Afraid of clowns? You're not wrong.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody Weekend Replay podcast. Twelve
of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Why are so many of us afraid of clowns? Well,
first of.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
All, the actual phobia people who actually have that, it's
kind of rare.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Most of us just find clowns very creepy folk.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've never as a kid, I never unless they're scary
looking clowns. That's different. But most clowns, like the clown
of clowns. Yeah, they're not scary.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
They're funny. They're supposed to be entertaining. Disagree, make balloon animals.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I kind of disagree.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
As soon as you paint on weirdness on a face
like that and you just stored it, I'm like a doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Sam.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Even Ronald McDonald, I know, and I love McDonald's and
I love Ronald McDonald was my favorite job, first job,
it was my first job. But even Ronald, just the
clown thing.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, that doesn't bother me. Who was the clown that
we knew, Sam? What was her name? Can you remember?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Bubbles?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Patches?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Poke dot poke yeah, poke dot the clown. Nothing scary
about her?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, you're right, maybe it's the lady clowns that are
sweet and the you know, male clowns that are scary.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I do think you're on something, onto something though, because
it depending on how how much you exaggerate your facial
feature that that could scare anything.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Joker, but that's scary makeup.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And of course there are some classic ones penny Wise,
thank you, Stephen King and Petty Wise, the dancing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
See, that's the problem is it's the movies that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Here's what's up all most of us, A lot of
us find them creepy in certain ways.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Only a few people.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's rare for someone to actually have the phobia where
they have anxiety, they can't breathe around clowns. They have
to get away from clowns. And I hate that for you.
If you have that, like you seek treatment. But the
reason you guys nailed it. Evil clowns have become a
part of pop culture. You grow up kind of assuming
that clowns are scary or can be scary, and we
(01:54):
had that in the For me, it was that Poltergeist
clown puppets under the before I even knew the penny
Wise was yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh that's the puppet that wrapped his arms around half.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And why did I think that was a clown?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Does it look like a clown?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, it did, but there are other psychological reasons it
messes with us. The makeup is unsettling.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It takes something that we identify as great a face
and it distorts it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, thatt, I've got to believe that's an instinct, primal thing. Yes, right,
And if you know, if it doesn't look it looks threatening.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And clowns are unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You don't know if they're going to whip out a
flower or squirtch you an I'll pull you down into
the gutter.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You don't forget the handkerchief and then you sleeve.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And the other thing is for most of us.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
If it feels creepy to you, it just gives us
a psychological discomfort.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you're not alone.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And by the way, we are here for you to
hear about your weird fears. No judgment eight seven seven
three one zero four M.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
SJ.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Texter or call us eight seven seven three one zero
four M. SJ.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Kell?
Speaker 8 (03:01):
I have two ghost stories, one sweet and one scary.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah here, I want to hear sweet first.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Okay, sweet first? So I had a twenty nine a
week baby, and so he was in the NICU for
six and a half weeks. I bought him home on
oxygen and heart monitor, and so when he was asleep,
my father had died four years before, and so he
would be asleep and he would stop breathing sometimes, and
(03:30):
so I would get awakened by my father's voice, Oh on, Kelly,
get up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh, And I would.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Go into my son's room and he would have the
wires wrapped around his neck because he had been moving
all over the bed. And so as long as he
had the oxygen on, he would wake me up in
the middle of the night to go check on him.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's fun.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Oh, I know, it was freaky. And then I would
be sitting on the couch when he was a little older,
and my father was always cooking and we were the
only people the house, and he would be looking over
my shoulder into the kitchen and he would start laughing hysterically,
and I would look, and there's nobody there, and he
would just be laughing hysterically, and I just know that
(04:11):
I just knew it was my dad in there making
him laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I love that. That is sweet, Yes, all right,
spooky time.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I hear spooky now, yeah, all right, spooky time. So
when we were first married, we moved into this house
that was more than one hundred and fifty years old,
and it was across the street from a Baptist old
Baptist church that had a graveyard in the front yard.
But the house had one upstairs room and there was
door had of the lock on the outside of the room.
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So I would sleep during the day because I worked
at night, and I would have feel someone pulled the
covers off of me while I was sleeping, and I
would have to like roll myself up in my covers
and someone be tugging on my covers when I was sleeping.
And then I would start hearing music in that upstairs
room who and it would wake me up, and I
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would go up there and it would stop. And I
couldn't find a radio anywhere. So one night I was
working and my husband was asleep, and when I got home,
he said, did you come home early? I said, no,
he said someone I felt someone get in the bed
last night with me, he said, and they pulled the
covers off of it.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yes, So those of the two that I have.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Wow, that's crazy. Kelly A House full of spirits, sweet
and scared.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Spirits eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ for
your real life ghost stories.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Social media connect bring it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If you have a weird fear and you think you're
alone in it, chances are you are not. Check out
our Instagram and Facebook page and read everybody's weird fear.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's like a confessional there right now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And I am so proud of you for admitting it
and blown away by some of this. Nora sent this
in I'm afraid of making phone calls. I don't understand
why everybody thinks it's. Every time I tell somebody about it,
they asked me why, and I don't even know what
to tell them because I don't understand it either. Jerry said,
phone calls makes no sense at all. Rachel, making phone
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calls terrifies me. I get nervous and my palms get
sweaty aw. That makes me so sad. But I guess
there's something unnatural to you about it. But it's just
a conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, if you've become so accustomed to texting and text
chat and all that, maybe maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I understand why.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let's be honest, our kids are not as confident on
phone calls.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Because they didn't look.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I could not wait to get a phone in my
room when I was a little girl, and my parents
couldn't get me off that phone. In fact, when they
wanted to punish me, they would take my phone away.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
So anyway, so it works today.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, you're not kidding about that because I remember, you know,
if I wanted to have a private phone call, I
had to squeeze myself into the pantry. Correct, by the way,
was not a walk in pantry.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Skinny when you're a teenager, that right, Murphy. Anyway, I
didn't realize that making phone calls was such a thing,
but it is a real fear for many.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We were seeing that coming in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
When we're discussing weird fears, Stacy said, her weird fear
is to die naked with just socks on.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I have told my family to not let that happen.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Put gloves, a scar for anything on me, but don't
let me die with only socks on.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh that's like my mom used to always tell us
to wear clean underwear. You never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, isn't the car accident thing?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that's positive.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I do not wear them for your own.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Just wear them well clean ones.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean cleans.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
We're clean ones for your own, sanitary facey.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You wind up in the emergency room, they're not going
to say, oh, we were going to help you. But
look at this underwear.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I look at this person, she's only got her socks.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, what's up here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We are feeling you and your weird fears. Keep them coming.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Eight seven seven three one zero MSJ. It's that time
of the year. Strange fears, ghost stories, you name it,
We're looking for it from you. Eight seven seven three
one zero four MSJ.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Never miss a call Murphy, Sam and Jody twenty four
hour voicemail.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Hi, It's for Alicia, the forensic psychology students.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I have always been afraid of clown's, like seriously afraid
of clowns that I will run high anything I can
do to get away from it. My husband didn't realize
how but how deeply that fear went until he saw
it in person. About five years ago. We were at
six Flags and it was during Halloween and it was
(08:50):
already night time to all the scary stuff without so
he wanted to ride the Superman ride. Well, in order
to ride that ride, we had to go through the clowns,
and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna try and do
this for you. Like, so I kept hyping myself up.
The one clown he was busy with two other people
and he was the one with the chain. So I'm like, okay,
(09:11):
we can sink past him and he's not going to
notice that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Wrong.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
He immediately turns around us. We're trying to sink behind him.
He turns around, he noticed was my knee race and
he's like, hey, what's wrong with your knee?
Speaker 10 (09:24):
And as soon as.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
I look down, he revs up his chain. Thought he
starts coming closer to me. I immediately freeze, Like I
don't have a fight or flight type of thing in
these situations.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I have a freeze.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
So my husband, he was trying to get my attention,
I couldn't even hear him. I couldn't hear anything around
me except for this clown. And it literally just became
too real for me, and I started to back up
as far as I could go, and I ended up
hitting the fence behind me, and I start crying and
I can't move, no nothing. It's literally terrifying for me.
(10:03):
And so eventually the clown breaks character and he's like,
you can go. I couldn't even like really hear him
say that. My husband's still trying to get my attention.
I eventually something clicked and I can hear my husband,
and so we start to walk. And we didn't even
go all the way to the Superman ride because we
would have to walk back through that. So we just
(10:25):
end up believing. But that is how much I am
absolutely terrified of clowns.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I hate hearing that. For you, Alicia, he too.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I guess I'm glad he broke character and said you
can leave. I would too.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That's the problem. I could never work a hont A
house because I wouldn't want to scare.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Anything, and clowns don't really scare me. But I can't
tell you how many times in my life I seem
to be walking through the clown section wherever I go.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, it is time your real life ghost story or
experience something happened and made you believe sweet or scary.
Bring it eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
We've asked you, and even when we're not here, you're
calling in.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Never miss a call, Murphy Salmon Jody twenty four hour voicemail.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Hi, I just wanted to call and tell you my
ghost story. It's about a baby. And when we first
bought the house, I had one baby and one on
the way. And the baby that I'm talking about, you
could hear them cry and I'd get up to go
see what was wrong, and by the time i'd get
(11:37):
a halfway there, it would stop. And every time it
would cry and then stop. So I asked my neighbor
if you know what had happened in the house, and
if they knew what could be going on, and they
said there had been a fire in the house and
that the baby had died in the fire. I just
wanted to tell you my story. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's awful.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And for a mother to not be able to get
to a crying baby, ghost or not, that would bother
me so much. There was something about that sound that
just calls you to action.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, no, it is all right, keep it.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's a lot creepy, Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But thank you for that for leaving us that voicemail.
Let's check another.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Hey there, I was just calling about the ghost surreal
type experience. My husband died in two thousand and nine
and left me with two little girls to raise. And
when my oldest daughter was in middle school, she went
to her first homecoming dance, which has been several years
after he passed. But my sister in law came over
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and took pictures. We had a big night, and then
later on when we got the pictures back, we realized
that there was an orb by my daughter's head and
a couple of the pictures like he was there. So anyhow,
I've never been one to like believe in that kind
of thing. I'm the spiritual person, but that kind of
opened the eyes a little bit.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
He was with her.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
So anyway, I appreciate you guys, listening to you every morning.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
See there's a good one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
That is a good one and only being by her
head in the pictures and not by anyone else's I mean, yeah,
eye opening.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All right, keep it coming. We love hearing from you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You can also send those into Facebook or Instagram or
Murphy Samonjody dot com. You might call it a weird fear,
but we call it You're human and we are loving
hearing about your weird odd fears. Uh anytime, really, but
this time of the year I guess it kind of
comes out. Dahlia says, my irrational fear is that my
windshield will shatter while it's in the drying part of
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the car wash.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, that is so specific.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I never thought about that one, Dahlia.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
When I was a little girl, well if.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You even know this, Murphy, when I was a little girl,
I would get on the floorboard and cry and scream
during the car wash.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You know my parents still did it though.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah, but there are a lot of little kids that don't.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like the car wash.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It seems like some big monsters eating your car.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well also too, that foam covers the car so you
can't stay out, like all these noises are going on. Sure, yeah,
I'm not saying I had a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It sounds like it, okay. Tammy says my irrational fear,
My weird fear bungee cords. I hate them, especially the
old rubber ones. They get dry and cracked. I just
know it's gonna snap and the awful book will get me.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
That's the thing about rubber bands, bungee cords, all that.
You know, that's a completely logical fear to me.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, it feels like it's going to get anime, We're
with you, Tammy.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Linda says, walking through leaves, she's afraid of snakes. I
get that totally. Melissa germs, I'm a healthcare worker, walking
in wet grass, anything heights, anything with a lot of holes,
triple phobia.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
A lot of holes.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, no, that's a real one. Remember we talked about
it once. Everything that's got.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Holes is like a sponge walking through things like peg board.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No things with little holes.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The human mind and what we tell ourselves is so interesting. Okay,
I've got one from Tina. Anything glow in the dark. Oh,
I'm sorry, huh, scared of that?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Dark can be a little bit spooky looking.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It looks a little unnatural. So, although it's a safety thing.
On Halloween trick or treat.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Night, Cody says, I'm terrified of stickers. I have been
since I was a child.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, oh, that's sad. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And Felicia says anything in water that is not a pool.
She doesn't even like seeing regular objects in deep water.
And I don't know what that could be too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You can see it, but it's different.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I certainly don't want to see any electronics in water.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's an obsession, not a fear.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Keep it coming. You can join us anytime as well.
Eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ eight seven
seven three to one zero four MSJ to join the
conversation anytime. If we miss you, drop us a voicemail anytime.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Never miss a call. Murphy Salmon Jody twenty four hour voicemail.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
Hi, guys, First of all, love the show. And on
the note of the smell of your spouse.
Speaker 12 (16:34):
My husband died.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Three years ago and I had to go to work
in a factory and love my job. But when I
came when I first started coming home from work, my
girls would hug me and say, oh my god, Mom,
he smells so much like daddy, and they would take
like whatever shirt I might have and they would just
smell it and smell it and smell it. So, yeah,
(16:57):
have a great day. And it's true you do have
a scent and your loved ones can smell it.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Love you, guys, Thank you for the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's sweet. Thank you for letting us know that. Isn't
it funny that you but you can't know your own
scent in your life? Yeah, you just can't.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, I've told you that before Jody. If you don't
mind me saying that, what what I think? Jody has
a sweet smell, and I always it's just like you
smell like Jody. I mean, wait, I don't know how
to explain that.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
But is also an essential component to attract attraction, right,
you know, remember years ago when we first started working together, Sam.
I don't know if you know this story or not,
but if I didn't have a set of headphones, I
would pick up Murphy's and put them on and borrow,
and yours I would borrow and they didn't do anything
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And then I would put Murphy's on and they would
smell so good. I remember thinking, these are definitely murphy
they like? Do they really they smell nice? Do you
like the way they smell too?
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Not enough to marry them, but.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Thank you for that voicemail really means a lot. Jason
sent this email in switching subjects. My son and I
are extreme lego collectors. You were talking about lego theft
the other day, and it is a very huge thing.
Lego increases in value as much as gold, sometimes even
more than gold. Really, that includes and specifically includes never
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opened sets or even built sets.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Without instructions.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So guard your legos like it's like their gold, because
they are huh wow. Good to know guarded and know
that retailers are having to lock them up. Sad but
true they are eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
We love having you long join us anytime we do.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
What's going on, Tara, I was calling in reference to
the strange fears. Okay, so my daughter, she's grown now,
but when she was younger and actually a little bit
still now, has had a off fear of the toilet flushing.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh the baby for what reason?
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Well, I don't know if she thought she was going
down the or what, but anytime she used the restroom
she would not flush the toilet. We had to and
we had to flush the toilet.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh poor baby. Yeah, well it does, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You press a little button and it starts swirling and
it takes things away.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Yeah, it was fun and it was not fun at
times when she came.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have a friend whose little girl cried every time
anybody sang Happy birthday to her. So at her birthday parties,
we could not sing Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
We just blew out candles and just got on with it.
Because she cried.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
I think it was the attention.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
She would like people singing to her, and that was
the only time that everybody liked sang to her.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
Right, Well, thank you guys for all you do.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Thought i'd share that.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Strange, it is strange, but sweet.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thank you, Tara.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We appreciate it. I'm sure that you know. But that's
a common fear, probably of things in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Things, you know, I know, snakes in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, yeah, once you've had a snake in the toilet,
you know you're always going to wonder, is there another
snake in the toilet?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah? How Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Know toddlers I've seen stories of this before that are
afraid of the baptub drain because I mean, you're sitting
you don't know what's going on. Why are disappearing down there?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I will say this, we have. We've been sharing about
weird fears all week. You know, it's okay to not
overcome your weird fears. It's okay to just accept them.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You know, if you're afraid of the drain all of
your life, so be it. Just learn to live around it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I've tried my entire life to work around the fear
of heights, and I just can't do it, so I
know what not to do, right. It's not a problem
when I'm inside of a building or in an airplane,
that's not.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
A problem, correct, But you just can't be on a
ledge correct. Well, all right, thank you, jump in anytime
with your weird fears. Eight seven seven three one zero
four MSJ eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
Bring it your weird fears, and we actually don't think
(21:17):
they're weird. We think they're very human. And tomorrow your
real life ghost stories.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Hi, Corey, Hey.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
I just wanted to call in and share a fear
that one of my children has. Okay, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh okay.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
He is sixty years old and he has always been
afraid of wind.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh the baby.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
Yeah, even like when he goes to school, he will
not play outside at recess if there's wind. He just
like freaks out and like he thinks it's going to
blow him away.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh you know that that got into his mind somehow,
And it's very real, you know, It's it's very real
for the person experiencing it.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Yeah. So we've always honored it and not.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Like pushed it.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
But I always thought it was such an honest thing
to be afraid of.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Does he also have a fear of like fan wind,
like ceiling fan or fourth weather?
Speaker 13 (22:18):
No, just but like if the windows are open in
the house and it's windy outside, he doesn't like that
at all.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh, bless his heart.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I love that you honor it, because so many families
might might minimize it and say that you're wrong to
feel this way. And for you to honor his fear
and let him talk about it and just let it exist,
lets him know he's safe with you.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
And luckily his teachers have always been honoring of it
as well. And we'll have someone go inside with him,
or you know, sometimes they'll even find him a place
on the playground to kind of hide from it if
it's windy.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, so sweet. Well do you think that he'll grow
out of it?
Speaker 13 (23:02):
I think so. I mean, I feel like most of
us grow out of those fears as children. I mean,
I'm definitely still afraid of heights. I heard someone say
that just a second ago, and I like, I'm okay
on airplanes as well, but like I will not walk
up a tall flight of stairs, like to get on
a ride or something like that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Thank you, Cory. You know that's one reason when Jody
and I went to Key West for vacation, but one
of the lighthouses, I didn't want to go up in
it because the spiral staircase right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You would not have wanted to be here, and.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That would have been claustrophobic too, which is another amy.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right, your real life ghost story? What happened to you
that made you believe something was there? Something really happened?
Eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ What yours, Kelly?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
My dad passed away in twenty ten. Yes, and a
couple weeks after, we had a birthday party for my grandmother.
We got a bunch of helium balloons that we brought
back to our home. And I had gone out to
our living room and one of the balloons had detached
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and was stuck on the ceiling. And I had watched
this balloon come down and followed me around the living
room and there was no fans, there was no there's
no air movement, and I watched it maneuver around a lamp,
an end table and land right on my dad's chair.
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Oh and at that point, I said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And even though you thought it was your dad. Yeah,
scared you.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I didn't. Yeah, it scared the Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, there's no wrong way to react, you know, even
though to me it's like dad, say, but did you.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Talk to it?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
No? No, I've had other experiences. Yeah, my dad, I
think slapping my bed and I did talk to him
at that point where I said, hey, you have to stop.
And at that point everything, all the activity in that
house had stopped altogether.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And you know, we hear that, Kelly about you when
you finally say to whatever it is around you that
you feel like is happening, When you finally say it
and stand your ground, usually they go okay, fine.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They go away.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah. So that was my story.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's good, some boundaries for yourself. Well, thank you for this,
and we thank you for listening.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I love the idea of a balloon landing in somebody's chair.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean, no wrong way to experience your ghosts though,
And but ghost tip if you want them to stop,
ghost tip, tell them go away.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Dad, I love you, but you're scaring me. Well we've heard.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That over so we know it works for vampires.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Obviously, keep it coming. Join us anytime.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You guys see this story that for the tenth consecutive year,
Chicago is the rattiest city in the United States has
the most rat Okay, because rattiest city is It was
a real legit, you know, survey done by Orcan.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I always thought in New York City had the biggest
problems with rat.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They have a lot of problems.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
New York City is number three on the list, Los
Angeles is number two, and Chicago is number one. And
you start reading about it and it's it's just super interesting.
It's really the way that Chicago is made and laid out,
and the urban development and all of that. And you
start reading it and it's like, oh my gosh, because
everybody has a situation a story with a rat, whether
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you just found one once in your wall and it
freaked you out, or you were, you know, leaving a
nice restaurant and you see one scurry across.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
A Yeah, I've seen that. I actually saw a restaurant
one time where there were six of them hanging out
by the dumpster. Visit ain't hanging out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Start reading about it and it's fascinating. No wonder they
recently had a rat summit in New York, all the
officials getting together and saying, how do we combat this?
And the problem is, the more people in a city,
the more rat infestation, the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Harder it is.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
We know where the food is.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They're attracted to food waste, and in cities it's just
readily available.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You've seen that we have rat traps outside the door here,
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I've seen it. Yeah. I like it when I see
those anywhere. You're a movie theater, I'm like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I mean like most commercial establishments need to have them,
you know, I mean you can't really, I don't know.
Do you not have any outside of your house?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Rats?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No traps?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
No, we do.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I've never had a rat.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You have cats, shout out for cats.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They are useful, they are They love to haunt and whatever, eat,
kill whatever. The other thing is that not only do
we make it easy for them to they can eat
almost anything, because it's not like they're some weird biological
thing where they only eat a certain kind.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Of leaf, eat anything.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
They can survive on almost anything, and they reproduce at
a rate that almost like nothing else, like nothing else.
So wherever people are and in cities like Chicago, they
have plenty of places to hide and burrow and get
under and get in so we can fight the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But they're here to stay.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
You know, with all this ghost story talk as we
approach Halloween, have you ever put any thought into when
your time comes?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Could we could jeopardy please wait for the entire question. Uh,
do you want to come back? Or do you want
to try to come back? Or do you want to
try to do something?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I have jokingly said to people, Oh, I'm going to
haunt you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh it's a joke. Okay, it's a joke. Do I
want to know?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I think that would be horrible to be stuck between
worlds When I'm done here, I want to be done here.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
What about you, Murphy? Do you want to stick around?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I mean, you know, watch your grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I know there are all sorts of, you know, things
that you hear about people, you know, having the near
death experiences seem like coming back all that, you know,
the visions of themselves from above themselves, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
But I believe that's true.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I'm kind of with Jody on this one. See, I'm
you know, and it's not just because Jody and I
are married. I just you know, now, maybe I would
come back and haunt Jody. Yeah, just to play games,
you know.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Let me move on, huh.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I don't want to come back and haunt anybody, but
I would love to have the opportunity to hang around
and see how everyone turns out. And if if there
was a way, you know, like it goes to put
your on people to.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Be able to what's your effect?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know how in ghosts they had they had to
expel some kind of energy to be able to appear
and materialize.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I put your penny up a door.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, got it?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, I see you want the you want the Hollywood
version of the afterlife experience.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Here's what's up.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I want to be able to, you know, drop in
in a nice way, even if it's like, you know,
there's something that sure one of the kids knew me
for and I leave that on the table one day,
it's like, oh, that's very sweet. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If you can't conditionally be a ghost, yeah, have it
on your own terms. I don't know if that's how
it works. We don't get life on our own terms either,
So when we get death.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's the whole thing, because then if you see something
you don't like, you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Exactly, you have to watch somebody ruin their life.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
It's the same reason you really don't want to predict
the future. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh, it's a really cool question.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, and now that you asked it, I'm gonna be
wondering if you know you're going to be haunting people
and I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Not haunting, I'm visiting. I'm spreading joy from beyond.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
If you're leaving stuff and people don't know who left it,
you're haunting.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And you know, if you're gonna spread joy from behind,
from behind, from beyond, it's different. If you're gonna share
joy from beyond, you need to start sharing it now,
in the current life, right
Welcome to the Murphy Salmon Jody Weekend Replay podcast. Twelve
of our favorite moments from this past week.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Why are so many of us afraid of clowns? Well,
first of.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
All, the actual phobia people who actually have that, it's
kind of rare.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Most of us just find clowns very creepy folk.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I've never as a kid, I never unless they're scary
looking clowns. That's different. But most clowns, like the clown
of clowns. Yeah, they're not scary.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
They're funny. They're supposed to be entertaining. Disagree, make balloon animals.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I kind of disagree.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
As soon as you paint on weirdness on a face
like that and you just stored it, I'm like a doubt.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Sam.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Even Ronald McDonald, I know, and I love McDonald's and
I love Ronald McDonald was my favorite job, first job,
it was my first job. But even Ronald, just the
clown thing.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
Well, that doesn't bother me. Who was the clown that
we knew, Sam? What was her name? Can you remember?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Bubbles?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Patches?
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Poke dot poke yeah, poke dot the clown. Nothing scary
about her?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Okay, you're right, maybe it's the lady clowns that are
sweet and the you know, male clowns that are scary.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
I do think you're on something, onto something though, because
it depending on how how much you exaggerate your facial
feature that that could scare anything.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Joker, but that's scary makeup.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
And of course there are some classic ones penny Wise,
thank you, Stephen King and Petty Wise, the dancing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
See, that's the problem is it's the movies that.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Here's what's up all most of us, A lot of
us find them creepy in certain ways.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Only a few people.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It's rare for someone to actually have the phobia where
they have anxiety, they can't breathe around clowns. They have
to get away from clowns. And I hate that for you.
If you have that, like you seek treatment. But the
reason you guys nailed it. Evil clowns have become a
part of pop culture. You grow up kind of assuming
that clowns are scary or can be scary, and we
(01:54):
had that in the For me, it was that Poltergeist
clown puppets under the before I even knew the penny
Wise was yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh that's the puppet that wrapped his arms around half.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And why did I think that was a clown?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
Does it look like a clown?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Okay, it did, but there are other psychological reasons it
messes with us. The makeup is unsettling.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
You know.
Speaker 3 (02:14):
It takes something that we identify as great a face
and it distorts it.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Yeah, thatt, I've got to believe that's an instinct, primal thing. Yes, right,
And if you know, if it doesn't look it looks threatening.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
And clowns are unpredictable.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You don't know if they're going to whip out a
flower or squirtch you an I'll pull you down into
the gutter.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
You don't forget the handkerchief and then you sleeve.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And the other thing is for most of us.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
If it feels creepy to you, it just gives us
a psychological discomfort.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
So you're not alone.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And by the way, we are here for you to
hear about your weird fears. No judgment eight seven seven
three one zero four M.
Speaker 6 (02:51):
SJ.
Speaker 7 (02:54):
Texter or call us eight seven seven three one zero
four M. SJ.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
What's going on?
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Kell?
Speaker 8 (03:01):
I have two ghost stories, one sweet and one scary.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Yeah here, I want to hear sweet first.
Speaker 8 (03:08):
Okay, sweet first? So I had a twenty nine a
week baby, and so he was in the NICU for
six and a half weeks. I bought him home on
oxygen and heart monitor, and so when he was asleep,
my father had died four years before, and so he
would be asleep and he would stop breathing sometimes, and
(03:30):
so I would get awakened by my father's voice, Oh on, Kelly,
get up.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh, And I would.
Speaker 8 (03:36):
Go into my son's room and he would have the
wires wrapped around his neck because he had been moving
all over the bed. And so as long as he
had the oxygen on, he would wake me up in
the middle of the night to go check on him.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
That's fun.
Speaker 8 (03:51):
Oh, I know, it was freaky. And then I would
be sitting on the couch when he was a little older,
and my father was always cooking and we were the
only people the house, and he would be looking over
my shoulder into the kitchen and he would start laughing hysterically,
and I would look, and there's nobody there, and he
would just be laughing hysterically, and I just know that
(04:11):
I just knew it was my dad in there making
him laugh.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I love that. That is sweet, Yes, all right,
spooky time.
Speaker 8 (04:18):
I hear spooky now, yeah, all right, spooky time. So
when we were first married, we moved into this house
that was more than one hundred and fifty years old,
and it was across the street from a Baptist old
Baptist church that had a graveyard in the front yard.
But the house had one upstairs room and there was
door had of the lock on the outside of the room.
(04:40):
So I would sleep during the day because I worked
at night, and I would have feel someone pulled the
covers off of me while I was sleeping, and I
would have to like roll myself up in my covers
and someone be tugging on my covers when I was sleeping.
And then I would start hearing music in that upstairs
room who and it would wake me up, and I
(05:00):
would go up there and it would stop. And I
couldn't find a radio anywhere. So one night I was
working and my husband was asleep, and when I got home,
he said, did you come home early? I said, no,
he said someone I felt someone get in the bed
last night with me, he said, and they pulled the
covers off of it.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Yes, So those of the two that I have.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Wow, that's crazy. Kelly A House full of spirits, sweet
and scared.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Spirits eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ for
your real life ghost stories.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
Social media connect bring it.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
If you have a weird fear and you think you're
alone in it, chances are you are not. Check out
our Instagram and Facebook page and read everybody's weird fear.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
It's like a confessional there right now.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
And I am so proud of you for admitting it
and blown away by some of this. Nora sent this
in I'm afraid of making phone calls. I don't understand
why everybody thinks it's. Every time I tell somebody about it,
they asked me why, and I don't even know what
to tell them because I don't understand it either. Jerry said,
phone calls makes no sense at all. Rachel, making phone
(06:12):
calls terrifies me. I get nervous and my palms get
sweaty aw. That makes me so sad. But I guess
there's something unnatural to you about it. But it's just
a conversation.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Well, if you've become so accustomed to texting and text
chat and all that, maybe maybe, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I understand why.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Let's be honest, our kids are not as confident on
phone calls.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Because they didn't look.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
I could not wait to get a phone in my
room when I was a little girl, and my parents
couldn't get me off that phone. In fact, when they
wanted to punish me, they would take my phone away.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
So anyway, so it works today.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
Well, you're not kidding about that because I remember, you know,
if I wanted to have a private phone call, I
had to squeeze myself into the pantry. Correct, by the way,
was not a walk in pantry.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Skinny when you're a teenager, that right, Murphy. Anyway, I
didn't realize that making phone calls was such a thing,
but it is a real fear for many.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
We were seeing that coming in.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
When we're discussing weird fears, Stacy said, her weird fear
is to die naked with just socks on.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I have told my family to not let that happen.
Speaker 3 (07:20):
Put gloves, a scar for anything on me, but don't
let me die with only socks on.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Oh that's like my mom used to always tell us
to wear clean underwear. You never know what's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, isn't the car accident thing?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Yeah, that's positive.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I do not wear them for your own.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
Just wear them well clean ones.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah, I mean cleans.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
We're clean ones for your own, sanitary facey.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
You wind up in the emergency room, they're not going
to say, oh, we were going to help you. But
look at this underwear.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
I look at this person, she's only got her socks.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Yeah, what's up here?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
We are feeling you and your weird fears. Keep them coming.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Eight seven seven three one zero MSJ. It's that time
of the year. Strange fears, ghost stories, you name it,
We're looking for it from you. Eight seven seven three
one zero four MSJ.
Speaker 7 (08:16):
Never miss a call Murphy, Sam and Jody twenty four
hour voicemail.
Speaker 9 (08:21):
Hi, It's for Alicia, the forensic psychology students.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
So.
Speaker 9 (08:27):
I have always been afraid of clown's, like seriously afraid
of clowns that I will run high anything I can
do to get away from it. My husband didn't realize
how but how deeply that fear went until he saw
it in person. About five years ago. We were at
six Flags and it was during Halloween and it was
(08:50):
already night time to all the scary stuff without so
he wanted to ride the Superman ride. Well, in order
to ride that ride, we had to go through the clowns,
and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna try and do
this for you. Like, so I kept hyping myself up.
The one clown he was busy with two other people
and he was the one with the chain. So I'm like, okay,
(09:11):
we can sink past him and he's not going to
notice that.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Wrong.
Speaker 9 (09:16):
He immediately turns around us. We're trying to sink behind him.
He turns around, he noticed was my knee race and
he's like, hey, what's wrong with your knee?
Speaker 10 (09:24):
And as soon as.
Speaker 9 (09:26):
I look down, he revs up his chain. Thought he
starts coming closer to me. I immediately freeze, Like I
don't have a fight or flight type of thing in
these situations.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
I have a freeze.
Speaker 9 (09:40):
So my husband, he was trying to get my attention,
I couldn't even hear him. I couldn't hear anything around
me except for this clown. And it literally just became
too real for me, and I started to back up
as far as I could go, and I ended up
hitting the fence behind me, and I start crying and
I can't move, no nothing. It's literally terrifying for me.
(10:03):
And so eventually the clown breaks character and he's like,
you can go. I couldn't even like really hear him
say that. My husband's still trying to get my attention.
I eventually something clicked and I can hear my husband,
and so we start to walk. And we didn't even
go all the way to the Superman ride because we
would have to walk back through that. So we just
(10:25):
end up believing. But that is how much I am
absolutely terrified of clowns.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I hate hearing that. For you, Alicia, he too.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
I guess I'm glad he broke character and said you
can leave. I would too.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
That's the problem. I could never work a hont A
house because I wouldn't want to scare.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Anything, and clowns don't really scare me. But I can't
tell you how many times in my life I seem
to be walking through the clown section wherever I go.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Okay, it is time your real life ghost story or
experience something happened and made you believe sweet or scary.
Bring it eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
We've asked you, and even when we're not here, you're
calling in.
Speaker 7 (11:11):
Never miss a call, Murphy Salmon Jody twenty four hour voicemail.
Speaker 11 (11:17):
Hi, I just wanted to call and tell you my
ghost story. It's about a baby. And when we first
bought the house, I had one baby and one on
the way. And the baby that I'm talking about, you
could hear them cry and I'd get up to go
see what was wrong, and by the time i'd get
(11:37):
a halfway there, it would stop. And every time it
would cry and then stop. So I asked my neighbor
if you know what had happened in the house, and
if they knew what could be going on, and they
said there had been a fire in the house and
that the baby had died in the fire. I just
wanted to tell you my story. Bye bye.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
That's awful.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
And for a mother to not be able to get
to a crying baby, ghost or not, that would bother
me so much. There was something about that sound that
just calls you to action.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
That's a little creepy.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Yeah, no, it is all right, keep it.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
It's a lot creepy, Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But thank you for that for leaving us that voicemail.
Let's check another.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Hey there, I was just calling about the ghost surreal
type experience. My husband died in two thousand and nine
and left me with two little girls to raise. And
when my oldest daughter was in middle school, she went
to her first homecoming dance, which has been several years
after he passed. But my sister in law came over
(12:49):
and took pictures. We had a big night, and then
later on when we got the pictures back, we realized
that there was an orb by my daughter's head and
a couple of the pictures like he was there. So anyhow,
I've never been one to like believe in that kind
of thing. I'm the spiritual person, but that kind of
opened the eyes a little bit.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
He was with her.
Speaker 5 (13:11):
So anyway, I appreciate you guys, listening to you every morning.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
See there's a good one.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
That is a good one and only being by her
head in the pictures and not by anyone else's I mean, yeah,
eye opening.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All right, keep it coming. We love hearing from you.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
You can also send those into Facebook or Instagram or
Murphy Samonjody dot com. You might call it a weird fear,
but we call it You're human and we are loving
hearing about your weird odd fears. Uh anytime, really, but
this time of the year I guess it kind of
comes out. Dahlia says, my irrational fear is that my
windshield will shatter while it's in the drying part of
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the car wash.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, that is so specific.
Speaker 1 (13:57):
I never thought about that one, Dahlia.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
When I was a little girl, well if.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
You even know this, Murphy, when I was a little girl,
I would get on the floorboard and cry and scream
during the car wash.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
You know my parents still did it though.
Speaker 4 (14:09):
Yeah, but there are a lot of little kids that don't.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
Like the car wash.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
It seems like some big monsters eating your car.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Well also too, that foam covers the car so you
can't stay out, like all these noises are going on. Sure, yeah,
I'm not saying I had a problem with it.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
It sounds like it, okay. Tammy says my irrational fear,
My weird fear bungee cords. I hate them, especially the
old rubber ones. They get dry and cracked. I just
know it's gonna snap and the awful book will get me.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
That's the thing about rubber bands, bungee cords, all that.
You know, that's a completely logical fear to me.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Yeah, it feels like it's going to get anime, We're
with you, Tammy.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Linda says, walking through leaves, she's afraid of snakes. I
get that totally. Melissa germs, I'm a healthcare worker, walking
in wet grass, anything heights, anything with a lot of holes,
triple phobia.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
A lot of holes.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Yeah, no, that's a real one. Remember we talked about
it once. Everything that's got.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Holes is like a sponge walking through things like peg board.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
No things with little holes.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
The human mind and what we tell ourselves is so interesting. Okay,
I've got one from Tina. Anything glow in the dark. Oh,
I'm sorry, huh, scared of that?
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Dark can be a little bit spooky looking.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
It looks a little unnatural. So, although it's a safety thing.
On Halloween trick or treat.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Night, Cody says, I'm terrified of stickers. I have been
since I was a child.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Oh, oh, that's sad. I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
And Felicia says anything in water that is not a pool.
She doesn't even like seeing regular objects in deep water.
And I don't know what that could be too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You can see it, but it's different.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
I certainly don't want to see any electronics in water.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
That's an obsession, not a fear.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Keep it coming. You can join us anytime as well.
Eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ eight seven
seven three to one zero four MSJ to join the
conversation anytime. If we miss you, drop us a voicemail anytime.
Speaker 7 (16:21):
Never miss a call. Murphy Salmon Jody twenty four hour voicemail.
Speaker 10 (16:26):
Hi, guys, First of all, love the show. And on
the note of the smell of your spouse.
Speaker 12 (16:34):
My husband died.
Speaker 10 (16:35):
Three years ago and I had to go to work
in a factory and love my job. But when I
came when I first started coming home from work, my
girls would hug me and say, oh my god, Mom,
he smells so much like daddy, and they would take
like whatever shirt I might have and they would just
smell it and smell it and smell it. So, yeah,
(16:57):
have a great day. And it's true you do have
a scent and your loved ones can smell it.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Love you, guys, Thank you for the voicemail.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
That's sweet. Thank you for letting us know that. Isn't
it funny that you but you can't know your own
scent in your life? Yeah, you just can't.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, I've told you that before Jody. If you don't
mind me saying that, what what I think? Jody has
a sweet smell, and I always it's just like you
smell like Jody. I mean, wait, I don't know how
to explain that.
Speaker 3 (17:24):
But is also an essential component to attract attraction, right,
you know, remember years ago when we first started working together, Sam.
I don't know if you know this story or not,
but if I didn't have a set of headphones, I
would pick up Murphy's and put them on and borrow,
and yours I would borrow and they didn't do anything
for me.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
And then I would put Murphy's on and they would
smell so good. I remember thinking, these are definitely murphy
they like? Do they really they smell nice? Do you
like the way they smell too?
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Not enough to marry them, but.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Thank you for that voicemail really means a lot. Jason
sent this email in switching subjects. My son and I
are extreme lego collectors. You were talking about lego theft
the other day, and it is a very huge thing.
Lego increases in value as much as gold, sometimes even
more than gold. Really, that includes and specifically includes never
(18:20):
opened sets or even built sets.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Without instructions.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
So guard your legos like it's like their gold, because
they are huh wow. Good to know guarded and know
that retailers are having to lock them up. Sad but
true they are eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
We love having you long join us anytime we do.
Speaker 12 (18:45):
What's going on, Tara, I was calling in reference to
the strange fears. Okay, so my daughter, she's grown now,
but when she was younger and actually a little bit
still now, has had a off fear of the toilet flushing.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh the baby for what reason?
Speaker 12 (19:06):
Well, I don't know if she thought she was going
down the or what, but anytime she used the restroom
she would not flush the toilet. We had to and
we had to flush the toilet.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Oh poor baby. Yeah, well it does, you know.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
You press a little button and it starts swirling and
it takes things away.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Yeah, it was fun and it was not fun at
times when she came.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
I have a friend whose little girl cried every time
anybody sang Happy birthday to her. So at her birthday parties,
we could not sing Happy birthday.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
What did you do?
Speaker 3 (19:43):
We just blew out candles and just got on with it.
Because she cried.
Speaker 12 (19:48):
I think it was the attention.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
She would like people singing to her, and that was
the only time that everybody liked sang to her.
Speaker 12 (19:56):
Right, Well, thank you guys for all you do.
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Thought i'd share that.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Strange, it is strange, but sweet.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Thank you, Tara.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
We appreciate it. I'm sure that you know. But that's
a common fear, probably of things in the toilet.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Things, you know, I know, snakes in the toilet.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
Well, yeah, once you've had a snake in the toilet,
you know you're always going to wonder, is there another
snake in the toilet?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Yeah? How Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Know toddlers I've seen stories of this before that are
afraid of the baptub drain because I mean, you're sitting
you don't know what's going on. Why are disappearing down there?
Speaker 3 (20:29):
I will say this, we have. We've been sharing about
weird fears all week. You know, it's okay to not
overcome your weird fears. It's okay to just accept them.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You know, if you're afraid of the drain all of
your life, so be it. Just learn to live around it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I've tried my entire life to work around the fear
of heights, and I just can't do it, so I
know what not to do, right. It's not a problem
when I'm inside of a building or in an airplane,
that's not.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
A problem, correct, But you just can't be on a
ledge correct. Well, all right, thank you, jump in anytime
with your weird fears. Eight seven seven three one zero
four MSJ eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ.
Bring it your weird fears, and we actually don't think
(21:17):
they're weird. We think they're very human. And tomorrow your
real life ghost stories.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Hi, Corey, Hey.
Speaker 13 (21:25):
I just wanted to call in and share a fear
that one of my children has. Okay, it's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Oh okay.
Speaker 13 (21:33):
He is sixty years old and he has always been
afraid of wind.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh the baby.
Speaker 13 (21:44):
Yeah, even like when he goes to school, he will
not play outside at recess if there's wind. He just
like freaks out and like he thinks it's going to
blow him away.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Oh you know that that got into his mind somehow,
And it's very real, you know, It's it's very real
for the person experiencing it.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Yeah. So we've always honored it and not.
Speaker 12 (22:08):
Like pushed it.
Speaker 13 (22:09):
But I always thought it was such an honest thing
to be afraid of.
Speaker 4 (22:12):
Does he also have a fear of like fan wind,
like ceiling fan or fourth weather?
Speaker 13 (22:18):
No, just but like if the windows are open in
the house and it's windy outside, he doesn't like that
at all.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Oh, bless his heart.
Speaker 3 (22:26):
I love that you honor it, because so many families
might might minimize it and say that you're wrong to
feel this way. And for you to honor his fear
and let him talk about it and just let it exist,
lets him know he's safe with you.
Speaker 13 (22:44):
And luckily his teachers have always been honoring of it
as well. And we'll have someone go inside with him,
or you know, sometimes they'll even find him a place
on the playground to kind of hide from it if
it's windy.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Yeah, so sweet. Well do you think that he'll grow
out of it?
Speaker 13 (23:02):
I think so. I mean, I feel like most of
us grow out of those fears as children. I mean,
I'm definitely still afraid of heights. I heard someone say
that just a second ago, and I like, I'm okay
on airplanes as well, but like I will not walk
up a tall flight of stairs, like to get on
a ride or something like that.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Thank you, Cory. You know that's one reason when Jody
and I went to Key West for vacation, but one
of the lighthouses, I didn't want to go up in
it because the spiral staircase right in the middle.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
You would not have wanted to be here, and.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
That would have been claustrophobic too, which is another amy.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Right, your real life ghost story? What happened to you
that made you believe something was there? Something really happened?
Eight seven seven three one zero four MSJ What yours, Kelly?
Speaker 6 (23:54):
My dad passed away in twenty ten. Yes, and a
couple weeks after, we had a birthday party for my grandmother.
We got a bunch of helium balloons that we brought
back to our home. And I had gone out to
our living room and one of the balloons had detached
(24:16):
and was stuck on the ceiling. And I had watched
this balloon come down and followed me around the living
room and there was no fans, there was no there's
no air movement, and I watched it maneuver around a lamp,
an end table and land right on my dad's chair.
(24:36):
Oh and at that point, I said, I'm out of here.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
And even though you thought it was your dad. Yeah,
scared you.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
I didn't. Yeah, it scared the Jesus.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Got it, got it.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
Well, there's no wrong way to react, you know, even
though to me it's like dad, say, but did you.
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Talk to it?
Speaker 6 (24:59):
No? No, I've had other experiences. Yeah, my dad, I
think slapping my bed and I did talk to him
at that point where I said, hey, you have to stop.
And at that point everything, all the activity in that
house had stopped altogether.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Nice.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
And you know, we hear that, Kelly about you when
you finally say to whatever it is around you that
you feel like is happening, When you finally say it
and stand your ground, usually they go okay, fine.
Speaker 4 (25:29):
They go away.
Speaker 6 (25:30):
Yeah. So that was my story.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
That's good, some boundaries for yourself. Well, thank you for this,
and we thank you for listening.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
I love the idea of a balloon landing in somebody's chair.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
That's yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:43):
I mean, no wrong way to experience your ghosts though,
And but ghost tip if you want them to stop,
ghost tip, tell them go away.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Dad, I love you, but you're scaring me. Well we've heard.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
That over so we know it works for vampires.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Obviously, keep it coming. Join us anytime.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
You guys see this story that for the tenth consecutive year,
Chicago is the rattiest city in the United States has
the most rat Okay, because rattiest city is It was
a real legit, you know, survey done by Orcan.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
I always thought in New York City had the biggest
problems with rat.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
They have a lot of problems.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
New York City is number three on the list, Los
Angeles is number two, and Chicago is number one. And
you start reading about it and it's it's just super interesting.
It's really the way that Chicago is made and laid out,
and the urban development and all of that. And you
start reading it and it's like, oh my gosh, because
everybody has a situation a story with a rat, whether
(26:50):
you just found one once in your wall and it
freaked you out, or you were, you know, leaving a
nice restaurant and you see one scurry across.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
A Yeah, I've seen that. I actually saw a restaurant
one time where there were six of them hanging out
by the dumpster. Visit ain't hanging out.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Start reading about it and it's fascinating. No wonder they
recently had a rat summit in New York, all the
officials getting together and saying, how do we combat this?
And the problem is, the more people in a city,
the more rat infestation, the.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Harder it is.
Speaker 1 (27:24):
We know where the food is.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
They're attracted to food waste, and in cities it's just
readily available.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
Everywhere.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
You've seen that we have rat traps outside the door here,
I do.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
I've seen it. Yeah. I like it when I see
those anywhere. You're a movie theater, I'm like, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
I mean like most commercial establishments need to have them,
you know, I mean you can't really, I don't know.
Do you not have any outside of your house?
Speaker 4 (27:46):
Rats?
Speaker 2 (27:47):
No traps?
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (27:48):
No, we do.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I've never had a rat.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
You have cats, shout out for cats.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
They are useful, they are They love to haunt and whatever, eat,
kill whatever. The other thing is that not only do
we make it easy for them to they can eat
almost anything, because it's not like they're some weird biological
thing where they only eat a certain kind.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
Of leaf, eat anything.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
They can survive on almost anything, and they reproduce at
a rate that almost like nothing else, like nothing else.
So wherever people are and in cities like Chicago, they
have plenty of places to hide and burrow and get
under and get in so we can fight the problem.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
But they're here to stay.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:36):
You know, with all this ghost story talk as we
approach Halloween, have you ever put any thought into when
your time comes?
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (28:47):
Could we could jeopardy please wait for the entire question. Uh,
do you want to come back? Or do you want
to try to come back? Or do you want to
try to do something?
Speaker 3 (28:56):
I have jokingly said to people, Oh, I'm going to
haunt you.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Oh it's a joke. Okay, it's a joke. Do I
want to know?
Speaker 3 (29:05):
I think that would be horrible to be stuck between
worlds When I'm done here, I want to be done here.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
What about you, Murphy? Do you want to stick around?
Speaker 1 (29:15):
I think so?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
I mean, you know, watch your grandchildren.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
I know there are all sorts of, you know, things
that you hear about people, you know, having the near
death experiences seem like coming back all that, you know,
the visions of themselves from above themselves, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
But I believe that's true.
Speaker 9 (29:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
I'm kind of with Jody on this one. See, I'm
you know, and it's not just because Jody and I
are married. I just you know, now, maybe I would
come back and haunt Jody. Yeah, just to play games,
you know.
Speaker 13 (29:41):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Let me move on, huh.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I don't want to come back and haunt anybody, but
I would love to have the opportunity to hang around
and see how everyone turns out. And if if there
was a way, you know, like it goes to put
your on people to.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Be able to what's your effect?
Speaker 4 (30:03):
You know how in ghosts they had they had to
expel some kind of energy to be able to appear
and materialize.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
I put your penny up a door.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
Yeah, got it?
Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, I see you want the you want the Hollywood
version of the afterlife experience.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
Here's what's up.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
I want to be able to, you know, drop in
in a nice way, even if it's like, you know,
there's something that sure one of the kids knew me
for and I leave that on the table one day,
it's like, oh, that's very sweet. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
If you can't conditionally be a ghost, yeah, have it
on your own terms. I don't know if that's how
it works. We don't get life on our own terms either,
So when we get death.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
That's the whole thing, because then if you see something
you don't like, you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
Exactly, you have to watch somebody ruin their life.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
It's the same reason you really don't want to predict
the future. You know.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Oh, it's a really cool question.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, and now that you asked it, I'm gonna be
wondering if you know you're going to be haunting people
and I'm.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
Not haunting, I'm visiting. I'm spreading joy from beyond.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
If you're leaving stuff and people don't know who left it,
you're haunting.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
And you know, if you're gonna spread joy from behind,
from behind, from beyond, it's different. If you're gonna share
joy from beyond, you need to start sharing it now,
in the current life, right
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