September 1, 2024 • 63 mins
Episode 85-Ghostly How To's Released 01 September 2024 Hosts: John Schelt, Keoni Hutton & Leslie Reed
Join John, Keoni, and Leslie as they dive deep into the world of ghostly decorations, offering a treasure trove of ideas to bring your haunted estate to life. Whether you're a seasoned haunter or a Halloween newbie, this episode is packed with valuable insights and spooky fun.
Resources mentioned during this episode:
Spectral Illusions: https://www.spectralillusions.com/
HallowFX: https://hallowfx.com/
AtmosFX: https://atmosfx.com/
Axworthy Ghost Kit: https://www.frightprops.com/axworthy-ghost-kit.html
Axworthy Ghost Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHlLVeV6Y4
Tulle: www.amazon.com
Chicken Wire Ghost Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW7rlSibbIo
Haunting U can be found at www.hauntingu.com.
Sanguine Creek Estates: www.scehaunt.com
Chamber of Haunters Website: https://chamberofhaunters.com/
Sound Effects:
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Music.
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Reversed it I was not ready for that,
I'm Keone Hutton and I'm Leslie Reed I got stuck thinking like trying to come
up with a creative name and I just completely blanked I had two so they're gonna
be Jabberwocky or Flabbergasted I'm Flabbergasted Jabberwocky's always good.
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Jabberjaw do you know who Jabberjaw is. I haven't the first idea who Jabberjaw is. Should I?
Batman villain. Clearly it's a Batman villain.
DC's not even that bad usually. Wait, Leslie doesn't know?
It sounds familiar. I'm just not placing it. Oh, not just me.
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I have to send you a picture now. Oh, God.
Oh, yes. It is nowhere near what either of you are thinking.
That doesn't really help your
case considering the vast variety of things that i can put together
for jabberjaw accurate fair enough but i'll
there i just said it to you for for
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all the listeners google jabberjaw it's not what you think it's a
it's a family-friendly search i promise you noted oh
okay you've got all rights reserved i told you it was in dc it's definitely
not dc definitely not dc told you i knew it wasn't dc i'm and you know how i
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recognized it but you couldn't place it,
scooby-doo mystery incorporated thank you very much that's that's the best one i know it's so good.
So okay how thrown off are you on a scale of one to
ten welcome everyone to the haunting you podcast is so good to be back with
you and happy september holy it is like this summer has just absolutely freaking
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flown by i cannot believe it is already september we are 61 days away from halloween 61.
Days and do you want to know what i have started setting up or building so far
calendar zero nothing holy shit i'm freaking out,
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Yeah, so how is the rest of the construction going? Oh, God.
You had to bring that up, didn't you? I did.
So quick, let me back up real quick in case there are any new listeners who
don't want to go back and listen to our previous two episodes to get the backstory.
Here's the backstory. We moved back to our house in Maryland that we owned and
lived here two years ago and decided to do some renovations,
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basically gutting the entire upstairs.
As part of that, it's going to redo the kitchen, combine two bedrooms to make
a much larger master bedroom with a larger bathroom and a walk-in closet.
And then my office, the other bedroom that will become my office, will all be upstairs.
So all of that has been on hold for the last, oh God, eight weeks.
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We are up to eight weeks with this on hold, waiting on permits.
There was finally movement last week.
And here's what happened we
finally got in touch with the guy at the permitting office
who issues the plumbing permit he had
been on vacation for two weeks ouch there's
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no backer and because it is a government agency nobody else will do his job
everything just sat for two weeks yep so that's annoying point number one annoying
point number Number two is he refused to process our permit because he wanted
a fresh inspection of the septic tank.
The one that we provided from five years ago when we bought the house was not
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recent enough for him. He needed a more recent one.
Well, okay. So I made 27 phone calls on Monday morning looking for a septic inspector.
One guy called me back. One guy called me back. Well, can you blame him? One out of 27.
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But he could be there on Thursday. So he came out on Thursday and did the inspection for us.
Well, Thursday night, I hadn't heard anything. And so I text him,
hey, how did the inspection go? When can we expect to see the report?
And all I got was an ominous, I will call you.
Oh, shit. That's not good. That's not a good sign.
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The whole rest of the night, never heard a thing. He did not call me that evening.
And in his defense, I texted him at like 630 at night. So like,
well, after reasonable business hours, fine.
So next morning, Friday morning, I call him again.
Or rather, I call him rather than text. And I get him and he starts asking me
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questions like, what are your intentions for the house? Well, that can't be good.
And so I explain, it's our house. We're doing some renovations to make it better meet our needs.
But it is our house. I'm the owner. We're keeping it like all of that.
He's like, okay, you have a crack in your septic tank.
Oh okay i have a separate issue but continue i want to point out leslie said
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not me that's true good job.
Music.
Though so stay tuned so good news really quick really quick go ahead so i i understand the,
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your loved one was you know hit by a bus let me call you instead of text you
that feels like better information what fair that that information can't be
relayed over text it could have been relayed over text and ultimately the reason
why he was asking my intentions for the house was
he was, I'm going to say, willing to give us a clean report,
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if we weren't planning to sell so that we could get our permit.
And I'll explain why in a moment.
I did not take him up on that, but I'll explain why in a moment.
Anyway, so bad news, there's a crack in the tank.
Good news, the crack is on the top.
And the way the tank is constructed, it's a cement tank, two chambers,
and the bottom and sides are all poured as a single piece. That's what makes it watertight, right?
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Got it. And then the top is a separate piece of concrete that sits on top.
So replacing it should be relatively easy. Dig it up, take the old top off,
put a new top on, bury it again, right?
We don't have to touch anything on the lower part of the tank.
So we don't need a whole new tank. We only need a top.
It should be about half the price as if we had needed an entire new tank.
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Maybe the guy who's supposed to give us a quote on that is coming out on Thursday.
Day so that's that's
relatively good news as good news
as it could be but because of all
of this now the permits are not moving anywhere until we get the septics fixed
which means at least another two to three week delay before they can even start
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work again have you tried for all of our you know the audio listeners 4k you just head in hands.
Have you tried bribery or intimidation? Yes. Oh.
You didn't do a very good job, did you? No, I did a terrible job, apparently.
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It usually works. I did not actually try bribery. I am a man of honor.
Yada, yada, yada. Damn you, Coast Guard. In all honesty, I was going to recommend
theft, but I don't know how you steal that. I don't know how you steal that one.
That seems like a pretty tough ask.
Indeed. Would you steal the top of a septic tank?
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It requires a fair amount of digging, a couple of fairly large pieces of machinery.
It's not easy. It could be done, but it's not easy. I have a recommendation.
We're going to have to call up Daniel Ocean on this one. Wait,
wait. Are you recommending theft?
What's your recommendation, Les? Go find your neighbors and pop one of theirs off.
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We'll just trade. I support this. We'll just trade. Yeah. And so like the reason,
the reason why he was willing to give us a clean bill of health was because it's on the lid.
It doesn't affect the, the function of the tank at all.
Everything else on the tank worked properly the way it's supposed to.
The drainage field is in good shape. The distribution box is in good shape.
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Everything else is fine. It's just this. And it looks like, and what probably
happened is someone drove over the top of the tank and that's what caused it to crack.
Where's the tank? on the side of the house underneath the grass but we had a
fair amount of landscaping done.
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They installed a whole bunch of massive
flagstones and when i say massive i mean like four feet across two feet wide
six inches thick flagstones to make steps coming down from the deck through
a garden it's absolutely beautiful i love it but i'm pretty sure they drove
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over the tank and cracked it when they did.
No way for us to hold them accountable to it now, three years later,
but I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
Man, can you think of a bigger red flag for a neighbor than just like,
hey, do you want to trade septic tanks?
No reason. Not just do you want to trade septic tanks. Do you want to trade
septic tank tops? Septic tank lids. Lids.
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Exactly. Oh, my gosh.
So let's do the math real quick. It's basically September 1st.
It's not actually. We're four days before that when we're recording this.
But if we're that close to September 1st.
We're that close to September 1st. All right. Continue. That reminds me of John
Mulaney's, you know, like a liar. Like a liar.
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So by the time we're able to start work again, it's going to be at the earliest,
mid-September, around September 15th.
We probably have four to six weeks of work to wrap up all the work that has
to happen on the upstairs.
There's no chance in hell I am getting my household goods and all of my Halloween
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equipment before Halloween.
At this point. There's no way. But that's an opportunity.
That means I get to buy all new Halloween stuff to do what we're doing this
year and we can expand what we're doing because I have an excuse to go out and
buy a whole bunch of stuff. Since when have you ever needed an excuse?
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I don't, but it helps justify it in my mind and to my wife.
Well, that was going to be my question. You had the hold up on the plumbing
you know permits did you get the permits from your wife for the new equipment.
Concerns one paused so that's where we are like
it's not a great spot to be but i suppose there
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are where spots we could be the part that's
killing me the most is that we're i'm not going to get my halloween stuff so like
we we really aren't going to be building from scratch and the few things that
i was able to salvage out of my buddy's basement that i stored some of my stuff
here because like a lot of the stuff that i stored here was not the useful stuff
i have freaking Picking boxes full of baby dolls, like porcelain dolls.
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Those are not going to be helpful this year. Speaking of neighbor red flags.
So that's actually a pretty good segue into what I actually want to talk about today.
Because we spent the whole last episode planning what we're going to do for this year.
And we've settled on our theme, which is really haunted estate.
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And we want to use this year to build on the backstory that we started creating
for Sanguine Creek Estates and tell that backstory to all the people who come and visit the estate.
And we're going to do that in a couple of ways. The first one is with a multimedia
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display inside our crypt. Don't you dare. You're going to break my internet again. Indeed.
It happens. with multimedia displays do that and
multimedia displays do do that if you do the web so we're we're going to use
that multimedia display to tell our backstory and on top of that we are going
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to put just a i don't know what's the proper ton what's the proper word for a ton of ghosts,
We're going to haunt the holy hell out of it. We're going to haunt the holy
hell out of it. Probably a murder. Probably a murder of ghosts.
It's funny you mentioned that. I read just an absolutely fascinating post the
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other day about crows and how if crows find a dead crow on the ground,
a whole bunch of crows will usually come and surround it.
And for a period, people thought that they might be grieving as a community.
Community but researchers now think they're
actually like looking around the dead crow
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for things that may be harmful to i don't
want to say the flock because they're kind of a little more solitary than that but
to other crows so do you realize what's happening they're smarter than humans
i mean that but it's a murder no no it's a murder investigation it's a murder
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investigation It's a murder of crows conducting an investigation.
It's a murder investigation.
That's amazing. That's hilarious.
We need like a deep voiced voiceover man to be like pro facts.
Yeah.
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For more, you know. Yes. Thank you.
So what what i want to spend like the rest of the episode talking about are
all the different ways that we are going to haunt the holy hell out of the estate
and i really like the alliteration there unless you should like copy trademark that or something,
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But I want to talk about all the different ways that we're going to do that
and kind of dive into the nitty gritty, where we're getting supplies from,
what tutorials we're following,
so that hopefully, if any of you want to add some holy haunts to your haunts this year,
you have some ideas on where to get them.
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Intriguing let's start with our most popular episode ever john do you know what
our most popular episode ever was i believe it was it is not episode 10 but i love that you said,
that's where i was going i was like i don't think it's 10 but maybe that is
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it's not our most popular episode ever no it is my favorite episode ever but
it is not our most popular.
Episode for for anyone who has not gone
back and listened to some of our older episodes the first 10 episodes of
the podcast really dive into the haunting you method the
method that we use to build our haunts episode 10 kind of is the culmination
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of all of that where we talk about micro haunts and the discussion is phenomenal
and hysterical and hysterical i recommend it because we never grew past the
maturity of 12-year-olds. Accurate.
So highly recommend you go back and listen to episode 10 because it is wonderful
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and good listening and a lot of fun.
But no, I wanted to go back to episode 49.
We put out episode 49 October 15th of 2021 and it could not have been...
Wait, was it 21 or 20? No, it was 21.
And it was incredibly timely. Finally, episode 49 completely focuses on digital effects.
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It is a 101 type episode where we really delved into the details on how to use
digital effects effectively.
I don't want to talk about all of that again.
Just go back and listen to episode 49 because we cover it in depth.
I do want to talk about some new things that have changed since that episode
that I want to take advantage of this year, unless you may want to too. Yep.
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You said effects effectively? Effects effectively. It made me happy. Effective effects.
Effective effects as opposed to effective effects. Indeed. Don't ask me which
one you use when because I could not tell you accurately.
So I want to. So. Effect is the result.
Effect is the cause. You told me there would be no math.
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There is no math. This is language. You told me there would be no language arts. It's English.
Those are what translate this into chinese for you i mean i can't take me i
know i know you can but please don't so huge shout out first of all to one of our favorite.
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Sponsors of the show and i'm actively sponsoring us now
i hope to change that carrie if you happen to be listening let's chat
that being said spectral illusions makes some of
the absolutely freaking coolest thing digital effects
out of any of the companies that we know and i
highly recommend all of their products if you
are interested in getting digital effects from
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spectral illusions you can actually use a caterpillar
caterpillar you can use a caterpillar we
like caterpillars i got nervous and just threw something out there
fair you can use if you're interested in getting digital effects
from spectral illusions you can actually get a 15 off discount using
the code haunting you 15 at checkout and
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but that only works on digital effects it does not work on anything else that
they sell only on digital effects is that still active it
is in fact still active oh okay wow yeah so
go take advantage of that just because you can
but what i absolutely freaking
love about them is their projector more than
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anything else they have this year the
new hp4 halloween projector and it's even better than the previous one this
is the only projector on the market that has an auto start feature so as soon
as power is applied to it it will immediately turn on and start playing whatever file you have loaded.
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Even the HP3 did that. The HP4 does it and more.
Also has an auto timer. So you can actually program the projector to turn on
and off at certain times, all built in on the projector. Nice.
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Holy shit. You want to talk about making it easy for you to freaking automate your haunt?
This is what makes it easy to automate your haunt. And I cannot wait to get
my hands on one of these for this year.
They are $129.99. but not only does it come with all these cool features,
it's also 10 ADP resolution.
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It's 450 lumens. Go check out
our YouTube page where I talked to carry the owner at midsummer scream.
And you'll see how bright they are. Even in a bright hallway,
like the bright convention center hall, you could still very clearly make out what was happening.
It has Bluetooth. It has wifi. It has an onboard speaker.
Like this projector has every feature that you could want.
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And it comes with eight freaking digital effects included with the projector.
Accursed Helmsman, Restless Spirit, Phantom Wraith, Blow the Man Down,
Ghost of Prudence Prim, Electric Specter, Zombies at the Window,
Phantom of the Park. All of them come included.
I mean, eight... It did my taxes last year.
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This thing is awesome. Eight effects would normally cost you over $200 from Spectral Illusions.
But for $120, you're getting eight of them plus the freaking projector.
Like, we are not being paid by them. I just love it that much.
Like, I know this sounds like an ad. We are not being paid by them right now.
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They have paid us in the past.
But that's how much I love this company. That's how much I love this projector.
If you are doing anything with digital effects, I cannot stress enough,
go check out this projector projector, because it is the best buy on the market
today. Highly recommend.
Wow, you're like hot and bothered over there. Oh, you know how he gets when it comes to digital.
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You do know how I get when it comes to digital effects. That is accurate.
I mean, just in general too, but. Our intention is to use a ton of digital effects.
So my house is going to be completely empty. So I'm going to put digital effects
in every freaking window.
That's easy. Like I put a projector inside the room, put it far enough back
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that it will fill the window completely.
And then honestly, I go to freaking Walmart and I get their shower curtains,
you know, the, the slightly foggy ones, put that up over the window.
It is the perfect like $5 material to create a screen for projecting onto a
window. It's, it's absolutely perfect.
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Walmart, $5 foggy shower curtain. Check them out.
So projector with the shower curtain that will take care of all of our insides
all of our inside projections for outside yes i was going to make insides as well.
For our outside projections though we want them to look like ghosts and to do
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that we need to get a little bit more creative i love hallucin effects we use
hallucin effects in our crypt we use them.
On various other places in our haunt i don't want to say too much more about
that because come check out our haunted then you'll get to see it right yep
but to do that you need a special material that will you need a better material
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or a more specific material the one that i use is called It's called Tulle, T-U-L-L-E.
And if you picture like mosquito netting, you've got the right idea. It's just scratchier.
It is scratchier. That is true. But this is the stuff.
OK, so again, as you're looking, if you can't remember the term,
it's what they use to make tutus for ballet.
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So if you literally just say the ballet skirt material, almost anybody at any
fabric store is going to know exactly what you're talking about and say,
oh, tool, what color do you want it?
Yeah. And so the tool that I get, I get off Amazon because I can buy an entire
bolt for like, in fact, let me look it up so that I'm giving you the right number
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because, you know, prices change.
They do? They do. They do. It's craziness.
Tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool.
John, you're a tool. It took you way too long to get to that joke. Come on, man.
And where are you searching this k amazon excellent so
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if our friends at amazon are listening give us okay so i
just did a generic search for tool t-u-l-l-e on amazon
and i found a 54 inch by 40 yards bolt for 19.68 it's on amazon prime with one
day shipping and free so i could have it here tomorrow for 20 bucks and that
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would give me 40 yards of 54 inch wide fabric,
essentially that covers you for a lot that covers me for a lot exactly and it
comes in a variety of colors i've used the silver in the past it works pretty
well or white works pretty well and as long And the key with Halluzions is all in how you light it.
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So the way that I do it is I stretch the tool between...
A frame of some kind. When I was doing it on board a ship, I actually built
a frame out of wood that was exactly the size of the hallway that I was putting it in.
And then I'd stretch it across that, staple it so it was nice and tight.
I've seen people who do it in garden arches.
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I use the door of our crypt arch and put it inside of there.
But the key is you want to make sure you don't have any visible edges because
the edges are what will ruin your effect.
You want the edges covered by something that is solid there.
So like I've got a couple of trees over here that I'm going to stretch the tool
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in between and project onto that.
So you stretch out your tool and then you hit it with the projector.
Make sure you're using a digital effect that is a figure with a black background
so that only the figure is showing up.
You project it in and you could really project it at the screen or from behind
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the screen, both work well.
There's an asterisk there, but both work well. But the real key is to put a
light behind the tool, not shining at the tool because that will wash out your projection,
but just something so that it's lighting behind it so that people will look at your projection,
and see the light behind it.
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And that's what really sells it as being see-through because there's something
back there for people to see.
Be careful when you're positioning your projector so that you're not shining
it into the faces of the people who are going to come and see it,
because that will also ruin it.
So in some cases, if I'm projecting from the back, I'll set the projector nice
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and low and aim it up so that the splash ends up above the heads of anybody who's coming to see it.
If I'm familiar, what's the splash? The splash is the image that's going through your screen.
The light that's going through your screen because remember the tool
is mosquito netting it's not going to completely stop the light
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it's going to let the light through and if you're shining it
at people it's just going to blind them and they're going
to completely lose the effect so put it at enough of an angle that it ends up
pointing above their heads or point it away from the people looking at you're
looking at your ghost so that it's shining away from the viewer through the
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tool but then pay attention to what's behind you.
Because again, the splash is going to hit whatever is behind that screen.
And so whatever's behind has to either be far enough away that the projector
really can't hit it, or once again, aim it up above so that it's missing whatever's back there.
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Play around with it a couple of times and see what will work best for you.
But check out the see links in our show
notes today because i will put links to the tool and
the projector as well i'll also throw in
the the walmart shower curtain heck
everything we're talking about there will be a link to it in our in the show
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notes today and none of these are affiliate links we don't get a dime so click
it as many times as you like click it as many times as you want this is a reference
for you guys we are getting nothing for it except the joy of sharing information
so you can all make Make better Halloween. Exactly.
So that's how we're going to do our projections in the windows.
That's how we're going to do our illusions in the yard.
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But I think we're going to need some other ghosts. Oh, oh, wait,
wait. I forgot one important thing.
We already talked about spectral illusions. Great place to get ghost images from.
Another one I have to talk about. Halo FX.
I love Halo FX. They make goofy things.
They make spooky things. They make unnerving things.
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They have all kinds of digital decorations that could fit any theme and any
level of scariness that you are trying to achieve.
And they're super cheap. Most, many of their effects are five bucks.
They have a bunch of new ones this year that are 10.
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That's still significantly cheaper than you're going to find anywhere else.
And the quality is right up there with everybody else.
They are fantastic. I highly recommend them. They have worked with us and done
custom stuff for us in the past.
And like, I, I love this company. They're wonderful. That's why we give them
the free shout outs. also in the links below.
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The other one that most people are probably familiar with, AtmosFX.
That's A-T-M-O-S-F-X letters.
These are probably the first people who did digital decorations.
And again, really cool stuff,
a little bit more expensive, but you can make it cheaper by buying just individual
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parts of their packages.
So for instance, they have one called legends of halloween it's sixty dollars
59 if you want to be precise but it would include it includes a grim reaper
a pumpkin king and a headless horseman so three different characters doing all
kinds of different things if you want to go cheaper though you could buy,
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just one of those characters for thirty dollars so there are ways to make it
cheaper you definitely Definitely get more if you buy the entire package,
though, because you'll get $90 worth of effects for $60, save $30.
But if all you're looking for is a headless horseman, you can do just a headless
horseman. Exactly. Exactly. You can also find those up in upstate New York.
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You can find those up in upstate New York. Be careful if you go looking for it, though.
And note where the bridge is. Yes.
Ooh, what's this? Hall of Haunts? I don't know this one. Oh,
these are their... Yeah, they've got a bunch of...
I don't know what to call them, atmospheric effects now, where like,
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well, like this one, Hall of Haunts, is the inside of a haunted house.
And it incorporates a lot of their characters, as well as a whole background.
So if you're trying to create a... So you could project this on a wall inside
your house to make it look like it's part of the mansion or something like that, you know?
Gotcha. Not what I'm looking for, but it's kind of cool.
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And what I like about it is it incorporates several of their ghost haunts all in this scene.
We've used a bunch of theirs in the past, and I suspect we'll be using a bunch
of theirs this year as well.
Yes, as we haunt everything. As we haunt everything.
So Spectral Illusions, Halo FX, Atmos FX, those are the three digital decorators
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that I recommend most for, well, really any digital decorations that you could possibly want to do.
But specifically for this year, we'll be using them a lot for ghosts.
But as I mentioned, we're going to need a lot more ghosts than just digital effects. Yes.
So Les, take us through the next type of ghost that we really want to build.
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So the next one is basically it's a chicken wire ghost.
And they are remarkably effective. I've got a couple of neighbors who put a
number up every Halloween.
And I know what exactly what they are. I know exactly how they're made.
And yet every time I drive past, I always end up doing a double take.
So essentially you start off with a bunch of chicken wire and you use that to...
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Design out the structure of what you want your ghost to look like.
So do you want just kind of an amorphous thing? Well, you can just kind of make
a head with, you know, make a bulbous head. I'm demonstrating, bite me.
Make a bulbous head and then kind of have everything flowing out just like it'd
be, you know, your Halloween child pass a sheet over your head ghost.
If you want to do more specific, you can build all of that out as well,
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just using either a form to put the chicken wire over, or just by freehanding it.
Just make sure that when you're ready to go, all you leave is the chicken wire form.
So next up is then you want to cover it in a type of fabric that again,
is very, very light and very, very translucent.
And then once you've got that, it's pretty much just a matter of putting a lighting
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source in it and flipping it on when it comes to time to light everything up.
You want to go for kind of a soft light.
You don't want something that's too bright and you don't want something that's
too directional. You want to be able to have it relatively diffused within the structure.
And then the fabric that you pick is going to diffuse that even further. Yeah.
I generally recommend your blues or your purples because the light tends not to travel as far.
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Any theater kids in the house? Ah, less.
I know you're a theater kid. What color were the lights backstage where you worked?
Red, red. Yeah, Yeah, that's fairly common as well. Red or blue are the two
that I have worked with and tend to see because red does not affect night vision,
which is important for the stagehands who are running around in the dark moving
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stuff around. They need to maintain their night vision.
But more than that, the energy of the light is so low, it doesn't carry.
And so even when the lights are off, those lights are not getting out to the audience.
That's really important for newly hatched turtles.
Accurate and not just newly hatched turtles my turtle has a red light as well
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excellent yeah indeed but happy with it she is quite happy with it keeps her
nice and warm even in the cold days,
but the those are the kind of lights that i like to use outside for for stuff
like this for that exact same reason i can light up something very particular
and not worry about all of the extra
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light, getting places where I don't want it to get to.
And if you can reduce the brightness, even better.
I've seen, so I've never built a chicken wire ghost. I'm going to be building my first ones this year.
And I've been looking at a number of tutorials on how to do this.
One I saw did not use fabric at all. They only did it with the chicken wire
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and then they spray Bray painted the chicken wire a light color.
No, well, a light color on most of it. And then black at the very bottom, just the bottom.
So it looks like it's floating. Exactly. Yeah.
So I think that's what I'm going to attempt first and kind of see how that shakes out.
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But I will put a couple of links to those, to the tutorials that I'm seeing for those as well.
And you can absolutely guarantee I'm going to be filming me trying to make these
and that will end up on our YouTube page at Haunting You on YouTube if you want
to check that out. Will you be wearing a shirt?
I will be wearing a shirt because we have not doubled the number of listeners
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or viewers that we have on YouTube.
Tube so sorry if you will wear a shirt maintaining the shirt also chicken wire
very very unpleasant to be cut and chicken wire is very unpleasant to be stabbed
with a couple things that i recommend,
for handling chicken wire a good pair of leather gloves and honestly doesn't
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even have to be a good pair just a thick pair of leather gloves walmart sells
a pair for literally three dollars that are are a hardy leather and will keep
you from getting stabbed by the sharp edges of the chicken wire.
Definitely have something along those lines. Also, diagonal cutters,
a pair of wire snips are the easiest way to quickly be snipping through the
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chicken wire to get the sizes that you need.
And then black zip ties are what I use to hold the pieces together for shape.
You don't have to use zip ties you can actually use the ends
of the chicken wire that you have just twist them around and just twist them
around to to make that as well depending on the gloves you have you may or may
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not have the dexterity to actually accomplish that hence zip ties but whatever
works best for you works best for you try out a couple different methods and see what works,
now i realized that we probably should have taken a commercial break right after
our talk about out digital effects because that took a while and it's probably
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going to be pretty close to the halfway point so i think we should take a break
real quick john take us into a break and then we'll we can move on and now a break.
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What did I say? T-shirts.
T-cozies? You know what? They might have T-cozies. They probably could. T-cozies are awesome.
I was listening to some of our older episodes when
we first started red bubble they have haunting
you leggings on red bubble that is
true and we said back then if anybody buys the haunting you leggings we will
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bring you on as a guest so if you want to come on as a guest buy the leggings
and we will happily have you on as a guest mostly to ask you why you bought
the leggings and to say how comfortable they are i want to know more,
Okay, let me ask you a question.
How many, so you're talking about doing, you know, setting up the ghosts and whatnot.
You know, I was making a joke about being shirtless. How many downloads would
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we need to get our listeners to subscribe?
How many would we need to get for you to do that in those leggings?
Because I'm willing to create some fake accounts to make that happen.
If we hit 1,000 subscribers on YouTube, I would do all of my bills this year
wearing Haunted U leggings.
I'm going to have to take some days off work because it counts. Get to work, man.
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I think that'd be worth it. I think that would be delightful.
Yeah, so tell your friends to subscribe to Haunting You on YouTube,
as well as anywhere you can get your podcasts.
Especially if you want to see me building things in the Haunting You leggings. I do!
I'm putting one more condition on this. I'm listening.
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You have to send John and I a video of when Ashley first sees you in the damn leggings. Deal. Deal.
I need her reaction yes you i'm trying to decide if it would be like shock or
disbelief or if what the hell i think it would be all of the above yeah you
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should just watch him cycle through.
It's that i can see all of our listeners now like do you want to see me do these
leggings they're all going do i no no i don't quick unsubscribe unsubscribe,
aww but then you'll make the puppy sad alright,
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John I know you've got to leave soon so why don't we knock out a couple of shenanigans
and then we'll talk about some of the other ghosts that we're trying to build
this year make the puppy sad make me think of the,
that family guy bit with the stuffed gorilla oh cool you buy the stuffed gorilla
they donate the food or they don't send food to the gorillas in Africa and if
you don't buy it they kill you,
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these guys play hardball indeed,
Alright, so just for fun, I have a few would-you-rathers here.
I'll just go through these.
You're out of there, love? Oh, no, I'm good. You get three.
I get three? Three would-you-rathers. Good lord. Alright, five.
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Excellent. Alright, we can go fast.
Would you rather switch lives with your children for a week,
fuzzy ones included, or your spouse?
Children. you would go with the children interesting yeah because i would love
to watch them suffer in my life for a week well i get to goof around and have
fun for a week that sounds great,
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i mean you have no autonomy though i don't need autonomy if i have no responsibility.
Basically i would be perfectly happy to nap pretty much all day and snack whenever
i wanted to and go back to napping. That's fair.
If you make it to pets, the answer becomes a little too easy.
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No school, no homework. Exactly. But my wife is working every day. So, yeah, kids, 100%.
Would you... Let's see. No, no, no. It's not that fun. Okay.
Would you rather be able to pick any superpower at all, but the person to your
immediate left, or the leftist for us, gets to choose the side effect?
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Or would you rather have any superpower but only for 24 hours with no side effect
so in this case k leslie would wait at least on my screen leslie gets to pick
your side effects yeah i get that i just want to point out that when you said
that leslie and i both looked to our left,
recognized there was nobody in the room with us and then i swear we looked at
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each other and had the same thought at the same moment and it was amazing Amazing.
Like, wait a minute. You? It's like that Spider-Man meme almost.
Yeah. So Leslie's picking my...
Leslie's picking for me. I'm picking for John. John's picking for Leslie.
That's how I'm understanding this. I don't trust you enough. I'd pick 24 hours.
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You'd have way too much fun. I'll go and have these superpowers,
then I'll come back a day later with one giant piece of... Just one huge carrot.
I don't know what you would do, but it wouldn't be pleasant.
You're right. It would not be pleasant. 24 hours for me.
Fair. I think also I would do the 24 hours because I don't trust Leslie any
more than you trust me, and I can only imagine what she would do as a side effect.
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I'd go permanent because, John, I think I can work my way around anything you
might put together for me.
I think she's right, too. I think she's right. Absolutely. Challenge accepted.
You will lose. Yes. Yes, you will.
Next. I'm trying to think of one involving yarn, but I need some time.
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Would you rather crochet or knit?
There's math in both, so I can't do either.
Leslie's struggling with this question. I did not expect that. No, I didn't either.
Crochet, because I can still knit on crochet hooks. Whoa. Huh.
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Interesting. I didn't see that coming.
Really? No. Oh. You didn't see me coming up with a workaround? No.
Technically, I can also crochet with knitting needles. It's just a little bit
more difficult. I was more just like, wait, she picked the non-stabby option?
Oh, crochet hooks at the right size are still very, very stabby. Fair enough.
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And because they've got a hook, you don't want to just yank them out.
I was a little concerned about the hook. I'm not going to lie.
As you should be. Yeah, they're still stabby and they've got a hook on the end
So they're additionally hazardous I'll go rapid fire on some of these because it's a large list,
How dare you This is sort of intended of lovely just totally smashing Oklahoma
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randomly Well, not randomly They have some interesting things I have good reason
I was going to say, go back and listen to our previous episodes You'll find out why,
there are quite a number of them can we talk about that for just a moment.
So why leslie like hit bank on no no no but i was looking at our stats the other
day and i noticed we are getting awfully close to 20 000 downloads which is
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like and that which is very exciting i think we're gonna have to do something
special for when we hit 20 000 downloads leggings leggings
no so i want
to open it up to our listeners if you have ideas on
things that we could do to celebrate 20 000 downloads i'd like to hear them
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what's come to my mind is some kind of giveaway probably haunting you leggings
at the moment you laugh i'm on the youtube channel I don't right now suggest
I've got a legend to give away.
Yeah, so if anyone has ideas on things we could do to celebrate 20,000 downloads,
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please drop it in the comments.
Shoot us a message on any of our social medias at Hunting University on Instagram,
Facebook.com slash HuntingU or at HuntingU on YouTube.
Carry on, John. Oh, no, but the whole reason I brought that up,
I was looking at our stats and over the last month, We have hit 40 states.
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We have downloads in 40 states in the last month, which is unusually diverse for us.
We usually are fairly isolated to a few very specific states. Thank you, California.
But we we've got 40 states right now, which is kind of amazing,
but you know what we do, which state we do not have any downloads from Oklahoma, Oklahoma, carry on.
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Leslie just enjoys dunking on Oklahoma. I have good reason. And they've noticed.
And they have noticed. All three of them.
Well, you're not helping.
Oh, me or him? Me. But now he's... Both of us.
You're already... They already have signs of Leslie up. Yeah,
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exactly. He's adding to it.
All right, John. Do we have any from New Jersey? Yes. Oh, well.
Sorry. So this one is, would you rather be stung by 100 bees or live the rest
of your life in Newark, New Jersey?
I'll take the 100 bees. I think I'm taking the bees. Short-term problem.
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Newark is right across the water from New York.
It is. It is. And New York has Broadway. It does.
Do you think you can make it out of Newark?
There's just at that point I'd be living in New York rather than just being,
tantalized by having to go through the travel to get to New York I might take Newark,
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Wait, are you saying that just to suck up to New Jersey? No,
because I'm deathly allergic to bee stings.
Okay.
I don't know if that really counts.
In all honesty, I am not allergic to bee stings. No. But I thought that'd be
really funny. I had kind of one in a second.
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That's interesting. I never mentioned that before. Yeah, exactly.
If you had to choose super strength, but if you had you could have super strength,
but you could only have it for one object.
What would the object be? Animals.
I think you may have to specify. You didn't say that.
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All the animals. This involves Leslie's Leslie's Zoo Heist 2024.
Exactly. Animals.
I swear that woman was just carrying the gorilla it was so weird it was so weird,
because I move every two to three years and holy that would be helpful.
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Yeah sorry I'm still on they opened the gates and all the animals were gone.
I need to check Leslie's backyard yard i don't know
why you're still surprised when i try and find place around me i'm gonna someday
that something similar will happen like you're gonna see like animals disappear
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from the zoo that's the first call i'm making yes yes next one where's that
five that's probably more than five.
None of these are really good they're after that it must be like kind of confusing
All right. I've got one for you, too, then.
Would you rather do a podcast full of shenanigans or do a podcast about Halloween with no shenanigans?
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With no shenanigans? Yes. That depends on what we're covering. About Halloween.
We've done, I mean, like, what? Favorite Halloween things? No, no, no. What do you mean?
Every episode is about some Halloween-y topic.
Oh. But there are no shenanigans whatsoever.
Oh, I can't. It is only on topic. I'll die. Or would you rather do a podcast
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of nothing but shenanigans?
And no particular topic.
So, hold on. In your scenario, are you saying if any of us chose the Halloween
one with no shenanigans, we would have to remain on topic?
Yes. That is exactly what I'm saying. What's the penalty if we don't?
Because I think all of us might have a problem with that. You're physically
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incapable of not staying on topic.
I know it's not true, but that's the whole point of it. I think we'd just blow up.
I will not live my life free of shenanigans. I won't do it.
That's legit. So you'd rather do a podcast full of nothing but shenanigans?
Of course. I mean, technically we've done a handful of those.
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Episodes, certainly, but I'm talking like the entire run of the podcast.
Nothing but shenanigans.
I mean... It's basically what we do already. It's basically what we do already.
You could say it's more Halloween-themed shenanigans. It is definitely Halloween-themed shenanigans.
So... It's not that much of a far cry.
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Perfect. Perfect. Well, thank you,
John. I think that was a wonderful diversion. Do you need to duck out?
I need to go. All right. Good luck on your fantasy footballing.
That's what you're leaving us for? It's drop season.
That's what you're leaving us for? It's drop season. I don't set the dates or
times. That's what he's leaving us for.
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It happens every last week of August and first week of September.
Really? This is known. I can't postpone it. It's known by you, not known by us.
Not a thing. How many podcasts have I been in the middle of while drafting? So, go draft!
Well, those are slow drafts. These are one to two minute picks. Well, go draft.
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Indeed. Alright, off I go. I'm very disappointed in him.
Yep. Yeah, fair enough. Alright, guys. I'll talk to you later.
Later. Bye. I throw things at you.
Okay. So we've really got just like a couple more ghosts that we want to talk about.
And the first is called the Axeworthy Ghost.
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This is something that I have wanted to build for a while and have just never
gotten around to it because it hasn't been a priority.
But an Axeworthy Ghost actively flies around your property.
And the way you do that is with a couple of big wheels and basically running a.
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Like a fishing line from wheel to wheel to wheel, and then hanging a ghost off
the fishing line, hooking a motor up to one of the wheels to make the motor spin.
And the ghost will run from wheel to wheel to wheel all around the yard.
It is the only way that I know of that to actually make something.
And it can be a ghost. It can be a witch. It can be whatever you want,
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but to actually make something physically move around a large area for fairly, fairly simply.
Fright Props has an entire kit to do an Axe-worthy ghost, and it costs about, I think it's 200 bucks.
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Double check. Yeah. And it starts at 200 bucks, and it goes up from there depending
on if you want extra parts to make it larger, or they have lots of options.
You can certainly make one for a lot cheaper if you can source the parts yourself
and source the motor, source big wheels.
Like what I'm envisioning is
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a bike wheel, take the rubber tire off and you're left with just a wheel.
It's a nice big wheel. It's rigid.
It can hold up to speed and it gives you a nice curve to get the ghost around
without causing like a whole bunch of like, it's not going to get caught on
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things because it's a nice big radius.
There are a ton of tutorials out there just search for axworthy ghost a-x-w-o-r-t-h-y
axworthy ghost and it will find and you'll find a ton of tutorials definitely
check out our show notes and you can see it there as well but i think i want
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to try to build one of these this year,
but i'm not spending 200 from fry props i think i can source the parts myself,
yeah and once again check out our youtube and you'll see how it turned out if it turns out.
I think I'm gonna have to run to the dump and see if I can get get some wheels
and we have to do some dumpster diving,
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Oh no, your favorite thing. How terrible. I know, I know. Who would have thought
that I would go dumpster diving class?
Anybody with half a brain who's listened to us for five minutes. Indeed.
So let's sum up for a sec. We've talked about, so we talked about the axe where the ghost very briefly.
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We talked about the chicken wire ghosts that we're going to try to build this year.
We've talked about digital ghosts that we're going to use all over the place
this year what what are we missing less what other ghosts are there real ghosts
wait no weird yeah we're not doing.
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I'm an adult sort of ish so there's other ghosts that you can do including things
just like hanging a sheet like literally again instead of like a chicken wire
ghost If you want to hang things from the trees, a little styrofoam ball,
wrap fabric over it, tie it at the base, and stick a pin and hang it up.
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So again, there's a lot of different ways that you can do this to make other ghosts.
So hey, you got a lot of trees, you can just cover your trees with ghosts.
Yep. Absolutely. And really, if you need inspiration on ways to do this,
Google is your best friend. YouTube is your best friend.
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Just Google something like DIY Ghost, and you will find all kinds of tutorials
that can help you either give you step-by-step instructions if you're not very handy,
or just give you inspiration that you can then take and run with.
Either way, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, all great places to find those sources of information.
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And of course, we have to give a shout out to Hunters Hangout on Facebook or
any of the other Facebook Halloween home haunts, Halloween DIY,
Greater DC Home Haunters, Hunters Hangout, Halloween Yard Haunts and Props,
Haunt Themes, Scenes, and Props.
And there are plenty of others. Those are just the Facebook groups that I'm
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a part of, and they are all full of people showing how they build stuff,
giving ideas, answering questions.
They are just absolutely fantastic groups of people helping others to build cool stuff.
If you're not a member of them and you're on Facebook, go search because you
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will find all kinds of stuff, and I promise it will be worth your time. Yeah, hands down.
There's so much out there. And there's so many people who are doing so many cool things. And,
They just want to show you what they're doing and how they're doing it.
And a lot of stuff is a lot easier to do than you might initially think.
That's exactly what I was about to say.
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I'm just scrolling through my feed right now.
And someone posted, Stephanie Saladino posted to DIY Animated Halloween Props,
a like asylum patient that she's working on.
It's a wood 2x4 frame with a piece of PVC sticking up out of the frame with
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another piece of PVC across the,
to make shoulders and then covered with like canvas pants and a canvas straight
jacket and there's a motor inside to make the torso rock back and forth like
he's you know having a well a fit.
And like it's super simple.
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But if you're not mechanically inclined, you would probably never think of how
you could put this together.
Stephanie is showing us all the mechanism so that anyone could put this together.
Stephanie, if you happen to be listening, thank you. I love that prop and I
can't wait to see the completed version.
But yeah, go check out your local Facebook groups because they are
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absolutely fantastic and there there really
are there's so many resources you know again the chamber of haunters is another
resource that is just fantastic to have available to us and they are available
to you know anybody who has you know needs something needs ideas is, isn't sure where to go.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
So I think that pretty much wraps up what we wanted to accomplish today.
Talking about all the different ways that we plan to build our ghosts for Halloween 2024.
I am super disappointed that our house project is running into my haunt season
and is going to prevent us from haunting quite like we wanted to.
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But as always, we will persevere we will put on a great show even if it's not
the show we intended nobody will know that at the end and hopefully people will
come out and have a good time anyway.
And we'll have fun with it. No matter what happens, we are going to have fun
with it. We will definitely have fun with it.
So go check out our social medias. Instagram at Haunting University.
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Facebook.com slash HauntingU, just the letter U. YouTube at HauntingU,
again, just the letter U.
These are the places where we are going to be posting photos and videos and blogs.
And probably not blogs, honestly, because I don't have time for that.
That but lots of photos and videos as we are working through our builds over the next 61 days,
getting us ready for halloween that is where you
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can find the most of it so go check it out subscribe and
pass this podcast on to all your halloween loving friends so that hopefully
they get something out of it as well less what did we miss i'm thinking more
ways to make ghosts without killing people let's try not to do that i think
it's a good place to wrap up because we are a A little over our hour mark.
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So by the time I edit, we'll probably be right about the right spot. So wrap us up.
Alrighty. Well, again, 61 days till Halloween.
We've all got this. It's one form or another. If you need ideas or you're not
sure what you want to do or what's out there to do, any of our podcasts and
episodes are absolutely there as resources.
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And whatever resources that we can provide to you through those go ahead and
take advantage of them so from all of us here,
break a leg preferably somebody else's and have an awesome Halloween we'll be
back in what two weeks we'll be back on September 15th with our next episode lucky lucky you guys,
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Reversed it I was not ready for that,
I'm Keone Hutton and I'm Leslie Reed I got stuck thinking like trying to come
up with a creative name and I just completely blanked I had two so they're gonna
be Jabberwocky or Flabbergasted I'm Flabbergasted Jabberwocky's always good.
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Jabberjaw do you know who Jabberjaw is. I haven't the first idea who Jabberjaw is. Should I?
Batman villain. Clearly it's a Batman villain.
DC's not even that bad usually. Wait, Leslie doesn't know?
It sounds familiar. I'm just not placing it. Oh, not just me.
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I have to send you a picture now. Oh, God.
Oh, yes. It is nowhere near what either of you are thinking.
That doesn't really help your
case considering the vast variety of things that i can put together
for jabberjaw accurate fair enough but i'll
there i just said it to you for for
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all the listeners google jabberjaw it's not what you think it's a
it's a family-friendly search i promise you noted oh
okay you've got all rights reserved i told you it was in dc it's definitely
not dc definitely not dc told you i knew it wasn't dc i'm and you know how i
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recognized it but you couldn't place it,
scooby-doo mystery incorporated thank you very much that's that's the best one i know it's so good.
So okay how thrown off are you on a scale of one to
ten welcome everyone to the haunting you podcast is so good to be back with
you and happy september holy it is like this summer has just absolutely freaking
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flown by i cannot believe it is already september we are 61 days away from halloween 61.
Days and do you want to know what i have started setting up or building so far
calendar zero nothing holy shit i'm freaking out,
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Yeah, so how is the rest of the construction going? Oh, God.
You had to bring that up, didn't you? I did.
So quick, let me back up real quick in case there are any new listeners who
don't want to go back and listen to our previous two episodes to get the backstory.
Here's the backstory. We moved back to our house in Maryland that we owned and
lived here two years ago and decided to do some renovations,
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basically gutting the entire upstairs.
As part of that, it's going to redo the kitchen, combine two bedrooms to make
a much larger master bedroom with a larger bathroom and a walk-in closet.
And then my office, the other bedroom that will become my office, will all be upstairs.
So all of that has been on hold for the last, oh God, eight weeks.
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We are up to eight weeks with this on hold, waiting on permits.
There was finally movement last week.
And here's what happened we
finally got in touch with the guy at the permitting office
who issues the plumbing permit he had
been on vacation for two weeks ouch there's
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no backer and because it is a government agency nobody else will do his job
everything just sat for two weeks yep so that's annoying point number one annoying
point number Number two is he refused to process our permit because he wanted
a fresh inspection of the septic tank.
The one that we provided from five years ago when we bought the house was not
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recent enough for him. He needed a more recent one.
Well, okay. So I made 27 phone calls on Monday morning looking for a septic inspector.
One guy called me back. One guy called me back. Well, can you blame him? One out of 27.
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But he could be there on Thursday. So he came out on Thursday and did the inspection for us.
Well, Thursday night, I hadn't heard anything. And so I text him,
hey, how did the inspection go? When can we expect to see the report?
And all I got was an ominous, I will call you.
Oh, shit. That's not good. That's not a good sign.
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The whole rest of the night, never heard a thing. He did not call me that evening.
And in his defense, I texted him at like 630 at night. So like,
well, after reasonable business hours, fine.
So next morning, Friday morning, I call him again.
Or rather, I call him rather than text. And I get him and he starts asking me
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questions like, what are your intentions for the house? Well, that can't be good.
And so I explain, it's our house. We're doing some renovations to make it better meet our needs.
But it is our house. I'm the owner. We're keeping it like all of that.
He's like, okay, you have a crack in your septic tank.
Oh okay i have a separate issue but continue i want to point out leslie said
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not me that's true good job.
Music.
Though so stay tuned so good news really quick really quick go ahead so i i understand the,
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your loved one was you know hit by a bus let me call you instead of text you
that feels like better information what fair that that information can't be
relayed over text it could have been relayed over text and ultimately the reason
why he was asking my intentions for the house was
he was, I'm going to say, willing to give us a clean report,
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if we weren't planning to sell so that we could get our permit.
And I'll explain why in a moment.
I did not take him up on that, but I'll explain why in a moment.
Anyway, so bad news, there's a crack in the tank.
Good news, the crack is on the top.
And the way the tank is constructed, it's a cement tank, two chambers,
and the bottom and sides are all poured as a single piece. That's what makes it watertight, right?
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Got it. And then the top is a separate piece of concrete that sits on top.
So replacing it should be relatively easy. Dig it up, take the old top off,
put a new top on, bury it again, right?
We don't have to touch anything on the lower part of the tank.
So we don't need a whole new tank. We only need a top.
It should be about half the price as if we had needed an entire new tank.
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Maybe the guy who's supposed to give us a quote on that is coming out on Thursday.
Day so that's that's
relatively good news as good news
as it could be but because of all
of this now the permits are not moving anywhere until we get the septics fixed
which means at least another two to three week delay before they can even start
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work again have you tried for all of our you know the audio listeners 4k you just head in hands.
Have you tried bribery or intimidation? Yes. Oh.
You didn't do a very good job, did you? No, I did a terrible job, apparently.
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It usually works. I did not actually try bribery. I am a man of honor.
Yada, yada, yada. Damn you, Coast Guard. In all honesty, I was going to recommend
theft, but I don't know how you steal that. I don't know how you steal that one.
That seems like a pretty tough ask.
Indeed. Would you steal the top of a septic tank?
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It requires a fair amount of digging, a couple of fairly large pieces of machinery.
It's not easy. It could be done, but it's not easy. I have a recommendation.
We're going to have to call up Daniel Ocean on this one. Wait,
wait. Are you recommending theft?
What's your recommendation, Les? Go find your neighbors and pop one of theirs off.
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We'll just trade. I support this. We'll just trade. Yeah. And so like the reason,
the reason why he was willing to give us a clean bill of health was because it's on the lid.
It doesn't affect the, the function of the tank at all.
Everything else on the tank worked properly the way it's supposed to.
The drainage field is in good shape. The distribution box is in good shape.
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Everything else is fine. It's just this. And it looks like, and what probably
happened is someone drove over the top of the tank and that's what caused it to crack.
Where's the tank? on the side of the house underneath the grass but we had a
fair amount of landscaping done.
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They installed a whole bunch of massive
flagstones and when i say massive i mean like four feet across two feet wide
six inches thick flagstones to make steps coming down from the deck through
a garden it's absolutely beautiful i love it but i'm pretty sure they drove
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over the tank and cracked it when they did.
No way for us to hold them accountable to it now, three years later,
but I'm pretty sure that's what happened.
Man, can you think of a bigger red flag for a neighbor than just like,
hey, do you want to trade septic tanks?
No reason. Not just do you want to trade septic tanks. Do you want to trade
septic tank tops? Septic tank lids. Lids.
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Exactly. Oh, my gosh.
So let's do the math real quick. It's basically September 1st.
It's not actually. We're four days before that when we're recording this.
But if we're that close to September 1st.
We're that close to September 1st. All right. Continue. That reminds me of John
Mulaney's, you know, like a liar. Like a liar.
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So by the time we're able to start work again, it's going to be at the earliest,
mid-September, around September 15th.
We probably have four to six weeks of work to wrap up all the work that has
to happen on the upstairs.
There's no chance in hell I am getting my household goods and all of my Halloween
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equipment before Halloween.
At this point. There's no way. But that's an opportunity.
That means I get to buy all new Halloween stuff to do what we're doing this
year and we can expand what we're doing because I have an excuse to go out and
buy a whole bunch of stuff. Since when have you ever needed an excuse?
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I don't, but it helps justify it in my mind and to my wife.
Well, that was going to be my question. You had the hold up on the plumbing
you know permits did you get the permits from your wife for the new equipment.
Concerns one paused so that's where we are like
it's not a great spot to be but i suppose there
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are where spots we could be the part that's
killing me the most is that we're i'm not going to get my halloween stuff so like
we we really aren't going to be building from scratch and the few things that
i was able to salvage out of my buddy's basement that i stored some of my stuff
here because like a lot of the stuff that i stored here was not the useful stuff
i have freaking Picking boxes full of baby dolls, like porcelain dolls.
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Those are not going to be helpful this year. Speaking of neighbor red flags.
So that's actually a pretty good segue into what I actually want to talk about today.
Because we spent the whole last episode planning what we're going to do for this year.
And we've settled on our theme, which is really haunted estate.
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And we want to use this year to build on the backstory that we started creating
for Sanguine Creek Estates and tell that backstory to all the people who come and visit the estate.
And we're going to do that in a couple of ways. The first one is with a multimedia
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display inside our crypt. Don't you dare. You're going to break my internet again. Indeed.
It happens. with multimedia displays do that and
multimedia displays do do that if you do the web so we're we're going to use
that multimedia display to tell our backstory and on top of that we are going
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to put just a i don't know what's the proper ton what's the proper word for a ton of ghosts,
We're going to haunt the holy hell out of it. We're going to haunt the holy
hell out of it. Probably a murder. Probably a murder of ghosts.
It's funny you mentioned that. I read just an absolutely fascinating post the
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other day about crows and how if crows find a dead crow on the ground,
a whole bunch of crows will usually come and surround it.
And for a period, people thought that they might be grieving as a community.
Community but researchers now think they're
actually like looking around the dead crow
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for things that may be harmful to i don't
want to say the flock because they're kind of a little more solitary than that but
to other crows so do you realize what's happening they're smarter than humans
i mean that but it's a murder no no it's a murder investigation it's a murder
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investigation It's a murder of crows conducting an investigation.
It's a murder investigation.
That's amazing. That's hilarious.
We need like a deep voiced voiceover man to be like pro facts.
Yeah.
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For more, you know. Yes. Thank you.
So what what i want to spend like the rest of the episode talking about are
all the different ways that we are going to haunt the holy hell out of the estate
and i really like the alliteration there unless you should like copy trademark that or something,
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But I want to talk about all the different ways that we're going to do that
and kind of dive into the nitty gritty, where we're getting supplies from,
what tutorials we're following,
so that hopefully, if any of you want to add some holy haunts to your haunts this year,
you have some ideas on where to get them.
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Intriguing let's start with our most popular episode ever john do you know what
our most popular episode ever was i believe it was it is not episode 10 but i love that you said,
that's where i was going i was like i don't think it's 10 but maybe that is
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it's not our most popular episode ever no it is my favorite episode ever but
it is not our most popular.
Episode for for anyone who has not gone
back and listened to some of our older episodes the first 10 episodes of
the podcast really dive into the haunting you method the
method that we use to build our haunts episode 10 kind of is the culmination
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of all of that where we talk about micro haunts and the discussion is phenomenal
and hysterical and hysterical i recommend it because we never grew past the
maturity of 12-year-olds. Accurate.
So highly recommend you go back and listen to episode 10 because it is wonderful
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and good listening and a lot of fun.
But no, I wanted to go back to episode 49.
We put out episode 49 October 15th of 2021 and it could not have been...
Wait, was it 21 or 20? No, it was 21.
And it was incredibly timely. Finally, episode 49 completely focuses on digital effects.
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It is a 101 type episode where we really delved into the details on how to use
digital effects effectively.
I don't want to talk about all of that again.
Just go back and listen to episode 49 because we cover it in depth.
I do want to talk about some new things that have changed since that episode
that I want to take advantage of this year, unless you may want to too. Yep.
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You said effects effectively? Effects effectively. It made me happy. Effective effects.
Effective effects as opposed to effective effects. Indeed. Don't ask me which
one you use when because I could not tell you accurately.
So I want to. So. Effect is the result.
Effect is the cause. You told me there would be no math.
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There is no math. This is language. You told me there would be no language arts. It's English.
Those are what translate this into chinese for you i mean i can't take me i
know i know you can but please don't so huge shout out first of all to one of our favorite.
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Sponsors of the show and i'm actively sponsoring us now
i hope to change that carrie if you happen to be listening let's chat
that being said spectral illusions makes some of
the absolutely freaking coolest thing digital effects
out of any of the companies that we know and i
highly recommend all of their products if you
are interested in getting digital effects from
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spectral illusions you can actually use a caterpillar
caterpillar you can use a caterpillar we
like caterpillars i got nervous and just threw something out there
fair you can use if you're interested in getting digital effects
from spectral illusions you can actually get a 15 off discount using
the code haunting you 15 at checkout and
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but that only works on digital effects it does not work on anything else that
they sell only on digital effects is that still active it
is in fact still active oh okay wow yeah so
go take advantage of that just because you can
but what i absolutely freaking
love about them is their projector more than
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anything else they have this year the
new hp4 halloween projector and it's even better than the previous one this
is the only projector on the market that has an auto start feature so as soon
as power is applied to it it will immediately turn on and start playing whatever file you have loaded.
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Even the HP3 did that. The HP4 does it and more.
Also has an auto timer. So you can actually program the projector to turn on
and off at certain times, all built in on the projector. Nice.
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Holy shit. You want to talk about making it easy for you to freaking automate your haunt?
This is what makes it easy to automate your haunt. And I cannot wait to get
my hands on one of these for this year.
They are $129.99. but not only does it come with all these cool features,
it's also 10 ADP resolution.
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It's 450 lumens. Go check out
our YouTube page where I talked to carry the owner at midsummer scream.
And you'll see how bright they are. Even in a bright hallway,
like the bright convention center hall, you could still very clearly make out what was happening.
It has Bluetooth. It has wifi. It has an onboard speaker.
Like this projector has every feature that you could want.
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And it comes with eight freaking digital effects included with the projector.
Accursed Helmsman, Restless Spirit, Phantom Wraith, Blow the Man Down,
Ghost of Prudence Prim, Electric Specter, Zombies at the Window,
Phantom of the Park. All of them come included.
I mean, eight... It did my taxes last year.
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This thing is awesome. Eight effects would normally cost you over $200 from Spectral Illusions.
But for $120, you're getting eight of them plus the freaking projector.
Like, we are not being paid by them. I just love it that much.
Like, I know this sounds like an ad. We are not being paid by them right now.
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They have paid us in the past.
But that's how much I love this company. That's how much I love this projector.
If you are doing anything with digital effects, I cannot stress enough,
go check out this projector projector, because it is the best buy on the market
today. Highly recommend.
Wow, you're like hot and bothered over there. Oh, you know how he gets when it comes to digital.
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You do know how I get when it comes to digital effects. That is accurate.
I mean, just in general too, but. Our intention is to use a ton of digital effects.
So my house is going to be completely empty. So I'm going to put digital effects
in every freaking window.
That's easy. Like I put a projector inside the room, put it far enough back
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that it will fill the window completely.
And then honestly, I go to freaking Walmart and I get their shower curtains,
you know, the, the slightly foggy ones, put that up over the window.
It is the perfect like $5 material to create a screen for projecting onto a
window. It's, it's absolutely perfect.
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Walmart, $5 foggy shower curtain. Check them out.
So projector with the shower curtain that will take care of all of our insides
all of our inside projections for outside yes i was going to make insides as well.
For our outside projections though we want them to look like ghosts and to do
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that we need to get a little bit more creative i love hallucin effects we use
hallucin effects in our crypt we use them.
On various other places in our haunt i don't want to say too much more about
that because come check out our haunted then you'll get to see it right yep
but to do that you need a special material that will you need a better material
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or a more specific material the one that i use is called It's called Tulle, T-U-L-L-E.
And if you picture like mosquito netting, you've got the right idea. It's just scratchier.
It is scratchier. That is true. But this is the stuff.
OK, so again, as you're looking, if you can't remember the term,
it's what they use to make tutus for ballet.
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So if you literally just say the ballet skirt material, almost anybody at any
fabric store is going to know exactly what you're talking about and say,
oh, tool, what color do you want it?
Yeah. And so the tool that I get, I get off Amazon because I can buy an entire
bolt for like, in fact, let me look it up so that I'm giving you the right number
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because, you know, prices change.
They do? They do. They do. It's craziness.
Tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool, tool.
John, you're a tool. It took you way too long to get to that joke. Come on, man.
And where are you searching this k amazon excellent so
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if our friends at amazon are listening give us okay so i
just did a generic search for tool t-u-l-l-e on amazon
and i found a 54 inch by 40 yards bolt for 19.68 it's on amazon prime with one
day shipping and free so i could have it here tomorrow for 20 bucks and that
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would give me 40 yards of 54 inch wide fabric,
essentially that covers you for a lot that covers me for a lot exactly and it
comes in a variety of colors i've used the silver in the past it works pretty
well or white works pretty well and as long And the key with Halluzions is all in how you light it.
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So the way that I do it is I stretch the tool between...
A frame of some kind. When I was doing it on board a ship, I actually built
a frame out of wood that was exactly the size of the hallway that I was putting it in.
And then I'd stretch it across that, staple it so it was nice and tight.
I've seen people who do it in garden arches.
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I use the door of our crypt arch and put it inside of there.
But the key is you want to make sure you don't have any visible edges because
the edges are what will ruin your effect.
You want the edges covered by something that is solid there.
So like I've got a couple of trees over here that I'm going to stretch the tool
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in between and project onto that.
So you stretch out your tool and then you hit it with the projector.
Make sure you're using a digital effect that is a figure with a black background
so that only the figure is showing up.
You project it in and you could really project it at the screen or from behind
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the screen, both work well.
There's an asterisk there, but both work well. But the real key is to put a
light behind the tool, not shining at the tool because that will wash out your projection,
but just something so that it's lighting behind it so that people will look at your projection,
and see the light behind it.
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And that's what really sells it as being see-through because there's something
back there for people to see.
Be careful when you're positioning your projector so that you're not shining
it into the faces of the people who are going to come and see it,
because that will also ruin it.
So in some cases, if I'm projecting from the back, I'll set the projector nice
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and low and aim it up so that the splash ends up above the heads of anybody who's coming to see it.
If I'm familiar, what's the splash? The splash is the image that's going through your screen.
The light that's going through your screen because remember the tool
is mosquito netting it's not going to completely stop the light
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it's going to let the light through and if you're shining it
at people it's just going to blind them and they're going
to completely lose the effect so put it at enough of an angle that it ends up
pointing above their heads or point it away from the people looking at you're
looking at your ghost so that it's shining away from the viewer through the
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tool but then pay attention to what's behind you.
Because again, the splash is going to hit whatever is behind that screen.
And so whatever's behind has to either be far enough away that the projector
really can't hit it, or once again, aim it up above so that it's missing whatever's back there.
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Play around with it a couple of times and see what will work best for you.
But check out the see links in our show
notes today because i will put links to the tool and
the projector as well i'll also throw in
the the walmart shower curtain heck
everything we're talking about there will be a link to it in our in the show
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notes today and none of these are affiliate links we don't get a dime so click
it as many times as you like click it as many times as you want this is a reference
for you guys we are getting nothing for it except the joy of sharing information
so you can all make Make better Halloween. Exactly.
So that's how we're going to do our projections in the windows.
That's how we're going to do our illusions in the yard.
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But I think we're going to need some other ghosts. Oh, oh, wait,
wait. I forgot one important thing.
We already talked about spectral illusions. Great place to get ghost images from.
Another one I have to talk about. Halo FX.
I love Halo FX. They make goofy things.
They make spooky things. They make unnerving things.
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They have all kinds of digital decorations that could fit any theme and any
level of scariness that you are trying to achieve.
And they're super cheap. Most, many of their effects are five bucks.
They have a bunch of new ones this year that are 10.
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That's still significantly cheaper than you're going to find anywhere else.
And the quality is right up there with everybody else.
They are fantastic. I highly recommend them. They have worked with us and done
custom stuff for us in the past.
And like, I, I love this company. They're wonderful. That's why we give them
the free shout outs. also in the links below.
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The other one that most people are probably familiar with, AtmosFX.
That's A-T-M-O-S-F-X letters.
These are probably the first people who did digital decorations.
And again, really cool stuff,
a little bit more expensive, but you can make it cheaper by buying just individual
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parts of their packages.
So for instance, they have one called legends of halloween it's sixty dollars
59 if you want to be precise but it would include it includes a grim reaper
a pumpkin king and a headless horseman so three different characters doing all
kinds of different things if you want to go cheaper though you could buy,
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just one of those characters for thirty dollars so there are ways to make it
cheaper you definitely Definitely get more if you buy the entire package,
though, because you'll get $90 worth of effects for $60, save $30.
But if all you're looking for is a headless horseman, you can do just a headless
horseman. Exactly. Exactly. You can also find those up in upstate New York.
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You can find those up in upstate New York. Be careful if you go looking for it, though.
And note where the bridge is. Yes.
Ooh, what's this? Hall of Haunts? I don't know this one. Oh,
these are their... Yeah, they've got a bunch of...
I don't know what to call them, atmospheric effects now, where like,
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well, like this one, Hall of Haunts, is the inside of a haunted house.
And it incorporates a lot of their characters, as well as a whole background.
So if you're trying to create a... So you could project this on a wall inside
your house to make it look like it's part of the mansion or something like that, you know?
Gotcha. Not what I'm looking for, but it's kind of cool.
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And what I like about it is it incorporates several of their ghost haunts all in this scene.
We've used a bunch of theirs in the past, and I suspect we'll be using a bunch
of theirs this year as well.
Yes, as we haunt everything. As we haunt everything.
So Spectral Illusions, Halo FX, Atmos FX, those are the three digital decorators
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that I recommend most for, well, really any digital decorations that you could possibly want to do.
But specifically for this year, we'll be using them a lot for ghosts.
But as I mentioned, we're going to need a lot more ghosts than just digital effects. Yes.
So Les, take us through the next type of ghost that we really want to build.
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So the next one is basically it's a chicken wire ghost.
And they are remarkably effective. I've got a couple of neighbors who put a
number up every Halloween.
And I know what exactly what they are. I know exactly how they're made.
And yet every time I drive past, I always end up doing a double take.
So essentially you start off with a bunch of chicken wire and you use that to...
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Design out the structure of what you want your ghost to look like.
So do you want just kind of an amorphous thing? Well, you can just kind of make
a head with, you know, make a bulbous head. I'm demonstrating, bite me.
Make a bulbous head and then kind of have everything flowing out just like it'd
be, you know, your Halloween child pass a sheet over your head ghost.
If you want to do more specific, you can build all of that out as well,
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just using either a form to put the chicken wire over, or just by freehanding it.
Just make sure that when you're ready to go, all you leave is the chicken wire form.
So next up is then you want to cover it in a type of fabric that again,
is very, very light and very, very translucent.
And then once you've got that, it's pretty much just a matter of putting a lighting
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source in it and flipping it on when it comes to time to light everything up.
You want to go for kind of a soft light.
You don't want something that's too bright and you don't want something that's
too directional. You want to be able to have it relatively diffused within the structure.
And then the fabric that you pick is going to diffuse that even further. Yeah.
I generally recommend your blues or your purples because the light tends not to travel as far.
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Any theater kids in the house? Ah, less.
I know you're a theater kid. What color were the lights backstage where you worked?
Red, red. Yeah, Yeah, that's fairly common as well. Red or blue are the two
that I have worked with and tend to see because red does not affect night vision,
which is important for the stagehands who are running around in the dark moving
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stuff around. They need to maintain their night vision.
But more than that, the energy of the light is so low, it doesn't carry.
And so even when the lights are off, those lights are not getting out to the audience.
That's really important for newly hatched turtles.
Accurate and not just newly hatched turtles my turtle has a red light as well
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excellent yeah indeed but happy with it she is quite happy with it keeps her
nice and warm even in the cold days,
but the those are the kind of lights that i like to use outside for for stuff
like this for that exact same reason i can light up something very particular
and not worry about all of the extra
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light, getting places where I don't want it to get to.
And if you can reduce the brightness, even better.
I've seen, so I've never built a chicken wire ghost. I'm going to be building my first ones this year.
And I've been looking at a number of tutorials on how to do this.
One I saw did not use fabric at all. They only did it with the chicken wire
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and then they spray Bray painted the chicken wire a light color.
No, well, a light color on most of it. And then black at the very bottom, just the bottom.
So it looks like it's floating. Exactly. Yeah.
So I think that's what I'm going to attempt first and kind of see how that shakes out.
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But I will put a couple of links to those, to the tutorials that I'm seeing for those as well.
And you can absolutely guarantee I'm going to be filming me trying to make these
and that will end up on our YouTube page at Haunting You on YouTube if you want
to check that out. Will you be wearing a shirt?
I will be wearing a shirt because we have not doubled the number of listeners
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or viewers that we have on YouTube.
Tube so sorry if you will wear a shirt maintaining the shirt also chicken wire
very very unpleasant to be cut and chicken wire is very unpleasant to be stabbed
with a couple things that i recommend,
for handling chicken wire a good pair of leather gloves and honestly doesn't
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even have to be a good pair just a thick pair of leather gloves walmart sells
a pair for literally three dollars that are are a hardy leather and will keep
you from getting stabbed by the sharp edges of the chicken wire.
Definitely have something along those lines. Also, diagonal cutters,
a pair of wire snips are the easiest way to quickly be snipping through the
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chicken wire to get the sizes that you need.
And then black zip ties are what I use to hold the pieces together for shape.
You don't have to use zip ties you can actually use the ends
of the chicken wire that you have just twist them around and just twist them
around to to make that as well depending on the gloves you have you may or may
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not have the dexterity to actually accomplish that hence zip ties but whatever
works best for you works best for you try out a couple different methods and see what works,
now i realized that we probably should have taken a commercial break right after
our talk about out digital effects because that took a while and it's probably
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going to be pretty close to the halfway point so i think we should take a break
real quick john take us into a break and then we'll we can move on and now a break.
Music.
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Now, if you don't want to become a sponsor, but you would like to support the
show, do we just accept brown envelopes of money?
We do, in fact, accept brown envelopes of money. We also accept PayPal and Venmo.
(38:23):
Reach out and I can help you get your brown envelope of money to us.
That being said, we also have merch.
If you go on our website, HauntingYou.com, you can check out our Redbubble site
and get a variety of items that have the Haunting You logo plastered all over them.
Everything from T-shirts and hoodies, all the way to crazy ass things like...
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What did I say? T-shirts.
T-cozies? You know what? They might have T-cozies. They probably could. T-cozies are awesome.
I was listening to some of our older episodes when
we first started red bubble they have haunting
you leggings on red bubble that is
true and we said back then if anybody buys the haunting you leggings we will
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bring you on as a guest so if you want to come on as a guest buy the leggings
and we will happily have you on as a guest mostly to ask you why you bought
the leggings and to say how comfortable they are i want to know more,
Okay, let me ask you a question.
How many, so you're talking about doing, you know, setting up the ghosts and whatnot.
You know, I was making a joke about being shirtless. How many downloads would
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we need to get our listeners to subscribe?
How many would we need to get for you to do that in those leggings?
Because I'm willing to create some fake accounts to make that happen.
If we hit 1,000 subscribers on YouTube, I would do all of my bills this year
wearing Haunted U leggings.
I'm going to have to take some days off work because it counts. Get to work, man.
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I think that'd be worth it. I think that would be delightful.
Yeah, so tell your friends to subscribe to Haunting You on YouTube,
as well as anywhere you can get your podcasts.
Especially if you want to see me building things in the Haunting You leggings. I do!
I'm putting one more condition on this. I'm listening.
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You have to send John and I a video of when Ashley first sees you in the damn leggings. Deal. Deal.
I need her reaction yes you i'm trying to decide if it would be like shock or
disbelief or if what the hell i think it would be all of the above yeah you
(40:39):
should just watch him cycle through.
It's that i can see all of our listeners now like do you want to see me do these
leggings they're all going do i no no i don't quick unsubscribe unsubscribe,
aww but then you'll make the puppy sad alright,
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John I know you've got to leave soon so why don't we knock out a couple of shenanigans
and then we'll talk about some of the other ghosts that we're trying to build
this year make the puppy sad make me think of the,
that family guy bit with the stuffed gorilla oh cool you buy the stuffed gorilla
they donate the food or they don't send food to the gorillas in Africa and if
you don't buy it they kill you,
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these guys play hardball indeed,
Alright, so just for fun, I have a few would-you-rathers here.
I'll just go through these.
You're out of there, love? Oh, no, I'm good. You get three.
I get three? Three would-you-rathers. Good lord. Alright, five.
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Excellent. Alright, we can go fast.
Would you rather switch lives with your children for a week,
fuzzy ones included, or your spouse?
Children. you would go with the children interesting yeah because i would love
to watch them suffer in my life for a week well i get to goof around and have
fun for a week that sounds great,
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i mean you have no autonomy though i don't need autonomy if i have no responsibility.
Basically i would be perfectly happy to nap pretty much all day and snack whenever
i wanted to and go back to napping. That's fair.
If you make it to pets, the answer becomes a little too easy.
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No school, no homework. Exactly. But my wife is working every day. So, yeah, kids, 100%.
Would you... Let's see. No, no, no. It's not that fun. Okay.
Would you rather be able to pick any superpower at all, but the person to your
immediate left, or the leftist for us, gets to choose the side effect?
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Or would you rather have any superpower but only for 24 hours with no side effect
so in this case k leslie would wait at least on my screen leslie gets to pick
your side effects yeah i get that i just want to point out that when you said
that leslie and i both looked to our left,
recognized there was nobody in the room with us and then i swear we looked at
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each other and had the same thought at the same moment and it was amazing Amazing.
Like, wait a minute. You? It's like that Spider-Man meme almost.
Yeah. So Leslie's picking my...
Leslie's picking for me. I'm picking for John. John's picking for Leslie.
That's how I'm understanding this. I don't trust you enough. I'd pick 24 hours.
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You'd have way too much fun. I'll go and have these superpowers,
then I'll come back a day later with one giant piece of... Just one huge carrot.
I don't know what you would do, but it wouldn't be pleasant.
You're right. It would not be pleasant. 24 hours for me.
Fair. I think also I would do the 24 hours because I don't trust Leslie any
more than you trust me, and I can only imagine what she would do as a side effect.
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I'd go permanent because, John, I think I can work my way around anything you
might put together for me.
I think she's right, too. I think she's right. Absolutely. Challenge accepted.
You will lose. Yes. Yes, you will.
Next. I'm trying to think of one involving yarn, but I need some time.
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Would you rather crochet or knit?
There's math in both, so I can't do either.
Leslie's struggling with this question. I did not expect that. No, I didn't either.
Crochet, because I can still knit on crochet hooks. Whoa. Huh.
(44:51):
Interesting. I didn't see that coming.
Really? No. Oh. You didn't see me coming up with a workaround? No.
Technically, I can also crochet with knitting needles. It's just a little bit
more difficult. I was more just like, wait, she picked the non-stabby option?
Oh, crochet hooks at the right size are still very, very stabby. Fair enough.
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And because they've got a hook, you don't want to just yank them out.
I was a little concerned about the hook. I'm not going to lie.
As you should be. Yeah, they're still stabby and they've got a hook on the end
So they're additionally hazardous I'll go rapid fire on some of these because it's a large list,
How dare you This is sort of intended of lovely just totally smashing Oklahoma
(45:43):
randomly Well, not randomly They have some interesting things I have good reason
I was going to say, go back and listen to our previous episodes You'll find out why,
there are quite a number of them can we talk about that for just a moment.
So why leslie like hit bank on no no no but i was looking at our stats the other
day and i noticed we are getting awfully close to 20 000 downloads which is
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like and that which is very exciting i think we're gonna have to do something
special for when we hit 20 000 downloads leggings leggings
no so i want
to open it up to our listeners if you have ideas on
things that we could do to celebrate 20 000 downloads i'd like to hear them
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what's come to my mind is some kind of giveaway probably haunting you leggings
at the moment you laugh i'm on the youtube channel I don't right now suggest
I've got a legend to give away.
Yeah, so if anyone has ideas on things we could do to celebrate 20,000 downloads,
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please drop it in the comments.
Shoot us a message on any of our social medias at Hunting University on Instagram,
Facebook.com slash HuntingU or at HuntingU on YouTube.
Carry on, John. Oh, no, but the whole reason I brought that up,
I was looking at our stats and over the last month, We have hit 40 states.
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We have downloads in 40 states in the last month, which is unusually diverse for us.
We usually are fairly isolated to a few very specific states. Thank you, California.
But we we've got 40 states right now, which is kind of amazing,
but you know what we do, which state we do not have any downloads from Oklahoma, Oklahoma, carry on.
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Leslie just enjoys dunking on Oklahoma. I have good reason. And they've noticed.
And they have noticed. All three of them.
Well, you're not helping.
Oh, me or him? Me. But now he's... Both of us.
You're already... They already have signs of Leslie up. Yeah,
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exactly. He's adding to it.
All right, John. Do we have any from New Jersey? Yes. Oh, well.
Sorry. So this one is, would you rather be stung by 100 bees or live the rest
of your life in Newark, New Jersey?
I'll take the 100 bees. I think I'm taking the bees. Short-term problem.
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Newark is right across the water from New York.
It is. It is. And New York has Broadway. It does.
Do you think you can make it out of Newark?
There's just at that point I'd be living in New York rather than just being,
tantalized by having to go through the travel to get to New York I might take Newark,
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Wait, are you saying that just to suck up to New Jersey? No,
because I'm deathly allergic to bee stings.
Okay.
I don't know if that really counts.
In all honesty, I am not allergic to bee stings. No. But I thought that'd be
really funny. I had kind of one in a second.
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That's interesting. I never mentioned that before. Yeah, exactly.
If you had to choose super strength, but if you had you could have super strength,
but you could only have it for one object.
What would the object be? Animals.
I think you may have to specify. You didn't say that.
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All the animals. This involves Leslie's Leslie's Zoo Heist 2024.
Exactly. Animals.
I swear that woman was just carrying the gorilla it was so weird it was so weird,
because I move every two to three years and holy that would be helpful.
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Yeah sorry I'm still on they opened the gates and all the animals were gone.
I need to check Leslie's backyard yard i don't know
why you're still surprised when i try and find place around me i'm gonna someday
that something similar will happen like you're gonna see like animals disappear
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from the zoo that's the first call i'm making yes yes next one where's that
five that's probably more than five.
None of these are really good they're after that it must be like kind of confusing
All right. I've got one for you, too, then.
Would you rather do a podcast full of shenanigans or do a podcast about Halloween with no shenanigans?
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With no shenanigans? Yes. That depends on what we're covering. About Halloween.
We've done, I mean, like, what? Favorite Halloween things? No, no, no. What do you mean?
Every episode is about some Halloween-y topic.
Oh. But there are no shenanigans whatsoever.
Oh, I can't. It is only on topic. I'll die. Or would you rather do a podcast
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of nothing but shenanigans?
And no particular topic.
So, hold on. In your scenario, are you saying if any of us chose the Halloween
one with no shenanigans, we would have to remain on topic?
Yes. That is exactly what I'm saying. What's the penalty if we don't?
Because I think all of us might have a problem with that. You're physically
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incapable of not staying on topic.
I know it's not true, but that's the whole point of it. I think we'd just blow up.
I will not live my life free of shenanigans. I won't do it.
That's legit. So you'd rather do a podcast full of nothing but shenanigans?
Of course. I mean, technically we've done a handful of those.
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Episodes, certainly, but I'm talking like the entire run of the podcast.
Nothing but shenanigans.
I mean... It's basically what we do already. It's basically what we do already.
You could say it's more Halloween-themed shenanigans. It is definitely Halloween-themed shenanigans.
So... It's not that much of a far cry.
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Perfect. Perfect. Well, thank you,
John. I think that was a wonderful diversion. Do you need to duck out?
I need to go. All right. Good luck on your fantasy footballing.
That's what you're leaving us for? It's drop season.
That's what you're leaving us for? It's drop season. I don't set the dates or
times. That's what he's leaving us for.
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It happens every last week of August and first week of September.
Really? This is known. I can't postpone it. It's known by you, not known by us.
Not a thing. How many podcasts have I been in the middle of while drafting? So, go draft!
Well, those are slow drafts. These are one to two minute picks. Well, go draft.
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Indeed. Alright, off I go. I'm very disappointed in him.
Yep. Yeah, fair enough. Alright, guys. I'll talk to you later.
Later. Bye. I throw things at you.
Okay. So we've really got just like a couple more ghosts that we want to talk about.
And the first is called the Axeworthy Ghost.
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This is something that I have wanted to build for a while and have just never
gotten around to it because it hasn't been a priority.
But an Axeworthy Ghost actively flies around your property.
And the way you do that is with a couple of big wheels and basically running a.
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Like a fishing line from wheel to wheel to wheel, and then hanging a ghost off
the fishing line, hooking a motor up to one of the wheels to make the motor spin.
And the ghost will run from wheel to wheel to wheel all around the yard.
It is the only way that I know of that to actually make something.
And it can be a ghost. It can be a witch. It can be whatever you want,
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but to actually make something physically move around a large area for fairly, fairly simply.
Fright Props has an entire kit to do an Axe-worthy ghost, and it costs about, I think it's 200 bucks.
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Double check. Yeah. And it starts at 200 bucks, and it goes up from there depending
on if you want extra parts to make it larger, or they have lots of options.
You can certainly make one for a lot cheaper if you can source the parts yourself
and source the motor, source big wheels.
Like what I'm envisioning is
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a bike wheel, take the rubber tire off and you're left with just a wheel.
It's a nice big wheel. It's rigid.
It can hold up to speed and it gives you a nice curve to get the ghost around
without causing like a whole bunch of like, it's not going to get caught on
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things because it's a nice big radius.
There are a ton of tutorials out there just search for axworthy ghost a-x-w-o-r-t-h-y
axworthy ghost and it will find and you'll find a ton of tutorials definitely
check out our show notes and you can see it there as well but i think i want
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to try to build one of these this year,
but i'm not spending 200 from fry props i think i can source the parts myself,
yeah and once again check out our youtube and you'll see how it turned out if it turns out.
I think I'm gonna have to run to the dump and see if I can get get some wheels
and we have to do some dumpster diving,
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Oh no, your favorite thing. How terrible. I know, I know. Who would have thought
that I would go dumpster diving class?
Anybody with half a brain who's listened to us for five minutes. Indeed.
So let's sum up for a sec. We've talked about, so we talked about the axe where the ghost very briefly.
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We talked about the chicken wire ghosts that we're going to try to build this year.
We've talked about digital ghosts that we're going to use all over the place
this year what what are we missing less what other ghosts are there real ghosts
wait no weird yeah we're not doing.
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I'm an adult sort of ish so there's other ghosts that you can do including things
just like hanging a sheet like literally again instead of like a chicken wire
ghost If you want to hang things from the trees, a little styrofoam ball,
wrap fabric over it, tie it at the base, and stick a pin and hang it up.
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So again, there's a lot of different ways that you can do this to make other ghosts.
So hey, you got a lot of trees, you can just cover your trees with ghosts.
Yep. Absolutely. And really, if you need inspiration on ways to do this,
Google is your best friend. YouTube is your best friend.
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Just Google something like DIY Ghost, and you will find all kinds of tutorials
that can help you either give you step-by-step instructions if you're not very handy,
or just give you inspiration that you can then take and run with.
Either way, YouTube, Reddit, Pinterest, all great places to find those sources of information.
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And of course, we have to give a shout out to Hunters Hangout on Facebook or
any of the other Facebook Halloween home haunts, Halloween DIY,
Greater DC Home Haunters, Hunters Hangout, Halloween Yard Haunts and Props,
Haunt Themes, Scenes, and Props.
And there are plenty of others. Those are just the Facebook groups that I'm
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a part of, and they are all full of people showing how they build stuff,
giving ideas, answering questions.
They are just absolutely fantastic groups of people helping others to build cool stuff.
If you're not a member of them and you're on Facebook, go search because you
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will find all kinds of stuff, and I promise it will be worth your time. Yeah, hands down.
There's so much out there. And there's so many people who are doing so many cool things. And,
They just want to show you what they're doing and how they're doing it.
And a lot of stuff is a lot easier to do than you might initially think.
That's exactly what I was about to say.
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I'm just scrolling through my feed right now.
And someone posted, Stephanie Saladino posted to DIY Animated Halloween Props,
a like asylum patient that she's working on.
It's a wood 2x4 frame with a piece of PVC sticking up out of the frame with
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another piece of PVC across the,
to make shoulders and then covered with like canvas pants and a canvas straight
jacket and there's a motor inside to make the torso rock back and forth like
he's you know having a well a fit.
And like it's super simple.
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But if you're not mechanically inclined, you would probably never think of how
you could put this together.
Stephanie is showing us all the mechanism so that anyone could put this together.
Stephanie, if you happen to be listening, thank you. I love that prop and I
can't wait to see the completed version.
But yeah, go check out your local Facebook groups because they are
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absolutely fantastic and there there really
are there's so many resources you know again the chamber of haunters is another
resource that is just fantastic to have available to us and they are available
to you know anybody who has you know needs something needs ideas is, isn't sure where to go.
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Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
So I think that pretty much wraps up what we wanted to accomplish today.
Talking about all the different ways that we plan to build our ghosts for Halloween 2024.
I am super disappointed that our house project is running into my haunt season
and is going to prevent us from haunting quite like we wanted to.
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But as always, we will persevere we will put on a great show even if it's not
the show we intended nobody will know that at the end and hopefully people will
come out and have a good time anyway.
And we'll have fun with it. No matter what happens, we are going to have fun
with it. We will definitely have fun with it.
So go check out our social medias. Instagram at Haunting University.
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Facebook.com slash HauntingU, just the letter U. YouTube at HauntingU,
again, just the letter U.
These are the places where we are going to be posting photos and videos and blogs.
And probably not blogs, honestly, because I don't have time for that.
That but lots of photos and videos as we are working through our builds over the next 61 days,
getting us ready for halloween that is where you
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can find the most of it so go check it out subscribe and
pass this podcast on to all your halloween loving friends so that hopefully
they get something out of it as well less what did we miss i'm thinking more
ways to make ghosts without killing people let's try not to do that i think
it's a good place to wrap up because we are a A little over our hour mark.
(01:01:52):
So by the time I edit, we'll probably be right about the right spot. So wrap us up.
Alrighty. Well, again, 61 days till Halloween.
We've all got this. It's one form or another. If you need ideas or you're not
sure what you want to do or what's out there to do, any of our podcasts and
episodes are absolutely there as resources.
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And whatever resources that we can provide to you through those go ahead and
take advantage of them so from all of us here,
break a leg preferably somebody else's and have an awesome Halloween we'll be
back in what two weeks we'll be back on September 15th with our next episode lucky lucky you guys,
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alright from all of us here at Haunting You happy haunting Everybody.
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