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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You should be here in the morning time when I'm
backing my breakfast. You should be here beneath me to
feel me, to heal me. You should be here to
grab me, to trib me, to climb me. You should
be here. I'm a good man and I work hard
(00:21):
on my night job.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Let me show you what you're missing every day? Why
to get you effort? Never go no walk away. Well
I got more than just a big stick and some money.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You should be here. You should be here.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Wh whoa wh.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Ha?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Well how how how how how whoa how well? How
whoa ha ha ha ha? Oh you know everybody, welcome
(01:45):
back to the black and show about nothing. It's Jaden
x d uh. We lost two giants, but we need
to talk about the black one first. You know, Mike
eugena Archer left us for greener pastures. I'll tell you that,
(02:06):
you know, honestly, that's what I'm going to refer to
certain things as greener pastures. Yeah, you know. Also another
proof positive message and how we should not talk in
comment about people's bodies hello, and in how they look
(02:30):
at the stuff. If you did not know we lost
the angel at the age of fifty one due to
pancreatic cancer, which was unbeknownst to the public everybody, you know.
And so Piece's family. I saw his children on post
on Instagram. You know, their heartbroken, as one would imagine
(02:53):
they would be the other one, that child that he
shares with Angie Stone, you know, losing both of your
parents and in a year it's.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Just less than like six sucks.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, it just fucking sucks. Like and you know, they're
in their twenties, and so this is prime to everybody
needs their mom and dad, you know what I mean,
Like everybody needs some guide, especially if they were loving
forces in their lives, which it seemed like it was
you who they were, and so I just my heart
goes out to them. But as a fan, you know,
(03:28):
it's a huge, huge loss loss and not not even
just music, not black music, but just blackness. Yeah you
know what I mean, Yeah, like yeah, black history.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, and also story.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Perspective, because I saw a beautiful sentiment that was a
reminder that D'Angelo was He was very celebratory of black women,
and you know, we we we know how society has
gone all taped. So it was a beautiful reminder that
(04:08):
like exactly so it was.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
That's always good to be much shoty example, look at
Adam Sterley's.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Look at Oklahoma Loason, but D'Angelo he celebrated black women,
and I you know that that shouldn't be lost on us.
In addition to him just being just a musical, oh
just savant voice of butter and just a beautiful soul
(04:44):
and very thoughtful in how he delivered, uh, you know,
from the foundations of being a church kid and that
showing up in different ways to also just being a
very soulful black man who had a very soulful spirit.
It is such an immense loss for the community. You
(05:05):
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I want Yeah, I definitely keep your hands and thoughts
around Raphaelsa Dik you know, longtime collaborator, bestie, who also
has endured a lot of loss in his life, you know,
if you're unaware of him. Yeah, and recently he's lost
a bunch of siblings in a childhood fire. Up until
(05:29):
just a few months ago, he lost one of his
brothers to cancer as well. I want to say pancreatic
cancer as well.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
But I.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You know, I just want folks to you know, just
uplift folks if you know, people don't know how this
has affected others, you know what I mean? Because I
hate when people like go on and be like you
didn't know him personally or you didn't you know what
I mean. I'm like, that's fucked up. Like people can grieve,
public people can grieve. And also you don't know what
(06:06):
people's personal connection is all the time. That could be
somebody you have no idea, you have.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No you have no clue. But also just like musically,
you know, just just being fans, is it? You know,
it is a great loss, Like it's a I remember
when DiAngelo premiered, essentially you.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I remember, I remember when Brown Sugar, like when the
video dropped. I remember watching the video, and I'm like
that to have somebody a part of your life in
that aspect for so long, is it? Like I said,
it's just a loss for the community. Like obviously we
we have extra hands and extra arms and and and
(06:50):
hugs around his children, around his loved ones who knew
him personally, around like you said, Raphael Sadiq, which we
know was one of his close friends, and like you said,
collaborator saw Williams, but we also, yeah, we hug. We
hug each other as well because this is sad and fifty.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
One is young.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's that is that is not a long life, and
so it's just it's just a big loss. I want
to shout out, like I said, Saul Williams who did
the liner notes for Voodoo, remember, because he's one of
my favorites anyway, just politically artistically, I just how we
feel about poetry aside or certain types of poetry. Should
(07:33):
I say Saul Williams is I just have a lot
of reverence for him? And then also are my dear
friend Isamar, who I've mentioned multiple times on the show,
and that's where my birthday party was at her house.
Isa was the she was the hottie and the limo
in the cruising video. So I just you know, little
(07:54):
pieces of that of that history and those connections. And
and I want to say I play D'Angelo, if not daily,
every other because the various comfort playlists that I hold
very close, he shows up very often. Like Noah's very aware.
You know, I told you I do my music lessons
(08:15):
in the car. So now we've been doing the Angie
Stone D'Angelo connection and you know, all of those things
because I want her to also understand empathy. And I
was letting her know about how their son lost both
of his parents within a seven month period. And when
I played some of the songs, she's like, oh, you
play that. So I'm like exactly, so like this is
the connection to that loss. So it's yeah, we just
(08:38):
play a little extra D'Angelo. This week, I've been right
back in my neo soul, even though everybody hates that
turn back.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, same. I was brought back to listen. I
telled you all over the last decade of this show.
What you know January first week of January two thousand,
my gay Awakening.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know, I thought, I told you, I thought about you.
I was like, my boy knows. The time that the
video dropped, I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Thank you, Paul Hunter. Yeah, but I yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So directorial genius.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I think you and I were talking about this the
other day about how like as you get older, your
mortality is.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Like yeah, ever present, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
And I don't want it. You know, there's been a
lot of there's been a lot of like go to
the doctor, black men, go to the doctor, blah blah, blah,
And I'm like, how do I say this? I'll be
blund That's not helpful. And I'm gonna tell you why.
Because when you're a child and you can tell somebody
(10:09):
to keep doing this and finger pointing and finger pointing,
would you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Do it dogmatic?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes? Yes? Yeah? No, like I think, especially when it
comes to something as sensitive as health, yes, because oftentimes,
I mean you and I have talked about it, you know,
like you know, men don't share like that and so
and so like healthcare is an element of vulnerability and
(10:37):
honesty that a lot of men people, but in this
case men don't want to face because it's an acknowledgement
of getting older and men have issues with getting older. Yes,
so I think the greater conversation, with the greater help
would be lifestyle changes. You know, yes, doctor, because you
(10:58):
can go all the doctor here, there, and everywhere. That
doesn't mean anything does if it's not applied, you know,
like you know, listen for a walk.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yes, I agree with you, and gone gone booking.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I just say this as a man who is about
to be forty, and I'm like, okay, well I can
see how this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I hear you and maybe the delivery maybe that you
don't well receive that, so maybe the delivery has to
shift in some way. But to in light of everything
we've been speaking on musically, to get on my Eric
Abadu and Jie Scott you know, I love you black man,
and so also yes, like get on your method man,
(11:54):
drink your green juices, pull ups in the park, and
also take your black ass to the doctor because often,
like I think about my uncles, I just found out
that a bunch of them have prostate cancer or have
prostate cancer, and like it's not discussed. And also people
don't want bad information. A lot of times they'd rather
not know, so they don't take care of those things.
(12:17):
And so yeah, I hear you. Maybe we can figure
out a better way to deliver this message. But also
like go to the fucking doctor, you know, you know,
lifestyle and like, yes, if I gotta go get my
if I gotta go smash burger my titties, go get
(12:39):
your fucking goots checked out, and make sure things are
running effectively so that either we are doing preventative things
or we're also like catching things early on as opposed
to letting ship ride. Speaking of word shout, out to
Montell Jordan, everybody pray for him. His his uh, his
(12:59):
prostate cancer is back.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
But yes, also we lost uh Diane Keaton.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Y'all know, y'all know we we we speak Diane Keaton's
name at the top of every fall.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah. Her season I literally dedicated to her, Queen of
masculine sets and prints.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Town.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She had a sear sucker suit on one time and
I was like, sign me the fuck up. Okay, I
want to look like Boardwalk Empire too. Like Diane Keaton
made men's weear so beautiful, amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Tailor to the Also find it interesting she never married.
She's she was romantically linked to some people, which we
will I'm gonna put a boot over that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But I have.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You sat in the man who who married his daughter?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
A lot of her work is attached to him.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's how I that's the same equivalent to Isaac Case
being a scientologist. In my eyes, I'm like, help me understand,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Since we okay, okay, well, yes, since we're here, I'm
going to address that because people have been saying, you know,
Jane and next to you, have you talked about this.
Have you seen this? Have you seen this? So? Yes,
R I P Dan Keaton, May you arrest wherever white
people go? I think.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
There's tears, right, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I think I don't know where white people go.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
So I just it's different tiers on Patreon, and I
think it's different tears for Caucasian. Yeah, you know Caucasian fa. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying, Like like how we were
discussing yesterday. Uh uh you know Diane Keaton and Meryl
(15:11):
Streep and Alice and Jamie and uh you know that ilk.
You know, maybe we put them in like we don't
know them fully, they're still white women, but maybe we
put them in like, you know, the middle decent place,
you know what I mean. And then then there's you know,
others that are like, oh bitch, go to seven Hills,
(15:33):
like like multiple times, like a Yo Yo. So I
don't know Lily Tomlin. I put her on a good place. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Did you know yo Yo was on Love and Hip Hop? Yeah, recently,
I don't know if she's like within the last few years,
like he was an active cast member all of A
Hip Hop yo Yo? Uh huh, yeah, you know she
(16:13):
on the remix with Big Teeth. You know I won't
want to be down. Yes, yeah, yeah, yo London. Huh. Anyway,
I just need to back to what I was going
to say, was you know sorry, Yeah, David Miscavenge's daughter, Yes, yes,
(16:47):
I will say if you send us a link, nine
times out of ten, I don't seen it before you
sent it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, he's the worst, but.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
She is.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
If you didn't know, she is a former big Ology.
Uh remember you know her father is the bizarre Big Ology.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What are like p ks but of scientology clean lit's
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
A little. I would call it AnyWho David with Scabbage
Daughters on TikTok expressing all of the things that has
(18:09):
been covered in everything. Yeah, there's nothing new information. Every
video I watch, I'm like, bitch, I know.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It's just confirmation, but it's like.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, we know. Yeah, where's your mama?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Exactly? Where is your mother? Is it his?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, no, no, I don't think it's his daughter.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
His niece Nie. I'm sorry, Yeah, but where's your auntie? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Where's she at?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Where's her remains? Because I know she's no longer with
h That's what I'm That's what we're here. For we
need to take a break before we go on to
the sixth episode. Okay, I think it's to shared tell you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Okay, oh, just just to bring away farness. Ceasefire, no ceasefire.
They still they still yeah, they're still ran terror on
people killing them as they go back to their homes
and so forth and so on. So you know, Ice
(19:16):
is still shout out. Shout out to the Queen, the
black Lady. I'm not called I'm not even gonna look
up her name or anything because I don't want it
out there. Who cussed Ice the motherfucker out dog ship?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Mm hmm what?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Uh uh oh stop.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Not them trying to my fear was.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Like retaliation later on? Uh huh yeah mine too. But
and I'm grateful for all of the protection that she
did have from that one again, the other little black lady,
you know, but shout out to her. I just everybody
prayers around, prayers around, nothing but good uh good protective energy.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Actually, I don't want to sell you the second half
of this episode, so I'm gonna tell you all the
bullsh in the first half. We'll go to commercial break
and then I'll tell you. Then we'll go to the
spooky story. But I want to ruin your day now, so.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
At least you declare it this time. Usually just blind.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Well first well, first of all, I'm gonna give it.
I'm gonna give it like a a sandwich. You know what,
was like like a compliment sandwich. So the funny thing
is one of the listeners they started doing their own
wo haa haas.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You all are amazing people. No, no, no, wow whoa.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Whoa who?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
How?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I know what song is? I know what's song? I
see she what's some there?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I shuck kids, not this Woha challenge.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Okay, so we might listen. You might have to see
a thing where y'all do the woe haaha.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
For Woha challenge. Be amazing. Yes, I'll be amazing.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Next up, if you send me any Sora videos, you
are completely blocked. I'm sick and tired of AI videos.
So Sora is the app from open ai akapt where
people are creating YouTube ridiculous AI slap. I watch James
(22:26):
Brown versus Prince in a cage match on Monday Night
Row that's celebrity, and then I scroll up and then
I see Rosa Parks fighting a bus and then center
of the ring also on Monday Night Raw. So whereas
(22:47):
I may have found this funny at one point in time,
not worth. It is not worth ruining the planet and
your own brain waves, because let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Like, can we there's not enough conversation around the brain rot?
Can we talk about the brain rot?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We've talked about wasting resources are ruining the earth. We
know who the ultimate culprits are, It's the fucking shark.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
But can you talk.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
About sometimes it's hard to like I find myself. I'm like, oh, no, stupid,
like you know what I mean. It's there's an article
I think it's the post in the Bushing Post where
they talk about how TikTok brain rot uses. Yeah, they
talk about brain rot and the actual scientific means that
(23:40):
way TikTok uses to him infiltrate our brains.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Which is where that stupid fucking six seven shit.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Every kid, you ask.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Them what six seven means, there's no fucking meaning.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
There's none, there's no meaning.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Whereas before like if we were his little skillzz Bizzle,
which nobody was really talking like that, but you know
when Snoop was really putting that in his music for
a period of time. Don't rest in peace. Sorry, every
time Snoop's name is mentioned, I just get a wave
of disappointment. But anyway, even when he was doing that,
(24:18):
like we knew what we not that that actually came
from somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
But if you were doing it with words, you know where.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The zzle came from. It came from Snoop songs, et cetera,
et cetera, right, like there was an origin.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
There's no meaning to the shit that they.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Say, no no, And honestly, I'm calling out their parents
like a lot of y'all. Yeah, if I get canceled today,
it's fine. A lot of y'all are the problem. Absolutely,
And I appreciate when you talk about parenting Noah in
a proper way. Right when you say we in the
(24:52):
car listening to Musac, like you know what I mean,
Like we are talking, we are benecting, Like.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Yeah, I'm like, put that fucking phone down.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Yeah, talk, motherfucker, talk talk to me, like you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Know what, that's literally what I'm doing. I'd be like,
put it down and let's have conversation.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And she's like okay, I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Like you about to see these niggas in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Like put the fucking phone down. You have to, and
also also by example, because this shit is not just
affecting children, it is affecting us too, where we get
caught up in doom scrolling niggas sitting on the fucking
toilet until every bit of their bottom half goes down.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Yeah, you know, toilet to.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Sit on the toilet too long compaired with not enough fiber.
But also y'all are sitting there until everything goes fucking numb,
and then what have you consumed? And this is not
a judgment because I have to catch myself and literally say, yo,
put this shit down, or like, if Noah sees you
doing this shit, what you think she's gonna do. We
(26:00):
have to be mindful, man, We have to like practice
mindfulness because it's out of goddamn control at this point.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Yeah, the last thing on my lists that I wanted
to ruin. This is really why I wanted to talk
to you. I'm just going to read the headline for you. Okay,
this was today this morning? Oh no, Turkey leg Hut
(26:33):
founder Nikia Holmes arrested accused of helping men in Houston
kidnapping case.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
What the fuck Well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Today at five, the Turkey Leg Hut is back on
the news.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
One of the original owners is now facing fell any
charges for allegedly hindering the arrest of a felon.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Her boyfriend.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
That is fox Is Leslie dellisbor is live at Harris
County Criminal Courthouse with what exactly happens.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The Houston Chronicle. I had to go hack because this
is behind a paywald, I said, Oh honey, so I
found a way to read it. Turkey Leg had found her.
Nikia Holmes was arrested Wednesday morning in charge with a
felony after she allegedly hindered the arrest of a man
accused of aggravated kidnapping. According to Harris County court records, Holmes,
(27:24):
forty five, was charged with one count of hindering apprehension
or prosecution of a known felon. She's accused of helping
Jonathan Saizon, a man who days earlier was accused of
beating an ex girlfriend with a tire iron while free
on bond on earlier felony charges. He was also charged
with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault of a family member.
(27:48):
Holmes does not having any prior criminal history in Harris County.
She is due in court on Friday. Holmes and Season
were both still in jail on Thursday morning, that's today.
For this a magistrate ordered Holmes held on ten thousand
dollars bail. It was not known if Holmes had any
had an attorney yet on the charge. Court didn't. Records
(28:10):
did not elaborate on how Holmes is accused of helping Season,
and court records Holmes identified herself as the owner of
Turkey Lake Hut and reported having seven hundred dollars in
assets to be reminded. Her ex husband, Lynn Price, was
indicted on federal arson's charges in April. The DOJ accused
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Price of hiring three men to set fire to a bar,
a business near Turkey Lake Hut that is owned by
a former business partner. They was also accused of writing
a chop shop as selling drugs out of the Turkey
Late Hut. That did.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You did not know about the chop shop?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Yeah, I think when we watched that thing, I think
I have friends who buy well, they buy weed out
the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Well that no, I know about the weed. I didn't
know about the thing.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We're doing auto crime ship too.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Damn mm hmmm hit in the back?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Are they like?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm wondering if they're going for like a lifetime movie
or like, what's the goal? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I'm gonna say to be original.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh that would that would track.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, lifetime seems a little lofty if you ask me.
But I think this this is on par with to
be's goals and uh.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, two B movie is appropriate in aligned Yeah, put
us in the writer's room.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
So you can get a little I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm happy to join.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I guess I could produce I don't know, right the slap,
I don't know. This is where you add ai. This
is what.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I gotta get us a. We gotta get an Asian
neighbor who's screaming about the turkey legs woke. We need uh,
we gotta we can hire all the girls from Jocelyn's
Cabaret to be different patrons, because remember when they put
the dress code up. So we can hire the Jocelyn's
Cabaret ladies.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We need Robin Thee to play doctor Hadasa to play
that lady you call that white man to colonize that
they're the whole panel on.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The yes, and then we should uh, let's see who
should play who should play his mother? Let me stop?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
All right?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
If you want more turkey turkey leg hut, or you
can join the Patreon because we have we have watched
an expose and discussed details.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm. Uh, but let's take a break. Oh,
pay bills. You know where to patreon subscribe every Friday. Yeah, okay,
we'll see. Let's take a break.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
You know where we are, where we be?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Bye yeah bye.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
After these messages will be right back.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
On swee.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
You are you are a former leader in the Church
of Satan, and you are now sounding the alarm about
the demonic realities of holloween. Can you peel back the pot.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
And we're back this week we're doing spooky reddit stories,
all right. Let me read a couple. I have not
(32:19):
really read these. Uh, these were submitted and so we're
gonna have a time reacting to them all arounds. Okay,
this comes from the subreddit no Sleep. So apparently in
this subreddit they talk about like true things that have
happened to them. Okay, and cause them a sleep.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Fu.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Let me see if it's a car chase yesterday we
had a car shase.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
La loves a car chase, honey every.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Day ever since Oja started him in ninety four. That's
the birth of the car chance.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Oh is that that was really the origins of the
La car Chase car just before No.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
But it was that's what made it like popular. Wow,
he always as shootings, but Columbine made it the thing.
But anyhow, because to get on TV to become sort
of like.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Hood classic.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Or the culture whatever, you know what I mean, Like
I don't, I don't know. People just do his shit
just to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
No, you're right doing it for them. A lot of
highways too.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Mm hmmm mm hmm. All right. But I went to
a wedding. The groom wouldn't stop smiling. I went to
my cousin Ava's wedding a few days ago. I'm still
trying to process what happened. I'll try to get everything
out as best as I can. Eva had been dating
some guy named Ethan for the past year. Being in
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their thirties, they sort of fast tracked the whole marriage thing.
I never met the guy, and I hadn't spoken to
Ava in a few years. But what the hell it
was guaranteed to be a fun time. The groom walked
down the aisle first, a tall, pale male in a
dark suit. He stood at the front of the church
and smiled and smiled. He smiled when Ava walked down
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the aisle. He smiled as they kissed after being pronounced
husband and wife. He smiled as they walked out of
the church. It didn't strike me as weird until we
got to the reception. When they entered, he was still
greeting that wide grin and his perfectly white, straight teeth.
But up close it looked, I don't know, wrong, somehow,
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he wasn't really engaging with guests. He wasn't talking or laughing.
He was just sort of scanning the place, staring, grinning wide,
without ever really reaching, without ever really reaching his eyes.
I guess he's smiling for the camera, I told myself.
Or maybe he's a little socially awkward. He figures nothing
will go wrong if he just keeps smiling. It got
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really weird, however, when they served dinner that face. I
watched him sitting at the sweetheart table with Ava shoveling
chicken pacata into his mouth as he still grinned barely
opening his mouth wide enough to let the bite in
before immediately closing it. He made loud chewing noises as
he chewed while grinning. Have you ever seen someone chew
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their food while smiling? It looks completely unnatural. Yeah, it
looks weird. Smiling with your mouth closed, sure, but showing
all your teeth grinning as you chew. It was so
so fucking weird.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
That's yeah. I'm like, really, I need about it.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Yeah, that's weird. They eventually came to our table to
say hi. I couldn't tear my eyes away from his face.
He was still grinning. His wide blue eyes jittered from
person to person at the table. His face looked like
a mask, no warmth, no emotion. It was looking like
a statue. I whispered this to my sister once they left.
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There's something seriously wrong with him. Why is he smiling
like that? My sister thought I was being a catty
old maid. Well, old mister, shut up. He looks fine.
No he doesn't. He looks like he's madly in love.
She stepped back. Stop being jealous. Geez, Matt, that hurt,
and honestly did. None of the other guests seemed to
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think anything was wrong. They thought it was all fine.
Him grinning though, him grinning through the first dance, through
the speeches, through the fucking champagne toes. He tilted the
champagne champagne flute into his grinning mouth without spilling it drop. Somehow,
this is so weird y yeah, I am, Oh.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
What is wrong today?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
I was like, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Coast to coast, late to Chicago, like, And the problem
is I don't see them, so I can't see.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Where they're coming from, where they're going. What's happening?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, AnyWho, I excuse myself to the bathroom. But
that was my first mistake, not realizing he had disappeared
from the dance floor. As I was washing my hands,
a stall swung open behind me. In the mirror over
my shoulder, I saw Ethan standing there. His skin looked
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milky white in the bright lights. His blue bulgie frog
eyes stared at me, and he was smiling.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
No, I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
I don't mean that he saw me and then smiled.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
No.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
When he opened the stall door, he was already smiling.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
He walked over and began washing his hands at the sink, right,
next to me, even though there were three other sinks.
Our shoulders bumped. Great wedding, I mumbled, trying to be friendly.
He turned to look down at me. Slowly, his blue
eyes bored into mind. My heart began to pound. Music's
great too, I said nervously, just to fill the silence.
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He just stared at me.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
He didn't kill that.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
That's when I realized, Yeah, that's when I realized he
hadn't said a single word the entire wedding. There were
no vows. He just nodded. When the efficient asked if
he took Ava as his wife is, he didn't thank
the best man. I'm sorry he didn't thank the best
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man after the speech, and I hadn't even seen him
talking to Eva at the sweetheart table, just smiling and staring.
I backed away. His eye tracked me as I went.
Just as I reached the bathroom door, he stretched up
to his full height and stared down at me. He
looked even taller than he had in the reception hall,
somehow under the fluorescent lights. Then he stopped smiling. As
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his face relaxed, his cheeks sagged, his forehead drooped, the
skin of his face began to shift and slide. I
froze as his face began to pull and separate from
his skull. He grinned, and everything stretched back into place.
I finally leapt into action and darted out of the
bathroom door. I went back to my sister and grabbed
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her arm. We have to get out of here, I
breathe Ethan. He's well, you shut up already, she said,
barely even looking at me. And then Ethan stauntered in
long legs, carrying him smoothly across the dance floor. He
slowed as he passed our table. On his way back
to Apa, he reached out and squeezed my shoulder. It's
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been three days. The skin in my shoulder is pulsing
with pain, like it's infected somehow. And I can't help
but notice every time I look in the mirror, my
face looks a little saggier, a little looser, like it
isn't attached quite the same way anymore. So I've started
smiling more, just to hold everything.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
He's a demon.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
H Did they take that from smile?
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Probably that sounds like smiled it right, Yeah, it sounds
like a movie. This sounds this gay very like. You
know the problem with Reddit sometimes it's like maybe it's
fake or not. This seems well written that it was
like a maybe this was lifted from somewhere.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, no, that was okay.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
That was good. That was good. I like a good story.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
This one comes from true scary stories. The Shadow Washed Asleep.
I was at my best friend's house, and she always
used to tell me about odd things that happened there,
like hearing their mom calling for them when she wasn't home,
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seeing someone standing in the kitchen who vanished, hearing footsteps
from the abandoned house above them, or seeing someone standing
outside their window at night. The last time I slept over,
we were talking about one of those things before drifting
off to sleep. Her dog, Simba, was sleeping next to me,
calm and quiet. A while later, I felt something brushing
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against me, like a light touch and a slow pool
on the bed sheet. I woke up a bit scared
and saw Simba standing on the edge of the bed,
staring straight at the window. Then she started barking like crazy,
something she never did. My friend woke up and told
me not to be scared, just to sleep it off.
The Next day, she told me that there had been
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the shadow of a man standing outside her window watching us.
She said she was the only one who could see him,
and it wasn't the first time this had happened. Taking
a long break from sleepoarders. That's crazy. That's that's crazy, lady,
like you see dead people. What if it was her brother?
Speaker 3 (42:27):
That's why that's why black parents always ask they got
they got brothers to trouble.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
That's probably brother have an uncle that.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Which valid would also problematic.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
If you were proud of the eighties, you had to.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Uncles follow in the house. Oh mm hmmm, woh, okay,
shall we take a break and come back.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Yes, let's take a break and come back. Hit it claude.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
After these messages will be right back.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
I can guarantee you anything your house should do with
solo barking day o, por taking in the mark of
fire or even the slugars is reading opt guard.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
And we're back. We're doing spooky, scary stories. Say no
to AI videos.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah, the fact that they're making it to differentiate and
they're making it so easy to do, and then also
a lot of them are racist and.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
A lot of like I hate flat back videos like
those are rooted in racism and.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Minstrel I told you those black girls sitting there eating
ribs and with the whole bone putting it in their mouth.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
Like that, you and everybody who creates them look like them.
People who did the Young Republican text threat, did.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
You say that?
Speaker 5 (44:24):
No? Yeah, white people be googling, uh Young Republican text thread.
So Politico posted this expos of this text thread of
the Young Republicans of New York and you can read
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some of the text messages that you may see.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Are they all videos that you see?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (44:57):
New fallout tonight from a racist and violent group chat
involving leaders of some Young Republican groups, As reported by Politico,
the outlet obtaining more than seven months worth of telegram
messages in which they say, members muse about using you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Want to talk about spooky stories?
Speaker 5 (45:15):
Yeah, this is why christmah I just said we should
watch the news for spooky season. Okay, it is a
very long article. If you ok there's a free article.
You all can go on the political Politico dot com
and look, or you can go on YouTube and seeing
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them covered it.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
All right, So I'll start here.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
I do want to say the text questions are very.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Very trigger warning.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Yeah, trigger warning, even if for me because I laughed.
I was like, this is very appropriate for me to
laugh at it, but even though it's about me, but I.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Jionto was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he
should become of the Young Republican National Federation. The GOP
is fifteen thousand member political organization for Republicans between eighteen
and forty years old. I'm going to create some of
the greatest psychological torture methods known to man. We only
want true believers, he continued, that's a quote. Two of
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the members of the chat responded. Everyone that votes not
is going to the gas chamber, and everyone that endorsed
but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber.
When do we start bullying?
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (46:33):
We have a solid three people who can probably have
them want to jump if they vote for us, why
would they be get Okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
M h.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Can we fix the showers. Gas chambers don't fit the
Hitler aesthetic. I'm ready to watch people burn.
Speaker 5 (46:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
We gotta pretend we like them. Hey, come on in,
take a nice shot, were in relaxed boom, They're dead.
This is crazy.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Wait all right, hold on, oh.
Speaker 6 (47:08):
It would be a motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
I just looked at who's wrote this, and he looked
like a motherfucker who would write some ship like this.
He looks like a fucking loser.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (47:20):
It's always a loser.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
It's always a big fucking suck your mother's titty ass loser.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
Look at this. We look at this pie faced motherfucker here.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
These are These are a bunch of little dicked incels.
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Mm hmmm, who think they're the superior race. And they
all look like.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
I love Hitler. Yo, y'all are insane. Look at this
motherfucker here too. Look at all of them?
Speaker 5 (47:56):
Yeah, nah, we know.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Okay, back to these stories.
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Anyway, True Reddit True scary Stories. I want to switch
it up a little bit. Okay, this is the it's
a spooky story, but it comes from am I the asshole,
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which we're familiar with. Am I the asshole for being
pissed at my friend for taking my dead baby's name.
In twenty twenty four, my husband and I were expecting
our first baby. I was five months pregnant when I
had a placental abruption and my baby passed away after
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an emergency c section. I was devastated and depressed. I'm
still grieving and I and have a hard time being
around babies or attending baby showers. Two months host part
of my cousin's girl. My husband's cousin's girlfriend. That took
me so long.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
My husband's cousin, Oh copy, okay, got.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
It, got it?
Speaker 3 (49:12):
You see where I.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
My husband's cousin's girlfriend asked if we could talk. She'd
gone through a miscarriage at five or six weeks and
wanted someone to talk to about her greet. I told
her I wasn't in the right headspace for that, but
she begged me, so I consult her girl at Red
Flag number one. Right, we need to talk about that.
Emotional regulation and emotional demanding, emotional work from people AnyWho?
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Uh in my head though I was angry, she was
comparing her experiences to mine. She knew what we named
our daughter. It was a combination of my husband of
my husband's and my names. It was perfect. We made
Day of the Dead altars of our babies last year
and got closer. In January twenty twenty five, she told
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me she was pregnant again. I was still grieving, but
happy for her. She found out she was having a
girl in August twenty twenty five. She said she was
having medical complications and would have to deliver early. Her
sister Alahn and I planned a surprise brunch for her,
cleaned her house and stead up a baby baby corner.
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A few days before she delivered, I visited her with
flowers and fresh juice. Two days later, she gave birth.
I didn't go into her hospital room, but I wanted
her to know I was there for her. A few
weeks later, when my husband and I visited to see
the baby, I asked, well, what did you name her?
She said, Isabella Guadalupe SoCoRo, the great grandmother's names. She
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and her boyfriend laughed about it. Three weeks later, I
was doing her mother in law's hair and mentioned how
nice the name was. She laughed as said, no, they
didn't name her baby that. Oh no, they didn't name
her name that. They named her Amelia or Amelia with
an eat. That's the name of my baby. I was furious.
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Oh sorry, I was furious. I went to her house
the next day and asked her why she chose that name.
She said, I forgot what I have the name tattooed
on my arm. It's in my Instagram bio. We bonded
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over our grief. She later admitted she told only five
people and that it was supposed to be a secret.
So I wasn't supposed to know. Wait hold on, oh
oh wait, hold on. Oh thank you for sparing my emotions.
But fuck you, there was no way she forgot. If
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she had, she wouldn't have kept it a secret. So
am I the asshole for being angry at her for
using the name. I think I'm right for being pissed.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
All right, let me just get this straight real fast.
When she went to go visit after she had the baby,
they gave her a completely different name than what.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
The baby grandmother's names okay, and her and her boyfriend
laughed about it.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
So my first thought when she got the wind they
said the name to her is when they laughed, I'm assuming.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
And she did't find the real name out till three
weeks later.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
So my very first thought listening to this was the
Jesus Negroes or Latin Negroes, because when they said it
was a combination of two names, I knew only some
dotus shit came from one of my people or one
of my people.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Or I I said.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Overclaire, So that was my first thought. I was like
that only some dotus shit like combining names sound like
it's some nigga shit, okay, some nigga.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
Shit or some lat niggash.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
So secondly, you didn't forget because you wouldn't have lied
to me about what the baby's name is in the
first place. So now, so first and foremost, I'm writing
that down. Okay, So when your baby gets old enough,
I'm gonna tell your baby that your mother is a
sinister bitch. Your mother lied on you when you was
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just days old. Your mother lied on you because she
told me your name was a dead grandmother's name. May
Isabella og Isabella haunt you for the rest of your
days for using her name for some bullshit.
Speaker 5 (53:59):
First foremost, Yeah, like y'all have a whole old friend
that you don't think nobody is from the old friend.
They're gonna come back and.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Right hello, That little nigga was not allowed to listen
to music for the first eight nine years of his life.
You know what I'm saying, Coco, because because of the ancestors,
I hope the ancestors come back and haunt your dirty
drawers like I hope they haunt your dreams. May you
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not know any peace because you lied on your baby
first and foremost, Hey, you stole a dead baby's name,
then you lie on your baby. You lied or you
used a great mother, great mother's great grandmother's name. I
will Leta's name in order to continue this lie. Your
household will not no peace. You bought that baby into
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full blown emotional chaos. Hm A, No, you're not the
asshole girl who wrote the story. You're not the asshole.
Speaker 6 (55:00):
You're not that bit is the dickhead.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
That bitch just a dickhead.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Like the minute that you heal, because I'm gonna allow
you to heal, but the minute that you heal, we
are shooting the fucking fair one. I'm also holding a grudge.
I'm also gonna tell your baby that you lied on
her way later on down the line, like I'm going
to ruin your life for decades, and I'm gonna call
on the power of Isabella as well to contribute to this.
Speaker 6 (55:27):
You getting a spiritual ass.
Speaker 3 (55:29):
Kicking you are.
Speaker 5 (55:32):
This is where you send that child a card every
year and too at the bottom of your Mama lied
to you.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah, lied on your name. Because you because you're named
after a dead baby that I knew I was doing
some gripy ship when I did it.
Speaker 5 (55:49):
Mm hmmmm hmm, that bitch, you will never know peace.
It's one thing because Amelia is a car is a
fairly common name, so it's like that's one thing, right,
But the fact that she was like, I'm not ready
to grieve my own ship, but you up here forced
in me. So therefore we forced a bond and grieved together.
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So you know how.
Speaker 6 (56:12):
You forced me.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
You stole my dead baby's name after you forced me,
and it pushed on my emotional boundaries. You stole my
dead baby. Same you lied on your baby.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
You named you yo.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
Some ethnic ship. Yeah, this is this is yeah, this
is giving me like central California behavior. If not, you know,
Sacramento bakers feel that kind of that's.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
A weird place.
Speaker 5 (56:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is very because
it could go either way. It can go either brown.
That's ever on the spectrum, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
That's a spooky story.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Mm hmmm, m m hmm. Hope she fights them, Hope
she shows up in a dreams.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
I'm gonna be like, do you know the origins of
your name.
Speaker 5 (57:11):
Yeah, I think we're gonna wrap up early. I have
one more story. I have a couple more. But you know,
we have a big holiday extravagans the next weekend, right,
yeah we do? Oh no, in two weeks? Damn? How
long is October?
Speaker 3 (57:33):
First of all, it's long and quick.
Speaker 5 (57:37):
Yeah, damn, I didn't know we had an extra week.
I was like, okay, we have a spooky season. Okay,
it comes to an end.
Speaker 3 (57:44):
No long and quick.
Speaker 5 (57:46):
No, no oh, but I should tell you about it.
I'll tell you the story, and then I'll tell you.
Then I'll tell you what I watched. This also kinds
from the our true scary stories. My wife stepped on
something in the lake. The next day they found a body.
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I always feared this. This is why I used to
I used to avoid going to Central Park because until
when I finally guess what I lucked up on found
a body? It was nobody in Central Park. It was
they lay dead straight on the trains track, the Chamber Street.
It's like, you know, in New York, you try to
you find things that I'm going to avoid at all costs,
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like working in Times Square, taking the G train, you know, all.
Speaker 9 (58:44):
To avoid as a New Yorker ended up happening to me,
you know what I mean. I got hit by a car,
was robbed, I was everything.
Speaker 5 (58:59):
Bad New York, you right, But yes, the dead nigga
that I found was not in nobody's park. He laid
there straight on at the jat Chambers And I was
so mad because it was late night and we were
coming home from the club. So I'm like, I'm ready
to go home, and I live. I lived off the
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J at Myrtle. Y'all know how sticky that so it was.
It was just like I was there for.
Speaker 3 (59:29):
Everybody have a budget, signal cabs and certain Now.
Speaker 5 (59:33):
No, this is before Uber, Yeah, so like.
Speaker 3 (59:36):
Yeah, when you still had to call Puerto Rico or Rainbow.
Speaker 5 (59:41):
Before end up going back down to h to downtown
Brooklyn and then take the bus. It was a long yeah,
but that was the day.
Speaker 3 (59:50):
I haven't run up on a body. Two word scenarios.
Somebody took a ship on the train and oh yeah, yeah,
that's that's really that's a pretty bad one. That's a
pretty bad.
Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Low key common, yeah, not uncommon.
Speaker 6 (01:00:10):
It also was.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
The FORO train at a certain.
Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
The train.
Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
In between certain stops at a period of time was
just always on some ship. It was always some ship.
Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
Always on the South Brox between South Bronx and Harlem.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
That was exactly where it was. It was exactly I
want to say. Actually, I think it might have been
at like Burnside.
Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
That that's yet it might have been.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
It might have been at Burnside where I discovered that
that lady had taken a ship on the train. Yeah,
that's that's always a that's always is a really really anyway,
what's your story?
Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
A few years ago, when my daughter was a toddler,
my wife and I used to take her to a
nearby lake, just picnic, swimming and wine. It was a
peaceful spot, quiet, not too crowded, the kind of place
where you could easily forget about the world for a while.
One afternoon, we'd finish eating, my wife decided to go
for a quick swim while I stayed on the beach
with our daughter. I watched her way into the water,
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the sun sparkling off the surface. A minute later, she
suddenly stopped and turned to me, shouting something. At first
I couldn't make out what she said, but her expression
was off. Then I heard her clearly. I think I
just stepped on someone's face. I froze. I froze, thinking
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maybe she was joking, But the look on her face
was playful. It was pale and terrified. She quickly started
making her way back to shore, her legs moving faster,
like she couldn't get out the water fast enough. When
she got back, she said that while she was swimming,
her foot brush against something soft. At first, she thought
it was a a rock or a patch of seaweed,
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but when she pressed her foot down, she felt the unmistakable.
But when she pressed her foot down, she felt the
unmistakable shape of a face beneath the water, a nose
and eye socket. She swore she felt the hollow of
the eye. I considered going into check, but something in
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my gut stocked. We packed up and left right after that.
The next day, the local news reported that a young
boy who had been missing for days was found drowned
in that same lake, not far where we had been.
To this day, my wife is convinced she stepped on
his face.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Oh imagine if it bitter.
Speaker 10 (01:03:17):
Hey, the horror story, then you acted it and then
your toes go into the eye sockets.
Speaker 9 (01:03:34):
Oh my god, Yeah, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
I'm gonna leave it right there.
Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
Wiggle wiggle.
Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
More spooky stories to come.
Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
We're doing We're doing Jade next to spooky content our
style over on the Patreon, so make sure you sign
up for that. Check out YouTube where we do our
ninety day Fiance the Other Way recaps. The recap next
week will be doubled up from the episode for this week,
so but you can go check out the first three
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or four episodes so far through Oh, there you go,
one through five, and yeah, we'll see you all next week.
Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
Bye pos.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Yeah, we're moving on
You should be here in the morning time when I'm
backing my breakfast. You should be here beneath me to
feel me, to heal me. You should be here to
grab me, to trib me, to climb me. You should
be here. I'm a good man and I work hard
(00:21):
on my night job.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Let me show you what you're missing every day? Why
to get you effort? Never go no walk away. Well
I got more than just a big stick and some money.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
You should be here. You should be here.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Wh whoa wh.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Whoa whoa.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Whoa?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Ha?
Speaker 5 (01:11):
Well how how how how how whoa how well? How
whoa ha ha ha ha? Oh you know everybody, welcome
(01:45):
back to the black and show about nothing. It's Jaden
x d uh. We lost two giants, but we need
to talk about the black one first. You know, Mike
eugena Archer left us for greener pastures. I'll tell you that,
(02:06):
you know, honestly, that's what I'm going to refer to
certain things as greener pastures. Yeah, you know. Also another
proof positive message and how we should not talk in
comment about people's bodies hello, and in how they look
(02:30):
at the stuff. If you did not know we lost
the angel at the age of fifty one due to
pancreatic cancer, which was unbeknownst to the public everybody, you know.
And so Piece's family. I saw his children on post
on Instagram. You know, their heartbroken, as one would imagine
(02:53):
they would be the other one, that child that he
shares with Angie Stone, you know, losing both of your
parents and in a year it's.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Just less than like six sucks.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Yeah, it just fucking sucks. Like and you know, they're
in their twenties, and so this is prime to everybody
needs their mom and dad, you know what I mean,
Like everybody needs some guide, especially if they were loving
forces in their lives, which it seemed like it was
you who they were, and so I just my heart
goes out to them. But as a fan, you know,
(03:28):
it's a huge, huge loss loss and not not even
just music, not black music, but just blackness. Yeah you
know what I mean, Yeah, like yeah, black history.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, and also story.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Perspective, because I saw a beautiful sentiment that was a
reminder that D'Angelo was He was very celebratory of black women,
and you know, we we we know how society has
gone all taped. So it was a beautiful reminder that
(04:08):
like exactly so it was.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
That's always good to be much shoty example, look at
Adam Sterley's.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
Look at Oklahoma Loason, but D'Angelo he celebrated black women,
and I you know that that shouldn't be lost on us.
In addition to him just being just a musical, oh
just savant voice of butter and just a beautiful soul
(04:44):
and very thoughtful in how he delivered, uh, you know,
from the foundations of being a church kid and that
showing up in different ways to also just being a
very soulful black man who had a very soulful spirit.
It is such an immense loss for the community. You
(05:05):
know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I want Yeah, I definitely keep your hands and thoughts
around Raphaelsa Dik you know, longtime collaborator, bestie, who also
has endured a lot of loss in his life, you know,
if you're unaware of him. Yeah, and recently he's lost
a bunch of siblings in a childhood fire. Up until
(05:29):
just a few months ago, he lost one of his
brothers to cancer as well. I want to say pancreatic
cancer as well.
Speaker 7 (05:40):
But I.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
You know, I just want folks to you know, just
uplift folks if you know, people don't know how this
has affected others, you know what I mean? Because I
hate when people like go on and be like you
didn't know him personally or you didn't you know what
I mean. I'm like, that's fucked up. Like people can grieve,
public people can grieve. And also you don't know what
(06:06):
people's personal connection is all the time. That could be
somebody you have no idea, you have.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
No you have no clue. But also just like musically,
you know, just just being fans, is it? You know,
it is a great loss, Like it's a I remember
when DiAngelo premiered, essentially you.
Speaker 6 (06:25):
Know what I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
I remember, I remember when Brown Sugar, like when the
video dropped. I remember watching the video, and I'm like
that to have somebody a part of your life in
that aspect for so long, is it? Like I said,
it's just a loss for the community. Like obviously we
we have extra hands and extra arms and and and
(06:50):
hugs around his children, around his loved ones who knew
him personally, around like you said, Raphael Sadiq, which we
know was one of his close friends, and like you said,
collaborator saw Williams, but we also, yeah, we hug. We
hug each other as well because this is sad and fifty.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
One is young.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
That's that is that is not a long life, and
so it's just it's just a big loss. I want
to shout out, like I said, Saul Williams who did
the liner notes for Voodoo, remember, because he's one of
my favorites anyway, just politically artistically, I just how we
feel about poetry aside or certain types of poetry. Should
(07:33):
I say Saul Williams is I just have a lot
of reverence for him? And then also are my dear
friend Isamar, who I've mentioned multiple times on the show,
and that's where my birthday party was at her house.
Isa was the she was the hottie and the limo
in the cruising video. So I just you know, little
(07:54):
pieces of that of that history and those connections. And
and I want to say I play D'Angelo, if not daily,
every other because the various comfort playlists that I hold
very close, he shows up very often. Like Noah's very aware.
You know, I told you I do my music lessons
(08:15):
in the car. So now we've been doing the Angie
Stone D'Angelo connection and you know, all of those things
because I want her to also understand empathy. And I
was letting her know about how their son lost both
of his parents within a seven month period. And when
I played some of the songs, she's like, oh, you
play that. So I'm like exactly, so like this is
the connection to that loss. So it's yeah, we just
(08:38):
play a little extra D'Angelo. This week, I've been right
back in my neo soul, even though everybody hates that
turn back.
Speaker 5 (09:02):
Yeah, yeah, same. I was brought back to listen. I
telled you all over the last decade of this show.
What you know January first week of January two thousand,
my gay Awakening.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
You know, I thought, I told you, I thought about you.
I was like, my boy knows. The time that the
video dropped, I thought.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Thank you, Paul Hunter. Yeah, but I yeah, it's just.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
So directorial genius.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
I think you and I were talking about this the
other day about how like as you get older, your
mortality is.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Like yeah, ever present, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:44):
And I don't want it. You know, there's been a
lot of there's been a lot of like go to
the doctor, black men, go to the doctor, blah blah, blah,
And I'm like, how do I say this? I'll be
blund That's not helpful. And I'm gonna tell you why.
Because when you're a child and you can tell somebody
(10:09):
to keep doing this and finger pointing and finger pointing,
would you.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Do it dogmatic?
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Yes? Yes? Yeah? No, like I think, especially when it
comes to something as sensitive as health, yes, because oftentimes,
I mean you and I have talked about it, you know,
like you know, men don't share like that and so
and so like healthcare is an element of vulnerability and
(10:37):
honesty that a lot of men people, but in this
case men don't want to face because it's an acknowledgement
of getting older and men have issues with getting older. Yes,
so I think the greater conversation, with the greater help
would be lifestyle changes. You know, yes, doctor, because you
(10:58):
can go all the doctor here, there, and everywhere. That
doesn't mean anything does if it's not applied, you know,
like you know, listen for a walk.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Yes, I agree with you, and gone gone booking.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I just say this as a man who is about
to be forty, and I'm like, okay, well I can
see how this is ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I hear you and maybe the delivery maybe that you
don't well receive that, so maybe the delivery has to
shift in some way. But to in light of everything
we've been speaking on musically, to get on my Eric
Abadu and Jie Scott you know, I love you black man,
and so also yes, like get on your method man,
(11:54):
drink your green juices, pull ups in the park, and
also take your black ass to the doctor because often,
like I think about my uncles, I just found out
that a bunch of them have prostate cancer or have
prostate cancer, and like it's not discussed. And also people
don't want bad information. A lot of times they'd rather
not know, so they don't take care of those things.
(12:17):
And so yeah, I hear you. Maybe we can figure
out a better way to deliver this message. But also
like go to the fucking doctor, you know, you know,
lifestyle and like, yes, if I gotta go get my
if I gotta go smash burger my titties, go get
(12:39):
your fucking goots checked out, and make sure things are
running effectively so that either we are doing preventative things
or we're also like catching things early on as opposed
to letting ship ride. Speaking of word shout, out to
Montell Jordan, everybody pray for him. His his uh, his
(12:59):
prostate cancer is back.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
But yes, also we lost uh Diane Keaton.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Y'all know, y'all know we we we speak Diane Keaton's
name at the top of every fall.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
Yeah. Her season I literally dedicated to her, Queen of
masculine sets and prints.
Speaker 7 (13:33):
Town.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
She had a sear sucker suit on one time and
I was like, sign me the fuck up. Okay, I
want to look like Boardwalk Empire too. Like Diane Keaton
made men's weear so beautiful, amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
Tailor to the Also find it interesting she never married.
She's she was romantically linked to some people, which we
will I'm gonna put a boot over that.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
But I have.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
You sat in the man who who married his daughter?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
Oh yeah, oh yeah yeah.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
A lot of her work is attached to him.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
That's how I that's the same equivalent to Isaac Case
being a scientologist. In my eyes, I'm like, help me understand,
you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Since we okay, okay, well, yes, since we're here, I'm
going to address that because people have been saying, you know,
Jane and next to you, have you talked about this.
Have you seen this? Have you seen this? So? Yes,
R I P Dan Keaton, May you arrest wherever white
people go? I think.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
There's tears, right, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
I think I don't know where white people go.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
So I just it's different tiers on Patreon, and I
think it's different tears for Caucasian. Yeah, you know Caucasian fa. Yeah,
you see what I'm saying, Like like how we were
discussing yesterday. Uh uh you know Diane Keaton and Meryl
(15:11):
Streep and Alice and Jamie and uh you know that ilk.
You know, maybe we put them in like we don't
know them fully, they're still white women, but maybe we
put them in like, you know, the middle decent place,
you know what I mean. And then then there's you know,
others that are like, oh bitch, go to seven Hills,
(15:33):
like like multiple times, like a Yo Yo. So I
don't know Lily Tomlin. I put her on a good place. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:44):
Did you know yo Yo was on Love and Hip Hop? Yeah, recently,
I don't know if she's like within the last few years,
like he was an active cast member all of A
Hip Hop yo Yo? Uh huh, yeah, you know she
(16:13):
on the remix with Big Teeth. You know I won't
want to be down. Yes, yeah, yeah, yo London. Huh. Anyway,
I just need to back to what I was going
to say, was you know sorry, Yeah, David Miscavenge's daughter, Yes, yes,
(16:47):
I will say if you send us a link, nine
times out of ten, I don't seen it before you
sent it.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
Yeah, he's the worst, but.
Speaker 7 (16:57):
She is.
Speaker 5 (16:59):
If you didn't know, she is a former big Ology.
Uh remember you know her father is the bizarre Big Ology.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
What are like p ks but of scientology clean lit's
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
A little. I would call it AnyWho David with Scabbage
Daughters on TikTok expressing all of the things that has
(18:09):
been covered in everything. Yeah, there's nothing new information. Every
video I watch, I'm like, bitch, I know.
Speaker 6 (18:17):
It's just confirmation, but it's like.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
Yeah, we know. Yeah, where's your mama?
Speaker 6 (18:23):
Exactly? Where is your mother? Is it his?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
Wait?
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, no, no, I don't think it's his daughter.
Speaker 5 (18:28):
His niece Nie. I'm sorry, Yeah, but where's your auntie? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
Where's she at?
Speaker 5 (18:36):
Where's her remains? Because I know she's no longer with
h That's what I'm That's what we're here. For we
need to take a break before we go on to
the sixth episode. Okay, I think it's to shared tell you.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Okay, oh, just just to bring away farness. Ceasefire, no ceasefire.
They still they still yeah, they're still ran terror on
people killing them as they go back to their homes
and so forth and so on. So you know, Ice
(19:16):
is still shout out. Shout out to the Queen, the
black Lady. I'm not called I'm not even gonna look
up her name or anything because I don't want it
out there. Who cussed Ice the motherfucker out dog ship?
Did you see that?
Speaker 5 (19:35):
Mm hmm what?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Uh uh oh stop.
Speaker 5 (19:42):
Not them trying to my fear was.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Like retaliation later on? Uh huh yeah mine too. But
and I'm grateful for all of the protection that she
did have from that one again, the other little black lady,
you know, but shout out to her. I just everybody
prayers around, prayers around, nothing but good uh good protective energy.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Actually, I don't want to sell you the second half
of this episode, so I'm gonna tell you all the
bullsh in the first half. We'll go to commercial break
and then I'll tell you. Then we'll go to the
spooky story. But I want to ruin your day now, so.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
At least you declare it this time. Usually just blind.
Speaker 7 (20:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
Well first well, first of all, I'm gonna give it.
I'm gonna give it like a a sandwich. You know what,
was like like a compliment sandwich. So the funny thing
is one of the listeners they started doing their own
wo haa haas.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
You all are amazing people. No, no, no, wow whoa.
Speaker 5 (21:08):
Whoa who?
Speaker 8 (21:15):
How?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
I know what song is? I know what's song? I
see she what's some there?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
I shuck kids, not this Woha challenge.
Speaker 5 (21:45):
Okay, so we might listen. You might have to see
a thing where y'all do the woe haaha.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
For Woha challenge. Be amazing. Yes, I'll be amazing.
Speaker 5 (21:59):
Next up, if you send me any Sora videos, you
are completely blocked. I'm sick and tired of AI videos.
So Sora is the app from open ai akapt where
people are creating YouTube ridiculous AI slap. I watch James
(22:26):
Brown versus Prince in a cage match on Monday Night
Row that's celebrity, and then I scroll up and then
I see Rosa Parks fighting a bus and then center
of the ring also on Monday Night Raw. So whereas
(22:47):
I may have found this funny at one point in time,
not worth. It is not worth ruining the planet and
your own brain waves, because let me tell you something.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Like, can we there's not enough conversation around the brain rot?
Can we talk about the brain rot?
Speaker 3 (23:11):
We've talked about wasting resources are ruining the earth. We
know who the ultimate culprits are, It's the fucking shark.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
But can you talk.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
About sometimes it's hard to like I find myself. I'm like, oh, no, stupid,
like you know what I mean. It's there's an article
I think it's the post in the Bushing Post where
they talk about how TikTok brain rot uses. Yeah, they
talk about brain rot and the actual scientific means that
(23:40):
way TikTok uses to him infiltrate our brains.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Which is where that stupid fucking six seven shit.
Speaker 6 (23:46):
Every kid, you ask.
Speaker 3 (23:48):
Them what six seven means, there's no fucking meaning.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
There's none, there's no meaning.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Whereas before like if we were his little skillzz Bizzle,
which nobody was really talking like that, but you know
when Snoop was really putting that in his music for
a period of time. Don't rest in peace. Sorry, every
time Snoop's name is mentioned, I just get a wave
of disappointment. But anyway, even when he was doing that,
(24:18):
like we knew what we not that that actually came
from somewhere.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
But if you were doing it with words, you know where.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
The zzle came from. It came from Snoop songs, et cetera,
et cetera, right, like there was an origin.
Speaker 6 (24:30):
There's no meaning to the shit that they.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
Say, no no, And honestly, I'm calling out their parents
like a lot of y'all. Yeah, if I get canceled today,
it's fine. A lot of y'all are the problem. Absolutely,
And I appreciate when you talk about parenting Noah in
a proper way. Right when you say we in the
(24:52):
car listening to Musac, like you know what I mean,
Like we are talking, we are benecting, Like.
Speaker 6 (24:57):
Yeah, I'm like, put that fucking phone down.
Speaker 5 (25:01):
Yeah, talk, motherfucker, talk talk to me, like you.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
Know what, that's literally what I'm doing. I'd be like,
put it down and let's have conversation.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
And she's like okay, I'm.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Like you about to see these niggas in fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Like put the fucking phone down. You have to, and
also also by example, because this shit is not just
affecting children, it is affecting us too, where we get
caught up in doom scrolling niggas sitting on the fucking
toilet until every bit of their bottom half goes down.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (25:34):
Yeah, you know, toilet to.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
Sit on the toilet too long compaired with not enough fiber.
But also y'all are sitting there until everything goes fucking numb,
and then what have you consumed? And this is not
a judgment because I have to catch myself and literally say, yo,
put this shit down, or like, if Noah sees you
doing this shit, what you think she's gonna do. We
(26:00):
have to be mindful, man, We have to like practice
mindfulness because it's out of goddamn control at this point.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Yeah, the last thing on my lists that I wanted
to ruin. This is really why I wanted to talk
to you. I'm just going to read the headline for you. Okay,
this was today this morning? Oh no, Turkey leg Hut
(26:33):
founder Nikia Holmes arrested accused of helping men in Houston
kidnapping case.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
What the fuck Well.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
Today at five, the Turkey Leg Hut is back on
the news.
Speaker 8 (26:46):
One of the original owners is now facing fell any
charges for allegedly hindering the arrest of a felon.
Speaker 3 (26:52):
Her boyfriend.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
That is fox Is Leslie dellisbor is live at Harris
County Criminal Courthouse with what exactly happens.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
The Houston Chronicle. I had to go hack because this
is behind a paywald, I said, Oh honey, so I
found a way to read it. Turkey Leg had found her.
Nikia Holmes was arrested Wednesday morning in charge with a
felony after she allegedly hindered the arrest of a man
accused of aggravated kidnapping. According to Harris County court records, Holmes,
(27:24):
forty five, was charged with one count of hindering apprehension
or prosecution of a known felon. She's accused of helping
Jonathan Saizon, a man who days earlier was accused of
beating an ex girlfriend with a tire iron while free
on bond on earlier felony charges. He was also charged
with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault of a family member.
(27:48):
Holmes does not having any prior criminal history in Harris County.
She is due in court on Friday. Holmes and Season
were both still in jail on Thursday morning, that's today.
For this a magistrate ordered Holmes held on ten thousand
dollars bail. It was not known if Holmes had any
had an attorney yet on the charge. Court didn't. Records
(28:10):
did not elaborate on how Holmes is accused of helping Season,
and court records Holmes identified herself as the owner of
Turkey Lake Hut and reported having seven hundred dollars in
assets to be reminded. Her ex husband, Lynn Price, was
indicted on federal arson's charges in April. The DOJ accused
(28:34):
Price of hiring three men to set fire to a bar,
a business near Turkey Lake Hut that is owned by
a former business partner. They was also accused of writing
a chop shop as selling drugs out of the Turkey
Late Hut. That did.
Speaker 6 (28:53):
Well.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
You did not know about the chop shop?
Speaker 5 (28:57):
Yeah, I think when we watched that thing, I think
I have friends who buy well, they buy weed out
the thing.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
Well that no, I know about the weed. I didn't
know about the thing.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (29:11):
We're doing auto crime ship too.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Damn mm hmmm hit in the back?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Are they like?
Speaker 5 (29:19):
Is this?
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I'm wondering if they're going for like a lifetime movie
or like, what's the goal? You know what I mean.
Speaker 5 (29:28):
I'm gonna say to be original.
Speaker 3 (29:31):
Oh that would that would track.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
Yeah, lifetime seems a little lofty if you ask me.
But I think this this is on par with to
be's goals and uh.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah, two B movie is appropriate in aligned Yeah, put
us in the writer's room.
Speaker 5 (29:52):
So you can get a little I don't know about that.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I'm happy to join.
Speaker 5 (29:58):
I guess I could produce I don't know, right the slap,
I don't know. This is where you add ai. This
is what.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I gotta get us a. We gotta get an Asian
neighbor who's screaming about the turkey legs woke. We need uh,
we gotta we can hire all the girls from Jocelyn's
Cabaret to be different patrons, because remember when they put
the dress code up. So we can hire the Jocelyn's
Cabaret ladies.
Speaker 5 (30:26):
We need Robin Thee to play doctor Hadasa to play
that lady you call that white man to colonize that
they're the whole panel on.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
The yes, and then we should uh, let's see who
should play who should play his mother? Let me stop?
Speaker 5 (30:53):
All right?
Speaker 3 (30:54):
If you want more turkey turkey leg hut, or you
can join the Patreon because we have we have watched
an expose and discussed details.
Speaker 5 (31:10):
Mm hmmm mm hmmm. Uh, but let's take a break. Oh,
pay bills. You know where to patreon subscribe every Friday. Yeah, okay,
we'll see. Let's take a break.
Speaker 6 (31:23):
You know where we are, where we be?
Speaker 5 (31:24):
Bye yeah bye.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
After these messages will be right back.
Speaker 5 (31:35):
On swee.
Speaker 7 (31:35):
You are you are a former leader in the Church
of Satan, and you are now sounding the alarm about
the demonic realities of holloween. Can you peel back the pot.
Speaker 5 (31:56):
And we're back this week we're doing spooky reddit stories,
all right. Let me read a couple. I have not
(32:19):
really read these. Uh, these were submitted and so we're
gonna have a time reacting to them all arounds. Okay,
this comes from the subreddit no Sleep. So apparently in
this subreddit they talk about like true things that have
happened to them. Okay, and cause them a sleep.
Speaker 3 (32:49):
Fu.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
Let me see if it's a car chase yesterday we
had a car shase.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
La loves a car chase, honey every.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
Day ever since Oja started him in ninety four. That's
the birth of the car chance.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Oh is that that was really the origins of the
La car Chase car just before No.
Speaker 5 (33:12):
But it was that's what made it like popular. Wow,
he always as shootings, but Columbine made it the thing.
But anyhow, because to get on TV to become sort
of like.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Hood classic.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Or the culture whatever, you know what I mean, Like
I don't, I don't know. People just do his shit
just to do it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
No, you're right doing it for them. A lot of
highways too.
Speaker 5 (33:39):
Mm hmmm mm hmm. All right. But I went to
a wedding. The groom wouldn't stop smiling. I went to
my cousin Ava's wedding a few days ago. I'm still
trying to process what happened. I'll try to get everything
out as best as I can. Eva had been dating
some guy named Ethan for the past year. Being in
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their thirties, they sort of fast tracked the whole marriage thing.
I never met the guy, and I hadn't spoken to
Ava in a few years. But what the hell it
was guaranteed to be a fun time. The groom walked
down the aisle first, a tall, pale male in a
dark suit. He stood at the front of the church
and smiled and smiled. He smiled when Ava walked down
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the aisle. He smiled as they kissed after being pronounced
husband and wife. He smiled as they walked out of
the church. It didn't strike me as weird until we
got to the reception. When they entered, he was still
greeting that wide grin and his perfectly white, straight teeth.
But up close it looked, I don't know, wrong, somehow,
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he wasn't really engaging with guests. He wasn't talking or laughing.
He was just sort of scanning the place, staring, grinning wide,
without ever really reaching, without ever really reaching his eyes.
I guess he's smiling for the camera, I told myself.
Or maybe he's a little socially awkward. He figures nothing
will go wrong if he just keeps smiling. It got
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really weird, however, when they served dinner that face. I
watched him sitting at the sweetheart table with Ava shoveling
chicken pacata into his mouth as he still grinned barely
opening his mouth wide enough to let the bite in
before immediately closing it. He made loud chewing noises as
he chewed while grinning. Have you ever seen someone chew
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their food while smiling? It looks completely unnatural. Yeah, it
looks weird. Smiling with your mouth closed, sure, but showing
all your teeth grinning as you chew. It was so
so fucking weird.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
That's yeah. I'm like, really, I need about it.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
Yeah, that's weird. They eventually came to our table to
say hi. I couldn't tear my eyes away from his face.
He was still grinning. His wide blue eyes jittered from
person to person at the table. His face looked like
a mask, no warmth, no emotion. It was looking like
a statue. I whispered this to my sister once they left.
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There's something seriously wrong with him. Why is he smiling
like that? My sister thought I was being a catty
old maid. Well, old mister, shut up. He looks fine.
No he doesn't. He looks like he's madly in love.
She stepped back. Stop being jealous. Geez, Matt, that hurt,
and honestly did. None of the other guests seemed to
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think anything was wrong. They thought it was all fine.
Him grinning though, him grinning through the first dance, through
the speeches, through the fucking champagne toes. He tilted the
champagne champagne flute into his grinning mouth without spilling it drop. Somehow,
this is so weird y yeah, I am, Oh.
Speaker 6 (37:03):
What is wrong today?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Right?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
I was like, what's going on?
Speaker 5 (37:11):
Coast to coast, late to Chicago, like, And the problem
is I don't see them, so I can't see.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Where they're coming from, where they're going. What's happening?
Speaker 5 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, AnyWho, I excuse myself to the bathroom. But
that was my first mistake, not realizing he had disappeared
from the dance floor. As I was washing my hands,
a stall swung open behind me. In the mirror over
my shoulder, I saw Ethan standing there. His skin looked
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milky white in the bright lights. His blue bulgie frog
eyes stared at me, and he was smiling.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
No, I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (37:51):
I don't mean that he saw me and then smiled.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
No.
Speaker 5 (37:55):
When he opened the stall door, he was already smiling.
Speaker 3 (37:59):
I don't like that.
Speaker 5 (38:01):
He walked over and began washing his hands at the sink, right,
next to me, even though there were three other sinks.
Our shoulders bumped. Great wedding, I mumbled, trying to be friendly.
He turned to look down at me. Slowly, his blue
eyes bored into mind. My heart began to pound. Music's
great too, I said nervously, just to fill the silence.
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He just stared at me.
Speaker 3 (38:27):
He didn't kill that.
Speaker 5 (38:28):
That's when I realized, Yeah, that's when I realized he
hadn't said a single word the entire wedding. There were
no vows. He just nodded. When the efficient asked if
he took Ava as his wife is, he didn't thank
the best man. I'm sorry he didn't thank the best
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man after the speech, and I hadn't even seen him
talking to Eva at the sweetheart table, just smiling and staring.
I backed away. His eye tracked me as I went.
Just as I reached the bathroom door, he stretched up
to his full height and stared down at me. He
looked even taller than he had in the reception hall,
somehow under the fluorescent lights. Then he stopped smiling. As
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his face relaxed, his cheeks sagged, his forehead drooped, the
skin of his face began to shift and slide. I
froze as his face began to pull and separate from
his skull. He grinned, and everything stretched back into place.
I finally leapt into action and darted out of the
bathroom door. I went back to my sister and grabbed
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her arm. We have to get out of here, I
breathe Ethan. He's well, you shut up already, she said,
barely even looking at me. And then Ethan stauntered in
long legs, carrying him smoothly across the dance floor. He
slowed as he passed our table. On his way back
to Apa, he reached out and squeezed my shoulder. It's
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been three days. The skin in my shoulder is pulsing
with pain, like it's infected somehow. And I can't help
but notice every time I look in the mirror, my
face looks a little saggier, a little looser, like it
isn't attached quite the same way anymore. So I've started
smiling more, just to hold everything.
Speaker 6 (40:20):
He's a demon.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
H Did they take that from smile?
Speaker 5 (40:27):
Probably that sounds like smiled it right, Yeah, it sounds
like a movie. This sounds this gay very like. You
know the problem with Reddit sometimes it's like maybe it's
fake or not. This seems well written that it was
like a maybe this was lifted from somewhere.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yeah, no, that was okay.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
That was good.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
That was good. That was good. I like a good story.
Speaker 5 (40:53):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 7 (40:56):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
This one comes from true scary stories. The Shadow Washed Asleep.
I was at my best friend's house, and she always
used to tell me about odd things that happened there,
like hearing their mom calling for them when she wasn't home,
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seeing someone standing in the kitchen who vanished, hearing footsteps
from the abandoned house above them, or seeing someone standing
outside their window at night. The last time I slept over,
we were talking about one of those things before drifting
off to sleep. Her dog, Simba, was sleeping next to me,
calm and quiet. A while later, I felt something brushing
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against me, like a light touch and a slow pool
on the bed sheet. I woke up a bit scared
and saw Simba standing on the edge of the bed,
staring straight at the window. Then she started barking like crazy,
something she never did. My friend woke up and told
me not to be scared, just to sleep it off.
The Next day, she told me that there had been
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the shadow of a man standing outside her window watching us.
She said she was the only one who could see him,
and it wasn't the first time this had happened. Taking
a long break from sleepoarders. That's crazy. That's that's crazy, lady,
like you see dead people. What if it was her brother?
Speaker 3 (42:27):
That's why that's why black parents always ask they got
they got brothers to trouble.
Speaker 5 (42:34):
That's probably brother have an uncle that.
Speaker 3 (42:40):
Which valid would also problematic.
Speaker 5 (42:53):
If you were proud of the eighties, you had to.
Speaker 3 (42:58):
Uncles follow in the house. Oh mm hmmm, woh, okay,
shall we take a break and come back.
Speaker 5 (43:10):
Yes, let's take a break and come back. Hit it claude.
Speaker 3 (43:15):
After these messages will be right back.
Speaker 7 (43:22):
I can guarantee you anything your house should do with
solo barking day o, por taking in the mark of
fire or even the slugars is reading opt guard.
Speaker 5 (43:42):
And we're back. We're doing spooky, scary stories. Say no
to AI videos.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Yeah, the fact that they're making it to differentiate and
they're making it so easy to do, and then also
a lot of them are racist and.
Speaker 5 (44:03):
A lot of like I hate flat back videos like
those are rooted in racism and.
Speaker 3 (44:07):
Minstrel I told you those black girls sitting there eating
ribs and with the whole bone putting it in their mouth.
Speaker 5 (44:16):
Like that, you and everybody who creates them look like them.
People who did the Young Republican text threat, did.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
You say that?
Speaker 5 (44:24):
No? Yeah, white people be googling, uh Young Republican text thread.
So Politico posted this expos of this text thread of
the Young Republicans of New York and you can read
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some of the text messages that you may see.
Speaker 3 (44:53):
Are they all videos that you see?
Speaker 5 (44:56):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (44:57):
New fallout tonight from a racist and violent group chat
involving leaders of some Young Republican groups, As reported by Politico,
the outlet obtaining more than seven months worth of telegram
messages in which they say, members muse about using you.
Speaker 3 (45:12):
Want to talk about spooky stories?
Speaker 5 (45:15):
Yeah, this is why christmah I just said we should
watch the news for spooky season. Okay, it is a
very long article. If you ok there's a free article.
You all can go on the political Politico dot com
and look, or you can go on YouTube and seeing
(45:36):
them covered it.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
All right, So I'll start here.
Speaker 5 (45:43):
I do want to say the text questions are very.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
Very trigger warning.
Speaker 5 (45:48):
Yeah, trigger warning, even if for me because I laughed.
I was like, this is very appropriate for me to
laugh at it, but even though it's about me, but I.
Speaker 3 (45:56):
Jionto was referring to an upcoming vote on whether he
should become of the Young Republican National Federation. The GOP
is fifteen thousand member political organization for Republicans between eighteen
and forty years old. I'm going to create some of
the greatest psychological torture methods known to man. We only
want true believers, he continued, that's a quote. Two of
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the members of the chat responded. Everyone that votes not
is going to the gas chamber, and everyone that endorsed
but then votes for us is going to the gas chamber.
When do we start bullying?
Speaker 5 (46:32):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (46:33):
We have a solid three people who can probably have
them want to jump if they vote for us, why
would they be get Okay, let's keep going.
Speaker 5 (46:41):
M h.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
Can we fix the showers. Gas chambers don't fit the
Hitler aesthetic. I'm ready to watch people burn.
Speaker 5 (46:55):
Now.
Speaker 3 (46:56):
We gotta pretend we like them. Hey, come on in,
take a nice shot, were in relaxed boom, They're dead.
This is crazy.
Speaker 8 (47:04):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 5 (47:05):
Wait all right, hold on, oh.
Speaker 6 (47:08):
It would be a motherfucker.
Speaker 3 (47:10):
I just looked at who's wrote this, and he looked
like a motherfucker who would write some ship like this.
He looks like a fucking loser.
Speaker 5 (47:19):
Mm hmmm.
Speaker 6 (47:20):
It's always a loser.
Speaker 3 (47:22):
It's always a big fucking suck your mother's titty ass loser.
Speaker 6 (47:28):
Look at this. We look at this pie faced motherfucker here.
Speaker 3 (47:31):
These are These are a bunch of little dicked incels.
Speaker 5 (47:36):
Mm hmmm, who think they're the superior race. And they
all look like.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
I love Hitler. Yo, y'all are insane. Look at this
motherfucker here too. Look at all of them?
Speaker 5 (47:56):
Yeah, nah, we know.
Speaker 3 (47:59):
Okay, back to these stories.
Speaker 5 (48:02):
Anyway, True Reddit True scary Stories. I want to switch
it up a little bit. Okay, this is the it's
a spooky story, but it comes from am I the asshole,
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which we're familiar with. Am I the asshole for being
pissed at my friend for taking my dead baby's name.
In twenty twenty four, my husband and I were expecting
our first baby. I was five months pregnant when I
had a placental abruption and my baby passed away after
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an emergency c section. I was devastated and depressed. I'm
still grieving and I and have a hard time being
around babies or attending baby showers. Two months host part
of my cousin's girl. My husband's cousin's girlfriend. That took
me so long.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
My husband's cousin, Oh copy, okay, got.
Speaker 5 (49:11):
It, got it?
Speaker 3 (49:12):
You see where I.
Speaker 5 (49:15):
My husband's cousin's girlfriend asked if we could talk. She'd
gone through a miscarriage at five or six weeks and
wanted someone to talk to about her greet. I told
her I wasn't in the right headspace for that, but
she begged me, so I consult her girl at Red
Flag number one. Right, we need to talk about that.
Emotional regulation and emotional demanding, emotional work from people AnyWho?
(49:41):
Uh in my head though I was angry, she was
comparing her experiences to mine. She knew what we named
our daughter. It was a combination of my husband of
my husband's and my names. It was perfect. We made
Day of the Dead altars of our babies last year
and got closer. In January twenty twenty five, she told
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me she was pregnant again. I was still grieving, but
happy for her. She found out she was having a
girl in August twenty twenty five. She said she was
having medical complications and would have to deliver early. Her
sister Alahn and I planned a surprise brunch for her,
cleaned her house and stead up a baby baby corner.
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A few days before she delivered, I visited her with
flowers and fresh juice. Two days later, she gave birth.
I didn't go into her hospital room, but I wanted
her to know I was there for her. A few
weeks later, when my husband and I visited to see
the baby, I asked, well, what did you name her?
She said, Isabella Guadalupe SoCoRo, the great grandmother's names. She
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and her boyfriend laughed about it. Three weeks later, I
was doing her mother in law's hair and mentioned how
nice the name was. She laughed as said, no, they
didn't name her baby that. Oh no, they didn't name
her name that. They named her Amelia or Amelia with
an eat. That's the name of my baby. I was furious.
(51:15):
Oh sorry, I was furious. I went to her house
the next day and asked her why she chose that name.
She said, I forgot what I have the name tattooed
on my arm. It's in my Instagram bio. We bonded
(51:36):
over our grief. She later admitted she told only five
people and that it was supposed to be a secret.
So I wasn't supposed to know. Wait hold on, oh
oh wait, hold on. Oh thank you for sparing my emotions.
But fuck you, there was no way she forgot. If
(51:56):
she had, she wouldn't have kept it a secret. So
am I the asshole for being angry at her for
using the name. I think I'm right for being pissed.
Speaker 3 (52:08):
All right, let me just get this straight real fast.
When she went to go visit after she had the baby,
they gave her a completely different name than what.
Speaker 5 (52:22):
The baby grandmother's names okay, and her and her boyfriend
laughed about it.
Speaker 3 (52:30):
So my first thought when she got the wind they
said the name to her is when they laughed, I'm assuming.
Speaker 5 (52:38):
And she did't find the real name out till three
weeks later.
Speaker 3 (52:41):
So my very first thought listening to this was the
Jesus Negroes or Latin Negroes, because when they said it
was a combination of two names, I knew only some
dotus shit came from one of my people or one
of my people.
Speaker 5 (53:00):
Or I I said.
Speaker 3 (53:09):
Overclaire, So that was my first thought. I was like
that only some dotus shit like combining names sound like
it's some nigga shit, okay, some nigga.
Speaker 6 (53:19):
Shit or some lat niggash.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
So secondly, you didn't forget because you wouldn't have lied
to me about what the baby's name is in the
first place. So now, so first and foremost, I'm writing
that down. Okay, So when your baby gets old enough,
I'm gonna tell your baby that your mother is a
sinister bitch. Your mother lied on you when you was
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just days old. Your mother lied on you because she
told me your name was a dead grandmother's name. May
Isabella og Isabella haunt you for the rest of your
days for using her name for some bullshit.
Speaker 5 (53:59):
First foremost, Yeah, like y'all have a whole old friend
that you don't think nobody is from the old friend.
They're gonna come back and.
Speaker 3 (54:06):
Right hello, That little nigga was not allowed to listen
to music for the first eight nine years of his life.
You know what I'm saying, Coco, because because of the ancestors,
I hope the ancestors come back and haunt your dirty
drawers like I hope they haunt your dreams. May you
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not know any peace because you lied on your baby
first and foremost, Hey, you stole a dead baby's name,
then you lie on your baby. You lied or you
used a great mother, great mother's great grandmother's name. I
will Leta's name in order to continue this lie. Your
household will not no peace. You bought that baby into
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full blown emotional chaos. Hm A, No, you're not the
asshole girl who wrote the story. You're not the asshole.
Speaker 6 (55:00):
You're not that bit is the dickhead.
Speaker 5 (55:03):
That bitch just a dickhead.
Speaker 3 (55:05):
Like the minute that you heal, because I'm gonna allow
you to heal, but the minute that you heal, we
are shooting the fucking fair one. I'm also holding a grudge.
I'm also gonna tell your baby that you lied on
her way later on down the line, like I'm going
to ruin your life for decades, and I'm gonna call
on the power of Isabella as well to contribute to this.
Speaker 6 (55:27):
You getting a spiritual ass.
Speaker 3 (55:29):
Kicking you are.
Speaker 5 (55:32):
This is where you send that child a card every
year and too at the bottom of your Mama lied
to you.
Speaker 3 (55:36):
Yeah, lied on your name. Because you because you're named
after a dead baby that I knew I was doing
some gripy ship when I did it.
Speaker 5 (55:49):
Mm hmmmm hmm, that bitch, you will never know peace.
It's one thing because Amelia is a car is a
fairly common name, so it's like that's one thing, right,
But the fact that she was like, I'm not ready
to grieve my own ship, but you up here forced
in me. So therefore we forced a bond and grieved together.
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So you know how.
Speaker 6 (56:12):
You forced me.
Speaker 3 (56:14):
You stole my dead baby's name after you forced me,
and it pushed on my emotional boundaries. You stole my
dead baby. Same you lied on your baby.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
You named you yo.
Speaker 5 (56:30):
Some ethnic ship. Yeah, this is this is yeah, this
is giving me like central California behavior. If not, you know,
Sacramento bakers feel that kind of that's.
Speaker 3 (56:45):
A weird place.
Speaker 5 (56:46):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is very because
it could go either way. It can go either brown.
That's ever on the spectrum, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (56:56):
That's a spooky story.
Speaker 5 (56:58):
Mm hmmm, m m hmm. Hope she fights them, Hope
she shows up in a dreams.
Speaker 3 (57:06):
I'm gonna be like, do you know the origins of
your name.
Speaker 5 (57:11):
Yeah, I think we're gonna wrap up early. I have
one more story. I have a couple more. But you know,
we have a big holiday extravagans the next weekend, right,
yeah we do? Oh no, in two weeks? Damn? How
long is October?
Speaker 3 (57:33):
First of all, it's long and quick.
Speaker 5 (57:37):
Yeah, damn, I didn't know we had an extra week.
I was like, okay, we have a spooky season. Okay,
it comes to an end.
Speaker 3 (57:44):
No long and quick.
Speaker 5 (57:46):
No, no oh, but I should tell you about it.
I'll tell you the story, and then I'll tell you.
Then I'll tell you what I watched. This also kinds
from the our true scary stories. My wife stepped on
something in the lake. The next day they found a body.
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I always feared this. This is why I used to
I used to avoid going to Central Park because until
when I finally guess what I lucked up on found
a body? It was nobody in Central Park. It was
they lay dead straight on the trains track, the Chamber Street.
It's like, you know, in New York, you try to
you find things that I'm going to avoid at all costs,
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like working in Times Square, taking the G train, you know, all.
Speaker 9 (58:44):
To avoid as a New Yorker ended up happening to me,
you know what I mean. I got hit by a car,
was robbed, I was everything.
Speaker 5 (58:59):
Bad New York, you right, But yes, the dead nigga
that I found was not in nobody's park. He laid
there straight on at the jat Chambers And I was
so mad because it was late night and we were
coming home from the club. So I'm like, I'm ready
to go home, and I live. I lived off the
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J at Myrtle. Y'all know how sticky that so it was.
It was just like I was there for.
Speaker 3 (59:29):
Everybody have a budget, signal cabs and certain Now.
Speaker 5 (59:33):
No, this is before Uber, Yeah, so like.
Speaker 3 (59:36):
Yeah, when you still had to call Puerto Rico or Rainbow.
Speaker 5 (59:41):
Before end up going back down to h to downtown
Brooklyn and then take the bus. It was a long yeah,
but that was the day.
Speaker 3 (59:50):
I haven't run up on a body. Two word scenarios.
Somebody took a ship on the train and oh yeah, yeah,
that's that's really that's a pretty bad one. That's a
pretty bad.
Speaker 5 (01:00:03):
Low key common, yeah, not uncommon.
Speaker 6 (01:00:10):
It also was.
Speaker 3 (01:00:13):
The FORO train at a certain.
Speaker 6 (01:00:19):
The train.
Speaker 3 (01:00:21):
In between certain stops at a period of time was
just always on some ship. It was always some ship.
Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
Always on the South Brox between South Bronx and Harlem.
Speaker 3 (01:00:35):
That was exactly where it was. It was exactly I
want to say. Actually, I think it might have been
at like Burnside.
Speaker 5 (01:00:44):
That that's yet it might have been.
Speaker 3 (01:00:51):
It might have been at Burnside where I discovered that
that lady had taken a ship on the train. Yeah,
that's that's always a that's always is a really really anyway,
what's your story?
Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
A few years ago, when my daughter was a toddler,
my wife and I used to take her to a
nearby lake, just picnic, swimming and wine. It was a
peaceful spot, quiet, not too crowded, the kind of place
where you could easily forget about the world for a while.
One afternoon, we'd finish eating, my wife decided to go
for a quick swim while I stayed on the beach
with our daughter. I watched her way into the water,
(01:01:35):
the sun sparkling off the surface. A minute later, she
suddenly stopped and turned to me, shouting something. At first
I couldn't make out what she said, but her expression
was off. Then I heard her clearly. I think I
just stepped on someone's face. I froze. I froze, thinking
(01:01:57):
maybe she was joking, But the look on her face
was playful. It was pale and terrified. She quickly started
making her way back to shore, her legs moving faster,
like she couldn't get out the water fast enough. When
she got back, she said that while she was swimming,
her foot brush against something soft. At first, she thought
it was a a rock or a patch of seaweed,
(01:02:19):
but when she pressed her foot down, she felt the unmistakable.
But when she pressed her foot down, she felt the
unmistakable shape of a face beneath the water, a nose
and eye socket. She swore she felt the hollow of
the eye. I considered going into check, but something in
(01:02:42):
my gut stocked. We packed up and left right after that.
The next day, the local news reported that a young
boy who had been missing for days was found drowned
in that same lake, not far where we had been.
To this day, my wife is convinced she stepped on
his face.
Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
Oh imagine if it bitter.
Speaker 10 (01:03:17):
Hey, the horror story, then you acted it and then
your toes go into the eye sockets.
Speaker 9 (01:03:34):
Oh my god, Yeah, that's disgusting.
Speaker 5 (01:03:44):
I'm gonna leave it right there.
Speaker 6 (01:03:45):
Wiggle wiggle.
Speaker 5 (01:03:50):
More spooky stories to come.
Speaker 3 (01:03:56):
We're doing We're doing Jade next to spooky content our
style over on the Patreon, so make sure you sign
up for that. Check out YouTube where we do our
ninety day Fiance the Other Way recaps. The recap next
week will be doubled up from the episode for this week,
so but you can go check out the first three
(01:04:19):
or four episodes so far through Oh, there you go,
one through five, and yeah, we'll see you all next week.
Speaker 5 (01:04:29):
Bye pos.
Speaker 3 (01:04:39):
Yeah, we're moving on
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The Burden
The Burden is a documentary series that takes listeners into the hidden places where justice is done (and undone). It dives deep into the lives of heroes and villains. And it focuses a spotlight on those who triumph even when the odds are against them. Season 5 - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the murder, and David breathed a sigh of relief, until the confessed murderer fingered David; “He paid me to do it.” David was sentenced to life without parole. Two decades later, Pulitzer winner and podcast host, Maggie Freleng (Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County, Wrongful Conviction, Suave) launched a “live” investigation into David's conviction alongside Jason Baldwin (himself wrongfully convicted as a member of the West Memphis Three). Maggie had come to believe that the entire investigation of David was botched by the tiny local police department, or worse, covered up the real killer. Was Maggie correct? Was David’s claim of innocence credible? In Death and Deceit in Alliance, Maggie recounts the case that launched her career, and ultimately, “broke” her.” The results will shock the listener and reduce Maggie to tears and self-doubt. This is not your typical wrongful conviction story. In fact, it turns the genre on its head. It asks the question: What if our champions are foolish? Season 4 - The Burden: Get the Money and Run “Trying to murder my father, this was the thing that put me on the path.” That’s Joe Loya and that path was bank robbery. Bank, bank, bank, bank, bank. In season 4 of The Burden: Get the Money and Run, we hear from Joe who was once the most prolific bank robber in Southern California, and beyond. He used disguises, body doubles, proxies. He leaped over counters, grabbed the money and ran. Even as the FBI was closing in. It was a showdown between a daring bank robber, and a patient FBI agent. Joe was no ordinary bank robber. He was bright, articulate, charismatic, and driven by a dark rage that he summoned up at will. In seven episodes, Joe tells all: the what, the how… and the why. Including why he tried to murder his father. Season 3 - The Burden: Avenger Miriam Lewin is one of Argentina’s leading journalists today. At 19 years old, she was kidnapped off the streets of Buenos Aires for her political activism and thrown into a concentration camp. Thousands of her fellow inmates were executed, tossed alive from a cargo plane into the ocean. Miriam, along with a handful of others, will survive the camp. Then as a journalist, she will wage a decades long campaign to bring her tormentors to justice. Avenger is about one woman’s triumphant battle against unbelievable odds to survive torture, claim justice for the crimes done against her and others like her, and change the future of her country. Season 2 - The Burden: Empire on Blood Empire on Blood is set in the Bronx, NY, in the early 90s, when two young drug dealers ruled an intersection known as “The Corner on Blood.” The boss, Calvin Buari, lived large. He and a protege swore they would build an empire on blood. Then the relationship frayed and the protege accused Calvin of a double homicide which he claimed he didn’t do. But did he? Award-winning journalist Steve Fishman spent seven years to answer that question. This is the story of one man’s last chance to overturn his life sentence. He may prevail, but someone’s gotta pay. The Burden: Empire on Blood is the director’s cut of the true crime classic which reached #1 on the charts when it was first released half a dozen years ago. Season 1 - The Burden In the 1990s, Detective Louis N. Scarcella was legendary. In a city overrun by violent crime, he cracked the toughest cases and put away the worst criminals. “The Hulk” was his nickname. Then the story changed. Scarcella ran into a group of convicted murderers who all say they are innocent. They turned themselves into jailhouse-lawyers and in prison founded a lway firm. When they realized Scarcella helped put many of them away, they set their sights on taking him down. And with the help of a NY Times reporter they have a chance. For years, Scarcella insisted he did nothing wrong. But that’s all he’d say. Until we tracked Scarcella to a sauna in a Russian bathhouse, where he started to talk..and talk and talk. “The guilty have gone free,” he whispered. And then agreed to take us into the belly of the beast. Welcome to The Burden.