so I'm like, we have to pull over, and
I roll the window down and I'm taking pictures of
these cows.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And she goes, what are you gonna do? Frame a
picture of those cows and put it up in your house. Yeah.
I was like, maybe I might look how beautiful they are.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
She was like, You're never gonna look back at that photo.
And I realized I take photos of landscapes everywhere, and
I never look at them again.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You're a photo hoarder the same way that you're a hoarder. Hoarder,
I have to have it.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
If I just have it in my connection, if I
just have it, I could look at it someday.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Maybe options are Oh my god, I have to look
at my phone to see what I have the most
pictures of. I feel like it's screen grabs of information
that I'm too lazy to relay.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, I have a lot of those too. I mean Maria,
but she's also at an age now where she doesn't
want me to take her picture anymore. You know, she
throws her hands up and doesn't want to. Oh, I
have photos of the last.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Thing I got a picture of is George's nose crinkle
like George has when she scrunches her nose up. The
lines that are created in her flesh are just a
shape that I find really pleasing. And so I've made
her take this whole series of nose crimple pictures because
I'm convinced I'm gonna get it like tattooed, like geometry
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on my arm somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh yeah, I just is it or is it a
little bit obsessive? It's just like nose making your nose.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, make those black and white and do a sequence
like a photo booth sequence with a bunch of them.
He's so cute.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It also feels important to grab because, like your nose
in your ears are the two things that never stop
growing in your life. So it's not gonna look the
same when she's twenty well, And.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's how I can tell she's genuinely happy because she's
an actor, Like she can fake a laugh or a smile,
but when she gets into nose crinkle zone, like it's
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I have mostly pictures of Maria and then photos of
I really do like taking photos of my friends in position,
like in a spot when I feel like they would
want that photo. If I see something that I'm like, oh,
this person would want to have this memory or this photo,
I like to jump in and take that.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
That's so nice. That's like the best gift that you
can give people.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I think it's just because I've because as a single mom,
I have so there's so many moments that nobody ever
took photos of. They're just in my mind because it's
just her and I and I have some selfies of us,
but whenever somebody would jump in and be like, let
me take a picture of the two of you, or
just grab a photo and send it to me, it did.
It always meant so much. So I think realizing that
made me go, oh, I want to do that for
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the people too.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, that's one of my favorite things to do out
in the world, Like when I see people. When I
see a group of people or a family or whoever,
you know, there's a whole group of people standing in
front of it, or like a restaurant and one person's
taking the picture, and I was like.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No, you go get in it. I'll take it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I love to take pictures for people so they can
all be in the photo together.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I see. I try to do that and I always
get rejected. I have a thief face.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I think. Jeffrey laughs so hard.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Like we'll be at the beach and you'll see people
doing that and I'm like, do you want me to
get this picture of all of you? And they're just
like no, no, move along.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No. When you get rejected trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Help, you're like, I'm stealing that phone. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
They think you're the woman like selling roses who's gonna
grab the phone and run.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Or they think you're just gonna take a photo with
like all the feet cut off or something, or like
too much space on the top.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I look like I won't do it right, but you will.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You're a good photo taker.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Hello, guys, Tyler wants to know what is something you owe?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Always want to be remembered for.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bitchery.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
When I think about all the things that people do
know me for, it's usually either picking a fight or
ending a fight, or saying what I think, And so
I don't know that I have any options here.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I think it is just bitchery.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Which I'm good with.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Is it something we've already done or something that we
want to do.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
If it's something, if it's something that already exists. I
think the thing that I hear from people the most,
that means the most to me is that my home
feels like they're home.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Oh that's nice, like.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
For me.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Being the place that people can come to to celebrate
or to grieve. Like I love to be the space
that people know they can rest, And it means a
lot to me that, Like you know, over the years,
like so many people have keys to my house. Yeah,
so many people know that, like if they need something,
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they can they can come and stay with me. And
I love that feeling and I never want that to change.
Like that's been a deal breaker for me in relationships
like in the past. If people don't like it, I'm like, well,
this far predates.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You, so you have to go. But I do.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I thought that was a really astute question, like what
will it be in the future? What is what is
something we're going to do that we haven't done yet?
Who are we growing into? Like I love the idea
that there are outcomes we can't even imagine yet, because
life is going to be bigger than what we've previous.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I can't even imagine yet.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
God, I've been thinking a lot about that lately. About
the word always in this sentence is funny to me
because I have a I think one of the reasons
I like to surround myself with antiques and vintage things
is the reminder of mortality and the idea that always,
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I mean, you might do something that people will remember
in fifty years, maybe one hundred if the earth is
around that long. So you know, I think the quote,
the mother Teresa quote, if you want to change the world, start,
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you know, love your family, I think is the quote.
Oh yeah, it's like, go and love your family well.
And I feel like that's something that rather than looking
out and going, what is something I want the world
to remember me for? Like, Okay, even if they do,
it's only going to be for another fifty year, Like
what difference does that make?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What can I be remembered for in the people in
my life, in the community that I have, and people
who know me. I mean, kindness is the first word
that comes to mind. I'm not perfect at it by
any means, but it is something that is important to
me that I would love to. I would love for
that to be something that people say about me when
I go.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
This morning, we passed the cemetery driving to school, as
we do every day, and there was something white draped
over one of the tombstones, and for a moment I
thought it was a Halloween decoration, like a like a
front yard like ghost that someone had placed on top
of a grave. And it made me laugh so hard,
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and I made Gus promise that when I die, my
grave will be the one with like the hands sticking
up out of the dirt, or like a Halloween.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Decoration just around.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
So, yeah, kindness seems fun.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Your sense of humor, Like, can my kids just be
the creeps please? That's fun too.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
It's kind of kindness.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
It's like we're just gonna pass out the laughs. Vita
wants to know what is a show you would like
to start a rewatch podcast about and that you would
follow along with watching an episode week to week, Like.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Start listening to a rewatch podcast?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yeah, Like if there was a show that had a rewatch.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Podcast, what would I listen to?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah? What would we follow along?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I mean, for me, The West Wing, Oh, I love
that show so much, and like, who's funnier than like
Bradley Whitford and Alison Janny.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I mean those people. I would just like, I would
love to listen to them talk.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
My husband watches everything and it wears me out because
it feels like I have to have a relationship with
so many different shows. But what's something juicy from when
we were young?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I mean Friends. I would definitely listen to that podcast
if there was a Friends reunion podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, it's something from when we were little, right, Like no, y'all,
I would watch it Saved by the Bell situation, that
rewatched podcast because I want to know who's bone and
who behind the scenes of this like little kid show.
I just want dirt and you know it existed there,
you know it?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
And I like that everyone grew up and like, I
don't know they they have been on TV since they
were little, and a lot of them have really long
careers and there's also been some tragedy, but they all
seem to genuinely love one another, and I think that's.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You want to go back and watch every episode of
say by the Bell thought.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I've already watched like half of them with Gus during
the pandemic. Okay, A Fair still slaps man. I'm just like,
tell him.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Kelly, tell him.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It was fun. Gus. Gus wanted to decorate his whole
room like Saved by the Bell, so I had to
buy all that like nineties weird graphics off the internet.
And kid loved it, loved it all right.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
From Jess, she says, when was the last time you lied?
And to whom? I mean?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I'm not going to be specifical, but I definitely saw
the emails. But I was really really busy and I
did not respond to set emails. And I feel guilty
about it, but also know my limits. So if you
are the center of those emails and you understand that
I'm talking through code, apologies, I can't get to everything.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Man, It's not possible. No, it's just not possible.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I I had to lie to my godson when I
was in Detroit recently to stop a temper tantrum.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I mean, listen, he's too worthy of cause you what
are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
And he wanted to go see the fire trucks so bad,
and I had to be like, oh, but on Tuesdays
the fire station's closed. Yeah, because everyone needs a day off,
and you know the rest of us get the weekends off,
and that's why there's more fires on the weekends, so
the firefighters have to take up they have to take
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a week day off so they can nap.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And he was like, okay, dude, you're just describing. Oh
my god. I was like, I don't.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Mia was like looking at me, just watching me, trying
not to laugh. But he was so enthralled by my story.
And I was like and and and that's why we
can't go see the fire trucks today. And you have
to get in the car with your mommy and your
god mommy and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
We have to go. And he was like okay, and
it was acceptible, acceptible.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
So like, listen, you got to negotiate with toddlers differently.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And I do not feel bad about it.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Oh they ascribed to a magical thinking and so yes,
you do the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Is it a lie or am I actually just telling
him a story?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, just meeting them on his level.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I hate lying. It just is so it really really
really really hate it. And yeah, it's the biggest thing
in our house, Like don't it's the biggest thing for
me in relationships, Like I'm just I just will never
trust you again. If you lie to me, you can
tell me anything. I might get mad at you, but
I will never get more mad than if you lie
to me. That being said, if rules do not make
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sense in some way, I don't necessarily have much of
a conscience about breaking a rule or working around a rule.
If the rule is if it's like semantics and red tape,
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and you can clearly see this rule has been put
in place because one bad apple ruined it for the
whole bunch. Yeah, you know those kinds of things. So yeah,
I mean, I'm trying to think of like an actual
practical example that that's happened with recently. It's probably usually
like it's sometimes traffic rules if nobody else is on
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the road.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Is Maria at the age where she's asking to do
stuff and you have to tell her horror stories as
to why she's not going to do those things, Like
with Gus, I just had to talk about drinking right, oh,
and I had to be like it'll kill you, you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Now I don't do that with her. I'm just I'm
totally honest, Like I'm as honest with her as her
age as is age appropriate for her.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So like yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I try not to scare her into things. I try
and give her a really balanced perspective of both sides
of things. And then I'm like, you have to figure
out you have to take a look at both, use
your brain and make a decision about what you want
looking at like all of the things on both sides.
So I don't sorry, is completely off topic.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
No, but listen, my dad every time, every time there
was a situation as a child, there would be a
story about like how you'll die if you do that thing,
And I just assumed that was parenting, just like, wait,
you're not going to die if you walk across the
street or if you go to the mall with just
your one friend at eight pm on a Saturday. Who. No, Yeah,
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those are the kinds of lies that I grew up with.
We called them urban legends.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, there are some little FIBs. I've probably told her.
She had to, you know, She's like, can I sleep
in your bed tonight? And I'm like, no, you can't.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well I want to? I don't know. I just I'm
going to stay up late and I'm going to be
working on something, and really I just want to, like
land Bet and watch a movie with my boyfriend. So
I'm not I'm just not not telling her the whole troup.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, they don't need to know secrets. It's not a lie,
it's an omission.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Let's do this one.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We got to do the one from Brianna. It's our
Halloween episode.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yes, okay, Brianna wants to know. Have you had any
interesting paranormal experiences? If so, what happened?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah? I wrote a whole mother book about this.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Come on, you should close us out, Hillary, because I'm
sure you've got the craziest ghost stories. Well, so, Sophia,
do you have any Yeah, Wilmington four friends who are listening.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Wilmington is so haunted, like as a place, you know,
a landmark haunted city. I moved twice because of scary
that happened in the places I was living in.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Because of the scary stuff that happened.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I mean, I hung out for a bit because moving
is hard, like breaking away.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But you guys, things things.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Were not okay there, They were not okay there. And
some of the things happened to me alone. But my
last like truly insane paranormal experience, thank god, happened to
me with another person in the room and like we've
neither of us has ever gotten over it.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Well, can you tell us what it was?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yeah, I mean okay, so, I mean you all know,
back in the early days of our show, all of
us were uh partnered, and and then.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
That's the scariest part of the story. Yeah, the scariest
part of the story. And then I, you know, very
publicly was not.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And then the first date I went on was with
a very sweet boy named Austin Nichols when I was
twenty three. And then you know, we dated off and
on for years and long story longer when when he
was like, I'm not gonna let you tell me we
can't date because I because the long distance is too hard,
and he came to work with us, you know, bold, gorgeous,
romantic gesture.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
We laugh about it all the time. We're still good friends.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And when we were actually like properly able to date
because we were living in the same city for the
first time in a decade, we were sleeping. And this
was when I had that creepy apartment on Front Street,
do you remember, And I just knew it was haunted
and Brian, our hairdresser, lived next door with his boyfriend
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and we shared a balcony, the four of us. It
was like a very cute It was like melrose Place,
like the Southern Gothic version.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
That's a TV show. Somebody write that, please right?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And I hear this noise.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It like wakes me up, and I'm going, what are
they doing at like the bar restaurant downstairs? And then
I think, like, what the hell are Brian and his
boyfriend doing on the other side of this wall? And
then I'm like, wait a second, this is coming from
like the alley side of the room, not the shared
wall side the room.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And it's getting.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Louder and louder and louder like and it's in the
floor and I turn the lights on.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Austin looks at me and goes, what is that noise?
And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
And we both start to like get like make our
way over to it. And I'm thinking, Okay, this is
like a two hundred year old building, is like a
raccoon about to like burst out of the wall. Are
there squirrels in the wall? Like I'm making sense of
it by like there must be an animal.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And I would have gone there too.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, And then when I tell you a volleyball sized
orb you who loves an orb? Hillary pops out of
the floor, bright white ball, and we both started to scream.
And if you have never heard a six foot four
inch man that looks like Austin scream at a pitch
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that this raspy woman cannot hit. The two of us
leapt up and ran to get away from it, but
it was coming toward us at this point, and the
direction we ran was not to the back door.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It was back onto the bed and into the wall.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
And we were like we pancaked ourselves against the wall, screaming,
looking at each other, and this thing went from like
round to tall like at us and then just evaporated.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Didn't go through you or I didn't? What did you do?
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Because we were sort of closing our eyes and sort
of looking at each other and sort of screaming because.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Like what do you what was it?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And then we just stood there and we were.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Like, well, what do we do now? You can't call
the police, can't go back to sleep.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
And then like inspected the walls, inspected the floor, not
an opening anywhere, and we both were just like are
we magic?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Are we cursed?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Like what I choose magic, But like, what what.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The was that? And like when we talked to people
in town about it, they.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Were like, oh, yeah, yeah, now you know that alleyway
there were like eighteen murders there in eighteen fifty six,
and you're just like what everywhere in Wilmington people know
how haunted all the buildings are and they're like, oh, yeah,
you know my friend lived in that building once.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That happened to her too. And you're like, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Saw my questions, but I'm going to keep them at
a minimum. But A did you get like an alien
vibe from this thing? Or was it like a ghosty vibe?
It was a ghosty vibe. It was like it was energy.
It didn't feel it didn't feel like something that had
shown up from elsewhere. It felt like something someone some
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like you know, energy ones created can never be destroyed.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Like something was just working its way through wherever it
had to go, and it happened to need to go
through my fucking bedroom.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oo full body chills.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I love.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Have you looked up did you do research on orbs
and stuff? Honestly, no, I should have.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
I just think because we'd talked about all the ones
that were in your house hill for so long, I
was sort of like, well, this is just what happens
in downtown Wilmington. Like I didn't really think that I
needed to look into it any further. But I'm just
so happy that one of my friends was with me
and saw it, because we still are like, wasn't that
so weird?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And it's nice crazy yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Like you like your brother and your your ex witnessed
all the shit that happened in your house.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
They got it worse than I did in my house.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Well, because hester didn't like the boys in Life or Death.
She my, gosh, have you had any ours?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Was so minimal we were It was in our house
in Studio City, and it was like electronics would always
go on in the middle of the night, and it
was always like electronic based and just random things happening
around the house. It was like enough that you're like,
this is beyond just my certainly faulty wire growing up.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Yeah, And then I do remember Maria one time came
in from uh she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom.
She kind of ran into my bedroom and jumped in
the bed, and then I was like, what's up. She's
like nothing. Nothing, And then a few days later she
told me that she saw a girl. She was brushing
her teeth and she spit in the sink and then
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stood up and she saw a girl her age next
to her. Ohoo, hi, Maria. No, no, don't make that
stuff up. And she doesn't. She's because she doesn't lie,
because she knows what a big deal it is. And
she's not like a she's just it's not a characteristic
of her to make up stories like that. So it
was really like an end. It took her days to
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talk about it. She was like, I don't want to
it was weird. I don't know, I don't know. I
don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Oh yeah, that's that's a weird deal. That's why I
sold my house in Wilmington because I remember bringing Gus
there when he was like eighteen months old and him
just looking up at the top of the stairs, and
I have so many stories about like stare action in
that house that I knew my child was being called
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and was like, no, no, no, this is where this ends.
Someone told me that my old house is on the
market again. They sent me like a Zillo listing. No way,
I'm not gonna buy it, but my understanding is that
the current owner is very uncomfortable in the house and
doesn't use the master bedroom or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, So anyway, my house.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
What I found out when I was doing research for
the book is I had been told there was a
murder of a tenant that lived in my house. Like
Hester used to rent out bedrooms when she got older,
and this man never used the kitchen, never used the
bathroom in the eight years I think that he lived there,
and he had come on like a Mormon mission to
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Wilmington and then fell out with the church, and no
one could understand why. And then one day he just
went missing. And so what I didn't know when I
lived in the house is that Hester had had an
exorcism of the house when she lived there in the eighties, right,
and it didn't work. And so it was the back
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bedroom where my brother lived. And literally the day he
moved out, I woke up in the middle of the
night and saw this man standing in my bedroom doorway
and it was clear as day. He was like an
iridescent green color, and it was very unsettling. And yeah,
the more I learn about it, the more unsettling it is.
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in questions and we're happy to answer them for you.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
And I feel like we got some juicy ones.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
I feel like Octopober questions are the best because everyone's
in kind of a mischievous mood to begin with. Yes,
let's just get in do it all right? Laura wants
to know what was your personal favorite Halloween costume and
what was the party that you wore it to? Or
like just event or just like space. We're just in
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your own house, in your own house. Sometimes you just
need to wear a costume at home. If you're into
that sort of thing, tell us, I don't have a
cheerleader uniform at home.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Uh okay. Favorite Halloween costume One of mine was when
I there's a photo of that. We talked about it
on the tour. Coming to your Halloween Party as the
cast of Giant with Paul and Lee. That was really fun. Like,
I love a joint costume, or you're not alone, you
really need other people to complete the whole picture.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
Yeah right, I mean the standalone kind of thing is like.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, I get it, She's Liz Taylor, Like, yeah, that
makes sense.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
Okay, But then then when everyone else joins in, was
Tyler involved in that one too?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
So yeah, oh that's right.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
So Tyler was James Dean, Paul came in as Rock Hudson,
and Lee came in as the Cow like ay.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Cow, which I love that about Lee.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I love that. Yeah, I mean I love Halloween. You
guys know, this is like my super Bowl. In fact,
I just came from the middle school where I was
at eighth grade lunch and I was going from table
to table like reminding kids to come to our Halloween
festival on Sunday. And this kid that has typically like
been very rough on me as I was like, you
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guys call me and all the other mothers. You know,
the witches in town are put it on this haunted house.
And some kid made a derogatory remark about witches and
this little boy goes be respectful, and I was like, oh,
witches is how I get through to this thirteen year old.
So yeah, Halloween's my jam. I would say the most
meaningful Halloween I've had was when Gus was going through
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his Hamilton phase and like really really really needed me
to dress up with him, and he wanted to be
George Washington, which meant I had to be Alexander Hamilton.
So like wearing the wig and like the tight white
pants and the frills and stuff through town.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
It was an experience.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
And it was when the show first came out, so
it wasn't the hit it is today, Like no one
knew what we were doing.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
That was sweet. I love that.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
I mean, well, Joy, you were talking about that one
year at Hills, which made me think. I think that
that was the same year that I love a good
costume that I can just recycle because it's like why not,
if it's great, I'm gonna wear it again.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Nobody's gonna remember.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
And I had like gone through one of my storage
bins and found an old red riding hood costume that
I had, and I had made the cape.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
So it was like this huge.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Like hood that came down over the shoulders and it
was red satin on one side and black velvet on
the other and it went like down to the floor.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
I just loved it.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
I'd made it years before for Halloween party in La
and then I was like, Oh, I just have this.
I'm gonna wear this again, and I loved it.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
It all happens at your house, Hill.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And my brother fell in love with you that year.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
My little brother was in college and like came to
visit from college and got probably way too drunk, and
Sophia was the one that held his Viking hair while
he threw up you because he was wearing away.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
He was so sweet.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
I was like, oh, honey, let's hold your hairbag. Everything's
gonna be okay. Just try to puke in a bush,
not in the house.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Yeah, what are we dressing up for this year?
Speaker 7 (04:36):
What are we doing this year?
Speaker 3 (04:38):
What should we do this year?
Speaker 5 (04:41):
I mean, I'm going as a witch, because well.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
I was gonna say, should we just dress up as
the cast of hocus Pocus.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Hello, that's a no brainer.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
For my son's school. Their mascot is the Hawks, and
we're doing Hawk manner. And so I got this big
feather like collar. Oh, just to be a very extra fan.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
I did that from Maria a couple of years ago.
She wanted to be young Maleficent. So I built those wings.
I got went and got a whole strip of all
these feathers, and I like built a wire frame set
of wings and did the whole Yeah, all the feathers
and everything. It was a really cool costume. It's fun
when you get to work with when you get to
make your own stuff. I don't know what am I
going to do this year? What are we What are
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we going to do? I think we're probably going to
go as the Gilmour Girls because she's into it right now.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Yeah, I love a nostalgia costume. Also, I gotta be
honest with you, guys, I don't even know what day
Halloween is this year.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
It's a Tuesday, which is weird.
Speaker 6 (05:35):
That always bums me out a little bit. Me too,
I prefer a weekend Halloween.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, yeah, Halloween should be one of those holidays that travels,
like it's always just on the Friday of the Saturday
of the week, you know, like Thanksgiving it's always on
the Thursday.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
Yeah, yeah, Like shouldn't it just be the last Saturday
of October?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Just a traveling holiday. What I wouldn't give?
Speaker 6 (05:57):
You know what, when we take over the government, that's
going to be our number one cause.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
To us, we'd like.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
To propose a bill that's right, Daylight savings and Halloween perfect.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
All right, what we go next?
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Well, this one's from Rasa Raisa, Rasa, Risa, Risa. We
don't know how to say your name, Rasa, but it's
super cool the way it's spelled.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It's very beautiful to look at. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I wish I wish I was more well educated on
how to say your name. But you asked us, what
do you take pictures of the mosts? What do you
take pictures of the most.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
You guys, my best friend just told me so hard
yesterday for this. So we're up in Big Sir, and
we were going down the highway and it's like magic hour,
you know, the ocean looks moody, there's pink clouds out
and these huge green fields that stretched toward the ocean,
and this field that we'd driven by earlier in the
day was full of cows, like beautiful brown cows in
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the sunset.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
And so I'm like, we have to pull over, and
I roll the window down and I'm taking pictures of
these cows.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
And she goes, what are you gonna do? Frame a
picture of those cows and put it up in your house. Yeah.
I was like, maybe I might look how beautiful they are.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
She was like, You're never gonna look back at that photo.
And I realized I take photos of landscapes everywhere, and
I never look at them again.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
You're a photo hoarder the same way that you're a hoarder. Hoarder,
I have to have it.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
If I just have it in my connection, if I
just have it, I could look at it someday.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
Maybe options are Oh my god, I have to look
at my phone to see what I have the most
pictures of. I feel like it's screen grabs of information
that I'm too lazy to relay.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Yes, I have a lot of those too. I mean Maria,
but she's also at an age now where she doesn't
want me to take her picture anymore. You know, she
throws her hands up and doesn't want to. Oh, I
have photos of the last.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Thing I got a picture of is George's nose crinkle
like George has when she scrunches her nose up. The
lines that are created in her flesh are just a
shape that I find really pleasing. And so I've made
her take this whole series of nose crimple pictures because
I'm convinced I'm gonna get it like tattooed, like geometry
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on my arm somewhere.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Oh yeah, I just is it or is it a
little bit obsessive? It's just like nose making your nose.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yeah, make those black and white and do a sequence
like a photo booth sequence with a bunch of them.
He's so cute.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
It also feels important to grab because, like your nose
in your ears are the two things that never stop
growing in your life. So it's not gonna look the
same when she's twenty well, And.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
It's how I can tell she's genuinely happy because she's
an actor, Like she can fake a laugh or a smile,
but when she gets into nose crinkle zone, like it's
I love it.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
That's so sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I have mostly pictures of Maria and then photos of
I really do like taking photos of my friends in position,
like in a spot when I feel like they would
want that photo. If I see something that I'm like, oh,
this person would want to have this memory or this photo,
I like to jump in and take that.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
That's so nice. That's like the best gift that you
can give people.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
I think it's just because I've because as a single mom,
I have so there's so many moments that nobody ever
took photos of. They're just in my mind because it's
just her and I and I have some selfies of us,
but whenever somebody would jump in and be like, let
me take a picture of the two of you, or
just grab a photo and send it to me, it did.
It always meant so much. So I think realizing that
made me go, oh, I want to do that for
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the people too.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
Yeah, that's one of my favorite things to do out
in the world, Like when I see people. When I
see a group of people or a family or whoever,
you know, there's a whole group of people standing in
front of it, or like a restaurant and one person's
taking the picture, and I was like.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
No, you go get in it. I'll take it.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I love to take pictures for people so they can
all be in the photo together.
Speaker 5 (10:10):
I see. I try to do that and I always
get rejected. I have a thief face.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I think. Jeffrey laughs so hard.
Speaker 7 (10:18):
Like we'll be at the beach and you'll see people
doing that and I'm like, do you want me to
get this picture of all of you? And they're just
like no, no, move along.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
No. When you get rejected trying to.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Help, you're like, I'm stealing that phone. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
They think you're the woman like selling roses who's gonna
grab the phone and run.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Or they think you're just gonna take a photo with
like all the feet cut off or something, or like
too much space on the top.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
I look like I won't do it right, but you will.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
You're a good photo taker.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Hello, guys, Tyler wants to know what is something you owe?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Always want to be remembered for.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Bitchery.
Speaker 7 (11:07):
When I think about all the things that people do
know me for, it's usually either picking a fight or
ending a fight, or saying what I think, And so
I don't know that I have any options here.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
I think it is just bitchery.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Which I'm good with.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Is it something we've already done or something that we
want to do.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
If it's something, if it's something that already exists. I
think the thing that I hear from people the most,
that means the most to me is that my home
feels like they're home.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Oh that's nice, like.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
For me.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
Being the place that people can come to to celebrate
or to grieve. Like I love to be the space
that people know they can rest, And it means a
lot to me that, Like you know, over the years,
like so many people have keys to my house. Yeah,
so many people know that, like if they need something,
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they can they can come and stay with me. And
I love that feeling and I never want that to change.
Like that's been a deal breaker for me in relationships
like in the past. If people don't like it, I'm like, well,
this far predates.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You, so you have to go. But I do.
Speaker 6 (12:27):
I thought that was a really astute question, like what
will it be in the future? What is what is
something we're going to do that we haven't done yet?
Who are we growing into? Like I love the idea
that there are outcomes we can't even imagine yet, because
life is going to be bigger than what we've previous.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
I can't even imagine yet.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
God, I've been thinking a lot about that lately. About
the word always in this sentence is funny to me
because I have a I think one of the reasons
I like to surround myself with antiques and vintage things
is the reminder of mortality and the idea that always,
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I mean, you might do something that people will remember
in fifty years, maybe one hundred if the earth is
around that long. So you know, I think the quote,
the mother Teresa quote, if you want to change the world, start,
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you know, love your family, I think is the quote.
Oh yeah, it's like, go and love your family well.
And I feel like that's something that rather than looking
out and going, what is something I want the world
to remember me for? Like, Okay, even if they do,
it's only going to be for another fifty year, Like
what difference does that make?
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Like?
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What can I be remembered for in the people in
my life, in the community that I have, and people
who know me. I mean, kindness is the first word
that comes to mind. I'm not perfect at it by
any means, but it is something that is important to
me that I would love to. I would love for
that to be something that people say about me when
I go.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
This morning, we passed the cemetery driving to school, as
we do every day, and there was something white draped
over one of the tombstones, and for a moment I
thought it was a Halloween decoration, like a like a
front yard like ghost that someone had placed on top
of a grave. And it made me laugh so hard,
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and I made Gus promise that when I die, my
grave will be the one with like the hands sticking
up out of the dirt, or like a Halloween.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Decoration just around.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
So, yeah, kindness seems fun.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
Your sense of humor, Like, can my kids just be
the creeps please? That's fun too.
Speaker 4 (14:59):
It's kind of kindness.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
It's like we're just gonna pass out the laughs. Vita
wants to know what is a show you would like
to start a rewatch podcast about and that you would
follow along with watching an episode week to week, Like.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Start listening to a rewatch podcast?
Speaker 5 (15:21):
Yeah, Like if there was a show that had a rewatch.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Podcast, what would I listen to?
Speaker 5 (15:26):
Yeah? What would we follow along?
Speaker 6 (15:30):
I mean, for me, The West Wing, Oh, I love
that show so much, and like, who's funnier than like
Bradley Whitford and Alison Janny.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
I mean those people. I would just like, I would
love to listen to them talk.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
My husband watches everything and it wears me out because
it feels like I have to have a relationship with
so many different shows. But what's something juicy from when
we were young?
Speaker 4 (16:00):
I mean Friends. I would definitely listen to that podcast
if there was a Friends reunion podcast.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
Yeah, it's something from when we were little, right, Like no, y'all,
I would watch it Saved by the Bell situation, that
rewatched podcast because I want to know who's bone and
who behind the scenes of this like little kid show.
I just want dirt and you know it existed there,
you know it?
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Oh yeah?
Speaker 5 (16:27):
And I like that everyone grew up and like, I
don't know they they have been on TV since they
were little, and a lot of them have really long
careers and there's also been some tragedy, but they all
seem to genuinely love one another, and I think that's.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
You want to go back and watch every episode of
say by the Bell thought.
Speaker 5 (16:47):
I've already watched like half of them with Gus during
the pandemic. Okay, A Fair still slaps man. I'm just like,
tell him.
Speaker 8 (16:54):
Kelly, tell him.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
It was fun. Gus. Gus wanted to decorate his whole
room like Saved by the Bell, so I had to
buy all that like nineties weird graphics off the internet.
And kid loved it, loved it all right.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
From Jess, she says, when was the last time you lied?
And to whom? I mean?
Speaker 5 (17:19):
I'm not going to be specifical, but I definitely saw
the emails. But I was really really busy and I
did not respond to set emails. And I feel guilty
about it, but also know my limits. So if you
are the center of those emails and you understand that
I'm talking through code, apologies, I can't get to everything.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Man, It's not possible. No, it's just not possible.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
No.
Speaker 6 (17:48):
I I had to lie to my godson when I
was in Detroit recently to stop a temper tantrum.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
I mean, listen, he's too worthy of cause you what
are you going to do?
Speaker 6 (18:00):
And he wanted to go see the fire trucks so bad,
and I had to be like, oh, but on Tuesdays
the fire station's closed. Yeah, because everyone needs a day off,
and you know the rest of us get the weekends off,
and that's why there's more fires on the weekends, so
the firefighters have to take up they have to take
(18:21):
a week day off so they can nap.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
And he was like, okay, dude, you're just describing. Oh
my god. I was like, I don't.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Mia was like looking at me, just watching me, trying
not to laugh. But he was so enthralled by my story.
And I was like and and and that's why we
can't go see the fire trucks today. And you have
to get in the car with your mommy and your
god mommy and.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
We have to go. And he was like okay, and
it was acceptible, acceptible.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
So like, listen, you got to negotiate with toddlers differently.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
And I do not feel bad about it.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Oh they ascribed to a magical thinking and so yes,
you do the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Is it a lie or am I actually just telling
him a story?
Speaker 5 (19:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Yeah, just meeting them on his level.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I hate lying. It just is so it really really
really really hate it. And yeah, it's the biggest thing
in our house, Like don't it's the biggest thing for
me in relationships, Like I'm just I just will never
trust you again. If you lie to me, you can
tell me anything. I might get mad at you, but
I will never get more mad than if you lie
to me. That being said, if rules do not make
(19:34):
sense in some way, I don't necessarily have much of
a conscience about breaking a rule or working around a rule.
If the rule is if it's like semantics and red tape,
(19:56):
and you can clearly see this rule has been put
in place because one bad apple ruined it for the
whole bunch. Yeah, you know those kinds of things. So yeah,
I mean, I'm trying to think of like an actual
practical example that that's happened with recently. It's probably usually
like it's sometimes traffic rules if nobody else is on
(20:17):
the road.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
Is Maria at the age where she's asking to do
stuff and you have to tell her horror stories as
to why she's not going to do those things, Like
with Gus, I just had to talk about drinking right, oh,
and I had to be like it'll kill you, you know, Like.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Now I don't do that with her. I'm just I'm
totally honest, Like I'm as honest with her as her
age as is age appropriate for her.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
So like yeah.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
I try not to scare her into things. I try
and give her a really balanced perspective of both sides
of things. And then I'm like, you have to figure
out you have to take a look at both, use
your brain and make a decision about what you want
looking at like all of the things on both sides.
So I don't sorry, is completely off topic.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
No, but listen, my dad every time, every time there
was a situation as a child, there would be a
story about like how you'll die if you do that thing,
And I just assumed that was parenting, just like, wait,
you're not going to die if you walk across the
street or if you go to the mall with just
your one friend at eight pm on a Saturday. Who. No, Yeah,
(21:26):
those are the kinds of lies that I grew up with.
We called them urban legends.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Yeah, there are some little FIBs. I've probably told her.
She had to, you know, She's like, can I sleep
in your bed tonight? And I'm like, no, you can't.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (21:40):
Well I want to? I don't know. I just I'm
going to stay up late and I'm going to be
working on something, and really I just want to, like
land Bet and watch a movie with my boyfriend. So
I'm not I'm just not not telling her the whole troup.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Yeah, they don't need to know secrets. It's not a lie,
it's an omission.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Let's do this one.
Speaker 4 (22:08):
We got to do the one from Brianna. It's our
Halloween episode.
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Yes, okay, Brianna wants to know. Have you had any
interesting paranormal experiences? If so, what happened?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Yeah? I wrote a whole mother book about this.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
Come on, you should close us out, Hillary, because I'm
sure you've got the craziest ghost stories. Well, so, Sophia,
do you have any Yeah, Wilmington four friends who are listening.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
Wilmington is so haunted, like as a place, you know,
a landmark haunted city. I moved twice because of scary
that happened in the places I was living in.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Because of the scary stuff that happened.
Speaker 6 (22:56):
I mean, I hung out for a bit because moving
is hard, like breaking away.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
But you guys, things things.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
Were not okay there, They were not okay there. And
some of the things happened to me alone. But my
last like truly insane paranormal experience, thank god, happened to
me with another person in the room and like we've
neither of us has ever gotten over it.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Well, can you tell us what it was?
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Yeah, I mean okay, so, I mean you all know,
back in the early days of our show, all of
us were uh partnered, and and then.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
That's the scariest part of the story. Yeah, the scariest
part of the story. And then I, you know, very
publicly was not.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
And then the first date I went on was with
a very sweet boy named Austin Nichols when I was
twenty three. And then you know, we dated off and
on for years and long story longer when when he
was like, I'm not gonna let you tell me we
can't date because I because the long distance is too hard,
and he came to work with us, you know, bold, gorgeous,
romantic gesture.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
We laugh about it all the time. We're still good friends.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
And when we were actually like properly able to date
because we were living in the same city for the
first time in a decade, we were sleeping. And this
was when I had that creepy apartment on Front Street,
do you remember, And I just knew it was haunted
and Brian, our hairdresser, lived next door with his boyfriend
(24:33):
and we shared a balcony, the four of us. It
was like a very cute It was like melrose Place,
like the Southern Gothic version.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
That's a TV show. Somebody write that, please right?
Speaker 3 (24:41):
And I hear this noise.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
It like wakes me up, and I'm going, what are
they doing at like the bar restaurant downstairs? And then
I think, like, what the hell are Brian and his
boyfriend doing on the other side of this wall? And
then I'm like, wait a second, this is coming from
like the alley side of the room, not the shared
wall side the room.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
And it's getting.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
Louder and louder and louder like and it's in the
floor and I turn the lights on.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Austin looks at me and goes, what is that noise?
And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
And we both start to like get like make our
way over to it. And I'm thinking, Okay, this is
like a two hundred year old building, is like a
raccoon about to like burst out of the wall. Are
there squirrels in the wall? Like I'm making sense of
it by like there must be an animal.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
And I would have gone there too.
Speaker 6 (25:31):
Yeah, And then when I tell you a volleyball sized
orb you who loves an orb? Hillary pops out of
the floor, bright white ball, and we both started to scream.
And if you have never heard a six foot four
inch man that looks like Austin scream at a pitch
(25:51):
that this raspy woman cannot hit. The two of us
leapt up and ran to get away from it, but
it was coming toward us at this point, and the
direction we ran was not to the back door.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
It was back onto the bed and into the wall.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
And we were like we pancaked ourselves against the wall, screaming,
looking at each other, and this thing went from like
round to tall like at us and then just evaporated.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
Didn't go through you or I didn't? What did you do?
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Because we were sort of closing our eyes and sort
of looking at each other and sort of screaming because.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
Like what do you what was it?
Speaker 6 (26:29):
And then we just stood there and we were.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Like, well, what do we do now? You can't call
the police, can't go back to sleep.
Speaker 6 (26:38):
And then like inspected the walls, inspected the floor, not
an opening anywhere, and we both were just like are
we magic?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Now?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Are we cursed?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Like what I choose magic, But like, what what.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
The was that? And like when we talked to people
in town about it, they.
Speaker 6 (26:58):
Were like, oh, yeah, yeah, now you know that alleyway
there were like eighteen murders there in eighteen fifty six,
and you're just like what everywhere in Wilmington people know
how haunted all the buildings are and they're like, oh, yeah,
you know my friend lived in that building once.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
That happened to her too. And you're like, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
Saw my questions, but I'm going to keep them at
a minimum. But A did you get like an alien
vibe from this thing? Or was it like a ghosty vibe?
It was a ghosty vibe. It was like it was energy.
It didn't feel it didn't feel like something that had
shown up from elsewhere. It felt like something someone some
(27:37):
like you know, energy ones created can never be destroyed.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Like something was just working its way through wherever it
had to go, and it happened to need to go
through my fucking bedroom.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
Oo full body chills.
Speaker 5 (27:50):
I love.
Speaker 3 (27:52):
Have you looked up did you do research on orbs
and stuff? Honestly, no, I should have.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
I just think because we'd talked about all the ones
that were in your house hill for so long, I
was sort of like, well, this is just what happens
in downtown Wilmington. Like I didn't really think that I
needed to look into it any further. But I'm just
so happy that one of my friends was with me
and saw it, because we still are like, wasn't that
so weird?
Speaker 3 (28:17):
And it's nice crazy yeah.
Speaker 6 (28:21):
Like you like your brother and your your ex witnessed
all the shit that happened in your house.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
They got it worse than I did in my house.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Well, because hester didn't like the boys in Life or Death.
She my, gosh, have you had any ours?
Speaker 4 (28:39):
Was so minimal we were It was in our house
in Studio City, and it was like electronics would always
go on in the middle of the night, and it
was always like electronic based and just random things happening
around the house. It was like enough that you're like,
this is beyond just my certainly faulty wire growing up.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Yeah, And then I do remember Maria one time came
in from uh she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom.
She kind of ran into my bedroom and jumped in
the bed, and then I was like, what's up. She's
like nothing. Nothing, And then a few days later she
told me that she saw a girl. She was brushing
her teeth and she spit in the sink and then
(29:19):
stood up and she saw a girl her age next
to her. Ohoo, hi, Maria. No, no, don't make that
stuff up. And she doesn't. She's because she doesn't lie,
because she knows what a big deal it is. And
she's not like a she's just it's not a characteristic
of her to make up stories like that. So it
was really like an end. It took her days to
(29:40):
talk about it. She was like, I don't want to
it was weird. I don't know, I don't know. I
don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 5 (29:44):
Oh yeah, that's that's a weird deal. That's why I
sold my house in Wilmington because I remember bringing Gus
there when he was like eighteen months old and him
just looking up at the top of the stairs, and
I have so many stories about like stare action in
that house that I knew my child was being called
(30:05):
and was like, no, no, no, this is where this ends.
Someone told me that my old house is on the
market again. They sent me like a Zillo listing. No way,
I'm not gonna buy it, but my understanding is that
the current owner is very uncomfortable in the house and
doesn't use the master bedroom or anything like that.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Yeah, So anyway, my house.
Speaker 5 (30:29):
What I found out when I was doing research for
the book is I had been told there was a
murder of a tenant that lived in my house. Like
Hester used to rent out bedrooms when she got older,
and this man never used the kitchen, never used the
bathroom in the eight years I think that he lived there,
and he had come on like a Mormon mission to
(30:49):
Wilmington and then fell out with the church, and no
one could understand why. And then one day he just
went missing. And so what I didn't know when I
lived in the house is that Hester had had an
exorcism of the house when she lived there in the eighties, right,
and it didn't work. And so it was the back
(31:10):
bedroom where my brother lived. And literally the day he
moved out, I woke up in the middle of the
night and saw this man standing in my bedroom doorway
and it was clear as day. He was like an
iridescent green color, and it was very unsettling. And yeah,
the more I learn about it, the more unsettling it is.
(31:32):
But this for another book, friends, So for another book.
You know, creepy things abound. Thank you so much for
joining us on this Halloween edition.
Speaker 3 (31:42):
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