Could an asteroid slam into Earth by 2032, and are we prepared for such a cosmic event? Get the latest updates on the asteroid 2024 YR4 and its alarming trajectory. Meanwhile, we uncover the chilling human trafficking operation in Georgia, where Thai women were subjected to illegal egg harvesting. Amidst these serious topics, we can't ignore the curious whispers surrounding Jay-Z and Beyoncé's alleged surrogate farm and Google's eyebrow-raising move to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Plus, meet my lively 80-year-old barber client with a newfound appreciation for Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl performance, and who needs the lowdown on his beef with Drake.
What hidden messages lie beneath Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show? We dissect the performance, exploring its rich symbolism and cultural commentary. From Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal to costumes charged with political undertones, every element begs to be unraveled. Opinions on the show are split, yet its cultural footprint is undeniable. We reflect on its impact, drawing comparisons to halftime shows of the past and pondering its place in the annals of pop culture.
Get ready for a whirlwind of strange and sensational stories. Discover how the looming retail apocalypse might reshape the shopping landscape, with major stores bracing for closure. Dive into Jaguar Wright's intriguing tales about the music industry and the buzz around a vampire coven in Dayton, Ohio. We also venture into mysterious murders, eerie cemetery practices, and the unsettling case of the Idaho college killings. Join us as we unravel these enigmatic tales and invite you to share your thoughts and stories with us.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everyone, welcome back.
It is your host, melissa atStrange During to be on Insane,
alright, so I have some tea tospill again, like always.
I want to, you know, informeverybody on the crazy news,
like I love doing, alright?
So, first and foremost, this iscrazy, scary but exciting.
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So the big talk about anasteroid right now, right?
So the chances of an asteroidstriking Earth within the next
decade has doubled in a matterof weeks, according to NASA
astrometers, which is crazy,because we were just talking on
Carissa's episode not too longago about how the doomsday clock
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has sped up too.
I mean pretty crazy, right?
So the asteroid discovered justafter Christmas and named 2024
YR4 could strike the planet inDecember 2032 as it approaches
during another journey aroundits orbit, according to NASA's
Center for Near-Earth ObjectStudies.
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So this is real crazy news andit's not really talked about
enough?
I don't think so.
A horrific human traffickingoperation has been exposed after
three Thai women escaped ahuman egg farm in Georgia, where
they were held captive,forcibly injected with hormones
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and had their eggs extracted forblack market IVF sales.
The victims, lured through fakesurrogate job offers on
Facebook, were promised $400,000to $600,000 to carry children
for childless couples.
However, upon arrival, theywere imprisoned with up to a
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hundred other women andsubjected to sorry, you guys, I
had a glitch there.
So, as I was saying, they weresubjected to non-consensual
medical procedures.
One survivor recounted.
They took us to a house wherethere were 60 to 70 Thai women.
There were no surrogacycontracts or parents.
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Women were injected withhormones, drugged up and their
eggs extracted by machines everymonth.
Many of the victims received nopayment and those who tried to
leave were forced to pay aransom to buy their freedom.
Holy fuck.
The Pavina Foundation forChildren and Women, working with
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Interpol and Thai authorities,rescued three women on January
30th After another victim boughther freedom and contacted Thai
activist Pavina Hung Sakala.
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However, it remains unclear howmany women are still imprisoned
on the illegal farm.
The foundation reports that 257Thai women fell victim to human
trafficking in 2024, with 204taken abroad.
A live-streamed press conferenceshowed the survivors wearing
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masks and protective clothing toconceal their identities,
describing their ordeal Like howdoes this shit like not make
like mainstream news?
Like I'm sorry, I am so gladthey brought TikTok back and we
knew it wasn't gonna be banned.
Um, but you see this shit onfucking TikTok and then you look
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it up on like, you actuallyhave to cross check your facts
and it always turns out to betrue.
However, the whole Jay-Z andBeyonce owning a surrogate farm
I haven't really been able toback that up, but people are
talking about it and Idefinitely would not.
It would not shock me at all.
I'm just going to say that.
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But, um, yeah, that's insane.
However, I will say this and iffucking Facebook says you're
going to get paid $400,000 to$600,000, it's a Facebook job
like an ad.
Never jump on it.
I don't care if it's Facebook,ig, twitter X, youtube.
I don't care who's selling youthat.
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It's too good to be true, right?
Twitter X, youtube.
I don't care who's selling youthat.
It's too good to be true, right?
Yeah, so anyways, all right.
So this is.
I mean, I don't fucking care,but I know people are like so
either really excited about itor they're mad about it, which I
don't know why you could be madabout it, but Google has
officially changed the name toGulf of Mexico to the Gulf of
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America.
It is true, if you look it upon your maps, it does show Gulf
of America.
Hey, I don't think it's aterrible thing.
Like I said.
I know a lot of people are nothappy about it, but you know who
gives a shit.
All right, you guys.
So before I get into the um,the halftime show for the
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Superbowl, I'm going to keepthis as light and eerie as I can
, because I could seriously talkcircles about this shit.
Um.
So I want to add, before I getinto the, kendrick Lamar and
Drake feud and how this halftimeshow broke down with, you know,
kendrick's performance.
I do want to add again, youguys, I work at a barbershop, so
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mostly men and kids and weactually do have quite a bit of
women clients too.
But anyways, I cut.
It was Thursday.
This like 80-year-old man, verygood-looking man, very
intelligent, still with it verymuch, you would never know he
was 80.
He goes honey.
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You know I was watching thehalftime show Cause we were
talking about the Superbowl, andhe goes that Kendrick guy, or
no, he said that Kendrick fellow.
You know I, I really enjoyedhis performance and I don't know
why anybody bitched about it.
Know I, I really enjoyed hisperformance and I don't know why
anybody bitched about it.
I was super entertained and Iwas like you, sir, are the best,
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like I honestly love you.
This is great he's like buthoney, can you explain to me you
know he goes what you, you knowwhat you kids, you know?
He referred me as a kid, eventhough I'm 36, what this beef is
between him and this Drakefellow.
And I said, sir, I'm gettingready to do a little podcast
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episode, cause I have talkedabout this before on here, but I
broke it down to him verylightly so I'm going to break it
down to you guys.
Um, and I know most of you guysknow, but I just kind of like
want to put in some like keydetails, all right.
So, okay, if you guys don'tknow, there is a really good
documentary.
It's called Kendrick versusDrake the feud, and I watched it
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on Hulu the other night.
Actually, my husband was, hekept, you know, we have a real
fireplace still and he was likeadding wood into the fireplace,
you know, coming in and out ofthe back room, and he was like
watching it.
And he was like adding woodinto the fireplace, you know,
coming in and out of the backroom, and he was like watching
it.
And he he was like, wow, it'sreally interesting.
And there's actually a lot offacts about Kendrick that I
didn't know Like I didn't knowthat like he watched one of his
neighbors be murdered and itlike he had stuttering issues.
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He's he's actually married tohis high school sweetheart.
They have kids.
Um, I never like kind of likelike new details like that about
him, but it is a really cooldocumentary.
Um, highly recommend it if youguys have Hulu, all right.
So let's get into the beef.
So the beef between KendrickLamar and Drake has been
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building since at least 2013 soover 10 years when Lamar made
subliminal comments about Drakeand his song Control.
The feud has continued withsongs like Push Ups, taylor Made
, freestyle, euphoria and 616 inLA, all right.
So in 2013, lamar madesubliminal comments about Drake
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and his song.
In 2015, lamar said that Drakehad ghostwriters writing his
raps I'm sorry.
In 2023, J Cole said that Drake, lamar and he were the big
three of rap music.
But Lamar responded but it wasjust big me Now, right there
with J Cole.
Like I don't remember the JCole, but I thought it was Big
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Sean, drake and Lamar.
So I'm kind of still liketrying to remember back.
And then, in 2025, drake filed adefamation suit against
Universal Music Group overLamar's song Not Like Us, and we
all know the song, not Like Us,and I don't think he was
supposed to perform it at thehalftime show and he did anyways
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, which kudos to him, because hedon't give a fuck about being
sued, and to me that's a realperson, right, nothing to hide.
And then there's some otherdetails, like Lamar has called
Drake a rap colonizer who stealsblack culture slang and accents
.
We all know that Drake is alight skinned brother, right,
he's mixed is a light-skinnedbrother.
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Right, he's mixed was onDegrassi.
So you know, to me he has madea career for himself and I do
like some of Drake's songs, butI will still see that boy from
Degrassi that's soft.
Like I don't know how he cameout to be this like fucking
gangster hood rapper.
There's a lot of them that Idon't understand.
Lamar has also claimed thatDrake is a pedophile and runs a
sex trafficking operation.
Drake has said that he couldhave taken Lamar's fans if he
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hadn't gone pop um, so those arejust like a few details, but,
like I said, you could talkcircles with people and there's
just so much more information.
All right, so let's decipher theKendrick Lamar halftime show.
All right, so it wasessentially a 13-minute art
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piece filled with hiddenmessages that people were
excited to learn about, right,and then they started to do a
deep dive into these rabbitholes.
Okay, all right.
So Samuel L Jackson as UncleSam and Uncle Tom.
So Samuel L Jackson, whointroduced Kendrick while
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dressed like Uncle Sam, and theperformance who kept telling
Lamar how to act in order toplay the game.
He played a literal governmentfigurehead there to try to stop
Kendrick from spreading hismessages, warning Kendrick about
being too loud, too reckless,too ghetto.
This is a major hallmark ofclassic Uncle Tom in literature.
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In fact, it's reminiscent ofthe character Stephen, another
role in which Jackson famouslydepicts an Uncle Tom character.
I'm just kind of trying to dobrief things.
The Revolution's about to betelevised.
So, right at the top, lamarconfronted America and told them
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it didn't matter what theythought of him or his
performance.
He was there to telephize theRevolution, saying the
Revolution's about to betelevised.
You picked the right time, butthe wrong guy, which I thought
was really clever.
That line was in reference toGil Scott Heron's 1971 poem the
revolution will not be televised, which is about how individuals
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are responsible for the changethey want to see in the world,
because the media will alwaysignore racism.
However, what Lamar seems to besaying here is that the
revolution is happening rightnow on the Super Bowl halftime
stage and it's being televised.
So I do want to add, I wasn'teven going to.
Usually we have Super Bowlparties every year.
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Nobody was really excited aboutthe Super Bowl because it
seemed like a repeat.
However, I have never watched agame on 4K, right.
So my husband was in thebasement hanging out watching it
and I happened to put it onupstairs quite a little bit of
time before the halftime show on4K and I was like really
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impressed.
I was like, holy shit, likethis looks really cool on 4k.
And I was like really impressed.
I was like, holy shit, likethis looks really cool.
Um, as soon as Kendrick came on,as much as I, I do like him.
I don't like I'm not likeobsessed with his music.
I do like a lot of his songsand obviously I love SZA.
Um, I do, really I like SZAmore than Kendrick.
I will say that as soon as hecame on and I started seeing all
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these hidden messages and likeI felt really weird and I got,
like this instant, really sharpheadache and I just did not feel
good at all, like I had madedinner.
I made us like some really goodum, like subs with with really
good, you know, like, uh, it waslike Romanian oh my God, not
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prosciutto, it was somethingelse like that Um, but like
really good meat.
You know, boris head of coursewent all out and I made some
like really good, like cheesefries, and I literally just
could not eat.
I lost my appetite because Iwas like, oh shit, I personally
felt like something was going togo down at that Super Bowl.
I'm just going to say thatwatching this.
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So, anyways, it was a littleuneasy.
I'm glad he did it, but thereare like so many messages, so
all the game, like.
So there were so many littlecallbacks to games and rules.
First of all, lamar wasperforming at one of the biggest
games of the year.
Second, the stages on which heperformed were shaped and
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arranged like buttons on aPlayStation controller and at
the end of the performance,kendrick ended with the words
game over.
What does this all mean withthe words game over?
What does this all mean?
Well, if you ask Shelly Rogers,a halftime show's art director
who worked alongside Lamar tocreate his vision for the entire
performance, rogers told Wired.
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I think the video game theme wassymbolic his way to reach young
people.
A lot of it is showing hisjourney, traveling through the
American dream.
All right, so the American flag?
Lamar's all-black dancers worered, white and blue costumes to
form an American flag with asplit down the middle.
To me, this was about theabsolute division-ness going on
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in America right now, withpolitical lines being drawn, and
that's kind of like where Istarted to really feel
uncomfortable, knowing thatTrump was there.
I don't know, it just felt Idon't want to say it felt wrong,
it just felt uncomfortable.
But this person saying I knowpeople are arguing that it's
about how America was built onthe back of slavery, which I
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think is also an accuratereading, especially after he
wrapped 40 acres and mule thisis bigger than the music.
After he wrapped 40 acres andmule this is bigger than the
music A reference to UnionGeneral William T Sherman's
special field order number 15that gave newly freed slaves
Confederate land in the South.
All right, so the costuming.
What about Kendrick Lamar'soutfit?
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Well, he was in a jacket thatread Gloria, which is reference
to his song with SZA.
He also sported a chainfeaturing a lowercase a, which
could not only be a reference tothe A minor line from Not Like
Us, but also to his company, pgLang.
Another idea I read about inlight was from Newsbreak, which
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said that the outfits of thedancers signified gangs in
America.
We saw red as the bloods andblue as the crypts and white as
the KKK.
All right, so the duets Lamarperformed, luther and all the
stars with SZA, which marked ahuge shift in tone from
energetic and in-your-face tosubdued and sexy, and it's
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exactly what Uncle Sam saysAmerica wants from him something
nice and calm.
It's funny because the opinionis quite split on Lamar's
halftime show.
Some say it was boring, whileothers say it was one of the
greatest of all times.
I wouldn't say it was thegreatest.
I wish that there was otherartists there too.
I think the greatest was Dreand Eminem.
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That's my personal opinion, ofcourse.
With Mary J, I think it wasreally good.
Do I think it was necessary?
I don't know.
I just find it funny that ourPresident Trump was there.
I just find it funny that ourPresident Trump was there, but I
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loved him smiling and, you know, saying hi, drake.
All right, so the circle stageit's an interesting visual
message All the lights was howthe circular stage was built A
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staircase that led to a slopethat brought the dancers all the
way back, of how they startedfrom the bottom.
So this person's saying it'sbuilt like that for a reason.
Maybe it's trying tocommunicate how marginalized
groups, or even just themajority of the middle and low
class in America, feel likethey're working hard to make
their lives better, all thewhile slowly descending back to
where they started, from which Ifeel that Round and round they
go the same efforts with thesame results.
And then, of course, you know,here we have it the Drake beef.
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The part of the performance wasno doubt going to be the most
popular, since it centered onhis beef.
With Drake and the most famoussong of the year they Not Like
Us.
Lamar teases the intro of thesong by saying I want to perform
their favorite song, but youknow they love to sue In
reference to Drake's lawsuitagainst Universal Music Group
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for promoting they Not Like Us.
I got so excited.
I mixed up my words because Ilaugh about this.
Oh, this is great.
So none of us really like,because I was messaging Kristen,
aka Kiki, that's been on hereand she said the same thing.
She's like I didn't evenfucking know that was Serena
until they like broke it down.
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But also Serena Williams made acameo, not only from Compton
like him, that's where she'sfrom but she also used she used
to date Drake, so it was justlike another layer of this and I
just thought that was hilarious, but probably one of the most
badass things that Lamar did.
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Fans were wondering if he wouldcall out Drake as hard as he did
in the song and while some ofthe language had to be toned
down for the performance, lamarlooked right into the camera,
smiled and said that line heyDrake, I hear you like I'm young
, like damn, like burn.
Like damn, like burn.
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So, um, I did enjoy thehalftime show.
I think there were so manymessages, um, subliminal
messages.
I think people are going totake them the way that they want
and there's going to be allthese.
I haven't.
I've seen like a lot ofdifferent videos on social media
, people saying what theythought, or you know the POVs
and everything.
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I think it was really cool whathe did.
I definitely 1000% respect himfor doing it.
Again, it made me feeluncomfortable and I can't
control feeling uncomfortable,right, you know, but you guys
will have to let me know if youfelt uncomfortable too, all
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right, so, on TikTok, kiki and Ilike to send all these videos
to each other because we alwayshave stuff to talk about, right.
And she, she kind of introducedme to Jaguar Wright.
I don't remember her.
Um, she was a singer,songwriter.
Um, her full name is, I think,like Jacqueline yeah, jacqueline
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Suzette Wright.
She's an American singer andsongwriter.
She has released five studioalbums and is part of the okay
player collective.
Um, she's obviously been aroundfor years and she has, like
always has this hot tea to spill.
I mean, she like she reallydigs in and gets into rabbit
holes and talks like the PeteDiddy.
You know all the freak offparties and everybody that was
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there.
All the dirt on all thesepeople Like she seems to have a
lot of dirt and a lot ofintuitive thoughts.
Um, so, again, you guys, thisis a legend, but supposedly
Jaguar Wright says that KendrickLamar is the next to be
sacrificed.
I certainly hope that's nottrue.
Um, so, yeah, so that is thetalk about.
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You know this Kendrick andDrake stuff.
So, unfortunately, they aresaying that there are a lot of
major store closings in Februaryof 2025.
I know Big Lots right by myhouse is closing.
If you guys are in the SterlingHeights area in Michigan, they
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have some, you know.
I mean some of the shit thereis not it's like picked over,
but I got like a lot of likebathroom rugs and stuff, um for
our main bath.
So if you're interested and Iknow a lot of the big lots are
closing, all right.
So starting with so, JoanneFabrics is closing over 500
stores this year.
Jcpenney closing a handful ofstores this year.
Kohl's is closing dozens ofstores this year, which is sad.
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Well, you know what?
I would have been sad aboutthis, like years ago, but Kohl's
isn't as good as it used to be.
I used to be able to go andlike bank for buck at Kohl's for
myself and my husband, okay.
So GameStop is closing hundredsof stores stores this year,
which is insane.
Because by a beauty supply placeby my house that I go shop at,
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um, I went to go next door toGameStop.
This was like a month and ahalf ago.
I knew I'm like where's game?
I'm like am I confused?
Am I stupid?
Um, where's GameStop?
I'm like am I confused?
Am I stupid?
Where's GameStop?
So when I went back in there Iasked them I'm like, hey, what
about GameStop?
They're like girl.
Like one night, like when wewere getting ready to close,
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they all went in there like aslew of people and just fucking
closed down the store and tookeverything out.
And I'm like, oh my God.
And I said, well, did they movelike locations, like up the
road or something?
And they were like, I don'tknow, I think it's just gone.
So to me that's crazy.
Advanced auto parts is closing700 plus stores in the next few
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months, which is also crazy.
Party city is closing 738stories I'm sorry, stores this
month.
Big Lots is closing 601 storesthis year.
So Party City is going to begone.
Big Lots Walgreens is closingmore than 500 stores more than
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500 stores.
Um, let's see, macy's isclosing 66 stores in the next
few months, which I feel likeMacy's has been dying out for a
long time now, if we're beinghonest, which is sad because I
used to get all my dresses fromMacy's.
Um, 7-eleven is closinghundreds of locations this year,
excuse me, which I find insane,because I mean 7-Eleven is
closing hundreds of locationsthis year, which I find insane
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because I mean 7-Elevens arealways busy, from what I see, at
least in Michigan, familyDollar is closing 300 plus more
stores this year, 15,000 totalstores expected to close in 2025
.
Get ready so that, uh, I meanWalgreens, I mean there's so
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many like Walgreens, cvs, andthat's stuff that you can get at
your other general big stores.
So, corporate America, you knowthe bigger stores are going to
take over and the smaller onesare not going to succeed,
unfortunately, and I think we'regoing to see a lot of this in
the next upcoming years.
Okay, so I have talked on thisshow a couple times about this
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supposed vampire coven in DaytonOhio and it's coming up again.
Right, it's like filling mediaagain.
So there was a show, like adocumentary, that was supposed
to be aired on Netflix.
It was all done, ready to go,had all this hype on it, and
then they just fucking canceledit and like nothing was talked
about and people were likepissed.
They're like we want to seethis documentary.
Well, there are plenty ofvideos on TikTok.
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You can even look it up, youcan cross check your facts.
Supposedly there is a hugevampire coven still active in
Dayton Ohio.
Um, more than New Orleans, Iguess.
Like bigger than that, likepeople are always saying like,
oh, I'm safe if I'm in theMidwest, but sink again and get
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out your garlic cloves becausesupposedly there are vampires
lurking and we are not far fromDayton Ohio, so that is equally
scary.
Um, I big into paranormal, biginto the UFO, ets, vampires.
I don't have any experience,nor do I want any experience,
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knowing that my ancestors arefrom Romania.
Um, and I always joke, that'swhy I got pointy canines.
I mean, maybe I'm a vampire,just kidding, I don't drink
blood, I don't eat people orwhatever.
Maybe that's cannibalism, butit's anyways.
The point of this is is thatthis whole vampire coven thing
in Dayton Ohio is circling again, so it's making headlines, so
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maybe we will see thatdocumentary sooner than we
thought.
Like I said, they completelywiped it out.
They had all this hype about itand it goes back to a story, I
think in the 1980s, late 80s,and I do have that on here Again
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on the podcast.
This guy was playing this gameand got obsessed with this
character that was a vampire andhe, like, basically possessed
himself that he was this vampireand he went around and did some
violent crimes.
But there is a vampire coven inDayton Ohio, so if you're
anywhere around that area.
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Be careful.
All right, some fun, wicked,twisted facts about what causes
someone to become a serialkiller.
Serial killers are made througha combination of genetics,
brain abnormalities and lifeexperiences.
The serial killer brain Manyserial killers have dysfunction
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in the prefrontal cortex, thepart of the brain that controls
impulses and decision making.
The amygdala, which processesemotions like fear and empathy,
is often smaller or less activein serial killers.
Childhood trauma and abuse,neglect, physical abuse and
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extreme childhood trauma arecommon in serial killers'
backgrounds.
This warps their emotionaldevelopment, making them
detached from others.
Pain.
Many serial killers showedthese behaviors in childhood
animal cruelty, torturing orkilling animals, which I grew up
(27:30):
with a psychopath in theneighborhood.
So I gotta you know I always gotto add my little touch here.
Um, so I gotta you know Ialways gotta add my little touch
here.
Um, I'm you know I'm gonna saythis because no one would know
who this is.
His name was Tommy and mypretty much my aunt and my uncle
.
Um, that I looked at like anaunt and uncle.
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They used to watch me sometimes.
Um, that lived about fourstreets down the way in the
neighborhood from my parents'house.
Anyways, um, tommy's parentswere alcoholics.
His dad used to beat the shitout of his mom all the time.
Um, everyone knew Cops wereover there all the time.
His dad always got arrested,always came back home.
This boy was so demented heliterally used to make shadow
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boxes of squirrels that hekilled and would like, almost
like, make them look like theywere alive and like.
He would make plays in theseboxes and it was fucking
frightening because we were soyoung.
Um, so I do believe wherever heis in the world I don't believe
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that he lives there anymore,because I still live in this
neighborhood.
We just live on the other sideI could totally see him being a
serial killer.
He was a psychopath when he wasyounger and he could not feel
pain Like he's lit himself onfire.
He would like fall on his bikeso bad it would look like he
broke his neck and he would justget back up and start riding
Like it was incrediblyterrifying.
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So, yes, kids that hurt animalsand make things suffer.
Yeah, I could totally see thatBedwetting past a normal age
linked to extreme stress ortrauma, fire setting a sign of a
deep anger and lack of impulsecontrol, genetics and
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Psychopathy.
Some serial killers are believedto inherit traits like a lack
of empathy and impulsiveness.
Not all psychopaths becomekillers, but many serial killers
show psychopathic traits.
Even if someone has all ofthese factors, a final
triggering event like rejection,humiliation or extreme stress
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can push them into killing.
Not all serial killers are thesame, but most share brain
dysfunction, trauma and acomplete lack of empathy Crazy.
So yeah, if you've everexperienced anyone around you
with these traits, I wouldprobably stay the fuck away.
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So here's a really uplifting,more fun fact Landlords can no
longer ban pets, and that's alegal update which I think is
amazing.
Then that's a legal updatewhich I think is amazing.
That's great, all right.
So dumbest law in each stateKentucky, every citizen is
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required to take a shower atleast once a year.
Louisiana, it's illegal to sendsomeone a surprise pizza, which
I could kind of see that thatcould be threatening because
there's a lot of weirdos outthere.
So I kind of agree with that.
In Maine, it's illegal to keepChristmas decorations up after
January 14th.
Also, it is illegal here inSterling Heights, michigan,
(30:49):
because we got a violation forthat and my husband had to fight
it, which we thought was stupid.
So we have obviously like atwo-story house and he couldn't
get up to the second story,because it was icy and snowy and
, yeah, we got flagged for thatone year, like when we first
moved in.
Okay, so Maryland, fortunetelling is illegal.
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So excuse me, with my tarotreading, I would have been
locked up several times.
Excuse me, with my tarotreading, I would have been
locked up several times.
Massachusetts it's illegal toscare a pigeon, sorry.
Michigan it's illegal to tie analligator to a fire hydrant.
Minnesota it's illegal to havea contest where people try to
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catch a greased pig Super weird.
Mississippi it's illegal toswear in public if two or more
people are present.
Missouri it's illegal to drivewith an uncaged bear in your car
.
Montana it's illegal to give arat as a gift.
Nebraska it's illegal to getmarried if you have an STD.
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Nevada it's illegal to ride acamel on the highway.
New Hampshire you cannot tapyour feet or nod your head to
music in a restaurant.
What?
I would have been arrestedalready.
New Jersey it's illegal to weara bulletproof vest while
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committing a crime.
New Mexico Idiots cannot vote,hmm.
New York it's illegal to take aselfie with a tiger.
So one fun fact I want to add.
This is in a state, but I justlearned this.
I had to take one of the girl'sclients the other night.
She wasn't in and he's gettingready to go on a cruise with his
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family.
I don't, I forget DominicanRepublic.
There's somewhere that they'regoing.
They're like going to likethree main places and in some of
the other countries or whatever, when you get off it.
So it's legal on the boat towear what you want, like within
reason.
You can wear camo, whateverwhen you step foot off that boat
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.
It is illegal to wear camo insome of these places as soon as
you get off that boat, becauseonly military can wear camo, any
form of camo, and if seen withcamo on off the boat you could
be arrested immediately.
He said that they like sentthem these you know emails and
it basically says make sure youread before you, you know, hop
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up, hop on board.
So I thought that was prettycrazy, because I know a lot of
people that have went on cruisesand I've never heard that, so
just wanted to share that withyou guys.
So I was just telling Bridget, agirl that I work with today,
how stupid this is.
I'm sorry, but this wasliterally on Valentine's Day
yesterday.
This woman has both of herhands bitten off by a shark
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while trying to take a selfiewith it.
Like, how fucking stupid canyou be?
I'm sorry, but that was sostupid, for all my hands made
tail lovers.
Um, the show has teased anofficial season six that's
coming out.
I do have a lot of catching upto do on this show.
(34:10):
It is a very, very awesome,awesome, awesome thing to watch,
very intense, all right.
So I have spoken quite a fewtimes about a lady on TikTok
named Lottie Lux, and I reallylike a lot of her content
because it's different.
So she has this fact that sheshared with everyone and it says
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Realizing that growing up in adysfunctional family has made
you so cortisol coated that youattract people who bring you
dysfunction, and it's becauseyou have an energetic imprint
from the part I'm sorry, fromthat part of your life.
So I found that very, veryinteresting.
Okay, you guys, so that theIdaho college murders that
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happened November 13th in 2022,that has never sat right with me
and we've all been followingthis and I've been saying over
and over like someone, it had tohave been.
Like an inside job in the house, whatever.
Like you don't just one personfucking attack and knife people
to death Like two guys, was itlike three girls or something
(35:17):
whatever.
I think one of them survived,but I've it's been fishy for a
long time.
Okay, so now they're sayingthat in the Idaho four case, the
other roommate was textingwhile the murders were going on.
So I knew something was was offabout the story since it get
(35:39):
right and it kind of just likeit's still lingering but it like
kind of like died too, likethey completely bulldozed that
house down.
It was just so eerie.
Um, but now they're saying thatBrian Koberger may walk free.
So very interesting and uh, youknow, if you guys kind of like
(36:00):
forgot the details, um, even thedetails going down to the date
and the time and the address ofthat house when it first
happened, I remember likesending people a bunch of stuff
about this and we were all likeit just doesn't add up.
Very, very, very eerie.
Okay, and last but not least, Iknow Carissa and I have talked,
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I know, multiple times on hereabout this because she's always
found it interesting.
The question always is have youever seen a cemetery run out of
room or have you?
Have you ever seen a newcemetery being built?
No, and that's because bodieson top of bodies on top of
bodies.
And, um, I actually just senther this video the other night
(36:44):
and she replied back with youonly rent your burial site.
And it's so crazy.
And I said I remember yousaying this, um, the same stuff
in this video and talking aboutit on the podcast.
And it's crazy to me how peoplespend all this fucking money.
But it and I guess in a way itmakes sense, because eventually
the family line like eyes offright and then by that time
(37:08):
there's no family to come visityou and the bloodline is pretty
much gone, if you will.
So, yeah, just think about that.
It's bodies on top of bodies,on top of bodies and carcasses
and pretty much like cat, if youwill.
So, yeah, just think about that.
It's bodies on top of bodies,on top of bodies and carcasses
and pretty much like catacombs.
So or they dig up the body, whoknows what they do with the
bones.
But yeah, it's just, she askedme that years ago.
(37:29):
She was like have you ever seena cemetery run out of room A?
Or have you ever seen acemetery run out of room A?
Or have you ever seen acemetery being built?
And when you ask yourself thatquestion.
It's pretty eerie, right?
So you know just some fun stuffto put out there.
But all right, you guys, I umagain.
You know you can get ahold of usat ghost sisters 21, 24, at
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Gmail.
You know, we want to hear fromyou guys, we want to hear your
stories.
Or, if you want us to tell yourstories on here, you can find
us on Twitter, youtube, facebook, tiktok Again, the email.
You can also go on toBuzzsprout site and basically
text message us.
There is a link to message usand we will get it right away.
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All right, you guys, thanks forlistening.
Tune in for some more.
Hey everyone, welcome back.
It is your host, melissa atStrange During to be on Insane,
alright, so I have some tea tospill again, like always.
I want to, you know, informeverybody on the crazy news,
like I love doing, alright?
So, first and foremost, this iscrazy, scary but exciting.
(00:22):
So the big talk about anasteroid right now, right?
So the chances of an asteroidstriking Earth within the next
decade has doubled in a matterof weeks, according to NASA
astrometers, which is crazy,because we were just talking on
Carissa's episode not too longago about how the doomsday clock
(00:46):
has sped up too.
I mean pretty crazy, right?
So the asteroid discovered justafter Christmas and named 2024
YR4 could strike the planet inDecember 2032 as it approaches
during another journey aroundits orbit, according to NASA's
Center for Near-Earth ObjectStudies.
(01:07):
So this is real crazy news andit's not really talked about
enough?
I don't think so.
A horrific human traffickingoperation has been exposed after
three Thai women escaped ahuman egg farm in Georgia, where
they were held captive,forcibly injected with hormones
(01:27):
and had their eggs extracted forblack market IVF sales.
The victims, lured through fakesurrogate job offers on
Facebook, were promised $400,000to $600,000 to carry children
for childless couples.
However, upon arrival, theywere imprisoned with up to a
(01:49):
hundred other women andsubjected to sorry, you guys, I
had a glitch there.
So, as I was saying, they weresubjected to non-consensual
medical procedures.
One survivor recounted.
They took us to a house wherethere were 60 to 70 Thai women.
There were no surrogacycontracts or parents.
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Women were injected withhormones, drugged up and their
eggs extracted by machines everymonth.
Many of the victims received nopayment and those who tried to
leave were forced to pay aransom to buy their freedom.
Holy fuck.
The Pavina Foundation forChildren and Women, working with
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Interpol and Thai authorities,rescued three women on January
30th After another victim boughther freedom and contacted Thai
activist Pavina Hung Sakala.
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However, it remains unclear howmany women are still imprisoned
on the illegal farm.
The foundation reports that 257Thai women fell victim to human
trafficking in 2024, with 204taken abroad.
A live-streamed press conferenceshowed the survivors wearing
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masks and protective clothing toconceal their identities,
describing their ordeal Like howdoes this shit like not make
like mainstream news?
Like I'm sorry, I am so gladthey brought TikTok back and we
knew it wasn't gonna be banned.
Um, but you see this shit onfucking TikTok and then you look
(03:43):
it up on like, you actuallyhave to cross check your facts
and it always turns out to betrue.
However, the whole Jay-Z andBeyonce owning a surrogate farm
I haven't really been able toback that up, but people are
talking about it and Idefinitely would not.
It would not shock me at all.
I'm just going to say that.
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But, um, yeah, that's insane.
However, I will say this and iffucking Facebook says you're
going to get paid $400,000 to$600,000, it's a Facebook job
like an ad.
Never jump on it.
I don't care if it's Facebook,ig, twitter X, youtube.
I don't care who's selling youthat.
(04:23):
It's too good to be true, right?
Twitter X, youtube.
I don't care who's selling youthat.
It's too good to be true, right?
Yeah, so anyways, all right.
So this is.
I mean, I don't fucking care,but I know people are like so
either really excited about itor they're mad about it, which I
don't know why you could be madabout it, but Google has
officially changed the name toGulf of Mexico to the Gulf of
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America.
It is true, if you look it upon your maps, it does show Gulf
of America.
Hey, I don't think it's aterrible thing.
Like I said.
I know a lot of people are nothappy about it, but you know who
gives a shit.
All right, you guys.
So before I get into the um,the halftime show for the
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Superbowl, I'm going to keepthis as light and eerie as I can
, because I could seriously talkcircles about this shit.
Um.
So I want to add, before I getinto the, kendrick Lamar and
Drake feud and how this halftimeshow broke down with, you know,
kendrick's performance.
I do want to add again, youguys, I work at a barbershop, so
(05:29):
mostly men and kids and weactually do have quite a bit of
women clients too.
But anyways, I cut.
It was Thursday.
This like 80-year-old man, verygood-looking man, very
intelligent, still with it verymuch, you would never know he
was 80.
He goes honey.
(05:49):
You know I was watching thehalftime show Cause we were
talking about the Superbowl, andhe goes that Kendrick guy, or
no, he said that Kendrick fellow.
You know I, I really enjoyedhis performance and I don't know
why anybody bitched about it.
Know I, I really enjoyed hisperformance and I don't know why
anybody bitched about it.
I was super entertained and Iwas like you, sir, are the best,
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like I honestly love you.
This is great he's like buthoney, can you explain to me you
know he goes what you, you knowwhat you kids, you know?
He referred me as a kid, eventhough I'm 36, what this beef is
between him and this Drakefellow.
And I said, sir, I'm gettingready to do a little podcast
(06:30):
episode, cause I have talkedabout this before on here, but I
broke it down to him verylightly so I'm going to break it
down to you guys.
Um, and I know most of you guysknow, but I just kind of like
want to put in some like keydetails, all right.
So, okay, if you guys don'tknow, there is a really good
documentary.
It's called Kendrick versusDrake the feud, and I watched it
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on Hulu the other night.
Actually, my husband was, hekept, you know, we have a real
fireplace still and he was likeadding wood into the fireplace,
you know, coming in and out ofthe back room, and he was like
watching it.
And he was like adding woodinto the fireplace, you know,
coming in and out of the backroom, and he was like watching
it.
And he he was like, wow, it'sreally interesting.
And there's actually a lot offacts about Kendrick that I
didn't know Like I didn't knowthat like he watched one of his
neighbors be murdered and itlike he had stuttering issues.
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He's he's actually married tohis high school sweetheart.
They have kids.
Um, I never like kind of likelike new details like that about
him, but it is a really cooldocumentary.
Um, highly recommend it if youguys have Hulu, all right.
So let's get into the beef.
So the beef between KendrickLamar and Drake has been
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building since at least 2013 soover 10 years when Lamar made
subliminal comments about Drakeand his song Control.
The feud has continued withsongs like Push Ups, taylor Made
, freestyle, euphoria and 616 inLA, all right.
So in 2013, lamar madesubliminal comments about Drake
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and his song.
In 2015, lamar said that Drakehad ghostwriters writing his
raps I'm sorry.
In 2023, J Cole said that Drake, lamar and he were the big
three of rap music.
But Lamar responded but it wasjust big me Now, right there
with J Cole.
Like I don't remember the JCole, but I thought it was Big
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Sean, drake and Lamar.
So I'm kind of still liketrying to remember back.
And then, in 2025, drake filed adefamation suit against
Universal Music Group overLamar's song Not Like Us, and we
all know the song, not Like Us,and I don't think he was
supposed to perform it at thehalftime show and he did anyways
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, which kudos to him, because hedon't give a fuck about being
sued, and to me that's a realperson, right, nothing to hide.
And then there's some otherdetails, like Lamar has called
Drake a rap colonizer who stealsblack culture slang and accents
.
We all know that Drake is alight skinned brother, right,
he's mixed is a light-skinnedbrother.
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Right, he's mixed was onDegrassi.
So you know, to me he has madea career for himself and I do
like some of Drake's songs, butI will still see that boy from
Degrassi that's soft.
Like I don't know how he cameout to be this like fucking
gangster hood rapper.
There's a lot of them that Idon't understand.
Lamar has also claimed thatDrake is a pedophile and runs a
sex trafficking operation.
Drake has said that he couldhave taken Lamar's fans if he
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hadn't gone pop um, so those arejust like a few details, but,
like I said, you could talkcircles with people and there's
just so much more information.
All right, so let's decipher theKendrick Lamar halftime show.
All right, so it wasessentially a 13-minute art
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piece filled with hiddenmessages that people were
excited to learn about, right,and then they started to do a
deep dive into these rabbitholes.
Okay, all right.
So Samuel L Jackson as UncleSam and Uncle Tom.
So Samuel L Jackson, whointroduced Kendrick while
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dressed like Uncle Sam, and theperformance who kept telling
Lamar how to act in order toplay the game.
He played a literal governmentfigurehead there to try to stop
Kendrick from spreading hismessages, warning Kendrick about
being too loud, too reckless,too ghetto.
This is a major hallmark ofclassic Uncle Tom in literature.
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In fact, it's reminiscent ofthe character Stephen, another
role in which Jackson famouslydepicts an Uncle Tom character.
I'm just kind of trying to dobrief things.
The Revolution's about to betelevised.
So, right at the top, lamarconfronted America and told them
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it didn't matter what theythought of him or his
performance.
He was there to telephize theRevolution, saying the
Revolution's about to betelevised.
You picked the right time, butthe wrong guy, which I thought
was really clever.
That line was in reference toGil Scott Heron's 1971 poem the
revolution will not be televised, which is about how individuals
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are responsible for the changethey want to see in the world,
because the media will alwaysignore racism.
However, what Lamar seems to besaying here is that the
revolution is happening rightnow on the Super Bowl halftime
stage and it's being televised.
So I do want to add, I wasn'teven going to.
Usually we have Super Bowlparties every year.
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Nobody was really excited aboutthe Super Bowl because it
seemed like a repeat.
However, I have never watched agame on 4K, right.
So my husband was in thebasement hanging out watching it
and I happened to put it onupstairs quite a little bit of
time before the halftime show on4K and I was like really
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impressed.
I was like, holy shit, likethis looks really cool on 4k.
And I was like really impressed.
I was like, holy shit, likethis looks really cool.
Um, as soon as Kendrick came on,as much as I, I do like him.
I don't like I'm not likeobsessed with his music.
I do like a lot of his songsand obviously I love SZA.
Um, I do, really I like SZAmore than Kendrick.
I will say that as soon as hecame on and I started seeing all
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these hidden messages and likeI felt really weird and I got,
like this instant, really sharpheadache and I just did not feel
good at all, like I had madedinner.
I made us like some really goodum, like subs with with really
good, you know, like, uh, it waslike Romanian oh my God, not
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prosciutto, it was somethingelse like that Um, but like
really good meat.
You know, boris head of coursewent all out and I made some
like really good, like cheesefries, and I literally just
could not eat.
I lost my appetite because Iwas like, oh shit, I personally
felt like something was going togo down at that Super Bowl.
I'm just going to say thatwatching this.
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So, anyways, it was a littleuneasy.
I'm glad he did it, but thereare like so many messages, so
all the game, like.
So there were so many littlecallbacks to games and rules.
First of all, lamar wasperforming at one of the biggest
games of the year.
Second, the stages on which heperformed were shaped and
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arranged like buttons on aPlayStation controller and at
the end of the performance,kendrick ended with the words
game over.
What does this all mean withthe words game over?
What does this all mean?
Well, if you ask Shelly Rogers,a halftime show's art director
who worked alongside Lamar tocreate his vision for the entire
performance, rogers told Wired.
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I think the video game theme wassymbolic his way to reach young
people.
A lot of it is showing hisjourney, traveling through the
American dream.
All right, so the American flag?
Lamar's all-black dancers worered, white and blue costumes to
form an American flag with asplit down the middle.
To me, this was about theabsolute division-ness going on
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in America right now, withpolitical lines being drawn, and
that's kind of like where Istarted to really feel
uncomfortable, knowing thatTrump was there.
I don't know, it just felt Idon't want to say it felt wrong,
it just felt uncomfortable.
But this person saying I knowpeople are arguing that it's
about how America was built onthe back of slavery, which I
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think is also an accuratereading, especially after he
wrapped 40 acres and mule thisis bigger than the music.
After he wrapped 40 acres andmule this is bigger than the
music A reference to UnionGeneral William T Sherman's
special field order number 15that gave newly freed slaves
Confederate land in the South.
All right, so the costuming.
What about Kendrick Lamar'soutfit?
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Well, he was in a jacket thatread Gloria, which is reference
to his song with SZA.
He also sported a chainfeaturing a lowercase a, which
could not only be a reference tothe A minor line from Not Like
Us, but also to his company, pgLang.
Another idea I read about inlight was from Newsbreak, which
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said that the outfits of thedancers signified gangs in
America.
We saw red as the bloods andblue as the crypts and white as
the KKK.
All right, so the duets Lamarperformed, luther and all the
stars with SZA, which marked ahuge shift in tone from
energetic and in-your-face tosubdued and sexy, and it's
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exactly what Uncle Sam saysAmerica wants from him something
nice and calm.
It's funny because the opinionis quite split on Lamar's
halftime show.
Some say it was boring, whileothers say it was one of the
greatest of all times.
I wouldn't say it was thegreatest.
I wish that there was otherartists there too.
I think the greatest was Dreand Eminem.
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That's my personal opinion, ofcourse.
With Mary J, I think it wasreally good.
Do I think it was necessary?
I don't know.
I just find it funny that ourPresident Trump was there.
I just find it funny that ourPresident Trump was there, but I
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loved him smiling and, you know, saying hi, drake.
All right, so the circle stageit's an interesting visual
message All the lights was howthe circular stage was built A
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staircase that led to a slopethat brought the dancers all the
way back, of how they startedfrom the bottom.
So this person's saying it'sbuilt like that for a reason.
Maybe it's trying tocommunicate how marginalized
groups, or even just themajority of the middle and low
class in America, feel likethey're working hard to make
their lives better, all thewhile slowly descending back to
where they started, from which Ifeel that Round and round they
go the same efforts with thesame results.
And then, of course, you know,here we have it the Drake beef.
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The part of the performance wasno doubt going to be the most
popular, since it centered onhis beef.
With Drake and the most famoussong of the year they Not Like
Us.
Lamar teases the intro of thesong by saying I want to perform
their favorite song, but youknow they love to sue In
reference to Drake's lawsuitagainst Universal Music Group
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for promoting they Not Like Us.
I got so excited.
I mixed up my words because Ilaugh about this.
Oh, this is great.
So none of us really like,because I was messaging Kristen,
aka Kiki, that's been on hereand she said the same thing.
She's like I didn't evenfucking know that was Serena
until they like broke it down.
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But also Serena Williams made acameo, not only from Compton
like him, that's where she'sfrom but she also used she used
to date Drake, so it was justlike another layer of this and I
just thought that was hilarious, but probably one of the most
badass things that Lamar did.
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Fans were wondering if he wouldcall out Drake as hard as he did
in the song and while some ofthe language had to be toned
down for the performance, lamarlooked right into the camera,
smiled and said that line heyDrake, I hear you like I'm young
, like damn, like burn.
Like damn, like burn.
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So, um, I did enjoy thehalftime show.
I think there were so manymessages, um, subliminal
messages.
I think people are going totake them the way that they want
and there's going to be allthese.
I haven't.
I've seen like a lot ofdifferent videos on social media
, people saying what theythought, or you know the POVs
and everything.
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I think it was really cool whathe did.
I definitely 1000% respect himfor doing it.
Again, it made me feeluncomfortable and I can't
control feeling uncomfortable,right, you know, but you guys
will have to let me know if youfelt uncomfortable too, all
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right, so, on TikTok, kiki and Ilike to send all these videos
to each other because we alwayshave stuff to talk about, right.
And she, she kind of introducedme to Jaguar Wright.
I don't remember her.
Um, she was a singer,songwriter.
Um, her full name is, I think,like Jacqueline yeah, jacqueline
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Suzette Wright.
She's an American singer andsongwriter.
She has released five studioalbums and is part of the okay
player collective.
Um, she's obviously been aroundfor years and she has, like
always has this hot tea to spill.
I mean, she like she reallydigs in and gets into rabbit
holes and talks like the PeteDiddy.
You know all the freak offparties and everybody that was
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there.
All the dirt on all thesepeople Like she seems to have a
lot of dirt and a lot ofintuitive thoughts.
Um, so, again, you guys, thisis a legend, but supposedly
Jaguar Wright says that KendrickLamar is the next to be
sacrificed.
I certainly hope that's nottrue.
Um, so, yeah, so that is thetalk about.
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You know this Kendrick andDrake stuff.
So, unfortunately, they aresaying that there are a lot of
major store closings in Februaryof 2025.
I know Big Lots right by myhouse is closing.
If you guys are in the SterlingHeights area in Michigan, they
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have some, you know.
I mean some of the shit thereis not it's like picked over,
but I got like a lot of likebathroom rugs and stuff, um for
our main bath.
So if you're interested and Iknow a lot of the big lots are
closing, all right.
So starting with so, JoanneFabrics is closing over 500
stores this year.
Jcpenney closing a handful ofstores this year.
Kohl's is closing dozens ofstores this year, which is sad.
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Well, you know what?
I would have been sad aboutthis, like years ago, but Kohl's
isn't as good as it used to be.
I used to be able to go andlike bank for buck at Kohl's for
myself and my husband, okay.
So GameStop is closing hundredsof stores stores this year,
which is insane.
Because by a beauty supply placeby my house that I go shop at,
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um, I went to go next door toGameStop.
This was like a month and ahalf ago.
I knew I'm like where's game?
I'm like am I confused?
Am I stupid?
Um, where's GameStop?
I'm like am I confused?
Am I stupid?
Where's GameStop?
So when I went back in there Iasked them I'm like, hey, what
about GameStop?
They're like girl.
Like one night, like when wewere getting ready to close,
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they all went in there like aslew of people and just fucking
closed down the store and tookeverything out.
And I'm like, oh my God.
And I said, well, did they movelike locations, like up the
road or something?
And they were like, I don'tknow, I think it's just gone.
So to me that's crazy.
Advanced auto parts is closing700 plus stores in the next few
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months, which is also crazy.
Party city is closing 738stories I'm sorry, stores this
month.
Big Lots is closing 601 storesthis year.
So Party City is going to begone.
Big Lots Walgreens is closingmore than 500 stores more than
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500 stores.
Um, let's see, macy's isclosing 66 stores in the next
few months, which I feel likeMacy's has been dying out for a
long time now, if we're beinghonest, which is sad because I
used to get all my dresses fromMacy's.
Um, 7-eleven is closinghundreds of locations this year,
excuse me, which I find insane,because I mean 7-Eleven is
closing hundreds of locationsthis year, which I find insane
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because I mean 7-Elevens arealways busy, from what I see, at
least in Michigan, familyDollar is closing 300 plus more
stores this year, 15,000 totalstores expected to close in 2025
.
Get ready so that, uh, I meanWalgreens, I mean there's so
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many like Walgreens, cvs, andthat's stuff that you can get at
your other general big stores.
So, corporate America, you knowthe bigger stores are going to
take over and the smaller onesare not going to succeed,
unfortunately, and I think we'regoing to see a lot of this in
the next upcoming years.
Okay, so I have talked on thisshow a couple times about this
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supposed vampire coven in DaytonOhio and it's coming up again.
Right, it's like filling mediaagain.
So there was a show, like adocumentary, that was supposed
to be aired on Netflix.
It was all done, ready to go,had all this hype on it, and
then they just fucking canceledit and like nothing was talked
about and people were likepissed.
They're like we want to seethis documentary.
Well, there are plenty ofvideos on TikTok.
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You can even look it up, youcan cross check your facts.
Supposedly there is a hugevampire coven still active in
Dayton Ohio.
Um, more than New Orleans, Iguess.
Like bigger than that, likepeople are always saying like,
oh, I'm safe if I'm in theMidwest, but sink again and get
(24:56):
out your garlic cloves becausesupposedly there are vampires
lurking and we are not far fromDayton Ohio, so that is equally
scary.
Um, I big into paranormal, biginto the UFO, ets, vampires.
I don't have any experience,nor do I want any experience,
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knowing that my ancestors arefrom Romania.
Um, and I always joke, that'swhy I got pointy canines.
I mean, maybe I'm a vampire,just kidding, I don't drink
blood, I don't eat people orwhatever.
Maybe that's cannibalism, butit's anyways.
The point of this is is thatthis whole vampire coven thing
in Dayton Ohio is circling again, so it's making headlines, so
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maybe we will see thatdocumentary sooner than we
thought.
Like I said, they completelywiped it out.
They had all this hype about itand it goes back to a story, I
think in the 1980s, late 80s,and I do have that on here Again
(26:02):
on the podcast.
This guy was playing this gameand got obsessed with this
character that was a vampire andhe, like, basically possessed
himself that he was this vampireand he went around and did some
violent crimes.
But there is a vampire coven inDayton Ohio, so if you're
anywhere around that area.
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Be careful.
All right, some fun, wicked,twisted facts about what causes
someone to become a serialkiller.
Serial killers are made througha combination of genetics,
brain abnormalities and lifeexperiences.
The serial killer brain Manyserial killers have dysfunction
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in the prefrontal cortex, thepart of the brain that controls
impulses and decision making.
The amygdala, which processesemotions like fear and empathy,
is often smaller or less activein serial killers.
Childhood trauma and abuse,neglect, physical abuse and
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extreme childhood trauma arecommon in serial killers'
backgrounds.
This warps their emotionaldevelopment, making them
detached from others.
Pain.
Many serial killers showedthese behaviors in childhood
animal cruelty, torturing orkilling animals, which I grew up
(27:30):
with a psychopath in theneighborhood.
So I gotta you know I always gotto add my little touch here.
Um, so I gotta you know Ialways gotta add my little touch
here.
Um, I'm you know I'm gonna saythis because no one would know
who this is.
His name was Tommy and mypretty much my aunt and my uncle
.
Um, that I looked at like anaunt and uncle.
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They used to watch me sometimes.
Um, that lived about fourstreets down the way in the
neighborhood from my parents'house.
Anyways, um, tommy's parentswere alcoholics.
His dad used to beat the shitout of his mom all the time.
Um, everyone knew Cops wereover there all the time.
His dad always got arrested,always came back home.
This boy was so demented heliterally used to make shadow
(28:15):
boxes of squirrels that hekilled and would like, almost
like, make them look like theywere alive and like.
He would make plays in theseboxes and it was fucking
frightening because we were soyoung.
Um, so I do believe wherever heis in the world I don't believe
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that he lives there anymore,because I still live in this
neighborhood.
We just live on the other sideI could totally see him being a
serial killer.
He was a psychopath when he wasyounger and he could not feel
pain Like he's lit himself onfire.
He would like fall on his bikeso bad it would look like he
broke his neck and he would justget back up and start riding
Like it was incrediblyterrifying.
(28:59):
So, yes, kids that hurt animalsand make things suffer.
Yeah, I could totally see thatBedwetting past a normal age
linked to extreme stress ortrauma, fire setting a sign of a
deep anger and lack of impulsecontrol, genetics and
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Psychopathy.
Some serial killers are believedto inherit traits like a lack
of empathy and impulsiveness.
Not all psychopaths becomekillers, but many serial killers
show psychopathic traits.
Even if someone has all ofthese factors, a final
triggering event like rejection,humiliation or extreme stress
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can push them into killing.
Not all serial killers are thesame, but most share brain
dysfunction, trauma and acomplete lack of empathy Crazy.
So yeah, if you've everexperienced anyone around you
with these traits, I wouldprobably stay the fuck away.
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So here's a really uplifting,more fun fact Landlords can no
longer ban pets, and that's alegal update which I think is
amazing.
Then that's a legal updatewhich I think is amazing.
That's great, all right.
So dumbest law in each stateKentucky, every citizen is
(30:27):
required to take a shower atleast once a year.
Louisiana, it's illegal to sendsomeone a surprise pizza, which
I could kind of see that thatcould be threatening because
there's a lot of weirdos outthere.
So I kind of agree with that.
In Maine, it's illegal to keepChristmas decorations up after
January 14th.
Also, it is illegal here inSterling Heights, michigan,
(30:49):
because we got a violation forthat and my husband had to fight
it, which we thought was stupid.
So we have obviously like atwo-story house and he couldn't
get up to the second story,because it was icy and snowy and
, yeah, we got flagged for thatone year, like when we first
moved in.
Okay, so Maryland, fortunetelling is illegal.
(31:11):
So excuse me, with my tarotreading, I would have been
locked up several times.
Excuse me, with my tarotreading, I would have been
locked up several times.
Massachusetts it's illegal toscare a pigeon, sorry.
Michigan it's illegal to tie analligator to a fire hydrant.
Minnesota it's illegal to havea contest where people try to
(31:33):
catch a greased pig Super weird.
Mississippi it's illegal toswear in public if two or more
people are present.
Missouri it's illegal to drivewith an uncaged bear in your car
.
Montana it's illegal to give arat as a gift.
Nebraska it's illegal to getmarried if you have an STD.
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Nevada it's illegal to ride acamel on the highway.
New Hampshire you cannot tapyour feet or nod your head to
music in a restaurant.
What?
I would have been arrestedalready.
New Jersey it's illegal to weara bulletproof vest while
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committing a crime.
New Mexico Idiots cannot vote,hmm.
New York it's illegal to take aselfie with a tiger.
So one fun fact I want to add.
This is in a state, but I justlearned this.
I had to take one of the girl'sclients the other night.
She wasn't in and he's gettingready to go on a cruise with his
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family.
I don't, I forget DominicanRepublic.
There's somewhere that they'regoing.
They're like going to likethree main places and in some of
the other countries or whatever, when you get off it.
So it's legal on the boat towear what you want, like within
reason.
You can wear camo, whateverwhen you step foot off that boat
(33:04):
.
It is illegal to wear camo insome of these places as soon as
you get off that boat, becauseonly military can wear camo, any
form of camo, and if seen withcamo on off the boat you could
be arrested immediately.
He said that they like sentthem these you know emails and
it basically says make sure youread before you, you know, hop
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up, hop on board.
So I thought that was prettycrazy, because I know a lot of
people that have went on cruisesand I've never heard that, so
just wanted to share that withyou guys.
So I was just telling Bridget, agirl that I work with today,
how stupid this is.
I'm sorry, but this wasliterally on Valentine's Day
yesterday.
This woman has both of herhands bitten off by a shark
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while trying to take a selfiewith it.
Like, how fucking stupid canyou be?
I'm sorry, but that was sostupid, for all my hands made
tail lovers.
Um, the show has teased anofficial season six that's
coming out.
I do have a lot of catching upto do on this show.
(34:10):
It is a very, very awesome,awesome, awesome thing to watch,
very intense, all right.
So I have spoken quite a fewtimes about a lady on TikTok
named Lottie Lux, and I reallylike a lot of her content
because it's different.
So she has this fact that sheshared with everyone and it says
(34:33):
Realizing that growing up in adysfunctional family has made
you so cortisol coated that youattract people who bring you
dysfunction, and it's becauseyou have an energetic imprint
from the part I'm sorry, fromthat part of your life.
So I found that very, veryinteresting.
Okay, you guys, so that theIdaho college murders that
(34:56):
happened November 13th in 2022,that has never sat right with me
and we've all been followingthis and I've been saying over
and over like someone, it had tohave been.
Like an inside job in the house, whatever.
Like you don't just one personfucking attack and knife people
to death Like two guys, was itlike three girls or something
(35:17):
whatever.
I think one of them survived,but I've it's been fishy for a
long time.
Okay, so now they're sayingthat in the Idaho four case, the
other roommate was textingwhile the murders were going on.
So I knew something was was offabout the story since it get
(35:39):
right and it kind of just likeit's still lingering but it like
kind of like died too, likethey completely bulldozed that
house down.
It was just so eerie.
Um, but now they're saying thatBrian Koberger may walk free.
So very interesting and uh, youknow, if you guys kind of like
(36:00):
forgot the details, um, even thedetails going down to the date
and the time and the address ofthat house when it first
happened, I remember likesending people a bunch of stuff
about this and we were all likeit just doesn't add up.
Very, very, very eerie.
Okay, and last but not least, Iknow Carissa and I have talked,
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I know, multiple times on hereabout this because she's always
found it interesting.
The question always is have youever seen a cemetery run out of
room or have you?
Have you ever seen a newcemetery being built?
No, and that's because bodieson top of bodies on top of
bodies.
And, um, I actually just senther this video the other night
(36:44):
and she replied back with youonly rent your burial site.
And it's so crazy.
And I said I remember yousaying this, um, the same stuff
in this video and talking aboutit on the podcast.
And it's crazy to me how peoplespend all this fucking money.
But it and I guess in a way itmakes sense, because eventually
the family line like eyes offright and then by that time
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there's no family to come visityou and the bloodline is pretty
much gone, if you will.
So, yeah, just think about that.
It's bodies on top of bodies,on top of bodies and carcasses
and pretty much like cat, if youwill.
So, yeah, just think about that.
It's bodies on top of bodies,on top of bodies and carcasses
and pretty much like catacombs.
So or they dig up the body, whoknows what they do with the
bones.
But yeah, it's just, she askedme that years ago.
(37:29):
She was like have you ever seena cemetery run out of room A?
Or have you ever seen acemetery run out of room A?
Or have you ever seen acemetery being built?
And when you ask yourself thatquestion.
It's pretty eerie, right?
So you know just some fun stuffto put out there.
But all right, you guys, I umagain.
You know you can get ahold of usat ghost sisters 21, 24, at
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Gmail.
You know, we want to hear fromyou guys, we want to hear your
stories.
Or, if you want us to tell yourstories on here, you can find
us on Twitter, youtube, facebook, tiktok Again, the email.
You can also go on toBuzzsprout site and basically
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