TELL ME SOMETHING GOOD: Madame Morbid's Trolley Tours

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Happy Halloween everyone. Hollywood Hamilton k to you the Hollywood
Hamilton Show and the Kate to your Morning crew. Hello
Crow Hello. I know Marie's been very excited about this
call for a couple of days now, because well she's
all things Halloween over there. She loves it. And Madam
Morbid is on the air with us right now. Madam Morbid,
are you there?

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, I am Ooh, okay, doesn't she sound morbid?

Speaker 1 (00:27):
All right? Okay, She's got this thing. It's called the
Haunted Trolley Tour that I guess it's through Brooklyn? Right,
do I call you, Miss Morbid? Morbid?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Madam?

Speaker 1 (00:36):
Madam Morbid? What do I call you?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
You call me Alison?

Speaker 1 (00:40):
Okay? All right, all right. So so now this Haunted
Trolley Tour, this has been going on for a long
time now and it's it's very popular and it obviously
through the borough of Brooklyn. This is something that can
jot down to remember for next year. Correct, you're gonna
be around next year.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
We actually extended this season throughout November due to pulo demand.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So, oh, nic what can we expect on your Haunted Trolley,
Miss Morbid?

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Well, you're gonna get a history tour of a big
bulk of Brooklyn. With Brooklyn, we get to go visit
multiple neighborhoods tell you their dark history. And Brooklyn especially
was all foresty, farmland, swamps, so it's fun to talk
about how it's changed over the years.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
A lot of eighteen hundreds, a lot of seventeen hundreds.
How far back do you go on your tour? Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
I mean we start from the sixteen hundreds, from sixteen
thirty seven and on, and we really go. The stories
we tell are probably up until nineteen thirty and the
rest you consider modern history. Almost all of our stories
involved death.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So where there's death, there goes.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Do you go to green Greenwood Cemetery? So it's funny
you said that. Okay, So remember I was talking about
how Brooklyn was. In Brooklyn back then it was all hilly.
Greenwood Cemetery is the perfect example about how it used
to look in Brooklyn. You see those bumps throughout it.
Greenwood Cemetery is amazing. It was the first cemetery in
New York and.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Very famous people are buried there.

Speaker 1 (02:14):
Can we go back to the sixteen hundreds and tell
us something that that might have occurred in sixteen hundreds.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Well in the sixteen hundredths the Dutch took over and
that's what Brooklyn's named after.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
A lot of people think it's the Lenape word meaning
broken land. It's actually named after a city in the
Netherlands called Brookland, and then it became, you know, an
industrial city. But before then, the first battle of the
Revolutionary War happened here that we have various stories.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
In fact, one of the battles, one of the little
parts of this battle, happened in today's Greenwood Cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
So it all comes to full circle.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
All right, Madam Morbid, where'd you get that name? Is
that something you just came up with? Or are you
actually more But because you sound like, you know, a
sweet girl down the street, nice girl.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Maybe.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
It just came together.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
So it's the Haunted Trolley that it's a tour that
goes throughout Brooklyn. Madam Morbid runs the thing and how
interesting and what and it's not it's going to stay
open through November. How do people book you? How do
they book the tour? Where do we go? How do
we do it?

Speaker 3 (03:21):
We can just go to Madamorbid dot com and there's
going to be a bright orange ticket button.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
All right, Madam Morbin, thank you for checking in on
kt you. We really do appreciate it. The Haunted Trolley
Tour through Brooklyn online and if you can't make it
this year, make it next year. Very cool stuff right there.
The history of Brooklyn just extraordinary stuff right there. Thank
you so much for checking in.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Happy Halloween.