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Speaker 1: Welcome to you Stuff you Should Know from HowStuffWorks dot Com.

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Speaker 2: Hey, and welcome to the Podcast from Hell. I'm Josh Clark,

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Speaker 2: and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant, and Jerry's over there.

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Speaker 2: So that makes the Stuff you Should Know the podcast

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Speaker 2: special Halloween Bonus Episode twenty sixteen. This sequel.

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Speaker 1: I think we've called this something different every year, from

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Speaker 1: Spooctober to spectacular Spectacular.

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Speaker 2: That was a good one.

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Speaker 1: I think you're going to probably title this one so

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Speaker 1: I just I can't wait to see myself.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm gonna have to give it some real thought.

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Speaker 1: How about Live from Hell?

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Speaker 2: From Hell.

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Speaker 1: Speak for yourself.

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Speaker 2: You're feeling good about this one?

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Speaker 1: I always feel good. I've got my traditional Halloween hot toddy.

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Speaker 2: Oh nice, made with candy corn sprinkle on.

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Speaker 1: Top, candy corn and corn whiskey. It goes well to go.

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Speaker 2: Heat it up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you heat it up with some with some margarine.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, you're making me cry.

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Speaker 1: Here some pine nuts.

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Speaker 2: It's delicious, straight out of a Georgia mom's kitchen. I

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Speaker 2: wish man, you would get arrested if you tried to

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Speaker 2: give that out to trick or treaters.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, rightfully, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So, Chuck, we have as we usually do, this is

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Speaker 2: a this is a special bonus episode. It's an extra episode. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so it can come out on Halloween. It's beautiful. It's

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Speaker 2: a gift from us. I guess you could say, as

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Speaker 2: we do every year, and what we like to do

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Speaker 2: is read a couple of short stories, scary stories, classic

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Speaker 2: core fiction usually, but this year we're doing something different.

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Speaker 2: We're doing something contemporary, like you like your story last year.

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Speaker 2: And the other little land yap to that is that

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Speaker 2: this year's first story comes from the Grabster.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the great Ed Grabanowski, who has written many many

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Speaker 1: of the house stuff Works articles over the years that

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Speaker 1: we've based our episodes on, and we've met ed he's uh,

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Speaker 1: he's in Buffalo, right, Yeah, he's in Buffalo, and he

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Speaker 1: wrote a great story. And I just want to warn.

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Speaker 1: I feel like we need to warn this year. Yeah, parents,

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Speaker 1: this one is pretty legit, scary, yeah, and creepy. So

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Speaker 1: you know, maybe you might want to listen before you

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Speaker 1: round your kids around the fire.

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Speaker 2: To enjoy a Halloween hot hottie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a pretty good one.

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Speaker 2: Again, I think the Department of Family and Children's Services

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Speaker 2: should come to your house if you're giving your kids

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Speaker 2: Halloween hot toddies.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and just as a preview too. After this, we

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Speaker 1: did something else a little different. We saw some two

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Speaker 1: sentence horror stories from listeners the other day and it

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Speaker 1: was a thing that I found is a thing like

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Speaker 1: the two sentence story. How creative can you be? Creepy

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Speaker 1: can you be? In two sentences? And we picked out

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Speaker 1: twenty of the best ones, and so big thanks already

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Speaker 1: to everyone who contributed, and sorry to the ones who

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Speaker 1: did not get picked because a lot of more jokes,

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Speaker 1: all right, we appreciated those, Yeah, but we tried to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like we want to scare the pants off of

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Speaker 2: people this Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's the plan for the next what forty

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Speaker 1: minutes something like that, probably not even yeah around there

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Speaker 1: we make no time promises.

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Speaker 2: So without further ado, we're going to start with the

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Speaker 2: first story by Ed grab Anowski. It's called Extraneous Invocat.

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Speaker 2: None of these little incidents meant anything to me at first.

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Speaker 2: a fall afternoon, sunny and crisp. We were packing up

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Speaker 2: Sun shone through the wide front windows onto her long,

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Speaker 2: The apartment was mostly packed up at that point. We

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Speaker 1: to pick up, isn't it. Yeah? It's uh every dan's

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. That night, Laura left for

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Speaker 2: Wow, the end, all right? That is extraneous invocat by

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder what that thing's gonna do with the

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Speaker 1: And by the way, mister protagonist, it's not the apartment.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, that was wishful thinking.

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Speaker 2: He's like, it's a it's fine, yeah, stay, the pure

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's just this crappy studio, This two bedroom

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Speaker 1: So, by the way, we're gonna get into our two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, uh yeah, I thought it might even be unfair

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Speaker 1: He'd say, pick out any two sentences of anything else

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Speaker 2: That was a good one. Man. I'm pretty pretty psyched

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Speaker 2: we use that one.

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Speaker 1: Does he have a lot of these?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's a One of the things he does

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Speaker 1: Well, he might just become our guy next year. I'm

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Speaker 1: Have you heard of this? No, he has a list

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Speaker 1: of stories, short stories, like probably twenty of them on

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Speaker 1: So we didn't have time. But if you submit and say, like, hey,

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Speaker 2: That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: Stephen kingwin next year for a buck. That is really

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Speaker 1: cool man, And we'll see. That's just neat that he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty cool. It's like weird Al Yankovic tweeting

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Speaker 1: When did he do that in the eighties?

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Speaker 2: No, No, not too long ago. He tweeted it and

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Speaker 1: That's pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a cool guy. If there's one thing that

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Speaker 2: everybody knows about weird Al, it's that he is deeply cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. All right, So, like we said, we're going to

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Speaker 2: But some are abbreviated, yeah, sure, some have the pronunciation

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Speaker 1: And we tried to read a bunch of these on subreddits,

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Speaker 1: So if any of these turn out to be plagiarized,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, nice, Chuck, how's that that's pretty good? A little shaming, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: pre shaming, and I believe you've not been found out yet,

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Speaker 1: So I believe we're also going to have a little

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Speaker 2: If there's one thing Jerry does, it's it's horror.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I see here in the corner, and now she's

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Speaker 2: There's a monkey with the cymbals, but it's a real monkey,

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Speaker 1: It's weird. All right, you can go ahead and take

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Speaker 2: Okay, this one comes from Jamie Clark. No relation as

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Speaker 2: that town either. Jenny walked into her home to see

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Speaker 1: Pretty good, boom. I just thought it was creepy enough

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Speaker 2: by the person who you're having conjugation with. I'm sure

433
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Speaker 2: that's the thing, conjugation that this is what it's called,

434
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Speaker 2: all right.

435
00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: This one is from Canam true Ax or true traw

436
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Speaker 1: t r u a X Saint Cloud, Minnesota Truaw.

437
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,040
Speaker 2: That's a great name, Canum Truaw.

438
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:20,400
Speaker 1: And this one's is wonderful because it's nice and concise.

439
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 1: Only part of my wife came back. I wish I

440
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,000
Speaker 1: hadn't stopped payment on the check.

441
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:27,879
Speaker 2: Boom.

442
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:28,560
Speaker 1: Not bad.

443
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,000
Speaker 2: A lot of violence against women in horror. Have you

444
00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: ever noticed that?

445
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: H Yeah, it's a saying, don't say, yeah, let's let's

446
00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:38,080
Speaker 1: kill some husbands, how about it? Right?

447
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 2: You're ready?

448
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: Sure?

449
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 2: This one comes from Murph. Oh, buddy, Tyler Murphy from

450
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 2: Rapid City, South Dakota. Murph, a great guy, by the way,

451
00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:50,080
Speaker 2: who we also met at the Denver show.

452
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. He gave me a right home from the Denver

453
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,120
Speaker 1: show man, drove me all the way to Atlanta.

454
00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 2: And then took a left and went up to South Dakota. Okay,

455
00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 2: you're yeah. As I sat there feasting upon my freshly

456
00:25:04,119 --> 00:25:06,760
Speaker 2: made ham sandwich, it struck me as odd that I

457
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 2: had no other name for it. I mean, it tastes

458
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 2: like ham, But by what other name would I refer

459
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 2: to the flesh of my mother? Woman? Violence against woman?

460
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 1: That's right, Tyler Murphy, school teacher, putt putt golf worker

461
00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,880
Speaker 1: for now, all right? This one is from Sophie Court

462
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: and Waterford, Oireland, And here we go. Sophie, she's been

463
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:35,160
Speaker 1: sitting in the same spot for three years. I dress

464
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: her up and we mourn her anniversary together.

465
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 2: Nice. Well, so far, that one's my favorite.

466
00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 1: That's pretty good.

467
00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:44,359
Speaker 2: All of them have been great. You did good job

468
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 2: curating these on That one's a good one.

469
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Well, I didn't write it, soph He

470
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: appreciates that.

471
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,080
Speaker 2: This one comes from Donovan Stone from Sydney, Australia. But

472
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,479
Speaker 2: he includes the caveat that he wrote this well on

473
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:02,760
Speaker 2: holiday in Kyoto. And then we should add the caveat

474
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 2: that holiday means vacation.

475
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: Right, and that on holiday means hopped up on sake

476
00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: in Tokyo or.

477
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:16,280
Speaker 2: Kyoto kyoto saki and tofu you ready? Yep, mom, what's

478
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 2: that noise? Your mother's not coming home? The voice replied,

479
00:26:22,000 --> 00:26:25,680
Speaker 2: thought of that on vacation, man, you know dark days demented?

480
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,120
Speaker 1: Right. This one is from Scott w of unknown origin.

481
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 2: Who may or may not exist.

482
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:36,240
Speaker 1: Frankly, Yeah, the creepy clown eagerly fulfilled my request to

483
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:39,880
Speaker 1: make me a balloon animal. Then suddenly his face broadened

484
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,119
Speaker 1: with a sinister grin and did a swift motion his

485
00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:48,879
Speaker 1: razorlike teeth burst my latex skin. Nice scared a balloon animal?

486
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,000
Speaker 2: Right? He managed to insert a joke in there, but

487
00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 2: it remained scary. Still.

488
00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:56,800
Speaker 1: What was the joke that?

489
00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:01,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wanted to be made in made a balloon animal,

490
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 2: and it made him into a balloon animal.

491
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: And find that funny?

492
00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 2: That's jokey? Sure, okay, okay. This one comes from Raimi

493
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 2: Fights from Indiana, great name. Nowhere, in particular in Indiana,

494
00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 2: Just Indiana. They are reproducing faster than anticipated with teeth

495
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: fully formed. Unusual. Indeed great.

496
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a lab notebook. All right. This is

497
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 1: from Mary Abel in Houston, Texas. I woke with a start,

498
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,359
Speaker 1: and my eye scanned the room for the source of

499
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 1: the crash. A man crouched in the corner, and although

500
00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: his mouth was stitched clothes, I clearly heard him hiss, run,

501
00:27:40,920 --> 00:27:41,880
Speaker 1: hm hmm.

502
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: Indeed, yeah, that was good. Good voice acting too, Chuck,

503
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Speaker 2: appreciate that this one is from Krista coryvo. We got

504
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Speaker 2: the pronunciation included from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, currently occupied kneeling

505
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,800
Speaker 2: on the platform before my family and friends. I heard

506
00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,919
Speaker 2: the sound of the guillotine descending and I closed my eyes,

507
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 2: bracing for impact. I feel no pain, and I'm relieved

508
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 2: there was a malfunction. However, as I breathe a sigh

509
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 2: of relief, I slowly opened my eyes and see the

510
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 2: bloody stump of a neck where my head used to be.

511
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: That one art podcast on that sure very topic.

512
00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:26,640
Speaker 2: What was it? A do you stay conscious at your decapitation?

513
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 1: Yeah? Apparently Christa thinks so a lot.

514
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 2: Of commas in that one. Yeah, managed to extend it

515
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 2: quite a bit. That's right, way to go, Krista.

516
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:39,400
Speaker 1: All right, this for Andrew Butler of unknown origin. I'm

517
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 1: so sorry, he said, as he released pressure from her

518
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,720
Speaker 1: neck wound. Thanks to the blood loss, she was gone

519
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: before the stake entered her art.

520
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: I like how you made him sound almost sarcastic.

521
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 1: Oh did I?

522
00:28:53,040 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, so sorry, Okay, I'm up. This is from

523
00:29:00,840 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 2: Thomas Berdino from Hutchinson, Kansas. After singing Happy Birthday, I

524
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,440
Speaker 2: told my five year old daughter to blow out the

525
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:13,280
Speaker 2: candles and make a wish. She sat frozen, unblinking as

526
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 2: she stared emotionlessly at the candle flames, and finally she whispered,

527
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 2: I wished for gasoline.

528
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 1: I like that, kid, Oh you do?

529
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Speaker 2: Sure?

530
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: Firestarter?

531
00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: All right?

532
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: Lauren Hellman from Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania nice. Her eyes fluttered, and

533
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 1: the smell of earth pulled her further into consciousness. A

534
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 1: scream welled in her throat as she realized that her

535
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: arms were pinned beside her in the blackness and the

536
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,120
Speaker 1: air would not last. Hey, nothing like a good buried

537
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: alive story.

538
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 2: Nope, And it was a her. I like that one.

539
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 2: Do you ever see that they remade Alfred Hitchcock Presents

540
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 2: in the eighties? Did you watch it?

541
00:29:55,720 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 1: No?

542
00:29:56,640 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 2: Oh? Man, it was great. It was fantastic, right. And

543
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 2: one of the ones that I remember more than any

544
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 2: other was it was one where this these two prisoners

545
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:10,360
Speaker 2: had this deal where one of them would pretend like

546
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:13,880
Speaker 2: he was dead. No, he was going to climb into

547
00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 2: the casket of a dead prisoner, get get transferred out

548
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 2: of the prison buried, and then the other prisoner, who

549
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 2: was in charge of like I guess yard keeping or whatever,

550
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 2: would come dig him up like a half hour later,

551
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 2: and then he would be set free. Right. Well, the

552
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 2: the plan goes according to everything's going according to playing.

553
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,400
Speaker 2: The guy crawls into the casket and encloses it, and

554
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 2: then he gets buried, and he's got like one match

555
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,600
Speaker 2: or something, and when he lights the match, he sees

556
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:45,040
Speaker 2: that he's in the casket with the man who's supposed

557
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 2: to dig him up.

558
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love it, that old trick. Yeah, all right, uh,

559
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: now you're up.

560
00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 2: I think I just used the term with that anecdote,

561
00:30:55,640 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 2: don't you go ahead? Okay? This one's from Dan Lewis

562
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 2: l from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Jones's heart was still racing,

563
00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,200
Speaker 2: but as she jolted back to consciousness, she became aware

564
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: that her feeling of sickening dread, of trying to get

565
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 2: away from an evil unseen force was nothing but a

566
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,800
Speaker 2: terrible dream. She was relieved for a full second before

567
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,440
Speaker 2: she realized the sound that jarred her awake was the

568
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 2: sound of card makes as it breaks through a rickety

569
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 2: guardrail before she drove off the side of the cliff

570
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,320
Speaker 2: sleep drive in quite a twist.

571
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't see that coming. I didn't either. Well,

572
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: themb on Louise's action.

573
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 2: I've never seen that movie. Is it good?

574
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:35,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's terrific.

575
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:36,960
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll check it out.

576
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 1: We'll talk about ahead of its time. Sure, it's a

577
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: feminist fantasy.

578
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 2: Nice, all right?

579
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: Moving on? Uh this is from Oh, this is from

580
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: Hilary losar Our Buddy Low's in Montana. Oh yeah, with

581
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:55,240
Speaker 1: the flat heeadlike cheese loses. Yeah, the cheese in the

582
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 1: mic los ars mm hmm.

583
00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,480
Speaker 2: The whole lozar client.

584
00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 1: Find people also a teacher with a dark side.

585
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: Nice.

586
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: Here we go with a horrible feeling of dread and

587
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: a wretched, lighthearted tinkling sound. I fumbled for what seemed

588
00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: to be an eternity, finally dropping the primitive key I'd

589
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: worked so hard for weeks to fabricate outside my cell door,

590
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 1: to be snatched and dragged down the drain by the

591
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: hordes of rats waiting below. My execution is tomorrow at dawn.

592
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 1: A bit of a run on Low's, but well crafted.

593
00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,960
Speaker 2: Plus I'd appreciated her word tinkling. Yeah, yeah, it's the

594
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 2: brain going. Sure does that's a one of those words

595
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: that does that.

596
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Oh? That like literally has an

597
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,480
Speaker 1: effect on your brain? Well, in my opinion, Yeah, okay.

598
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 2: This is from Brian Coe of Lake Stephens, Washington. The

599
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 2: monster Hunter stared in shock as the swarm of Ghoul's

600
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: race past him, each bearing a look of horror. As

601
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 2: they vanished into the murky night, He slowly turned to

602
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 2: face what had terrified them.

603
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: I like that one.

604
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good stuff.

605
00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: Scary things are scared of something else.

606
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's not good, not good. That's not one

607
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 2: of those situations where the enemy of your enemy is

608
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 2: your friend. I think it's your toast is the ultimate outcome.

609
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:16,720
Speaker 1: You know what my brother used to do to me.

610
00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: We always hear great stories about Scott. This was how

611
00:33:21,680 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 1: he tormented me. I think he still does this occasionally

612
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,080
Speaker 1: when he remembers. I would be like our bedrooms were upstairs.

613
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: We had a Jack and Jill scene up there, and

614
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: when I you know, Jack and Jill bathroom bedroom situation.

615
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 3: Right right, but that scene, yeah, yeah, And I would

616
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 3: when I would be going up the stairs, he would

617
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: like be at the top of the stairs and he

618
00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 3: would look in horror.

619
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: At something behind me, and I would bolt so fast

620
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,360
Speaker 1: up the stairs, scared out of my mind. And I

621
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: wouldn't even look back. And he did that to me

622
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:57,479
Speaker 1: a lot.

623
00:33:58,040 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: And you never caught on, huh, or you just weren't

624
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 2: willing to take the risk.

625
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: Now, one time it was true a good it scared me.

626
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 2: That's hilarious, man, Man, Scott is the bomb.

627
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you like it even more. Uh. Where

628
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:12,399
Speaker 1: are we.

629
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,720
Speaker 2: Here, Matt Saylor?

630
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: All right, sallyar is it mine?

631
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:16,160
Speaker 2: Yes?

632
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:22,759
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, Matt Salor from Southwest Kansas. Doesn't matter where

633
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 1: you are in Southwest Kansas.

634
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 2: That's all the same, one giant town.

635
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,360
Speaker 1: They get it wrong. You know. The greatest trick I

636
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: the devil ever really pulled was convincing the world that

637
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:38,640
Speaker 1: God exists. The undulating amiba of despair and madness made

638
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: what amounted to a cackle before it reached forward, and

639
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: I succumbed to the dark.

640
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:48,280
Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, I'm up, I'm up. This is Taylor from Iowa,

641
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,640
Speaker 2: as generic as it comes. Uh. It wasn't the fact

642
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,319
Speaker 2: that he ate the meat that surprised Harold, who knew

643
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 2: that any other man would, upon finding himself in such

644
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 2: a sorry state of affairs, also find himself fustly tempted. Now,

645
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,560
Speaker 2: it was the fact that he enjoyed it that surprised

646
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 2: him that moonless winter night behind the medical lab. Yeah,

647
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 2: that's where you get meat if you're a sick.

648
00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:20,799
Speaker 1: Oh, Jess g in Pittsburgh, and I think Pittsburgh had

649
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: a deleted it, but it had an exclamation point. Even

650
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: you deleted it's from Pittsburgh. I thought it might ruin

651
00:35:28,400 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 1: the vibe. But we've already done that.

652
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:30,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, long ago.

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Speaker 1: All right, here we go. It didn't matter how fast

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Speaker 1: or how far he ran, he always woke up in

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Speaker 1: the same place, in the same skin, in the same nightmare.

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Speaker 2: Mm h, good's it's appropriately vague. Nice, this is from

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Speaker 2: Jacob Riley Graves, who is either an author or a

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Speaker 2: serial killer from Wellsville, New York. Another day, my pockmarked

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Speaker 2: teenage face behind a faint blue monitor, reveling in the

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Speaker 2: joys of the Internet, safe and unaffected in my periphery,

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Speaker 2: the wall warps and let's out of pain, scream. My

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Speaker 2: sense of reality is torn asunder and I am broken.

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Speaker 2: And clever use of colon's there instead of periods, it's like,

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Speaker 2: don't put a period, just put another dot ahead of

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Speaker 2: it and it's not a period.

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Speaker 1: That was good. I like it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, way to go, JR.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna wrap it up here with Michael

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Speaker 1: McGuire in Northampton, Massachusetts. Every year on the day, the

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Speaker 1: whole town would gather to hear the song and the well,

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Speaker 1: and every year on the day, the song would grow shorter,

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Speaker 1: the girl's voice fainter, boom, sad.

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Speaker 2: That is an amazing two sentence story. I think, Michael McGuire,

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Speaker 2: did you purposely end with is arguably the.

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Speaker 1: Best of all That was rando.

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Speaker 2: That was really good. Nice choice.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very sad too, And I agree with you, Josh.

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Speaker 1: Too many women and girls getting punished here. Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: work on that and start cutting off arms of men.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's true. The thing is, though, is I

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Speaker 2: mean like it is a recurring theme in horror violence

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Speaker 2: against women? Yeah? Usually, though you can make the case

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Speaker 2: that it is only a woman that survives any given

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Speaker 1: Too true.

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Speaker 2: You know, look what happened to Kevin Bacon Skeward true?

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Speaker 2: And what was that Friday the Thirteenth Part three?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, And let's not even talk about what they

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Speaker 1: do in minorities in horror movies. That's almost not almost,

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Speaker 1: that's a trope beyond tropes at this point.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, So the yeah, we should say the white

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Speaker 2: woman survives?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Crazy? Yeah. Well, if you if you have an explanation

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Speaker 2: for this, we want to hear it. You can tweet

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Speaker 2: I guess before we sign off, Chuck, we should say

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Speaker 2: happy Halloween, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a safe Halloween, be careful out there,

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Speaker 1: and can't wait to do this again next year.

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