Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works
Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.
Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry and this is
Speaker 1: Stuff you should Know, the pre Halloween Spooktacular week of
Speaker 1: dark content. Although this isn't super dark. No, this isn't
Speaker 1: you know about attractions? Haunted attractions? Right? Dark? Thank? I
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil it, but there are some darkness. Now,
Speaker 1: is it dark or not? It's dark, okay, but not
Speaker 1: all of them, just just the really creepy ones. So
Speaker 1: it's mid mid level dark. What a train wreck this is.
Speaker 1: So for those of you who tuned in thinking they
Speaker 1: were talking about haunted houses, sorry to let you down.
Speaker 1: Real haunted houses, uh, of which there may or may
Speaker 1: not be a thing. All the skeptics were like, shoot,
Speaker 1: this is just about attractions. Yeah, these things are proven
Speaker 1: to exist. They are real because you can probably if
Speaker 1: you live near any kind of major metropolitan area, you
Speaker 1: can probably find one somewhere in your town. I think
Speaker 1: you can find them almost anywhere. If you live in
Speaker 1: a major metropolitan area, that maybe one of those really
Speaker 1: big daddy ones. But chances are your small town has
Speaker 1: some form of haunted attraction, even if it's the local Uh,
Speaker 1: if it's for charity and they're trying to raise money
Speaker 1: for the local j c's and it's set up in
Speaker 1: like a school gymnasium, or there's enthusiasts home haunters, um,
Speaker 1: and they will they basically set up a haunted house
Speaker 1: in their backyard. Yeah, there's some documentary about two guys
Speaker 1: that are I don't know if they do haunted houses
Speaker 1: or just take their Halloween um decorating two extremes. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's one and the same for a home haunter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think they're they're competing guys on the same street
Speaker 1: that uh someone did a documentary on because they just
Speaker 1: keep like ramping it up and ramping it up, have
Speaker 1: become obsessed without doing one another. But I don't know
Speaker 1: what's called. So it just came to me right now.
Speaker 1: Me either, But um, you do make a good point
Speaker 1: how haunted houses are everywhere. Apparently in two thousand fourteen,
Speaker 1: they expect they being the American Retail Federation who likes
Speaker 1: to put out statistics and figures about holidays, Um, they
Speaker 1: expect thirty three million people to go into haunted houses
Speaker 1: across the United States. Yeah, about four thousand of them,
Speaker 1: twelve hundred of which are the pay some money to
Speaker 1: go in professionally, uh, about three or in theme parks
Speaker 1: like you know, like amusement parks. And then about three
Speaker 1: thousand of them are the charity ones that I spoke of, right,
Speaker 1: which you'll still pay. But they they're not they're not
Speaker 1: going to the fat cat Coke Brothers or whatever. The
Speaker 1: profits aren't. They're going to you know, your local community organism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and those are fun, you know, you might get some
Speaker 1: light scares, it's not like these, um, the really super
Speaker 1: scary ones where you pay good money to um, you know,
Speaker 1: to leave your body and wet your pants. Just one more,
Speaker 1: one more, um, little bit of of data statistics. You
Speaker 1: don't mind some numbers, talk about roll over ifs. Remember
Speaker 1: you used to be static guy, And I know I
Speaker 1: got so bored it. Um. In two fourteen, again, the
Speaker 1: National Retail Federation expects Americans to spend eighty seven dollars
Speaker 1: per person on Halloween, for a total of seven point
Speaker 1: four billion dollars. Yeah, that's right behind Christmas, right behind Christmas.
Speaker 1: People love getting their scare on. They really do. I
Speaker 1: don't decorate at all anymore at the house, just because
Speaker 1: I think I've talked about this before. We don't have
Speaker 1: trick or treaders on my area of the street, so
Speaker 1: it just seems kind of pointless. Oh yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, what is the point at that point? There
Speaker 1: is no point. Emily thinks we could do it for
Speaker 1: people that drive by during the month of October, like,
Speaker 1: you know, to see the house, But I don't know. Man,
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta whatever you put up, you gotta
Speaker 1: take down that. And plus it's like you get no
Speaker 1: satisfaction from somebody driving by. Sound like they hank at
Speaker 1: your generations with little kids coming up and trick or treating,
Speaker 1: there's some sort of payoff I guess, to your your effort, right,
Speaker 1: that's right, scarring him for life? Right. So, um, let's
Speaker 1: talk the history of this, because it turns out that
Speaker 1: haunted house attractions are relatively new, but they're probably not
Speaker 1: as new as trick or treating in the United States?
Speaker 1: Did you know that? Not as new? So they predate
Speaker 1: trick or treating by a little bit. Yeah, yeah, that
Speaker 1: makes sense. And when we look at um at first,
Speaker 1: when I read some of this history, the ancient history
Speaker 1: else like come on, this is from Fangoria magazine, by
Speaker 1: the way, oh us, But then when I started really
Speaker 1: getting into us, like you know what, there's actually it
Speaker 1: actually did pave the way for what we see today
Speaker 1: in like ancient Egypt. To keep people from grave robbing. Basically,
Speaker 1: they would uh make little scary things like trap doors
Speaker 1: and um snakes and creepy insects and things to keep
Speaker 1: people away from robbing their ancestries, their ancestors graves. They
Speaker 1: put an old lady in a rocking chair who would
Speaker 1: go behold the ravages of aids. What's that from the Simpsons? Uh?
Speaker 1: Greeks and Romans? Um. Uh kind of paved the way
Speaker 1: as well. They had um mazes and labyrinths set up
Speaker 1: with monsters and things. Even more than that, even more directly,
Speaker 1: they started stage effects, yeah, like fake blood and things
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah. Um, they they And that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff finds its roots is in early
Speaker 1: stage special effects. Yeah. It was, and it's still his
Speaker 1: theater when you come down to it. It's just like
Speaker 1: an interactive participatory theater, right that you walk through and
Speaker 1: then the the dark ages that medieval ages I think
Speaker 1: the Dark Ages, the Medieval Ages are part of the
Speaker 1: Dark Ages, but they're not one and the same. But
Speaker 1: during the Dark Ages, UM, the the introduction of well,
Speaker 1: the syncretism between Christianity and Paganism that led to the
Speaker 1: adoption of Halloween, UM kind of saw rise to this, uh,
Speaker 1: basically a scare show. Yeah, these little plays that would
Speaker 1: scare people into remaining pious and remaining on the narrow path, right,
Speaker 1: which is still very big today, has made a huge comeback. Um.
Speaker 1: But these these scare shows, if you want to call
Speaker 1: them that, I'm pretty sure that's not what they call
Speaker 1: them during the Dark Ages, but they were. They featured
Speaker 1: plenty of gore and fake blood and violence and um,
Speaker 1: so that the the people who went to saw see
Speaker 1: Him weren't necessarily going for the religious message. They were
Speaker 1: going to you know, be grossed out right and get
Speaker 1: a kick. Yeah. Uh. During the Renaissance, Shakespeare was famous
Speaker 1: for um incorporating like demons and ghosts and monsters in
Speaker 1: his plays. He loved those. And in the eighteen hundreds,
Speaker 1: We've talked about this before, there was a big rise
Speaker 1: in spiritualists and conjuring sessions and mediums and fortune telling
Speaker 1: and communicating with the dead was like a really popular
Speaker 1: thing during the Victorian era, so it was debunking it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Um. The Victorian era also gave us um
Speaker 1: the wax museum, which very quickly went from celebrities to
Speaker 1: include scary stuff too. So you could walk through a
Speaker 1: waxed museum and while the stuff didn't move or jump
Speaker 1: out at you, you would come across like some sort
Speaker 1: of tableau of you know, Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde
Speaker 1: and like kind of a room and it was scary
Speaker 1: and lit oddly, and you were meant to The intention
Speaker 1: was to scare you. Yeah, even though it wasn't again,
Speaker 1: there wasn't an overt scare or startle. It was something
Speaker 1: that definitely laid the groundwork for haunted houses to come.
Speaker 1: They were to instill dread in the hearts of all. Uh.
Speaker 1: John Pepper invented something, um pretty neat in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 1: It was uh sort of set up where here where
Speaker 1: you use mirrors to appear translucent. If you've ever been
Speaker 1: to Disney's Haunted Mansion, UM, I think Pepper's ghost is
Speaker 1: what they call. It is still a trick they use
Speaker 1: to uh, you know, it's when you it's like a
Speaker 1: hologram sort of smoking mirrors. Yeah, but using mirrors. It's
Speaker 1: not like the Tuopoc hologram. It wouldn't high tech like that,
Speaker 1: but it still looks pretty awesome. That's right. The twentieth century, then, Chuck,
Speaker 1: is where we really find the progenitors of the modern
Speaker 1: haunted house, the dark rides. And there's this really neat
Speaker 1: um article on Collector's Weekly. You ever read any of stuff.
Speaker 1: They write a lot of really cool long form articles
Speaker 1: about like stuff that's come and gone, like dads and things,
Speaker 1: and one of them was, um, it's called jeepers, Creepers,
Speaker 1: why dark rides scare the pants off of us? But
Speaker 1: the Collector's Weekly article, it's an interview with the guy
Speaker 1: who collects old dark ride stuff. But dark rides were
Speaker 1: like if you went to some rinky dink amusement park
Speaker 1: or whatever. They couldn't afford to have a roller coaster,
Speaker 1: but they could afford a little dark building with the
Speaker 1: walls painted black inside and a little train track or
Speaker 1: maybe a little boat or something that rode you through
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden a skeleton popped out of
Speaker 1: the wall or you know this a strobe light went
Speaker 1: off or something like that, and these were the direct
Speaker 1: progenitors of uh, the haunted house. Yeah, and between that
Speaker 1: and the traveling freak shows, um, it really, like you said,
Speaker 1: everything was in place. And couple that with the fact
Speaker 1: that a lot of these houses from the eight hundreds
Speaker 1: are starting to crumble and there was, you know, narry
Speaker 1: a neighborhood that didn't have some creepy old vacant house
Speaker 1: and to keep their kids out, you know, people would say,
Speaker 1: parents would say, you know that place, you don't want
Speaker 1: to go in there. It's all on it because you
Speaker 1: may not come out, which is that was an interesting
Speaker 1: point that I definitely wasn't aware of. Yeah, but if
Speaker 1: you think of the modern conception of when you think
Speaker 1: of a haunted house, what comes to mind typically is uh,
Speaker 1: dilapidated old Victorian mansion with a story around it. You know,
Speaker 1: It's never just like, oh, yeah, that was where Mr Johnson,
Speaker 1: that he was a farmer and kind of a good guy,
Speaker 1: died quietly asleep, no reports of his ghost at all.
Speaker 1: That Well, what's probably funny is that was the real story.
Speaker 1: But what you heard was that he killed his family
Speaker 1: and had their name written on each knife blade. Um,
Speaker 1: that's what I heard. The first official recorded haunted attraction.
Speaker 1: According to this person who wrote this article in Fangoria,
Speaker 1: Beha McKendry. He says that Orton and Spooner, the Orton
Speaker 1: and Spooner ghost House in the UK uh and the
Speaker 1: Edwardian Fair in nineteen fifteen was the first, uh like
Speaker 1: a genuine haunted attraction. Yep, that was the first ghost house.
Speaker 1: And in France they had something called the Grand uh
Speaker 1: guen All and um that was sort of similar, i think,
Speaker 1: and around the same time. So you've got that haunted house,
Speaker 1: You've got the dark houses that are coming up in
Speaker 1: places like Coney Island and stuff like that, and then
Speaker 1: finally you have the first big time permanent haunted house
Speaker 1: as we understand today. What you've already mentioned the Haunted
Speaker 1: Mansion that that was first built in nineteen sixty nine
Speaker 1: at Disneyland, and apparently it was supposed to go up
Speaker 1: at Disney oh know, it was so Disneyland, the one
Speaker 1: in California and the one in Disney World that came
Speaker 1: up in the seventies, right, uh, late seventies, early eighties.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Actually, I've been to that one though,
Speaker 1: if you want to know more about that stuff. Though,
Speaker 1: I think, um, Stuff you missed in History Class did
Speaker 1: like a whole episode on the Haunted Mansion Ride. Oh,
Speaker 1: Holly from Stuff You miss in History Class is an
Speaker 1: absolute Haunted Mansion fanatic, right, I think they have a
Speaker 1: whole episode on. She knows more about it than anyone,
Speaker 1: more than Walt Disney himself knew, I think. But here's
Speaker 1: a little known fact besides what you just said about Holly,
Speaker 1: she knows more about it than Walt Disney. Um. Originally,
Speaker 1: the the Haunted Mansion Ride was a walkthrough ride like
Speaker 1: today's Haunted Houses. UM. But instead they found that the
Speaker 1: I guess the people the ushers couldn't get people on
Speaker 1: a pace easily enough and so there'd be traffic jams
Speaker 1: and backups and everything. So they said, we'll turn it
Speaker 1: into a dark ride. That's what they did. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: we'll get to this later, but that's a big part
Speaker 1: of running your own haunted houses is the flow. Yeah. Also,
Speaker 1: the Haunted House and the Haunted Mansion in Disney was
Speaker 1: based on the Winchester Mystery House. As far as the look,
Speaker 1: they didn't want to have UM credit Old dilapidated psycho
Speaker 1: house in the middle of their lovely park. So they says, well,
Speaker 1: we can make it creepy on the inside, and let's
Speaker 1: just make it like a really lovely Victorian on the outside.
Speaker 1: And if you haven't listened to that podcast on the
Speaker 1: Winchester Mystery, also recommend it's pretty neat. The Son of Ours. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that was a good one. Not the Disney podcast. Um
Speaker 1: So then you mentioned the j c's, Chuck, and I
Speaker 1: didn't realize this, but the idea of a semi permanent
Speaker 1: so not not located in like an amusement park or
Speaker 1: something like that, but um, they an annual attraction that
Speaker 1: just comes up around Halloween and then comes down in November.
Speaker 1: November one. Um, as far as haunted houses go in
Speaker 1: the United States, was created by the j c's, which
Speaker 1: is the United States Junior Chamber, which is like a
Speaker 1: community organization with chapters across the country. And in the seventies,
Speaker 1: the j c's hit upon this idea of well, why
Speaker 1: don't you guys create haunted houses in your town as fundraisers,
Speaker 1: and it just took off like a rocket, and the
Speaker 1: j CS became synonymous in the seventies and eighties and
Speaker 1: up to the nineties with haunted houses. Like if you
Speaker 1: went to a haunted house in your town, it was
Speaker 1: probably put on by the local chapter of the j c's. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember specifically going to some of those as a kid,
Speaker 1: as well as my church would have their own haunted houses,
Speaker 1: not hell houses. Yeah, just very like kid oriented minor
Speaker 1: uh spooks and goblins. Um, we'll get into hell houses later.
Speaker 1: But even though I did go to Baptist Church, it
Speaker 1: wasn't anything like that surprising. Yeah, I mean that was
Speaker 1: before the concept of the hell house. Um. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just like we would have like a Halloween carnival,
Speaker 1: you know, Bob rapples and did that little fishing game
Speaker 1: where you get something clipped to your fishing pole behind
Speaker 1: the curtain. It's so funny. Do you remember when you
Speaker 1: were a kid just being like, God, this Halloween carnival
Speaker 1: is really well done. Ye. Man, if you go to
Speaker 1: one as an adult, you're like this is really junkie,
Speaker 1: Like are these kids really falling for all this stuff?
Speaker 1: And they are. It's wonderful. Yeah. My elementary school had
Speaker 1: a pretty rock and Halloween carnival every year too. The
Speaker 1: Catholic school I went to had a good one. It
Speaker 1: was one of the highlights of my year. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. And now the concept of bobbing for apples,
Speaker 1: there's no way I would put my face in that
Speaker 1: disgusting water, no, you know, yeah. Um. Anyway, out of
Speaker 1: the j CS in there were a couple of guys
Speaker 1: from a chapter in Bloomington, Illinois named Jim Goulden Tom Hillagas,
Speaker 1: and they says, you know what, let's just create our
Speaker 1: own Haunted House book basically like a yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was a book. Yeah, I guess it
Speaker 1: was a book, and let's teach people how to open
Speaker 1: these up and sell it. And they distributed about twenty
Speaker 1: copies and it was they formed the Haunted House Company,
Speaker 1: and it was the first real UH group of outfit
Speaker 1: to kind of just sell the plan and the stuff
Speaker 1: that you needed, the props, right, like details like how
Speaker 1: to do special effects. Um. And because of the success
Speaker 1: of the j C s UH in the seventies and eighties,
Speaker 1: private companies finally were like, we can make some cast
Speaker 1: off of this. Starting in the nineties, and so the
Speaker 1: haunted houses that we think of today, the sure profit
Speaker 1: ones like Another World in Atlanta or thirteen Story of
Speaker 1: New Orleans is another big one. Um that that they
Speaker 1: came out of the nineties. Do you go to those?
Speaker 1: No no interest? Yeah? Do you now? Emily and I
Speaker 1: we still may go. She she has a hanker in
Speaker 1: this year to go to another world just because we
Speaker 1: haven't been to. I think we went to one in
Speaker 1: l A that was pretty decent. Um. I'll go, I
Speaker 1: guess if she wants to. But it's not my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I like. I like scary movies
Speaker 1: and stuff. I'm not. I don't avoid that up. I
Speaker 1: am depressed. Chuck on Twitter the other day, I said,
Speaker 1: the best scary movie or the best horror movie I
Speaker 1: haven't seen go and I have heard of Vampire Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: Eddie Murphy, every single every single suggestion, and there are
Speaker 1: a bunch of suggestions that everybody shot back. So I realized,
Speaker 1: I'm really running low on good horror movies. But there
Speaker 1: they aren't around much anymore. Like the ones that are
Speaker 1: to me, the ones that are genuinely scary are the
Speaker 1: ones that get into your head. Um, and I'll take
Speaker 1: a fair amount of jump scares because that's a part
Speaker 1: of it, if it's got the tension ratcheted up. But um,
Speaker 1: the ones these days, man, just that the disgusting torture
Speaker 1: porn thing. I'm just not into that. I'm not either.
Speaker 1: It's just such an easy, cheap Yeah, they don't scare me,
Speaker 1: just repulse me exactly, which is a totally different sensation.
Speaker 1: You know. That's fine if you like to be repulsed
Speaker 1: in whatever like that's it's great for that, But that's
Speaker 1: not true fear. It's not um being scared necessarily. It's different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do have a recommendation for you though. It's called
Speaker 1: either The Lady in Black or Woman in Black, and
Speaker 1: it's starts a growing up Harry Potter, So it's fairly new.
Speaker 1: I think it's that came out in the last couple
Speaker 1: of years. Daniel Recliff, and he does a great job.
Speaker 1: It's almost exclusively just him in the movie Lady and Black.
Speaker 1: He does double duty. And there are some like um
Speaker 1: like Conjuring esque style like c g I ghost graphics,
Speaker 1: but it's not overdone and it's not overblown, and it
Speaker 1: is a genuinely frightening ghost story. Conjuring was okay, it
Speaker 1: was Okay, that's way I would say this one might
Speaker 1: be better. And and that guy is it I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's Tie or t West tis his name.
Speaker 1: He's a director that did Um The Innkeepers and oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was a good one too. Yeah, and then I
Speaker 1: can't remember the did he do House with the Devil?
Speaker 1: Those are pretty good because he is a little more
Speaker 1: old school. He's not just trying to outgore you or
Speaker 1: shock you. It's um. He tries to build genuine suspense
Speaker 1: and dread. The same guy to both of those movies.
Speaker 1: Uh not The Conjuring, No, No, The Innkeepers and The
Speaker 1: House of the Devil. I think so, because both of
Speaker 1: those were good movies. They seem totally different. Though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I may be wrong in that Innkeepers. That was a
Speaker 1: slow burn that managed to pay off, but it took
Speaker 1: a long time to build. That was a little slow,
Speaker 1: Like you didn't even try to start the scares until
Speaker 1: like thirty minutes in. Yeah, you know the lady that's
Speaker 1: in that is uh Kelly McGillis, did you realize that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I didn't know till the end of the movie. It
Speaker 1: said Kelly McGillis was like, oh, she's got the same
Speaker 1: name as that lady from Top Gun. Yeah, but then
Speaker 1: it's really her. She looks so different now, So that's
Speaker 1: our Josh and Chuck's for a movie corner. We'll get
Speaker 1: back to the actual podcast right after this message. You know,
Speaker 1: we should we should have done a Maybe next year
Speaker 1: we'll just do one of those, like a total horror movie. Uh,
Speaker 1: talk fest sounds good. Those are fun. But back to
Speaker 1: the more boring subject of haunted house attraction. Um, the
Speaker 1: industry is huge, Like you said, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: money to be made, and uh no too. Haunted houses
Speaker 1: are going to be alike. Sometimes these folks that open
Speaker 1: them by an old home or something and own it
Speaker 1: and do this every year. Sometimes they rent out of space.
Speaker 1: The ones I've been to haven't been in the actual space.
Speaker 1: Wasn't some like cool old house or like a penitentiary
Speaker 1: or yeah, apparently Eastern State Penitentiary is converted ye here,
Speaker 1: and that is a scary, scary place, just normally. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the only ones I've been to are the ones that
Speaker 1: is it's like it's in a big open like a
Speaker 1: shopping center where there used to be a like a
Speaker 1: sales jewelry closed and right the Ghost of Capitalism. Um.
Speaker 1: And then the you have themes, some of them. I
Speaker 1: think the better haunted houses have themes because when you
Speaker 1: talk about scares, you can be all over the map.
Speaker 1: Um from doing something like with a movie theme, where
Speaker 1: you have classic horror movies or serial killers or gray scientists,
Speaker 1: or like vampires and monsters and ghouls and goblins. Yes,
Speaker 1: those are two very different kind of themes. Apparently, Um,
Speaker 1: Rob Zombies got his own jam going and she called
Speaker 1: his house yeah pretty much. Um, it's called Rob Zombies
Speaker 1: Great American Nightmare. I think it's supposed to be a
Speaker 1: play on the American Dream. But one of the rooms
Speaker 1: is the John Wayne Gayzy Room, and it's like a
Speaker 1: guy dressed up like John Wayne Gacy's Bubbles the clown.
Speaker 1: I think that was the name of his clown, wasn't it.
Speaker 1: Uh that sounds right. Um, just kind of hanging out
Speaker 1: in like a recline or whatever. And this is Chicago,
Speaker 1: and that's where John Wayne Gacy killed his victims, and
Speaker 1: a lot of the victims families are still around, so
Speaker 1: everybody's up in arms, and Rob Zombies like could not
Speaker 1: less thank you for the free press, right exactly. Well,
Speaker 1: clowns are posted something on our Facebook page a day
Speaker 1: because that new clown and um American Horror story. Have
Speaker 1: you seen this clown yet? Twisty the Clown, The guy
Speaker 1: that made that show is like, just wait, Like, I
Speaker 1: know clowns can be scary, but I have got the
Speaker 1: scariest clown ever. And it's pretty scary, dude. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I'm not bothered by it by things like that much,
Speaker 1: but I saw this clown and I'm not into that show,
Speaker 1: but I did watch the scenes that that clown was
Speaker 1: in just to see what it was. Like, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: pretty frightening. I'll have to check them out. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: and there's a broad daylight killing, which are always super
Speaker 1: scary to me. Oh yeah, like they don't care about
Speaker 1: there's no hiding it or any Yeah. That like a
Speaker 1: beautiful blue sky out in a beautiful field, and those
Speaker 1: kind of creep me out more. Yeah, because the whole
Speaker 1: idea of like, oh, it's a good day to die,
Speaker 1: to me, that doesn't mean it's beautiful out. It means
Speaker 1: like it's like the world's already ending now it's a
Speaker 1: good day to die. You know, the earth is opening
Speaker 1: up and magma is pouring out that is possibly a
Speaker 1: good day to die. Then the serial killer can come along.
Speaker 1: Uh So if you're opening one of these hunted houses,
Speaker 1: you can count on spending. This is a good idea.
Speaker 1: You can make some good dough if you've got the
Speaker 1: funds to get it going. Um, fifteen dollars per square
Speaker 1: foot for decorating and special effects is what. Just that
Speaker 1: alone is what you're gonna and that's not counting the
Speaker 1: renting or buying of the structure itself. Right, so you
Speaker 1: have five thousand foot scare footage. Okay, that's what I
Speaker 1: was going for. That's good. You can be spending up
Speaker 1: to grand just in decorations and scares and tricks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you may be able to reuse a lot of
Speaker 1: that from year to year. But you probably shouldn't put
Speaker 1: out the same thing every year because if you're in
Speaker 1: the same space doing the same thing, you're not going
Speaker 1: to get repeat customers. No, So you want to turn
Speaker 1: over like that each year. It's a new stuff. And
Speaker 1: like you said, themes often change, So just changing the
Speaker 1: theme alone is going to require that you change this this. Um, well,
Speaker 1: your layout I guess to an extent. Yeah, Like, if
Speaker 1: you're doing scary clowns. You're probably gonna have to get
Speaker 1: rid of your O R setting or whatever unless you
Speaker 1: do a clown doing surgery, which is kind of scary,
Speaker 1: but it just seems a little off. Yeah, clown doing surgery,
Speaker 1: that's just um, that'd be pretty scary. The clown hospital. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: well don't they have that children's hospital has a clown character.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking about, Quardrey. Yeah. Um. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this is written by Kristen Konger from Stuff
Speaker 1: Mom Never Told You, and she actually interviewed a few
Speaker 1: owners of haunted houses to get some good inside poop
Speaker 1: and um, that's where we're like getting these numbers and
Speaker 1: they say to open one up. I was just making mine,
Speaker 1: not oh you are Um, they said to open one up.
Speaker 1: You're not only obviously it's it's a fun job, but
Speaker 1: you've got to have a lot of business acumen too.
Speaker 1: It's not just like, oh, this will be a hoot,
Speaker 1: Like you've got to be super focused in and have
Speaker 1: a good business brain or you're not gonna make any money.
Speaker 1: Plus also, um, safety is a big, big deal, especially
Speaker 1: after a fateful event in at six Flags Great Adventure
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, there was They had a seventeen trailer
Speaker 1: interconnected modular haunted house dark ride basically but a walking
Speaker 1: dark ride. So it was a haunted house. Um and
Speaker 1: it was basically a fire trap and it went up
Speaker 1: and eight teenagers got trapped inside and died in the fire.
Speaker 1: There were no fire sprinklers, there were no obvious, um
Speaker 1: emergency exit signs or anything like that, and um, as
Speaker 1: that's what happened back then. Yeah, but you'd think like
Speaker 1: by the time the eighties rolled around, people would have
Speaker 1: figured out, oh, if somebody likes the man each in
Speaker 1: here or doesn't put their cigarette out, because again, it's
Speaker 1: the eighties, so people smoked everywhere. The whole thing's gonna
Speaker 1: go up because it's all plywood and foam, and maybe
Speaker 1: we should put fire sprinklers in. But apparently it took
Speaker 1: this tragedy to really change the industry, but it did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and safety is, like you said, a huge, huge part
Speaker 1: of it. Because you're in the dark. You've got things
Speaker 1: flying out and props swooping down and people jumping out
Speaker 1: and uh, I mean, anything can happen to go wrong
Speaker 1: and someone can get injured. So yeah, and actually, did
Speaker 1: you hear about the girl in two eleven. There's an
Speaker 1: employee at one of the ones outside of St. Louis
Speaker 1: called Creepy World, and um, she worked there and somehow
Speaker 1: got caught in a noose and accidentally hung herself. That
Speaker 1: sounds like a story that you hear, you would think,
Speaker 1: so it is so well documented that it actually did happen.
Speaker 1: I'm quite sure. But she survived. Um, she suffered some
Speaker 1: brain damage to it to an extent from what I understand,
Speaker 1: And um, I don't know if it was extensive or not.
Speaker 1: I'm on a roller coaster of emotion, right, but she,
Speaker 1: I mean, she did survive. But she she accidentally got
Speaker 1: caught in the nuise and hung herself. And it's possible
Speaker 1: some patrons passer by thinking that she was like that's
Speaker 1: what was supposed to be going on. Yeah, I've I've
Speaker 1: heard some story that is not that of someone who
Speaker 1: hung themselves on Halloween and everyone thought it was a
Speaker 1: just a decoration in the front yard. My friend, you
Speaker 1: need to go watch the most recent Don't Be Dumb.
Speaker 1: It comes out this week. Is it about that? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is that an old well, don't spoil it. Okay, people
Speaker 1: should go watch it. Go watch. Don't be dumb about
Speaker 1: that man, ask and tell him Josh that you Um, so,
Speaker 1: after you've got your safety system worked out, You've got
Speaker 1: your fire safety, got your sprinkler system, you've got flame
Speaker 1: retardant material, you've got camera set up everywhere, everyone assigned
Speaker 1: a lengthy waiver. Even if they do get hurt, um,
Speaker 1: they could probably still try and see you, but you're
Speaker 1: trying to avoid that at all costs. What you're gonna
Speaker 1: have is some sort of amaze like structure where you're
Speaker 1: walking around sort of lost but really just getting shuffled
Speaker 1: along a path. And there's, like you said earlier, there's
Speaker 1: this thing called through put. So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: thought put into it because apparently the worst thing you
Speaker 1: can do in a haunted house, and this makes sense,
Speaker 1: is to let the group behind catch up to the
Speaker 1: group ahead. Yeah, that ruins the whole thing, ruins everything
Speaker 1: because you're in a group. It depends, but I don't
Speaker 1: know six or right people. But and you don't want
Speaker 1: the scare that already happened to be apparent to the
Speaker 1: group that hasn't gotten there yet. Like you see the
Speaker 1: chainsaw guy crawling back into his little tree, right exactly.
Speaker 1: So UM this throughput is basically a calculation of how
Speaker 1: many people you can push through at what intervals to say,
Speaker 1: meet your nightly ticket quota. So the numbers that Conger
Speaker 1: gives UM is to to get five people through in
Speaker 1: a night you and put a group of six. You
Speaker 1: can set them out every thirty seconds and they shouldn't
Speaker 1: bump into one another. And then one of the ways
Speaker 1: that that UM employees make sure that these groups don't
Speaker 1: bump into one another is the way that they scare people. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's called scaring forward, which makes sense. It does. It's
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, boring term UM. But what they're doing
Speaker 1: is usually jumping behind you as you walk through the
Speaker 1: group to make you go in a forward They don't
Speaker 1: want to jump out in front of you and have
Speaker 1: you move in the in the direction you just came
Speaker 1: from backward. Yeah, so they want to scare you forward.
Speaker 1: And that is a little tip. If you are not
Speaker 1: into being the the lead person being scared, then you
Speaker 1: should be in the lead because it's probably gonna come
Speaker 1: from behind you. It's pretty counterintuitive, but I think I'm
Speaker 1: going to be in the back and I'll be just fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're the one that's gonna get grabbed because if they
Speaker 1: jump out at the front of the group again, it's
Speaker 1: gonna push the group backward, and the group ahead is
Speaker 1: going to run into the group behind, and that's very bad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I say get grabbed, you probably won't get touched. Now,
Speaker 1: there apparently are some haunted house attractions that do light touching.
Speaker 1: But you're going to be fully informed. That's so crazy.
Speaker 1: He really does light touching. You're gonna be fully informed,
Speaker 1: Like it's not gonna you're not gonna not know that
Speaker 1: it's coming. Like in line, they're going to be like
Speaker 1: signed this an initial here, an initial here, an initial here,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna give you a heart attach test first,
Speaker 1: just to make sure please step on this treadmill that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. See, that's how I would really scare
Speaker 1: people to say, you know, none of the actors are
Speaker 1: allowed to touch anyone, so if you're getting touched, I
Speaker 1: mean something has gone horribly wrong. Right, And then have
Speaker 1: people well, well we'll get to in a minute, um,
Speaker 1: the new extreme ones where there's not only touching, like
Speaker 1: it's beyond anything that you could imagine. But we'll get
Speaker 1: to that soon. Uh. And since we mentioned actors hiding. Uh.
Speaker 1: Those are called scare pockets. Yeah, where they hide jump
Speaker 1: out from. Yeah. So like they're hiding behind that tree,
Speaker 1: and they may distract you with a bat swooping down
Speaker 1: in the other direction. There's a lot of distraction going
Speaker 1: on because what they don't want is you to be
Speaker 1: focused on the clearly placed fox tree trunk that has
Speaker 1: the smell of a chainsaw. Yeah, but there won't be
Speaker 1: any blade on that chainsaw, by the way. No. And
Speaker 1: a good actor also will scramble back into place very quickly. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: Because the longer they hang out and they're like yeah, right,
Speaker 1: the more you're gonna be like you're just some teenager, yeah,
Speaker 1: who doesn't scare me. Yeah. And if you're looking to
Speaker 1: save a little money, you might want to double up
Speaker 1: and have that scare pocket have a couple of different
Speaker 1: ways that it can go. Like I can jump out
Speaker 1: on these people on the right who are in this
Speaker 1: one part of the hunted house. Now I can scramble
Speaker 1: back and then hit these people on the left, not
Speaker 1: hit them, jump out and scare them. Um. And that
Speaker 1: way you're saying a little dough with your actors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: double or tippling your people and then apparently chuck. Lastly, Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of the attractions are run on compressed air
Speaker 1: that is set off either through motion sensors, which I
Speaker 1: think everybody expects, but also through touch pads, which makes
Speaker 1: sense because you can control that right well with a
Speaker 1: with a motion sensor, every group is going to set
Speaker 1: off that effect at right, And what it does is
Speaker 1: it opens the valve and all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: skeleton sits up in the coffin or comes out from
Speaker 1: the side or something exactly right. Um, that was a
Speaker 1: really good impression with a touch pad. Though, if you say,
Speaker 1: place the square off to the left or something, not
Speaker 1: every group is going to walk over the touch pad,
Speaker 1: so not every group is going to get the same
Speaker 1: set of scare. So it kind of randomizes the thing,
Speaker 1: which in turn makes the whole experience even more frightening,
Speaker 1: because if you hear the group ahead at the curve
Speaker 1: scream and scream exactly when you get to that, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be prepared and if nothing happens, well, then, my friend,
Speaker 1: you're just even more keyed up for the next one.
Speaker 1: That's right, yeah, and you're keyed up to begin with
Speaker 1: walking in there because a good haunted house will put
Speaker 1: a little bit of money into getting you all ramped
Speaker 1: up in the parking lot in the line that we
Speaker 1: might have creeps dressed up roaming around. Uh, they may
Speaker 1: have sound effects and spooky music and like an airhorn blast,
Speaker 1: which is really uncool, and that's just got you on edge.
Speaker 1: By the time you walk in that place, you're ready
Speaker 1: to be scared. Um alright, chuck, Yeah, we've teased it enough.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about extreme haunted houses, which apparently are so
Speaker 1: extreme that people who are haunted house enthusiasts, like people
Speaker 1: who are like in the industry, don't even like these
Speaker 1: things to be called extreme haunted houses because they're so extreme. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I gather. And these are to say these
Speaker 1: are interactive, is uh not really putting a fine point
Speaker 1: on it. They are. You're basically paying money to be
Speaker 1: treated like an assault victim for up to seven hours,
Speaker 1: like you might be put in a headlock. You might
Speaker 1: where's the one there's one in San Diego? Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 1: McCamy manner is renowned as like the worst of the worst.
Speaker 1: The video that I saw it was like you are
Speaker 1: like covered in blood, dude. It was unbelievable put into
Speaker 1: like a coffin, and somebody is like in their writing
Speaker 1: on top of you in the dark, and you're trying
Speaker 1: to get out and they're pulling you back in and
Speaker 1: and just like it's insane, how intense this thing looks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they had a cage that locks your head in that
Speaker 1: they're dropping like fake snakes in, which is not as
Speaker 1: bad as life snakes, but it's still pretty bad. And
Speaker 1: apparently the the the catchphrase of everybody who goes through
Speaker 1: these things is let me out of here. Is that
Speaker 1: they shout or cry it. Well, yeah, but apparently supposedly
Speaker 1: McCamy manner, it's open year round and they only take
Speaker 1: four people a day through this thing, but like you said,
Speaker 1: it's up to seven hours long in some cases, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: so they'll take in I think, just one at a time.
Speaker 1: You have to come through by yourself, and they only
Speaker 1: do four people to day. It's only open on the weekends,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if this is true. Supposedly, the
Speaker 1: one rule like you have to apply fill on an
Speaker 1: application to go through this thing and be super fit
Speaker 1: and super psychologically fit and um, because you're getting a
Speaker 1: physically like abused in some cases like nothing you can't
Speaker 1: walk away from. But you know they're they're mangling you
Speaker 1: without hurting you. Well, yeah, and they held I saw
Speaker 1: they held one guy's face in front of a toilet
Speaker 1: and it shot up some noxious stuff out of it,
Speaker 1: like stuff like that. So on one hand, it is
Speaker 1: like physically abusive. On the other it's like almost laughable
Speaker 1: that they like, these people really put their minds to
Speaker 1: it and they came up with shooting stuff out of
Speaker 1: a toilet in your face. Yeah. Um, But supposedly you
Speaker 1: can't leave this one at all, like there is no
Speaker 1: safe word. I just don't believe that. I don't believe
Speaker 1: it either. But it's free. The one in San Diego
Speaker 1: is really Yeah, it's free. And the and that's the
Speaker 1: one hook is is that you're not allowed to leave
Speaker 1: what you You sign a document it says I'm going
Speaker 1: to go through this thing from beginning to end. That's
Speaker 1: what I say. I would trust me, I would get
Speaker 1: out of that place like I would. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: bust through a wall or something. That's what it took
Speaker 1: Chuck Murray. But that is McCamy manner, and that is
Speaker 1: was constructed by Russ McCamey, who's a terror fanatic. Uh.
Speaker 1: They also have one in New York and l A
Speaker 1: called Blackout, one called Gates of Hell in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: And the common denominator of all these is you're getting
Speaker 1: physically like you don't wear clothes you ever want to
Speaker 1: wear again, because you're gonna fake blood and vomit thrown
Speaker 1: in your face hopefully fake and be physically assaulted. I
Speaker 1: mean they have scenes where, you like, where there's a
Speaker 1: rapist after you. It's really dark. So they with haunted
Speaker 1: house enthusiasts who criticize these kind of things, it's usually
Speaker 1: because they say there's no story to it. There's very
Speaker 1: rarely build up. It's all just payoff off, payoff, like
Speaker 1: all of it. It's just there's no there's no well,
Speaker 1: there's no ratcheting up of tensions. It's like those movies
Speaker 1: that we're talking about. It's the haunted attraction version of Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what there are. I don't watch
Speaker 1: any of them. Like Hostile, Okay, I did see that one. Actually,
Speaker 1: what do you think anytime if you're going to pull
Speaker 1: out that rusty tray of medical instruments, you've lost me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is such a trope by now you know you
Speaker 1: know who did do it well? Was the first couple
Speaker 1: of hell raisers They used medical instruments to in the
Speaker 1: day disheartening effect. Yeah, the ones that scare me the most. Again,
Speaker 1: to delve back into movies like did you ever see
Speaker 1: Wolf Creek and it's setting the Australian Outback, is like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the kids whose car breaks down and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the rest of the movie is them getting
Speaker 1: traced chased by this homicidal maniac. Okay, that to me
Speaker 1: is what's called the psychological thriller. Yeah, that's not I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: I understand it is horror Friday the thirteenth, that's like
Speaker 1: Hallmark Court, but it's the slasher movie different. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: slasher movie is just it's just different. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not enough true, genuine horror movies in my opinion, which
Speaker 1: amount to basically supernatural horror. I guess that's how you
Speaker 1: put it. That's what I meant to You should check
Speaker 1: out Wolf Creek. It's the the will. I have no
Speaker 1: problem with it. It's just as far as horror goes,
Speaker 1: I'm not scared by that. I want to be scared
Speaker 1: you might be scared. Okay, I'll check it out. The
Speaker 1: murderous guy is is a really like kind of a
Speaker 1: great character, and I think he falls into the pantheon
Speaker 1: of classic like Michael Myers characters like yeah, one of
Speaker 1: the good Slashers, um, which brings us to the hell houses, yeah,
Speaker 1: which um, like we said, was sort of started back
Speaker 1: in the dark ages of Christianity. Uh, they they do
Speaker 1: this today. The most famous wasn't is in uh Cedar Hill, Texas.
Speaker 1: And there's a documentary called hell House on these things,
Speaker 1: I think from like two thousand to camp and Uh.
Speaker 1: The idea of these is uh run by churches usually
Speaker 1: and they are too just like in the old days,
Speaker 1: scare you into walking the straight and narrow, And actually
Speaker 1: they were. They were originated by Jerry Folwell back in
Speaker 1: the seventies. Yeah, those are the first ones, I think. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then in the nineties that church in Texas you
Speaker 1: mentioned took over Abundant Life Christian Center, um, and they
Speaker 1: took over and they started actually packaging it. They started
Speaker 1: selling hell houses for like bucks and it was kind
Speaker 1: of like do you remember those j C's in the
Speaker 1: seventies that came up with the Haunted House package. These
Speaker 1: are the same things but for hell houses. And then
Speaker 1: there's modules that you can buy that cost additional amounts
Speaker 1: of money so you can add rooms to it. And
Speaker 1: so like a room you might buy as the abortion room.
Speaker 1: And in the abortion room, Um, you're taught how to
Speaker 1: use raw meat that's like a stand in for a
Speaker 1: fetus that you throw into a glass bowl. You've got
Speaker 1: to make sure it's a glass bowl so everybody can
Speaker 1: see through into it. Did the quote literally from the
Speaker 1: manual that they distribute on how to run these says, quote,
Speaker 1: purchase a meat product that closely resembles pieces of a
Speaker 1: baby to be placed in a glass bowl, so that
Speaker 1: their suggestion that's a room from hell house. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: this is to keep you from having premarital sex exactly. Obviously,
Speaker 1: subtlety is not a hallmark of the hell house. Um.
Speaker 1: So for example, like if you there's there's one from
Speaker 1: New Destiny Christian Center. Um, it's called the Rave scene
Speaker 1: and basically it's about um club drugs and death. Teenage death.
Speaker 1: Like pretty much everybody dies or takes their own life,
Speaker 1: um as a result of of sin, yes, of their sin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like the lesbian suicide room where uh, you know, a
Speaker 1: young lady succumbs to lesbianism and uh is so mistreated
Speaker 1: and um, she she goes to she's she's not a lesbian,
Speaker 1: she's just saving herself and is mistaken for a lesbian
Speaker 1: and then uh it then kills herself because her best
Speaker 1: friend rejects her and calls her a lesbian when she
Speaker 1: went to go hugger. That was that was from the
Speaker 1: Vice article you sign at least, yeah, that's a great article. Um,
Speaker 1: but it's all repercussions of sins. So there's the lesbian
Speaker 1: suicide room. There is the AIDS room, the abortion room,
Speaker 1: the domestic violence room, the d u I room, and
Speaker 1: they're all just enacting these horrific scenes. And until you
Speaker 1: get finally to Hell, is it the end of the
Speaker 1: very end? Um In Hell is where they're you know,
Speaker 1: displaying what hell looks like with ghuls and demons and uh,
Speaker 1: and then finally you get to go to heaven. Well,
Speaker 1: this is what makes the hell house the hell house.
Speaker 1: Like you through these different types of sin into Hell
Speaker 1: and then when you come out, you emerge through Hell
Speaker 1: and then the real life preachers there saying, hey, how
Speaker 1: about you repent and for those of you who aren't saved,
Speaker 1: why don't you come on over to our church and
Speaker 1: we'll save you. Yeah, they call it. In the Vice article,
Speaker 1: they call it the h It's a really cool pastor
Speaker 1: who jumps out and is the good cop to hell
Speaker 1: house is bad cop, and he's like, you can avoid
Speaker 1: all this scary stuff if you, uh, you know, take
Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus as your savior. And sometimes they'll do
Speaker 1: that right in the room and have you signed something? Oh,
Speaker 1: I can imagine, and uh, that's the hell house. And
Speaker 1: then that Vice article, it's crazy. Um. The author mentions
Speaker 1: that a little boy goes off in vomits during the
Speaker 1: hell house, So apparently the very effective well, if the
Speaker 1: object is to make you sick and vomit, yea, so
Speaker 1: vomit from fear for your soul. And they're still around.
Speaker 1: It seems like something that um might have gone by
Speaker 1: the wayside. But yeah, you can still go to hell
Speaker 1: houses in one of places. I have one more thing
Speaker 1: for your chuck. What you got. Go to BuzzFeed dot com.
Speaker 1: You may have heard of that website, uh, and search
Speaker 1: for forty four best picks of scared brows at Haunted. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can't remember where the Haunted House is, but it's
Speaker 1: all the same background, but very much like roller coasters.
Speaker 1: They take a photo of this one spot and it's
Speaker 1: like the scariest spot and um, the people are they're wonderful,
Speaker 1: hilarious photo and like it's been around. I think they
Speaker 1: first started publishing them in two thousand eleven, so they've
Speaker 1: been around for years and they're still just as funny
Speaker 1: as ever. It's great that the scared face is just
Speaker 1: so pure to me because it's just pure reaction, like
Speaker 1: the toughest dude in the world, like trying to climb
Speaker 1: over his girlfriend or push her toward whatever he's afraid of.
Speaker 1: It's whatever is happening in that two seconds. It's pretty great.
Speaker 1: So that's Haunted House Attractions everybody I know. Uh, you
Speaker 1: want to know more about them, type those words in
Speaker 1: the switch part how stuff works dot com. And since
Speaker 1: I said that, it's time for the listener mail, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna call this Karate Kid an email Awesome, which was
Speaker 1: the scariest movie I've ever seen. Uh, if you listen
Speaker 1: to our Karate episode, we wax philosophical about Karate Kid
Speaker 1: movie and we got a lot of emails of UM
Speaker 1: people feeling great ways of nostalgia UH and talking about it. UM.
Speaker 1: So here we go. I imagine as will get dozens
Speaker 1: of versions of this similar email. Just listen to Karate
Speaker 1: and Uh. I have not finished it yet, but I'm
Speaker 1: writing about the first seven to eight minutes. Specifically, Your
Speaker 1: ode to the Karate Kid was beautiful. I got goose
Speaker 1: bumps along with Chuck. I may have also had a
Speaker 1: tear in my eye when Need described that magical moment
Speaker 1: in the film where it all comes together and we realize,
Speaker 1: along with Daniel Son, that Mr Miyagi is truly a genius. UM.
Speaker 1: By the way, Ralph Maccio named his son Daniel after himself, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess so, after the best version of himself. I
Speaker 1: recently sent The Karate Kid to my six year old
Speaker 1: nephew to ensure that despite what his friends and media
Speaker 1: try to tell him, he will know that Ralph Macchio
Speaker 1: is the original and only Karate Kid. When I called
Speaker 1: him and asked what his favorite part was, he actually
Speaker 1: started singing, You're the best around, nothing's ever gone, and
Speaker 1: get you down. It was the proudest moment of my
Speaker 1: aunthood so far. Now, Chuck I implore you to watch
Speaker 1: The Karate Kid too, after all the other films that
Speaker 1: attempt to be a part of the franchise or a
Speaker 1: Travesty two is incredibly good. It is very good. The
Speaker 1: Peter Sta song Josh mentioned, Glory of Love was my
Speaker 1: first ever favorite song when I was six because of
Speaker 1: the film is a classic, and I think you were
Speaker 1: missing out. I'll watch it. I'll check it out anyways.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sending me to work this morning with an
Speaker 1: extra bout in my step and a song in my
Speaker 1: heart that is from Nicole Beal at Jed's barber shop.
Speaker 1: It's like City Utah. Go get her to cut your head.
Speaker 1: Nice hair, not your head. It's doing a terrible job.
Speaker 1: She's cutting your head. Thanks a lot, Nicole. Um. Did
Speaker 1: you know her friend Van Nostrin. Uh, does his band
Speaker 1: The Bangalore's do a cover of your The Best Around?
Speaker 1: I knew he loved that song. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I knew they actually covered It's good. You can go
Speaker 1: to SoundCloud search Bangalore's and You're the Best Around. It's
Speaker 1: on there. I'm gonna do that right after this. Uh.
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