March 1, 2023 • 38 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Max and I we had played so many widge boards
in the past, so we were like pros, Yeah, I
was ready, And basically through some conversation we realized that
we were talking to a spirit named Zach and he
was a little boy who lived in my house. Is
what he said. Nope, no, I'm out. I'm already out now.
(00:41):
If you are one of the millions of people who
follows McCall Marabella, then you know she's just your average
teenage girl who overshares on the internet. Her words, not mine.
I think she's selling herself short, because I actually think
McCall's very inspiring. It's been really cool to watch her
journey to not only kick her own nicotine addiction, but
to also encourage and challenge her peers to quit vaping
(01:01):
with her. You know, I always really appreciate it when
people use their platform to try and affect some positive
change in the world, and McCall is a young creator
who's doing just that. But for today's episode, McCall told
me a story about a spooky sleepover where an adolescent
apparition overstated it's welcome. I'm your host, will Weigie McFadden,
And this is hashtag Storytime Brought to you by iHeartRadio.
(01:24):
So my freshman to like sophomore year of high school,
I was super into Wuiji boards. I was like introduced
to it at a party and I really liked it.
So at this point in my life, I had done
it a couple of times, and it was time to
do it at my house. It was a big deal.
I had my best tis over and similar to your mom,
(01:45):
my dad told me like, never play a Weigi board
at my house. And I was like, okay, I like
how you're You're already describing it like it's a drug.
You're like I was introduced to it at a party
by trying it, and then I was like I like this,
hell yeah, Dad's like, don't don't ever do that. And
You're like, look, it's just a gateway sort of a
(02:07):
gateway drug, literal gateway to a different dimension. Those hilarious
I mean, it felt really tabooed because like my parents
were like, don't do it, and then I did it. Yeah,
and then and then you're like, of course I'm going
to immediately do that thing that you told me. Not exactly.
I was a member Rebellious Era for sure. If I
ever have kids, I'm gonna be like, don't do well
in school, school for idiot losers. Yeah, just going to
(02:33):
reverse those psychology, reverse psychology those kids into frigging Harvard Totally.
I think it would work. Personally, it sounds foolproof. But
I had three of my besties over and we were
in my game room or like bonus room is what
I usually call it, and I was like, y'all want
to play with a Luiji board and they were like sure,
(02:55):
So I actually printed one out and I taped it
to like a wooden cup holder because ghosts don't clear
well made. You just like di iy towigi Oh my god,
five minute crafts you know, race right to me. That
feels yeah, that feels oddly more dangerous and like demonic
(03:16):
that you're probably there's like this is not sponsored by
Hasbro or Mattell or whatever. This is a freaking homemade
device to tap into the unlike colored paper too, it
was like bright purple or something I don't remember, but yeah,
it just makes it creepier. It was. So if anyone's
like listening and they don't know how Weigi board works.
(03:37):
It's typically a wooden board that you buy from the store,
not make and it has the alphabet and has the
numbers zero through nine. It has a yes, it has
a no, and then has goodbye at the bottom. And
there's a little game piece that you put your fingers
on and it like will direct you two different letters
and everything else on the board to answer any question
that you may ask. So basically, we needed the layout
(04:01):
of my bonus room before we start, before we did. Okay,
so you're seance room, my seance room. The man cave
turned to seance room. But basically I had an alexa,
like an Amazon alexa. There was a pool table, there
was some Uno cards, and there was just like a
pen like on the ottoman. Okay, I just remember head
(04:23):
a bunch of candles in a pentagram. Just totally normal
bonus roomdhoods one. But basically we welcomed any spirit to
the board. And basically so my best friend at the time, Cassidy,
was over, and then there was Cody and Max, and
Max and I were the only people to actually have
(04:44):
our fingers on the eyepiece, like on the piece, and
then Cassidy and Cody were just watching from a distance
and we were like, hey, everybody, if you're a spirit,
please come to the board. We wanted to talk. Basically,
it's what we did. I like how cat as this
invitation was like, what's up, spirit, spirits, what's up? Come
(05:06):
on in. But because Max and I we had played
so many Wougie boards in the past, so we were
like pros, Yeah, I was ready. And basically through some
conversation we realized that we were talking to a spirit
named Zach and he was a little boy who lived
(05:26):
in my house. Is what he said. Nope, no, I'm out.
I'm already out. I would already like, kid, ghosts are
the scariest ghosts. Oh no, he was kind of nice.
He was friendly, but Zach the friendly ghosts. I hadn't
played with Max before, so I didn't trust him. I
was like he could be moving the game piece on.
(05:48):
So Cassidy ended up asking the board questions that like
none of us knew to see if it would answer correctly,
like what was the name of like my mom's dog
when she was little, And the board got it correct,
So that kind of like made it legit, you know,
like to us, because we're like, Okay, no one knew that.
I didn't know that, yeah, and you and you're like,
(06:08):
I'm obviously not the one moving it. So no, yeah,
And then I was like in Max doesn't know that,
like he met me and Cassy like five months ago.
So but we keep playing. And then the board told
us like that we needed to go to the church.
We needed to save Zach at the church. And there's
a church like two minutes from my house, like across
the street from my neighborhood. Obviously we didn't go because
(06:30):
we were like fifteen, it was like very late at night.
We like our six months weren't up to like drive
our friends, you know, like whatever. But they ended up
being the boys curfew and they had to leave. And
one of the biggest rules when playing Weiji board is
that you have to say goodbye, like to the speed.
You're just supposed to be like, kay, thank you, you
have to leave now goodbye. Now I made a space.
(06:52):
Don't hang around. Please, don't continue to stay in this room,
in my bonus room. You're not allowed to just like
this is not an Ian, he lives in my house.
But whatever. So I made a mistake and I asked Zach,
I said, can we say goodbye? What you're not supposed
to do. You're just supposed to say goodbye, and so
(07:14):
Zach was like no, he was like, you can't say goodbye. Crap.
So Max and I were like, what do we do now?
So we just tried to move the game piece too goodbye,
and our fingers turned white from how hard we were
like pulling the game piece and it wouldn't move. It
(07:35):
wouldn't move. What the actual fuck, what the actual flip
is going on? So I did something again you're not
supposed to do, and I picked up the game piece
and I just moved to goodbye. So we go downstairs
and we're kind of by my front door when we
hear her a little like tumble down the stairs. Oh god.
(07:58):
And if you remember I told you there was like
a pen on the couch. Yes, and this pen like
the land out of my house is this pen hopped
off the couch, went through the bonus room, went out
the hallway, turned a corner, turned another corner, and then
went down my stairs somehow, and this pen was now
downstairs and we were like, what like it like fall
from someone's pocket, Like we were at my front door
(08:19):
and this pen like like feet away just like fell
down the stairs. Like we heard like the boo. And
so we were like okay, and the boys were like, yeah,
we gotta go see you later, deuces, have a great night.
This was so fun. So Cassie Knight go back upstairs
to the bonus room. And again, if you were listening
extra closely, I said, there was a stack of Uno
(08:40):
cards right right. Okay, I guess next to the severed
head and the pentagram candles. Yeah, exactly. And somehow this
stack of Luno cards had moved across the room and
they were all faced down, so you just saw the
Uno logo. The three cards were turned up. Do you
want to guess what three cards were turned up? Verse? Skip?
(09:03):
Three sixes? Oh cool, great, perfect, wonderful. Three sixes were
turned up. I'd rather have a draw four, you know anything,
but I would rather have a draw four those lays.
But we were like, what the heck? And then do
you own an Amazon Alexa? I do? I have? I
(09:25):
have a couple. Okay, So again there was also an
Amazon Alexa in the bonus room in the game room,
and it starts playing white noise, And to anyone listening,
if you own an Amazon Alexa, they do not make
white noise. Yeah that's not a normal She's she's in
on it. Yeah, like that's she's that damn Alexa like
a TV like the loses signal, it starts playing white noise.
(09:49):
Amazon Alexas do not play white noise. I've never in
all the years I've had it, never had it play
random white noise or static. Thank you, yeah, thank you
for validating me. I'm here. Basically the white noise is
blaring and we unplug it. And at this point Cassidy
was super freaked out. And when I was a freshman,
like nothing scared me, Like I was eating this shiit up.
(10:12):
Now I would pee my pants, but like freshman ar me,
like nothing scared her. So it's like so cool. It's great.
You're like levitating two feet above the ground, Like this
is fun. I love this. Cassidy's like got blood coming
out of her eyes. You're like, it looks good, it
looks cute. It's a good look for you. Yeah. So
(10:35):
Cassidy's freaking outs was very scared, so understandably, and we
end up going to my room and around when I
am I received two texts and they weren't from blocked numbers,
they weren't from unknown numbers. They were just numbers that
I hadn't saved in my contacts, but they were like
legitimate numbers. The area code is outside of my state,
(10:55):
and it was just like random letters. And so I
posted it to my snow chat story and I was like,
does anyone know what this means? You know, like we
waited and then someone said yeah, read it backwards and
the two texts said I'm here, oh no, and answer me.
Oh God, burn the house down. At this point I
(11:18):
just would full on I'd move, I'd burn the house down.
I'd move, I changed my name, my name, new identity.
I would get plastic surgery, I would get baptized, would
do it all. That's hilarious. But we turned on the
(11:38):
light and we ended up going to bed. I mean,
there's more to the story, but like, we end up
going to bed. You slept after this. I wouldn't sleep
for weeks on. We just went to bed. You're like okay.
So a couple like days later, like a week later, Cassidy, Cody,
and Max were back at my house and Cassidy, of
(12:00):
all people, said, you guys should play the Wuiji board again.
What see, you guys are gluttons for punishment? I know, yeah,
because it went so well last time, we should definitely
run it back. I just I think we were like
deprived of drama, like we just like needed something to
like do, but join the drama club. Like there's other
(12:24):
way go to the party, yeah teenager. Yeah, I don't know,
like go to the roller skating rink and start a
fight like a normal you know, teenager movie. Nope, I'm
trying to I'm trying to tap into interdimensional like children, ghosts.
That's my drama. Of course, what else would you do
on your Friday night? So I had ripped up the
(12:46):
other board, which like you're not supposed to do either,
like whatever, So I had to print it out again.
I did the whole five minute craft again, and again
it was just me and Max playing. Okay, so we
do a little like hey spits like come into my house,
come to the board, say space, and again like Zach
comes to the board, you know, and I was like,
(13:09):
show us a sign that you're here, right right, and
then like nothing really happened. And then um, like a
couple months later, he was like water bottle or like
hydro or something, and I had a hydro flask and
I was like, what about my hydro? And he said
open it, and so my hydro was like full of
(13:31):
water and for some reason I just like dumped it
out on the carpet, which like I don't know why
I did that, like to the same like why didn't
I go to the sink? Anyways, that was but I
dumped out my water bottle. Okay, and guess what comes
out of my water bottle? Just take a gand or
take a guess. I'm gonna say blood or no um
(13:55):
six six six six uno cards. I imagine it was
too batteries, what the hell? And like my three friends,
I didn't know, like the batteries are kept downstairs in
the kitchen and like they don't know where the batteries
are Like I'm the only one who knew where the
batteries were in like I didn't put batteries in I water,
but oh I was drinking from it the whole night
like what. So we were like okay, like thanks sad,
(14:20):
thanks sanks for being real, thanks for being here. Towards
the end of us playing, we were like Zach like
where are you? And he was like above you, behind you,
and then he was like like he said something like
(14:40):
I'm in Max. Oh no, I was about to say
if he said inside you, I'm gone, I'm I'm out
of here. And so this next part I just like
to this day from Wanness saying everything like I can't
get myself to like believe this next part and I'm
so sorry. If Max sees the and I like every
time I see Max, I'm like, where are you thinking
(15:02):
this next part? He was like no, I wasn't, and
like everything else, like the batteries and like the text,
it like proves that this next part could have been real,
but I don't know. So basically we're sitting there and
like Max like closes his eyes or like something, and
I'm like, hey, Max, buddy there, what's good? And then
(15:25):
like we say like goodbye to the board and then
like Max like stands up and he's just like not
talking to us, not like acting normal, just like standing there,
and so casting Cody like go to the other side
of the room and they're like, oh yeah, like what
do you do? And again, like I don't get scared
to like I'm Loki eating this shit up. I'm like,
what's going on? Max? Like what's happening? And he like
(15:50):
backs up, sits on the couch and starts shaking like
like he's seizing and like his like eyes were kind
of rolled back a little bit, and I was like Max,
so now I'm like okay one, and so like I
start shaking him like Max, and then he finally like
just like stumps, like he's like sleep, and then Cody
(16:11):
and Cassiere like like freaking out, and then m Max
just wakes up and he's like, yeah, Li'm I on
the couch like how they get on the couch like whatever,
and We're like that wasn't funny, and he was like
what wasn't funny? And he was acting really confused. So
then the boys like leave, and Cassie and I were
(16:32):
like that was so fake, Like that was so weird
of Max, Like he definitely tried to scare us, Like
let's scare him back, yeah, you know. And so Cassie
and I came up with this elaborate plan that basically
Cassidy would call the boys and be like, oh my gosh,
like mccaull just passed out like Max did, Like what
(16:53):
do I do? And we thought that if Max was lying,
he would be like, oh my god, I was lying,
Like if she passed out, you need to like wait
someone up and take her to a hospital, you know.
Yeah excellent, yeah, excellent trap here I like it. So
we thought like he would come clean and be like,
oh my god, something's actually wrong whatever. Yeah, So Cassidy
calls puts on the performance of a lifetime like get
(17:14):
this girl on Oscar. She's like, I don't know what
you do. Like mccaulach started like freaking out like Max did,
and like season now she's passed out, like I like,
I'm about to go wake up her parents. And then
Max was like, bro, like we can never play the
Suiji board again. Like he didn't give it up, like
he didn't say like I was kidding. He was like
this isn't okay, Like this is so scary, Like I
(17:36):
feel like it's trying to possess us, like he kept
like feeding into it. Yeah, and so then I like
get up and I'm like okay, like we were just kidding.
I just wanted to know you're like being real, but
sounds like sounds like you may have been possessed by
a child ghost and actuality. Sorry, but that was the
(17:58):
last time I ever played. I think that's a wise
move that you you should never do that again. Literally,
but Wow, just wow. I ended up telling my parents. Okay,
what was their reaction? They were like, I told them
(18:21):
the years removed, so like there's nothing you can do.
I think I told them once I moved out too,
so it's like we can do grounding. We gotta live here. Also,
do they still live in that same house? Yes? Great,
so you're like I moved out. Like, by the way,
there's a little bit. There's a little baby ghostning Zach
who I invited into the house, who lives there now
and I never said goodbye. And he likes to possess
people and uh like he likes to play Uno if
(18:44):
you're interested. He's not very good at it. He just
kind of he uses the sixes mostly. Um. He loves
listening to white noise on Alexa. So yes, it's the
only way you can falsleep, so have fun with Zach.
He wants to keep batteries in hydro flask. He's kind
(19:05):
of a Visco girl. I feel like this was prime
Visco time. It was so yeah, he's kind of like
a what was the noise of Visco girls us to?
That's it. Yeah, Zach's a little bit of a Visco girl.
I was gonna say, I feel like I've talked enough
shit about Zach at this point. Now he's gonna come
haunt me. Oh probably, wow, great, he's worthless. Fantastic. But
(19:27):
I visit home a lot, and um, so I grew
up in Washington and like that's where the house is
in Washington that this all happened, and now I live
in California, and in this California house, I haven't done
anything paranormal, and so like I never like feel scared
or like weird in this house, you know, like even
if I'm home alone and it's nighttime, like and like
(19:49):
we have really strong wind, so like the wind will
press on the door, like someone's trying to open it.
Like that doesn't scare me. Like I don't really get
scared easily. But when I go to Washington and I'm
in the I would a stream in my room. Sometimes
I get really creepy vibes. And recently, like two weeks ago,
I had a really good friend of mine over named Daniella,
(20:11):
and we were playing Just Dance. And if you've played
Just Dance, basically it has a camera and it shows
like your figure at the top, and everyone has their
own category, you know, So it was just me and Daniella.
The lights were off in the room, so like it
was really easy for the camera like to find our
figures whatever. So we're playing, we're dancing, when all of
(20:33):
a sudden, a third person joins and it's a figure
sitting on the couch with their arm up. And I
was recording when it happened, and I didn't get the
thing at the top, and I got our reaction because
Daniella like hates that stuff, and she was like, oh
my god, like freaking out. And it's in my new
YouTube video. Check it bank in the description. Check it out.
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And so even though this, like me saying Luigi Board
was like four or five years ago, now, like creepy
stuff still happens. And when I went to grab like
my camera, the figure literally stood up and like walked away. Dude,
just want just wanted to play a little Just Dance,
you know. I know Zach is a kid. Yeah, He's
(21:19):
like I want to. I want to, you know, I
want to get down up the dance floor. He's like, understandable.
I am fantastic at this game. I used to play
a little Just Dance. I was trying to remember some
of the like silly ass dance moves that they make
you do, like they all have crazy names too. It's
like it's like and then there's like a wiggle wiggle
and then like a series of dabs. And I love
(21:40):
just as And I only have the twenty fourteen version
and I have been playing it since two fourteen. Fun
fact about me, that's the one, the one. It's good.
It's got the like Lady Gaga, it's Rihanna. Yeah, I
played that one, that exact one. Yeah. But so like
creepy things happen, and like my mom's sage to the
(22:01):
house and like my mom gets mad to me. She'll
be like, you know, creepy stuff happens, like when I'm upstairs,
like a door will shut, like creepy stuff like still
haven't at the house. And and I do feel bad
now because like my parents really like they didn't want
me to do it in their house, and they did
it in their house, and literally creepy stuff still happens.
(22:21):
So God, the just Dance thing reminds me of a video.
And I don't know if this was you know, if
this was fudged or not, but a video I saw
in the tesla. The monitor shows other cars on the road.
It shows bicycles, it shows trucks, and then it also
shows people walking and the video of somebody in a
graveyard and it's showing people showing up on the screen,
(22:47):
and then when you look out the window, there's no
people in front of the car, which is just the worst.
I'm literally gonna make Sean go to a great art
of me in the tesla. Oh, I feel like your
parents are going to have a hard time selling the
house if they ever. Well, the creepy thing is is
(23:09):
that our house was built on a farm. There was
like an old farm, and then our house is built
on it, and we don't live on a farm anymore,
so like Za could have been a little farm boy.
Oh no, that's yeah, that's even creepier. I know, he's
like an overalls and ship. I'm just here to milk
the cows. It hasn't he? Boy? Hate my name? Is it? Oh? God? Well,
(23:32):
And in your new house in California, I'm assuming it's
probably a newer built like it was probably built, you
know in the last yeah, I don't know, twenty years
literally the last like this neighborhood like have it wasn't
even built when we first moved in, Like this house
is brand new. Yeah, so there's no there's no time
for it to be haunted unless something was here before.
But I'm not going to find out because I feel
(23:53):
like the thing about wegi Board's like you welcome them,
yeah into like and I really don't recommend anyone playing,
or if you do play, don't play in your house.
I mean I kind of I think it, like very
seriously now because like what happened and like what's still happening.
But yeah, if you're gonna do it, be a professional
and go to a graveyard and play your weigi board
(24:14):
moral a story. Don't play Weigie in your house, in
your bonus room. Don't ruin your bonus room with little
little kid ghosts. Go to a freaking graveyard. Or do
it on a boat. Oh has that has the Titanic?
We haven't been found. Yeah, though they found it. James
Cameron found it, and then you know, he made a
(24:35):
whole movie about they should they should do that. I
wonder if yeah, if like if you were directly on
top of where the Titanic was, if you, I bet
it's at night, it's got to be creepy. I mean
being in the middle of the ocean at night is
creepy as hell. And I've seen some some tiktoks of
like fishermen, you know, like crab crab fishermen or deep
sea fishermen that are out there in the middle of
(24:57):
the night, and creepy shit happens because it's yeah, it's
just like an ocean of darkness. It's just a complete,
like black void, and they'll hear weird voices or sounds
or things get thrown back on the boat, like weird, creepy,
creepy stuff out there. Don't like it. Would you ever
go to night swimming in the ocean. I don't even
like to go day swimming in the ocean. Really. Yeah,
(25:21):
not a fan of the ocean, one of my few
I'm very much a land dwelling creature. I'm best on land,
not a great swimmer. But also I had an experience
when I was in I was in Costa Rica and
I was surfing when I was like eighteen, and a
leatherback turtle, which are they're like six foot turtles. They're huge.
(25:43):
It came up right next to me and it's its
mouth was wide open. And if you've ever if you
ever want nightmares, google leatherback turtle mouth because it's just
a It's a terrifying site. So this thing came up
right next to me, and I freaked out and paddled.
I thought it was a dinosaur shark. I don't know what.
I was like. It was the scariest thing I've ever said,
(26:05):
and I paddled my ass off to get back to
the shore. And then I was like, fuck the ocean,
what's in there? I don't know, you know, I kind
of had a moment of yes, I just now. I
have this constant fear when I'm in the ocean of like,
what's beneath me? And the answer is, you don't want
to know. I'm actually going to Costa Rica for my
(26:26):
first time in like two weeks. Oh, no way, have fun.
It's I mean, it's a beautiful, wonderful country. Um and
and just know that if you are out in the
water in you know, I was literally at the beach
where leatherback turtles like breed, so it was it was
a normal thing to see, but it just scared the
crap out of me. I'm going to Hawaii also, and
I'm doing something that you would hate. I'm swimming with
(26:47):
sharks no cage, and I'm so i sharks are my
favorite animal, Like I'm so excited call sharks are my
least favorite animal. I mean, I'm fascinated by them, but
they I have reoccurring shark nightmares. Well, what's the one
I have to do to get you to swim in
the ocean no cage with sharks? What kind of sharks
are we talking about it? Because I have swim with
(27:07):
with like like lemon sharks, which their bottom feeders. They
just have tiny little mouths. I think I might don't
quote me on that. I've also swim with whale sharks,
which are you know, the biggest yeah, the you know,
the biggest fish in the sea. Um, But like getting
in a cage with are getting in the water with
(27:27):
like even reef sharks that would freak me the fuck out.
It's not great whites, I know that. I mean like
could show up, but that's really rare in like Hawaii,
and like whatever, it's the smaller ones. I feel like
you got to watch out for tigers in Hawaii. You
gotta watch out for them tiger sharks. I think that's
what I might be swimming with. Yeah, nope, I don't
feel like if they don't plug you, if you want
(27:48):
to plug them. For the most part, I'm excited, you
know what they What they say is you don't have
to worry about the shark that you see. It's the
shark that you don't see that you have to worry about. True.
So you gotta keep your head, keep your head on
the swivel, you know what I mean. Always always be
watching looking. I'm really excited you fun. I'm I'm excited
for you. I just not gonna join ever. I just
(28:13):
won't be attended. I just won't be doing it ever.
Even like even going in a cage shark like cage
diving with a shark. Yeah, I'm out on that, especially
great whites like fuck that. I feel like, I don't
really like the idea of being stuck in a cage underwater.
(28:33):
You know that was that movie where they're in the cage.
So ye can't even watch the trailer. Not for me,
it's kind of a boring movie because it's like all
in a cage, and then it's not in a cage,
but then it's like around the cage for the whole movie.
The creators of that movie just made another one about climbing. Oh,
(28:54):
I can get on board with that. Sours up, it's
not called that, but are they being hunted by a
man made thing? Then the ladder breaks, then they're stuck
up there. I like how they've really committed to this
forty seven meters theme and they're just like, okay, forty
seven meters to the left, that's that's gonna come out next, right,
(29:15):
and then maybe right and then maybe that's all. That's
all the different directions we can do next. What we're
making one that like they're stuck in a submarine and
then they're stuck in a spaceship. And a game that
(29:35):
we've been playing with everyone too that I love to do, First, Last, best, worst,
And what we do is we pick a category and
then we hear your first, your last, your best in
your worst experience in that category. Yeah. Okay, So what
was the first party experience? You remember? The first party
you ever went to? I think it was an elementary
school someone's birthday party and it was like a trampoline
(29:59):
part kind of thing. Oh, what like a sky zone, Yeah,
but like it was more like it was called like
j J jump in it. It was like blow ups,
So it was like bouncy, like a trampoline, but it
was like inflating and climb up it. Going on slides
was super That's okay. I mean that's the first party
you ever went to. Like that's like the bar is
(30:19):
set high, you know what I mean? Like so true.
The second party must have been kind of a letdown.
I'm guessing. Am I supposed to tap it? Yeah? Okay,
so that's the first part. What was what's the last
party that you went to. I think the last party
I went to was my friend Josh's birthday party and
it was here and it was fun. Um, it's always
(30:42):
a good time when you end up on the counter dancing.
That's how you know elevated places. Is this Joshy Washi? Yeah,
love love me some, Joshua And that was yeah, that
was like a while ago. But and we just had
our friends over and that like I got super drunk
and it was super fun. What were you what were
you sipping on? What was the what was the drink
of choice that night? Tetos? Teetoes, teetoes sorry quick covid
(31:07):
cough All right, Oh I thought you were like teetoes,
like teetoes. Yeah, gross, straight tetoes or were you was it?
What for? What's your what is your drink? Your favorite
cocktail or your favorite beverage. So I'm not twenty one,
(31:27):
so I haven't experienced going to the bar, right right, Yeah,
I literally just grabbed the bottle and chucked from the
bottle literally, right, So I just grabbed tetos, rubbed it.
That's I remember those days. Chase it your get. I
went to UC Santa Barbara, which is a world renowned
party school, and yeah, yeah, the my freshman year, my
(31:50):
my alcohol of choice was Southern Comfort and I went
through so much, so much soco. It was disgusting. I
haven't tried it. Uh something comfort with lime and if
you ice that down, it's such a good shot. Soco
lime chilled. I like tequila, like if like I got
to choose the drink. Yeah, I mean tequila's you know,
(32:12):
it's an old standard. It does it gets you fired up?
Yeah yeah, it can do. It can go on, It
can sneak up on you a little bit. It also
watch out for that yeager meister. I've seen yeager meister
do do horrible things to people. I love four Locos too.
I think they taste good. I hear that a lot
of people don't. Well, this is the new four Loco.
(32:34):
The old four Loco was the where it had like
bulls blood in it and like uh extra caffeine. Um.
But that's not a phrase you hear too often. I
love four Loco, So we're gonna I think it. I
think it like actually tastes good, like I taught my friends,
like I didn't have alcohol it. I think it's like
a good tasting beverage. I'd just be sipping it, you know,
(32:55):
on a Saturday, like talk about like sneaking up on you.
I'm like, oh yeah, I forgot this is like I'll
be like wasted. I'm like, oh shit, I just tasted good.
Oh man, you know what? H was it? Forty seven
meters down? Yeah? They should do a tie in with
four local forty seven loco meters that should be everyone
(33:16):
just died. Okay, great, So that was the last party.
What let's let's go to the worst party. What's the
worst party you've ever been to? This is You're like,
I don't want to throw a shade down anyone. I
don't want to be like Willy's birthday party when she
was That party sucked um, oh my god, my own
(33:36):
birthday party. Let me tell you all right, sixteenth birthday party, okay,
y yeah, of course in the bonus room. And it
was supposed to be me and I think my friend.
My mom and dads were like I could have fifteen
friends over. Yeah, So I invited fifteen friends over angree
(33:58):
and it was no drinking because at this time I
didn't really drink and a lot of people didn't like that.
So I think some people like snuck a bottle and
it like it wasn't a party like that, so it's obvious.
Then people brought like their dad pen and stuff, and
I was like, this is not what is supposed to
be like a chill like a fun birthday party, like
you know, like let's just hang her. Yeah little. But
(34:21):
then people start texting me like hey, what's your address?
They want to come, and I was like no, noy
And literally I was like, oh, like I can't have
more people over than my parents told me. Yeah, Like
I used like the parents excuse, which is like lame
to some people, but I was like, my parents said no.
The bouncers say, we're at max capacity, so the bonus
(34:44):
room can't check much more. But then we get a
knock at the door and some people just showed up rude,
and then my mom was like I'm gonna kick everyone out,
and so now I'm just like just dressed. Like I
didn't really like enjoy the night, you know, because I
was like, what's going on? And also if we had
to say earlier, So we went. I went to like
an escape room with like five of my closest friends
(35:04):
and two of them didn't like each other, but I
was hoping that they could just stick it out for
like me, and so they started fighting in the escape
room and I literally like was like shut up, no
one cares, and like, like a couple of my friends
I'm still friends will like bring that up to this
day because it was like they're like that was so
like bold of you anyway. But also like being stuck
(35:25):
in an escape room with two people who are fighting
is just like, yeah, the most unpleasant way to spend
a birthday. So a lot of people like ended up
coming to the party that like weren't supposed to be there,
and like I did cake downstairs and then it ended. Yeah,
So then like two weeks later, my friend was like, hey,
we call, Like I just wanted to ask you, like
did you enjoy your gift? Like you never said anything,
(35:48):
and I was like, what gift? And then at the
lunch table come my other friends were like no, yeah,
like I got you a gift, like you never said anything.
So someone stole my presence? What the fuck? Who does that?
Someone stole my birthday press? Did they tell you what
it was? Yeah? They were like, I got you like
this white top form even outfitters, I got you this
old to gift card whatever. And then one of the
girls that came to my birthday party, another one of
(36:10):
my good friends, was hanging out with them, and she
was like, you know, she had all of the gift
cards that like, you know, like people said, and I
never brought it up because I was just like, you know,
if she needs it that bad, like she can have it. Yeah,
Like that's that's big of you. I totally would have
been like, bitch, give me my gift cards. I would
do that now. But I was just really like, not calm.
I didn't get scared when I was younger, and I
wasn't confrontational, and then both things completely switched and that
(36:34):
was the worst birthday party or just yeah, I mean
when somebody steals your freaking presence, that is a rough birthday. Yeah,
all right, well that brings us to the best. What
is the best party you've ever had or been to? Oh,
I will tell you. So it was one of my
best friend Stanzel's birthday party. His birthday is in December,
(36:55):
and I feel like the party months in California are
definitely in the summer, and I think December is like
kind of dry, like not a lot of stuff is
going on. So he had a birthday party and it
was at like his friends like Shock or something, and
it was just like the best night ever because I
feel like don Zal just has really genuine friends and
so it was like the first LA party I've been
(37:16):
to that like no matter how big the creator or
if someone didn't even do social media, everyone was just
down to dance together, to drink together and have a
really good night. So it's just because I feel like
in LA, if you go to a party, if someone
is a big creator, they might not regard you like
a human being, you know, and so but everyone at
this party was just like down to have a goodass
(37:38):
time and so we just had like the I think,
like the best night I probably've ever had in la
and like everyone was just like besties for the night.
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Max and I we had played so many widge boards
in the past, so we were like pros, Yeah, I
was ready, And basically through some conversation we realized that
we were talking to a spirit named Zach and he
was a little boy who lived in my house. Is
what he said. Nope, no, I'm out. I'm already out now.
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If you are one of the millions of people who
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I think she's selling herself short, because I actually think
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journey to not only kick her own nicotine addiction, but
to also encourage and challenge her peers to quit vaping
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people use their platform to try and affect some positive
change in the world, and McCall is a young creator
who's doing just that. But for today's episode, McCall told
me a story about a spooky sleepover where an adolescent
apparition overstated it's welcome. I'm your host, will Weigie McFadden,
And this is hashtag Storytime Brought to you by iHeartRadio.
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So my freshman to like sophomore year of high school,
I was super into Wuiji boards. I was like introduced
to it at a party and I really liked it.
So at this point in my life, I had done
it a couple of times, and it was time to
do it at my house. It was a big deal.
I had my best tis over and similar to your mom,
(01:45):
my dad told me like, never play a Weigi board
at my house. And I was like, okay, I like
how you're You're already describing it like it's a drug.
You're like I was introduced to it at a party
by trying it, and then I was like I like this,
hell yeah, Dad's like, don't don't ever do that. And
You're like, look, it's just a gateway sort of a
(02:07):
gateway drug, literal gateway to a different dimension. Those hilarious
I mean, it felt really tabooed because like my parents
were like, don't do it, and then I did it. Yeah,
and then and then you're like, of course I'm going
to immediately do that thing that you told me. Not exactly.
I was a member Rebellious Era for sure. If I
ever have kids, I'm gonna be like, don't do well
in school, school for idiot losers. Yeah, just going to
(02:33):
reverse those psychology, reverse psychology those kids into frigging Harvard Totally.
I think it would work. Personally, it sounds foolproof. But
I had three of my besties over and we were
in my game room or like bonus room is what
I usually call it, and I was like, y'all want
to play with a Luiji board and they were like sure,
(02:55):
So I actually printed one out and I taped it
to like a wooden cup holder because ghosts don't clear
well made. You just like di iy towigi Oh my god,
five minute crafts you know, race right to me. That
feels yeah, that feels oddly more dangerous and like demonic
(03:16):
that you're probably there's like this is not sponsored by
Hasbro or Mattell or whatever. This is a freaking homemade
device to tap into the unlike colored paper too, it
was like bright purple or something I don't remember, but yeah,
it just makes it creepier. It was. So if anyone's
like listening and they don't know how Weigi board works.
(03:37):
It's typically a wooden board that you buy from the store,
not make and it has the alphabet and has the
numbers zero through nine. It has a yes, it has
a no, and then has goodbye at the bottom. And
there's a little game piece that you put your fingers
on and it like will direct you two different letters
and everything else on the board to answer any question
that you may ask. So basically, we needed the layout
(04:01):
of my bonus room before we start, before we did. Okay,
so you're seance room, my seance room. The man cave
turned to seance room. But basically I had an alexa,
like an Amazon alexa. There was a pool table, there
was some Uno cards, and there was just like a
pen like on the ottoman. Okay, I just remember head
(04:23):
a bunch of candles in a pentagram. Just totally normal
bonus roomdhoods one. But basically we welcomed any spirit to
the board. And basically so my best friend at the time, Cassidy,
was over, and then there was Cody and Max, and
Max and I were the only people to actually have
(04:44):
our fingers on the eyepiece, like on the piece, and
then Cassidy and Cody were just watching from a distance
and we were like, hey, everybody, if you're a spirit,
please come to the board. We wanted to talk. Basically,
it's what we did. I like how cat as this
invitation was like, what's up, spirit, spirits, what's up? Come
(05:06):
on in. But because Max and I we had played
so many Wougie boards in the past, so we were
like pros, Yeah, I was ready. And basically through some
conversation we realized that we were talking to a spirit
named Zach and he was a little boy who lived
(05:26):
in my house. Is what he said. Nope, no, I'm out.
I'm already out. I would already like, kid, ghosts are
the scariest ghosts. Oh no, he was kind of nice.
He was friendly, but Zach the friendly ghosts. I hadn't
played with Max before, so I didn't trust him. I
was like he could be moving the game piece on.
(05:48):
So Cassidy ended up asking the board questions that like
none of us knew to see if it would answer correctly,
like what was the name of like my mom's dog
when she was little, And the board got it correct,
So that kind of like made it legit, you know,
like to us, because we're like, Okay, no one knew that.
I didn't know that, yeah, and you and you're like,
(06:08):
I'm obviously not the one moving it. So no, yeah,
And then I was like in Max doesn't know that,
like he met me and Cassy like five months ago.
So but we keep playing. And then the board told
us like that we needed to go to the church.
We needed to save Zach at the church. And there's
a church like two minutes from my house, like across
the street from my neighborhood. Obviously we didn't go because
(06:30):
we were like fifteen, it was like very late at night.
We like our six months weren't up to like drive
our friends, you know, like whatever. But they ended up
being the boys curfew and they had to leave. And
one of the biggest rules when playing Weiji board is
that you have to say goodbye, like to the speed.
You're just supposed to be like, kay, thank you, you
have to leave now goodbye. Now I made a space.
(06:52):
Don't hang around. Please, don't continue to stay in this room,
in my bonus room. You're not allowed to just like
this is not an Ian, he lives in my house.
But whatever. So I made a mistake and I asked Zach,
I said, can we say goodbye? What you're not supposed
to do. You're just supposed to say goodbye, and so
(07:14):
Zach was like no, he was like, you can't say goodbye. Crap.
So Max and I were like, what do we do now?
So we just tried to move the game piece too goodbye,
and our fingers turned white from how hard we were
like pulling the game piece and it wouldn't move. It
(07:35):
wouldn't move. What the actual fuck, what the actual flip
is going on? So I did something again you're not
supposed to do, and I picked up the game piece
and I just moved to goodbye. So we go downstairs
and we're kind of by my front door when we
hear her a little like tumble down the stairs. Oh god.
(07:58):
And if you remember I told you there was like
a pen on the couch. Yes, and this pen like
the land out of my house is this pen hopped
off the couch, went through the bonus room, went out
the hallway, turned a corner, turned another corner, and then
went down my stairs somehow, and this pen was now
downstairs and we were like, what like it like fall
from someone's pocket, Like we were at my front door
(08:19):
and this pen like like feet away just like fell
down the stairs. Like we heard like the boo. And
so we were like okay, and the boys were like, yeah,
we gotta go see you later, deuces, have a great night.
This was so fun. So Cassie Knight go back upstairs
to the bonus room. And again, if you were listening
extra closely, I said, there was a stack of Uno
(08:40):
cards right right. Okay, I guess next to the severed
head and the pentagram candles. Yeah, exactly. And somehow this
stack of Luno cards had moved across the room and
they were all faced down, so you just saw the
Uno logo. The three cards were turned up. Do you
want to guess what three cards were turned up? Verse? Skip?
(09:03):
Three sixes? Oh cool, great, perfect, wonderful. Three sixes were
turned up. I'd rather have a draw four, you know anything,
but I would rather have a draw four those lays.
But we were like, what the heck? And then do
you own an Amazon Alexa? I do? I have? I
(09:25):
have a couple. Okay, So again there was also an
Amazon Alexa in the bonus room in the game room,
and it starts playing white noise, And to anyone listening,
if you own an Amazon Alexa, they do not make
white noise. Yeah that's not a normal She's she's in
on it. Yeah, like that's she's that damn Alexa like
a TV like the loses signal, it starts playing white noise.
(09:49):
Amazon Alexas do not play white noise. I've never in
all the years I've had it, never had it play
random white noise or static. Thank you, yeah, thank you
for validating me. I'm here. Basically the white noise is
blaring and we unplug it. And at this point Cassidy
was super freaked out. And when I was a freshman,
like nothing scared me, Like I was eating this shiit up.
(10:12):
Now I would pee my pants, but like freshman ar me,
like nothing scared her. So it's like so cool. It's great.
You're like levitating two feet above the ground, Like this
is fun. I love this. Cassidy's like got blood coming
out of her eyes. You're like, it looks good, it
looks cute. It's a good look for you. Yeah. So
(10:35):
Cassidy's freaking outs was very scared, so understandably, and we
end up going to my room and around when I
am I received two texts and they weren't from blocked numbers,
they weren't from unknown numbers. They were just numbers that
I hadn't saved in my contacts, but they were like
legitimate numbers. The area code is outside of my state,
(10:55):
and it was just like random letters. And so I
posted it to my snow chat story and I was like,
does anyone know what this means? You know, like we
waited and then someone said yeah, read it backwards and
the two texts said I'm here, oh no, and answer me.
Oh God, burn the house down. At this point I
(11:18):
just would full on I'd move, I'd burn the house down.
I'd move, I changed my name, my name, new identity.
I would get plastic surgery, I would get baptized, would
do it all. That's hilarious. But we turned on the
(11:38):
light and we ended up going to bed. I mean,
there's more to the story, but like, we end up
going to bed. You slept after this. I wouldn't sleep
for weeks on. We just went to bed. You're like okay.
So a couple like days later, like a week later, Cassidy, Cody,
and Max were back at my house and Cassidy, of
(12:00):
all people, said, you guys should play the Wuiji board again.
What see, you guys are gluttons for punishment? I know, yeah,
because it went so well last time, we should definitely
run it back. I just I think we were like
deprived of drama, like we just like needed something to
like do, but join the drama club. Like there's other
(12:24):
way go to the party, yeah teenager. Yeah, I don't know,
like go to the roller skating rink and start a
fight like a normal you know, teenager movie. Nope, I'm
trying to I'm trying to tap into interdimensional like children, ghosts.
That's my drama. Of course, what else would you do
on your Friday night? So I had ripped up the
(12:46):
other board, which like you're not supposed to do either,
like whatever, So I had to print it out again.
I did the whole five minute craft again, and again
it was just me and Max playing. Okay, so we
do a little like hey spits like come into my house,
come to the board, say space, and again like Zach
comes to the board, you know, and I was like,
(13:09):
show us a sign that you're here, right right, and
then like nothing really happened. And then um, like a
couple months later, he was like water bottle or like
hydro or something, and I had a hydro flask and
I was like, what about my hydro? And he said
open it, and so my hydro was like full of
(13:31):
water and for some reason I just like dumped it
out on the carpet, which like I don't know why
I did that, like to the same like why didn't
I go to the sink? Anyways, that was but I
dumped out my water bottle. Okay, and guess what comes
out of my water bottle? Just take a gand or
take a guess. I'm gonna say blood or no um
(13:55):
six six six six uno cards. I imagine it was
too batteries, what the hell? And like my three friends,
I didn't know, like the batteries are kept downstairs in
the kitchen and like they don't know where the batteries
are Like I'm the only one who knew where the
batteries were in like I didn't put batteries in I water,
but oh I was drinking from it the whole night
like what. So we were like okay, like thanks sad,
(14:20):
thanks sanks for being real, thanks for being here. Towards
the end of us playing, we were like Zach like
where are you? And he was like above you, behind you,
and then he was like like he said something like
(14:40):
I'm in Max. Oh no, I was about to say
if he said inside you, I'm gone, I'm I'm out
of here. And so this next part I just like
to this day from Wanness saying everything like I can't
get myself to like believe this next part and I'm
so sorry. If Max sees the and I like every
time I see Max, I'm like, where are you thinking
(15:02):
this next part? He was like no, I wasn't, and
like everything else, like the batteries and like the text,
it like proves that this next part could have been real,
but I don't know. So basically we're sitting there and
like Max like closes his eyes or like something, and
I'm like, hey, Max, buddy there, what's good? And then
(15:25):
like we say like goodbye to the board and then
like Max like stands up and he's just like not
talking to us, not like acting normal, just like standing there,
and so casting Cody like go to the other side
of the room and they're like, oh yeah, like what
do you do? And again, like I don't get scared
to like I'm Loki eating this shit up. I'm like,
what's going on? Max? Like what's happening? And he like
(15:50):
backs up, sits on the couch and starts shaking like
like he's seizing and like his like eyes were kind
of rolled back a little bit, and I was like Max,
so now I'm like okay one, and so like I
start shaking him like Max, and then he finally like
just like stumps, like he's like sleep, and then Cody
(16:11):
and Cassiere like like freaking out, and then m Max
just wakes up and he's like, yeah, Li'm I on
the couch like how they get on the couch like whatever,
and We're like that wasn't funny, and he was like
what wasn't funny? And he was acting really confused. So
then the boys like leave, and Cassie and I were
(16:32):
like that was so fake, Like that was so weird
of Max, Like he definitely tried to scare us, Like
let's scare him back, yeah, you know. And so Cassie
and I came up with this elaborate plan that basically
Cassidy would call the boys and be like, oh my gosh,
like mccaull just passed out like Max did, Like what
(16:53):
do I do? And we thought that if Max was lying,
he would be like, oh my god, I was lying,
Like if she passed out, you need to like wait
someone up and take her to a hospital, you know.
Yeah excellent, yeah, excellent trap here I like it. So
we thought like he would come clean and be like,
oh my god, something's actually wrong whatever. Yeah, So Cassidy
calls puts on the performance of a lifetime like get
(17:14):
this girl on Oscar. She's like, I don't know what
you do. Like mccaulach started like freaking out like Max did,
and like season now she's passed out, like I like,
I'm about to go wake up her parents. And then
Max was like, bro, like we can never play the
Suiji board again. Like he didn't give it up, like
he didn't say like I was kidding. He was like
this isn't okay, Like this is so scary, Like I
(17:36):
feel like it's trying to possess us, like he kept
like feeding into it. Yeah, and so then I like
get up and I'm like okay, like we were just kidding.
I just wanted to know you're like being real, but
sounds like sounds like you may have been possessed by
a child ghost and actuality. Sorry, but that was the
(17:58):
last time I ever played. I think that's a wise
move that you you should never do that again. Literally,
but Wow, just wow. I ended up telling my parents. Okay,
what was their reaction? They were like, I told them
(18:21):
the years removed, so like there's nothing you can do.
I think I told them once I moved out too,
so it's like we can do grounding. We gotta live here. Also,
do they still live in that same house? Yes? Great,
so you're like I moved out. Like, by the way,
there's a little bit. There's a little baby ghostning Zach
who I invited into the house, who lives there now
and I never said goodbye. And he likes to possess
people and uh like he likes to play Uno if
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you're interested. He's not very good at it. He just
kind of he uses the sixes mostly. Um. He loves
listening to white noise on Alexa. So yes, it's the
only way you can falsleep, so have fun with Zach.
He wants to keep batteries in hydro flask. He's kind
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of a Visco girl. I feel like this was prime
Visco time. It was so yeah, he's kind of like
a what was the noise of Visco girls us to?
That's it. Yeah, Zach's a little bit of a Visco girl.
I was gonna say, I feel like I've talked enough
shit about Zach at this point. Now he's gonna come
haunt me. Oh probably, wow, great, he's worthless. Fantastic. But
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I visit home a lot, and um, so I grew
up in Washington and like that's where the house is
in Washington that this all happened, and now I live
in California, and in this California house, I haven't done
anything paranormal, and so like I never like feel scared
or like weird in this house, you know, like even
if I'm home alone and it's nighttime, like and like
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we have really strong wind, so like the wind will
press on the door, like someone's trying to open it.
Like that doesn't scare me. Like I don't really get
scared easily. But when I go to Washington and I'm
in the I would a stream in my room. Sometimes
I get really creepy vibes. And recently, like two weeks ago,
I had a really good friend of mine over named Daniella,
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and we were playing Just Dance. And if you've played
Just Dance, basically it has a camera and it shows
like your figure at the top, and everyone has their
own category, you know, So it was just me and Daniella.
The lights were off in the room, so like it
was really easy for the camera like to find our
figures whatever. So we're playing, we're dancing, when all of
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a sudden, a third person joins and it's a figure
sitting on the couch with their arm up. And I
was recording when it happened, and I didn't get the
thing at the top, and I got our reaction because
Daniella like hates that stuff, and she was like, oh
my god, like freaking out. And it's in my new
YouTube video. Check it bank in the description. Check it out.
(20:57):
And so even though this, like me saying Luigi Board
was like four or five years ago, now, like creepy
stuff still happens. And when I went to grab like
my camera, the figure literally stood up and like walked away. Dude,
just want just wanted to play a little Just Dance,
you know. I know Zach is a kid. Yeah, He's
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like I want to. I want to, you know, I
want to get down up the dance floor. He's like, understandable.
I am fantastic at this game. I used to play
a little Just Dance. I was trying to remember some
of the like silly ass dance moves that they make
you do, like they all have crazy names too. It's
like it's like and then there's like a wiggle wiggle
and then like a series of dabs. And I love
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just as And I only have the twenty fourteen version
and I have been playing it since two fourteen. Fun
fact about me, that's the one, the one. It's good.
It's got the like Lady Gaga, it's Rihanna. Yeah, I
played that one, that exact one. Yeah. But so like
creepy things happen, and like my mom's sage to the
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house and like my mom gets mad to me. She'll
be like, you know, creepy stuff happens, like when I'm upstairs,
like a door will shut, like creepy stuff like still
haven't at the house. And and I do feel bad
now because like my parents really like they didn't want
me to do it in their house, and they did
it in their house, and literally creepy stuff still happens.
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So God, the just Dance thing reminds me of a video.
And I don't know if this was you know, if
this was fudged or not, but a video I saw
in the tesla. The monitor shows other cars on the road.
It shows bicycles, it shows trucks, and then it also
shows people walking and the video of somebody in a
graveyard and it's showing people showing up on the screen,
(22:47):
and then when you look out the window, there's no
people in front of the car, which is just the worst.
I'm literally gonna make Sean go to a great art
of me in the tesla. Oh, I feel like your
parents are going to have a hard time selling the
house if they ever. Well, the creepy thing is is
(23:09):
that our house was built on a farm. There was
like an old farm, and then our house is built
on it, and we don't live on a farm anymore,
so like Za could have been a little farm boy.
Oh no, that's yeah, that's even creepier. I know, he's
like an overalls and ship. I'm just here to milk
the cows. It hasn't he? Boy? Hate my name? Is it? Oh? God? Well,
(23:32):
And in your new house in California, I'm assuming it's
probably a newer built like it was probably built, you
know in the last yeah, I don't know, twenty years
literally the last like this neighborhood like have it wasn't
even built when we first moved in, Like this house
is brand new. Yeah, so there's no there's no time
for it to be haunted unless something was here before.
But I'm not going to find out because I feel
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like the thing about wegi Board's like you welcome them,
yeah into like and I really don't recommend anyone playing,
or if you do play, don't play in your house.
I mean I kind of I think it, like very
seriously now because like what happened and like what's still happening.
But yeah, if you're gonna do it, be a professional
and go to a graveyard and play your weigi board
(24:14):
moral a story. Don't play Weigie in your house, in
your bonus room. Don't ruin your bonus room with little
little kid ghosts. Go to a freaking graveyard. Or do
it on a boat. Oh has that has the Titanic?
We haven't been found. Yeah, though they found it. James
Cameron found it, and then you know, he made a
(24:35):
whole movie about they should they should do that. I
wonder if yeah, if like if you were directly on
top of where the Titanic was, if you, I bet
it's at night, it's got to be creepy. I mean
being in the middle of the ocean at night is
creepy as hell. And I've seen some some tiktoks of
like fishermen, you know, like crab crab fishermen or deep
sea fishermen that are out there in the middle of
(24:57):
the night, and creepy shit happens because it's yeah, it's
just like an ocean of darkness. It's just a complete,
like black void, and they'll hear weird voices or sounds
or things get thrown back on the boat, like weird, creepy,
creepy stuff out there. Don't like it. Would you ever
go to night swimming in the ocean. I don't even
like to go day swimming in the ocean. Really. Yeah,
(25:21):
not a fan of the ocean, one of my few
I'm very much a land dwelling creature. I'm best on land,
not a great swimmer. But also I had an experience
when I was in I was in Costa Rica and
I was surfing when I was like eighteen, and a
leatherback turtle, which are they're like six foot turtles. They're huge.
(25:43):
It came up right next to me and it's its
mouth was wide open. And if you've ever if you
ever want nightmares, google leatherback turtle mouth because it's just
a It's a terrifying site. So this thing came up
right next to me, and I freaked out and paddled.
I thought it was a dinosaur shark. I don't know what.
I was like. It was the scariest thing I've ever said,
(26:05):
and I paddled my ass off to get back to
the shore. And then I was like, fuck the ocean,
what's in there? I don't know, you know, I kind
of had a moment of yes, I just now. I
have this constant fear when I'm in the ocean of like,
what's beneath me? And the answer is, you don't want
to know. I'm actually going to Costa Rica for my
(26:26):
first time in like two weeks. Oh, no way, have fun.
It's I mean, it's a beautiful, wonderful country. Um and
and just know that if you are out in the
water in you know, I was literally at the beach
where leatherback turtles like breed, so it was it was
a normal thing to see, but it just scared the
crap out of me. I'm going to Hawaii also, and
I'm doing something that you would hate. I'm swimming with
(26:47):
sharks no cage, and I'm so i sharks are my
favorite animal, Like I'm so excited call sharks are my
least favorite animal. I mean, I'm fascinated by them, but
they I have reoccurring shark nightmares. Well, what's the one
I have to do to get you to swim in
the ocean no cage with sharks? What kind of sharks
are we talking about it? Because I have swim with
(27:07):
with like like lemon sharks, which their bottom feeders. They
just have tiny little mouths. I think I might don't
quote me on that. I've also swim with whale sharks,
which are you know, the biggest yeah, the you know,
the biggest fish in the sea. Um, But like getting
in a cage with are getting in the water with
(27:27):
like even reef sharks that would freak me the fuck out.
It's not great whites, I know that. I mean like
could show up, but that's really rare in like Hawaii,
and like whatever, it's the smaller ones. I feel like
you got to watch out for tigers in Hawaii. You
gotta watch out for them tiger sharks. I think that's
what I might be swimming with. Yeah, nope, I don't
feel like if they don't plug you, if you want
(27:48):
to plug them. For the most part, I'm excited, you
know what they What they say is you don't have
to worry about the shark that you see. It's the
shark that you don't see that you have to worry about. True.
So you gotta keep your head, keep your head on
the swivel, you know what I mean. Always always be
watching looking. I'm really excited you fun. I'm I'm excited
for you. I just not gonna join ever. I just
(28:13):
won't be attended. I just won't be doing it ever.
Even like even going in a cage shark like cage
diving with a shark. Yeah, I'm out on that, especially
great whites like fuck that. I feel like, I don't
really like the idea of being stuck in a cage underwater.
(28:33):
You know that was that movie where they're in the cage.
So ye can't even watch the trailer. Not for me,
it's kind of a boring movie because it's like all
in a cage, and then it's not in a cage,
but then it's like around the cage for the whole movie.
The creators of that movie just made another one about climbing. Oh,
(28:54):
I can get on board with that. Sours up, it's
not called that, but are they being hunted by a
man made thing? Then the ladder breaks, then they're stuck
up there. I like how they've really committed to this
forty seven meters theme and they're just like, okay, forty
seven meters to the left, that's that's gonna come out next, right,
(29:15):
and then maybe right and then maybe that's all. That's
all the different directions we can do next. What we're
making one that like they're stuck in a submarine and
then they're stuck in a spaceship. And a game that
(29:35):
we've been playing with everyone too that I love to do, First, Last, best, worst,
And what we do is we pick a category and
then we hear your first, your last, your best in
your worst experience in that category. Yeah. Okay, So what
was the first party experience? You remember? The first party
you ever went to? I think it was an elementary
school someone's birthday party and it was like a trampoline
(29:59):
part kind of thing. Oh, what like a sky zone, Yeah,
but like it was more like it was called like
j J jump in it. It was like blow ups,
So it was like bouncy, like a trampoline, but it
was like inflating and climb up it. Going on slides
was super That's okay. I mean that's the first party
you ever went to. Like that's like the bar is
(30:19):
set high, you know what I mean? Like so true.
The second party must have been kind of a letdown.
I'm guessing. Am I supposed to tap it? Yeah? Okay,
so that's the first part. What was what's the last
party that you went to. I think the last party
I went to was my friend Josh's birthday party and
it was here and it was fun. Um, it's always
(30:42):
a good time when you end up on the counter dancing.
That's how you know elevated places. Is this Joshy Washi? Yeah,
love love me some, Joshua And that was yeah, that
was like a while ago. But and we just had
our friends over and that like I got super drunk
and it was super fun. What were you what were
you sipping on? What was the what was the drink
of choice that night? Tetos? Teetoes, teetoes sorry quick covid
(31:07):
cough All right, Oh I thought you were like teetoes,
like teetoes. Yeah, gross, straight tetoes or were you was it?
What for? What's your what is your drink? Your favorite
cocktail or your favorite beverage. So I'm not twenty one,
(31:27):
so I haven't experienced going to the bar, right right, Yeah,
I literally just grabbed the bottle and chucked from the
bottle literally, right, So I just grabbed tetos, rubbed it.
That's I remember those days. Chase it your get. I
went to UC Santa Barbara, which is a world renowned
party school, and yeah, yeah, the my freshman year, my
(31:50):
my alcohol of choice was Southern Comfort and I went
through so much, so much soco. It was disgusting. I
haven't tried it. Uh something comfort with lime and if
you ice that down, it's such a good shot. Soco
lime chilled. I like tequila, like if like I got
to choose the drink. Yeah, I mean tequila's you know,
(32:12):
it's an old standard. It does it gets you fired up?
Yeah yeah, it can do. It can go on, It
can sneak up on you a little bit. It also
watch out for that yeager meister. I've seen yeager meister
do do horrible things to people. I love four Locos too.
I think they taste good. I hear that a lot
of people don't. Well, this is the new four Loco.
(32:34):
The old four Loco was the where it had like
bulls blood in it and like uh extra caffeine. Um.
But that's not a phrase you hear too often. I
love four Loco, So we're gonna I think it. I
think it like actually tastes good, like I taught my friends,
like I didn't have alcohol it. I think it's like
a good tasting beverage. I'd just be sipping it, you know,
(32:55):
on a Saturday, like talk about like sneaking up on you.
I'm like, oh yeah, I forgot this is like I'll
be like wasted. I'm like, oh shit, I just tasted good.
Oh man, you know what? H was it? Forty seven
meters down? Yeah? They should do a tie in with
four local forty seven loco meters that should be everyone
(33:16):
just died. Okay, great, So that was the last party.
What let's let's go to the worst party. What's the
worst party you've ever been to? This is You're like,
I don't want to throw a shade down anyone. I
don't want to be like Willy's birthday party when she
was That party sucked um, oh my god, my own
(33:36):
birthday party. Let me tell you all right, sixteenth birthday party, okay,
y yeah, of course in the bonus room. And it
was supposed to be me and I think my friend.
My mom and dads were like I could have fifteen
friends over. Yeah, So I invited fifteen friends over angree
(33:58):
and it was no drinking because at this time I
didn't really drink and a lot of people didn't like that.
So I think some people like snuck a bottle and
it like it wasn't a party like that, so it's obvious.
Then people brought like their dad pen and stuff, and
I was like, this is not what is supposed to
be like a chill like a fun birthday party, like
you know, like let's just hang her. Yeah little. But
(34:21):
then people start texting me like hey, what's your address?
They want to come, and I was like no, noy
And literally I was like, oh, like I can't have
more people over than my parents told me. Yeah, Like
I used like the parents excuse, which is like lame
to some people, but I was like, my parents said no.
The bouncers say, we're at max capacity, so the bonus
(34:44):
room can't check much more. But then we get a
knock at the door and some people just showed up rude,
and then my mom was like I'm gonna kick everyone out,
and so now I'm just like just dressed. Like I
didn't really like enjoy the night, you know, because I
was like, what's going on? And also if we had
to say earlier, So we went. I went to like
an escape room with like five of my closest friends
(35:04):
and two of them didn't like each other, but I
was hoping that they could just stick it out for
like me, and so they started fighting in the escape
room and I literally like was like shut up, no
one cares, and like, like a couple of my friends
I'm still friends will like bring that up to this
day because it was like they're like that was so
like bold of you anyway. But also like being stuck
(35:25):
in an escape room with two people who are fighting
is just like, yeah, the most unpleasant way to spend
a birthday. So a lot of people like ended up
coming to the party that like weren't supposed to be there,
and like I did cake downstairs and then it ended. Yeah,
So then like two weeks later, my friend was like, hey,
we call, Like I just wanted to ask you, like
did you enjoy your gift? Like you never said anything,
(35:48):
and I was like, what gift? And then at the
lunch table come my other friends were like no, yeah,
like I got you a gift, like you never said anything.
So someone stole my presence? What the fuck? Who does that?
Someone stole my birthday press? Did they tell you what
it was? Yeah? They were like, I got you like
this white top form even outfitters, I got you this
old to gift card whatever. And then one of the
girls that came to my birthday party, another one of
(36:10):
my good friends, was hanging out with them, and she
was like, you know, she had all of the gift
cards that like, you know, like people said, and I
never brought it up because I was just like, you know,
if she needs it that bad, like she can have it. Yeah,
Like that's that's big of you. I totally would have
been like, bitch, give me my gift cards. I would
do that now. But I was just really like, not calm.
I didn't get scared when I was younger, and I
wasn't confrontational, and then both things completely switched and that
(36:34):
was the worst birthday party or just yeah, I mean
when somebody steals your freaking presence, that is a rough birthday. Yeah,
all right, well that brings us to the best. What
is the best party you've ever had or been to? Oh,
I will tell you. So it was one of my
best friend Stanzel's birthday party. His birthday is in December,
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and I feel like the party months in California are
definitely in the summer, and I think December is like
kind of dry, like not a lot of stuff is
going on. So he had a birthday party and it
was at like his friends like Shock or something, and
it was just like the best night ever because I
feel like don Zal just has really genuine friends and
so it was like the first LA party I've been
(37:16):
to that like no matter how big the creator or
if someone didn't even do social media, everyone was just
down to dance together, to drink together and have a
really good night. So it's just because I feel like
in LA, if you go to a party, if someone
is a big creator, they might not regard you like
a human being, you know, and so but everyone at
this party was just like down to have a goodass
(37:38):
time and so we just had like the I think,
like the best night I probably've ever had in la
and like everyone was just like besties for the night.
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