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(00:16):
Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween.
It's come out on Halloween or the day before.
Yes, it's it's coming out on Halloween.
Oh no, the day. The day before the 30.
Or actually the day before. Wait, so are you working on
Halloween night? I am fuck, I know what are.
We going to do with the candy thing.

(00:36):
I'm going to, so I'll just be alone.
I'm going to hand out candy outside orange theory, but
probably not that much. Like I also have to work the
shift. You know, what I could do is
bring my chair down there. That is an idea.
That is an idea. Because I was just going to
bring, I was just going to post up outside.
And then I'm going after that Scary Movie show, OK, OK.

(00:59):
But that's not until I think 9:00 or 8:30.
OK, OK. Well, I mean, I'm just saying if
we wanted to, if I still wanted to hand out candy on Flatbush
Ave., I could post up in front of Orange Theory and hand it
out. Yeah, I don't know the
situation, but I just said we'redefinitely going to have candy.
I mean, I mean, no, I'll, I'll bring my own for, you know, OK,
It's no. Problem.
So it's not a big deal. It doesn't mind.

(01:21):
Look, it's all good. I don't know why I'm not
comfortable. There we go.
Yeah, I could definitely do that.
OK, well we'll we'll circle. Back on that seems like like
being now. Well, only cause today was like
the most stressful day and I, I can't, I can't imagine if while

(01:42):
today was happening like someonewas outside and like handing out
candy who also wanted to like chat with me from time to time.
Which I think that's why it's like this version of me isn't a
good version to ask you. Don't want me loitering?
Let's see. Let's see how like Wednesday
Hannah feels. It's OK.
I look at the end of the day, I always have 321 porch.

(02:04):
Yeah, so and that's where I'll be.
So I either. Way I'm excited for Halloween
over here. Really you are OK.
Yeah, because everyone's, everyone's saying it's like nuts
over here. Like this is like Halloween City
because all the kids are over here.
Oh, oh, this is your first Park Slope Halloween?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's going to be really.
Fun. This this time last year I was

(02:25):
in the worst like place of like,yes, I was like in the middle of
moving out of an apartment wherethey were dropping off like the
eviction notes. We were not even like fully
signed on this place, but we were like moving in five days.
Oh my God, last and Wolf had just got laid off from his job
last year. This this time was not good, not

(02:46):
good. I don't remember what I did last
year for Halloween. We, I thought we did something,
maybe, I don't know. I was a Diet Coke two years ago,
right? No, I think that was last year
and I think I don't know. I don't.
Know Oh my God, we had a show Ohmy God, we had a show.
We did do something I can't. Even imagine us having a show

(03:07):
right now. If there was a show on Friday
like Kill Myself, I really thinkI would be having like a
different like an attitude this week.
I'd be like, sick. Sometimes I'd think about like.
What I just I I took my aura ring off.
You want it back on. For this Oh no, it's actually

(03:27):
it's in it's in the bathroom, soit's fine I thought for a second
it's in the kitchen cabinet. I'm I'm not myself today.
I'm. Not we don't record it this time
either. I.
I'm not. This isn't me.
This you know. The second-half of this episode
is us. This is a spooky, spooky
episode. Yeah, we're different.
We're shells of ourselves. Sleeping, you know, with creepy

(03:48):
sleep and, and, and, you know, it's just I and then work.
It was just a little, it was a little nuts.
And then, and then, you know, we're diving into this and I, I,
you're. The same We're in front of the
lights. We're you.
We're both in the same boat. We're the.
Wolf has sang tonight, so I got to go home and walk Stinky.
OK, Can I tell you it's like really spooky that Yeah.

(04:08):
Yeah, talk to you. You tell me what your spooky is
'cause I feel like I've been taking up a lot of spooky space.
I did. This isn't even like the spooky
of my life is like a different spooky.
The spooky of what I did yesterday is like I was
explaining to someone and they were not getting how mortifying
this is. Yeah.
But I feel like you'll get it. Yeah, I am.

(04:31):
I want to know the people in my building, but I never run into
anyone. Like I've run into like the
people who live upstairs and I've met like the older man who
lives in the building. And one time I've I've met the
dentist, but she's she's just there for work.
Like she's not trying to like, connect with me.
That's the most important, really.
I know because I I need her the most.

(04:52):
She should. Be doing your wisdom.
Teeth. I know I would.
I want to ask her about that, but I don't think she's an oral
surgeon. It's it her part, Her office is
the same layout of my apartment.You know what I mean?
Like, I don't know. But ideally just walking from
one door to the next after you get your wisdom teeth out is
ideal. I do this thing from time to

(05:12):
time in my apartment, though, where when I know Wolf is almost
home, I'll look through the peephole.
And once I see him and the doorsshut, because I have to be safe
about it, I let Stinky out as like, welcome home because
Stinky gets so excited and he gets to be off leash running in
the hall and he jumps on Wolf and it's very cute, right?
Yeah. Yesterday Wolf texted that he's

(05:32):
like grabbing something from Mr.Lime and then coming up, right?
So I'm like, OK, So I wait a couple minutes and I'm like, OK,
he's about to be any second, right?
But I'm not going to let the dogout if it's anyone else opening
the door because then it's like someone's dog is jumping on
someone, right? No, listen to this.
I'm standing in the door lookingthrough the people and someone

(05:54):
walks downstairs from their upstairs apartment.
This woman I've never met before, OK.
And she walks towards my door because you have to walk past my
door. And she looks right at my door
and makes a really weird face and then keeps walking
downstairs. And I'm like rude.
And then wolf comes in. I let out the dog.
And then I say like, well, can you do a favor and like stand in

(06:15):
the peephole for a second and just look at me?
It is not covered at all. It is you can fully see my whole
eye like fully. And you know, it's a big circle.
It's not like the little tiny peephole that you raise it up.
It's like a full thing. And then you have the window
like you move the metal, meaningthat she saw my full eye staring

(06:38):
at her while she was walking down the hallway.
And that's why she made a weird face because she's a woman,
She's a nurse, probably going tothe night shift, living alone.
And it's not even tinted. It's equivalent to if in front
of a mirror, you just stood withyour eye.
And I then when I realized it, Ilike ran outside because I'm
like, I got to find her. I have to explain to her that I
was looking. I didn't realize she could see

(06:58):
me and I was looking for the dog.
I'm not like the creepy peeper, but she was gone.
She was already gone. I couldn't find her.
But I am like, so mortified. Like if that happened in my last
building, the years I was livingalone, I would have been so
unsettled. And they don't know me.
Like, it's not like they could like, give a weird look and I
could be like, Annie, can you see my eye?

(07:21):
You know, like I was just like, and I didn't flinch at all
because I thought, I thought youcouldn't see through a peephole.
I thought that was the magic of the people.
Like I can see who's at the door, but they can't see me.
Someone told me recently they could see my eye in my people
too, but it's much smaller. Mine is so big.
Do you know how scared? How scared would you be if while

(07:43):
you're walking to your apartmentat night, you walk by one door
and there's a full eye looking at you?
My favorite is you running afterher to explain.
Everything because I because I was like, I cannot, I just, I
feel like I just can't. One, she doesn't know me.
She's either thinking two thingslike either she's unsettled and
the neighbor is like staring at her in the hallway heard her

(08:04):
coming down, or she's like there's just like a weird peeper
in the building. And I just wanted to tell her
like I was I was going to let the dog out once I saw my
boyfriend come through. So I was just looking for him.
And the only reason I didn't stop looking when you looked by
is because I didn't think anyonecould see me.
So I was so mortified. And everyone I'm telling it to

(08:26):
does not understand it but like it's so mortifying.
It is really mortifying but but at the end of the day.
It could have been it. Could have been the cleaning
person at your house. You could be, you could you
could take you could take this in a totally different direction
if you. Want like I could tell her a
lie, Yeah. I'm always on the line.

(08:48):
I know I This is why I'm taking you in this route.
But I the the but the. Honest, she has pretty no idea
what you're talking about. Oh, we had a cleaning woman the
other day. Maybe she was looking to see.
Well, but in that scenario she chooses to talk to me.
So far, this woman. Hasn't she hasn't talked?
To you, I haven't met this girl.I don't know her, so I don't
think she's going to talk to me and be like Hannah the other

(09:10):
night at your like we're not on speaking terms yet.
And now I don't know if we're gonna be.
I've done some really, I've had some really embarrassing moments
in this building before I becamefriends with everyone.
I'll and I'll tell them to outside of recording, but like
some of them were actually very,very embarrassing.
Like this, that was, really, andlike the way that I was so
confidently just literally watching her walk down the

(09:31):
stairs and look right at me. I felt nothing because I was
like, she can't see me. Like this is like anonymous.
It feels like very black mirrors.
And I'm looking and it's like you can see the skin like you
can. It's not just like a little hole
like you could see like my wholeeye, like my under eye.
And it's like it's also like scary.
I'm sorry. And this is that for contacts as

(09:52):
well. This is at like 11:30 PM.
Like this is like not 11/30 11:30 PM.
That's such a. Bummer, I know.
And also I'm kind of like rethinking all my time in the
apartment cuz like I, I do this thing of like when Wolf texts me
that he's almost home or something.
Like I like, I think it's cute when it's him and stinky meet in

(10:13):
the hallway and he'll do it for me.
Like when I buzz the apartment door, that's how he knows like I
want Stinky in the hallway and then like he'll let Stinky into
the hallway. Whatever.
Like this is like something we do.
So like, how many times have I been standing in the door with
my eyeball thinking no one can see me?
Yeah. Like what if they know?
What if they're all close and they're like talking about the

(10:34):
peeping? They're probably not, but
they're definitely not. It was really upsetting, really
mortifying. You will build that community.
I she better watch out next timeI see her cuz we're talking.
You guys are gonna have a chat and I do believe that you will
build that community. It's.
Just she can come to the Christmas party.
Yes, yes, she can come. She can come to the Christmas

(10:54):
party. That'll help.
She'll see me in like my naturalsetting.
She'll be like all these people.They trust her.
She must not be a peeper. Your.
Parties always have the most normal crew.
Yes, always just like a character, really relaxed, chill
group she'll. Come in and be like whoa.
These are some really normal. Neutral chill.

(11:14):
People that guy that she met at the gym, he's not wasted.
That's. So great.
So that's that's your spooky NewYorker of the Week.
Yeah. She's.
Spooky. But in good news in New York,
Yeah, today was a really, reallycrazy day for like, no reason.
But it was like, could not catchmy breath Day.

(11:35):
Yeah. And somebody brought us all to
work Chick-fil-A. Like, literally brought us all a
chicken sandwich, fries and sauce.
It's so nice. It's amazing.
Felicia Day. She comes to 610 and she's spot
3 always. And I guess she promised Katie
last week that she would bring Katie Chick-fil-A.
I don't know how Katie got this deal going, but then she forgot

(11:57):
to bring it to Katie, so she wastrying to surprise Katie.
Night. Katie wasn't working tonight.
No problem. Katie came in anyway.
But she didn't. She didn't want to just bring it
for Katie, so she brought it foreverybody.
God I why have I not brought anything?
That I have been telling Nora that we do get a lot of
presents. I know I brought Camille flowers
the other day. Well, that's nice.

(12:18):
We'll we'll share that with her.No.
I it was because of a death in her family.
So and she was telling me about it and I was just, we were
having a moment the other day. And I was just like, she's
really nice, yeah. So I was like, I got to get her
flowers. But now that I but I think about
it and you guys get so many treats and like here I am just
like this hag, like up up the block, who wants to loiter

(12:39):
outside on Halloween and, and doand, you know, always be in
spot. Now I'm kind of all over the
place. I don't know.
If you yeah, I don't think you have a spot anymore.
Spot. Anymore, you know, and it's just
I, I need to pay my dues. I don't think you have to bring
us something. We're never like expecting it,
but it's all. There's a couple people, though,
that are like present bringers, have a competition.

(13:01):
Chick-fil-A is setting the bar pretty high.
What if I brought Shake Shack? Shake Shack, that would be
something. That would be something.
I like Shake Shack, maybe betterthan Chick-fil-A.
I have to do something completely.
You would never. Yeah.
Original. Not fast food at a gym like
that's already taken. Yeah, you got to think
out-of-the-box and maybe think, maybe think like near Hanukkah.

(13:25):
That's what I'm thinking. Thinking like something
out-of-the-box near Hanukkah could be good.
Anyone who can think out-of-the-box near Hanukkah,
you're looking at her. Right now, does Hanukkah start
the same day every year? No, I, I wait, I said.
That was such confidence. I don't.
I actually. Don't.
Know this is just like the. Fireman thing.
I'm gonna get in trouble. Remember, they go around and
they unscrew the fire and then we look it up.

(13:46):
We're like, they don't do that at all.
Oh lordy, lordy, do you? Have a New York moment or you've
been out of the city. My New York moment was going to
Omega and. That's what it was called.
Yeah, I went to that's. Really culty.
I went to a. Retreat in the woods with my mom

(14:08):
and Diana and her mom, and we went to a deep listening music
weekend. That was I it.
It had so many layers. There were lots of layers.
Keep listening. The first night we got there we

(14:29):
all laid on the ground and put and they put us in a room in the
dark and had us put blindfolds on if you wanted, but you didn't
have to, and we listened to noises for three hours.
Like what kind of noises? Like it was, it was like

(14:50):
experimental sounds, but they didn't tell us it was going to.
I thought it was going to be twohours.
It ended up being 3. And we were all like meditating
in the noises. Some people had eye masks on
because he said that the, the less light you had on your eyes,
the more you could really, like,put yourself in the sound, in
the sound. And I didn't, I, I took my knot.

(15:14):
I, I didn't even, yeah, I was fully eyes open the whole time
looking around. So you were not in the sun
there? Was no clock.
There was no, I didn't know whattime it was and it was just
sounds. It was like it was like and like
a like like a different animal sounds and it was and then
sometimes it was singing. It was a mixture.

(15:35):
I actually thought about you a lot in it.
I was like, Hannah would flip her fucking shit in here.
I used to kind of do stuff like that during my South Dakota
days. I'm kind of like, if I'm kind of
like when I'm somewhere, I'm gonna be all in on it, yeah.
But when, if I'm part of the decision of where I'm gonna be
like I'm not gonna. You're not gonna do that.

(15:56):
Yeah, like you don't even know, like in South Dakota, like I
would take like naked moonlight showers.
Yeah, You know what I mean? OK.
While some while like the other people were like playing the
drums OK, like if I'm so maybe. Yeah, I like thought about some.
I kept thinking of everyone. I'm, I'm not, I'm not as anal as
I think people think I am. I just, yeah, when I'm in

(16:17):
control of my stuff, like there's a certain way it's going
to happen. Yeah.
But I think once I'm at places where it's like this is where I
am, like, I'm like, I have to release.
I got to be part of that, yeah. It was.
It's less so anal and more just like because I know you don't
like listening to music. I think I need to rewrite that.

(16:38):
Like, OK, I when my dad died, I stopped listening to music.
Yes. And I'm very sensitive to
certain music. There's certain songs like I
cannot handle, like it just, it gets me too sad.
And I don't want to be sad at certain times.
Yeah. So it's more like, well, most
people could probably hear a sadsong on a walk and be fine.
I can't, but I do listen to music.

(17:00):
OK, but I think some people think that I have never listened
to music or that I don't listen to.
I know you love Lady Gaga. Yeah, but like, that's really
not even like the music I listento.
OK, but you didn't know me when I listened to music, so it makes
sense that you don't know that part of me.
Yeah, but I wanna, I wanna rewrite that.
She loves music. No, it's that's really far back

(17:24):
the other way, But I don't like like if music is like, I can
handle music. You like music.
I just write. When my dad died, I just like
was like, let's just listen to podcasts, like let's just get
some voices going. Yes, but I can handle like
music. OK, I I was just Yeah, I I think
the sounds it was kind of a music vibe, more sound esque.

(17:45):
So there were some patterns, some not pattern it definitely
it invoked a lot of emotion in me for sure.
OK. And I like, there were moments
where I felt like I was on drugsand I was like.
Losing my mind. Yeah, and and then there were
moments where I felt very sober.So it was like it was a very

(18:05):
strange 3 hours. So like and like you guys stayed
together the whole time, like you went to every workshop
together. Yeah, yeah.
So we did. Intense.
Yeah. Family friend?
Yeah. We did.
We did, we. Yeah, we did the Embodiment
workshop too. And then there was the laughter
workshop. I didn't like what you told me
about the laughter workshop. I think I would have been with

(18:26):
you. Like, this is freaking me out.
Yeah. It was.
There were some freaky moments. But you're a good laugher.
I wasn't laughing. OK, but I was thinking about
how, like, I I feel like I don't, like, give up a laugh.
Not not in like a judgy, like I won't give it unless you deserve
it. Why?
But like, I just feel like it's harder to get a big laugh out of

(18:48):
me. But I was like, oh, like, if
Nora's at a show, like you can trust, like, she'll give you
that big laugh. Like, she's like a good audience
laugher. Yeah, Yeah, but not.
But that's why you don't need the workshop.
Yeah, I didn't need it. I you know, and in some ways
maybe I did need it. I don't know.
It was it was really intense, but overall very funny weekend.

(19:09):
I would say the group was hilarious and that's what made
it awesome. Was like being with the moms and
Diana and we were like just likewhat is going on here?
But the but the actual programming was a little.
It was very intense and strange.We should put on weird weekends.
I feel we could get rich. It kind of seems like anyone can

(19:33):
do anything at this place. Cuz like, don't you feel like we
could put on a weekend like this?
You know, we could. We would do.
A lot better, like I feel like. We put we could blindfold
everyone having listened to LadyGaga.
Or like sounds fun. Just listen to our podcast or
just. Listen to our podcast.
We're just like replaying it, getting those.
Views. I get feedback, yeah.

(19:54):
I feel my mom goes to these women retreats like once a
month. I don't know if there's.
Once a month. Yeah, but it's with her Al Anon
group. But I gotta get.
On, but I don't know if it's, I don't think it's like how this
was from what she's told me, butit's kind of like I could we
could have the women's retreat. 1000% like from.
What She tells me what happens there, Like, yeah, I feel like

(20:18):
that we could get that going. No, it's it was.
Yeah, do. You feel like maybe there's
secretly a lot of money in hosting women's retreats.
It's not a secret like it's it'sa big well, OK, so this was
Coed. There are a lot of men.
OK. My mom was like.
I was gonna be Coed. Find you some and I was like,
no, at Omega, yeah. And everyone was like, how old
was everyone in their bare minimum fifties, 60s.

(20:41):
My mom was like, do you think there's anyone?
And I was like, I don't wanna find anyone here you.
Don't wanna meet also a man who's like genuinely at Omega.
You know what I mean? No offense to Omega, but like, I
just feel like you bring a man to a like you convinced a man to
go to that with you. You don't want to meet someone
who's happens to be there on their.

(21:01):
Own Yeah, I'm going to show you a video from it after this.
I liked the videos you were sending me.
Did I send you all of? Them.
Yeah, they seemed actually kind of similar to what my church was
like growing up. It was kind of a church.
It was kind of a mixture betweena church or rehab, a nursing
home and like a. Nursing home part.

(21:22):
Yeah, I'll like, I'll act out how they were dancing.
It was I had an overall, the weekend was really funny.
Yeah. Like we were laughing and that's
all that matters. Like that's the that's the value
of the hilarious. Yeah, it was hilarious, but it
was it also like when I go back to Omega, maybe.
No, it was a little, it was a little spooky.

(21:42):
That seems like something you get your money's worth one time,
you know? Yeah, I don't, I don't even know
if his money's worth. I like I if I had I there's just
like it's a lot of different emotions, OK, You know, there's
a lot of ways to. Discuss that are like good to go
to multiple times like it's a can't miss event and then
there's things that's like you just get the experience that one

(22:05):
time and that carries. You, I'm glad to say, like I've
done, Omega. Was there merge?
Yeah, I wish you got merged. They all had ohm signs on them.
So my mom, my mom pulls out. Actually, this is the funniest
part of it, or one of the funny moments.
My mom comes over to me and it'slike this sweater, so cute.

(22:26):
And like it says Omega New York City, NY on the back and on the
front it just has a big OHM sign.
And I was like, no, mom, we're not gonna buy that.
She's like, what? Why not?
It's so cute. We can get matching.
I was like. No, there's so.
Sorry. There's a giant ohm sign.
She's like, what? What?
What does that mean? I was like, yeah, see, that's
why we can't get it. That's like.

(22:47):
We and like, thank goodness you were there or else I really
would have been like, she would have gotten it.
Yeah, she was like. She was like, and then Diana's
mom came and then they were alsoselling dresses.
They they had a gift shop, they had a gift shop, they had a gift
shop and the gift shop was full of very woo woo clothes and
books and crystals and it was all self help books and and

(23:11):
motivational. Books, I think.
I'm thinking I can guess the dresses.
The dresses. So, So imagine one of those
dresses, Diana's mom comes up toher and she's like, Diana, this
dress, you look amazing in this.And it's like it it was a.
Dress and is it it has no fitting right.
It's one piece of cloth, Yeah, Icould see flowers and.

(23:35):
And then Diana's like mom and she's like, why you would look
amazing in this. And my mom and I start cracking
up. Like it was stuff like that.
There were there were sweaters that said you are enough.
OK, now that you should have brought home, they actually had
a whole day we had matching, youare.
An you are enough. They actually had a whole

(23:56):
section with pets and meditationand stuff and I was like, oh,
maybe we want this first thing for stinky some meditation.
No, I I just didn't. I there were moments where I was
gonna get you a little gift and then I just didn't know if you
would want any of the. Stuff anything from Omega from.
Omega And I was just really thoughtful.
I don't know. I just was like walking around

(24:18):
and being like, what? I don't, I do want this.
I don't know, like like it was very Chico's.
My mom loves Chico's. Your mom would have crashed in
the store. Actually, she would.
The book section she would have crashed in.
It was a lot of like, it was a lot of like, let's get it
together books. She loves those, kind of.
Books and I do too, and I she. She went to a women's retreat

(24:39):
and got me and wolf matching shirts that say you are welcome
here. And that was the vibe.
Yeah, and Wolf wears it all the time, Yeah.
The the the, the most humbling thing were that in the
bookstore, there was a bookstoreportion of the gift shop.
Wait, so they like own this location?
Yeah, it's like a it's like a campsite.

(25:00):
Gotcha. Gotcha.
Deep, deep in the woods. No service.
That I don't like. That that was no service.
I don't like that. They're like only if I find like
doesn't really work. But anyways, the in the
bookshop, I actually had a lot of the books.
I was like, oh, I've I've read that.
I've read that one. Too.

(25:20):
Kind of like the path to Omega. Yeah, and the cafeteria where?
You're you're a doer and that's why it makes sense that you have
like the self help books. Yeah, 'cause you're like I've
we're going to make a change. We're going to make it.
Yeah, I just really hope I, I, Ijust, I don't know, I really
hope things kind of turn for thewinter.

(25:43):
For the winter. We're at time.
We're way past time. What do you mean term for the
winter? I I not not not in the sense of
Omega I. That was such a fun weekend.
I'm just saying life wise, I really don't want to end up as
like a a lady in a crystal shop.Well, you and I really hope this
winter like. Running the we're going to be

(26:05):
like running the workshops. That's and I'm kind of worried
about that. Being in the.
Future I like I I just want to Ijust don't want if I'm married.
I would love that if I if like me and my husband, like you
know, and you and Wolf, I'm sureWolf is on board and definitely
not. OK.
And we could just. We can all run the retreat
together, but I just don't want to be one of these women who

(26:27):
goes to this thing a lot, you know?
Like, OK, just do you. Know what I mean?
I know what you mean and I thinkas long as you don't want to be
that woman you won't be. But I think I think I might
already beat her. But I'm thinking though, this is
what I've been saying about remember how I've been trying to
not be a hater about what peoplelike other people's stuff Cuz

(26:51):
how does it affect me? Totally, totally.
And it's like, what if there's aworld where you lean in and
you're like Omega? So there's a book.
Lean in. Yeah.
I like, I just feel like you love Omega.
No, I I or you wake up one day and you're like, I want to work

(27:11):
for Omega. Like, you know what I mean?
Like don't don't let you get in your own Omega path.
Something. This sounds crazy, but you get
what I'm saying. Yes.
Something was off there, though,OK?
All of the employees were reallyangry and really not friendly.
And it was giving kind of a get out vibe that's scary.

(27:32):
And I was like, so we were all like, what's going on?
Like the guy at the cafe who is managing all the tea and stuff,
we'd go up and he's like, hey, what's up?
Oh, and like, we're like, nothing, like, can we order?
And he's like, if you want, you want to order.
And it was like, this was my, itwas really spooky.

(27:54):
I don't like that I was. I was for some reason godly
knows what reason. Like pro Omega for a moment.
I don't like that everyone was angry there so crazy and spooky.
So crazy. There's there's a dark side of a
really, really funny story for the rest of my life that lives
rent free in my house. The Omega Diaries, The Omega

(28:14):
Diaries. That's a good journal.
Yeah, it was funny book idea that actually could be the name
of if we under if we uncover that there's something really
dark. Was there like a leader?
Like, was there like, this is Mary Allen?
Mary Allen. You know what I mean?
She's she founded Omega. Yeah, kind of, yeah.

(28:34):
There were a lot of there were alot of leaders kind of walking
around. There was a book signing going
on with the guy become a leader who worked there.
Yeah. No, it, it, it definitely there
was some community to be built and community that existed.
I mean, there were leaders of the group of the retreat.
So. Judith, Yeah.

(28:57):
What was the other guy's name? I don't remember.
Anyways. Well, I'm glad you went.
Yeah, I am glad to. And I had a great time with my
mom, and Diana's mom is so funny.
And Diana was being really funny, like.
The moms are always hysterical. The moms crush so and we stayed
in a fun cabin. We stayed in a beautiful cabin
and Diana's mom was like, I toldall my girlfriends, I'm
glamping. She's really funny.

(29:20):
She's so funny. Anyways, she's.
Really. Is she like really similar to
Diana or really different? You know, we were talking about
that all weekend, like how we were similar and not similar
with her moms, and then we realized that I was actually
similar to her mom and she's actually similar to my mom.
Always I feel like that's kind of how it goes with like,
lifelong friends. Yeah, like especially if you

(29:41):
grew. Up on each other's parents.
Like I could, but then also we have similar, like we have the
same mannerisms. It's crazy, hey.
There we go. Anyways, she's coming in just
for the listeners. The the this episode is a little
it's a little wacky it. Is a little.
Wacky and we So we went to the Halloween Dog Parade.

(30:02):
Halloween Costume Dog Parade. With love, our footage is kind
of like you don't, you don't seelike influencer footage like
this. Yeah, it's kind of like mumble
core it actually. Might sound kind of like the
Omega because if you if you're not watching and you're just

(30:24):
listening, it's a lot of. Wait, I would definitely say if
you're listening right now, comethe end of this, if sure,
listen, please don't stop watching the podcast.
But if you can watch it I'm I'm absolutely positive it's a
better visual experience than it's going to be audio.
We have once again decided to interview dogs on a podcast,

(30:47):
thinking it was a genius idea the way that I texted Hannah
being like we got to get. To the costume and I am a little
worried because this event by the time this comes out will be
two weeks ago. Yep.
So I'm I'm not sure but but thisis kind of like never before
seen footage of Nora and I walking around there.

(31:10):
Look, you, you take it and maybewe should have gone with the
first plan that we had, but you know.
We but you know what that plan will pop back up in a couple
weeks yes. And so it's not like you haven't
lost anything. You haven't lost anything.
You've gained. There was a world where we
didn't do this and now we did it.
You're welcome. But yeah, I'm pretty sure
there's a lot of time where, like, I'm talking to a dog, but

(31:33):
you can't see me in the dog or Nora's describing a dog, but I
haven't started filming that dogyet.
Like it's kind of. Really complicated, but.
But I think it'll be fun. And then there's a point where
we're like in the parade and it's way too crowded and we have
to get. Out.
Yeah, it really took a turn. It was.
So busy. It's all about TikTok and I

(31:53):
thought our Tik toks were going to blow up but then they didn't
either. So it's sort of like we did have
one. Blower went viral on our
Instagram. It was it we did, we got, we got
some thank you to our listeners for for joining us.
Sorry, I'm I'm, I don't know where I am.

(32:15):
What do you mean thank you to like, are you like saying
goodbye? No.
No, no, I, no. I'm just saying like, thank you
to our listeners because we're going to have more.
Oh, maybe maybe because you're more the real 2 to the real 2 to
the real. I'm saying you were like
wrapping up. Thank you to our listeners,
thank you to Sean. I was like the people who.

(32:35):
Followed us from the new real are are on and they're like
what's going what's going on youknow?
I like never I the lights never bother me, but tonight I'm like,
what are they doing here? I know I it.
We really went overtime too. We really were just rocking and
rolling. Well, this is fun because back
in the day we used to never do less than an hour like Sex and

(32:57):
the City was an hour. I kind of, I'm, I'm trying to
think as a podcast listener, I do like a longer podcast.
So this is kind of, this is if you're similar to me, this is a
real Halloween treat. Happy Halloween everyone.
Stay the safe, have fun. I'm beating.
I'm being Curtis Leeuwa for Halloween.

(33:18):
I'll show you my outfit. Oh really?
Where are you going on? Halloween I sit on a pub show.
I was. Like where's Curtis headed?
I guess I'm not going to that party anymore, so I guess.
Curtis really not. Curtis is going to be on.

(33:43):
I feel like a lot of people are going to be him.
He's really having his moment right now.
Do you think it's Oh, no, no, like in the in a cool way.
In a cool way. I'm so sorry.
Do you think Runaway Bride is overdone?
No, I was going to do that, likewear a little white dress and
should be the horse and a veil. Well, he's no, he won't be with
me. He hates my these costumes where
he's like the side thing to mine.

(34:05):
Weird because he got that Batmanmask.
Whatever. It's so embarrassing for the
family. Love you guys.
Love you, enjoy. Bye.
All right. We've got Nora heading in.
We have here. We have another.
We're here at the Halloween jog parade and seems to be raining
cats and dogs, I think is the question.
Literally. Wow.
Hi. What did we have here?

(34:29):
It's raining cats and dogs. It's raining cats and dogs.
We're actually with a New Yorkerof the Week for a podcast.
And what's your dog say? His name is Popper.
Hi, Popper. You want to get a little glass?
So Popper has a raincoat on and then Beanie Babies around his
umbrella. Raining cats and dogs, Right?

(34:51):
That's crazy. That's hilarious.
And this is Harry Potter. Is this Harry Potter?
Is this Slytherin? I don't know the different
houses, you know what house is this?
She's Gryffindor. You look great.

(35:14):
So you might be wondering what astrange what a strange podcast
episode where we can't see the dogs.
Well, sounds like what you're going to have to do is log onto
YouTube or. You know, take a.
Look on on Spotify, we now have a beautiful little vampire.
Is this your dog? Oh my God.
And what's her name? That's Ryan.

(35:35):
Ryan. Ryan.
Hi, Ryan. Hi, Ryan.
What is Bryant? He's a little vampire.
Yeah, a little vampire. Amazing.
Amazing. Sorry.
It's pretty. I have to say.

(35:56):
It's crowded. It's pretty.
It's pretty busy. All over here is a little
monkey. We gotta get over here.
Head on over. Nora, can you tell us a little
bit about your dog? This is George.
Ohh, you guys are George CuriousGeorge Monkey.

(36:19):
Ohh, little monkey. And so, so his name, George, you
know, inspired the costume. Banana.
And banana. What's the owner's name?
Yeah. What's your what's your name?
My name's Shawna. And this is Michael.
Michael. And wait, what is Curious
George's owner's name? 00 in the name of the big yellow
hat. The man in the big yellow hat.
All right. Thank you.

(36:39):
Yeah. No, no.
It's good to know. Ball.
It's good to know Ball. OK.
Thank you so much. All right, I've never really
been live at an event or content.
Yeah. And it's kind of intense to be
walking around with my camera like this, you know what I mean?
Like, uh oh, we got Ariel. OK, We have a mermaid.

(37:03):
As you can see, it's packed. To admit it's a little chaotic.
There doesn't seem to be any like structure in the parade.
Like I thought they'd be marching a little bit.
I'm feeling like it's more of a gathering that's a baby that's
not even a dog. So that shouldn't even be here.
Did you notice all the lines foreverything?

(37:23):
What are people doing in New York?
Oh my God, I know all the lines.And I'm like, you don't need
Blank St. What is, what am I doing at a
line for Blank St. And we're back.
We're not interviewing that Yankee dog because we're a Mets
podcast. A Mets house.

(37:44):
Let's see. It's really vulnerable to have a
camera. No, I feel like I'm getting
that. Looks like Harry Potter again.
Another Harry Potter. Oh, he has glasses.
Hello there. Could we see the glasses?
New Yorker of the Week, We're a podcast.
Is this Munchkin Martini? Martini.

(38:07):
Martini has little glasses on. And what is martini exactly?
Pomeranian. Pomeranian.
A Pomeranian? How old is Martini?
Three years old. Three years old.
And you're dressed as like, flat3.
Like, where's Caribou supposed to be?
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh my God. So cute.
So true. What a well behaved dog.

(38:28):
Really. So much.
Thank you. Stinky would not be OK here.
Having a hard time too. I think it's time for the
costume to be off. They're taking things into their
own hands here. All right, all right, So we're
heading down. We're at 4 minutes.
So, you know, we're here live onthe street.
I guess I'll get a little. You can walk in front maybe.

(38:51):
I guess I'm just I'm getting a lot of footage of the street.
Sean is going to have to be editing the sound like crazy.
New York, NY City is a crazy place, am I right?
These kind of things don't happen anywhere else.
This happened anywhere else? I don't think so.
Oh, OK. Oh, is that Minnie Mouse?

(39:19):
Minnie Mouse. Hi.
Minnie Mouse. Who's this?
Rosie. Rosie.
Rosie, Hi. She's wearing a full trophy.
Oh my God. Adorable.
And how old are they, 555? Is this their first time in the
parade? Yes.

(39:40):
Wow. Congratulations.
Love it. Beautiful costume, enjoy the day
OK? OK.
Oh wow, we seem to have. We seem to have a queen.
Look, someone's jealous. Of the Queen.

(40:01):
Look at the Barbie girl in a Barbie world.
The Queen Cinematic or no, we'lljust get tons of.
Shots. This is going to be like an.
Can we meet Barbie? Hi, Barbie Princess.
And does. And can't we tell what's Barbie

(40:24):
princess's name? Princess.
Princess. Hi, Princess.
Oh, OK. Look, you're going to be famous.
Here you are, Princess. Come on.
Hi baby, how old is Princess saywe don't know, but we were.
I was rescued 4 years ago, 04 years since being your Princess

(40:48):
Sean Casey animal rescue. They're the best.
They're amazing. They really take care of the
animals. They make sure that they go to
great homes. Please, if you can't donate,
stop by walk a dog telephone to telephone.
Amazing. So nice to meet you.
Barbie Princess New Yorker of the week podcast.
Definitely look us up. This will be on our Halloween
episode. Bye, Barbie Princess.

(41:09):
Thank you. Let's go, Zora.
All right, All right. Maybe.
Should we should we switch it up?
Should we get a little? I think if we get to 10 minutes
of you OK, mixed with all this street content I'm getting OK.
And then we'll do 10 minutes of me.
And then we'll definitely have like, we'll have like a solid

(41:29):
15. So that one's insanely small.
OK, no, he's just it's. Wrong.
Oh. That's great.
OK. She's picking it up.
She's like, I agree. It's not right.
Oh, my God. Are we should we have a little

(41:50):
cow here? And you guys are all matching
and cow. Amazing.
And what's the cow's name? Maggie.
OK, Awesome. We're with New Yorker of the
Week. We're a podcast.
We're doing a special episode onthe parade.
Maggie. Maggie.
Hi. And how old is Maggie?
She's 10. Well, she's 10.

(42:12):
She looks like a baby. Wow.
And then we have another one popping up.
Hello. And a Princess.
Amazing. Thank you, guys so much.
Thank you. Bye.
All right. OK, I know.
So she's kind of doing her own thing, but it's mostly for the
dogs today. It's like, OK, it seems to be

(42:34):
getting even crazier over here. Oh, it's popping over here.
Show me. Get in there.
Sending in correspondent Nora. And who do we have here?
Oh, my gosh, Who owns these dogs?
I don't know. Amazing.
Hi. Hi guys.

(42:55):
And what are these guys names? Lola.
Lola. They're so well behaved.
They're amazing. And how old are they?
8 and 98 and 90. Cute.
And they're Mexican. Mexican.

(43:17):
Oh my God. And it's just fuck nice,
amazing. Now we're getting the full
picture. We're getting the full thing.
Honestly, this is these are the best ones.
You. Win.
You win. Should we take a picture?
Maybe two. Yeah, for sure.
OK, I'm gonna keep. Amazing.
And now my cell is out. She's Christino.
OK. Got it.

(43:39):
Amazing. Great job.
Do you want me to do pick? Oh yeah, here you go.
My phone is scary without. The case and she's I would say,
let's get to this corner and then we'll here we go.
We have a little hot dog. Oh my God, Oh my God, hot dog,
hot dog New Yorkers the week we're a podcast special.

(44:02):
Hi, the parade here. And so who?
Who do we have here? Little Tika.
Little Tika. And Tika stressed as a hot dog,
it appears. You look fantastic.
You look amazing. Oh my gosh, look at this.
She's so well. Behaved.
She's doing a great job. My dog could not handle this

(44:23):
event. This is great.
Great job. Great shirt.
Thank you so much. This shirt seems to be the best
dog at the parade. I had a feeling it's Hannah take
over now. Yep, earlier was Nora, now we're
heading in. It seems to be much busier over
here, which I'm gonna guess is the parade.
Or maybe a star costume do. We have a oh.

(44:44):
Wow, we have a bumblebee here. Oh, and who is this little here?
Hi. Hi, Nana.
This is Nora. We're from New York.
Oh, she just licked the mic. She looks amazing.

(45:05):
Wow, such a little. Bill.
Hi. OK, a lot going on here.
I Hannah, I'm are you overwhelmed?
Because I am actually felt better.
Yeah, no, it's it's getting a little.
I think we're seeing as we approach this, we're actually,
yeah, we're getting. I think we got to get in there

(45:25):
because. Oh, yes.
Oh, wait, hold on. Wow, this is amazing.
Who do we have here? Oh my gosh.
Wow. Hi Baxter.
His first time in the parade or.No, this is his third.

(45:46):
Year Oh my God Oh my God you guys know what you're doing
fantastic wow what I can do is hold this for the person while
you talk and. Let's see.

(46:07):
We don't want to. We did I get.
Yeah, No, we got to get in. We got to get in the game.
I think that this is the biggestevent in New York City, minus
the protest yesterday. I think this Oh, no.
OK. Because of people posting
online, Yeah, there's only. One people.

(46:30):
Here, do they know we're pressedin the Valley of the Beast?
Yeah, we really are. OK, again, you again.
You might be wondering, why would this make a good podcast
episode? Well, let me tell you why.

(46:51):
Because this is the event of NewYork City right now.
Hannah, how many people do you think are here right now?
Easily a million. Easily a million.
You heard it right here first. All right, all right, so I'm
looking at a banana. Oh, I'm looking at a banana down
here and fried chicken up top. Oh, a minute of a classic combo.

(47:16):
That one's great. Yeah, there's a real.
There's an actually great. So I think these are all the I
think we got a really, I don't, I don't know, because I think
more jobs are just wandering forinterview.
OK, so maybe if you want to holdit up and if there's anything

(47:42):
happening, you guys should be able to see it.
Right now we can't see overall people.
So but we have right now, oh, wehave a minion here.
Can we film your job? Oh, my gosh.
You guys are the minions. Yeah.
Their names. This is Venus and Theodore.
Oh, my gosh. They're so cute.

(48:03):
Is this your first time in the parade?
Oh, yes. And this is.
You're so well behaved. Thank you.
Oh, my goodness. Are they all related?
Oh, my God. And their jackets are
personalized? Yes.

(48:23):
Oh, my God. Wow.
Wow. Is this your first time at the
parade? Did you already ask Saturday?
OK, Sorry. So sorry.
All right. All right.
Hannah's really on the case here.
And. You know, oh, we got a hello.

(48:46):
Oh my God, we have Jurassic Parkhere.
Hello. We're with New Yorker of the
Week. We're a podcast special.
What are your dogs name? Oh wow, this is last year.

(49:11):
You're just here. This is great.
And you can hear they they have the Jurassic Park theme song on
the background. Wow, that's amazing.
Beautiful blue. Wow.
Have fun, You guys have fun. All right, how many minutes are

(49:36):
we're at 5 and 12 seconds. Maybe we interview like what?
Maybe one or two more and then we switched.
We're the need of switching to social media.
OK, yeah, because we are. I'm gonna.
I would put down money but we'llget more views on one video of a
dog in costumes then maybe on. The like.

(49:56):
Tour de dogs that we're on, it'sa crazy it's a crazy event, but
I will say say it. It's a community builder.
I would say it's a community builder.
Always animals are always animals are you heard it right
here first. Always animals are animals are
if there's something kind of magical about when you have a

(50:17):
job, you want to show off and then there's an event where
people want to see your dog and Hannah.
It's a beautiful day out. Do I have to say it?
I would say yes, maybe 10 people, though.
OK, yeah, that's where the numbers are.
Would you say that it's maybe the perfect day for a dog

(50:38):
parade? Because I would.
Absolutely. It's it's the weather is
beautiful. There's always something magical
on a beautiful day. You know, Totally, totally can
remind you why you moved. Here.
Hannah, I couldn't have said it better myself.
I'm looking for one more shelf stopper.
OK, let's see. Look at.

(50:58):
Oh, look at this diva over here.Look, she's attracting a crown.
She's literally a star. Hello.
What do we have here? Lucy?
And Lucy's a little Angel. Is that?
Is that kind of what's going on here?
That's absolutely. Wow.

(51:20):
She just sits in her outfit. Wow, this is amazing.
They're demanding. Oh, wow.
Charlie's Angel. Oh, wow.
She's new to the world's eleven months and she's already had a
dog breed. I know.
I had a couple of doctors here. Oh, my God.
Thank you so much for letting usinterview her.

(51:45):
Thank you. Oh, she does.
Let's see NYC. Let's see with an R.
Just the NYC. We're New Yorker of the Week.
We'll follow you. You'll call us.
It's camera shot. She's a little camera shot.
I got something in my eye. Hi.
All right. That that was a show stopper.

(52:12):
Oh, Hannah, Hannah, let's go over here.
Hi. Can we videotape your dog for
New Yorker of the Week? What do we have here?
Oh, look at we. Oh my God, look at this.
Wow. Bigsby, AKA Mr. Bigs.

(52:32):
Oh my God you 2 look fantastic dogs for Mondani.
You heard it here first. Dog's got the whole this is the
best dog here. Yeah.
Thank you very much. We need to get you up front.
Yeah. You guys look fantastic.
So much. Do you usually, do you come here
a lot? Do you come to the event every
year? I I didn't come.

(52:52):
From because I kept missing it. I'm always thinking it's the
weekend right before. That's not I'm not missing it
again. And how long have you been in
New York for? I have been.
In New York since 1990. Three.
Hell yeah. They would have to carry me out.
I will say you guys are The New Yorker of the Week.
I would say 100 percent, 100% love it.

(53:13):
We'll accept that. Bye.
And that's how you close out. And that's Anna.
That was my favorite dog. That was really good.
The second I saw it, I was like,yeah, get over here.
Here comes the pumpkin. Here comes the vampire.
I don't really care because of who we just met.
Mr. Bixby. Mr. Bixby.
So I guess that's a wrap on our little walkthrough.

(53:38):
The I guess this this little bit, that's a dog.
It up in Mexican. I think it just has a rainbow.
I'm so sorry. It's OK.
It's OK, Sean. Cut it out.
Honestly, Sean, leave it in. All right, that's it on our
Halloween dog episode. We hope you guys enjoyed.
You definitely should come next year.
And, you know, here, let's hear it from Mr. Bigsby.

(54:01):
And let's hear it from me and Nora in this crowd.
Yeah, we're gonna do a lot of social.
I think we're gonna focus on social now.
I think it's gonna be a lot easier.
Yeah, that's gonna be a lot. This was kind of a crazy idea.
I think we nailed it. Yeah.
I think you did a great job. I think you did a really good
job. Yeah.
All right, all right. Security, security alert.

(54:24):
Uh oh. All right.
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Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com

Are You A Charlotte?

Are You A Charlotte?

In 1997, actress Kristin Davis’ life was forever changed when she took on the role of Charlotte York in Sex and the City. As we watched Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte navigate relationships in NYC, the show helped push once unacceptable conversation topics out of the shadows and altered the narrative around women and sex. We all saw ourselves in them as they searched for fulfillment in life, sex and friendships. Now, Kristin Davis wants to connect with you, the fans, and share untold stories and all the behind the scenes. Together, with Kristin and special guests, what will begin with Sex and the City will evolve into talks about themes that are still so relevant today. "Are you a Charlotte?" is much more than just rewatching this beloved show, it brings the past and the present together as we talk with heart, humor and of course some optimism.

Stuff You Should Know

Stuff You Should Know

If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

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