August 1, 2025 • 63 mins
We take you on our UFO adventure to Pennsylvania's Roswell – the Kecksburg UFO Festival where we meet renowned paranormal researchers and dive deep into cryptid culture.
• Celebrating Alanna's 50th birthday week with unforgettable adventures
• South Mountain Hotel remains our favorite place with great staff, food, and atmosphere
• Exploring the Kecksburg UFO Festival, site of the famous 1965 UFO crash
• Meeting paranormal research celebrities like Stan Gordon and Ron Murphy who have appeared on History Channel
• Discovering incredible craftsmanship in Sasquatch wood carvings and skull art
• Learning about the "goblin universe" theory of interdimensional travel
• Connecting UFO phenomena with rich Appalachian folklore traditions
• Finding out about Squonk Fest in our hometown celebrating Cambria County's cryptid
• Reviewing Happy Gilmore 2 and Death of a Unicorn - both highly recommended
• Planning future adventures investigating paranormal phenomena across Appalachia
Join us this weekend at Squonk Fest in Johnstown's Cambria City at the Bottleworks venue if you want to experience a cryptid festival for yourself!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, we ride and drive, track, talk, talk and go.
Scott and the Atlanta on themic, stories unfold.
We're back, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back there you go, there you go.
Oh, you like my shirt.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I do Look at this guy , look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love it.
Look at this guy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I try to get the spaceship.
Try to get the spaceship.
No, these are awesome.
We'll talk about these in aminute, though what are you
doing?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Looking for my card.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh well, I wasn't going to mention them yet.
Okay, we'll get to that,because we wanted to start off.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How did we even get theseshirts?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Why were?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
we in Kecksburg.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Right, that wasn't on our agenda for last time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, it wasn't.
So, as you guys know, I amcoming off my 50th birthday week
and we went to my favoriteplace in the whole wide world
South Mountain Hotel, Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
SMH.
What's their logo?
Getting high at—.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, getting high at 20,000 feet or whatever,
however high it is.
Getting high at 20 000 feet orwhatever, however high it is I
don't know how high the peak is.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I think it's only a couple thousand feet, three
thousand, we'll say three,that's three thousand feet.
That's probably, honestly,probably three thousand feet's,
probably like the average of,like, like the you know what I
mean most of the mountains inpennsylvania, like if, because
you see, like when you're sidinghills, like 2,900, the other
one which I'm gonna call, isjust over 3,000.
(01:48):
Like the highest one inPennsylvania, I think is, is
Mount Davis, that's, I believe,3,900 feet.
I believe is what I want to say.
So you know what I mean.
Like, yeah, and 2,000 feetwould be probably more like Blue
Ridge Summit.
Do you know what I mean?
That's like a little lower overin that area.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Maybe it's like getting high at 2,500 feet.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That might be.
It'd be great if it was reallyspecific.
Get high at 2,778 and a thirdfeet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'll have to dig up one of my old T-shirts, see if I
have one.
I don't even know what I didwith them all.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I mean we've talked about this before South
Mountain is like the place it'sjust home.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's the best bar in the world.
I mean there's no other way toput it.
It's the best.
I mean, every place you go younever find one quite like that.
Even the good ones aren't thatgood.
You know what I mean.
Like they're not like.
If it's a five, then it ticksall the boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It ticks all the boxes, great owner, great food,
great staff Everybody knowstheir name and if they don't,
they either want to or theydon't, and you'll know quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I mean, it's cool right I love it sebast, ever
since we started going there.
It's so funny.
I remember like it's we startedgoing to her.
Was it during covid right?
During COVID right?
Yeah, it was the first timethat we went up.
There was in the daytime or no,it was that night that,
(03:33):
remember.
We got wings.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that girl was working.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And then the second time, and then we never saw
again.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And then the second time we went there was on New
Year's Day.
Our neighbor was working,remember?
That's how we even discoveredwho made that connection.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And there wasn't many people there and I don't
remember if that was because ofCOVID or I don't think COVID was
getting ready to hit it wasstarting to be in the news and
then it was like this is Januaryof 2020.
Yeah, so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And nobody was there.
But the owner was sitting atthe end of the bar and he was
talking, talking, talking aboutsports, and I was like, oh my
Lord, who's this guy?
And then the bartender was like, oh, he's the owner.
Oops, but now we love him, Ilove him yeah I worked for him
so, and you guys are cool, so Iconsider him one of my good
(04:32):
friends yeah yeah, I mean he'suh, he's, he's uh, he's a good
friend, that's yeah and we'vetalked about this a lot too.
He puts a lot of money back intothe business.
It looks really good, yeah likeI've never.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I like I've never.
I mean, and I've worked for.
You know what I mean.
I've worked for plenty ofpeople.
You've worked for plenty of barowners.
I've never seen a bar owner putback into the business what he
does.
It's not even close, it's noteven a contact.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean, it's like you know what I mean.
He's constantly doing something.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And the food.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I love their food.
I love their food.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And it's simple.
It's not crazy.
You're not going there to get aMichelin star meal.
You're going there to get a hotchicken sandwich with gravy on
it and fresh cut fries.
Son Like, get out of here withthat bullshit.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Their fried oyster sandwiches are very popular.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The the old ladies love them well, the thing that I
love about brad is that healways makes sure that he like,
orders good stuff, like the meat, like the hamburgers from
steely, you know what I mean.
Like all that stuff makes adifference yeah to make sure you
have good quality ingredients.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And it's basically a mini casino up there.
I mean it is.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean it is a casino, a little casino.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Don't say that it's nothing like that.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's nothing going on there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's boring.
Well, I mean, it's the samething that everybody else has.
That's perfectly legal.
I'm not saying there's nothingillegal going on there, I'm not
saying that but you know thosethings are coming up, it's all
coming under fire.
You know what I mean, Like thelegality of it and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, and I don't even want to talk about that
because that'll take us down awhole other rabbit hole about
gambling that I don't want totalk about today.
But I agree with you.
It's such a pain in the ass.
It's just who all has theirhands in the pot or who can't
get their hands in the pot right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Anyway, back to reality, back to reality, back
to reality, back to reality.
So we were supposed to spendThursday, friday, in the
Waynesboro proper area and thengo down to Virginia Beach to see
Dan Soder.
However, thursday night I got alittle too tipsy and I threw
(07:03):
one of my drunken meltdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Classic Elena.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That said, we checked into a hotel room, I changed
into my PJs and I was like Idon't want to be here, I want to
go home.
So Scott, being the fuckingawesome supportive husband that
he is, especially on my birthday, drove the two hours home for
us, and so Friday was just achill day, and I love those.
(07:33):
I mean when I tell you guysthat I'm like on the spectrum,
like I value nothing more thanbeing in my bubble.
Sometimes, even when he talksto me, I'm like shh, don't talk.
Nobody talks to me.
So I get it.
I get why I'm starting tounderstand more why people on
the spectrum wear headphones alot.
Like I get it, it's an easy out, but I also like to engage, so
(07:56):
I don't want to do that Anywho.
So got my way Friday and thenSaturday.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, no, don't gloss over it.
Friday we had king crab legs.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh my God, I forgot about that Shit.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Which was good, because neither of us have ever
had them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, yeah, and that was a fun experience.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, that was fun.
I mean we made everything, wehad a little seafood feast.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Not we.
You made everything, but yeah,little seafood feast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Not we, you made everything and but yeah, okay go
ahead and continue.
I didn't want to gloss over theking crab legs because they
were funny.
Oh my gosh, it's not going tobe the last time I'll tell you
that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I got a $250 birthday bonus from FanDuel, so
I gambled all night.
Didn't win anything.
This is the first birthday inprobably five years that I
didn't actually come out ahead.
You did a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So then, Saturday we did so much Saturday yes.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That was so cool.
We drove out to Kecksburg,which is not that far from us.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, it's about right around an hour.
It's about 55 minutes.
It's, you know, right there,Right down the road.
I mean it's not far becauseit's not like you're jumping on
an interstate highway to getthere.
Right, it's probably only 30miles, you know what I mean, but
like it takes you an hour toget there.
You know what.
I'm saying it's not that far.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Especially like, depending on which way you go,
there's a little bit of trafficeither way.
So if you go like that wayRight.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, because you've got to cross 30 at some point.
Once you get over 30 and get upinto the forest country.
Yeah, beautiful drive.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Beautiful drive.
Yeah, beautiful drive.
I mean.
It's a beautiful drive on theother side too, don't get me
wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it's very nice but, as we all know, back in
1965, there was a UFO thatcrashed there that one right
there and you might have seen iton Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
You might have seen it on theUnexplained Multiple History
(10:18):
Channel programs, you might haveseen it.
I mean, they've made agazillion things about this
thing.
It's literally they call itPennsylvania things about this
thing.
It's literally they call itpennsylvania's roswell because
it's at that level, it's likethe biggest one.
You know what I mean?
Like there's a million of them.
This is the one.
This is the one that peoplestill talk about.
It happened in 1965.
That's what 60 years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
A lot of ways years ago.
Yeah, it is, it's 60 years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, okay, 60 years ago and people are still
talking about it as much as,probably even more than when it
happened.
That tells you the level ofinterest in it, and every year
they have a festival there.
It's put on at the volunteerfire department and I guess
(11:08):
that's what it raises money for.
Is the fire?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
department there.
Yeah, they have a lot of coolmerch that they sell themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh man, they have great merch, but then they also—
and what I love about them istheir concession stand.
They're not ripping you off, ornothing at their thing.
Not at all love about them islike their concession stand,
like they're not ripping you offor nothing, that their thing
not like it's, it's very, it's.
Yeah, it's very family friendly, budget friendly.
If you don't buy five hundreddollars worth of books um
(11:36):
t-shirts we went in just becauseit's like you walk in, you're
like I want everything yeah, oh,my god, wanted literally one.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
As soon as we walked into the park, there was the
first display.
Before you even get into theactual venue was just nothing
but wood carvings.
Some of them were like the oneI think was probably eight feet
tall.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And we're not just talking your standard wood
carving.
Not only do they have an entireline of like Sasquatch wood
carvings, they had these skullsright.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, they looked like polished bone, like that's
how good the color of the skullcarvings were.
They looked legitimately likebone.
It was good.
I mean they're beautiful.
We thought we were going to goback the next day and we ended
up not, but I was like I wantedto come home and do the research
and figure out how much thoseskulls were Because, like we
(12:30):
know, they're pricey, like at aplace, and I mean as well they
should be.
I mean, those things take a lotof time and effort.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh, the craftsmanship is superb.
I mean, it's very, very niceyeah.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, for sure, they're not just like assembly
line made Each one has a little.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
They're all one of a kind, essentially, and but then,
like you said, like the giantSasquatch, I mean, trust me,
there's nothing more than Idon't know what it costs.
It's probably $1,000 for one ofthose giant, but I want a giant
Sasquatch to sit outside mydoor.
They're literally like eightfeet tall, bigger than me, and
they're amazing looking.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But yeah, but no, but it's just to go back a little
bit because I think we kind ofglossed over it.
But at this UFO festival theyhave all kinds of vendors,
speakers, there's all kinds.
Look at this activity list,holy cow, get a look at that.
I mean let's just take a lookat some of the things.
They got a bed race.
We missed it.
It says it's the only bed racein the county.
(13:37):
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Wait, hold on a second.
So only bed race in the countyapplies that there are other bed
races in this state which Iknow, no more guys, I'm going to
have to look into this, right.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So it's a three-day event Friday, saturday, sunday.
Friday night you got like a.
You have music being played.
They got it's like half-pricedfood night.
You know, that's all theinsides.
All the vendors, the speakersand stuff are there.
Saturday they got a parade,they had the bed race, they had
music, they had the stuff inside, you know, and then fireworks
(14:09):
after all of that, and thenSunday they had a UFO, hot dog
eating, competition, more music,they had speakers.
You know all kinds of stuff,and when I say speakers, they
got the best.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They really did.
I mean, I am amazed at howapproachable this circle of
people are.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We came for the funnel cakes and got way more
than we bargained for you wantto do something sometime, just
let me know way, way, way aheadof time.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Not one, but two national treasures.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
What's your name?
My name is Ron Murphy.
Ron Podcast.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No way, yeah it's called Gilded Trash.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Take my card though that's all my contact
information.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I would gladly come on and talk about this stuff,
okay.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Like really amazed, like they're so down to earth
really amazed.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Like they're so down to earth, right, which is funny.
That is funny.
That's very, very clever.
I like that, um.
But, like, like you said, it'sfor the different groups of
people that, like you, I meanthese are people they're author.
Now it's not like these are newyork.
Sometimes these are guys thatdeal with like bigfoot u, ufos,
cryptids, anything like thatParanormal research.
(15:27):
But like these are some bignames.
I mean these guys have been onthe History Channel, like the
Unexplained episodes They'vebeen featured on Beyond
Skinwalker Ranch.
I mean, like these guys aresort of we joked around about
Adam's Shadow Child, but that'sexactly like the—it's like a—
it's a color following they'rethe Michael Jordan of Bigfoot
(15:51):
researchers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They really are.
They really are Like the onlybetter personality that could
have been there is like AndyDikonakis or whatever that guy's
name is, with the hair, theGreek.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, but he's ancient aliens.
We're talking about modernaliens.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wait, what's his name though?
Suculos, georgios, suculos,georgios, suculos.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, but no, I love that guy, but no, but I mean,
it's not nobody like that, butlike Stan Gordon's been on
everything.
I mean when it comes comes,these guys are when they're
they're it when it comes topennsylvania.
The ron murphy, stan gordon,eric altwald is that his name.
Am I pronouncing that correctly?
(16:35):
I'm sure he's probably on thelist.
I don't know, but if I am,we'll fix it later.
But uh, but you know what Imean?
These guys are like at the top,like that's why these shows go
to those people, because anytimethey're filming something about
Western Pennsylvania, these arethe guys.
Like these are the guys.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And I feel like such a dumbass because, like I was
filming while we were liketalking to these different
people and I literally filmedright past two of the gentlemen
who have been on multiple of theshows and I was just like, oh
hey, hi, whatever, film, film,film.
And they were probably they'vespoken on as many as some of the
(17:15):
I mean the other guys that werethere.
Sorry, guys, you can come onthe podcast if you'd like.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, we didn't mention your names, but there's
too many to like and it's toomany to memorize.
I don't know all these people.
I'm not familiar with all theirwork, although I'm becoming.
I bought several books.
I've been reading them,learning about.
How many shows have we watched?
That's the other thing aboutChestnut Ridge.
There's an amazing amount ofinformation out there, like
(17:43):
shows.
We just got done watching asix-part documentary.
You can go watch it foryourselves for free on tubi.
Yeah, it's called uh, sasquatch, something about sasquatch and
the ridge.
There's a word in between there, but I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
We'll put it in the thing yeah, I don't remember,
but yeah, I'll put it in.
So, um, I mean, yeah, that wasbut it features all these people
we're talking about yeah, Imean it's insane and so
obviously I'm not as in this, Idon't study as much of it like
I'm not in the people.
(18:19):
For me, this is the same aslike marvel, right, like I know
which characters I love andtrust and like are my favorites,
but I don't know theirbackstories or how they got to
where they got.
I don't know any of that.
I'm not a Marvel nerd, but I'ma Marvel enthusiast.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're a UFO nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Enthusiast.
You're a UFO nerd.
You know the players, some oftheir backstories.
You know the actual dates andtimes.
I'm a UFO enthusiast.
You're a UFO nerd.
You know the players, some oftheir backstories.
You know the actual dates andtimes.
I'm a UFO enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And I wouldn't even call my.
I'm a Like.
I would consider myself acasual enthusiast and you're
probably more of a passingenthusiast.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Like I'm interested I'm intrigued.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to hear the story.
Um, ron murphy gave me the bestphrase of my entire like this
whole existence, which is woo.
Like I get that woo is requiredto like bring people in, but
I'm I get disenchanted by woo.
So like I've done this wholething with the paranormal people
(19:25):
.
You remember when we firststarted dating how much I love
the Long Island medium.
She was like my hero.
I really thought that I wasgoing to start walking around
coldly reading people and Iprobably could, if I like dove
into it.
But I'm not gonna.
Like I don't want that's notthe energy.
I want following me around forthe rest of my life, right, but
I'm not gonna Like I don't wantthat's not the energy.
(19:46):
I want following me around forthe rest of my life, right.
So in that case, like I've beenthrough because I was a nerd of
new age, we'll call it at onepoint I got disenchanted by the
sales pitches and stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, and I think too , what happened there for a
period of time.
They call it the ghost huntersphenomenon Because, let's be
honest, I mean before that show,everything else was sort of.
When it came, it was thebiggest thing in paranormal
since paranormal.
So what happened then is youhad this huge explosion and then
(20:23):
, in order to like, make, like,make tv shows, you gotta one-up
each other because they're notthe only game in town.
So then it becomessensationalized.
And then what happened?
Is it sort of burned itself outlike you're talking about, like
the woo fact?
They relied all on that.
Instead of the now, was therestuff going on where there was
(20:43):
good, actual investigation?
Of course there always has beenthere, always will be yes but
as far as it being at theforefront, I mean that pushed a
lot of people away it did and so.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
but what I also love about discovering this kind of
universal folks is that whatI've observed so far from
everything I've seen, is thatthey're just genuinely like nice
guys that just know a lot aboutthe experience.
They know it's no differentthan having like a hunting guide
if you're going deer huntingSure.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And they all are very approachable in the sense of
like they're not trying, likenobody got it is getting into
that business for the money, notrust and believe there's no
money.
Yet I mean I'm not saying thoseguys can't make a living and
stuff right, I'm sure that theydo, but I'm not, but they're not
going to be.
It's not fame and richeschasing bigfoot down no, no not
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until they actually get them.
So these guys are like theydon't.
They're not trying to sell youanything is what I'm getting at.
They're not trying to.
It's not, they don't.
If you want to talk to them,great.
If you don't, don't, like ifyou have a storyteller and you
want to share it, great, butthey're not pushing you.
It's like they're just all verydown to earth, like you said,
(22:02):
as weird as that is whichthey're just all very down to
earth like you said as weird asthat is, which is awesome for us
.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
These alien people are so down to earth that sounds
ridiculous in on so many levels, because so many people just
take it with a grain of sandyeah, it's, but seriously, like,
the more that I am watchingthese like shows with you and
stuff like that, the more Irealize I, like, I love nerd
stuff.
I love nerd stuff.
(22:29):
And this is just a differentlayer of nerd stuff it really is
.
And so I just get excited tohear people that are articulate,
right, speaking about somethingthat they have a lot of
knowledge on.
That fascinates me, so Right.
That they have a lot ofknowledge on that fascinates me,
so right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And I had a point there that I was going to say
like you, and I lost it totally.
No, but it was just the factthat, like, like the whole I
know it sounds ridiculous, butnone of these people, none of
the people that I've met thattake this seriously, like these
(23:06):
guys you know what I mean.
Like you do you?
meet hacks and crazies, ofcourse, but you do in anything I
mean, you know what I mean.
Like you meet crazy people atthe sheets, you know what I'm
saying.
Like you meet crazy people andthere's always going to be that
fringe group, that's like wow.
But these guys that actuallytake this genuine and like,
treat it with respect, theydon't ever speak in absolutes.
(23:31):
Like they don't ever claim toknow what's going on, claim to
understand.
They fully admit that they don'tunderstand the scope of this
thing and we speculate a lotbecause that's all you can
really do, but I've never heardthem say like none of these
people are ever like oh, this isdefinitely aliens, this is
definitely that they don't know.
(23:51):
And they say that they're likeI have no idea what this is, but
it's weird and I want to knowmore.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, so I'll give you a great example, because we
made fun of this last.
Halloween is like everyparanormal show that I watch.
There's like a template.
When I watch UFO shows, theydon't open up the show with
we're going to research thiswith a spectrometer, and what a
spectrometer means to you.
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Like stop it.
They don't do that.
Like they have gear.
They explain it, but it's notlike you don't get to.
It's not like that.
They have to get this.
This is a spirit box.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
They gotta get the voice box in, it's gotta say
something, and then they'regonna play some little fuzz and
they're gonna put here I.
I challenge you to anybody thatwatches those shows.
I challenge you because they doit on every single one, with
the spirit box, the voice box,whatever they call it EVPs.
I challenge anyone and I'm notsaying that I haven't heard like
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good examples of this or likereal phenomena, but what they
try to sell you on these TVshows is garbage.
They play some gobbledygook andthen they, but they put on the
screen what they want you to say.
Try to make out what thosethings are saying without
reading what's at the block offthe bottom of your screen and
try to tell you can't ever comeanywhere close.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
To what they're saying Every once in a while
they will say a name through thevoice box that you're like oh
yeah, okay, that's the name.
But more often than not, whenthey're trying to string phrases
, it's like filter, bias, yeah,bias, filter.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's because they're putting the word on and you hear
that you can't unhear it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Then, even if you once you've right but well in
some cases you can unhear itbecause it's so blatant that
you're like no no, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
They're like it said go back to hell, you, son of a
bitch.
And then it's like you're justlike, and're just like, and
you're like what yeah?
You're like that did not.
Say that that did not.
And, like I said, I'm notsaying that that phenomena is
bullshit, because I've heardgood ones, but I'm just saying
what they try to sell you 95% ofthe time on the TV shows.
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That's what you get.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, and that again's, it's just another
reason why I love this phenomena.
But not only do I love thisphenomena, for just the very
reason of, like, the possibilityof ufos and aliens, what you'll
mean aliens, um, about aliens,is that um and I talked about
(26:19):
this a little bit earlier todayit crosses so many things that I
am obsessed with.
Like I am full on obsessed withAppalachian folklore, right,
but I'm more obsessed in thefolklore of the humans, the
human spirit, the struggle.
But then when you layer in,like all these stories about
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don't look in the trees at night, don't whistle at night, don't
look behind you at night,there's goblins in the caves,
yeah, and you hear the stories.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's so strange too, because, like one of the things
that Ron Murphy talks about inhis book about Chestnut Ridge is
he talks about like alwaysbeing drawn to that forest, and
I relate to that much in thesame way of like the forest that
I grew up in.
But grandma Reed used to tellme those stories you know what I
mean Like of the Indian thatthey saw like ghosts, that they
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saw.
Like there was all these thingsabout the forest, about these
areas, this area was had thisand this area.
So it was like all thesedifferent little things and I
it's the same thing thing outhere with this and you just hear
these little, just like pocketsof it's like fascinating people
(27:31):
.
The people are all connected,the Appalachian people with
these, like traditional folklorestories, and it says it not
only connects, it says a lotabout their lives, not just from
the aspect of there beingsomething paranormal, but you
fear, like things that affectyour life.
Do you know what I mean?
Like that's where thesefolkloric legends come from.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, so there's a girl that I follow on TikTok Her
name is Thursday Adams, and shedoes all the Appalachian lore,
and she told a story thismorning and I was like that
makes a lot of sense too.
She said that part of the lorecomes from the moonshiners
trying to get you to stay awayfrom their steels.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That could very well be, and also we know a lot of
the stories going back to, likemy grandma's grandma, the people
labeled a witch, even thoughthat's not like how she would
define herself, just like anatural healer.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Right you know, what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So like you label that in and you see how these
things get twisted, is my point.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right, right, right.
Well, and there's—because I'veheard this similar story and
I've talked about it beforeabout people speaking verses
from the Bible and the burncoming out of somebody when
they're burned like those kindof things, those all you know
they come from, stuff like that.
But in the Appalachia, howeveryou say it, in the mountain
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range, there you've got all thedifferent folklore.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You've got the Scottish Irish, German, it's
almost like American voodoo,like not voodoo in any way,
shape or form.
I'm not suggesting that, but inthe way that it took the
religions and the cultures ofthe people and got intertwined
with, like a ancient sort ofpractice into this more modern
(29:25):
thing yes, yes, that's exactlywhat it is.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean, there's not.
I don't know that there is aword for it, but voodoo is
particular to a region, rightand sure yeah, it's a bit, but
I'm saying much in that same way.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It took it's this outside source mixing with the
local thing to create this likenew thing.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Right, yeah, I love it so much and then and I'm sure
you have so much to say on this, so I just want to segue you
into it.
You know that I am obsessedwith like glitches in the matrix
time jumps, portals, portals,portals.
I love a good portal story.
You don't love a portal and so,like I've always kind of
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underlying believe that that'sexactly what it is.
It's just like, whatever youthink of it as, or you know,
like a wrinkle in time oroverlapping time frames or time
shift or whatever it is, it'sjust a energetic way to pass
through.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's like an overlap of dimensions and time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Whether it's time travel or just travel.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Or dimensions.
That's the question.
It could be all of these thingsor some combination of them,
but I definitely think that'swhere this is all headed.
I mean, that's certainly, Ithink, the theory that most
people that take a look at theentire spectrum of evidence come
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to.
Like Stan Gordon said in thatdocumentary that we were
watching like, at the beginninghe definitely thought that, like
UFOs were only extraterrestrial, but as he's gone on he thinks
now that that's not the case atall, that it's related to this.
Ron Murphy calls it the goblinuniverse, this like sort of
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interdimensional travel,space-time continuum thing.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, so think about it.
Think about this because youknow I have a couple theories
right.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I told you earlier that what if the dinosaurs just
broke through the portal andlike they all had to come back
through the portal, which is whywe believe that they went
extinct but a couple of themactually like stayed here, like
the Thunderbird thing that wewere looking at earlier?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Right, right, did they?
Or here's another question.
So like what if they slid offall of it, like slid to this
other dimension, and then theycome back through occasionally,
which is why we see theThunderbirds or a loch ness
monster or whatever, because yougot like certain ones slipping
back through or whatever.
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You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Like I don't know how it works well, here's my other
thought, because um who, who wasit?
Was it hitchens?
Who's christopher?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
it's.
Christopher Hitchens is more ofa religious writer.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
No, no, no, it wasn't Christopher Hitchens, it was
Graham Hancock's book.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh yeah, Graham Hancock.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And it's always just stuck in my mind that like, so
you know how, like when you goon ayahuasca trips and DMT, you
see the machine elves.
So what if we're justprojecting what's really living
inside of our brains outwardlike a movie projection?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And that's a good question and that brings up an
interesting point and this iswhere I thought you were going
with this, because GrahamHancock, I think, talks about in
that same book that like what'sweird about those experiences
people across time, regions andcultures all report seeing the
same entities.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Even uncivilized cultures that don't have.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Right that don't have .
Right.
That makes you question likewhat is it Like?
What are you taking a peek at?
You know what I mean Right Likeit's?
I don't know.
It gives me the good williesyou just sound like what about
Bob, when he's like ooh, oh, myAtlanta.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
No, I love it so much .
And if you guys didn't see theTikTok video or Facebook or
whatever, the Circles video.
So, as we were walking throughthe venue, meeting all of these
gentlemen who are well-known,well-known in the circle,
Well-known researchers,well-known researchers, to your
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point.
They are the Michael Jordans ofthe UFO world, and we got one,
two offers to go on podcasts.
Dave Spinks doesn't know it yet, but we're going to creep him
until he lets us do one of hisshows or he just comes on the
podcast because that was cooltoo.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I'm trying to take him to a haunted spot.
That's what I'll do.
I'll write to him and be like Igot a haunted spot.
I'm trying to take him.
That's what I'll do.
I'll write to him and be like Igot a haunted spot.
I got a barbecue restaurant andI got a brewery.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I'll introduce him to it.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You can research it yourself and do all that and
bring all your people.
I'll just be the local guy thatyou talk to in the episode.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
One of the things that we doing for this year's uh
see, this season of gildedtrash was doing cooking episodes
and we bought a book calledcooking with cryptids by david
sphinx.
So I say we take some of thecooking with cryptid recipes and
just film cooking with cryptidsand with my editing skills, who
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knows, maybe there'll be analien cooking with us.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But no, but that brings back to another
interesting point.
That was like the really coolthing, like that was quite the
moment.
That'd be quite the show that Iwould watch Would be.
Dave Spinks talked about that.
He's working on a show wherethey like with the drummer from
Shinedown right.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
How do you know him?
But cool, and we got the insidenews on some paranormal
bruising cues.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I'm part of a new show called Booze Bruising
Barbecues with my good friendBarry Kurtz, the drummer of
Shinedown.
Oh really, yeah.
So that'll be coming out nextyear as well.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
And we do a ton of cooking on that show as well.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's a lot of fun.
We do something fun.
Well, mine's, like two of myfavorite things oh so we go in
the show, we go to a hauntedlocation.
We investigate it.
Then we go to a local breweryand we sample all their beer,
and then we go to a localbarbecue joint and then we also
cook, because you know our guy,our main cook guy, he's
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sponsored by Rectech.
You're going to make him cry.
So we cook something on theshow too.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That's awesome, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Who do?
I assign this to I know I justneed him on the podcast so we
can talk about how that all,because that's what I love.
So Dave is kind of like he'sUFOs and cryptids and like all
these guys are.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, yeah yeah, all like he's UFOs and cryptids and
like all these guys are.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Yeah, but he's trying to do either sells down to one
thing, right, but he's trying todo other things with it, which
I love to love.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
The idea for the show where they go do an
investigation, they go to alocal brewery and then they go
check out a local barbecue place.
I mean, you're basically takingevery that's.
What they're going to startdoing now is taking all the TV
shows and mashing them together.
Yeah, because people don't wantto see one thing.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
You had an idea about a show which I think would be
amazing.
I don't know if you want totalk about it or if we want to
keep it secret, but takingactual comedians or comics into
paranormal Investigations yeah.
Investigations and gettingtheir reactions Like because
they're caught-ups, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, it'll be fun.
But yeah, no, that's a lot offun too.
But I mean, yeah, like, I'm soexcited that they were like
even— how quick they were.
They're like oh, you have apodcast, I'll come on it.
They didn't ask any questions,they didn't say you have a
following Because they just wantto get exposure.
They don't care, they just wantto talk about it, and talk
(37:31):
about it with people that liketo talk about it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, and we're boring sometimes talking to each
other.
We need a third.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, I mean I want to talk to people that, like I
would love to ask it here andask questions about all these
things, and I'm sure some of thepeople that listen would love
that too, and maybe people thatdon't listen would love to tune
in for that to get to hear.
But that's what I was, that'swhere I was going with that.
I totally forgot five minutesago.
I wanted to come to this.
All this brings us to righthere in Johnstown this weekend
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Not this weekend, it's Sunday,but next weekend Squonk Fest,
which we didn't even know was athing.
We learned that they're likeeverybody kept asking us.
They're like you guys,everybody there at Kecksburg.
They're like the next one up isSquonk baby, you going, and
we're like I have no idea whatthat is.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Tickets I love tickets.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But yeah, but turns out that, yeah, there's a
cryptid.
So apparently Cambry County hastheir own cryptid.
It's called the Squonk, it'slike some sort of man-bear-pig
thing and it's but yeah, the I'mgoing to learn about it.
I don't know anything about it.
Um, but yeah, they're having abig festival, kind of like what
we just went to Same thing,vendors, speakers, all of that.
(38:49):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
In Cambria City.
It's at the Bottleworks venue,so it'll be indoor, outdoor,
just like this other one was.
You'll you know you'll have achance to go inside and talk and
see things.
The speakers are going to be atthe building at certain times,
so yeah, definitely we aredefinitely checking it out.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Go check it out, squonkfest.
You can check it out on anysocial media platform.
They got plenty of stuff outthere if you want to see the
schedule.
But it's right here inJohnstown, in Cambria City, this
coming weekend, so that's goingto be a lot of fun.
You'll see us there if you go.
That's for damn sure.
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And we'll be taking bets on how large our book
collection becomes over the nextmonth and a half, while we hit
all these festivals.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I got to read the ones I got first, damn.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
You read them yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I've been reading them.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I thought they were just to collect autographs.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I've been reading them.
No, I've been reading.
I don't read, I love reading.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I used to love to read, but I stopped at, like
teenage, I don't know.
I stopped reading at liketeenage romance.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
yeah, but here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Well, when I was in back in the day, when I was
locked up, we can go there for aminute because we have to talk
about the other thing thathappened on Monday.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I was a voracious reader, Obviously most inmates
from where?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
from where?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
the inmates in jail.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That's what I said, oh I said when I was locked up I
said that to begin with.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, yeah, no.
That's why I said I was avoracious reader.
I said, as most inmates are, um, but now the only thing that I
liked it, but that was all likenovel.
I'd read anything whatever, butlike now, the only thing that I
really like to read is likenon-fiction, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean, like I like to learn right, right, but one
of the books that you introducedme to that you found when you
were in jail was like or prison,sorry, because there's a
difference.
I forgot Was.
Is it a conversation?
Well, I didn't find that inprison.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But yeah, no about that.
It was after that.
But yeah, no, that's a greatbook.
Conversations with GodConversation yeah, there's three
books, Neil Donald Walsh, Verygood stuff.
It's just one of those mindexercises.
It teaches you to think insideof your own thoughts, which is
fun.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, it's so good.
Oh my God.
And for that very reason, Ilove when books teach me a new
perspective on my thoughtprocess, Like I love learning
about that.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right, is it?
It teaches you, like I said, tolike circulate your own,
circumvent your own thoughts,sort of, and your way of
thinking, to like sort of flipit on its head to teach you to
think about things from like adifferent sort of viewpoint.
Yeah, it's, very good Very good, it's very good, very good,
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it's very good.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So I am going to bring it up because part of my
birthday package and then we'llcircle back because we have so
much more to talk about in thisspace.
Part of my birthday package wasthat whenever Babe asked me to
marry him some what 17 years ago, or something 16, 17 years ago.
Some what 17 years ago, orsomething 16, 17 years ago he
bought me a ring at the time andwhen we were going through it
(42:26):
and he was being a shit bird, Ithrew my engagement ring into
the Atlantic Ocean somewherearound Polly's Island.
I don't remember.
I may or may not have been onmushrooms or, wait, no, did I
throw it out of the car?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I don't know, I don't remember.
It might have been on mushrooms, or wait, no, did I throw it
out the car?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
I don't know, I don't remember it might have been
driving down the highway yeah,it might have been.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
It might have been but either way.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
So since then I've been asking for a ring and I've
only got it now.
For all you bitches that areworried about it being diamond
or not diamond, I've alwayswanted an opal.
Opal is scott's birthstone.
It's also my most fate.
My stone is moonstone and opalis the closest thing to
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moonstone, so plus moonstone,moonstone, moonstone see it all,
you know it all.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
interweaves when do you get it though?
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Moonstone, you get it from the moon.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, they drop some off.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I thought that was moon rock.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Oh yeah, Moonstone's just mine.
It's like polished stone.
Yeah, opal's like the gem gemversion of moon run.
The gem version the uncut gemsversion.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Uncut gems speaking of speak.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I didn't even try to do that we watched happy gilmore
too.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's talk about that , because that's something
that's like Happy Gilmore forlike people.
Our age was like one of themost popular movies like ever
for a young person.
For a young stoner Adam Sandlerwas.
He was people don't think ofhim this way, but he was sort of
(44:18):
alt comedy.
Think of him this way.
But he was sort of old comedylike in the sense of like he was
like what, we like that, likethe parents didn't like like
right the older people didn'tlike, I should say, because it
was like that continued on tolike into your 20s and stuff.
But like it was the stuff thatthe older people didn't like,
you know what I mean?
(44:38):
It was young people humor andit was like growing up with him
and like knowing his.
Everybody had his.
All my friends had his comedyalbums.
We used to quote him all thetime, you know what I mean.
Like they're so good, you wanta haircut, they're gonna fucking
cut your hair.
They say fuck the sun.
You say yeah, fuck the sun.
I fucking hate it too long livethe fucking beast.
(44:58):
That's one of my favorite ones.
But regardless, I mean so manythings.
But like and Happy Gilmore waslike that movie where it was
like you couldn't ignore AdamSandler anymore at that point
you know what I mean.
Like he was going to be a starand whether the establishment
wanted that or not was left tobe.
You know it didn't matter.
(45:18):
And that and Billy Mattis, youknow what I mean.
They came out roughly the sametime and it was like these two
movies solidified him as likethis guy's going to be making
movies now for the next 40 years.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I quote Billy Madison like every day.
At least once a day I quotesomething from Billy Madison, or
actually let's just say AdamSandler in general, because I
always say somebody's moreimportant.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I love that he did that.
That, because he does thatthree times, like he does that
in Happy Gilmore, he does thatin Pixels, and then he does that
in Happy Gilmore too, where helike says In that voice, in that
same Somebody's ball wentfurther.
Right, right and but like forus, so happy Gilmore too.
(46:08):
This is like we've been talkingabout it for months.
We've been so jacked about thisBecause, despite what people
say People like hate on AdamSandler You're a dumbass.
Because I love Adam Sandler andlike I love his movies.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I know he's brilliant .
I mean it's always so good,like even that.
What was it?
The murder mystery one?
Yeah, I've watched that overand over and over.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
They're funny and the thing is is like, is he out
there?
He's not out there.
Adam Sandler was never outthere trying to make fucking the
departed, or yeah, like he'snot trying to win academy awards
, right, he's trying to make amovie that you can sit there and
watch for 90 minutes and notlike, just laugh a little, like
and not care about other stuff,like that's all he's trying to
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do.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
He's just here to entertain and that's exactly
what he does.
And can I just say that therewere so many like the whole
movie was cameoed the fuck upLike it was so good.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
It was fun because he did what he does best, which is
bring in the characters thateverybody loves.
Let them do their thing,combine it into somehow still
tell a story.
You know what I mean.
And it was a good story.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
It was funny, it was.
I mean, the storyline was solid, like I liked it.
Oh, I agree, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
He brought in all those real golfers, like that
was cool.
Scotty Scheffler was on thereand Brooks Koepka and some other
guys, hello.
The one that I think isScottish.
Who oh?
Rory McIlroy.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
No, john Daly.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, John Daly was on there.
That's even better because Ilove John Daly.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Oh my God, I love him .
Speaker 1 (47:55):
John Daly is sort of like not really, but it's almost
like who it's based on, becausehe could hit the ball super far
and he was just like thisdrunken gambling fool that like
disrupted the golf thing.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I just love him because he's a nut.
He's a record.
Yeah, he's a certified nut andhe's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He's a great guy.
He's so good Like and you couldjust imagine he's.
I mean, that rule is probablyas close to his real life
shenanigans as you're going toget, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
I don't even think he knew he was in the movie.
He just thought he was hangingout with Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
He's like oh, I thought Hacker Gilmore was real
Because his daughters were inthe movie.
He's like oh, I thought thesewere your real sons too.
Right, I love it.
I love it.
Plus, shout out I don't knowthe kid's name, but the little
kid from Shameless was in there,which I love.
That just brings my whole lifefull circle when I get those
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moments Like we don't live in,we live in an infinite world,
right?
So the fact that so many thingsin my life like cross-section
all the time, it's like I'mright where I'm supposed to be,
yeah, that's all yeah, that'sfun.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
But yeah, no, it was definitely a fun movie.
I mean, I had a good time withit and I think anybody.
If you love Happy Gilmore andyou like Adam Sandler, you'll
like Happy Gilmore too.
That's all I'm going to say.
It's not like it's not amasterpiece.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
It wasn't disappointing at all.
No, it did not disappoint A lotof those like long break.
Second follow-up movies aredisappointing.
No.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Or weird, but no, it still had a great story.
It was still fun.
It was very believable thatthat's where it picked up.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I don't want to give the
plot or the storyline awaybecause those fucking assholes,
but yes.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
It's just believable that that's where that would
have gone.
Like it's just, it's fun, man,it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, and the villains are so villain-esque.
I love it so perfect, I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
But that's why we mentioned Uncut Gems, because
the guy that produced and wroteUncut Gems is in the movie in
Happy Gilmore 2, is one of thevillains and yeah you get it.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, he's good at it .
Yeah, he's good at it, but thatwasn't the only amazing movie
we've watched this weekend.
What did we watch last?
Speaker 1 (50:14):
week, oh my God, total surprise Death of a
unicorn.
Right, talk about good movie,dude.
Totally original, unlike reallyany movie that I've watched
recently.
And it was fun, it wasentertaining, it was fantastic.
Uh, if you have not seen thatdeath of a unicorn, that is a
(50:37):
great movie.
We really enjoyed it's so muchfun comedy, horror fantasy, all
wrapped up into one and a moralstory like morality yeah what's
crazy about this whole thismovie?
Speaker 2 (50:51):
so I also watched um we were liars the series.
We were liars while I was doingthings.
I was binge watching ityesterday while I was cleaning,
doing other stuff, and the showfelt to me like fan fiction of
media moguls getting their justdue.
(51:14):
Yeah, like whatever happens atthe end it was like fan fiction.
When you want the media empireto fall right, that's what we
Were Liars felt like there's aprice to pay for being, you know
this, rich and blah, blah, blah.
That was sad and sappy and itwas a great teenage drama thing.
(51:34):
Death of a unicorn again itfelt very much like fan fiction
for the pharmaceutical heads,right.
So while it was good,entertaining, fucking great
movie, great cast at the end ofthe day you like there was a
vengeance is mine theme thereagain?
Speaker 1 (51:55):
well, yeah, and I think that that's the idea, more
so than like it's a revengefilm, and I think that that's.
It's a revenge film and thetarget in this instance is the
pharmaceutical industry and itsort of weaves, like you said,
this sort of like medieval taleinto it with modern sort of
(52:17):
stuff and it's very interesting,very good, very well, very well
put together, very well done.
Go check it out if you haven't.
Those are movie recommendationsHappy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Plus, like one of the favorite, one of my favorite
things about that is thecampiness right.
So I love when something can beboth smart, funny and campy all
at the same time.
It's not like that dark humorthat I love.
I'm a big fan of dark humor.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I think there's a lot of horror movies that do that
well.
That's why people love thezombie lands and the stuff like
that, because it allows you totake on something serious like
that but still have camp, stillbe smart, still say something.
But because you're within thisgenre of a zombie movie and
playing off these tropes andthings, you can say something
you can't otherwise say, justlike I talk about when writing
(53:08):
jokes.
I love writing jokes where youcan say something without really
saying it because you're in thecontext of something ridiculous
.
So you sort of have a freedomthat you don't otherwise have
artistically.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Right, yeah, I like that.
There was so many other thingsgoing on this ridiculous, so you
sort of have a freedom that youdon't otherwise have.
Artistically right.
Yeah, I like that.
There was so many other thingsgoing on this week that I felt
like we wanted to talk about.
I mean, I don't want to talkabout any of my social media
bullshit other than to say Icall you bitches.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Um, no, we got a very busy month.
We can talk about that.
We have lots of comedy thingscoming up.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
We have lots of other stuff coming up.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
You know what I mean.
Like, we have all kinds ofthings.
We're going to be in Pittsburghnext month for a wedding that's
going to be very fun, for afancy wedding.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
We don't ever do that .
Speaker 1 (53:58):
The fanciest we ever do.
I'm scared, I'm scared, I'mscared.
No, I am.
I'm terrified of black tie.
That sounds evil, but I don'tlike it.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
I can't wait to look Gown hair nails.
It's a girl thing.
I'm already thinking abouttaking my suit off.
But wait, you've been trying topull together a bunch of the
wedding folks to go to a comedyshow.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
No, that's not happening, we're going to take
her.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
They have their after hours venues, so instead we
might just kamikaze karaoke themAmbush, ambush, ambush.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Ambush them Any chuckle fuckers out there this
evening.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah, oh God, that'd be hilarious we are going to our
very first open mic slashcomedy tonight.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Open mic slash karaoke.
Oh God, that changes it whenit's open mic slash comedy.
That's what we go to all thetime.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
All the time Open mic comedy, slash karaoke.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
Karaoke yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah that'll be, fun, his thing and my thing all
together in things.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
All together into one thing.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
Sometimes I try to do his thing and I'm not that good
at it, and sometimes he triesto do my thing and he's not that
good at it?
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Oh, I'm not good at it at all.
You know what I do.
It's either Freddie Fender orYoung Jeezy.
That's how we roll.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
So yeah, you've got some comedy stuff coming up.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We have adventures.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, we can't talk about those adventures.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Yeah, I know, I remember now.
I remember now, damn it.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Damn it, damn it.
It doesn't matter, we can wrapit up In two weeks.
We are going to be talkingabout what?
Speaker 1 (55:58):
And what we're going to be talking about, because
we're putting together a.
So we do have a lot of stuffcoming up and we're possibly
talking about putting togetherour own little super secret show
.
That's going to be a full-dealbarbecue comedy get-down Are you
kidding me?
And we're going to talk alittle bit about that next time.
And we're going to talk aboutour latest adventures because
(56:18):
we're going to be investigating.
We're going to be out therechecking out UFOs, Bigfoots,
comedy events, karaoke contests,food trucks, baseball games I
don't know Movies.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
We might go to a baseball game.
Speaker 1 (56:33):
You never know what we might do.
Yeah, I'm going to watch FinalDestination next week.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Oh, yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
We'll talk about drive-in history next time too.
That's a good topic.
Okay, like all that stuff, youknow what I mean the rich
drive-in history of WesternPennsylvania.
But yeah, no, that's all goingto be great.
I think That'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
And I had a super secret idea while we were
talking.
I really want to do a TV seriesand I don't know if I'm keeping
this in because I might want tokeep it quiet.
I want to do a TV series justgoing—we've talked about going
through Appalachia before but itwas for different reasons right
To meet the wonderful wife, togo sing karaoke with Mamie.
I say we just go to Appalachiaand talk to people about the
(57:23):
folklore and just like have themlike, walk us through.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Yeah, just be like.
You guys seen any cryptids outhere?
Where's Bigfoot hanging outdown here in his town?
What do you say, guys?
You got some pepperoni rollsfor this guy?
Bigfoot loves pepperoni rolls,as do I.
Yes, no, but I would.
I would love to go check outthe Mothman Bigfoot all through
Appalachia.
They got goblins down inKentucky.
(57:46):
I mean we could come on now hitsome Music Fest, moonshine Fest
, ufo Fest.
I'm down, let's go.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
You can get me back out in Ohio for Mothman.
I can do it.
I love Mothman and I love Ohio,for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (58:02):
Why is he in?
Speaker 2 (58:03):
Ohio, because that's where he started.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
I thought he started in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
.
That's near Ohio.
Speaker 2 (58:13):
Oh, it is, You're right.
Okay, then we'll go out to Ohiofor other reasons.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
That's what I'm saying.
I like Ohio too.
I love me some Pettits.
I love all that stuff, but I'mtrying to get down there in West
Virginia and find thesecryptids.
I just did.
Oh shout out Hulk Hogan, loveyou brother.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
Shout out all the people.
Yeah, we lost some big ones.
Speaker 1 (58:36):
This week Malcolm, Jamal, Warner, Ozzy and Hulk
Hogan.
That's like 80s childhood.
It's like who else?
Who's next?
Bill Cosby?
No.
Speaker 2 (58:52):
I hate you.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
It's time for Scott's thoughts.
But first we were at thePittsburgh UFO Festival.
As you've already heard, ourfavorite purchase three years
ago was this guy right here,this guy no, this guy right here
.
As you see, they are wonderful.
They are made by a guy thatruns a company called Legendary
(59:15):
Luminaries.
I mean, look at them, they'regreat, they're beautiful.
We get asked about them all thetime.
People always want to knowwhere'd you get those legendary
luminaries?
Now on to my thoughts.
But it's more of a questionreally.
There is these aliens out theretraveling through space,
checking everything out.
What are they doing with alltheir garbage?
(59:36):
Garbage?
They just toss it out thewindow.
Is there like a floating islandof alien plastic, like there is
in the Pacific Ocean justfloating around?
And it's just alien garbage.
I think somebody needs to talkabout this.
Nobody's talking about this,but it's important to get a tip
on this problem.
So those are my thoughts.
Stay trashy.
Speaker 2 (59:58):
Until next time, stay trashy.
Until next time, stay trashy.
Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
So buckle up y'all.
It's a hell of a ride.
Scott and Atlanta got nothingto hide.
From the gold to the garbage,we bring the sass.
Welcome aboard.
This is.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Gilded Trash Bye-bye.
Yeah, we ride and drive, track, talk, talk and go.
Scott and the Atlanta on themic, stories unfold.
We're back, welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Welcome back there you go, there you go.
Oh, you like my shirt.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I do Look at this guy , look at this guy.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I love it.
Look at this guy.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
I try to get the spaceship.
Try to get the spaceship.
No, these are awesome.
We'll talk about these in aminute, though what are you
doing?
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Looking for my card.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Oh well, I wasn't going to mention them yet.
Okay, we'll get to that,because we wanted to start off.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
How did we even get theseshirts?
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Why were?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
we in Kecksburg.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Right, that wasn't on our agenda for last time.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
No, it wasn't.
So, as you guys know, I amcoming off my 50th birthday week
and we went to my favoriteplace in the whole wide world
South Mountain Hotel, Yep.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Shaking my head.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
SMH.
What's their logo?
Getting high at—.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Is that what it is?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah, getting high at 20,000 feet or whatever,
however high it is.
Getting high at 20 000 feet orwhatever, however high it is I
don't know how high the peak is.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I think it's only a couple thousand feet, three
thousand, we'll say three,that's three thousand feet.
That's probably, honestly,probably three thousand feet's,
probably like the average of,like, like the you know what I
mean most of the mountains inpennsylvania, like if, because
you see, like when you're sidinghills, like 2,900, the other
one which I'm gonna call, isjust over 3,000.
(01:48):
Like the highest one inPennsylvania, I think is, is
Mount Davis, that's, I believe,3,900 feet.
I believe is what I want to say.
So you know what I mean.
Like, yeah, and 2,000 feetwould be probably more like Blue
Ridge Summit.
Do you know what I mean?
That's like a little lower overin that area.
You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Maybe it's like getting high at 2,500 feet.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
That might be.
It'd be great if it was reallyspecific.
Get high at 2,778 and a thirdfeet.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
I'll have to dig up one of my old T-shirts, see if I
have one.
I don't even know what I didwith them all.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I mean we've talked about this before South
Mountain is like the place it'sjust home.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's the best bar in the world.
I mean there's no other way toput it.
It's the best.
I mean, every place you go younever find one quite like that.
Even the good ones aren't thatgood.
You know what I mean.
Like they're not like.
If it's a five, then it ticksall the boxes.
Speaker 2 (02:55):
It ticks all the boxes, great owner, great food,
great staff Everybody knowstheir name and if they don't,
they either want to or theydon't, and you'll know quickly.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I mean, it's cool right I love it sebast, ever
since we started going there.
It's so funny.
I remember like it's we startedgoing to her.
Was it during covid right?
During COVID right?
Yeah, it was the first timethat we went up.
There was in the daytime or no,it was that night that,
(03:33):
remember.
We got wings.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Yeah, that girl was working.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
And then the second time, and then we never saw
again.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And then the second time we went there was on New
Year's Day.
Our neighbor was working,remember?
That's how we even discoveredwho made that connection.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
And there wasn't many people there and I don't
remember if that was because ofCOVID or I don't think COVID was
getting ready to hit it wasstarting to be in the news and
then it was like this is Januaryof 2020.
Yeah, so, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
And nobody was there.
But the owner was sitting atthe end of the bar and he was
talking, talking, talking aboutsports, and I was like, oh my
Lord, who's this guy?
And then the bartender was like, oh, he's the owner.
Oops, but now we love him, Ilove him yeah I worked for him
so, and you guys are cool, so Iconsider him one of my good
(04:32):
friends yeah yeah, I mean he'suh, he's, he's uh, he's a good
friend, that's yeah and we'vetalked about this a lot too.
He puts a lot of money back intothe business.
It looks really good, yeah likeI've never.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I like I've never.
I mean, and I've worked for.
You know what I mean.
I've worked for plenty ofpeople.
You've worked for plenty of barowners.
I've never seen a bar owner putback into the business what he
does.
It's not even close, it's noteven a contact.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I agree.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I mean, it's like you know what I mean.
He's constantly doing something.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
And the food.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
I love their food.
I love their food.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And it's simple.
It's not crazy.
You're not going there to get aMichelin star meal.
You're going there to get a hotchicken sandwich with gravy on
it and fresh cut fries.
Son Like, get out of here withthat bullshit.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Their fried oyster sandwiches are very popular.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
The the old ladies love them well, the thing that I
love about brad is that healways makes sure that he like,
orders good stuff, like the meat, like the hamburgers from
steely, you know what I mean.
Like all that stuff makes adifference yeah to make sure you
have good quality ingredients.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
And it's basically a mini casino up there.
I mean it is.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, I mean it is a casino, a little casino.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Don't say that it's nothing like that.
It's not.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
There's nothing going on there.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
It's boring.
Well, I mean, it's the samething that everybody else has.
That's perfectly legal.
I'm not saying there's nothingillegal going on there, I'm not
saying that but you know thosethings are coming up, it's all
coming under fire.
You know what I mean, Like thelegality of it and stuff.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, and I don't even want to talk about that
because that'll take us down awhole other rabbit hole about
gambling that I don't want totalk about today.
But I agree with you.
It's such a pain in the ass.
It's just who all has theirhands in the pot or who can't
get their hands in the pot right.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Anyway, back to reality, back to reality, back
to reality, back to reality.
So we were supposed to spendThursday, friday, in the
Waynesboro proper area and thengo down to Virginia Beach to see
Dan Soder.
However, thursday night I got alittle too tipsy and I threw
(07:03):
one of my drunken meltdowns.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Classic Elena.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
That said, we checked into a hotel room, I changed
into my PJs and I was like Idon't want to be here, I want to
go home.
So Scott, being the fuckingawesome supportive husband that
he is, especially on my birthday, drove the two hours home for
us, and so Friday was just achill day, and I love those.
(07:33):
I mean when I tell you guysthat I'm like on the spectrum,
like I value nothing more thanbeing in my bubble.
Sometimes, even when he talksto me, I'm like shh, don't talk.
Nobody talks to me.
So I get it.
I get why I'm starting tounderstand more why people on
the spectrum wear headphones alot.
Like I get it, it's an easy out, but I also like to engage, so
(07:56):
I don't want to do that Anywho.
So got my way Friday and thenSaturday.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well, no, don't gloss over it.
Friday we had king crab legs.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Oh my God, I forgot about that Shit.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
Which was good, because neither of us have ever
had them.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, yeah, and that was a fun experience.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, that was fun.
I mean we made everything, wehad a little seafood feast.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Not we.
You made everything, but yeah,little seafood feast.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Not we, you made everything and but yeah, okay go
ahead and continue.
I didn't want to gloss over theking crab legs because they
were funny.
Oh my gosh, it's not going tobe the last time I'll tell you
that.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And I got a $250 birthday bonus from FanDuel, so
I gambled all night.
Didn't win anything.
This is the first birthday inprobably five years that I
didn't actually come out ahead.
You did a little bit.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
A little bit yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
So then, Saturday we did so much Saturday yes.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
That was cool.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
That was so cool.
We drove out to Kecksburg,which is not that far from us.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
No, it's about right around an hour.
It's about 55 minutes.
It's, you know, right there,Right down the road.
I mean it's not far becauseit's not like you're jumping on
an interstate highway to getthere.
Right, it's probably only 30miles, you know what I mean, but
like it takes you an hour toget there.
You know what.
I'm saying it's not that far.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Especially like, depending on which way you go,
there's a little bit of trafficeither way.
So if you go like that wayRight.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah, because you've got to cross 30 at some point.
Once you get over 30 and get upinto the forest country.
Yeah, beautiful drive.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Beautiful drive.
Yeah, beautiful drive.
I mean.
It's a beautiful drive on theother side too, don't get me
wrong.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, it's nice.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah, it's very nice but, as we all know, back in
1965, there was a UFO thatcrashed there that one right
there and you might have seen iton Beyond Skinwalker Ranch.
You might have seen it on theUnexplained Multiple History
(10:18):
Channel programs, you might haveseen it.
I mean, they've made agazillion things about this
thing.
It's literally they call itPennsylvania things about this
thing.
It's literally they call itpennsylvania's roswell because
it's at that level, it's likethe biggest one.
You know what I mean?
Like there's a million of them.
This is the one.
This is the one that peoplestill talk about.
It happened in 1965.
That's what 60 years ago.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
A lot of ways years ago.
Yeah, it is, it's 60 years ago.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
I was like, okay, 60 years ago and people are still
talking about it as much as,probably even more than when it
happened.
That tells you the level ofinterest in it, and every year
they have a festival there.
It's put on at the volunteerfire department and I guess
(11:08):
that's what it raises money for.
Is the fire?
Speaker 2 (11:11):
department there.
Yeah, they have a lot of coolmerch that they sell themselves.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Oh man, they have great merch, but then they also—
and what I love about them istheir concession stand.
They're not ripping you off, ornothing at their thing.
Not at all love about them islike their concession stand,
like they're not ripping you offor nothing, that their thing
not like it's, it's very, it's.
Yeah, it's very family friendly, budget friendly.
If you don't buy five hundreddollars worth of books um
(11:36):
t-shirts we went in just becauseit's like you walk in, you're
like I want everything yeah, oh,my god, wanted literally one.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
As soon as we walked into the park, there was the
first display.
Before you even get into theactual venue was just nothing
but wood carvings.
Some of them were like the oneI think was probably eight feet
tall.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And we're not just talking your standard wood
carving.
Not only do they have an entireline of like Sasquatch wood
carvings, they had these skullsright.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, they looked like polished bone, like that's
how good the color of the skullcarvings were.
They looked legitimately likebone.
It was good.
I mean they're beautiful.
We thought we were going to goback the next day and we ended
up not, but I was like I wantedto come home and do the research
and figure out how much thoseskulls were Because, like we
(12:30):
know, they're pricey, like at aplace, and I mean as well they
should be.
I mean, those things take a lotof time and effort.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Oh, the craftsmanship is superb.
I mean, it's very, very niceyeah.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Yeah, for sure, they're not just like assembly
line made Each one has a little.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
They're all one of a kind, essentially, and but then,
like you said, like the giantSasquatch, I mean, trust me,
there's nothing more than Idon't know what it costs.
It's probably $1,000 for one ofthose giant, but I want a giant
Sasquatch to sit outside mydoor.
They're literally like eightfeet tall, bigger than me, and
they're amazing looking.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
But yeah, but no, but it's just to go back a little
bit because I think we kind ofglossed over it.
But at this UFO festival theyhave all kinds of vendors,
speakers, there's all kinds.
Look at this activity list,holy cow, get a look at that.
I mean let's just take a lookat some of the things.
They got a bed race.
We missed it.
It says it's the only bed racein the county.
(13:37):
I mean, come on.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
Wait, hold on a second.
So only bed race in the countyapplies that there are other bed
races in this state which Iknow, no more guys, I'm going to
have to look into this, right.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
So it's a three-day event Friday, saturday, sunday.
Friday night you got like a.
You have music being played.
They got it's like half-pricedfood night.
You know, that's all theinsides.
All the vendors, the speakersand stuff are there.
Saturday they got a parade,they had the bed race, they had
music, they had the stuff inside, you know, and then fireworks
(14:09):
after all of that, and thenSunday they had a UFO, hot dog
eating, competition, more music,they had speakers.
You know all kinds of stuff,and when I say speakers, they
got the best.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
They really did.
I mean, I am amazed at howapproachable this circle of
people are.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
We came for the funnel cakes and got way more
than we bargained for you wantto do something sometime, just
let me know way, way, way aheadof time.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
Of course.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
Not one, but two national treasures.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
What's your name?
My name is Ron Murphy.
Ron Podcast.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
No way, yeah it's called Gilded Trash.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Take my card though that's all my contact
information.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
I would gladly come on and talk about this stuff,
okay.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Like really amazed, like they're so down to earth
really amazed.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Like they're so down to earth, right, which is funny.
That is funny.
That's very, very clever.
I like that, um.
But, like, like you said, it'sfor the different groups of
people that, like you, I meanthese are people they're author.
Now it's not like these are newyork.
Sometimes these are guys thatdeal with like bigfoot u, ufos,
cryptids, anything like thatParanormal research.
(15:27):
But like these are some bignames.
I mean these guys have been onthe History Channel, like the
Unexplained episodes They'vebeen featured on Beyond
Skinwalker Ranch.
I mean, like these guys aresort of we joked around about
Adam's Shadow Child, but that'sexactly like the—it's like a—
it's a color following they'rethe Michael Jordan of Bigfoot
(15:51):
researchers and stuff.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
They really are.
They really are Like the onlybetter personality that could
have been there is like AndyDikonakis or whatever that guy's
name is, with the hair, theGreek.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Yeah, but he's ancient aliens.
We're talking about modernaliens.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Wait, what's his name though?
Suculos, georgios, suculos,georgios, suculos.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
Yeah, but no, I love that guy, but no, but I mean,
it's not nobody like that, butlike Stan Gordon's been on
everything.
I mean when it comes comes,these guys are when they're
they're it when it comes topennsylvania.
The ron murphy, stan gordon,eric altwald is that his name.
Am I pronouncing that correctly?
(16:35):
I'm sure he's probably on thelist.
I don't know, but if I am,we'll fix it later.
But uh, but you know what Imean?
These guys are like at the top,like that's why these shows go
to those people, because anytimethey're filming something about
Western Pennsylvania, these arethe guys.
Like these are the guys.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And I feel like such a dumbass because, like I was
filming while we were liketalking to these different
people and I literally filmedright past two of the gentlemen
who have been on multiple of theshows and I was just like, oh
hey, hi, whatever, film, film,film.
And they were probably they'vespoken on as many as some of the
(17:15):
I mean the other guys that werethere.
Sorry, guys, you can come onthe podcast if you'd like.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
Yeah, we didn't mention your names, but there's
too many to like and it's toomany to memorize.
I don't know all these people.
I'm not familiar with all theirwork, although I'm becoming.
I bought several books.
I've been reading them,learning about.
How many shows have we watched?
That's the other thing aboutChestnut Ridge.
There's an amazing amount ofinformation out there, like
(17:43):
shows.
We just got done watching asix-part documentary.
You can go watch it foryourselves for free on tubi.
Yeah, it's called uh, sasquatch, something about sasquatch and
the ridge.
There's a word in between there, but I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
We'll put it in the thing yeah, I don't remember,
but yeah, I'll put it in.
So, um, I mean, yeah, that wasbut it features all these people
we're talking about yeah, Imean it's insane and so
obviously I'm not as in this, Idon't study as much of it like
I'm not in the people.
(18:19):
For me, this is the same aslike marvel, right, like I know
which characters I love andtrust and like are my favorites,
but I don't know theirbackstories or how they got to
where they got.
I don't know any of that.
I'm not a Marvel nerd, but I'ma Marvel enthusiast.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
You're a UFO nerd.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Enthusiast.
You're a UFO nerd.
You know the players, some oftheir backstories.
You know the actual dates andtimes.
I'm a UFO enthusiast.
You're a UFO nerd.
You know the players, some oftheir backstories.
You know the actual dates andtimes.
I'm a UFO enthusiast.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
And I wouldn't even call my.
I'm a Like.
I would consider myself acasual enthusiast and you're
probably more of a passingenthusiast.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Like I'm interested I'm intrigued.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I want to hear the story.
Um, ron murphy gave me the bestphrase of my entire like this
whole existence, which is woo.
Like I get that woo is requiredto like bring people in, but
I'm I get disenchanted by woo.
So like I've done this wholething with the paranormal people
(19:25):
.
You remember when we firststarted dating how much I love
the Long Island medium.
She was like my hero.
I really thought that I wasgoing to start walking around
coldly reading people and Iprobably could, if I like dove
into it.
But I'm not gonna.
Like I don't want that's notthe energy.
I want following me around forthe rest of my life, right, but
I'm not gonna Like I don't wantthat's not the energy.
(19:46):
I want following me around forthe rest of my life, right.
So in that case, like I've beenthrough because I was a nerd of
new age, we'll call it at onepoint I got disenchanted by the
sales pitches and stuff likethat.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Well, and I think too , what happened there for a
period of time.
They call it the ghost huntersphenomenon Because, let's be
honest, I mean before that show,everything else was sort of.
When it came, it was thebiggest thing in paranormal
since paranormal.
So what happened then is youhad this huge explosion and then
(20:23):
, in order to like, make, like,make tv shows, you gotta one-up
each other because they're notthe only game in town.
So then it becomessensationalized.
And then what happened?
Is it sort of burned itself outlike you're talking about, like
the woo fact?
They relied all on that.
Instead of the now, was therestuff going on where there was
(20:43):
good, actual investigation?
Of course there always has beenthere, always will be yes but
as far as it being at theforefront, I mean that pushed a
lot of people away it did and so.
Speaker 2 (20:56):
but what I also love about discovering this kind of
universal folks is that whatI've observed so far from
everything I've seen, is thatthey're just genuinely like nice
guys that just know a lot aboutthe experience.
They know it's no differentthan having like a hunting guide
if you're going deer huntingSure.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
And they all are very approachable in the sense of
like they're not trying, likenobody got it is getting into
that business for the money, notrust and believe there's no
money.
Yet I mean I'm not saying thoseguys can't make a living and
stuff right, I'm sure that theydo, but I'm not, but they're not
going to be.
It's not fame and richeschasing bigfoot down no, no not
(21:41):
until they actually get them.
So these guys are like theydon't.
They're not trying to sell youanything is what I'm getting at.
They're not trying to.
It's not, they don't.
If you want to talk to them,great.
If you don't, don't, like ifyou have a storyteller and you
want to share it, great, butthey're not pushing you.
It's like they're just all verydown to earth, like you said,
(22:02):
as weird as that is whichthey're just all very down to
earth like you said as weird asthat is, which is awesome for us
.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
These alien people are so down to earth that sounds
ridiculous in on so many levels, because so many people just
take it with a grain of sandyeah, it's, but seriously, like,
the more that I am watchingthese like shows with you and
stuff like that, the more Irealize I, like, I love nerd
stuff.
I love nerd stuff.
(22:29):
And this is just a differentlayer of nerd stuff it really is
.
And so I just get excited tohear people that are articulate,
right, speaking about somethingthat they have a lot of
knowledge on.
That fascinates me, so Right.
That they have a lot ofknowledge on that fascinates me,
so right.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
And I had a point there that I was going to say
like you, and I lost it totally.
No, but it was just the factthat, like, like the whole I
know it sounds ridiculous, butnone of these people, none of
the people that I've met thattake this seriously, like these
(23:06):
guys you know what I mean.
Like you do you?
meet hacks and crazies, ofcourse, but you do in anything I
mean, you know what I mean.
Like you meet crazy people atthe sheets, you know what I'm
saying.
Like you meet crazy people andthere's always going to be that
fringe group, that's like wow.
But these guys that actuallytake this genuine and like,
treat it with respect, theydon't ever speak in absolutes.
(23:31):
Like they don't ever claim toknow what's going on, claim to
understand.
They fully admit that they don'tunderstand the scope of this
thing and we speculate a lotbecause that's all you can
really do, but I've never heardthem say like none of these
people are ever like oh, this isdefinitely aliens, this is
definitely that they don't know.
(23:51):
And they say that they're likeI have no idea what this is, but
it's weird and I want to knowmore.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, so I'll give you a great example, because we
made fun of this last.
Halloween is like everyparanormal show that I watch.
There's like a template.
When I watch UFO shows, theydon't open up the show with
we're going to research thiswith a spectrometer, and what a
spectrometer means to you.
(24:18):
Like stop it.
They don't do that.
Like they have gear.
They explain it, but it's notlike you don't get to.
It's not like that.
They have to get this.
This is a spirit box.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
They gotta get the voice box in, it's gotta say
something, and then they'regonna play some little fuzz and
they're gonna put here I.
I challenge you to anybody thatwatches those shows.
I challenge you because they doit on every single one, with
the spirit box, the voice box,whatever they call it EVPs.
I challenge anyone and I'm notsaying that I haven't heard like
(24:51):
good examples of this or likereal phenomena, but what they
try to sell you on these TVshows is garbage.
They play some gobbledygook andthen they, but they put on the
screen what they want you to say.
Try to make out what thosethings are saying without
reading what's at the block offthe bottom of your screen and
try to tell you can't ever comeanywhere close.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
To what they're saying Every once in a while
they will say a name through thevoice box that you're like oh
yeah, okay, that's the name.
But more often than not, whenthey're trying to string phrases
, it's like filter, bias, yeah,bias, filter.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
It's because they're putting the word on and you hear
that you can't unhear it.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Then, even if you once you've right but well in
some cases you can unhear itbecause it's so blatant that
you're like no no, it didn't.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
They're like it said go back to hell, you, son of a
bitch.
And then it's like you're justlike, and're just like, and
you're like what yeah?
You're like that did not.
Say that that did not.
And, like I said, I'm notsaying that that phenomena is
bullshit, because I've heardgood ones, but I'm just saying
what they try to sell you 95% ofthe time on the TV shows.
(25:57):
That's what you get.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
Yeah, and that again's, it's just another
reason why I love this phenomena.
But not only do I love thisphenomena, for just the very
reason of, like, the possibilityof ufos and aliens, what you'll
mean aliens, um, about aliens,is that um and I talked about
(26:19):
this a little bit earlier todayit crosses so many things that I
am obsessed with.
Like I am full on obsessed withAppalachian folklore, right,
but I'm more obsessed in thefolklore of the humans, the
human spirit, the struggle.
But then when you layer in,like all these stories about
(26:40):
don't look in the trees at night, don't whistle at night, don't
look behind you at night,there's goblins in the caves,
yeah, and you hear the stories.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's so strange too, because, like one of the things
that Ron Murphy talks about inhis book about Chestnut Ridge is
he talks about like alwaysbeing drawn to that forest, and
I relate to that much in thesame way of like the forest that
I grew up in.
But grandma Reed used to tellme those stories you know what I
mean Like of the Indian thatthey saw like ghosts, that they
(27:10):
saw.
Like there was all these thingsabout the forest, about these
areas, this area was had thisand this area.
So it was like all thesedifferent little things and I
it's the same thing thing outhere with this and you just hear
these little, just like pocketsof it's like fascinating people
(27:31):
.
The people are all connected,the Appalachian people with
these, like traditional folklorestories, and it says it not
only connects, it says a lotabout their lives, not just from
the aspect of there beingsomething paranormal, but you
fear, like things that affectyour life.
Do you know what I mean?
Like that's where thesefolkloric legends come from.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Well, so there's a girl that I follow on TikTok Her
name is Thursday Adams, and shedoes all the Appalachian lore,
and she told a story thismorning and I was like that
makes a lot of sense too.
She said that part of the lorecomes from the moonshiners
trying to get you to stay awayfrom their steels.
Speaker 1 (28:15):
That could very well be, and also we know a lot of
the stories going back to, likemy grandma's grandma, the people
labeled a witch, even thoughthat's not like how she would
define herself, just like anatural healer.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Right you know, what I'm saying.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
So like you label that in and you see how these
things get twisted, is my point.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
Right, right, right.
Well, and there's—because I'veheard this similar story and
I've talked about it beforeabout people speaking verses
from the Bible and the burncoming out of somebody when
they're burned like those kindof things, those all you know
they come from, stuff like that.
But in the Appalachia, howeveryou say it, in the mountain
(29:00):
range, there you've got all thedifferent folklore.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
You've got the Scottish Irish, German, it's
almost like American voodoo,like not voodoo in any way,
shape or form.
I'm not suggesting that, but inthe way that it took the
religions and the cultures ofthe people and got intertwined
with, like a ancient sort ofpractice into this more modern
(29:25):
thing yes, yes, that's exactlywhat it is.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
I mean, there's not.
I don't know that there is aword for it, but voodoo is
particular to a region, rightand sure yeah, it's a bit, but
I'm saying much in that same way.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
It took it's this outside source mixing with the
local thing to create this likenew thing.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Right, yeah, I love it so much and then and I'm sure
you have so much to say on this, so I just want to segue you
into it.
You know that I am obsessedwith like glitches in the matrix
time jumps, portals, portals,portals.
I love a good portal story.
You don't love a portal and so,like I've always kind of
(30:06):
underlying believe that that'sexactly what it is.
It's just like, whatever youthink of it as, or you know,
like a wrinkle in time oroverlapping time frames or time
shift or whatever it is, it'sjust a energetic way to pass
through.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
It's like an overlap of dimensions and time, yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
Whether it's time travel or just travel.
Speaker 1 (30:32):
Or dimensions.
That's the question.
It could be all of these thingsor some combination of them,
but I definitely think that'swhere this is all headed.
I mean, that's certainly, Ithink, the theory that most
people that take a look at theentire spectrum of evidence come
(30:55):
to.
Like Stan Gordon said in thatdocumentary that we were
watching like, at the beginninghe definitely thought that, like
UFOs were only extraterrestrial, but as he's gone on he thinks
now that that's not the case atall, that it's related to this.
Ron Murphy calls it the goblinuniverse, this like sort of
(31:17):
interdimensional travel,space-time continuum thing.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
Well, so think about it.
Think about this because youknow I have a couple theories
right.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I told you earlier that what if the dinosaurs just
broke through the portal andlike they all had to come back
through the portal, which is whywe believe that they went
extinct but a couple of themactually like stayed here, like
the Thunderbird thing that wewere looking at earlier?
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Right, right, did they?
Or here's another question.
So like what if they slid offall of it, like slid to this
other dimension, and then theycome back through occasionally,
which is why we see theThunderbirds or a loch ness
monster or whatever, because yougot like certain ones slipping
back through or whatever.
(32:08):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Like I don't know how it works well, here's my other
thought, because um who, who wasit?
Was it hitchens?
Who's christopher?
Speaker 1 (32:21):
it's.
Christopher Hitchens is more ofa religious writer.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
No, no, no, it wasn't Christopher Hitchens, it was
Graham Hancock's book.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Oh yeah, Graham Hancock.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
And it's always just stuck in my mind that like, so
you know how, like when you goon ayahuasca trips and DMT, you
see the machine elves.
So what if we're justprojecting what's really living
inside of our brains outwardlike a movie projection?
Speaker 1 (32:48):
And that's a good question and that brings up an
interesting point and this iswhere I thought you were going
with this, because GrahamHancock, I think, talks about in
that same book that like what'sweird about those experiences
people across time, regions andcultures all report seeing the
same entities.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Even uncivilized cultures that don't have.
Speaker 1 (33:09):
Right that don't have .
Right.
That makes you question likewhat is it Like?
What are you taking a peek at?
You know what I mean Right Likeit's?
I don't know.
It gives me the good williesyou just sound like what about
Bob, when he's like ooh, oh, myAtlanta.
Speaker 2 (33:35):
No, I love it so much .
And if you guys didn't see theTikTok video or Facebook or
whatever, the Circles video.
So, as we were walking throughthe venue, meeting all of these
gentlemen who are well-known,well-known in the circle,
Well-known researchers,well-known researchers, to your
(33:56):
point.
They are the Michael Jordans ofthe UFO world, and we got one,
two offers to go on podcasts.
Dave Spinks doesn't know it yet, but we're going to creep him
until he lets us do one of hisshows or he just comes on the
podcast because that was cooltoo.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
I'm trying to take him to a haunted spot.
That's what I'll do.
I'll write to him and be like Igot a haunted spot.
I'm trying to take him.
That's what I'll do.
I'll write to him and be like Igot a haunted spot.
I got a barbecue restaurant andI got a brewery.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I'll introduce him to it.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I'll tell you the story.
Speaker 1 (34:28):
You can research it yourself and do all that and
bring all your people.
I'll just be the local guy thatyou talk to in the episode.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
One of the things that we doing for this year's uh
see, this season of gildedtrash was doing cooking episodes
and we bought a book calledcooking with cryptids by david
sphinx.
So I say we take some of thecooking with cryptid recipes and
just film cooking with cryptidsand with my editing skills, who
(34:59):
knows, maybe there'll be analien cooking with us.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
But no, but that brings back to another
interesting point.
That was like the really coolthing, like that was quite the
moment.
That'd be quite the show that Iwould watch Would be.
Dave Spinks talked about that.
He's working on a show wherethey like with the drummer from
Shinedown right.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Right right.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
How do you know him?
But cool, and we got the insidenews on some paranormal
bruising cues.
Speaker 3 (35:29):
I'm part of a new show called Booze Bruising
Barbecues with my good friendBarry Kurtz, the drummer of
Shinedown.
Oh really, yeah.
So that'll be coming out nextyear as well.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
And we do a ton of cooking on that show as well.
Speaker 3 (35:40):
It's a lot of fun.
We do something fun.
Well, mine's, like two of myfavorite things oh so we go in
the show, we go to a hauntedlocation.
We investigate it.
Then we go to a local breweryand we sample all their beer,
and then we go to a localbarbecue joint and then we also
cook, because you know our guy,our main cook guy, he's
(36:01):
sponsored by Rectech.
You're going to make him cry.
So we cook something on theshow too.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
That's awesome, it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Who do?
I assign this to I know I justneed him on the podcast so we
can talk about how that all,because that's what I love.
So Dave is kind of like he'sUFOs and cryptids and like all
these guys are.
Speaker 1 (36:22):
Yeah, yeah yeah, all like he's UFOs and cryptids and
like all these guys are.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Yeah, but he's trying to do either sells down to one
thing, right, but he's trying todo other things with it, which
I love to love.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
The idea for the show where they go do an
investigation, they go to alocal brewery and then they go
check out a local barbecue place.
I mean, you're basically takingevery that's.
What they're going to startdoing now is taking all the TV
shows and mashing them together.
Yeah, because people don't wantto see one thing.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
You had an idea about a show which I think would be
amazing.
I don't know if you want totalk about it or if we want to
keep it secret, but takingactual comedians or comics into
paranormal Investigations yeah.
Investigations and gettingtheir reactions Like because
they're caught-ups, it's funny.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Yeah, it'll be fun.
But yeah, no, that's a lot offun too.
But I mean, yeah, like, I'm soexcited that they were like
even— how quick they were.
They're like oh, you have apodcast, I'll come on it.
They didn't ask any questions,they didn't say you have a
following Because they just wantto get exposure.
They don't care, they just wantto talk about it, and talk
(37:31):
about it with people that liketo talk about it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
Yeah, and we're boring sometimes talking to each
other.
We need a third.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Yeah, I mean I want to talk to people that, like I
would love to ask it here andask questions about all these
things, and I'm sure some of thepeople that listen would love
that too, and maybe people thatdon't listen would love to tune
in for that to get to hear.
But that's what I was, that'swhere I was going with that.
I totally forgot five minutesago.
I wanted to come to this.
All this brings us to righthere in Johnstown this weekend
(38:02):
Not this weekend, it's Sunday,but next weekend Squonk Fest,
which we didn't even know was athing.
We learned that they're likeeverybody kept asking us.
They're like you guys,everybody there at Kecksburg.
They're like the next one up isSquonk baby, you going, and
we're like I have no idea whatthat is.
Speaker 2 (38:22):
Tickets I love tickets.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
But yeah, but turns out that, yeah, there's a
cryptid.
So apparently Cambry County hastheir own cryptid.
It's called the Squonk, it'slike some sort of man-bear-pig
thing and it's but yeah, the I'mgoing to learn about it.
I don't know anything about it.
Um, but yeah, they're having abig festival, kind of like what
we just went to Same thing,vendors, speakers, all of that.
(38:49):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
In Cambria City.
It's at the Bottleworks venue,so it'll be indoor, outdoor,
just like this other one was.
You'll you know you'll have achance to go inside and talk and
see things.
The speakers are going to be atthe building at certain times,
so yeah, definitely we aredefinitely checking it out.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
Go check it out, squonkfest.
You can check it out on anysocial media platform.
They got plenty of stuff outthere if you want to see the
schedule.
But it's right here inJohnstown, in Cambria City, this
coming weekend, so that's goingto be a lot of fun.
You'll see us there if you go.
That's for damn sure.
That's for damn sure.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
And we'll be taking bets on how large our book
collection becomes over the nextmonth and a half, while we hit
all these festivals.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I got to read the ones I got first, damn.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
You read them yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:39):
I've been reading them.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
I thought they were just to collect autographs.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
I've been reading them.
No, I've been reading.
I don't read, I love reading.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
I used to love to read, but I stopped at, like
teenage, I don't know.
I stopped reading at liketeenage romance.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
yeah, but here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (40:04):
Well, when I was in back in the day, when I was
locked up, we can go there for aminute because we have to talk
about the other thing thathappened on Monday.
Speaker 1 (40:16):
I was a voracious reader, Obviously most inmates
from where?
Speaker 2 (40:22):
from where?
Speaker 1 (40:25):
the inmates in jail.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
That's what I said, oh I said when I was locked up I
said that to begin with.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
Yeah, yeah, no.
That's why I said I was avoracious reader.
I said, as most inmates are, um, but now the only thing that I
liked it, but that was all likenovel.
I'd read anything whatever, butlike now, the only thing that I
really like to read is likenon-fiction, you know.
Speaker 2 (40:49):
I mean, like I like to learn right, right, but one
of the books that you introducedme to that you found when you
were in jail was like or prison,sorry, because there's a
difference.
I forgot Was.
Is it a conversation?
Well, I didn't find that inprison.
Speaker 1 (41:07):
But yeah, no about that.
It was after that.
But yeah, no, that's a greatbook.
Conversations with GodConversation yeah, there's three
books, Neil Donald Walsh, Verygood stuff.
It's just one of those mindexercises.
It teaches you to think insideof your own thoughts, which is
fun.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
Yeah, it's so good.
Oh my God.
And for that very reason, Ilove when books teach me a new
perspective on my thoughtprocess, Like I love learning
about that.
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (41:39):
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right, is it?
It teaches you, like I said, tolike circulate your own,
circumvent your own thoughts,sort of, and your way of
thinking, to like sort of flipit on its head to teach you to
think about things from like adifferent sort of viewpoint.
Yeah, it's, very good Very good, it's very good, very good,
(42:01):
it's very good.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
So I am going to bring it up because part of my
birthday package and then we'llcircle back because we have so
much more to talk about in thisspace.
Part of my birthday package wasthat whenever Babe asked me to
marry him some what 17 years ago, or something 16, 17 years ago.
Some what 17 years ago, orsomething 16, 17 years ago he
bought me a ring at the time andwhen we were going through it
(42:26):
and he was being a shit bird, Ithrew my engagement ring into
the Atlantic Ocean somewherearound Polly's Island.
I don't remember.
I may or may not have been onmushrooms or, wait, no, did I
throw it out of the car?
Speaker 1 (42:41):
I don't know, I don't remember.
It might have been on mushrooms, or wait, no, did I throw it
out the car?
Speaker 2 (42:42):
I don't know, I don't remember it might have been
driving down the highway yeah,it might have been.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
It might have been but either way.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
So since then I've been asking for a ring and I've
only got it now.
For all you bitches that areworried about it being diamond
or not diamond, I've alwayswanted an opal.
Opal is scott's birthstone.
It's also my most fate.
My stone is moonstone and opalis the closest thing to
(43:12):
moonstone, so plus moonstone,moonstone, moonstone see it all,
you know it all.
Speaker 1 (43:20):
interweaves when do you get it though?
Speaker 2 (43:22):
Moonstone, you get it from the moon.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (43:26):
Yeah, they drop some off.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
I thought that was moon rock.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
Oh yeah, Moonstone's just mine.
It's like polished stone.
Yeah, opal's like the gem gemversion of moon run.
The gem version the uncut gemsversion.
Speaker 1 (43:51):
Uncut gems speaking of speak.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I didn't even try to do that we watched happy gilmore
too.
Speaker 1 (43:57):
Let's talk about that , because that's something
that's like Happy Gilmore forlike people.
Our age was like one of themost popular movies like ever
for a young person.
For a young stoner Adam Sandlerwas.
He was people don't think ofhim this way, but he was sort of
(44:18):
alt comedy.
Think of him this way.
But he was sort of old comedylike in the sense of like he was
like what, we like that, likethe parents didn't like like
right the older people didn'tlike, I should say, because it
was like that continued on tolike into your 20s and stuff.
But like it was the stuff thatthe older people didn't like,
you know what I mean?
(44:38):
It was young people humor andit was like growing up with him
and like knowing his.
Everybody had his.
All my friends had his comedyalbums.
We used to quote him all thetime, you know what I mean.
Like they're so good, you wanta haircut, they're gonna fucking
cut your hair.
They say fuck the sun.
You say yeah, fuck the sun.
I fucking hate it too long livethe fucking beast.
(44:58):
That's one of my favorite ones.
But regardless, I mean so manythings.
But like and Happy Gilmore waslike that movie where it was
like you couldn't ignore AdamSandler anymore at that point
you know what I mean.
Like he was going to be a starand whether the establishment
wanted that or not was left tobe.
You know it didn't matter.
(45:18):
And that and Billy Mattis, youknow what I mean.
They came out roughly the sametime and it was like these two
movies solidified him as likethis guy's going to be making
movies now for the next 40 years.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
I quote Billy Madison like every day.
At least once a day I quotesomething from Billy Madison, or
actually let's just say AdamSandler in general, because I
always say somebody's moreimportant.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
I love that he did that.
That, because he does thatthree times, like he does that
in Happy Gilmore, he does thatin Pixels, and then he does that
in Happy Gilmore too, where helike says In that voice, in that
same Somebody's ball wentfurther.
Right, right and but like forus, so happy Gilmore too.
(46:08):
This is like we've been talkingabout it for months.
We've been so jacked about thisBecause, despite what people
say People like hate on AdamSandler You're a dumbass.
Because I love Adam Sandler andlike I love his movies.
Speaker 2 (46:21):
I know he's brilliant .
I mean it's always so good,like even that.
What was it?
The murder mystery one?
Yeah, I've watched that overand over and over.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
They're funny and the thing is is like, is he out
there?
He's not out there.
Adam Sandler was never outthere trying to make fucking the
departed, or yeah, like he'snot trying to win academy awards
, right, he's trying to make amovie that you can sit there and
watch for 90 minutes and notlike, just laugh a little, like
and not care about other stuff,like that's all he's trying to
(46:57):
do.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
He's just here to entertain and that's exactly
what he does.
And can I just say that therewere so many like the whole
movie was cameoed the fuck upLike it was so good.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
It was fun because he did what he does best, which is
bring in the characters thateverybody loves.
Let them do their thing,combine it into somehow still
tell a story.
You know what I mean.
And it was a good story.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
It was funny, it was.
I mean, the storyline was solid, like I liked it.
Oh, I agree, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (47:29):
He brought in all those real golfers, like that
was cool.
Scotty Scheffler was on thereand Brooks Koepka and some other
guys, hello.
The one that I think isScottish.
Who oh?
Rory McIlroy.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
No, john Daly.
Speaker 1 (47:49):
Yeah, John Daly was on there.
That's even better because Ilove John Daly.
Speaker 2 (47:53):
Oh my God, I love him .
Speaker 1 (47:55):
John Daly is sort of like not really, but it's almost
like who it's based on, becausehe could hit the ball super far
and he was just like thisdrunken gambling fool that like
disrupted the golf thing.
Speaker 2 (48:12):
I just love him because he's a nut.
He's a record.
Yeah, he's a certified nut andhe's fantastic.
Speaker 1 (48:17):
He's a great guy.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
He's a great guy.
He's so good Like and you couldjust imagine he's.
I mean, that rule is probablyas close to his real life
shenanigans as you're going toget, I think that's.
Speaker 1 (48:30):
I don't even think he knew he was in the movie.
He just thought he was hangingout with Adam Sandler.
Speaker 2 (48:36):
He's like oh, I thought Hacker Gilmore was real
Because his daughters were inthe movie.
He's like oh, I thought thesewere your real sons too.
Right, I love it.
I love it.
Plus, shout out I don't knowthe kid's name, but the little
kid from Shameless was in there,which I love.
That just brings my whole lifefull circle when I get those
(48:57):
moments Like we don't live in,we live in an infinite world,
right?
So the fact that so many thingsin my life like cross-section
all the time, it's like I'mright where I'm supposed to be,
yeah, that's all yeah, that'sfun.
Speaker 1 (49:11):
But yeah, no, it was definitely a fun movie.
I mean, I had a good time withit and I think anybody.
If you love Happy Gilmore andyou like Adam Sandler, you'll
like Happy Gilmore too.
That's all I'm going to say.
It's not like it's not amasterpiece.
Speaker 2 (49:25):
It wasn't disappointing at all.
No, it did not disappoint A lotof those like long break.
Second follow-up movies aredisappointing.
No.
Speaker 1 (49:32):
Or weird, but no, it still had a great story.
It was still fun.
It was very believable thatthat's where it picked up.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I don't want to give the
plot or the storyline awaybecause those fucking assholes,
but yes.
Speaker 1 (49:46):
It's just believable that that's where that would
have gone.
Like it's just, it's fun, man,it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yeah, and the villains are so villain-esque.
I love it so perfect, I love it.
Speaker 1 (49:57):
But that's why we mentioned Uncut Gems, because
the guy that produced and wroteUncut Gems is in the movie in
Happy Gilmore 2, is one of thevillains and yeah you get it.
Speaker 2 (50:08):
Yeah, he's good at it .
Yeah, he's good at it, but thatwasn't the only amazing movie
we've watched this weekend.
What did we watch last?
Speaker 1 (50:14):
week, oh my God, total surprise Death of a
unicorn.
Right, talk about good movie,dude.
Totally original, unlike reallyany movie that I've watched
recently.
And it was fun, it wasentertaining, it was fantastic.
Uh, if you have not seen thatdeath of a unicorn, that is a
(50:37):
great movie.
We really enjoyed it's so muchfun comedy, horror fantasy, all
wrapped up into one and a moralstory like morality yeah what's
crazy about this whole thismovie?
Speaker 2 (50:51):
so I also watched um we were liars the series.
We were liars while I was doingthings.
I was binge watching ityesterday while I was cleaning,
doing other stuff, and the showfelt to me like fan fiction of
media moguls getting their justdue.
(51:14):
Yeah, like whatever happens atthe end it was like fan fiction.
When you want the media empireto fall right, that's what we
Were Liars felt like there's aprice to pay for being, you know
this, rich and blah, blah, blah.
That was sad and sappy and itwas a great teenage drama thing.
(51:34):
Death of a unicorn again itfelt very much like fan fiction
for the pharmaceutical heads,right.
So while it was good,entertaining, fucking great
movie, great cast at the end ofthe day you like there was a
vengeance is mine theme thereagain?
Speaker 1 (51:55):
well, yeah, and I think that that's the idea, more
so than like it's a revengefilm, and I think that that's.
It's a revenge film and thetarget in this instance is the
pharmaceutical industry and itsort of weaves, like you said,
this sort of like medieval taleinto it with modern sort of
(52:17):
stuff and it's very interesting,very good, very well, very well
put together, very well done.
Go check it out if you haven't.
Those are movie recommendationsHappy Gilmore.
Speaker 2 (52:27):
Plus, like one of the favorite, one of my favorite
things about that is thecampiness right.
So I love when something can beboth smart, funny and campy all
at the same time.
It's not like that dark humorthat I love.
I'm a big fan of dark humor.
Speaker 1 (52:45):
I think there's a lot of horror movies that do that
well.
That's why people love thezombie lands and the stuff like
that, because it allows you totake on something serious like
that but still have camp, stillbe smart, still say something.
But because you're within thisgenre of a zombie movie and
playing off these tropes andthings, you can say something
you can't otherwise say, justlike I talk about when writing
(53:08):
jokes.
I love writing jokes where youcan say something without really
saying it because you're in thecontext of something ridiculous
.
So you sort of have a freedomthat you don't otherwise have
artistically.
Speaker 2 (53:20):
Right, yeah, I like that.
There was so many other thingsgoing on this ridiculous, so you
sort of have a freedom that youdon't otherwise have.
Artistically right.
Yeah, I like that.
There was so many other thingsgoing on this week that I felt
like we wanted to talk about.
I mean, I don't want to talkabout any of my social media
bullshit other than to say Icall you bitches.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
Um, no, we got a very busy month.
We can talk about that.
We have lots of comedy thingscoming up.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
We have lots of other stuff coming up.
Speaker 1 (53:46):
You know what I mean.
Like, we have all kinds ofthings.
We're going to be in Pittsburghnext month for a wedding that's
going to be very fun, for afancy wedding.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
We don't ever do that .
Speaker 1 (53:58):
The fanciest we ever do.
I'm scared, I'm scared, I'mscared.
No, I am.
I'm terrified of black tie.
That sounds evil, but I don'tlike it.
Speaker 2 (54:13):
I can't wait to look Gown hair nails.
It's a girl thing.
I'm already thinking abouttaking my suit off.
But wait, you've been trying topull together a bunch of the
wedding folks to go to a comedyshow.
Speaker 1 (54:32):
No, that's not happening, we're going to take
her.
Speaker 2 (54:34):
They have their after hours venues, so instead we
might just kamikaze karaoke themAmbush, ambush, ambush.
Speaker 1 (54:44):
Ambush them Any chuckle fuckers out there this
evening.
Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah, oh God, that'd be hilarious we are going to our
very first open mic slashcomedy tonight.
Speaker 1 (54:59):
Open mic slash karaoke.
Oh God, that changes it whenit's open mic slash comedy.
That's what we go to all thetime.
Speaker 2 (55:09):
All the time Open mic comedy, slash karaoke.
Speaker 3 (55:14):
Karaoke yeah.
Speaker 2 (55:16):
Yeah that'll be, fun, his thing and my thing all
together in things.
Speaker 1 (55:19):
All together into one thing.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
Sometimes I try to do his thing and I'm not that good
at it, and sometimes he triesto do my thing and he's not that
good at it?
Speaker 1 (55:27):
Oh, I'm not good at it at all.
You know what I do.
It's either Freddie Fender orYoung Jeezy.
That's how we roll.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
So yeah, you've got some comedy stuff coming up.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We have adventures.
Speaker 2 (55:43):
Well, we can't talk about those adventures.
Speaker 1 (55:44):
Yeah, I know, I remember now.
I remember now, damn it.
Speaker 2 (55:48):
Damn it, damn it.
It doesn't matter, we can wrapit up In two weeks.
We are going to be talkingabout what?
Speaker 1 (55:58):
And what we're going to be talking about, because
we're putting together a.
So we do have a lot of stuffcoming up and we're possibly
talking about putting togetherour own little super secret show
.
That's going to be a full-dealbarbecue comedy get-down Are you
kidding me?
And we're going to talk alittle bit about that next time.
And we're going to talk aboutour latest adventures because
(56:18):
we're going to be investigating.
We're going to be out therechecking out UFOs, Bigfoots,
comedy events, karaoke contests,food trucks, baseball games I
don't know Movies.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
We might go to a baseball game.
Speaker 1 (56:33):
You never know what we might do.
Yeah, I'm going to watch FinalDestination next week.
Speaker 2 (56:38):
Oh, yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Yeah, we got to hit a drive-in.
Speaker 1 (56:42):
We'll talk about drive-in history next time too.
That's a good topic.
Okay, like all that stuff, youknow what I mean the rich
drive-in history of WesternPennsylvania.
But yeah, no, that's all goingto be great.
I think That'll be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (56:59):
And I had a super secret idea while we were
talking.
I really want to do a TV seriesand I don't know if I'm keeping
this in because I might want tokeep it quiet.
I want to do a TV series justgoing—we've talked about going
through Appalachia before but itwas for different reasons right
To meet the wonderful wife, togo sing karaoke with Mamie.
I say we just go to Appalachiaand talk to people about the
(57:23):
folklore and just like have themlike, walk us through.
Speaker 1 (57:25):
Yeah, just be like.
You guys seen any cryptids outhere?
Where's Bigfoot hanging outdown here in his town?
What do you say, guys?
You got some pepperoni rollsfor this guy?
Bigfoot loves pepperoni rolls,as do I.
Yes, no, but I would.
I would love to go check outthe Mothman Bigfoot all through
Appalachia.
They got goblins down inKentucky.
(57:46):
I mean we could come on now hitsome Music Fest, moonshine Fest
, ufo Fest.
I'm down, let's go.
Speaker 2 (57:53):
You can get me back out in Ohio for Mothman.
I can do it.
I love Mothman and I love Ohio,for whatever reason.
Speaker 1 (58:02):
Why is he in?
Speaker 2 (58:03):
Ohio, because that's where he started.
Speaker 1 (58:07):
I thought he started in Point Pleasant, West Virginia
.
That's near Ohio.
Speaker 2 (58:13):
Oh, it is, You're right.
Okay, then we'll go out to Ohiofor other reasons.
Speaker 1 (58:19):
That's what I'm saying.
I like Ohio too.
I love me some Pettits.
I love all that stuff, but I'mtrying to get down there in West
Virginia and find thesecryptids.
I just did.
Oh shout out Hulk Hogan, loveyou brother.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
Shout out all the people.
Yeah, we lost some big ones.
Speaker 1 (58:36):
This week Malcolm, Jamal, Warner, Ozzy and Hulk
Hogan.
That's like 80s childhood.
It's like who else?
Who's next?
Bill Cosby?
No.
Speaker 2 (58:52):
I hate you.
Speaker 1 (58:54):
It's time for Scott's thoughts.
But first we were at thePittsburgh UFO Festival.
As you've already heard, ourfavorite purchase three years
ago was this guy right here,this guy no, this guy right here
.
As you see, they are wonderful.
They are made by a guy thatruns a company called Legendary
(59:15):
Luminaries.
I mean, look at them, they'regreat, they're beautiful.
We get asked about them all thetime.
People always want to knowwhere'd you get those legendary
luminaries?
Now on to my thoughts.
But it's more of a questionreally.
There is these aliens out theretraveling through space,
checking everything out.
What are they doing with alltheir garbage?
(59:36):
Garbage?
They just toss it out thewindow.
Is there like a floating islandof alien plastic, like there is
in the Pacific Ocean justfloating around?
And it's just alien garbage.
I think somebody needs to talkabout this.
Nobody's talking about this,but it's important to get a tip
on this problem.
So those are my thoughts.
Stay trashy.
Speaker 2 (59:58):
Until next time, stay trashy.
Until next time, stay trashy.
Speaker 3 (01:00:05):
So buckle up y'all.
It's a hell of a ride.
Scott and Atlanta got nothingto hide.
From the gold to the garbage,we bring the sass.
Welcome aboard.
This is.
Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Gilded Trash Bye-bye.
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