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Speaker 3: And I feel like we got some juicy ones.
Speaker 5: I feel like Octopober questions are the best because everyone's
Speaker 5: in kind of a mischievous mood to begin with. Yes,
Speaker 5: let's just get in do it all right? Laura wants
Speaker 5: to know what was your personal favorite Halloween costume and
Speaker 5: what was the party that you wore it to? Or
Speaker 5: like just event or just like space. We're just in
Speaker 5: your own house, in your own house. Sometimes you just
Speaker 5: need to wear a costume at home. If you're into
Speaker 5: that sort of thing, tell us, I don't have a
Speaker 5: cheerleader uniform at home.
Speaker 4: Uh okay. Favorite Halloween costume One of mine was when
Speaker 4: I there's a photo of that. We talked about it
Speaker 4: on the tour. Coming to your Halloween Party as the
Speaker 4: cast of Giant with Paul and Lee. That was really fun. Like,
Speaker 4: I love a joint costume, or you're not alone, you
Speaker 4: really need other people to complete the whole picture.
Speaker 5: Yeah right, I mean the standalone kind of thing is like.
Speaker 3: Oh, I get it, She's Liz Taylor, Like, yeah, that
Speaker 3: makes sense.
Speaker 5: Okay, But then then when everyone else joins in, was
Speaker 5: Tyler involved in that one too?
Speaker 3: So yeah, oh that's right.
Speaker 4: So Tyler was James Dean, Paul came in as Rock Hudson,
Speaker 4: and Lee came in as the Cow like ay.
Speaker 3: Cow, which I love that about Lee.
Speaker 5: I love that. Yeah, I mean I love Halloween. You
Speaker 5: guys know, this is like my super Bowl. In fact,
Speaker 5: I just came from the middle school where I was
Speaker 5: at eighth grade lunch and I was going from table
Speaker 5: to table like reminding kids to come to our Halloween
Speaker 5: festival on Sunday. And this kid that has typically like
Speaker 5: been very rough on me as I was like, you
Speaker 5: guys call me and all the other mothers. You know,
Speaker 5: the witches in town are put it on this haunted house.
Speaker 5: And some kid made a derogatory remark about witches and
Speaker 5: this little boy goes be respectful, and I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: witches is how I get through to this thirteen year old.
Speaker 5: So yeah, Halloween's my jam. I would say the most
Speaker 5: meaningful Halloween I've had was when Gus was going through
Speaker 5: his Hamilton phase and like really really really needed me
Speaker 5: to dress up with him, and he wanted to be
Speaker 5: George Washington, which meant I had to be Alexander Hamilton.
Speaker 5: So like wearing the wig and like the tight white
Speaker 5: pants and the frills and stuff through town.
Speaker 3: It was an experience.
Speaker 5: And it was when the show first came out, so
Speaker 5: it wasn't the hit it is today, Like no one
Speaker 5: knew what we were doing.
Speaker 3: That was sweet. I love that.
Speaker 6: I mean, well, Joy, you were talking about that one
Speaker 6: year at Hills, which made me think. I think that
Speaker 6: that was the same year that I love a good
Speaker 6: costume that I can just recycle because it's like why not,
Speaker 6: if it's great, I'm gonna wear it again.
Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna remember.
Speaker 6: And I had like gone through one of my storage
Speaker 6: bins and found an old red riding hood costume that
Speaker 6: I had, and I had made the cape.
Speaker 3: So it was like this huge.
Speaker 6: Like hood that came down over the shoulders and it
Speaker 6: was red satin on one side and black velvet on
Speaker 6: the other and it went like down to the floor.
Speaker 3: I just loved it.
Speaker 6: I'd made it years before for Halloween party in La
Speaker 6: and then I was like, Oh, I just have this.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna wear this again, and I loved it.
Speaker 4: It all happens at your house, Hill.
Speaker 3: And my brother fell in love with you that year.
Speaker 5: My little brother was in college and like came to
Speaker 5: visit from college and got probably way too drunk, and
Speaker 5: Sophia was the one that held his Viking hair while
Speaker 5: he threw up you because he was wearing away.
Speaker 3: He was so sweet.
Speaker 6: I was like, oh, honey, let's hold your hairbag. Everything's
Speaker 6: gonna be okay. Just try to puke in a bush,
Speaker 6: not in the house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are we dressing up for this year?
Speaker 7: What are we doing this year?
Speaker 3: What should we do this year?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm going as a witch, because well.
Speaker 6: I was gonna say, should we just dress up as
Speaker 6: the cast of hocus Pocus.
Speaker 4: Hello, that's a no brainer.
Speaker 5: For my son's school. Their mascot is the Hawks, and
Speaker 5: we're doing Hawk manner. And so I got this big
Speaker 5: feather like collar. Oh, just to be a very extra fan.
Speaker 4: I did that from Maria a couple of years ago.
Speaker 4: She wanted to be young Maleficent. So I built those wings.
Speaker 4: I got went and got a whole strip of all
Speaker 4: these feathers, and I like built a wire frame set
Speaker 4: of wings and did the whole Yeah, all the feathers
Speaker 4: and everything. It was a really cool costume. It's fun
Speaker 4: when you get to work with when you get to
Speaker 4: make your own stuff. I don't know what am I
Speaker 4: going to do this year? What are we What are
Speaker 4: we going to do? I think we're probably going to
Speaker 4: go as the Gilmour Girls because she's into it right now.
Speaker 3: Oh that's sweet.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I love a nostalgia costume. Also, I gotta be
Speaker 6: honest with you, guys, I don't even know what day
Speaker 6: Halloween is this year.
Speaker 5: It's a Tuesday, which is weird.
Speaker 6: That always bums me out a little bit. Me too,
Speaker 6: I prefer a weekend Halloween.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Halloween should be one of those holidays that travels,
Speaker 4: like it's always just on the Friday of the Saturday
Speaker 4: of the week, you know, like Thanksgiving it's always on
Speaker 4: the Thursday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Like shouldn't it just be the last Saturday
Speaker 3: of October?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Just a traveling holiday. What I wouldn't give?
Speaker 6: You know what, when we take over the government, that's
Speaker 6: going to be our number one cause.
Speaker 3: To us, we'd like.
Speaker 4: To propose a bill that's right, Daylight savings and Halloween perfect.
Speaker 3: All right, what we go next?
Speaker 4: Well, this one's from Rasa Raisa, Rasa, Risa, Risa. We
Speaker 4: don't know how to say your name, Rasa, but it's
Speaker 4: super cool the way it's spelled.
Speaker 3: It's very beautiful to look at. Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 4: I wish I wish I was more well educated on
Speaker 4: how to say your name. But you asked us, what
Speaker 4: do you take pictures of the mosts? What do you
Speaker 4: take pictures of the most.
Speaker 6: You guys, my best friend just told me so hard
Speaker 6: yesterday for this. So we're up in Big Sir, and
Speaker 6: we were going down the highway and it's like magic hour,
Speaker 6: you know, the ocean looks moody, there's pink clouds out
Speaker 6: and these huge green fields that stretched toward the ocean,
Speaker 6: and this field that we'd driven by earlier in the
Speaker 6: day was full of cows, like beautiful brown cows in
Speaker 6: the sunset.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 6: And so I'm like, we have to pull over, and
Speaker 6: I roll the window down and I'm taking pictures of
Speaker 6: these cows.
Speaker 3: And she goes, what are you gonna do? Frame a
Speaker 3: picture of those cows and put it up in your house. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I was like, maybe I might look how beautiful they are.
Speaker 6: She was like, You're never gonna look back at that photo.
Speaker 6: And I realized I take photos of landscapes everywhere, and
Speaker 6: I never look at them again.
Speaker 3: You're a photo hoarder the same way that you're a hoarder. Hoarder,
Speaker 3: I have to have it.
Speaker 6: If I just have it in my connection, if I
Speaker 6: just have it, I could look at it someday.
Speaker 5: Maybe options are Oh my god, I have to look
Speaker 5: at my phone to see what I have the most
Speaker 5: pictures of. I feel like it's screen grabs of information
Speaker 5: that I'm too lazy to relay.
Speaker 4: Yes, I have a lot of those too. I mean Maria,
Speaker 4: but she's also at an age now where she doesn't
Speaker 4: want me to take her picture anymore. You know, she
Speaker 4: throws her hands up and doesn't want to. Oh, I
Speaker 4: have photos of the last.
Speaker 5: Thing I got a picture of is George's nose crinkle
Speaker 5: like George has when she scrunches her nose up. The
Speaker 5: lines that are created in her flesh are just a
Speaker 5: shape that I find really pleasing. And so I've made
Speaker 5: her take this whole series of nose crimple pictures because
Speaker 5: I'm convinced I'm gonna get it like tattooed, like geometry
Speaker 5: on my arm somewhere.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I just is it or is it a
Speaker 3: little bit obsessive? It's just like nose making your nose.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make those black and white and do a sequence
Speaker 4: like a photo booth sequence with a bunch of them.
Speaker 4: He's so cute.
Speaker 6: It also feels important to grab because, like your nose
Speaker 6: in your ears are the two things that never stop
Speaker 6: growing in your life. So it's not gonna look the
Speaker 6: same when she's twenty well, And.
Speaker 5: It's how I can tell she's genuinely happy because she's
Speaker 5: an actor, Like she can fake a laugh or a smile,
Speaker 5: but when she gets into nose crinkle zone, like it's
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: That's so sweet.
Speaker 4: I have mostly pictures of Maria and then photos of
Speaker 4: I really do like taking photos of my friends in position,
Speaker 4: like in a spot when I feel like they would
Speaker 4: want that photo. If I see something that I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: this person would want to have this memory or this photo,
Speaker 4: I like to jump in and take that.
Speaker 5: That's so nice. That's like the best gift that you
Speaker 5: can give people.
Speaker 4: I think it's just because I've because as a single mom,
Speaker 4: I have so there's so many moments that nobody ever
Speaker 4: took photos of. They're just in my mind because it's
Speaker 4: just her and I and I have some selfies of us,
Speaker 4: but whenever somebody would jump in and be like, let
Speaker 4: me take a picture of the two of you, or
Speaker 4: just grab a photo and send it to me, it did.
Speaker 4: It always meant so much. So I think realizing that
Speaker 4: made me go, oh, I want to do that for
Speaker 4: the people too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's one of my favorite things to do out
Speaker 6: in the world, Like when I see people. When I
Speaker 6: see a group of people or a family or whoever,
Speaker 6: you know, there's a whole group of people standing in
Speaker 6: front of it, or like a restaurant and one person's
Speaker 6: taking the picture, and I was like.
Speaker 3: No, you go get in it. I'll take it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I love to take pictures for people so they can
Speaker 6: all be in the photo together.
Speaker 5: I see. I try to do that and I always
Speaker 5: get rejected. I have a thief face.
Speaker 3: I think. Jeffrey laughs so hard.
Speaker 7: Like we'll be at the beach and you'll see people
Speaker 7: doing that and I'm like, do you want me to
Speaker 7: get this picture of all of you? And they're just
Speaker 7: like no, no, move along.
Speaker 3: No. When you get rejected trying to.
Speaker 5: Help, you're like, I'm stealing that phone. Yeah.
Speaker 6: They think you're the woman like selling roses who's gonna
Speaker 6: grab the phone and run.
Speaker 4: Or they think you're just gonna take a photo with
Speaker 4: like all the feet cut off or something, or like
Speaker 4: too much space on the top.
Speaker 3: I look like I won't do it right, but you will.
Speaker 4: You're a good photo taker.
Speaker 6: Hello, guys, Tyler wants to know what is something you owe?
Speaker 3: Always want to be remembered for.
Speaker 5: Bitchery.
Speaker 7: When I think about all the things that people do
Speaker 7: know me for, it's usually either picking a fight or
Speaker 7: ending a fight, or saying what I think, And so
Speaker 7: I don't know that I have any options here.
Speaker 5: I think it is just bitchery.
Speaker 3: Which I'm good with.
Speaker 5: Is it something we've already done or something that we
Speaker 5: want to do.
Speaker 6: If it's something, if it's something that already exists. I
Speaker 6: think the thing that I hear from people the most,
Speaker 6: that means the most to me is that my home
Speaker 6: feels like they're home.
Speaker 4: Oh that's nice, like.
Speaker 3: For me.
Speaker 6: Being the place that people can come to to celebrate
Speaker 6: or to grieve. Like I love to be the space
Speaker 6: that people know they can rest, And it means a
Speaker 6: lot to me that, Like you know, over the years,
Speaker 6: like so many people have keys to my house. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so many people know that, like if they need something,
Speaker 6: they can they can come and stay with me. And
Speaker 6: I love that feeling and I never want that to change.
Speaker 6: Like that's been a deal breaker for me in relationships
Speaker 6: like in the past. If people don't like it, I'm like, well,
Speaker 6: this far predates.
Speaker 3: You, so you have to go. But I do.
Speaker 6: I thought that was a really astute question, like what
Speaker 6: will it be in the future? What is what is
Speaker 6: something we're going to do that we haven't done yet?
Speaker 6: Who are we growing into? Like I love the idea
Speaker 6: that there are outcomes we can't even imagine yet, because
Speaker 6: life is going to be bigger than what we've previous.
Speaker 3: I can't even imagine yet.
Speaker 4: God, I've been thinking a lot about that lately. About
Speaker 4: the word always in this sentence is funny to me
Speaker 4: because I have a I think one of the reasons
Speaker 4: I like to surround myself with antiques and vintage things
Speaker 4: is the reminder of mortality and the idea that always,
Speaker 4: I mean, you might do something that people will remember
Speaker 4: in fifty years, maybe one hundred if the earth is
Speaker 4: around that long. So you know, I think the quote,
Speaker 4: the mother Teresa quote, if you want to change the world, start,
Speaker 4: you know, love your family, I think is the quote.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's like, go and love your family well.
Speaker 4: And I feel like that's something that rather than looking
Speaker 4: out and going, what is something I want the world
Speaker 4: to remember me for? Like, Okay, even if they do,
Speaker 4: it's only going to be for another fifty year, Like
Speaker 4: what difference does that make?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 4: What can I be remembered for in the people in
Speaker 4: my life, in the community that I have, and people
Speaker 4: who know me. I mean, kindness is the first word
Speaker 4: that comes to mind. I'm not perfect at it by
Speaker 4: any means, but it is something that is important to
Speaker 4: me that I would love to. I would love for
Speaker 4: that to be something that people say about me when
Speaker 4: I go.
Speaker 5: This morning, we passed the cemetery driving to school, as
Speaker 5: we do every day, and there was something white draped
Speaker 5: over one of the tombstones, and for a moment I
Speaker 5: thought it was a Halloween decoration, like a like a
Speaker 5: front yard like ghost that someone had placed on top
Speaker 5: of a grave. And it made me laugh so hard,
Speaker 5: and I made Gus promise that when I die, my
Speaker 5: grave will be the one with like the hands sticking
Speaker 5: up out of the dirt, or like a Halloween.
Speaker 3: Decoration just around.
Speaker 5: So, yeah, kindness seems fun.
Speaker 7: Your sense of humor, Like, can my kids just be
Speaker 7: the creeps please? That's fun too.
Speaker 4: It's kind of kindness.
Speaker 5: It's like we're just gonna pass out the laughs. Vita
Speaker 5: wants to know what is a show you would like
Speaker 5: to start a rewatch podcast about and that you would
Speaker 5: follow along with watching an episode week to week, Like.
Speaker 4: Start listening to a rewatch podcast?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like if there was a show that had a rewatch.
Speaker 4: Podcast, what would I listen to?
Speaker 5: Yeah? What would we follow along?
Speaker 6: I mean, for me, The West Wing, Oh, I love
Speaker 6: that show so much, and like, who's funnier than like
Speaker 6: Bradley Whitford and Alison Janny.
Speaker 3: I mean those people. I would just like, I would
Speaker 3: love to listen to them talk.
Speaker 5: My husband watches everything and it wears me out because
Speaker 5: it feels like I have to have a relationship with
Speaker 5: so many different shows. But what's something juicy from when
Speaker 5: we were young?
Speaker 4: I mean Friends. I would definitely listen to that podcast
Speaker 4: if there was a Friends reunion podcast.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something from when we were little, right, Like no, y'all,
Speaker 5: I would watch it Saved by the Bell situation, that
Speaker 5: rewatched podcast because I want to know who's bone and
Speaker 5: who behind the scenes of this like little kid show.
Speaker 5: I just want dirt and you know it existed there,
Speaker 5: you know it?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah?
Speaker 5: And I like that everyone grew up and like, I
Speaker 5: don't know they they have been on TV since they
Speaker 5: were little, and a lot of them have really long
Speaker 5: careers and there's also been some tragedy, but they all
Speaker 5: seem to genuinely love one another, and I think that's.
Speaker 4: You want to go back and watch every episode of
Speaker 4: say by the Bell thought.
Speaker 5: I've already watched like half of them with Gus during
Speaker 5: the pandemic. Okay, A Fair still slaps man. I'm just like,
Speaker 5: tell him.
Speaker 8: Kelly, tell him.
Speaker 5: It was fun. Gus. Gus wanted to decorate his whole
Speaker 5: room like Saved by the Bell, so I had to
Speaker 5: buy all that like nineties weird graphics off the internet.
Speaker 5: And kid loved it, loved it all right.
Speaker 4: From Jess, she says, when was the last time you lied?
Speaker 4: And to whom? I mean?
Speaker 5: I'm not going to be specifical, but I definitely saw
Speaker 5: the emails. But I was really really busy and I
Speaker 5: did not respond to set emails. And I feel guilty
Speaker 5: about it, but also know my limits. So if you
Speaker 5: are the center of those emails and you understand that
Speaker 5: I'm talking through code, apologies, I can't get to everything.
Speaker 3: Man, It's not possible. No, it's just not possible.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: I I had to lie to my godson when I
Speaker 6: was in Detroit recently to stop a temper tantrum.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, he's too worthy of cause you what
Speaker 3: are you going to do?
Speaker 6: And he wanted to go see the fire trucks so bad,
Speaker 6: and I had to be like, oh, but on Tuesdays
Speaker 6: the fire station's closed. Yeah, because everyone needs a day off,
Speaker 6: and you know the rest of us get the weekends off,
Speaker 6: and that's why there's more fires on the weekends, so
Speaker 6: the firefighters have to take up they have to take
Speaker 6: a week day off so they can nap.
Speaker 3: And he was like, okay, dude, you're just describing. Oh
Speaker 3: my god. I was like, I don't.
Speaker 6: Mia was like looking at me, just watching me, trying
Speaker 6: not to laugh. But he was so enthralled by my story.
Speaker 6: And I was like and and and that's why we
Speaker 6: can't go see the fire trucks today. And you have
Speaker 6: to get in the car with your mommy and your
Speaker 6: god mommy and.
Speaker 3: We have to go. And he was like okay, and
Speaker 3: it was acceptible, acceptible.
Speaker 6: So like, listen, you got to negotiate with toddlers differently.
Speaker 3: And I do not feel bad about it.
Speaker 5: Oh they ascribed to a magical thinking and so yes,
Speaker 5: you do the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is it a lie or am I actually just telling
Speaker 3: him a story?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, just meeting them on his level.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I hate lying. It just is so it really really
Speaker 4: really really hate it. And yeah, it's the biggest thing
Speaker 4: in our house, Like don't it's the biggest thing for
Speaker 4: me in relationships, Like I'm just I just will never
Speaker 4: trust you again. If you lie to me, you can
Speaker 4: tell me anything. I might get mad at you, but
Speaker 4: I will never get more mad than if you lie
Speaker 4: to me. That being said, if rules do not make
Speaker 4: sense in some way, I don't necessarily have much of
Speaker 4: a conscience about breaking a rule or working around a rule.
Speaker 4: If the rule is if it's like semantics and red tape,
Speaker 4: and you can clearly see this rule has been put
Speaker 4: in place because one bad apple ruined it for the
Speaker 4: whole bunch. Yeah, you know those kinds of things. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm trying to think of like an actual
Speaker 4: practical example that that's happened with recently. It's probably usually
Speaker 4: like it's sometimes traffic rules if nobody else is on
Speaker 4: the road.
Speaker 5: Is Maria at the age where she's asking to do
Speaker 5: stuff and you have to tell her horror stories as
Speaker 5: to why she's not going to do those things, Like
Speaker 5: with Gus, I just had to talk about drinking right, oh,
Speaker 5: and I had to be like it'll kill you, you know, Like.
Speaker 4: Now I don't do that with her. I'm just I'm
Speaker 4: totally honest, Like I'm as honest with her as her
Speaker 4: age as is age appropriate for her.
Speaker 3: So like yeah.
Speaker 4: I try not to scare her into things. I try
Speaker 4: and give her a really balanced perspective of both sides
Speaker 4: of things. And then I'm like, you have to figure
Speaker 4: out you have to take a look at both, use
Speaker 4: your brain and make a decision about what you want
Speaker 4: looking at like all of the things on both sides.
Speaker 4: So I don't sorry, is completely off topic.
Speaker 5: No, but listen, my dad every time, every time there
Speaker 5: was a situation as a child, there would be a
Speaker 5: story about like how you'll die if you do that thing,
Speaker 5: And I just assumed that was parenting, just like, wait,
Speaker 5: you're not going to die if you walk across the
Speaker 5: street or if you go to the mall with just
Speaker 5: your one friend at eight pm on a Saturday. Who. No, Yeah,
Speaker 5: those are the kinds of lies that I grew up with.
Speaker 5: We called them urban legends.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are some little FIBs. I've probably told her.
Speaker 4: She had to, you know, She's like, can I sleep
Speaker 4: in your bed tonight? And I'm like, no, you can't.
Speaker 3: Why not?
Speaker 4: Well I want to? I don't know. I just I'm
Speaker 4: going to stay up late and I'm going to be
Speaker 4: working on something, and really I just want to, like
Speaker 4: land Bet and watch a movie with my boyfriend. So
Speaker 4: I'm not I'm just not not telling her the whole troup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they don't need to know secrets. It's not a lie,
Speaker 5: it's an omission.
Speaker 3: Let's do this one.
Speaker 4: We got to do the one from Brianna. It's our
Speaker 4: Halloween episode.
Speaker 6: Yes, okay, Brianna wants to know. Have you had any
Speaker 6: interesting paranormal experiences? If so, what happened?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I wrote a whole mother book about this.
Speaker 4: Come on, you should close us out, Hillary, because I'm
Speaker 4: sure you've got the craziest ghost stories. Well, so, Sophia,
Speaker 4: do you have any Yeah, Wilmington four friends who are listening.
Speaker 6: Wilmington is so haunted, like as a place, you know,
Speaker 6: a landmark haunted city. I moved twice because of scary
Speaker 6: that happened in the places I was living in.
Speaker 4: Because of the scary stuff that happened.
Speaker 6: I mean, I hung out for a bit because moving
Speaker 6: is hard, like breaking away.
Speaker 5: Nice.
Speaker 3: But you guys, things things.
Speaker 6: Were not okay there, They were not okay there. And
Speaker 6: some of the things happened to me alone. But my
Speaker 6: last like truly insane paranormal experience, thank god, happened to
Speaker 6: me with another person in the room and like we've
Speaker 6: neither of us has ever gotten over it.
Speaker 4: Well, can you tell us what it was?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean okay, so, I mean you all know,
Speaker 6: back in the early days of our show, all of
Speaker 6: us were uh partnered, and and then.
Speaker 3: That's the scariest part of the story. Yeah, the scariest
Speaker 3: part of the story. And then I, you know, very
Speaker 3: publicly was not.
Speaker 6: And then the first date I went on was with
Speaker 6: a very sweet boy named Austin Nichols when I was
Speaker 6: twenty three. And then you know, we dated off and
Speaker 6: on for years and long story longer when when he
Speaker 6: was like, I'm not gonna let you tell me we
Speaker 6: can't date because I because the long distance is too hard,
Speaker 6: and he came to work with us, you know, bold, gorgeous,
Speaker 6: romantic gesture.
Speaker 3: We laugh about it all the time. We're still good friends.
Speaker 6: And when we were actually like properly able to date
Speaker 6: because we were living in the same city for the
Speaker 6: first time in a decade, we were sleeping. And this
Speaker 6: was when I had that creepy apartment on Front Street,
Speaker 6: do you remember, And I just knew it was haunted
Speaker 6: and Brian, our hairdresser, lived next door with his boyfriend
Speaker 6: and we shared a balcony, the four of us. It
Speaker 6: was like a very cute It was like melrose Place,
Speaker 6: like the Southern Gothic version.
Speaker 4: That's a TV show. Somebody write that, please right?
Speaker 3: And I hear this noise.
Speaker 6: It like wakes me up, and I'm going, what are
Speaker 6: they doing at like the bar restaurant downstairs? And then
Speaker 6: I think, like, what the hell are Brian and his
Speaker 6: boyfriend doing on the other side of this wall? And
Speaker 6: then I'm like, wait a second, this is coming from
Speaker 6: like the alley side of the room, not the shared
Speaker 6: wall side the room.
Speaker 3: And it's getting.
Speaker 6: Louder and louder and louder like and it's in the
Speaker 6: floor and I turn the lights on.
Speaker 3: Austin looks at me and goes, what is that noise?
Speaker 3: And I'm like I don't know.
Speaker 6: And we both start to like get like make our
Speaker 6: way over to it. And I'm thinking, Okay, this is
Speaker 6: like a two hundred year old building, is like a
Speaker 6: raccoon about to like burst out of the wall. Are
Speaker 6: there squirrels in the wall? Like I'm making sense of
Speaker 6: it by like there must be an animal.
Speaker 4: And I would have gone there too.
Speaker 6: Yeah, And then when I tell you a volleyball sized
Speaker 6: orb you who loves an orb? Hillary pops out of
Speaker 6: the floor, bright white ball, and we both started to scream.
Speaker 6: And if you have never heard a six foot four
Speaker 6: inch man that looks like Austin scream at a pitch
Speaker 6: that this raspy woman cannot hit. The two of us
Speaker 6: leapt up and ran to get away from it, but
Speaker 6: it was coming toward us at this point, and the
Speaker 6: direction we ran was not to the back door.
Speaker 3: It was back onto the bed and into the wall.
Speaker 8: And we were like we pancaked ourselves against the wall, screaming,
Speaker 8: looking at each other, and this thing went from like
Speaker 8: round to tall like at us and then just evaporated.
Speaker 3: Didn't go through you or I didn't? What did you do?
Speaker 8: Because we were sort of closing our eyes and sort
Speaker 8: of looking at each other and sort of screaming because.
Speaker 3: Like what do you what was it?
Speaker 6: And then we just stood there and we were.
Speaker 3: Like, well, what do we do now? You can't call
Speaker 3: the police, can't go back to sleep.
Speaker 6: And then like inspected the walls, inspected the floor, not
Speaker 6: an opening anywhere, and we both were just like are
Speaker 6: we magic?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: Are we cursed?
Speaker 6: Like what I choose magic, But like, what what.
Speaker 3: The was that? And like when we talked to people
Speaker 3: in town about it, they.
Speaker 6: Were like, oh, yeah, yeah, now you know that alleyway
Speaker 6: there were like eighteen murders there in eighteen fifty six,
Speaker 6: and you're just like what everywhere in Wilmington people know
Speaker 6: how haunted all the buildings are and they're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: you know my friend lived in that building once.
Speaker 3: That happened to her too. And you're like, okay, okay, I.
Speaker 4: Saw my questions, but I'm going to keep them at
Speaker 4: a minimum. But A did you get like an alien
Speaker 4: vibe from this thing? Or was it like a ghosty vibe?
Speaker 4: It was a ghosty vibe. It was like it was energy.
Speaker 4: It didn't feel it didn't feel like something that had
Speaker 4: shown up from elsewhere. It felt like something someone some
Speaker 4: like you know, energy ones created can never be destroyed.
Speaker 6: Like something was just working its way through wherever it
Speaker 6: had to go, and it happened to need to go
Speaker 6: through my fucking bedroom.
Speaker 3: Oo full body chills.
Speaker 5: I love.
Speaker 3: Have you looked up did you do research on orbs
Speaker 3: and stuff? Honestly, no, I should have.
Speaker 6: I just think because we'd talked about all the ones
Speaker 6: that were in your house hill for so long, I
Speaker 6: was sort of like, well, this is just what happens
Speaker 6: in downtown Wilmington. Like I didn't really think that I
Speaker 6: needed to look into it any further. But I'm just
Speaker 6: so happy that one of my friends was with me
Speaker 6: and saw it, because we still are like, wasn't that
Speaker 6: so weird?
Speaker 3: And it's nice crazy yeah.
Speaker 6: Like you like your brother and your your ex witnessed
Speaker 6: all the shit that happened in your house.
Speaker 5: They got it worse than I did in my house.
Speaker 3: Well, because hester didn't like the boys in Life or Death.
Speaker 3: She my, gosh, have you had any ours?
Speaker 4: Was so minimal we were It was in our house
Speaker 4: in Studio City, and it was like electronics would always
Speaker 4: go on in the middle of the night, and it
Speaker 4: was always like electronic based and just random things happening
Speaker 4: around the house. It was like enough that you're like,
Speaker 4: this is beyond just my certainly faulty wire growing up.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And then I do remember Maria one time came
Speaker 4: in from uh she was brushing her teeth in the bathroom.
Speaker 4: She kind of ran into my bedroom and jumped in
Speaker 4: the bed, and then I was like, what's up. She's
Speaker 4: like nothing. Nothing, And then a few days later she
Speaker 4: told me that she saw a girl. She was brushing
Speaker 4: her teeth and she spit in the sink and then
Speaker 4: stood up and she saw a girl her age next
Speaker 4: to her. Ohoo, hi, Maria. No, no, don't make that
Speaker 4: stuff up. And she doesn't. She's because she doesn't lie,
Speaker 4: because she knows what a big deal it is. And
Speaker 4: she's not like a she's just it's not a characteristic
Speaker 4: of her to make up stories like that. So it
Speaker 4: was really like an end. It took her days to
Speaker 4: talk about it. She was like, I don't want to
Speaker 4: it was weird. I don't know, I don't know. I
Speaker 4: don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that's that's a weird deal. That's why I
Speaker 5: sold my house in Wilmington because I remember bringing Gus
Speaker 5: there when he was like eighteen months old and him
Speaker 5: just looking up at the top of the stairs, and
Speaker 5: I have so many stories about like stare action in
Speaker 5: that house that I knew my child was being called
Speaker 5: and was like, no, no, no, this is where this ends.
Speaker 5: Someone told me that my old house is on the
Speaker 5: market again. They sent me like a Zillo listing. No way,
Speaker 5: I'm not gonna buy it, but my understanding is that
Speaker 5: the current owner is very uncomfortable in the house and
Speaker 5: doesn't use the master bedroom or anything like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So anyway, my house.
Speaker 5: What I found out when I was doing research for
Speaker 5: the book is I had been told there was a
Speaker 5: murder of a tenant that lived in my house. Like
Speaker 5: Hester used to rent out bedrooms when she got older,
Speaker 5: and this man never used the kitchen, never used the
Speaker 5: bathroom in the eight years I think that he lived there,
Speaker 5: and he had come on like a Mormon mission to
Speaker 5: Wilmington and then fell out with the church, and no
Speaker 5: one could understand why. And then one day he just
Speaker 5: went missing. And so what I didn't know when I
Speaker 5: lived in the house is that Hester had had an
Speaker 5: exorcism of the house when she lived there in the eighties, right,
Speaker 5: and it didn't work. And so it was the back
Speaker 5: bedroom where my brother lived. And literally the day he
Speaker 5: moved out, I woke up in the middle of the
Speaker 5: night and saw this man standing in my bedroom doorway
Speaker 5: and it was clear as day. He was like an
Speaker 5: iridescent green color, and it was very unsettling. And yeah,
Speaker 5: the more I learn about it, the more unsettling it is.
Speaker 5: But this for another book, friends, So for another book.
Speaker 5: You know, creepy things abound. Thank you so much for
Speaker 5: joining us on this Halloween edition.
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