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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you have nick To phobia at all?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, I've actually never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
What is it nick nick To phobia? Nick To phobia? Yeah,
scared of the dark, scared of the dark?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh oh, I actually am scared of the dark though
I sleep at the night light.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wait do you really I do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm like almost thirty years old. I still do to
stay asleep with the night light or like the.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
TV on every night.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's just like the dark leaves like too much room
for the imagination.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know, so in the night light isn't like there Listen,
there are people that'll leave a night light on. So
like if if it's somebody who's prone to get up
a lot in the middle of the night, like they
got a piss or dump or whatever, that they'll leave
the nightlight on so like they don't bang into something
or bump into something or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Right, But for you, it is strictly out of a
fear of the dark. Yes, definitely, you know what. I
was shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So they did they did this whole study. I was
reading they did this whole study.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Do you know that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
About once you average it out, it's about a third
of all adults are scared of the dark. Ye doesn't
that seem high?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Not to me. I feels very validated, though you should.
I'm in you're scared of the dark. Yeah, why I
like it?
Speaker 7 (01:22):
You like being scared of the dark?
Speaker 6 (01:24):
No, I said, I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Oh, you don't like it.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I don't like the dark. I prefer to operate, whether
it's a vehicle or Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, that's different. That's different.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
No, it's not if I I like walking the dog
during the afternoon versus late at night.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But but are you but that that's a preference. That
doesn't mean you're scared of it.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
No, it does.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Do you sleep with the night light?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, but there's one in the hallway, so I guess
there's some illumination.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But is that on so that you won't be so scared?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
No, it's so the kids needs to use exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
See, that's different. That's different. That's operational. Yeah, that's operation.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
But I'm definitely afraid of the dark.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You're afraid to do things in the dark, yes, but
that's not being afraid of the dark. It's no Lauren.
Lauren is scared of the dark. It's not like, oh,
I have to drive in the dark. I don't have
to walk in the dark.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
I'm on edge every morning walking from my front door
to my car, which takes me about a second and
a half.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But that is that why, because you think evil things
happen at night.
Speaker 8 (02:30):
There was it was like two weeks ago there was
a dude walking and walking down the middle of the city.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
There is always, I will give you that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It is always more alarming way, like when it's dark
out and you see somebody, but it's also the time
of day, like there aren't normally like there are strangers
that walk up and down my street all the time
because they could park. They'll park for free on our
street and then walk over to the hospital. And so
there's people. There's strangers on our street all the time
that are walking. But when you see him at four
(02:56):
in the afternoon, you're like, okay, people are out or whatever.
It is unusual to see people walking down the street
at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I get that. But that's not being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That's just there's something that's happening when it's dark out
that you're scared of.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I can't figure out this.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Lauren is just afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But it's me too. It's they're all.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Driving when it's dark out, and I don't like the dark.
If you if you go.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
To Okay, so the house has a night light on,
which which may in your mind may be like that's
good for the kids, but also may settle you in
the back of your head.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Right, yes, if I have to go downstairs.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
If you guys, like when you when you did your
trip to Disney, did you do like if you're or
when we do a show trip. When we do a
show trip and you're you're in the hotel room by yourself,
do you leave a light on?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Uh? Sometimes a bathroom, Yes, that's you do.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, Nicktophobics like.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
The with the door cracked just so I can see
because I'm like, I'm in a different I'm in a
different environment, I'm by myself, and I'm afraid likely going
to need to get up to.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Pee in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So, and you've got the latch on the door, You've
got everything on there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, but you're still as scared of the dark.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Good.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
So that one third number to me is low.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh that seems high.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
People lying it's to be closer to half.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
But no.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But but I will say this, like The difference is,
like I understand if there's somebody walking down the street
at two thirty in the morning and you're like, this
seems off, I understand where that where that gives your
heart a palpitation. That's a little bit different than like, Oh,
I'm in a hotel and I better turn the light
on because I'm scared of the dark. Hey, Lauren, do
(04:52):
you sleep with some kind of comfort item? I?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh, sometimes we'll sleep with like a weighted blanket. I
also have like kind of a small collection of stuffed
animals with them being.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Honest, of course, of course you do. That's no, no, no, no,
don't don't. Don't now the number of the number of
people there. So it's said by the way, this also
shocked me.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So on average, a third of people will at least
admit to being afraid of the dark, right, the number
is actually higher for men than it is for women. Really, Yeah,
that shocked me. Also, I don't know why the unless
you go back is that? Is that because of what
do they call that? When you are like humans were
(05:37):
like way way way way way back in like Neanderthal days,
would it make more sense for men to be afraid
of the dark because men were like the hunters and
had to be out there, and they were afraid of pray.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
They women were more vulnerable the well.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
No, because then you would be more scared, you'd be
bigger pussies about it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Seems like a long walk to defend.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why the dark you would be in the cave like
men would be out there like ready, like to defend
and hunt and keep the prey away.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
That's why I'm afraid, because of.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If somebody got by the men into.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The ancestral hunting.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Evolution that's the word I was looking at, evolutionary psychology.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
That's the phrase. You were trying to.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yes, yes, and it finally came to me. It was
on the tip of my tongue. Diane, show trip. Do
you sleep with a comfort item?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
No, No, I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's show trip what you do some people, Yeah, some
people bring them with them.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Some people bring a pillow. I see people travel with
pillows all the time.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Trashy.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, the only time that's good is if it's a
red eye and you're coming back from Vegas, Like a
pillow could be very very helpful.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I'll be scared to death ten times over before I
have someone call me trash.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Christ Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Will you see if you can find me some niictophobics please,
And don't be a embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Don't be embarrassed at all.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You're in the majority. No, you're that panel up here
with our.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Because Kristen, say, Christner, are you afraid of No, Chris
is not a fair afraid of the dark.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
She sleeps with her knives and mace.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, but you're not. You're not afraid of the dark.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And again I do think you have to differentiate, like
these are people that are afraid of the dark at home, yeah, yeah,
not not out on the streets or something like that, like.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
A haunted maze.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well they get that, Well, let me give the number
eight six six to Eliott. Eight six six two three
five five four six eight. Like, for example, I don't
love stopping at the seven eleven at two thirty in
the morning if there's like people congregated in the parking lot.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
No, I wouldn't stop the I do, but I don't
like it.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And you do get a little like h like what's
going on here now? If it's like a bunch of
kids who are like snuck out of the house. I
don't care, but like if it's like a bunch of adults,
you're like, oh man, this could be like why are
we congregating at the seven eleven?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But that's not being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I don't like going into the basement when my kids
are down there and there are no lights on, and
it's I know it's been debunked, but I always say,
this leads to permanent eye damage. When you're watching television,
there's not another yeah, ambient light. So I don't flip
them on all the way. I don't want to cause
some sort of injury that way. But I oh god,
they never listen to me. Yeah, for more than just that,
(08:31):
but do My son just said it yesterday. I go
down there and I'm like, it's pitch black.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How are you functioning down here? Play my video games?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
All right? If you want blurry visions and you know that, you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Know that's not what causes it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well, it's yes, the evolution, right, it changes.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
So thirty three percent of men, twenty six percent of
women will fest to being scared of the dark as adults.
As adults, twenty five percent sleep with the night light on,
ten percent keep all lights on throughout the night, like
they'll okay, they'll keep every light no, no, no, no,
like their bedroom light will stay on all night.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
You were mocking a night light, by the way, No
different have at it with those people who don't turn
any lights off.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Why what's the difference?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You said, a nightlight can be operational.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Okay, but people who are leaving a navigation navigation, But
there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, no, there really isn't a difference.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There are people that have a night light in order
to like in the hallway where if if the kids
get up or somebody gets up and they have to walk,
then that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Or if the bad guy needs to see Like.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I get that, but having a night light on because
you're afraid of the dark, you know the difference.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But do they have to.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Then go completely under the covers?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Yeah, so used to the lights being on, they can
sleep that way.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh I have no idea. No, you would still get
under the covers you're going to bed.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I don't mean just up to your neck.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mean are those blankets pasteurized?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
No, nobody's pulling the blanket over their head in there.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Nobody's doing that. So yes, we'll do.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
That cocoon themselves.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Yeah, they pulled.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The blanket up over their head because they're afraid of
the dark, or just for comfort.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What comfort?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I can't breathe, It's no, it's comforting.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, having a blanket up over your head is not comforting.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
You're like, if it's.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Chilly, the no, your head should be exposed for breathing,
to see the criminals.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, we couldn't sleep together.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, to me, there's really no difference between a night
light and having the lights on. There really is no difference.
You're still sleeping with the light on.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Like your bedspread can be a comfort item if you
use that, even in the heart.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Of the side.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
But that is a blanket, That's what I'm saying. If
you pull a comforter up and it's outside still ninety
degrees at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, but you're missing ninety degrees.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, but my acs that's not great. So it's gets
pretty warm, I'm telling you, because that's where the bike
is upstairs. You get a little extra workout when you're
riding in the warmer months.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, but you're still not sleeping in ninety degree weather.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
It's it's it's not it's not cool enough up there,
Hi Elliet the morning. Hey, how's it going on?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Hey, I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
This is Sean?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (11:32):
I was just calling and you're talking about being scared
of the dark. You want to get over for your
dand scared of the dark? Go hunting in the morning,
walk in the woods and the pitch black, nothing around you,
You can't see anything. All you hear is the sound
of who knows what around you. Something runs next to you,
ten twenty feet away. You'll get You'll get over the
seer of the dark real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, first of all, you're probably right, But think about
think about what you're saying. Think about what you're saying.
That's part of evolutionary psychology right back in the day,
back in the day. That's how, that's how, that's how
it's had learn absolutely absolutely now listen, I would not
be Maybe I would get good at that, but I
would not.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I would not listen. I don't like wildlife to begin with.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So if I hear something, even when I go out
to the car in the morning at two o'clock in
the morning, oh, if I hear something rustling.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Hell, now, don't like it.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Oh my god, those acorns coming down now too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But at least you know that is an eight year car.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I think it's an acorn. Or when they hit the roof,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But again, that's not being scared of the dark.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
That is being startled, like it's nighttime and your and
don't they always say like your your your senses are
on a higher just evolutionary.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, like your your cuteness.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Your acuteness goes up because you can't see as well,
so you're hearing, your smell goes up. Yes, So again
if something if something rattles in the bushes, or you
hear like a weird noise, then yes, you you your
your body is already programmed to be higher because you
can't see.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Right for sure.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
And now afraid of hunting.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
But now let me ask you, there's no chance on
how I be hunting in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
When you are, when you are at home and you're
just in your room at night and going to bed,
do you have lights on?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh no, I hate it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I love the dark.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
So that's what I'm saying, Like I have like to
sleep in pitch black. I don't need a light on.
I love it. But for whatever reason, like I said,
walk that walk into the woods in the morning to
my tree staying or on my hunting line and pitch black,
that's a whole other level. Yeah, yeah, that's the only time.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Are we in duck hunting season?
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Nope, you're hunting here?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh a buddy of mine, Well maybe it's a different state.
I think he's in South Dakota. Hey, thank you, my friend,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
My friend.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, he just sent me he went duck hunting. Jesus Christ.
You got to see the back of his truck. Like,
like even Chinese restaurants are like, hey, leave a couple.
It's ridiculous what he has going on back there. But again,
that's different. Now I can fall asleep with lights on,
but I don't do it. Yeah, I don't do it
(14:05):
because I'm scared.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I don't think I do it because I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I fell asleep on the couch last night. I had
lights on, I had the TV on.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah that's what I would a claim. No, no, no, I'm
not fraid of the dark. I'm just really tired.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Line too, Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Hi, So I'm extremely scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Why.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
I just am and I I really I didn't know
there was a technical word for it, but I'm glad
I learned that today. But it's a it's a different
feeling you get. I don't know how to describe it,
and to make it worse. My birthday's on Halloween, and
I hate Halloween because it's dark and scary.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, it's spooky season. No, but you got to be
able to put like in the middle of May, you
have to do you sleep with lights on?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
I usually fall asleep with a light on.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes, and then well then the burglar turns it off
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
No, Well my husband. I go to bed earlier than
my husband and he'll come turn it off. But it
is a real thing. It's a feeling I have. It's
not just I'm scared of the dark. It's like a
feeling I have when it's dark outside. I don't know
how to describe it. Fear, Yeah, it's I'm not sure
it's so. It is a real thing, and I'm I'm
going to grow an adult, and I admit I'm extremely
(15:22):
scared of the dark. And I have a four year
old who I'm trying to not make scared of the dark.
But it's hard when I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, yeah, no, you don't want to rub that off.
Think about how inconvenience I ask for you. Hey, so, like,
have you and your husband ever gone to a hotel?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Okay, don't be so defensive. People don't go to hotels,
do you do? You have to have a light on
in the hotel?
Speaker 10 (15:47):
We usually leave a light on, like the bathroom light on.
We usually leave the light on in the door cracked
because you can't find It's like lights. I just like
lights on. I if I'm at home by myself, I
always there's always going to be a light up. Until
recent years, I wouldn't even stay by myself at night
time because I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Would you stop?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, it's real, Diane and I he's self diagnosing and think, no, no, no,
they're not afraid of the dark. Let me call in
and tell them my situation.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
No, but I mean this is I mean exactly, Yeah,
you've got it bad.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Yeah, I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
So it's real.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
So don't no shame there.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
It just is what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So let me ask you this, Like, if you wouldn't
stay home by yourself. So what would you do.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
I would go stay and my parents or a friend
or someone.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So if your husband was having like a sleepover somewhere,
a sleepover, he's five. Like if he was, no, but
like if he was either I don't know, gone for
business or was like they were all crashing at a
buddy's house because they were out or whatever, you could
not stay home alone.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Yeah. So when you think you're bad, just think of me.
You could be work.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Hey, you don't pull all the covers up over your head,
do you?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 10 (17:05):
I don't. I think people do that for comfort. I
don't know. I don't do that though, probably because I
get hot a lot, So I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Amen. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Thank you, physical, emotional, it's all comfort.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Let me grab line for hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Hey, this is Jeffy Houston. Oh yeah, when I was
back in Virginia. He needs to go duck hunting with
some friends, right, And you can't imagine what it's like
to row tiny rowboat out in the middle of the water,
completely dark, silent to a duct line that's also pitch black.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah that I don't think I would like that. I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
But to me, that's all like because you're just down
in the middle of the wild, but you're not afraid
like the Boogeyman's gonna get you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
No, but you're also out in the middle of the water,
you know, Like, how is that imagination starts?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, and that I get. You're out in the middle
of some black late that you can't see. Like, I
get that, But not inside your house.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You're not like that.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No, No, I have an eighty five pound dog gets
the terrified of everything. So, oh, there you go, pretty protective.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Hey what part of Houston are you living in? Oh? Oh,
very nice.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Hey, if you want to see how the other half live,
go drive through a leaf and go look at my
my humble beginnings.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah you want to be scared? There you go? All right,
did appreciate it? Thank you, my friend?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, Tyler from Sunny, I would sleep with lights on
in college. Ooh, so I didn't go into a deep
sleep in miss class, but my roommates would tease me
and say I was afraid of the dog.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Don't know lot of like I want to say, like
just from visiting the boys and they got to school,
don't a lot of And maybe I'm probably wasn't like
this when you guys were there.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Don't a lot sleep with like those led lights hung
up in their rooms.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Oh they leave them on all night.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, and they'll leave them on all night.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I didn't know the LED lights were for older I
thought it was younger kids.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
The no no no.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Marley had those on all during high school.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But she in her room.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh yeah, but she.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Keep them on all night. Is she scared of the night?
I don't like, what does she do now?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
She doesn't and she's living by herself.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
No lights on? No good?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
But I know of good?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But yeah, like a bunch of the like when like
when they were both in dorms, you'd walk down the
hall and everybody's got their door open, everybody's got neon
lights hanging.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
In their rooms.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
From Sarah on Facebook, we have an airbnb next door
and guests sometimes leave all of the lights on. I
had always assumed that they passed out, But maybe they're
afraid of the dark, or she wrote, they're scared scared
of the dark.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I had a who was it was it Lander Like
Lander wasn't as scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
But he would always leave the living room lights on.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
That was just his thing.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, I guess he'd just love to run up his
electric bill. But he would go like he'd go to
bed and because I'd have to pick him up in
the morning because they only had one car, right Jesus
the but like it would still be like he'd be
in the in the bedroom getting ready and all of
the lights in the living room were on. But he
so I asked him at one point, he was like, oh, no,
(20:31):
we just leave the living room lights on.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
All the time. I see that not being for him,
that's just a deterrent. No, so that's for him. Was
he making his way to the first.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Floor a lot the well it was only a one
story house. But no, they just that was their thing.
They would just always leave the lights on. It had
months to do nothing, no, nothing to do not in
his neighborhood, nothing at all to do.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
With crime, because I've definitely I see people in my
neighborhood do that where you're like, okay, no one is
up every morning in that room.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Oh if anything, you would turn the lights off. I
don't want to turn if anything, it's like illuminating. Look
at all the stuff I have in here to steal.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
That's sort of like when I realized as an adult,
why do I turn the lights off outside when I
go to bed? I should leave them on all night.
And now we do. But it's split fifty fifty in
the neighborhood. Some people have them on, some bill don't.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I don't. Yeah, we don't have lights on.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I feel like that's how I was, And then I realized, no,
this is why you have.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Lights to turn them on.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
And we got those daylight led brightness.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
No, it's not like the soft white.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Now, No, that's for inside in your living room.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
By the way, there are people that they renovated a
house like three blocks away and at the end of
their driveway, by the way, it's not like a long driveway.
You can't park two cars. It's a normal driveway. You
know what they put at the end of their driveway.
They put up like these two brick pillars, and on
top of the pillars they got like like flames in there.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Oh it's so it's gas powered, yeah, or is it
the special effect light they sell that Halloween? Well, it's
not for Halloween, I know, but do they have something
just for now? Have you seen those lights? It looks
it looks incredible.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Like a normal gas lantern. Yes, No, but they did this.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
They it was like this, like they didn't just move in,
like it's been like this for months.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're talking about over the last.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Couple No, it looks by the way you want to
talk about looking rich, like that looks rich. Okay, Tyler,
that is ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
The flame light that's bad. No, no, no, it looks incredible,
does it really? Yes? It is so good from a
distance if you're going for that effect this spooky season?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Where am I going? Line three? Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Hey Elliott, Hey, what's going on? When I was growing up.
When I was growing up, I was terrified of the
night until I started working at night. And then it's
just like, uh, facing your fears, like I'll always be
a friend of snakes because I'll never face them. But
once you realize everything's the same. And people who were saying, oh,
I'm scared of the dark as an adult, it's more
(23:09):
probably because you're cautious of you can't see what you
might step into, or you know, trip over something. But
my fear of the dark was because my mom was
a bitch and she would always watch unsolved mysteries on
Lifetime at night.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Right, so you would go to bed hearing about all
these bad things that happened that nobody can solve.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Spontaneous exactly, all the stuff, blue boy, all of it.
So why, like, how do hey, thank you, sir, thank you?
Like I'm trying to remember. I don't remember either of
my kids being scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Never.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
No, Oh my goodness. I thought it was one hundred
percent shelter.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, no, no, Like I like I can remember like
sometimes they would wake up in the middle of the
night and couldn't all back to sleep, and they would
come into our room and.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I would always be like, just climb in here. It's fine.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The they're snugly, the But I don't I don't remember
them being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It says seventy five percent of kids are afraid of
the dark, so it is not on Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Don't ever remember any of them being like I'm scared
it's dark out. I don't remember that. I just remember
being like, we can't fall back to sleep. Or I
had a bad dream, or I pissed the bed. That's
when Jackie had best But other than that, I don't
remember them being scared of the dark.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I think both mine are still so keeping it going the.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, but that's why you've got to let him watch
TV and play video games in the dark.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
We're slowly getting there.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
My son was telling me, uh, for video games, something
about and you reference this game all the time, so
maybe you know about.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Red Red Dead, Redemption. Great game.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I don't know which one he's playing. There's a couple
of right, Yeah, but he's great game. He was saying,
I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
No, you would, you would why no?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
But he didn't say because it's like violence or graphic whatever.
He said, it's very sad. The storyline. Oh oh, I
could see that. Yeah, I could see that. I've never
it's awesome though I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
They caught me off guard because I was like before
he explained why, I was like hey, and then he
said it's it's a tear jerker, and I said, oh, okay,
I maybe I wouldn't like playing that.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, no, you would hate it. You would hate it
on a number of levels. Yeah, it is a little depressing.
It's a great game, though.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He loves it.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Right.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
I think you had finished it, but I don't know
how it came up. I forget why we were discussing it,
but yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Is there a new one coming? I'd played Red Dead
in so long.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I'm mostly small town RVA right now.
Do you have nick To phobia at all?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
No, I've actually never heard of that.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
What is it nick nick To phobia? Nick To phobia? Yeah,
scared of the dark, scared of the dark?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Oh oh, I actually am scared of the dark though
I sleep at the night light.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Wait do you really I do.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I'm like almost thirty years old. I still do to
stay asleep with the night light or like the.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
TV on every night.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's just like the dark leaves like too much room
for the imagination.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
You know, so in the night light isn't like there Listen,
there are people that'll leave a night light on. So
like if if it's somebody who's prone to get up
a lot in the middle of the night, like they
got a piss or dump or whatever, that they'll leave
the nightlight on so like they don't bang into something
or bump into something or whatever.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Right, But for you, it is strictly out of a
fear of the dark. Yes, definitely, you know what. I
was shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
So they did they did this whole study. I was
reading they did this whole study.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Do you know that.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
About once you average it out, it's about a third
of all adults are scared of the dark. Ye doesn't
that seem high?
Speaker 6 (01:13):
Not to me. I feels very validated, though you should.
I'm in you're scared of the dark. Yeah, why I
like it?
Speaker 7 (01:22):
You like being scared of the dark?
Speaker 6 (01:24):
No, I said, I don't like it.
Speaker 7 (01:25):
Oh, you don't like it.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
I don't like the dark. I prefer to operate, whether
it's a vehicle or Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Well, that's different. That's different.
Speaker 6 (01:34):
No, it's not if I I like walking the dog
during the afternoon versus late at night.
Speaker 4 (01:40):
But but are you but that that's a preference. That
doesn't mean you're scared of it.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
No, it does.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Do you sleep with the night light?
Speaker 6 (01:49):
No, but there's one in the hallway, so I guess
there's some illumination.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
But is that on so that you won't be so scared?
Speaker 6 (01:58):
No, it's so the kids needs to use exactly.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
See, that's different. That's different. That's operational. Yeah, that's operation.
Speaker 6 (02:05):
But I'm definitely afraid of the dark.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
You're afraid to do things in the dark, yes, but
that's not being afraid of the dark. It's no Lauren.
Lauren is scared of the dark. It's not like, oh,
I have to drive in the dark. I don't have
to walk in the dark.
Speaker 8 (02:21):
I'm on edge every morning walking from my front door
to my car, which takes me about a second and
a half.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
But that is that why, because you think evil things
happen at night.
Speaker 8 (02:30):
There was it was like two weeks ago there was
a dude walking and walking down the middle of the city.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
There is always, I will give you that.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
It is always more alarming way, like when it's dark
out and you see somebody, but it's also the time
of day, like there aren't normally like there are strangers
that walk up and down my street all the time
because they could park. They'll park for free on our
street and then walk over to the hospital. And so
there's people. There's strangers on our street all the time
that are walking. But when you see him at four
(02:56):
in the afternoon, you're like, okay, people are out or whatever.
It is unusual to see people walking down the street
at two o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I get that. But that's not being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
That's just there's something that's happening when it's dark out
that you're scared of.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I can't figure out this.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Lauren is just afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
But it's me too. It's they're all.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Driving when it's dark out, and I don't like the dark.
If you if you go.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
To Okay, so the house has a night light on,
which which may in your mind may be like that's
good for the kids, but also may settle you in
the back of your head.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Right, yes, if I have to go downstairs.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
If you guys, like when you when you did your
trip to Disney, did you do like if you're or
when we do a show trip. When we do a
show trip and you're you're in the hotel room by yourself,
do you leave a light on?
Speaker 6 (03:56):
Uh? Sometimes a bathroom, Yes, that's you do.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Yeah, Nicktophobics like.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
The with the door cracked just so I can see
because I'm like, I'm in a different I'm in a
different environment, I'm by myself, and I'm afraid likely going
to need to get up to.
Speaker 7 (04:13):
Pee in the middle of the night.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Right.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
So, and you've got the latch on the door, You've
got everything on there.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, but you're still as scared of the dark.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Good.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
So that one third number to me is low.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Oh that seems high.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
People lying it's to be closer to half.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
But no.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
But but I will say this, like The difference is,
like I understand if there's somebody walking down the street
at two thirty in the morning and you're like, this
seems off, I understand where that where that gives your
heart a palpitation. That's a little bit different than like, Oh,
I'm in a hotel and I better turn the light
on because I'm scared of the dark. Hey, Lauren, do
(04:52):
you sleep with some kind of comfort item? I?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Uh, sometimes we'll sleep with like a weighted blanket. I
also have like kind of a small collection of stuffed
animals with them being.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Honest, of course, of course you do. That's no, no, no, no,
don't don't. Don't now the number of the number of
people there. So it's said by the way, this also
shocked me.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
So on average, a third of people will at least
admit to being afraid of the dark, right, the number
is actually higher for men than it is for women. Really, Yeah,
that shocked me. Also, I don't know why the unless
you go back is that? Is that because of what
do they call that? When you are like humans were
(05:37):
like way way way way way back in like Neanderthal days,
would it make more sense for men to be afraid
of the dark because men were like the hunters and
had to be out there, and they were afraid of pray.
Speaker 7 (05:49):
They women were more vulnerable the well.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
No, because then you would be more scared, you'd be
bigger pussies about it.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Seems like a long walk to defend.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Why the dark you would be in the cave like
men would be out there like ready, like to defend
and hunt and keep the prey away.
Speaker 6 (06:04):
That's why I'm afraid, because of.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
If somebody got by the men into.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
The ancestral hunting.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Evolution that's the word I was looking at, evolutionary psychology.
Speaker 6 (06:18):
That's the phrase. You were trying to.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yes, yes, and it finally came to me. It was
on the tip of my tongue. Diane, show trip. Do
you sleep with a comfort item?
Speaker 7 (06:27):
No?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
No, No, I don't have it.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
It's show trip what you do some people, Yeah, some
people bring them with them.
Speaker 8 (06:35):
Some people bring a pillow. I see people travel with
pillows all the time.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Trashy.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
No, the only time that's good is if it's a
red eye and you're coming back from Vegas, Like a
pillow could be very very helpful.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
I'll be scared to death ten times over before I
have someone call me trash.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Christ Will you do me a favor?
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Will you see if you can find me some niictophobics please,
And don't be a embarrassed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Don't be embarrassed at all.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
You're in the majority. No, you're that panel up here
with our.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Because Kristen, say, Christner, are you afraid of No, Chris
is not a fair afraid of the dark.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
She sleeps with her knives and mace.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
No.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
No, but you're not. You're not afraid of the dark.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
No.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
And again I do think you have to differentiate, like
these are people that are afraid of the dark at home, yeah, yeah,
not not out on the streets or something like that, like.
Speaker 6 (07:29):
A haunted maze.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Well they get that, Well, let me give the number
eight six six to Eliott. Eight six six two three
five five four six eight. Like, for example, I don't
love stopping at the seven eleven at two thirty in
the morning if there's like people congregated in the parking lot.
Speaker 7 (07:48):
No, I wouldn't stop the I do, but I don't
like it.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
And you do get a little like h like what's
going on here now? If it's like a bunch of
kids who are like snuck out of the house. I
don't care, but like if it's like a bunch of adults,
you're like, oh man, this could be like why are
we congregating at the seven eleven?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
But that's not being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
I don't like going into the basement when my kids
are down there and there are no lights on, and
it's I know it's been debunked, but I always say,
this leads to permanent eye damage. When you're watching television,
there's not another yeah, ambient light. So I don't flip
them on all the way. I don't want to cause
some sort of injury that way. But I oh god,
they never listen to me. Yeah, for more than just that,
(08:31):
but do My son just said it yesterday. I go
down there and I'm like, it's pitch black.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
How are you functioning down here? Play my video games?
Speaker 6 (08:38):
All right? If you want blurry visions and you know that, you.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Know that's not what causes it.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Well, it's yes, the evolution, right, it changes.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
So thirty three percent of men, twenty six percent of
women will fest to being scared of the dark as adults.
As adults, twenty five percent sleep with the night light on,
ten percent keep all lights on throughout the night, like
they'll okay, they'll keep every light no, no, no, no,
like their bedroom light will stay on all night.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
You were mocking a night light, by the way, No
different have at it with those people who don't turn
any lights off.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Why what's the difference?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
You said, a nightlight can be operational.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
Okay, but people who are leaving a navigation navigation, But
there's a difference.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Well, no, there really isn't a difference.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
There are people that have a night light in order
to like in the hallway where if if the kids
get up or somebody gets up and they have to walk,
then that's fine.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Or if the bad guy needs to see Like.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
I get that, but having a night light on because
you're afraid of the dark, you know the difference.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But do they have to.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Then go completely under the covers?
Speaker 1 (09:47):
What do you mean?
Speaker 6 (09:48):
Yeah, so used to the lights being on, they can
sleep that way.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Oh I have no idea. No, you would still get
under the covers you're going to bed.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
I don't mean just up to your neck.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Mean are those blankets pasteurized?
Speaker 4 (10:04):
No, nobody's pulling the blanket over their head in there.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
Nobody's doing that. So yes, we'll do.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
That cocoon themselves.
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Yeah, they pulled.
Speaker 4 (10:13):
The blanket up over their head because they're afraid of
the dark, or just for comfort.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
What comfort?
Speaker 7 (10:19):
I can't breathe, It's no, it's comforting.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Yeah, having a blanket up over your head is not comforting.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
You're like, if it's.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Chilly, the no, your head should be exposed for breathing,
to see the criminals.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Yeah, we couldn't sleep together.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Yeah, to me, there's really no difference between a night
light and having the lights on. There really is no difference.
You're still sleeping with the light on.
Speaker 6 (10:46):
Like your bedspread can be a comfort item if you
use that, even in the heart.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Of the side.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
But that is a blanket, That's what I'm saying. If
you pull a comforter up and it's outside still ninety
degrees at ten o'clock at night.
Speaker 1 (10:59):
Yeah, but you're missing ninety degrees.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
Yeah, but my acs that's not great. So it's gets
pretty warm, I'm telling you, because that's where the bike
is upstairs. You get a little extra workout when you're
riding in the warmer months.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Yeah, but you're still not sleeping in ninety degree weather.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
It's it's it's not it's not cool enough up there,
Hi Elliet the morning. Hey, how's it going on?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Hell?
Speaker 1 (11:26):
Hey, I'm doing great. Who's this?
Speaker 6 (11:29):
This is Sean?
Speaker 1 (11:29):
Hey, what's going on? Dude?
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Hey?
Speaker 9 (11:32):
I was just calling and you're talking about being scared
of the dark. You want to get over for your
dand scared of the dark? Go hunting in the morning,
walk in the woods and the pitch black, nothing around you,
You can't see anything. All you hear is the sound
of who knows what around you. Something runs next to you,
ten twenty feet away. You'll get You'll get over the
seer of the dark real quick.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
You know.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Well, first of all, you're probably right, But think about
think about what you're saying. Think about what you're saying.
That's part of evolutionary psychology right back in the day,
back in the day. That's how, that's how, that's how
it's had learn absolutely absolutely now listen, I would not
be Maybe I would get good at that, but I
would not.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I would not listen. I don't like wildlife to begin with.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
So if I hear something, even when I go out
to the car in the morning at two o'clock in
the morning, oh, if I hear something rustling.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Hell, now, don't like it.
Speaker 7 (12:20):
Oh my god, those acorns coming down now too, Okay.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
But at least you know that is an eight year car.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
I think it's an acorn. Or when they hit the roof,
oh my god.
Speaker 1 (12:31):
But again, that's not being scared of the dark.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
That is being startled, like it's nighttime and your and
don't they always say like your your your senses are
on a higher just evolutionary.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Yeah, yeah, like your your cuteness.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Your acuteness goes up because you can't see as well,
so you're hearing, your smell goes up. Yes, So again
if something if something rattles in the bushes, or you
hear like a weird noise, then yes, you you your
your body is already programmed to be higher because you
can't see.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Right for sure.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
And now afraid of hunting.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
But now let me ask you, there's no chance on
how I be hunting in the middle of the night.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
When you are, when you are at home and you're
just in your room at night and going to bed,
do you have lights on?
Speaker 2 (13:18):
Oh no, I hate it.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
I love the dark.
Speaker 9 (13:20):
So that's what I'm saying, Like I have like to
sleep in pitch black. I don't need a light on.
I love it. But for whatever reason, like I said,
walk that walk into the woods in the morning to
my tree staying or on my hunting line and pitch black,
that's a whole other level. Yeah, yeah, that's the only time.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Are we in duck hunting season?
Speaker 9 (13:37):
Nope, you're hunting here?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh a buddy of mine, Well maybe it's a different state.
I think he's in South Dakota. Hey, thank you, my friend,
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
My friend.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, he just sent me he went duck hunting. Jesus Christ.
You got to see the back of his truck. Like,
like even Chinese restaurants are like, hey, leave a couple.
It's ridiculous what he has going on back there. But again,
that's different. Now I can fall asleep with lights on,
but I don't do it. Yeah, I don't do it
(14:05):
because I'm scared.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I don't think I do it because I'm scared.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
I fell asleep on the couch last night. I had
lights on, I had the TV on.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah that's what I would a claim. No, no, no, I'm
not fraid of the dark. I'm just really tired.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Line too, Hi, Elliet in the morning.
Speaker 10 (14:24):
Hi, So I'm extremely scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Why.
Speaker 10 (14:29):
I just am and I I really I didn't know
there was a technical word for it, but I'm glad
I learned that today. But it's a it's a different
feeling you get. I don't know how to describe it,
and to make it worse. My birthday's on Halloween, and
I hate Halloween because it's dark and scary.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Oh, it's spooky season. No, but you got to be
able to put like in the middle of May, you
have to do you sleep with lights on?
Speaker 10 (14:53):
I usually fall asleep with a light on.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yes, and then well then the burglar turns it off
in the middle of the night.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
No, Well my husband. I go to bed earlier than
my husband and he'll come turn it off. But it
is a real thing. It's a feeling I have. It's
not just I'm scared of the dark. It's like a
feeling I have when it's dark outside. I don't know
how to describe it. Fear, Yeah, it's I'm not sure
it's so. It is a real thing, and I'm I'm
going to grow an adult, and I admit I'm extremely
(15:22):
scared of the dark. And I have a four year
old who I'm trying to not make scared of the dark.
But it's hard when I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Well, yeah, no, you don't want to rub that off.
Think about how inconvenience I ask for you. Hey, so, like,
have you and your husband ever gone to a hotel?
Speaker 5 (15:37):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (15:38):
Okay, don't be so defensive. People don't go to hotels,
do you do? You have to have a light on
in the hotel?
Speaker 10 (15:47):
We usually leave a light on, like the bathroom light on.
We usually leave the light on in the door cracked
because you can't find It's like lights. I just like
lights on. I if I'm at home by myself, I
always there's always going to be a light up. Until
recent years, I wouldn't even stay by myself at night
time because I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
Would you stop?
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, it's real, Diane and I he's self diagnosing and think, no, no, no,
they're not afraid of the dark. Let me call in
and tell them my situation.
Speaker 4 (16:17):
No, but I mean this is I mean exactly, Yeah,
you've got it bad.
Speaker 10 (16:22):
Yeah, I'm scared of the dark.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
So it's real.
Speaker 10 (16:24):
So don't no shame there.
Speaker 7 (16:25):
It just is what it is.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
So let me ask you this, Like, if you wouldn't
stay home by yourself. So what would you do.
Speaker 10 (16:32):
I would go stay and my parents or a friend
or someone.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So if your husband was having like a sleepover somewhere,
a sleepover, he's five. Like if he was, no, but
like if he was either I don't know, gone for
business or was like they were all crashing at a
buddy's house because they were out or whatever, you could
not stay home alone.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
That's correct.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Wow. Wow.
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Yeah. So when you think you're bad, just think of me.
You could be work.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
Hey, you don't pull all the covers up over your head,
do you?
Speaker 5 (17:04):
No?
Speaker 10 (17:05):
I don't. I think people do that for comfort. I
don't know. I don't do that though, probably because I
get hot a lot, So I don't do that.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Amen. All right, very good, very good, Thank you, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Thank you, physical, emotional, it's all comfort.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Let me grab line for hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Dude?
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Hey, this is Jeffy Houston. Oh yeah, when I was
back in Virginia. He needs to go duck hunting with
some friends, right, And you can't imagine what it's like
to row tiny rowboat out in the middle of the water,
completely dark, silent to a duct line that's also pitch black.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Yeah that I don't think I would like that. I don't.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
But to me, that's all like because you're just down
in the middle of the wild, but you're not afraid
like the Boogeyman's gonna get you.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
No, but you're also out in the middle of the water,
you know, Like, how is that imagination starts?
Speaker 6 (18:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Yeah, and that I get. You're out in the middle
of some black late that you can't see. Like, I
get that, But not inside your house.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
You're not like that.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
No, No, I have an eighty five pound dog gets
the terrified of everything. So, oh, there you go, pretty protective.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Hey what part of Houston are you living in? Oh? Oh,
very nice.
Speaker 4 (18:28):
Hey, if you want to see how the other half live,
go drive through a leaf and go look at my
my humble beginnings.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 1 (18:37):
Yeah you want to be scared? There you go? All right,
did appreciate it? Thank you, my friend?
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Yes, Tyler from Sunny, I would sleep with lights on
in college. Ooh, so I didn't go into a deep
sleep in miss class, but my roommates would tease me
and say I was afraid of the dog.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Don't know lot of like I want to say, like
just from visiting the boys and they got to school,
don't a lot of And maybe I'm probably wasn't like
this when you guys were there.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Don't a lot sleep with like those led lights hung
up in their rooms.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Oh they leave them on all night.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Yeah, and they'll leave them on all night.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
I didn't know the LED lights were for older I
thought it was younger kids.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
The no no no.
Speaker 7 (19:18):
Marley had those on all during high school.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
But she in her room.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Oh yeah, but she.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
Keep them on all night. Is she scared of the night?
I don't like, what does she do now?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
She doesn't and she's living by herself.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
No lights on? No good?
Speaker 7 (19:32):
But I know of good?
Speaker 4 (19:35):
But yeah, like a bunch of the like when like
when they were both in dorms, you'd walk down the
hall and everybody's got their door open, everybody's got neon
lights hanging.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
In their rooms.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
From Sarah on Facebook, we have an airbnb next door
and guests sometimes leave all of the lights on. I
had always assumed that they passed out, But maybe they're
afraid of the dark, or she wrote, they're scared scared
of the dark.
Speaker 4 (19:59):
I had a who was it was it Lander Like
Lander wasn't as scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
But he would always leave the living room lights on.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
That was just his thing.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah, I guess he'd just love to run up his
electric bill. But he would go like he'd go to
bed and because I'd have to pick him up in
the morning because they only had one car, right Jesus
the but like it would still be like he'd be
in the in the bedroom getting ready and all of
the lights in the living room were on. But he
so I asked him at one point, he was like, oh, no,
(20:31):
we just leave the living room lights on.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
All the time. I see that not being for him,
that's just a deterrent. No, so that's for him. Was
he making his way to the first.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Floor a lot the well it was only a one
story house. But no, they just that was their thing.
They would just always leave the lights on. It had
months to do nothing, no, nothing to do not in
his neighborhood, nothing at all to do.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
With crime, because I've definitely I see people in my
neighborhood do that where you're like, okay, no one is
up every morning in that room.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Oh if anything, you would turn the lights off. I
don't want to turn if anything, it's like illuminating. Look
at all the stuff I have in here to steal.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
That's sort of like when I realized as an adult,
why do I turn the lights off outside when I
go to bed? I should leave them on all night.
And now we do. But it's split fifty fifty in
the neighborhood. Some people have them on, some bill don't.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
I don't. Yeah, we don't have lights on.
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I feel like that's how I was, And then I realized, no,
this is why you have.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
Lights to turn them on.
Speaker 6 (21:30):
And we got those daylight led brightness.
Speaker 7 (21:34):
No, it's not like the soft white.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
Now, No, that's for inside in your living room.
Speaker 4 (21:41):
By the way, there are people that they renovated a
house like three blocks away and at the end of
their driveway, by the way, it's not like a long driveway.
You can't park two cars. It's a normal driveway. You
know what they put at the end of their driveway.
They put up like these two brick pillars, and on
top of the pillars they got like like flames in there.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Oh it's so it's gas powered, yeah, or is it
the special effect light they sell that Halloween? Well, it's
not for Halloween, I know, but do they have something
just for now? Have you seen those lights? It looks
it looks incredible.
Speaker 7 (22:15):
Like a normal gas lantern. Yes, No, but they did this.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
They it was like this, like they didn't just move in,
like it's been like this for months.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
You're talking about over the last.
Speaker 4 (22:24):
Couple No, it looks by the way you want to
talk about looking rich, like that looks rich. Okay, Tyler,
that is ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
The flame light that's bad. No, no, no, it looks incredible,
does it really? Yes? It is so good from a
distance if you're going for that effect this spooky season?
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Where am I going? Line three? Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Hey Elliott, Hey, what's going on? When I was growing up.
When I was growing up, I was terrified of the
night until I started working at night. And then it's
just like, uh, facing your fears, like I'll always be
a friend of snakes because I'll never face them. But
once you realize everything's the same. And people who were saying, oh,
I'm scared of the dark as an adult, it's more
(23:09):
probably because you're cautious of you can't see what you
might step into, or you know, trip over something. But
my fear of the dark was because my mom was
a bitch and she would always watch unsolved mysteries on
Lifetime at night.
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Right, so you would go to bed hearing about all
these bad things that happened that nobody can solve.
Speaker 1 (23:30):
I get that. I get that.
Speaker 4 (23:34):
Spontaneous exactly, all the stuff, blue boy, all of it.
So why, like, how do hey, thank you, sir, thank you?
Like I'm trying to remember. I don't remember either of
my kids being scared of the dark.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Never.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
No, Oh my goodness. I thought it was one hundred
percent shelter.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah, no, no, Like I like I can remember like
sometimes they would wake up in the middle of the
night and couldn't all back to sleep, and they would
come into our room and.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
I would always be like, just climb in here. It's fine.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
The they're snugly, the But I don't I don't remember
them being afraid of the dark.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It says seventy five percent of kids are afraid of
the dark, so it is not on Yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (24:16):
Don't ever remember any of them being like I'm scared
it's dark out. I don't remember that. I just remember
being like, we can't fall back to sleep. Or I
had a bad dream, or I pissed the bed. That's
when Jackie had best But other than that, I don't
remember them being scared of the dark.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (24:33):
I think both mine are still so keeping it going the.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
Yeah, but that's why you've got to let him watch
TV and play video games in the dark.
Speaker 1 (24:41):
We're slowly getting there.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
My son was telling me, uh, for video games, something
about and you reference this game all the time, so
maybe you know about.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Red Red Dead, Redemption. Great game.
Speaker 6 (24:54):
I don't know which one he's playing. There's a couple
of right, Yeah, but he's great game. He was saying,
I wouldn't like it.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
No, you would, you would why no?
Speaker 6 (25:01):
But he didn't say because it's like violence or graphic whatever.
He said, it's very sad. The storyline. Oh oh, I
could see that. Yeah, I could see that. I've never
it's awesome though I've heard that before.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
They caught me off guard because I was like before
he explained why, I was like hey, and then he
said it's it's a tear jerker, and I said, oh, okay,
I maybe I wouldn't like playing that.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Yeah, no, you would hate it. You would hate it
on a number of levels. Yeah, it is a little depressing.
It's a great game, though.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
He loves it.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Right.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
I think you had finished it, but I don't know
how it came up. I forget why we were discussing it,
but yeah, oh.
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Is there a new one coming? I'd played Red Dead
in so long.
Speaker 6 (25:41):
I'm mostly small town RVA right now.
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