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But not like writer or a thing like that because we're all kind of doing that.
For what culture? I feel like he's a few things, isn't he? Yeah.
Yeah, I think, I don't know his percentage, but... He's not 100%? No. I think the more successful he gets, I increase the percentage in my head. Yeah. I think he's a halfie.
He's from Hawaii, I want to say.
Yeah, yeah, totally.
You sounded confident in it.
Yeah, you read it once, and then you're like, I could bring this into a conversation. That's how I feel with articles.
I feel like it would be so fun to read.
You're a grinder, because I feel like even before that, you've been grinding with online stuff, but still getting on stage.
But you were also doing stand-up even back then too.
That was the same path.
Oh wow. Yeah. I would do that. Yeah. That sounds great. That sounds fucking awesome. Doesn't it? Yeah. And you don't have to hear the feedback right away of like, like doing a joke on stage. You're just like, I think this is good. Yeah.
I'm so curious about that.
You don't have to wait for somebody else to make it.
Is this YouTube at that time?
YouTube is the platform?
Yeah, yeah. You were in the outdoor fest, right? Yeah.
I mean, it sounds like, especially at that time, it's probably really fulfilling to, like, have... This is, like, your purpose. You're, like, doing that and helping other people, like... keep their lives together.
My first touring again was, I think, well, I was doing shows, but not touring yet. Yeah. I think my first show back was February 2021 at an actual club. And it was Acme. And they had, like, Acme in Minneapolis. No, no, no, no. That's a great fucking club. It was my first time. So my first time there was in the pandemic.
He's, like... Chinese, I think. You know what? I'm going to get it wrong, too. But I think Chinese. I'll say it. Yeah, yeah. Can you say it? Louis Lee.
I think he likes... clean i'm not super i'm not super clean either you're kind of clean i mean some of the stuff oh nice man shoot but online my stuff is maybe cleaner but in the i should i should catch up but uh yeah me too let me tell you right now if i finish this yeah i'll be a different person okay oh yeah i don't want to meet him i don't drink that much shit oh boy yeah
I don't know if this is weird to say, I kind of like just started drinking again on Valentine's Day. Wow. For real?
For like a year. So I've had like stints. I like didn't drink for three years, drank again for a year, didn't drink for a year, and then I kind of just got back on the horse.
Okay, so it's weird. I mean, so my, I feel like for me, it's always been, going on the road and doing clubs is like, I just needed a drink after the show. Like, all right, this is the way, unwind. I just got off work, you know? And then I was like, okay, I'm doing that too much. But then it wasn't like, I think there was other things that was the bigger issue for me. Coke. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it's just like... No, no, no, no. We'll see. We'll see.
It's one of those two things, I think. But, um... I can't... And I'll just let you guys decide. Pussy, coke, alcohol, pussy, and weed. I'll send you some. JR's a big pussy guy. JR. He's a pussy connoisseur.
But... Yeah. Ah, this is a good year. Excellent year. But I... So I think... But now I'm in a relationship. It looks like my... Now that I'm, now that I've been saved. Yeah. I'm in a relationship.
All those things.
But probably soon to be.
Yeah, you're my first. Yeah. And the best because it's the only. Yeah. Also. Yeah, but I, but she kind of wanted me to like start drinking again with her. Oh, wow. So we kind of have this thing where it's like, I kind of only drink with her or like at work. It's weird.
No, no, you guys are my relationship too. So we're just work?
Oh, nice. That I kind of want to go back to my ex-girlfriends and be like. And show them what you've learned?
Yeah. But do you have like a go-to like routine? It's like your set? Or do you like, do you riff?
I'm interested.
They film this, but they don't film that. Some, like, fact-checking or, like, show her reactions.
It's like actual, this is the person you hang out with the most. How long have you been dating your girlfriend? Four years.
Well, first of all, if, babe, if you're listening to this, it's the best.
And, you know, first, my last, my everything.
You my first, you my last, you my everything, girl. That's just the Filipino in him. They can't not say it. A little Bruno Mars. Yeah, I'm summoning Bruno Mars right now. Um, but... I would say we have a good routine, I would say. We have the hits, and then every once in a while, I'll throw in like, hey, I've been working on a new song. And I'll throw that new jam in.
It's like, oh, what's this new jam? And I would say it's like open mic, because sometimes he's like... Yeah, I like the hits a little bit better.
Just do your set.
I've tried something different.
Okay, let me do my clothes. Chris Rock just walked out. Yeah, yeah.
You're getting bumped.
I actually have been bumped by Chris Rock, not sexually, but in a... In the bedroom, yeah. Yeah, in the bedroom. Actually, yeah, it was sexually. And he killed that shit.
Pure ones.
Condoms are against our culture, I think.
I feel like you guys are the devil and angel on my shoulder. No, no, no.
Just like a zoo of pure whites.
Is that ever since you had your son, your approach is a little different?
Why not? Whoa, whoa, whoa. Now I've got to rethink my entire life. I thought I was doing pretty well.
Yeah.
On stage? On stage.
No.
Yeah. Like if you go to a party and it's actors, writers, whatever, and then comics, you go to the comic and you're like, oh, cool, I feel comfortable now. Yeah.
You're still doing well, but it's definitely, like, it's different. You have to hide that you're, like, super proud, you know? It's like that's the... Yeah.
No, she's blowing everybody My mom is crazy again I can't believe, oh my God. You guys. You guys. Guys. Mom.
She is, man, in her 60s? No. Yeah. You want to see another picture? Here, let me see. This is a 60-year-old mom eating sushi on her birthday.
The older Asians get, the younger you look, too. It's like your body is, I don't know, it's just like, it's magic.
Yeah, yeah.
My favorite thing about Filipino is the culture is very happy. If you go to the Philippines, everybody will laugh at everything. It's so nice. Unless they were at my show that I did there. They didn't laugh at a lot of stuff.
You know what? Actually, the show that I did there, it was fine. But I think it was... difficult to change my perspective from a Filipino in America to a Filipino doing like a Philippines perspective.
And that's something I got to take in as like, all right, this next time I come back, let me try to like learn more of the local culture. That's interesting.
Yeah.
Like certain bits you're like, oh, this perspective is actually more American.
People know you better. They know about comedy more too. They adjust to the culture of like, oh, this is how stand-up works. We know his set a little bit. Yeah.
I've done the Philippines twice and some shows in Asia. We're in Asia. Singapore.
Singapore's really fucking great. It's so fun.
Do not bring drugs.
I did this show back in the day. I was backpacking through Asia. I had a weird chapter in my life. And I was like, you know what? I still want to do stand-up. I had no following or anything.
So it was 2013. I was doing stand-up for two years. And I was like, oh, you know, my girlfriend at the time wanted to volunteer in the Philippines because there was like a disaster. And that was really cool because she was white and she really cared about my country. But for me, I was like, they'll be all right. And I was like, all right, I'll go with you. I'll go with you. Let's go help them out.
So...
Yeah. That's where I'm from. They'll be cool.
So I went to the Philippines. I volunteered at this... Sorry, I'm laughing because I was going to guess.
You know what I mean? What?
You think Kalilah's going back to the Philippines for a fucking... No, no. She's like, we're going here again? No, but... So we went to the Philippines to volunteer. She wanted to volunteer. If you see my track record, it's a lot of white women.
Um...
I'll introduce you to my mom. She's super nice.
Yeah. But, no, so we went, we volunteered. There was an earthquake in Bohol, this island, Bohol.
So we were volunteering there for a few weeks. And after three weeks of volunteering, I was like, dude, I got the itch. Like, I want to do stand-up. And, yeah. After three weeks with this white girl in the Philippines, I got the itch.
I mean, it was really fulfilling. We're helping people, all that stuff. But I'm like, I got to tell some jokes, man. Right. And actually, I did do a set for the volunteers. They asked me to do a set on my last night there.
This guy's really, I can't believe his house just got destroyed and he's just so happy.
Dude, guitar. Filipino dude. Good swimmer. How about your Filipino parents? Yeah, dude.
guitar and they're like these songs are kind of humorous it's not like Manny Pacquiao's work this guy wow this is we gotta put this guy on TV oh fuck yeah Ellen hired me right after Ellen saw the video we had J.R.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This is how my set goes. I go with one idea, and then I don't know where it ends up.
So we were volunteering in the Philippines, and then I was like, dude, I was so hungry when I started.
Yeah, yeah.
I know.
Dude, I have a story actually. So I was like the one, one of the few Filipino dudes in the group. And so when we go and talk with the locals, like, you know, their house is like, dude, Incheon will destroy all this stuff. So all of the white, like European, Canadian, Australian, hey, JR, can you talk to them? And I'm like, yeah, I got this. Hey, they are wondering what you guys need.
Oh, yeah.
I'm going to pass out.
I have a visual.
For sure. Really? I got this tattoo with Joe. Are you being serious? Yeah, yeah. He bought my first tattoo at this tattoo place in L.A. This one. It's just a small little Philippine sun from the flag.
what's up with them over here? We don't know. Okay, let me talk to them.
Right away. Really? Because it's weird.
Race trainer. I walk around the Philippines and I do get a lot of stares, not as much as my girlfriend. So me and my girlfriend. Is your girlfriend Filipino? She's white and like blonde.
She's like the whitest possible. So like we'll go there and I think people will want to take pictures with me.
And they'll want to take pictures with her. Of course.
They're like, oh, let me get you. And then they'll be like, can you a little bit to the left?
And then a little bit more, and then I'm not in the picture.
What is Irish? I'm trying to think of Conor McGregor or something. Conor McGregor. Oh, fucking. Yeah.
Are you in? No.
but um this is not japanese by the way no no no your house is safe but um yes he got this after a show and then he also had my parents over at the show when i opened for him at msg yeah so they were like super stoked it was probably my proudest moment with them where they're like okay you're not a dentist that's okay yeah are your parents dentists my mom is yeah and both my brothers and their wives too
Dude, I have.
You're fucking lying. Yeah, I got it this morning. No, I'm just kidding. Yeah, this morning I had a really good share. Let me see this. Oh my God, it's so silly to show. I don't even want to show. It's a 24-hour one.
But this is from like... Hey, but you know what's crazy?
This is from like... These were jerking off.
I asked because so so Bert speaking of oversharing I have been to like SAA SLAA so it's like Spanish is the first language sex yeah it's like sex sex anonymous sex I didn't I didn't like have sex or do anything I didn't jerk off for like a year for real yeah it's like a reset thing of like you know I like this is wow this is so weird to share with a chicken I'll overshare then I jerked off this morning
Keep going. Okay, thank you, thank you. I feel so safe now.
Oh, okay. Can we have some? I mean, the drinks are really nice.
I mean, you only live once. Close friends. You never know. It could be awesome.
Okay. So, yeah, I went to SAA. It's like, it's... Sexual Assonimus.
Sexual Assault Anonymous.
Man, I came close. I'm not going to lie to you. So close. She was asking for it. You're not asking for it. No, no. Keep going, keep going. It's Sex Addicts Anonymous. Oh, Sex Addicts Anonymous. Yeah, yeah. So when I speak of the drinking and stuff, I think drinking wasn't as much of my problem. So it was pussy. It definitely was pussy. I like, earlier was the funny one.
Pussy was my downfall. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds like I get so much pussy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it's true, I feel like the truth is okay to say always.
Oh, no, no. So I'm guessing, were they in some kind of?
What the hell is happening right now? Is this real?
I feel like I'm back in the Philippines right now. We're like, go talk. I'm like, do you have water?
The kids making sweatshirts downstairs, that was cute. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, I have gingivitis right now, for sure. For real?
Really? I'm not going to lie, I was convinced. For real? For a second. But it's also, I'm not, yeah. Go back to jerking off.
I'm going to smile, but just with the teeth.
right now cheers cheers cheers so wait tell me about tell me more about like the sa stuff ssa yeah sa so i mean there actually there's a bunch so there's sa which i think is sexaholics did you ever have a mexican guy come in and go what's up sa and they're like oh wrong room sorry no you're definitely hispanic because you laugh the hardest at that one
Or you just love Hispanics. Racism. Yeah, so there's SA, which is sexaholics.
Oh, yeah, yeah. You felt the connection.
Man, probably once. Every time I go to my mom's office, before I have to do the appointment, I floss a little bit.
So there's sexaholics, which is really strict. And there's sexaddicts anonymous, which is like middle. And then SLAA, sex and love addicts anonymous.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, kind of.
It's mostly dudes. And a lot of it is on the phone because it's, like, safer. It's, like, it's even more anonymous.
If there's mild.
Yeah.
Have you ever had El Yucateca? Thank you.
Is it mild or? It's not mild. Then no.
Yeah. Oh, hell yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
There's always a friend you got to show your shits to. Yeah.
Was that testosterone?
Oh, why did you offer it to us then?
I liked you led first with, like, hey, you guys want hot sauce? Yeah. And then the street story.
Thank you, man. This has been so fun. Oh, my God. It's so soft. The chicken.
Why not have them cook it for you? Yeah, $1 for that. $1, all right, I'm going hot sauce on this.
Yeah, my least favorite chicken is a dry, hard chicken. This is like so soft and juicy.
Yeah, dude. I'm fucking insane. Why do I feel like anyone who gets a motorcycle is somebody who's against it in your life? Do you know what I mean? And it's called a wife.
When my mom does it, you'll like it. Yeah, she's really good. You got a glove? Very gentle. You're like, hey, take the glove off. Hey man, go for it.
Yeah. Those guys just aren't good at driving, though.
Why Harley?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, these are cool.
97?
97. I was playing a video game. I was playing Metroid.
Dude, no, 100% actually. That's crazy. Because in Metroid, this actually sounds really fucked up, but when your character dies, for some reason the suit comes off, and they're like, oh shit, it's kind of an attractive girl. And I'm playing the video game, then I died, and I was like, whoa. So you were dying a lot?
You just started killing it. Take the suit off. Take the suit off.
That was my first jerk-off session.
Thank you.
Really?
I don't know. Yeah, our people, that's the big thing. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. No, I think I've seen a picture of her. Wonder Woman.
You know how, like, in high school, when people would, like, talk about your mom being hot and stuff like that? I never got a... No, I don't know that.
Wonder woman how many people do you think that you've jerked off to her like who are like dead now?
Yeah. Keep going, keep going. Captain Zeta-Jones is alive. Who else is alive? Okay.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Great. And what was the next TV show? Anyway. This is a great Goldie Hawns here.
This is my fault.
But you have to play the in the arms of an angel.
Yeah, man, I feel like I just realized I have a hot mom, I guess. Let me see a picture. You actually? Yeah. All right, here, let me see if I can find... What if I just had one in my, like, a sexy picture of my mom in my wallet? Yeah, yeah, I got one.
Just in the arms. Don't do the angel part.
That's my favorite thing I've ever heard.
Who would like you to remember Suzanne Somers?
What? Is she the Olympics swimmer? What is that? Who is that again?
Wow.
No, no, no. I actually really want to know because I know the name.
John Ritter? Oh, yeah, yeah. Wait, he's dead? John Ritter's dead?
I feel so out of the loop.
Is it going to be Pussy Is My Downfall? I don't know.
I feel like I got to a point. I can reach over it. No, thank you. Thank you. You're the only other agent here. Thank you.
No. Sandra, thank you. Wait, wait, was it? If it's a country song.
Listen, man.
17, and I'm 34, so 17 years ago. You're 34?
Mom hot. No, let me see.
Unlock. I'm getting my glasses. Hold on. I feel weird because I'm looking for the hottest picture of my mom. Dude, stop stalling. Show us your hot mom. Please.
That was very popular back then. That was a big trend. Hashtag AIDS, herpes, genital warts.
Show us your hot mom. I want to do her justice, you know? Like, I don't want to, I want to like, yo, this is my hot mom, dude. Wait, let me see. This is me in high school.
Yes, amen.
I swallow that jizz. And I think, thank you, Jesus. I don't use the same sentence. I don't use the same sentence. I wait like three seconds.
We got to put that on Spotify. I think it's a 10 minute song.
No, I look like I'm five in high school. Wait, where'd that go?
Yeah, yeah. This is her. This is me in high school. This is my mom. It's like a mother-son luncheon. I can't do it. It does feel weird because, like, her hand is on my side.
Yeah.
That's a good choice. Like I said, yeah, that's cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's safe.
Or is there?
That's true, that's true. Do you talk about it on stage? No. You leave it a mystery? I do, yeah. I think it's fun. Dude, you could make so much more money.
Exactly.
I feel like Joe is kind of like a legend in our people.
In all people, yeah.
He watched his, like, REM sleep.
Man, for how much you fly? Yeah.
Really?
What do you do?
Oh, okay, okay. My entire family.
Oh, yeah. He's a country folk.
I just pictured a dude with a cowboy hat and denim and a guitar. I assumed he was important.
His son is doing stuff too now, right?
Man.
Joe Coy. He does everything for us.
So, yeah, I went to SAA. It's like... Sexual Assault Anonymous?
He has like an album.
Yeah. It's like him holding a guitar shirtless with like boxing gloves around his neck.
But I feel like if I don't say that it's legit, something could happen to me.
Yeah, the next time I set foot in the Philippines, they'll take me to a back room. Yeah. Have you been to the Philippines? Mm-hmm. Is it nice? Really? You've never been? No. Dude, you would have an amazing time there. Have you been? No. They're Catholic, right? They're Catholic, yeah. Very Catholic.
Like doing that bit?
Well, I think you had a bit about every Filipino you met you thought was an unmasked Jabbawockeez. Was that you? Yeah. I still think about that to this day. It's true. Yeah, because it could be real.
I'm just here to remind you.
So he says here, he says, after half an hour, I decided I had to do something. Has Mira told you about her appointments? No. Well, we've been trying to get pregnant for years. Long, painful year.
brain of a 12 year old i'm sorry long painful years okay it's just so important for her to have a baby and you know she blames me for our problems man he's dumping on a 16 year old this i was gonna say this 16 year old is i mean this is a this is a heavy load this is
a lot yeah you know do you know that my wife in there who's losing her job blames me for infertility do you know she thinks it's mine and he's like i just i'm still high i'm ditching school exactly he's like he's like did you know we got uh swiss cheese in we offer swiss cheese now he's like i want her to be pregnant which i've been trying so hard but you know she blames me right
Every day she looks at me like it's me. Do you know what that's like to come home and see?
And then I have to go to work. I have to provide for this house while she runs this dead-end job. And then I'm the monster. I come home and it's me. I'm the devil.
Yeah. The old man smiled at me and told me that I could have it for free. It used to belong to a kid who was about my age that didn't live here anymore. There was something weird. What? What?
No, no, no, no, no, no. You're doing the thing. Oh, did he move? You're doing the thing. Oh, did he move?
I'm sorry about Boroska, okay? I know that you have this knee-jerk reaction whenever kids come into stories now because of all that. I get it. But just because you have an old man who's like, oh, well, I came across this cartridge. Yeah, it belonged to some kid who lived around here. I don't really need it. You can have it. It is not infeasible. Kid moves away.
to the third floor and entered tom's apartment through his bedroom window what what is with hold on pause real quick what is with you like anytime you have to read text normally it's impossible but if you're playing a role you could read an encyclopedia fine i don't know it's like it's like you switch into a brain mode where you're just like dyslexic I feel like I might be dyslexic.
Parents start giving his stuff away. Old man buys like a trunk of clothes or whatever. Who knows what? And oh, look, there's a game cartridge in there.
Oh, I bet he's a perfectly normal guy. He could rationalize it in his mind. Our protagonist could rationalize the interaction as just like a weird way to phrase some kid that lived down the street. The next sentence he says that he phrased it weirdly, but it's not the old man going, it's the kid I had in my basement. It's just like, oh, a kid lived around here.
And that's enough nuance that your brain could be like, oh, that's a weird way to say it. I love that the literal next sentence is, there was something weird about the way the man phrased it. Yes, clearly there's something weird about it, but that's not immediately like, I capture children. Okay. All right. Can I go back to the story? Yeah, I'm waiting to hear what happens next. Are you?
Unless you're playing a character, then it goes away.
Yeah, someone's like overdosing on the floor as the TV's like, I don't know about this, Bristol. We ought to get you back. Hold on.
I, uh, it's, it sounds like, I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about the overdose. Oh, God. Dude, stop. It smells like horchata in here. It smells real bad. Meanwhile, on the TV behind him, just Mr. Wellers don't like it.
You're playing a character without dyslexia, so it just goes away. A character who doesn't have dyslexia, perfect. Do you think anything happens that they don't know about? He looked back towards the building, looked upset, had some fear in his eyes.
I didn't like how close you were to the mic. That was in my brain.
Stop, stop. I just farted. It stinks out in the hallway because I farted.
can i read the story yeah go ahead you're sad you complained about sidetracking and here you are talking about taiwanese yeah that was bad that was bad that was bad i know that's yeah i'm sorry for five minutes about how i derailed the show i'm sorry i'm sorry people don't deal with anything relating to that sort of business around here anymore that was all a long time ago
Following her statements, she attempted to be cheerful again, excusing herself to the restroom and wishing us the best on our return trip to New York. Okay, if this is a Boroska scenario, I didn't do it. Okay.
It can be. It certainly can be. And I had a bit of a tense there, too. But at the same time, I've said that to people. Like, I've been at a gas pump and seen someone with, like, a Pennsylvania tag and be like, what brings you down this way? Or whatever. It's just a Southern thing.
that's your second question you always ask people what that we had a point oh the whole like talking to people i had a conversation with something the other day because someone else had tennessee tags and he was like oh what brings you down this way and i'm like ah down here blah blah and we started talking about tennessee and stuff like that it's just i'm not you can have nice one minute conversations with strangers don't look at my car anymore is what i would say okay are you i'm sorry are you from new york because you're acting like a yankee
That's because they're afraid. No, that's because. Okay, for one. Your wife sure does look pretty in that passenger seat. No, no, no, no, no, no. You're describing two different things. Stop doing the accent right now. No. Stop. Mr. Wellers, I will tell Mr. Wellers this immediately.
No, there is a difference between someone going, oh, cool, what brings you this way?
I can't read anything. Hunter's adapted the role of the aging bald man so well that his glaucoma set.
Are you the Grinch? What the heck? You don't like the smell of bacon?
Here's what here's what needs to happen at some point. I mean, you need to go camping and I'm going to make bacon.
I have you ever. OK, sure. Smelling bacon in an enclosed kitchen is one thing. But have you ever been like outside and like smelled bacon like on a campfire type stuff?
Yeah. But every time you let me know who you are as a person, it makes you less human. You, the things you dislike, I will stop.
I don't want that because it's great material for the podcast. Okay. And more importantly than anything to do with you is the success of this channel. Let's get that. Well, I mean, I'm glad we're at least in agreeance there. You keep being strange, but I'm just saying that the things that you have issues with aren't like things people have yes or no's about. It's like core human experiences.
You're like, well, it's just funny, you know, death. Or it's also like, oh, you know what I hate the smell of? Food. Yeah, I didn't say death was funny.
Every day I'm slightly more convinced you are bug people in a hunter-shaped costume.
I love him. Is that right? Remember our podcast? That was a lot of fun. Hey, hey, especially we like that, don't we? And the bugs are just like all over the mannequin's face. It's like they're like chewing through it. It's like just sounds like sounds like a bunch of cicadas in the room.
I'm going to make podcast episodes with it too, where it's just like sitting there and I'm like, remember, remember Tommy Taffy? It was pretty wacky, huh?
hey hunter i like to think i like to think that you're you actually go so manic that you you're having a conversation with it but people can't hear the other end so right yeah i've said it i've said it in public like hey what would kyle from boroska say and then i'm quiet for 20 seconds and i'm like oh hunter classic hunter for sure my wife's left me i live in like a motel room now
Well, what a... Now the tone was dramatic.
This is what you do. You take something. No, no, no. Shut up. Shut up. You take something that is like funny and normal. You're like, you know what would make this so much worse? I never want to hear you say the word Baraska again or Tommy Taffy because you do it with real life scenarios. It's so much worse.
All right, anyways, let's continue. When I asked her what was wrong, she said she had a dream that she was lost in the woods outside and something was following her. I cuddled with her until she fell back asleep and eventually I draped it off too.
So this goes back to my kind of overarching thesis with you that you just hate fun.
Can someone, can someone in the comments put up a, put up a scoreboard right now?
Oh, you're talking about weight. Oh, you just randomly go all my big brothers and sisters. I'm like, Whoa, what are you talking about? I'm talking, I'm talking the thickums. What was I even talking about? Oh, the things you don't like. Yeah. You don't like talking to people at gas pumps. You don't like cuddling. What a crime. You don't like... What was another one we brought up?
I mean, there's several. Someone mentioned up... For one, we haven't said that before, but sure, throw that up there. Any guy who does not like grilled zucchini is an enemy. All right? What are you talking about? I do, actually.
Like she got stumbled and like transformed into a grown man for a second and then went back to talk.
But yeah, guys in the comments, someone give me a list of like all the... Because I know there's like eight things he said that are completely normal human experiences that he's afraid of. So someone put that together for me. All right. Whatever. Doesn't like cuddling. Anyway, okay. Her nickname has always been Monkey Toes. Long story. Gross. Shut up. Okay. What? Pet names?
You don't like pet names? Nah, dude. Someone add that to the list. Whoever commented the list I asked for earlier, add that to it.
I didn't know how any of this could be happening. It wasn't just that she was asking for help. That was a big part of it. It was that my name is Thomas. Oh, that's a fun... Okay. That's a fun end to part one. I like that.
The alpha, a muscular three foot tall son of a bitch named Rocco has been spotted multiple times chewing on people's tires. It has been run over at least twice, but keeps coming back.
Okay, whoever has the list going, I'm going to start a list in this room of the stuff that is normal that people like. Add raccoons to it.
Hunter, stop, okay? Raccoons are my favorite animal in the world. I love them to death.
Growing up in East Tennessee, they would come up on the porch at night and put their little hands out. They'd want marshmallows and stuff. They're just sweet little creatures in nature.
Dude, they would get into the trash.
there we go with the accent changing now I'm Creole or something, whatever that is. No, that's Alabama. Okay. Look, the, the raccoons are like these little sweet creatures. They're like little cats, kind of fat. And then like, other than getting into your trash every now and then they'll just hang out near the house. They're cute. They carry their babies around. They're adorable.
Everyone likes raccoons. The only time they bite people's fingers is when like people mess with their babies or something like that. Like, They're perfectly peaceful. I love them. They're cool. I love raccoons.
Someone at one of the live shows, which is as you described them, terrorists, um, they have a pet raccoon and they wrote me a letter and then had their raccoon do a little paw print on the bottom of it. It was so cute. I would have crumbled up and I would have thrown in their face and said, get that shit away from me. I bet you would. You know what? Why don't whoever shows up at the live show?
Why do you want to talk to that guy? You don't meet and greets just for me. It'll be a better show.
Okay, if someone in the comments of this one leaves like the list of stuff Hunter doesn't like, I promise I will write it down somewhere here and we will keep a live tally of things that he is like bad about.
Yeah. A couple things. Rational man. Talking to people in public, like speaking to someone at a gas station, that was one. Rational. Cuddling. That was one pet names, but just anything that involves care or love. You're just, you're just against. Okay. All right. Yeah. He quit. He quit. Cause he's knows I'm right. Anyway, back to the gas station.
Well, it depends on how many times they interacted with each other.
And then also to have her be like... No, Hunter, because you are my friend. Okay. And it's not weird for friends to help their friend bring in groceries.
If I'd met you one time and you just started helping to be like, well, that's a little much. I can agree with that. Thank you. But then you took it to an absurdist level by saying, like, oh, if I helped you with groceries, it's like, okay, no. No, no, no. Because I know you and you're my friend.
I'm giving you back shots. Is that what you're saying? Is that what you want to put out into the aether to see what happens?
That is not what I said. You said it. No, you said it. No, no, no. Okay, I think more importantly, while we're on this topic, I would like to thank Agnovelli, who in the last episode...
uh has begun putting together the comprehensive list of the things hunter hates uh and i just want to run through them really quickly with you just so you can confirm or deny okay are you there yeah all right so uh gas station small talk yeah i don't like it nope okay raccoons nope correct pronunciation of words especially anaconda solemnity etc
So, all right. Especially, uh, I'm, I'm just going to, I'm just making this list so that, uh, it can be accurate. Um, cuddling. No. Yep. Uh, quote that son of a bitch at Chick-fil-A. I like that guy. Okay.
I'll agree. When you get to a level of like private intimacy of public, it's holding hands and stuff. I don't care. How do you feel about handholding and like cheek kissing? And like what kissing? You say feet kissing? Cheek kissing. Yeah, feet kissing. That's what I meant. The natural progression from holding hands. I don't know how you fly down there, buddy. Cheek kissing. Cheek kissing.
Like kissing someone on the cheek.
All right, I'm leaving that one up then, the PDA. Children.
Okay, children calling parents mommy or daddy.
Jeff Goldblum impressions. Don't need an answer on that one. Meet and greets.
The hesitation. No, no, no. I want to put out there.
I can't wait to see you. The feeling of blankets on cold nights. Oh, I love them. Pet names.
No. No, you can't. You have to still like pork bacon and you can prefer turkey bacon. I can't help.
Waste of space. Get them out. All right. Disney adults. Oh. That one's fine. Probably the worst. That one's understandable.
I feel like I'm like a doctor's visit. Taylor Swift.
Hmm. Uh, I'm going to add cream soda as well. Go ahead and put it on there listed, but we're going to put that on there. Uh, let's see. Uh, gravy.
That is disappointing. That's actually really, you know why I'll tell you. And it's not, what kind of gravy do you guys have in the Midwest? Like a white sausage based gravy. That's what we'll do. Why we'll do squirrel gravy a lot back home. What? But sausage gravy. Yeah, squirrel gravy is really good. It's very, very sweet. God. It's delicious. Yeah, sorry that I live. Okay, 17. Let's see.
All right. I'm going to go ahead and mark that as a yes as well. Christmas. I love Christmas. Okay. Vegetables.
uh was it should we should we squirrel pot pie would that be better how about house cat pot pie there isaiah we're just throwing around any animal or you know now i think you're just being kind of racist against uh against appalachian folks and uh i'm gonna skirt over that because that's not fuck you disgusting people all right and um
All right. So with that, that makes exactly 20 things that Hunter hates currently on the list. And it will be sure to continue into future episodes. I now have a tally going at the house. So don't worry, audience. We will be sure.
Yeah, a whole three. A whole three. Like, others showing happiness. A holy trinity. And, uh, Christmas. A holy trinity. Okay, alright. Alright, well, before you get even more blasphemous, let's get back to, uh... Halfway through entry 30, if anyone still fucking cares. I frown a little, unsure what Bonnie means. She smiles back blankly, then resumes the path back to her car.
She smiles back blankly like a good guy. A blank smile? That's a horrifying phrase.
Just the weirdest people you've ever met. Yeah.
Wintery Bay. With Wintery Bay. That's a funny phrase to say to people out of context. It will be fine when we get to Wintery Bay and just, like, don't elaborate.
See you there. I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. Don't even worry your little head. Worrying makes it hungry. Oh, you all heard the guy crying in Greek, huh? Yeah, we'll be there ASAP.
He's looking over at the other ranger like... I'm going to go there.
Leave it. Leave it. Don't touch it. Please don't. Don't touch it. Please. People will be so mad at me. Please. Please don't. That is stain in the episode. We are out. No. No, no, no. I refuse. I refuse. We're keeping it. There was such confidence. You were so ready for that one.
We've got to learn to talk to these things. Miyamo.
I raised my eyebrow at him and smiled. Yeah. He said excitedly and jumped up off the couch. Then, embarrassed, he cast his eyes down at the floor.
This in-person thing is I'm glad I get to act and be the character. Yeah, I get it. The whole time you were reading, I was like, don't look at me, don't look at me.
Thank you. When we had gotten a decent way into the trees, Jamie turned around and looked briefly at my face before casting his eyes to the ground. He rubbed the back of his neck.
wanted to kiss you all summer don't look at me when you do that line it doesn't help that anytime i imagine you as a kid it's just you your head now but on a smaller body i was stunned to silence absolutely dumbfounded that jamie had found the guts to say anything like this I knew I needed to fill the awkward silence left in his way. So I did the only thing I could think of.
I leaned in and kissed him. It was the dude.
That was so good. Oh, my gosh. Hello, everybody. Welcome to Cream Crew. The show that the other podcast that Hunter doesn't care. Welcome to Creepcast. No, no, no, no.
Not to ruin the tension of this moment, but every time I listen to this part, the thought form sounds like Yandere Dev.
As soon as we hang out together, I'm going to publicly embarrass you as much as possible. I'm going to walk up to strangers and be like, my friend here wants to know about your day or where you got that purse or something like that. I'm going to do that constantly.
Anyway. I spent most of my life hunting in those woods, so you can imagine my joy when my parents got me a hunting dog. What was that noise? That was like a growl. No, I did. No, I didn't. I did.
Uh, my family did stuff like that. I know like the kind of hunting I did as a kid was always like deer hunting or like Turkey hunting. You don't really need a dog for that. We did a lot of hunting dogs. Oh, you did a lot of pheasant hunting. Yeah.
And my, uh, my grandpa, did you have, did you have one or did you have like several?
You were seven years old, sitting next to your beloved hunting dog and your uncle, your grandfather, uncle, what'd you say? My grandpa, your grandpa just blew its brains out right next to you. Yeah.
Yeah, I had a hunting dog, but you're like, when I was seven, my grandpa. Wait, so did he shoot it on purpose? No, I don't think so. He was just holding a gun in his wheelchair as he was disabled from a stroke. Okay. Yeah. And so it could have, it might as well have been you that got shot. It was just like an accident.
No, you should include it. That has to go in the episode. That is a legendary hunter confession.
The story mentioned a dog, and you're just out of nowhere like, I was seven years old. My grandfather.
Yeah, because the word hunting dog was a flashback for you. It was like a trigger phrase.
Hold on, hold on. Would you just, I don't know, hypothetically say that maybe that potentially had some effect on your development that led you to where you are now, perhaps, perchance?
Yeah. But I never found one. You were looking. It's like, it's different. Yeah. I was looking, but that you were just a seven year old, like playing with Legos, like, Oh, they're like, you're like Fido. Your best friend is executed by your grandfather.
That, that was, that was just a lot. Okay. I'm not going to, this is the Friday about that. Yeah. I'm not going to pry to you about that one anymore. That felt kind of rough, but you have to leave it in the episode. That's non-negotiable. So anyway, Sandy wasn't my property and wasn't treated like he belonged to me.
It was especially funny because as soon as you said deal with it, the connection cut, like you got raided. Yeah, SWAT team just raids it and just beats the shit out of me.
sandy was a member of the family my best companion and my truest friend that was until my grandfather shot him in the head while i said you too
That was just a big story for me to just like forget about all at once. I apologize. Okay. I've been talking with my family about taking Sandy, my honey gear, and some essentials to one of the cabins my grandfather owned in his hate. Oh, we're introducing a grandfather. This is actually coming. This is unveiling to be something horrible.
A few hours of driving later, we were setting up camp in one of my grandfather's secluded old cabins. Here's where things get screwed up. Sandy, I'm so, so sorry. Is this my life? Good God. It's really close. We were going pheasant hunting in Kansas.
Grandpa. My seven-year-old cousin watched this unfold. He now talks about the grossest, most disturbing things he can online. He's extremely respected. You want me to read the text you sent me earlier? Which one? About you going to the bathroom.
Yeah. What other response do you want me to have to that? I don't know.
If I wasn't busy on Twitter, trying to shill for disaster relief efforts for the Appalachian mountains, I would have tweeted that screenshot. Well, but what I don't want to happen is some like FEMA workers, like, Oh, maybe we can get aid.
Okay. I'm just going to keep reading. There were still bigger animals that would have liked to take a bite out of him if there wasn't a lot of food for the winter. Heard Sandy's bark fade away in the distance and then stop altogether.
It's pretty easy to repel in on your set. Thank God! That'd be great. Maybe you think one of them would stick around to finish the podcast with me. That'd be friendly.
Yeah. R.I.P. Sandy. You must have ran into Hunter's grandfather. Tragic. No, no, no. It is mobility scooter out there for some reason, like the wheels going. I did. What kind of, not to get too graphic, get to it, but what kind of gun was he holding? Because it's more insane. If the guy who like can't move half his body has like a 12 gauge, he had a deer rifle.
So he can't move half his body, but he's in an electric wheelchair with like a full scoped, like bolt action rifle across his leg. Yeah. He can't even lift that. Why? Why does he have that? A man has pride at least. So that's what I, so that's what they told him. I figured tomorrow would be the last day before I'd go into town and see if my father would help me find Sandy.
He was a retired grain man, but I was sure if I brought up Sandy's name, he'd be more than willing to help me search for him. Thankfully, Sandy... I'm sorry. I just, uh, just as a visual of just a guy, a half paralyzed man on a mobility scooter. You know what? Just talking through the woods at night, executing any animal.
You're bringing your mom into this. What do you mean? You're bringing your mom into this. I'm letting you know right now.
We can bleep or cut any of this. No, you're not.
Hold on. Hold on. Ask if she's gone. If you were, she's gone. This memory is completely ruined.
Oh my gosh. It's not funny. It's funny how you remembered none of it. And it's way more tragic than you initially thought.
You cut that out. Do not leave that in.
if you if you do not leave that in i'm quitting the podcast that is the greatest that is the funniest thing that has ever happened on this show oh my gosh you going from just a normal event like oh yeah it was this accident into like oh we were afraid your grandfather would kill you or something so we put him in a home you know and he died there you know this is a this is a podcast about
No, no, no. Go ahead. We're having fun. Okay, I'm going to read this story now. 1034 to dispatch. Dispatch, go ahead.
That was, yeah, that is staying in the episode. That is the fuck. That is the wildest thing that has ever happened on the show. Oh my gosh. We are going to hear, you are going to hear about Roger until you're dead.
No, no. I remember. Okay. So remember the jokes I was making about like, he's out here and then it's too real now. No, no, it is. That is the new villain that is up there with Mr. Weller. I am only hearing all timer.
I shot myself in the foot immediately here.
I could see the reflection of his eyes is green pearls. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let me redo that. I could see the reflection of his eyes is green pearls in the murder. What?
In his eyes, I could see the reflection of the mobility scooter getting closer.
okay just the image of like a guy who's paralyzed but still has a rifle for some reason oh okay It doesn't help that if I had you at seven years old, it's just you with the exact same head and facial features you have now just on a smaller body.
interjected with my own trauma so thank you for that and i think you know i like this story it was good but it is it has to be one of my all-time favorite recordings because it has brought us to a uh a revelation that i will never let you live down nor will anyone else in the comment section i will i was fighting for my life while I was reading to not make every single sentence.
Like I looked at my dog. It was strange. The front half was long. The back half was a mobility scooter.
You know, the porch waiting for something to come. I saw the shape of a mobility scooter.
Oh, that was so funny. She has stained our family's character to help.
It's, it's, it's not, it's not the best. I crawled into his outstretched arms as something loud banged against the wall for my sister's room.
oh my god okay well no that that means that like she got thrown right right like he's like he's beating her right yes that's that's what it was he's picking her up and just throwing her good shelves and in the room that's when tommy taffy started making every room in the house a wwe ring watch out watch out watch out watch out watch out watch out
it's funny if you imagine the dad is like uh randy savage oh yeah that's the wrong answer brother
really fun use of just like dilapidated buildings too well it gives the overarching feeling that the operator kind of persists and rot right like he's on the fringes of you know society kind of like the upside down it's it's i hate that reference it's like he's uh he's always in the
There's a tree out there. Do you see Slender Man behind it? It's a tree, Hunter. It's not Entry 5, so no. You see him, boy?
i'm i'm here there's a tree man there's a tree be careful most defeated i'm here i'm here end of part seven okay hold on the reason i was laughing at the end i thought you remember the c4 she took at the beginning of the story
yeah i thought she was about to blow up blue jay is what i was laughing about you lack imagination exactly that's what i thought was happening i'm still i'm still laughing over the idea of alice being like you lack imagination boom you lack imagination
They're two different instruments for two different jobs.
Gosh, they're such different characters. I guess I like... the ledger one more because i feel like it's more timeless i really love the joaquin one but to be honest you don't have to you don't have to sway me man i i prefer ledger joker as well that's all we need to know did you have a walking doesn't do anything that a character like travis from taxi driver doesn't do you know
but now i just wanted to pay a little homage is all i want to do the whole thing i appreciate you know between between this bit and the a-cab opening we are going to get destroyed i'm really i'm really getting uh all our texas boys
But I feel like Heath Ledger's Joker is more of a full flamboyant interpretation of just chaos. Wants to crumple the system, whatever it costs.
Tells you things. Says some things, you know, I don't know.
Hello. Next time you see Bluejay, she's wearing Joker face paint.
Yeah, going through the trees. I'm a pariola running the game, and I'm just here to throw a wrench in your plans.
She's dragging Rob by his ankle. He's like bleeding all over.
All right. Party. Here we go. I ran to my small bathroom and fixed my hair as best I could. I looked like hell, but she would understand. Secret of my own unbelievable behavior and the mess I'd made of the place.
I'm just a little, I get a little weird sometimes. He's like, okay.
It's funnier to imagine him wearing full, like Heath Ledger Joker face paint during all this.
You set up one little webcam between a vending machine staring directly at the weird redheaded girl's front door and everyone loses their mind. It's simple.
He already has a pole cue in his hand. Yeah, exactly. It's a magic track.
The image of him talking to her through the microphone of the webcam is so insane.
It's really funny. Cause it's like, Hey, you didn't list the cause of death. It's like, it's been a whole two days. You think we can tell after two days, who are you?
Do you think I'm Batman or something? World's greatest detective. No, ma'am. Come on. How am I supposed to tell? You think I could tell how somebody died from a body? They gotta be alive to tell me that I bought a baby dog toots. And then she's like, okay, did you, why did you say her hair was brewed at?
First, she wants me to be a magician, figure out how she wants me to look at the body. What, what, who are they hiring down at the, at the department? These sweet heart, you're so much prettier when you smile. Yeah. He just immediately launches into like, has anyone ever told you you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen?
I don't mean to be too harsh, but it's just a fact.
without everyone's acting so far i would not surprise me this medical they're this police department sucks she's like uh did you why did you list the hair colors brunette and he's like naked rubbing oil on himself he's like yeah coconut oil is great for the skin sweetheart i would like to take you on a date tonight what do you say i'm going to take you to the fanciest restaurant called olive garden
No, no, no. Leaves. They put leaves in there. Then if you get the potato soup, you can dip the bread in the soup and then it's a whole nother world. It's a different ballgame.
What do you mean they sell pasta here?
disgusting yeah get the out of here the case we're going to raise robin yum okay uh where was i okay yeah um it's i don't know a ghost a demon a skinwalker
What are we, some kind of suicide squad?
And then I'm like, oh, wait, I did that. Yeah, that was me.
Yeah, yeah, it just follows me around. See, now that I was able to pass on the curse to you all, and specifically you, Hunter, I just have pleasant memories of Boroska. What a nice little story. Psychopath. Yeah, psychopath, yeah. Marcus seems surprised by that.
Marcus seems surprised. Yeah, the detective's like, what do you think happened to your sister? And the boy's like, I think a skinwalker caught her.
I don't know why you thought that, but... I was just going to say someone, you know, pretended to be your mom. What are you talking about?
Yeah, home invasions are pretty common. What is a skinwalker?
you're dead that's kind of an interesting hook i remember all this from the story because that's like the whole the whole thing it's famous for online and stuff like that that you it's like oh you're actually dead well it's as if the story is a depiction of hell basically i see i see how do you how do you like that reveal how do you like that
uh again it's a little bit i'd be more interested to hear your opinion because i went into reading today knowing it was about hell um i how do you feel about it someone who thought this was like a saw trap thing i don't know you don't know you don't know how you feel about it disappointed i guess you feel disappointed in it you can be honest you can talk it's okay
You know, it's sad that it's not just a weird torture thing. These guys are dead. Yeah, that's sad. I understand. Well, think of it this way. What is hell if not just one really long weird torture thing, right?
yeah so we can we can still do the weird torture stuff buddy and you know we can still get all of that this just opens up the door now for maybe some more supernatural elements to it right right that's why it's on okay so we can we can have our weird torture thing we can also have demons and monsters and it also means that you can probably get an unrealistic amount of blood and gore maybe they'll bring in another kid and shoot him in the face again
you think i think they might okay because now now that it's hell you could realistically shoot as many kids in the face as you want that's pretty cool that's pretty cool isn't it you could just infinitely it could even be the same kid just over and over brought back to be shot in the face would that make you happy it'd be fun it'd be pretty fun wouldn't it so you know maybe maybe don't count it out yet see where it goes from here see what it does with its new idea
How does that make you feel? Does that perk you up to it any? I'm the orientation. You get one question. That's how this works. Does that make you feel anything? Maybe get a little bit of a unique depiction here. Maybe this won't be your standard pitchfork and whatnot. It's like, oh, we have a whole process. There's an orientation. You get one question.
I'm imagining this guy, thanks to your stunning voice acting, I'm imagining Danny as like a Walton Goggins type. So that's cool. You have like a... Like a salesman type is the front door for hell. Isn't that kind of cool? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, pretty cool. Danny spent on the floor chuckling.
It's the pigs. I asked. Unsure. I wanted to know the answer. So how are you feeling now? Huh? I don't know. You don't know. Okay, it's not heaven or hell. It is the black farm. And Danny says God lost control when he put the pig in charge.
He slithered on the floor like a worm. His bald heads. I'm sorry. That's kind of sick. I'm sorry, Hunter. I thought you were upset when you found out this was a hell depiction.
You just like that? There's something funny about that to you? About disabled people? Something creepy. You know, between that, between you laughing at people getting hurt, between you laughing at Diego, the guy you lived with who couldn't speak your language and stuff. I feel like there is something. Beautifully reminisced.
I feel like there's something to you about the suffering of others that you should probably think about.
Think how dirty his belly is. His teeth had been removed and replaced with long screws which jutted from his bleeding gums like a broken rock formation. That's sick. I'm sorry, I thought you didn't like that this was hell. It's almost like if the author's creative, you can use hell for some very interesting body horror.
I, I, you know what? Without comment, let's continue. Come sit down, Steph. The food's ready. Ordered my sister. The sight of the seasoned meat causing me to salivate.
Because when you use supernatural themes effectively, you can get to some really strange points. Like, I just want to hear you say you were wrong in your conception about it.
We'll see as the story goes on. All right. Of course, if I did want to do it right now, then I would pretend like I've never read the story before, but that did happen.
bro wouldn't it be wild i i this would be a great bit if i if i had read the story previously because like again hunter can't see me when we record these things what if i just like had a shark floating sitting in my lap i would be pissed and you didn't know until you watch the episode when it's posted i would
bro i would watch the episode and i would be like you son of a bitch that's like i i fully couldn't trust you if that became the fact i could there's no way dude i got okay i've got to chat chat chat you guys gotta keep me accountable for this we have to do something like that in the future we gotta prank him with some elaborate okay anyway god oh man that's so good All right.
i thought that was the dad's line for a second so i did too yeah you have to leave it the debt this is the boy being like come sit down steph a six-year-old boy come sit down the food's ready the chicken activated puberty i just gained another ball That's the fourth one this week.
The episode ended with them playing hide and seek with the kids hiding in a closet and Mr. Bear counting.
Yes! Yeah, yeah, the Poughkeepsie tapes.
That's one of the most effective parts about the story to me is that like it's all relayed through just what the kids saw. So all of the intentions and things like that, you're kind of left to ponder with yourself, you know? Yeah. Because there's something so menacing about that ending too, that they were playing hide and go seek and the kids were hiding in the closet with Mr. Bear counting.
I cannot believe my dad never found this sketchy because he actually took me to the house. What?
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Let's frame it, right? Because we know what's happening, but he said specifically his dad never saw the station, right?
Okay, so I'm going to run side interference.
Okay. Hear me out. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury. Okay, the father has not watched the program, correct? Correct.
he has just heard his kid like oh i watched this show about mr bear and he plays with kids or whatever right he thinks that's all it is it's a local show right which means it's somewhere around the region so the kid's like hey can i send a letter to this tv show and dad's like sure so he sends a letter letter comes back and yes while i will admit to the jury That the word, um, cellar is weird.
And that probably should have raised an eyebrow. He's also heard that the TV show is called Mr. Bear Cellar. So, say it was like, it was Elmo's Playhouse, right? If the letter said, I want you to come to my playhouse, that would seem normal. The dad didn't send his child in that direction. He was there with him. Like the dad's like, all right, we'll check it out.
And he walks up with the, with his son and then the police become involved. Maybe the dad saw something, maybe the police were already there. Who knows? Um, but again, I will, I will have that slight caveat about it.
Hunter, those are gruesome allegations, and I don't stand for it myself.
I don't know what you're talking about. The defense of what? I just think that he's a good author. He's looking out for his... He's a perfect dad.
Okay, I know I'm a YouTuber, but that doesn't mean I'm a pedophile. Let's get that clear. I know those two often intersect, but...
my line in the god all right that actually that now that you just said that that's probably what it is because christ death on the cross is like the ultimate sacrifice for people so maybe the satanist using it here is implying that the death of the children is the ultimate sacrifice for satan for the fallen angel that probably just dropped in my room holy shit what'd you say god
I don't know how I will say scared the fuck out of me I will say you saying INRI is the one explicitly like Religious symbol that we've mentioned so far and when we mention it the box falls off your shelf, so I want you to keep that in mind hunter
How old is the kid here that's like a 12-year-old statement? You'd put, I don't know, 10 locks on that?
Well, I know I know I got I got this And I got uh, and I got this so i'm gonna be all right Regardless of dude you saying this and this and I have no idea what you're referring to is making it even worse dude Because you're not you're not sharing what I could be using to help myself.
That's my nightmare sound. so i'm excited to get to experience it for the first time because most of the time like don't get me wrong it's fun to know exactly what's going to happen and hold a teddy bear up to the camera to terrorize hunter that's great yeah but by the way i how dare you by the way oh yeah the audience never got to see your reaction
It just makes pop culture reference. You'd have to catch this with the Infinity Gauntlet.
You make me look like a fool. The joy I felt in that moment has to be comparable to holding your firstborn. like wow i'm sure the same thing getting one over on me that much was that was that pivotal you don't understand how satisfying of a burn it is when you're like i think you have a teddy bear it's so good
And again, I'm actually, normally I just gaslight you by being like, yeah, sure, Hunter. That sounds cool. We'll see, because I know where this is going.
At least, who knows? You could be lying. I have no idea. That's right. Go back into your realm of doubt. Yeah, let it sink in. As I'm sitting here holding a shower head up to the camera.
You rewatched the episode, I'm completely naked, just like... Yeah, yeah.
What is this? Some kind of horcrux? Yeah, she's like, what is this, a horcrux you have here?
I was still reeling from what she said.
I suddenly realized that she had asked me a question, and my mind grasped for what it was. Yeah! I said much too loudly.
She doesn't know it, but I count the day that I met her among one of the few moments of true happiness in my life. Well, that's an utterly depressing sentence.
Also, the friend vibes kind of strange to me. It's like, why is this girl who goes to party and stuff? Her quote unquote best friend is a guy who doesn't see people for weeks on end. Is she your best friend or is that your perception of her?
And Hunter, I would say the same about you until you reinforced the meat sweats saying a few minutes ago. That was a significant downturn. But up until then, my life has been better since getting to know you. Despite what the people on the subreddit might think.
Where did it smell like? I didn't know.
That is the deodorant that I use. That is the worst. Why did you have to guess correctly? Why did you have to do that? Dude, I got the nose of a bloodhound, man. Shut up. What can I say? I'm switching deodorant. I'm telling you.
I guess this creature sure was up to no good, huh? I bet he solemnly swore it. Marcus is like, I'm begging you to please stop. I don't understand what you're doing, but I know it's a reference to something and I don't care.
Shut up. You're like a predator. You're like in the woods. I've read. Let me get through this.
Is that your impression of me? Do I have a Creole accent now? Is that what that was?
Yeah, they get down there in the ball. They get down to the swamp and it's just like, oh, I'm Dr. Wellers. I run a local blood clinic here. Hey, how are you doing?
You just got a little Paw Patrol bandage. You're like, no, it wasn't that bad.
Username 666. I don't know. Let's find out.
yes i have this channel called 666 um that has 6 000 subs i imagine because of the name and it just has a playlist of available videos lordy hard rock oh wait oh wait don't worry one of the videos is poor poor sakura Here it is, Western man. Here's your YouTube horror legend. It all leads to this.
We probably can't show it because we'll get copyright claims, but man, this really is... The West has fallen. I couldn't figure out what it was from a distance, so I went closer, trying to be as quiet as I could. When I actually got close enough to see what it was, my mouth literally fell open. It was eggs. Huge eggs, all in a cluster, like a nest.
uh they were enormous it's hard to explain their size but you can sort of see them in relation to my boot here so what do you mean it's hard to explain i see them they're giant in the previous in the previous photo there's a tree and they dwarf the tree it's literally the these eggs are like what they're bigger than a basketball yeah they're like basketball size just these big giant white eggs in the middle of the forest yeah but when they hatch they need to feed
You have to be honest with yourself. Say it. You're not losing the chicken narrative, are you?
Alright, so the giant chickens are out there. I like this one of like the blurred photo of like the bloody skull thing. Oh, it's fun. It's a really fun photo. I think that's neat, yeah. I will mention that I have seen this character drawn in so many times. You don't need to say that. Hello, my name is Mitch. I'm here to tell you guys about an experience I had.
The references don't even make sense. It's like, wow, I sure do feel like a Malfoy about this.
i don't know if it was paranormal or whatever stupid words people used to describe i don't know it was paranormal or whatever stupid words people use for supernatural phenomena like ghosts i already love them i'm ready dude i haven't looked at this story since i was this is once again this has got to be some primo
Oh, yeah. Well, when I was 12, I'm like, this is so good. Yeah, this is fucking badass. I never liked Eyeless Jack that much, but I remember it. I remember it being, like, favored in the same way other stuff was. Like, Jeff the Killer, the image was out there, so people made a story around it. Same with this.
Don't know if it was paranormal or whatever stupid words people used to describe supernatural phenomena, but after that thing visited me, I believe in that paranormal trash now.
Yeah. It tried to kill me. It tried to eat. It tried to eat me alive.
It's like, that's great. I wouldn't like the idea of me moving in since we had not seen each other for 10 years. So I was excited too. The grammar is killing me. So I was excited.
Wait, they haven't seen each other in 10 years?
It might be. Yeah, how old are these people? My gosh. I soon fell asleep after I moved in.
It's like, yeah, you mean you went to bed there eventually?
What the fuck? This is written by an alien. After that first week, I heard rustling noises coming from outside at about one in the morning. I thought it was a raccoon, so I ignored it and tried to fall asleep. The next morning, I told Edwin about it, and he agreed. These commas...
hey hey Edwin yeah I think I heard a raccoon you probably did okay all right hey Edwin yeah there was a noise outside okay I think it was raccoon uh-huh do you agree yeah yeah I darted up and looked around my room but I saw nothing the next morning Edwin dropped his coffee cup when he saw me. He held up a nearby mirror and I saw myself. I had a large... I had a large dash in my left cheek.
It's like bigger than he is. It's like waddling over.
After I was rushed to the hospital, my doctor told me that I must have been sleepwalking, but then he showed me something that made my blood turn cold. He lifted up my shirt to reveal a sewn up incision where my kidneys were.
You already took the guy's kidneys! He took his kidneys and then cut him on the cheek so that he would have a plot element to be scared of before he then goes to the doctor. How did Mitch not wake up during any of this?
dude i forgot i thought i hadn't heard this story in so long from what i remembered eyelash jack just kills you or something right i forgot about the kidney part that's great oh my god oh my god i read the next line i stared into his eyes mind widening you somehow lost your left kidney last night the doctor told me we don't know how though sorry mitch
I fell unconscious and woke up in the hospital. My doctor, the same one who treated me before, entered the room.
The, the, the idea of the doctor, just like he's about to go tell him and his brother's dead. And he kicks open the door. Like, well, it's one of them. Good news, bad news. Okay. In the hallway leading to my room, I saw Edwin's body.
I looked at the thing I had picked up and nearly vomited. I was holding my stolen half-eaten kidney. Yes! Yes! With some black substance on it. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh. That's so good.
Forever. That was rude. That was mean. Say you're sorry. I'm not gonna say fucking fuck you. I'm not gonna say you're sorry. That was me. Hell no. Hell no. Okay, I'm changing my will that if Hunter does that to me, I'm putting a bomb somewhere in his house.
You're putting a bomb? Good God. That's more reasonable than what I was talking about last episode. If you tie me to a random corpse and put me in the ground, yes, I'm putting a bomb in your house. Without hesitation.
I had this whole thing planned with the lights. They were gonna go out, and I was gonna pit her around. I was gonna do a bunch of stuff, but I can't be bothered. Him and Marcus drive away together, the creature and Marcus. It's, I don't know, a ghost...
Well, I'm going to start learning. What's going on in roommate? Okay. Yeah, whatever. All right. Stumps. AVI. Five minute long video where a man with no legs is attempting to break dance on a DDR mat. And what looks like. I'm sorry, Hunter. Is something funny? Is there something you want to bring up?
The phrase, the word attempting is pretty funny.
Wordlessly, the man raised a shotgun, placed it against the boy's forehead, and blew his head off. I'm sorry, Hunter. Is something funny?
okay sorry when you all get mad at me for picking stories that involve like tommy taffy-esque themes or boroska themes or whatever remember this is what i'm working with okay this is what i have to keep happy this is let me tell you shovel that was adult content into to get something out of
Okay, audience, the reason this is funny is because it's so over the top.
How good is that? So good. Bro, I think my skin is moving. Oh, my heart. Oh, it's so good.
What monster? Are you talking about the monster that got her in the dog kennel? Oh, stop. What are you talking about?
What are we, some kind of suicide squad?
I like the word juicy being applied to me in any respect. What are you talking about, man? That's a compliment. Juicy? I don't know about that. My wife said it. Maybe I take it as my big, juicy lips. I didn't feel like a compliment.
that this the day of the dead thing is infinitely important the whole attraction she's hot thing is window dressing the fact that she is there for scanners and then wants to see day of the dead she is going from cronenberg to romero that is a prize that is something he needs to get a hold of just advice for my boy windigoon my boy windigoon bricked up I refuse to stand at this point in time.
When I first met my wife, when we were friends, it was right before Halloween, and she was like, oh, we're having a watch party for all the Michael Myers movies, all the Michael Myers Halloween, do you want to come over? And I was like, oh, you're having it? She's like, yeah, I love all the old slasher flicks. Like, done. Here we are. I'm like, that one's not getting away.
ring a ding ding you said the magic words you're saying it like a jesse pinkman voice i asked again and she replied there's a man at the door then 10 seconds later and a woman at the bottom of the stairs all right hunter let's role play you're in this scenario what's what's what's step one
of the house is lost I'd kiss her on the forehead and I'd say hasta la vista baby and I would just open the window and scurry my fat ass out there the hey hey is really funny eventually like something really unsettling however you're like yo yo hey hey yo hey hey No, no. Faye was irritated that I'd done this without her permission and waited outside while Kay set up.
Dude, if my wife was doing this and then she was like, I'm just mad that you got holy water, bro. I'm tying her in duct tape and dropping her off at a nunnery.
I was like, cave and pregnant. And then I'm like, oh, wait, I did that. Yeah, that was me.
I was like, what do you mean? Oh, she did it like the priest. That's weird. I was gone three weeks ago. Yeah, my ass is in Maui right now.
Yeah, it just follows me around. See, now that I was able to pass on the curse to you all, and specifically you, Hunter, I just have pleasant memories of Boroska. What a nice little story. Psychopath. Yeah, psychopath, yeah. Marcus seems surprised by that.
uh her mom laura admitted to me that something had happened to faye as a child at the cabin what up what a bitch i would i would be like you know what you're going in the same house with her i called you over this in confidence and you lied to me you knew something was happening and you lied to me you kept this for me this is my life and your daughter's life sorry i have to admit something but something did happen to faye as a child why did you tell us
yeah what the fuck i literally called jamaica he does this for two reasons uh to work on his art commissions and to make sure faye doesn't stab everyone to death and burn the house down in their sleep hey hunter if i just called you and was like i have to go on yeah no no because your house would be a vacated i'd be a maui with a pina colada Wasted away, get a margarita.
At the end of the pipe was a simple shower head aimed down towards the ground.
you know yeah that's awesome yeah yeah it's pretty good you know that feeling when your stomach drops in this case i think mine literally did because i vom oh that was that was the story what oh no i'm just listening oh i'm sorry i thought you thought i asked you know when your stomach drops like uh like i personally was asking you that wasn't part of the story
That was too good because I kept reading the words on screen and you're like, yeah, oh yeah.
Wow, Isaiah, good point. I never thought of that.
Son, you need to go tell your mom not to come outside. I'm going to be busy with Rocky for a little while.
610, I think. Yeah, The Flesh That Hates.
Yeah, the detective's like, what do you think happened to your sister? And the boy's like, I think a skinwalker caught her.
Sometimes the dog's acting kind of funky, and you got to know it in the biblical way, if you hear what I'm saying, Bob.
Nah, I'm good. Yeah, let's go with Starkill. Alright, Starkill. It does look exactly like... It says virgin anus. doesn't it look like vagina anus i think what it is is it's virginia nuss probably because you know they name it off of like where it was discovered virginia's probably virginia yeah virginia's this is the worst case this is the stinkiest and worst case of a vagina anus i've ever seen
I don't know why you thought that, but... I was just going to say someone, you know, pretended to be your mom. What are you talking about?
Officer, I don't see what the problem is. If we're going to eat animals, then we might as well. Like, he's doing all, like, the Twitter justification for it. Oh, my God!
Where's Rocky? Don't worry about it. Don't worry, boy. Why don't you go ask your mother?
sorry I've not been in touch guys it's been a busy month however I'm pleased to announce that as of yesterday night I finally touched down in Phoenix Arizona I'm posting this log from my first American hotel room which offers a gorgeous view of both the state hospital and a local prison auspicious times drop me a line if you're in the city or if you have any information at all
Yeah, home invasions are pretty common. What is a skinwalker? I know Clancy's a kid, but there's still no level of Clancy. Like, there's the whole, wait, where do you know about skinwalkers or whatever? But I mean, like, even when I was a kid, jumping to supernatural conclusions, if an adult went along with me, I'd be like, what?
I had to align all of my chakras to get that out, okay? I think it worked well. It worked very well. Sad part of me realized that this was the closest thing I'd had to a friend in almost a decade. I found myself looking forward to the discussions we would have after each meal. I'm laughing because, in a sense, you are my parasitic twin that I read to. What do you mean? I was just reading that.
And it was like, I would read to him. And the part where it's like, sometimes it would talk to me. Yeah, sometimes.
I was a big lipped, big lipped Hawaiian shirt. There it is. There it is. And the twin could control fire. And also, yeah, there you go. What was a little, a little punk. Sometimes I'd have to stop and explain an event to them, but most time they just listened quietly and waited patiently. That's so you. Afterwards, we would discuss our feelings on the book. What we thought was going to happen.
It's just the Creepcast origin story. The next one's great. A sad part of me realized this was the closest thing I had to a friend. Yeah. I found myself looking forward to our discussions. I didn't mean to ruin it, but I think I just did. Oh, well. It's great.
A lot of people have commented on this story being like, I would assume a title like this would be like some weird gay conversion thing or something like that, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what you kind of the train you're expecting it to go down. But I don't know where this story is going to go, honey.
I don't know where this story is going to go.
yeah the eradication of abnormal sexuality like smacks of the pulpit yeah you know and also like you have to kind of transport yourself back this is 12 years ago right so oh yeah i guess we should have said that uh it this is posted 12 years ago so it's been a while yes by user uh wreath By the way, R-E-A-T-H-E, so for credit.
We were going to mention that at the beginning, but at the end, I mean. Oh, you did?
It's just that whenever you start talking, my brain just kind of zones it out and quits paying attention because I don't care.
Oh, her uncles are dead? That's weird. Hey, have you heard of skin men before? Yeah, exactly.
I was talking about a movie I watched the other night.
We were joking, but we hit the nail on the head for help I Don't think so what about Barasca? Yeah, Sam does doesn't give a fuck about letting them fly like out there.
can thought forms be created in a manner that would benefit american society and help keep american citizens safe that that is so funny to me the delivery on that where it's like so after finding out this earth-shattering information we asked the question can this benefit the u.s government
How can we thought form an A-10 Warthog to smite our enemies?
i am currently thought forming a fleet of kamikaze violence to rain down holy justice on those who have wronged me that's the power of that form that's the power of thought for whatever this next part because you said dress partially do you think you're like and then they're like that's what we bring in the velociraptor
this section is it's like i really want you to think about a dinosaur yeah bring back the dinosaurs it's like it's like a five-star general standing next to the chair like i want you to think about a lot of dinosaurs all at once i need you to think about a long neck with a rocket launcher tapped to his spine can you think of that for me mister unit 13 needs you
I should have a parent right now. Where's my dad at?
And also while you're at it, if you have the time, can you think about an eight foot tall copy of Gwyneth Paltrow that has a triple M chest?
And she also doesn't understand what love is, and she thinks that romantic interest is the same as motherly interest, and she thinks I'm her son. You'd be better.
Please. Thank you. Just combining all of her movies into one character. But also, everyone else doesn't see it, so I don't have to deal with the repercussions.
Actually, you know what? Scratch that. Robert Downey Jr., eight feet tall, huge rack. I'm never going to kill this guy. He knows too much.
I should call the police. The police are zombies or something.
And if you're going through the hallways and you happen to see an oiled up Kim Kardashian that's nine feet tall and thinks I'm her dog, ignore it.
They're all plant people. It's just me and you, child.
There's nothing to fear but fear itself.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm thinking about the visual of a general, like a Sam Elliott type, just as the machine's turning on being like, but also I want her to be like 5'6", 5'8". Definitely not over 5'8". And maybe also if she could smell like...
Against the world now. Do you want me to show you where vampires come from?
If you could make her maybe a little bit upset when she comes home from work in the evenings, and that's understandable. But after a time of comfort, she likes to be held and release her frustrations in a healthy and respectful manner. That causes us as two people to grow closer together over time. That'd be great.
Also, if you could give her one arm, but the other one's an oven mitt.
Ladies, I want you to imagine that your mom dies, and then at your funeral, your boyfriend walks in wearing a suit that doesn't fit him and goes, what's wrong with you?
Yeah, he walks in like, whoa, this isn't anything like oil in Iraq. Who did this? Who is this? Who the hell is this?
oh god you faked the painting you are really painting those wonderful pictures he's he has to be mentally gone real quick fellas he's playing it way too fast that that kind of move that's like after your your first or second confirmed date you don't trick a girl into showing up with friends the friends aren't there and then you're trying to hold your hand way too fast
No, no, of course not. That's the third day.
He's playing it all wrong. You cut a hole in the... Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the dune popcorn bucket. Perfect. What'd you expect? The theater had long closed so I only had one option. I told her that I was going to go behind the theater to piss but that I'd be back in two shakes.
It was obvious that I thought it was hilarious and she seemed to laugh more at how funny I found it than at how funny it clearly was.
I cannot find the name of the person so I apologize whoever the author is probably writes elsewhere so the Gregory 88 was like oh let me do a fun little Twitter ARG so it was something they were kind of doing off the dome you know and then I think they wrote themselves into a corner right like they get near the end and they're like ah they were asking themselves a lot of the questions we were like well what does the thing look like what does it do what Isaiah what
Clancy's like, this is just like Hogwarts. Marcus is like, dear God. Good God. You're not a wizard, are you? Like, what, Marcus is just an equally delusional old man who, like, also thinks media's real? We're gonna need to call Nick Fury on this one. Like, it's just... You have to say you... To your girlfriend's father. Exactly. That's a great idea.
I guess I'm just, I guess I'm the bad guy. Isn't that right? Oh, what, what are you? What are you going to go to the hospital? Like it's visibly leaking down. You're like, are you going to go to the hospital again? Let me enjoy my weekend.
Gin, baby, don't let her bother you.
Fuck you! The phone's not even... The phone's not even plugged in. He's just like...
You want Uncle Eric to come over? you got a, you got Jenny, baby. You got yourself a room that smells like cookies.
I'm just a big old bug in the house. That's what the house wants me to be a bug. I guess that's what they want. Speaker 2 in his house. My buddy keeps getting eaten like a bug in his house. Speaker 3 in his house. Speaker 2 in his house. Speaker 3 in his house.
I bet, yeah, I bet you've been to this hotel at the second store. Are you Jen? I think, are you Connie? Are you my wife?
Connie, I told you Jen's coming. Go away. Jen's going to be here soon.
Yeah, he like, he's like, he like comes up to the house. He's like, is this what you want? Is this what you want from me? And like the house just like sinks into the ground really quick.
The police show up and he's like, this house thinks it's better than me. This house thinks that I'm not good enough.
I'm going to pay the house to eat you like a bug. Return of Sweatsuit Man. This is the next day. Friday, October 29th. Yes, he's back again. this time he has a vehicle.
i should be working jen in her head is like i hope he's doing okay she pulls up and he's dressed like a giant penis he'd be gone for six days eric what the carly i thought you were dead Oh, I'm blending in so it won't find me, Connie. Yeah, he's like standing by a tree. How could you see me in the garden? You don't think the house can see me, do you? If it sees me, I'd have to leap me like a bug.
Have you ever seen a two-story Victorian house walk around here, Abby? every house he passes he like hides he's like you can't be too sure with these things oh god okay we have to continue yes so after that he exited sherman way and headed east then i got stuck at a light at the north ridge med center and lost him again I just kept driving and looking.
I thought, I'm sorry, I'm just imagining a naked guy in a green suit driving a car, trying to be low-key.
I cannot wait to meet your parents and in-laws. I have so much to tell them. Oh, gosh.
oh man I want to go to bed um editor was reluctant to go back we all were but he knew he had to why does he have to why does he need to call the police what do you mean well we will after we do our edit because we're interns the editor leans around he's like we have to go back could be a dead child could be a photo of a dead kid you know
I also want to mention that in the last episode, upon watching the upload, a lot of my impeccable Jeff Goldblum impression was cut from the final level. And I equate that to the burning of the Library of Alexandria. I think that is perfect art. that should not be tampered with. So, this is your warning.
I am going to insert it into any location I can through this story and make it impossible for the editor to catch all of them, okay? Because I'm mad and will continue to be mad.
I think there were literally like 20 minutes of me sitting here talking in a Jeff Goldblum voice that never made it. Just me going, could be a dead child. Could be a dead child. Me and my son Benjamin. Yes!
You mean the hat store? Glasses, you say?
I went to the website. It's one of those bot chatting programs. I think it's best if I just let the conversation speak for itself. Hello. Hello. Who is this and how are you able to control my computer?
This is an imaginary room, Tiffany.
Dr. Redacted, I think it is the Macho Man Randy Savage character from the Tommy Taffy Creepcast.
But actually, if they think about it, the way that Hunter and Isaiah cleverly bounced off of the trauma in the episode for good comedy really highlights what Creepcast is all about. And I think they should get over it.
Even, Dr. Redacted, even the fact that it's a story and they should grow up and get over it.
Right. And maybe, Dr. Redacted, the audience should lighten up a little. Dr. Redacted, Isaiah and Hunter are trying their best.
That's right, Tiffany. That's right.
What? Did someone die around here or something?
Listen, I know whoever's screwing with my computer can see my screen right now.
You ever cut a mouse? You ever cut a mouse? Jim likey. Whoever edits this, if you remove any of my Jeff Goldblum impression, I'm going to break something, okay? Let me have it! Thank you all so much for watching. Thank you for checking out Greylock and Bully Hunter about whatever I told you to bully about in the comments. No, no.
There is one thing I want to get off my chest before we start, though, that mostly I feel like you'd appreciate. I was in the city this weekend and some girl runs up to me and she was like, oh, my gosh, are you that guy from Creepcast? Not Wendigo. That is nice. Not Isaiah.
Yeah, yeah, and I'll wager that you're one of those IT kids who thinks he's tough shit. You know what you're doing right now is illegal, right?
that guy from creepcast that guy that guy you're the guy who does the jeff goldblum impression right yes yes now if she said that i would have been thrilled i've been like that would have been up that i would have actually quit the pot i would have been like okay i'm done i'm actually done i would have been like that's right that's me no she wouldn't know that because the editor keeps cutting it the creep tv was the most the most the jeff goldblum impression got out because caitlyn wasn't allowed to touch it
enjoy it while you could because it's the last time you just had an incredibly long detailed description of why you shouldn't be here at all there's bad spirits they're from the mind get away save your wife and you're like well i guess i'll camp out here another night i mean they put hold on
No, you're not cutting anything out. You're leaving all that. You let me have this. You know how scared I am right now? Oh my God.
Oh my gosh. You're right about the next line. Sometimes she would struggle, but usually she would just go along with her head hung low. What a job. I'm watching this woman get periodically kidnapped to this trapped room every day. It's like, Oh, that's kind of funny. That's a little weird.
No shit. Are you familiar with the terms invasion of privacy? Get off my computer, kid.
She always looked peaceful and happy when she was painting and seeing her that way, smiling serenely from time to time, as she got something the way she wanted it. It always made my day. She is totally going to paint something like, help me. Yeah, yeah. Or it's going to be like a bloody face or something like that. Or like Jeff the Killer painted. Yeah, yeah.
I guess I'm just a little cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. The lady just looks at you who's watching and it's like, oh, what if I'm painting Jeff?
You think I forgot? You think I forgot about Jeff? I'm just Wade. I don't even remember where we were at. There we go. Okay. As long as you gave it the treat it wanted, you would be not only saved, but rewarded. That's assuming that you're in control of the negotiation, which I feel like is a misstep.
Cool story. Anyway, I'm calling DPS. You picked a bad time to screw with me, kid.
Okay, whatever. I'm just going to keep going. What?
How did you know about that? because because what? I did it did what? I played with you what the- what?
who is this? Bing the statue? you're inside my computer now? yeah how?
Did someone else die? Okay, well, what's wrong? Oh, her? You've had like three days to know about her. Why are you crying over it now?
If you're so powerful, why use a ridiculous website like this to chat with me?
Window closes. Do you want to explain what that voice was you were doing? It's chat bot, dude, or clever bot. I've never heard clever bot. Does it sound like that?
yeah shut up i hate you i'm in the middle we are at the end of this story we're gonna keep going okay bid called me to clip are you bored i'm not bored i just know that you're you're gonna derail this i just know you're gonna derail this he tells me anyway we're back to clever bot What is it? What's the point of playing? I die whenever I do anything.
I can't, bro. Part of it's exacerbated by you, admittedly, but... Exacerbated by my question, she said... Oh, yeah, sorry.
She's like, why don't you just talk... Why don't you just talk about the goddamn balloons if they're so interested? No!
You and your shark pool float have been here for 30 years.
When you play a character, you're temporarily possessed by that character. I followed him to a black jeep sitting at the edge of the parking lot. We jumped in just as a loud bang echoed across the asphalt. God only knows what it meant.
Huh? Hunter. What? Just read the sentence at the end of this paragraph.
Okay, maybe, maybe, maybe we now, maybe part three is supposed, maybe it's like Army of Darkness. Oh my God, wait.
In the first couple parts of the story, we mentioned how time changes around it. And it has been mentioned twice now that I am significantly older than you. So the audience cannot put those two factors together. So I will now explicitly say that I am precisely eight years older than I should be due to time differentials created by the demon.
I didn't think too much of it at the time. I figured it was probably a kid from one of the other houses trying to mess with me, so I took it off the door and tossed it in the fireplace.
Well, look, all I'm saying is every forest that I know, every self-respecting forest has the pagan child, right? That runs through the forest and leaves stuff. And I suppose burning their gifts is, you know, an appropriate response. I always just kept them, just like put them up in my house. I thought they were cool.
We gotta keep continuing because I'm gonna get- Let's put it this way. Let's take a step back and kind of observe the story so far. This person's a grad student. We'll call him Greg. Greg is a grad student, right? So he's like, he's going through school, probably doesn't have that much money.
Maybe like not really a strained relationship with his mom, but not enough that his mom's willing to talk about her father. Right. So he's probably not that well off. And then he suddenly gifted a house that he could probably sell for like a quarter million. Right. Countryside. Nice house. Stuff like that. Oh, dude.
He can't just walk away from that. Right. He has to do something. Absolutely can.
Okay. Well, I'm going to be sympathetic for at least... He hasn't lost me at this moment. At this moment. He's lost you. To you, he's chum.
Yo, they got free drinks here. Let's go. Yo, Kimber. Yeah, he's like across the deal. Yo, Kimber, they got tea. They got iced tea and cookies. Do you want some? I know you said it makes you bloated if you have it too early, but can you have it now? I know you're worried about stretch marks, but if you want some chips ahoy, let me know. I know you're like fat and all, but these are pretty good.
that's all i got i i i have nothing i have nothing but hate in my heart okay well now now out of necessity i have to be a greg defender that's fine because if we both if we both hate him this is just gonna be mean so i've gotta come to his head you have to wear that cross i have to bear that cross yeah okay so the guy who rightfully so burned the pagan artifact says right by the next morning i'd pretty much forgotten about it okay he's lost me
After that sentence, he's lost me. What do you mean you forgot about it?
No, no, I can't. I can't do it. I can't do it. I have to stay on his train. I'm Greg Defender. I would forget about it too, I guess. I thought about getting in my car and just going home, but I felt like that would get me in trouble. There's all sorts of property tax stuff I don't understand. I felt trapped. Okay, you can leave.
You can leave the house and still pay property taxes if that's your issue.
Sure, Greg, whatever you say. It is getting across the idea that Greg's kind of dumb.
Okay, a lot of dumb, not kind of dumb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't think he'd make any noise.
yeah just like he would barely move at all damn slenderman makes you do all the work He probably just stands there and, like, looks down. Okay, I don't know. He just stands there and looks down.
That's got you hung up. Doesn't it? Do you expect Taylor? Do you expect slender to be a good lover?
But then you told me your job was being relocated. What is going on?
These two absolutely insane people. Yeah, exactly.
Well, maybe they're taking turns having these paranoid fits.
also just like i'll say this i know at least a dozen guys who would commit unspeakable crimes for jessica just like she just has the just the phenotype that in absolutely insane men would kill themselves over i can't explain that in a rational way but someone knows what i'm talking about dogila So I'm walking around the car with my night vision on. Like, there's nothing out here.
I can see everything. There's nothing. Put the helmet on. See for yourself. And she was like, I'm just scared. So we set up with her crying until sunrise and then drove home. Oh, my God.
No, what I should have done is I would have been like, I'll go find it. And then I just don't come back. Yeah, don't come back.
Dude, I think she would have divorced me. Oh, 100%, yeah.
Marcus didn't let me finish. He pushed my hands away from the phone screen and hit play on the recording, interrupting me. I'm sorry.
exactly what i was thinking like all right here we go i am he who walks between the here and the there i am like like 2000s f 2000s fx like action movie dialogue you know like hell boy oh god it does i admitted feeling the color in my face draining little by little as i listened
I can't, if this isn't, to those listening, if this doesn't, like, if you don't realize why this is so funny, the dialogue goes, it is a kid who just met this man, who keeps saying stuff like, it's a predator, one that can't be stopped, one too powerful, and the guy goes, it could be a top predator, and the kid goes, and let me guess.
you can't let that happen, and then the guy goes, we can't let that happen.
Yeah, the kid, after hearing all this, hearing that his sister burned to death a few days ago, was killed by a skim walker, the kid's like, all in due time.
oh gosh this is the greatest this is the my favorite thing we've read on creepcast this is the best this blows out of the water this blows out of the water so much this is so good i can't oh my gosh oh god i'm i'm oh my god wait wait wait wait look i asked after a few moments of heavy silence pretty much marcus
Oh, hold on. Let me get back in my chair. Let me get back in my chair.
And let me tell you. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Where are you at? Dude, I thought you were joking. No! I wasn't looking at the screen, so when you said, I'm the one they call when shit gets spooky, I thought you were making... That is a legit, this is, this is quotes.
Go ahead. Let's write it down. Go ahead. It's not a joke.
Hey, Hunter, who do you want to die first, your mom or your dad? Probably my dad.
Oh my gosh. I was expecting like some level of like, yeah. Oh wow. Why would you ask that or whatever you're like?
I'd been morosely looking at job listings for the last few days, but this was the first one that stood out if only because I was bored and it was weird. So I sent an email.
Yeah. That's how emails work. I put, um, I, I at youtube.com when everyone knows when you make a YouTube account, you just go ahead and make your domain youtube.com. It's true. Yeah. Oh, Oh, Oh, what's this? Hold on. Hold on. We have, we have the name of the woman who's trapped in a room. It is Hunter Hancock. Now isn't that strange? That's a weird.
Every time I'm at a level, you're like five levels past me. And not in a good way. That's not a problem. You should be worried. Mom, why is your email on this website?
your entire this story's about you but there's no job and you just trap your mom in a room for no reason i'm gonna have you make me a peanut butter sandwiches all for the rest of your life some kind of thing between you and your mom because last episode you you were like burning hell you old goat or whatever like is there something you want to talk about or you know what dude me and my mom
Okay, cool. What happened to her face? Oh, yeah, the concrete. That's right. Well, you should have put a mask on her or something. My God. Yo, who else thinks we should bring death masks back? Anyone?
i know we're youtubers at all but we gotta lay off no okay all right all right veronica was in the fourth grade and was probably the prettiest girl in the school even as a six-year-old what'd you say say that again i just i just said yeah Oh, no, you better be careful as a 47-year-old man. Yeah, I know, I know. How to get out of any social event. Yeah.
A couple minutes before the movie started, a group of girls walked in. They were all pretty attractive, but whatever beauty they might have had was eclipsed by the girl with the dirty blonde hair, even though I had only caught a glimpse of her profile. As she turned to move her...
You better hope it says she's 19. The 42-year-old woman walked up. Oh, thank God. That makes her only a couple decades younger than me. Just a couple. I'm still a cradle snatcher. She turned to move her seat. I caught a full view of her face, which gave me the feeling of butterflies in my stomach. It was Veronica. Fuck. What? I thought it was an older chick.
I goofed. It was a goof. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That YouTuber slipping out of you. No, no, no. Quick, someone check his Twitter DMs. No, no. Wait, wait, wait.
I saw her. She was alone and she was beautiful. Every time.
Oh, brother. Ladies even? Get it out of here. Ladies, ladies, ladies. Who called in the smoke show? In fact, it's about time I wheeled her out. Fair warning, Ms. Sharma. She's a thing of beauty. To Rob Gathard, beauty took the form of a dark green Jeep Wrangler. Rob climbs in. What did you say?
It was a good car. It was a good car.
yep rob i like how you make that noise if it's jeeps or questionably young women in stories oh my god oh good god this is just oh oh my word stop noting i can't do it rob climbs in and lets it roll out of the garage where it dominates every inch of the driveway Car- Stop. As soon as I read the word- Dominate me. As soon as I read the word dominates.
Jamie and I hung out inside the house and played my Nintendo 64 while we flirted pretty outrageously. Hot. how old are these kids 26 i think bases covered man these kids on bicycles building ramps playing n64 thank god they graduated college eight years ago yeah they're gonna look like whenever you're flirting playing nintendo 64.
was that what kind of what kind of shenanigans you were never you were never like in high school playing games with the girl you liked some of the boys maybe it's my turn it's my job stop it stop stop stop that's how i You do, you do that thing when like you're playing a game together and then one of you is like beating the other and you're like doing the, like the shove thing or whatever.
Sure. Yeah. That's probably what's being described here. Yeah. There's a lot of this going on, you know, you're tickling me. I don't like, I'm not going to describe anymore. Cause you're going to do it. It makes me uncomfortable.
I'm going to keep reading. Good Lord. There had been an unspoken sort of mutual attraction throughout the summer that no one had the guts to act on. Stop moaning. Half an hour later, Apollo shows up. Though he laughs about his ordeal, he's clearly a little shaken.
I imagine, if I had where he said Apollo Creed, I imagine actually, oh, he just passed away. You know who I'm talking about? The actor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I imagine actual Apollo Creed shirtless in his American, like, American flag trunks and boxing gloves. Oh, yeah. Like, stepping out of the car and you're like, that guy should call himself an Uber.
Again, this was never an issue, as I was usually in another state by the time the next semester rolled around.
I've heard the phrase ham it up, but I've never- I've heard ham it up, but I've never heard anyone say, I am a honey roasted ham.
Me, I'm known as the ham around these parts.
You just gave me flashbacks to a really funny story. So I haven't heard the name Jacoby in years. When I was in the sixth grade, I remember, so like, I was like, Christian kid. I was homeschooled for a few years in elementary school. So like socially in like the, or sorry, seventh grade, I wasn't like up to date with like other guys my age.
So I remember I was at a sleepover and the other guys were talking about girls they thought were hot. And I was like, I thought girls were pretty, but I never like... I was never, I'd say, like, physically attracted in the way that, like, most teenage boys are until, like, eighth grade, right? So anyway, seventh grade, they're asking me, it's like, oh, who do you think's hot?
So I made up, I literally did the, she goes to a different school thing. So I made up a girl, and I gave her the name Jacoby, because I heard that name, and just, like, just picked a name out of the aether.
and i was like yeah she's she's really hot she goes to different school so for the rest of seventh grade those because they immediately saw through it they were immediately like this guy's never spoken to a woman what are you talking about they made fun of me constantly and they they knew that like my parents were like like religious and stuff so they kept being like i'm gonna tell your mom that you said a girl was hot or whatever i'm like no
please like i'm not a girl like don't tell my mom i like girls please she's real i swear my girlfriend's name's steve wallace when you said the name jacoby it shot spikes through me because i haven't heard that name and for a brief second i'm like don't tell my mom no no please don't tell her i like women she's real anything she's real i swear
It's like the shirts that Jesse Pinkman would wear in Breaking Bad. They've got all the Thrasher font that says live and die. It goes down to his knees.
I swear I met a girl named Jacoby, which is why that thought came to me. And Jacob is in the name! It's basically Jacob with a Y. It's basically Jacobi. You're like, wait, that's not a girl's name. Okay, but there's like a button, like, okay, you have Alex, and then you add an IS, and it's Alexis. It's a girl's name now. Like, there's a ton of names like that.
She's very attractive. While we're on this, I remember the other guys would, like, told the girls in the class, like, hey, he made up a girl that he thought's pretty. So, like, the girls would bully me. They'd be like, oh, like, what's Jacoby look like?
I literally, I was so scrawny and weird in seventh grade that I...
this is i am increment i'm like i said the pain medicine don't hold this against me it became regular yourself such a hole you're like i shit my pants there was an empty trash can on the way to the uh to the bathroom at school and if i passed one of the like eighth grade students going to or from the bathroom without saying a word without like making a fuss about they would just pick me up and put me in the trash can and just like
I WANT TO PICK YOU UP AND DUNK YOU IN A TRASH CAN. THIS IS WHY I PREFACED THE PAIN MEDICINE, OKAY? BECAUSE I KNEW IT WOULD BE... I KNEW I WOULD OVERSHARE, OKAY?
Where are we at? Yeah, yeah, so her mom's dead. Kimber's mom's dead, I think. She's dead. That's all we need to know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Roll credits. As we waited for the service to start, I can't detach the image of Kyle in the corner just eating all the sandwiches.
I do like tall women. I've always liked tall women. Okay, so maybe I did say she was seven feet tall. Maybe that's how they saw through it. I don't know.
My friendships were often fleeting. Okay, you're the one who said Jacoby, this is your fault. If you've used any other name, none of this would have happened. I'm sorry, I didn't know. What is this podcast?
And I go, no, it's not. And she gets right in my face and goes, yep. And then just doesn't say anything else to me the whole time. That's all. That's all. She just, she just wanted to do that. Okay. And I felt, I felt attacked. I felt assaulted.
No, it was not a test. It was a test. That was an attack on me.
And that you said, I feel like. i feel like you did this that was an agent of the devil you are the devil i have no idea why i chose to do that but it was fun giving into the strange impulse not to break the droning hum of the soda machines at least for the moment i do get that have you ever been like a really quiet place and for some reason you're like i should i shouldn't make a lot of
I more so get it in nature, like when I'm outside and not for like, oh, I don't want something to see me. Just like it sounds so calm that I'm just like light footsteps. Like I don't want to disturb the peace, so to speak. And I could get that in like a more industrial area of kind of like it's so calm here. Why ruin it? I remember being a kid. We went to like a really big church when I was a kid.
And sometimes when I'd go downstairs to the bathroom, there were like these long, long hallways around the church, like in the basement area. And it kind of had that like, you know, the fluorescent hum thing. And I remember just standing out there sometimes and thinking like, man, it is so quiet. Like you can hear so much every little detail. And I kind of get not wanting to disturb that. Right.
Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense. Almost not of like a fear thing, more of almost like a social cue, weirdly.
When I opened the envelope, I understood. There was no letter.
Well, the next line says there's something in it, so we'll see what it is. Okay, all right, I'll hold my tongue for a second. Yeah, she didn't just hand him a blank envelope like, loser! Oh, sorry.
Jimmy, you had the picture of the man touching himself, right? Give it to him. Make him feel appreciated. No.
The Japanese are good people. Good manners. But they got all these urban legends and ghost stories that Hiroji was crazy for. Spent all his free time chasing them down. Like, you heard of Jorigumo?
I'm sorry, but with that delivery, I imagine like a bewildered elf.
Well, she's the spider lady who lives in the Joro Falls around Izu. Your southern accent with this is so good.
He's one of them educated types. He just talks too big. Okay. Anyway. Before I was rudely interrupted. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. With a criticism over my Rob speak. Like I don't understand the character.
Well, she's the spider lady who lives in the Joro Falls around Izu. Meant to be real pretty, but real dangerous. Rouchi took us out there to get a picture of her.
Okay, that voice. I don't mean to keep... I can't... You know that, like, the fairy from Legend of Zelda? It's like the 50-year-old man in a fairy costume. You know what I'm talking about? Hey, come on, man. No, I'm a cute girl.
Okay, in my head, it's that... It's that... Is Tinsel its name? The elf or whatever? I don't know. I have no idea. It's that, but trying to sound like a British woman. Okay.
Nah, she didn't show, none of them did. I didn't believe at all until we went to... Aokigahara. Sure. Aokigahara. Aokigahara. Aokigahara. Wait. Aokigahara.
Listen, little missy, I don't even think that you're real. I don't know what you is, but it ain't right.
No, I don't see now you're whispering, and that makes me all kinds of bothered and uncomfortable, and I don't stand for it, ma'am. You done got me riled. That's it. I'm getting my gun.
Oh my gosh. He's just listening to like Impractical Jokers way too loud.
I thought I couldn't pronounce it. Now you can't pronounce it. What's this about, you little educated British lady?
You think you're all sophisticated better than me just because I'm from down here in Phoenix. Well, let me tell you this. You think that it's fine for you to mispronounce it, but when I mispronounce it, it's because I'm some dumb yokel. Is that right?
Well, that ain't quite Christian of you now, is it?
I thought about it. I was thinking London. You're from London, right?
This is it. This is his middle break. I can't wait.
All I can do is hold on to my recollection of the night before, reminding myself of the sense of calm, finality that radiated from Klein when I confronted him. All I can do is trust that I made the right call.
Thank you for not doing it as Clyde was walking off last night. Yeah. Did the thought come to you? Be honest, did the thought come to you to do it then?
like in that moment so in my head the like i don't know about you but uh to me bristol slash alice looks like um the actress who plays her in the tessa thompson in my head like it's tessa thompson the moment you spoke in that voice it became like peaky blinder cillian murphy like
Hold on, to make it easier on us, you want to alternate paragraphs? Sure. Sure, like substantial paragraphs. Like if it's a sentence, then you do another one. Sure, sure, yeah. Yeah, that way it's just more rhythmic or whatever, and neither of us are losing our voice. Because we're in this for the long haul. This isn't a sprint, it's a marathon, right? We've got to pace ourselves.
Glad you made it too. They build them tough down in London. I rest my head back against the luggage.
Of course. Yeah, of course. That's, uh... Sorry. Hey!
It is the space between your butthole and your other thing.
Ben, I think we should go. I'm getting nauseous. I would punch him in the face.
Hey pal, at least these are less expensive. Am I right? You can get eyeballs in the backyard. Ain't got to spend the check on the misses the old ball and chain. You hear? Yeah.
You can't get over that price from pay less shoes that, that receipt she brings home. Am I right? Put her, put her there.
look i'm not i'm not saying i was there or anything but from what i've heard it got pretty wild what i heard it was a pretty good race is all i gotta say a lot of upsets that day all right
I'll tell you what you think. You think eyeballs are bad. How about some eye Balenciaga on a receipt? You're here. Yeah. I'll tell you what. I looked back at her in shock and saw her grinning madly, her fingers clutching a large shard of glass. You alright in there? I hate Chris.
I thought those shoes were bad, buddy. Anyway, let's get you. Oh, man. Anyway, you all right in there?
she's right behind you isn't she it's like chris you can see you would know that you're looking at me you are looking at me right now oh yeah yeah she's behind you um erm ben you're gonna want to see this lynn had crawled completely out from under the bed and stood in the bedroom doorway her face twisted in rage her whole body was visibly tense blood ran down her fingers and onto the floor
Hey, look, it must be that time of the month or something going a little crazy.
Hey pal, don't we all got them? Oh, I see some blood on her hands. I know what that means. Hey, they all get a little wacky. They all get a little eyeball. You know what I mean?
Chris was standing in the front yard talking on the phone with the police. He's on the phone like, um, she's right behind him.
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Bring us a glass of wine and a weekend vacation, if you know what I mean. The woman's going a little stir-crazy over here. Look, I'm just saying I've said things in the bedroom. Oh, my God.
It doesn't look that that is fine. It's when you bring it out and we all have to look out at that. It's like, you know. Oh, sure. Like, don't do that.
So that, sure, I'm tracking everything you just said, except for what relation is that to the bedroom?
In the best... You're saying I do the whole salami sandwich eating thing as a mode of foreplay. Yes. Okay. Yeah. So if I'm Scooby, then who is Caleb?
I mean, that makes no sense. That's the natural conclusion, I guess.
Our foreplay is just like Hanna-Barbera cartoons, kids. Not even with the sexual undertone. It's just like the jokes from cartoons.
I put my feet off the bed and run in place like I'm driving a car.
That was pretty funny. After removing my fleece and lying down for just a moment, I end up sleeping in the clothes I'm wearing. At some point, I'd walk up to Rob and be like, Rob, we gotta kill her.
She's just weird like that. She's vibrating, speaking Latin behind the scenes. All right, so do we have to go home then or what?
She does this. I don't know why you're being so weird. It's that time of the month. She gets like this. She talked to a demon. Who cares? God. You know, I really thought when you were being Alice just said that you're going to go, Rob, you're going to want to see this.
If you have epilepsy, I want you dead right now.
Yeah, yeah. Rob, she's right behind you. Yeah, all right. Okay. In a minute, there's going to be like a thumping in the closet, and then Marcus is going to go, Clancy, you're going to want to see this.
Room seven was close. I knew the demon was right behind me, but for some... What? It's right behind me, isn't it? Oh, God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know. If it gets worse after this, I did it. Yeah, that's it. I just need to call someone. I'm going to go outside. And then there is, assumedly, a breakage in time. Well, that didn't work so well. Well, that didn't work so well. Well, Irm, that just happened. Well, that didn't work. Okay, I'll keep that out of the story. It doesn't deserve it yet. It might later, but not right now.
a t-shirt that when it moves it strokes yeah exactly as an led is like this old blood battery pack in the back of the car our next merch strap is is it's a flashlight that says creepcast and its only setting is like whatever the perfect tune is to cause seizures there you go it's just i think that's good that's good quality merchandise is what i would say
While inspecting the flesh pyre of Satan, I have the feeling I'm being watched. me thinks me being watched erm he's right behind me isn't he yeah spoke to me in my own voice the first thing he said was the hole will fill with snow and blood so yeah that amped up my fear quite a bit So, yeah. That amped up my fear quite a bit. Yeah, that amped up my fear quite a bit.
I'm not going to let it deter me. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it. Faye, it's right behind me, isn't it?
Oh, did you get a special Polaroid from a musician?
maybe bro i'd have to i i i think for a very long time i was like this is just fake i might have pitched it i don't know no bro if you still have what if it's real what if one day like what if one day when you're 87 years old you know 10 years from now could you could you like listen to yourself could you imagine huddle if you had an adam sandler signature
Okay, well, for one, you're making fun of me for the signature thing. I'm saying it would be cool. If he sent a signed copy of the CD to someone who became a famous internet comedian personality, right? That would be a cool stepping stone. You hear about like, oh, this director got a letter from Scorsese when they were a kid or whatever, right?
I'd buy it, you know, cause some car wrecks, just stand on the side of I-75 and pointed a tractor trailers to go by.
The implication. That physically hurts.
Get arrested. Get arrested immediately. When I get arrested, I'm just like, uh, it's a merchandise? Oh my god.
That is an all-time creepcast quote. That's really good. My mother spun around from the stove and I saw her visibly tense. She didn't like Tommy touching us. I know where it's going. I know where it has to be going. The 18 content warnings tell me where this is going.
I would be thrilled if he dropped an anvil on one of the kids.
That would be, that would hit like a drug at the moment. It would be awesome. But no, we don't get that. No, absolutely not. I thought that if I could make him want to impress me, he would agree to go looking for the lost town. What a bitch. I mean, this is like standard high school stuff.
I mean, like, sure. It's rude. But I mean, like, there's a bunch of girls in high school. Like, oh, that guy likes me.
How many girls in high school and stuff like that? Like, you know, they try to like get a guy to like them for like social cloud or like, cause he's like big on the baseball team. Like they don't actually like him. They just want something out of him. Right. It's like, it's, I think it's a fine part of being a kid.
Now, when you're an adult doing like serious relationships off of this, it's different negging.
What you just did is just mean it would be like this. It'd be like, yeah, you look a lot better today. That's that's just kind of similar to what I did. No, no. The different, it's saying you look really good for a fat girl. It's totally different. First off. I didn't say that. I'm saying that that's the example of what someone negative, I'm saying, but it has to be manipulative.
If I say you look better today, you're like, thank you. And then maybe you're later to like, oh, did I look not good the past few days, which is what the incentive, the underlying was. Oh, so just saying you look pretty good for a fat girl. It's just like, what are you talking? What?
it's like a police chief giving a briefing in a hurricane this person had found him and was hurting him i broke out in tears he was my only friend next to boxes okay all right hold on hold on man you can't he was my only friend next to boxes
I've seen some people dreamboat over you. I don't know what you're talking about. Oh, whatever, dude. I sent you the fan edit that was talking about a certain kind of choo-choo train, if you know what I mean, that involved both of us. Okay, dude.
Come on. Well, my friend's getting touched and murdered by a stranger upstairs. Good thing I've got my kitty cat. Well, I hope that I can find my cat so I still have one friend.
He gets on the walkie. Hey, Josh, did you hear that? Boxes has eight more lives. Yeah. Hey, Josh, are you there? Josh!
Look, pal, if you're hiring some tall guy to come in here and pull our job, buddy, we're in the union, all right?
He did say that he thought the deer did it. He said that... It read.
He said at first, I thought it was a deer they were seeing, but then they all swore it looked like a tall man.
Completely zoom past it. Okay, go ahead. I was smaller and less energetic than most kids my age. While they preferred to run around and play outside, I chose to stay inside and read.
Look, that guy ain't my crew. That guy ain't my crew. So if you have some other crew in here, you need to let us know, all right?
Like, it's like you used to work in retail. Like, it's just a common thing every crew has.
Not an expert Mesoamerican archaeologist, if you ask me, but he does have some history with, like, runic examples of the ancient, you know, lost tribes dating pre-12th century. So, you know, he's all right. He knows most of the edges.
Okay, I did do that because I was a wimpy kid. I wasn't sickly, but I was very small, and I was also sheltered, so I did read a lot. His lips are far too fat. Well, guess what? All those guys who are outside playing, they probably work at like Staples now or Cracker Barrel or something. And guess who has a YouTube channel? So, you know what? Look at that, Chad.
But the chances of her painting that name when I was working here, I didn't want to be silly, but I wasn't trying to be too. What's that word? Mom used to say it. Okay. Oh, God. No. Mom used to say it when she read her angel books. No. Whoa.
That is. What? Whoa. That was so. Yo, that was wild. You. Okay. We made the joke. Ha ha. Mom said it was an angel. And then the story says, quote, Mom used to say it when she read her angel books. skeptics that isn't the oddest thing though what's odd is that everyone has hyper realistic eyes yes oh my gosh oh i forgot about this okay so hunter some lore right
Every single, without fail, every single video game, movie, TV show, whatever, creepypasta would have some mention of hyper-realistic body parts. They're like, she was stabbed to death and a hyper-realistic heart fell into the screen or he was shot in the head and hyper-realistic blood splattered across the wall.
It was just, that's what all the time implying that that's supposed to be the uncanny aspect of these like cartoonish world, real human eyes in sponge. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good. We're just sits there in silence blinking for about 30 seconds. Then starts to sob softly. He puts his hands tentacles over his eyes and cries quietly for a full minute more.
i imagine he puts his hands in his face it's like this was one of the most terrifying stories to children online by the way keep that in mind The eerie part is that this sound, Squidward sobbing, sounded real. It was like it wasn't coming from the speakers, but that speakers themselves were holes that the sound was traveling through from the other side. Yeah, that's how speakers work.
It's almost as if the speakers weren't speakers, but instead holes that sound is projected out of. As good a sound as the studios like to have, they don't have the equipment to be able to produce audio of that quality. The deleted animation editor paused and rewound frame by frame. What we saw was horrible. It was a still photo of a dead child.
It looks like the nerd gets the girl. So, check me out. What I was laughing about while I was reading that is I imagined that meme of the dragon that's like, while you played your sports, I studied the literature. While you played your sports, I studied literature.
I miss this kind of thing. Because every other one I would read back then, like if there was a cartoon I watched, I'd read a creepypasta and it'd be this like random dead kids or blood or something. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He couldn't have been more than six. His face was mangled and bloody. One eye dangling over it. Popped.
He was naked down to his underwear, stomach crudely cut open and his entrails splayed out beside him. He was laying on some pavement that was probably a road.
that was probably a road it's a pavement that was probably a road yeah it's a picture of a dead kid and someone in the back's like is this a road or a sidewalk quick we thought it was a basketball court but we're pretty sure that it was a road at first we thought this was a lake until someone pointed out no that's pavement actually no that's not water that's pavement that is in fact pavement we can't confirm
And it's just for a single frame. Oh, my God. The most upsetting part was that there was a shadow of the photographer, but no crime tape, evidence, tags or markers. It turns out this man wasn't a police officer at all. Yeah.
And then the guy taking the picture turns around the camera and it's the Ben statue. You want to know why I killed this kid? The angle was completely off for a shot designed to be evidence. It would seem they were the person responsible for the child's death. We were, of course, mortified, pressed on, hoping that this was just a sick joke. Yeah, that's what I like to do to my workplace friends.
Display images of children I killed.
Well, I was playing. Where's Dan Schneider?
Like, as a Dan Schneider, Brian Peck thing, it's funny to imagine them like, I was just goofing around, you know?
This is just what guys in Hollywood do, okay?
We just have some pool parties with 14-year-old girls at our house, throw some dead kids onto sets, and then do some cocaine. That's part of showbiz, all right? There now would appear to be blood running down his face from his eyes. The blood was also done in a hyper-realistic style.
He was confused as to why he had been called down, so the editor just continued the episode. Once the next few frames were shown, all screaming and sound again stopped. Squidward was just staring at the viewer, his face taking up the full frame for about three seconds. The shot quickly panned out. That deep voice said, Do it! And we saw a shotgun in Squidward's hands. Ha!
Yes! Oh my god, keep reading, keep reading! He immediately puts the gun in his mouth and pulls the trigger.
There is an investigation due to the nature of the photos. Nothing came of it. No child seen was identified.
it's just funny there was an investigation due to the nature of the photos but nothing came of it it's just like you know those photos the most interesting part yeah we nothing really came of that you know those dead kids well don't worry about it we're on to the next part no child we didn't know what the fuck happened there who knows it doesn't really matter yo that was weird josh had really coveted it so much so that his parents bought him a slightly nicer one for his birthday which was toward the end of the school year immediately josh is a rat
yeah and also like the story opens saying that this the rider is like from a lower income yeah exactly like he has this one little thing to hold on to he has a rich friend to come over small snow cone machine for christmas and josh is like i need more i need i need a better a small snow cone machine for christmas to be like what a fucking out of season gift dude
And you're just, I'm tired of the, I'm tired of this lip thing. Do you know how many I've got so many DMS and comments about like man lips, this guy, this YouTuber is really cool. I wish I could see him over the lips.
Then, a familiar voice broke my tension. John. This is Amy's voice, just so you know. Yeah.
I like saying John, just like John. John? There you go. was a single word in Amy's voice. I breathed a sigh of relief.
Every character, every character we have in this series, you love to make just a toddler.
Speaker 2 and Speaker 3 all right. So the story had me, I was like, I was there. I was in the room. I was imagining like the kid blue. I can't remember their name that whatever character it was from south park who sold the steroids to Jimmy for the special Olympics.
swell up like their description of me is just like a giant pair of lips and it's it's gotten to a ridiculous degree and i'm kind of tired of it honestly so i can't stand you i can't anytime you say something to me my comments are that for a week straight so Stop.
Oh, you did a really, really bad thing. He's a kid. No, this sounds like this is mocking. This is some level of deep down sarcasm. I'm not going to stop you. I just want it to be clarified to the audience that I'm not with him. I don't. I'll do a different voice. Now you're in my head.
What's a better... Why don't you give me an example? Give me an example of what... For your audience, then maybe you can act like it. That's all I'm saying.
Say, oh, you did a really, really bad thing. I'm not the voice actor, so I'm not the one to ask about this.
If that's what you think our audience deserves, then you go with it.
When we went inside the church, we saw that Kimber wouldn't have to do much acting to convince people she was having a breakdown. We found her at the back of the room, tucked into a chair and a puddle of curly orange hair and tears. Kyle sat next to her and pulled her into a hug. Kimber, what's wrong? I kicked his foot and shot him a look that said, really?
Well, you know, like I said, if you think that's what the audience deserves, then that's on you. I'm just letting the audience know that I'm not in on it. Alright. I cried, not wanting to spend another second in this awful room. I could hear a woman screaming down the hallway, her cries rising as something meaty pounded into her. Oh, ugh. Spooky. That just came out of nowhere.
That was like a... Well, that was uncomfy all at once. Yeah.
I wasn't laughing at that. I was laughing at like the story had none of that.
It could be just like in the Tommy Taffy story where when something was going on, it was a WWE game. Yeah. Yeah. yeah it was a tombstone pile driver yeah yeah the wind house let's get into it let me start by saying that peter terry was addicted to heroin god damn what a what a opening sentence just like me If this is like super graphic, I've set myself up for it. I don't think it is.
There was probably like a hot, tall woman in there somewhere.
thank god there she is she was known for her dark lipstick and fishnets and i just like 13 year old me he's like yeah brother fishnets a typo negative shirt you're like a tall glass of water
Yeah, yeah. Although it would be funny to watch you struggle through it.
There it is, yeah. That's right. What did I say? Is that your Wendigo impersonation? What would you do if you did my voice?
We'll see what they have to say about it. My commune with the heavens has ended and I've returned to the cold, unforgiving earth. It doesn't welcome me back. I hit the slope.
Yeah, I mean, if she, like, had glide time... I'm gonna guess... To have that kind of... Yeah, I'm gonna guess she lives because the dead deer break her fall.
Yeah, she's gotta break a bone or something. At least, right?
I had to park almost... Isn't Crystal Lake the name of the Friday the 13th? Camp Crystal Lake, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah. I thought so, just making sure.
Is that me? Is that what you're doing? Is that me? Is that my voice? Stop that. Cut that out.
Hey, no, I don't like the direction. It's funny when we're making fun of the British people.
Why did you say drowning accident just then? Been drowned. Okay, all right, all right, all right. I forgot that was the title of the story. That's the title. I forgot that was the title of this story because this story does go to a drowning being related. And I was like, there is no way you just pulled that out of the air. You had such a fucking Poindexter point there.
Oh, okay. He flashed a crooked smile at me and asked what I was looking for. And immediately I noticed that he must be blind in one of his eyes. Imagine finding that. What, just seeing that in your house?
If I saw that in my house randomly, I'd be like, oh, I guess Hunter came by. No. You would have a million percent.
Every time you do an impression of me, it's a different part of the country. It's either like Kansas or like Florida.
What the heck is that? What the heck is that? If I wake up one day and there's a Meat Canyon cartoon and I'm in it and I'm like, oh, what is this all about?
like jason just becomes a slasher for like none of the character setups matter or anything just just beautiful beautiful beautiful writing all for it to be a uh friday the 13th fanfic bro that would be hilarious that'd be such a good break it would be a pretty good way to even if it's not friday the 13th like it gets to the end of the story and it's just like um And then a creature appeared.
It wasn't a bad life, but I can certainly see how it made me into the introverted person I am today. I took comfort in books and I experienced the world through them. Go ahead. I heard that laugh.
I can't describe what it sounds like, but it makes me mad. I know, I know. I'm sorry. It's such a cartoonish version of your voice. It's not that we think there's going to be something great beyond the passage. We just like the idea of being the first humans on the face of the planet to set foot in a virgin part of the cave. Although if we found a hidden treasure, that would be fine with us.
You got to throw the hidden treasure stuff in there, right?
Like gold or something? Oh yeah, you come across a chest.
Yeah, these kids don't know. Kids with their TikToks and their iPhones looking for pirate treasure.
Back when I was a kid, you go out with your buddies and then Jerry gets bit by a copperhead and he died out in the woods like a man. Now what? You get hooked up on dialysis and live for 40 years? Yeah, exactly.
You and your buddies go out there, you find your dad's moonshine bottle and you make some mistakes. Like good Christians. You don't tell nobody except your assistant pastor, then you don't go to that church no more.
There are some happy accidents. That's what I tried to tell the assistant preacher. He got me out of that church. As a matter of fact, he threatened to register me with the state of Illinois. So that's why I told the family we were moving out of Detroit because the business was gone in the region. That's why we're down here now. But look, I'm just saying that that is the kind of hard.
My head's like, what does that even mean? And the other half of my head's like, just don't think about it too hard. All I'm saying is that if it wasn't for the liberals running this country, we would have real men built on work like that. That's all I'm saying.
Oh, you're saying how many like murders never got reported. Sure. Yeah.
I mean, I'm sure, I'm sure that kind of thing happened. I mean, there are plenty of stories of like, I mean, look at the number of missing kids back in like the, you know, 1920s on. Right. It's like, okay, not all of those are actually missing, you know. Right. Right. Like a few of them had to be like, oh, Johnny, you want to go, want to go on that rope swing today? And Bob never comes home. So.
The creature appeared and killed everyone. Like, you just, like, run into the dirt.
Hunters, is there something you want to tell us?
Anything that happened to you, Hunter? I like how when I don't do the bit the way you want it, you do the bit yourself and pretend to be me on the other side of it.
Man, that is a lot of heavy things that I'm sure Sam cannot unpack. Yeah, especially for a 16-year-old who works at a sandwich shop. Yeah, so they say mayo is the sauce of the aristocrat.
And Cal's like, what was that? He's like, I just wanted to give him something to thank on. Yeah, don't worry. He's totally bought. That's what Sam would say.
everything's perfect get some every time yeah okay hold on not to jump the gun i'm i'm drawing a connection between this and the pool float in my head right anyway um there's a you want to explain how you want to explain how well that a pool float is a is truly the balloon of the water right so
uh so the the idea is that strangers like send in like he said people were sending pictures of landmarks and stuff so it's people like oh well i'm from here this is what it's like i would i would hate hate to see what some of these pictures were i i i have a feeling that this is a disaster project is what this is coming to be look like i said it was the 90s that wasn't it was the 90s yeah no one really kids were just flying into vans left and right that's how it felt
I've got balloon floats. I've got shark floats.
It's okay, Grandpa. So if you hit control and the mouse wheel, the words get bigger.
People, it became a joke to go on two sentence horror and just like make something dumb with the word creature in it. Like, I almost felt like Christmas, except I've got no eggnog. Thankfully, I can just milk some more from the creature. The family enjoys their milk at the table. Little do they know it was harvested from my creature.
Hey, chef. I called it to the kitchen. My meal began being produced by a creature.
hey chef yes chef okay yeah yeah you get you get the idea people just let's keep reading i just look we're almost done with this we'll get you through well yeah i want to get you done with this fucking eyeless jack bullshit real quick i need to read a couple more of these two sentence horror stories that i saw while i was searching i just i need to just put this out there they said the library was safe and nothing was here
I think about how that was a lie as I sit here bleeding out from my missing arm.
Just me and you doing this for two hours.
I decided to go on a tour of the Ikea factory. Little did I know that I would find the creature that lays the Ikea meatballs.
Give me one more. Give me one more.
Like, Hunter is so privileged. This guy, he hears Eyeless Jack, and he's like, wow, I can't believe that physically hurt me. It's the worst thing I've ever heard.
Did he drive to Taco Bell to get a Baja Blast? Is that what he meant?
Come on in. Have a seat, said the dentist who invented the electric chair. I hate you.
Oh, I feel dirty. Oh, I'm sorry, everyone. If that's where... This is gonna be a super... Look, I'm banking on it. This is gonna be supernatural. It's not gonna go there. I shouldn't have sold that snow cone to that ghost.
It was really weird and just totally out of character for her like I said, but I also found it kind of funny that she was being more playful and a little less serious. I shouted that I loved her and called her a weirdo. As I shut the door behind me, I heard her laughing.
she makes the best pork roast doesn't she guys it's like she's like hanging from the ceiling like a spider yeah she's like chris scampering across the walls isn't her guacamole delicious oh man it's a delightful She's like, she's like, you just hear Latin coming from, she's not speaking it, but there's Latin coming from her. I want to take a quick break to talk about today's sponsor, Manscaped.
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Sorry about that. And I also was there and facilitated it, so that's me present.
But don't worry, he wanted it to happen.
Pog! Pog! Pog! She's writing in her notes as he's disintegrating. Chad, is this real?
Oh my gosh, I'm so stupid. For those that don't know, I was just about to ask Hunter if he's seen Hunter's animation. Yeah, I've seen it a couple times. That that meme comes from. Oh my gosh.
I had seen text on her phone while she slept one night and confirmed my suspicions. My life had degraded to shit and I had run out of options. Humiliated and ashamed, I decided death was my only option.
That's a funny visual. You have like a Sherlock Holmes type inspector. Like 19th century.
it's like he's getting pictures of his wife just like in the most unholy positions just absolutely just awful and he's like what could all this mean well i better sleep on it this case is nearly cracked about the clues yeah
She's like, this is why I'm leaving you. And he's standing there in like the full like tweed stitched overcoat with the hat and like the pie. Sweating profusely underneath a duvet. A little ways away from the shed, I found this in the middle of a clearing. What is this? And we have a little Easter bunny looking thing. That's like, I mean, at one point it was an Easter bunny.
Hunter, this hell you're in was constructed by you. No, no, no.
Now it's like vines grown over it. It looks decayed and like paint chipped and stuff like that. But at one point it was like a little cute bunny decoration.
Oh. You want to come say hi to everyone after that heart attack? This is going to be in the episode. Oh, it's just Hunter I'm talking to now. Oh, my gosh. Oh, say hi, Hunter. Hello. That was very, very funny.
all right sorry about that anyway gosh it sent me because she i didn't hear anything then she throws the door open like it's time yeah easter bunny then it says i must have got turned around because i was walking for what seemed like ages
gosh someone turned on a vacuum cleaner in the house and it scared me to death oh my gosh you need to figure out your house yeah i do i need to get my house in order well someone got right outside my door and turned it on so all i heard was Gosh, I'm just gonna... I'm gonna buy a shed and I'm gonna set up there and no one can bother me. There you go. That'll make me feel better.
Now, I will say the image... Oh my gosh!
Shut up. I can't work under these conditions. Okay. I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out right now. Not outside like room five, but actually outside. My eyes stung. I wanted to cry. Hold on.
Kayla I promise you I heard it was it was plain as day it was like it was like knock knock knock like steps oh my gosh hold on I just I just saw it under the door I think it's my dog it's not my dog it's something with a wet nose Benny is that you yours
You do not do this to me right now. He's got his ears pinned back. Kayla? Oh, thank God. Is it her? Yes, it's her. All right. Oh, you want to show the audience your star pillow? Oh, Hunter can't see. That's a very cute star pillow. It's adorable. For a second, I thought someone was lying on the floor at her edge of the bed talking back to her.
I'm like, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just tweaking a little bit. It's okay. I swear. I keep seeing my door. The dogs are locked up. It's not the dogs this time. There's like, it's just the way the door shuts. There's a shadow directly in front of the door. And I don't shut up. Shut up with your, whatever you are. Stop talking. Quit. Let me stop. You are, you're a loser. You're a little punk.
That's what you are. We live in NorCal in a really woodsy town. So when you look at our bedroom window, there are tons of trees across the street.
was i keep i keep the reason i keep pausing is i keep looking at my door losing my mind it was very dark but i'm fairly certain i saw a man walking behind the first line of trees he was too far away to be the one grumbling but it is very unusual to see anyone over there this time of night in fact i've never seen anyone there at night ever
i'm doing okay the audience isn't here right now they're this is a recording all that i did was laugh at your recovery you talked yourself into memeing the dad i'm in my own health okay i'm in my own health
okay i'm moving i'm moving the screen over to the right monitor so i can just keep it in my peripheral i'm gonna call my wife and be like do not open this door
Can I do something really funny? Caitlin just messaged me. It said the two. Can you send me the two sentence horror story about the Ikea meatballs? I can't find it.
Hello. You're on. You're on the podcast right now. You're on speaker. Okay. Okay. I'm just reading a story with Hunter right now, and I'm so scared I'm going to cry. So can you please, when you get home, not open the office door? Okay. Cause I'm, I'm so scared that like I'm shaking and I've goosebumps and I've, I've talked about you opening the door for two hours.
Okay. Just, just please text me before something happens. Okay. Okay. I love you. Love you. Bye. All right, we're good. We're good. We're locked in. All right. Nobody knows who made it, what its purpose is, or why it's on the side of the tree facing into the woods. Rather than the side facing the house. I found all the supplies to make another one. Kayla. Don't do this to me.
i had the headphones on and i felt the whole house rumble at once which normally means someone shuts the door okay the gps says she's here okay whatever ma'am something just came in no ma'am stay ma'am stay as quiet as you can don't make a sound mommy mommy he came inside
I tried. Oh, that was great. Oh, fuck, there's more. That screaming about his legs worked or whatever, you were nailing it. My last guess was that it was a mummy, but in the end, Josh kept insisting that it was a robot because of the sounds that we heard. What? Yeah, what?
That sentence sounds like something you or I would say midway through an episode.
I'm glad. I'm glad you don't have like strong feelings about it or anything. Wait, let's go ahead and knock the rest of them out. Okay, man. If Kyle from Boroska was here, oh man, he'd be having such a great time.
Yeah, I'm definitely not holding up something to the camera for you to not be able to see. My wife isn't here to get me, so that one won't work. I already made a you're going to want to see this joke. It's right behind me, isn't it? Same thing. Something has to fall, so here's a pin. And then you have to make fun of my accent. You have to make fun of my accent. I think that's all of them.
All right. That's it. We can we can continue on. All right. Oh, my God. Hey, let's go.
Oh, fuck. It's such, it's a guy in a mask, but it gets me every time. I hate it. Such a basic jump scare.
Jump scare was still good. She didn't have to tell me twice. I really liked Mira and I hated seeing her like this. The front didn't end up being much better. I could hear Mira crying over the store's dated music track. Jesus. She's just, like, bawling her eyes out.
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I'm Sarah Cavanaugh and I'm originally from Rhode Island. I can see where in some ways it can fit this aspect of like this huge plan to get all this money. like this master plan or something. But I never thought about it like that.
Pretty much my parents. I've always felt like I could talk to them about money.
It's really just my college friend group that I feel like I can't talk to about this stuff.
I don't know. I guess just what I said before about not wanting to sound dumb or telling them that I want to spend less when we hang out or the fear that they might just hang out without me if I say that I don't want to spend that kind of money.
Yeah, definitely.
Kind of, actually. My freshman year college roommate and I were pretty tight for the first semester. But second semester, all of my savings were pretty much dried up. And he really liked to go out and eat and go on big trips on long weekends and stuff. So I stopped being able to do that stuff with him. And then we just kind of drifted apart.
No, I guess we never really talked about it.
Man, I guess not.
Worst case scenario, my college friends stop inviting me out and stop including me in things like trips and fantasy football. And then I kind of drift apart from the friend group and then I get cut out.
No, no, no. They're great guys. They just all come for money and I don't. And, you know, we just have different financial resources and backgrounds and we see it differently.
Well, that's nice to hear. I like to think that and I think I know that, but thank you.
That's cool.
I think I could try.
Oh man, I can try.
Yeah, I'd love to go.
Um, thanks for the invite. That hotel looks really cool, but I'm trying to save some money right now for a bigger place. So it's just a bit out of my budget. Do you think we could try something a little cheaper?
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think that if I could just find a good alternative, they might just go for it.
That sounds good. And I think you're right. I can start with something that's not so negative. Like instead of waiting to talk about money when I have to shut something down or suggest something else, I can ask for their advice on something.
Honestly, still a little anxious. Even practicing having this conversation with you made me nervous, to be honest. But having some pointers on what to say will definitely make it easier. So thank you.
Well... I get really anxious when I think about talking to my friends about money. I'm doing pretty well with my job and I have some money saved, but I have some friends who are making a lot more money than me and it's kind of created a few problems. They just spend so much money when we go out and I don't want to spend money like that. But I also don't want them to stop inviting me to things.
I know they're investing and I'd like to ask them about how they're doing that, but I just don't want to sound dumb. But I guess it all boils down to just not feeling comfortable talking about anything when it comes to money.
I'm nodding in agreement.
Nothing. So he might not even be... He's not going to get fired.
I mean, it's still pressure from... There's always pressure from the city to win. And the team is so... This is the most talented Eagles team that... I've ever seen, I think. Whoa. Whoa. Shot at Jason Kelsey. No, I think most... Who, by the way, has another show? Shout out. I watched the whole thing. Good show.
Yep. What's your favorite part? Um... I liked when – You watched the whole thing? Yeah. No, he had a nice panel. He had Lil Dicky, Charles Barkley, and Baldy on it, our guys. I liked when they were just – there was a couple bits that they did in the beginning and at the end.
Yeah, that's what's up. No, they did like – I liked when they were just talking ball. Okay. I wasn't a fan of – they did a lot of bits that I wasn't a fan of, but I did like when they sat down.
You asked me my opinion. I gave you my opinion.
That was awesome. His wife was great. Yeah. Queen. She has a name. Kylie. Queen. Queen Kylie. What? What are you doing?
I mean, there's just pressure to win in Philadelphia, but there's no job pressure, if that's what you're asking. Right.
Correct. Yeah, it's crazy. He literally could not have been out of concussion protocol yesterday.
It's crazy. I told PFT my panic level was at a 4 out of 10 yesterday. It's down to a 2 out of 10.
Well, then a lot of people – because I got worried, and then a lot of people were like, he literally cannot be out of concussion protocol until Wednesday. So, yes, that is technically correct, but you won't – we won't know anything until Thursday because he has to practice a full day, and then the next day wake up with no symptoms, and then you're out of concussion.
You want him to play. I know I do. This is what I'm saying. I want you to respect concussion protocol. This doesn't work. Yes, it does. This doesn't work. You like the Packers.
It's not until Thursday. Wait, you told me yesterday it was a concern. But that's because I didn't know the rules. Sorry I was concerned of my stupidness.
No, there's zero part. You wouldn't be trolling this hard. There's zero part.
So what happens on, like... What would happen on Thursday? Are we getting an update today? No, there's no update until... We're still not in problem territory. You can't get out of concussion protocol until you practice a full day and then wake up the next day.
They're not practicing today or tomorrow. Wednesday is their first practice.
Oh, correct. Yeah.
I told you my timeline.
I mean, no, you're Packer Dan.
I mean, it was just absolute rage bait. That's all. How long has it been? I think he did that tweet just for you. Maybe.
I don't know.
Me too. Is Jordan Love okay? You say he's like the 10th best quarterback in the playoffs.
Yeah, because all of the quarterbacks ahead of him have played good Super Bowl games, right? What? Jalen Hurts.
Yeah.
No. I was speaking to Big Cat. I had him nine. He had him at nine.
That's not what I said. That's not what I said. You sound like memes. What I am saying is that actually, I don't know. Don't you need to? Can't you not clear concussion protocol until a practice day?
So that there was no way of clearing concussion protocol yesterday.
And now for something completely different.
If you get Ben Johnson... 6 out of 10. That's such a lie. That's such a lie, and you know it. That's awesome. So if you get Ben Johnson 6 out of 10, you get Mike McCarthy, where are you at?
You'll be more excited than if you got Mike McCart. You're going to be excited if you get Ben Johnson. I want you to get Ben Johnson just because I want to see you walk back this take.
That's not great. Big Cat's trying to play this game that he's huge. I just want Max. I am. I need the Eagles.
I need him to beat the Packers. I need him out of concussion protocol. But he also really wants to troll me about Jalen Hurts. So it's Packer Dan.
Thank you. It is a technicality. It's a bad technicality. It was impossible for him to get out of concussion protocol yesterday. But is that not a troubling technicality? No. He would have had to have gotten out of concussion protocol last week if he was going to – because he wasn't out of concussion protocol last week, he had to still be in concussion protocol Monday.
I think – let me just – I'll just say this.
I'm not triggered. I know what you're trying to do.
Because Yankee Dan, Packer Dan.
He might have been concussed. I was just here. Oh, yeah. So PFT just is a constant state of concussion. No, we just hit guys hard. We play physical football. You said that, yeah, because you were still wearing sunglasses in the concussion.
A lot. A lot. And that's sad. I was just abiding by the rules. I was obliging to the rules.
Unlike Max.
I don't think it covers. I think it's just Jackson Holiday. Yeah, you're just naming him his name? And Jackson Holiday is also, he's a great prospect. Yeah, you might want to be. Lamar Jackson would be a safer bet. What if Jackson, like, it happens a lot, that good prospect. Yeah.
That would be good. I like Gunner. I think Gunner Jackson flows.
yeah Hank keeps saying this thing where it's like you've seen head coaches how often is it that a head coach goes to his third team and is more successful yeah because there's just as many instances as offensive coordinators good offensive coordinators being good yeah and going to a new team as there are head coaches going to another team yeah your whole thing of like yeah offensive coordinators going to a new team
What's the Jackson? McCarthy.
I should know that because I'm his dad.
Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes head coaches going to a new team also doesn't work.
It's the jumpsuit. Oh, really? Okay. He's really excited about the jumpsuit.
Doug Peterson was a head coach that went to another team and did not work out for the second team.
Yeah, it's a dream, man. Dream come true. Obviously grew up in this deal. Right. Watched my dad do it at a really young age. Grew up in sidelines and coaches offices in locker rooms. And I always wanted to be him. You know, I wanted to be him and to be able to do it on this stage with this opportunity. Can't can't thank Shad Khan enough for this.
You were just drawing up, you know, the wishbone offense. That was that was that was real. I think that was probably, you know, dad push, you know, pushing that narrative in ways. But it was our passion. Like that was our shared bond. Yeah. It was football. It was sports. It was basketball. It was baseball. It was all sports. You know, that's been life at a very young age.
And unfortunately for my wife, I don't have a lot of other tools in life. But football is something that ultimately I've done for a really long time. Do you use any of those plays that you drew up in your five? A lot of the wing T principles that we used in a lot of our 21 pony stuff with the two back and the gap schemes and some of the GT stuff we did with the misdirection.
It was really a process from the wing T, which is what I ran and what my dad ran back in the day.
Was that like, when did that happen? Like my senior year, I had a pretty, my elbow was shot. I was getting shot up every Wednesday to practice and Saturday to play. And so knew that was falling off. The cliff was falling off too many curveballs as a 10 year old. And it just wasn't going in that direction. I went and trained and Matt Nagy actually was training me at the time in Lancaster, PA.
And I just knew it wasn't really going to be in the future. So I had an opportunity to go to Brown really early on. Mark Whipple actually helped kind of get me that job and knew from a very young age. I think this is what I wanted to do if I couldn't play.
Man, Maine, too. I would say a lot of a lot of good coaches from that area like that northeast. You go with the Atlantic, old Atlantic 10, which became the CIA. And in the Ivy League, you just you can get opportunities because, well, you're paying nothing at a young age. You can go in and you wear a lot of different hats. So I was like the video coordinator in 2010.
I'm the video coordinator, quarterback's coach, recruited like 10 states. And you get an opportunity to develop as a coach. But I've met guys that have come into the NFL and not knowing how to make a copy. So you've got to be able to learn and give the ops. And I think that that's what some of those kind of programs do. They give you an op to really kind of dive into it.
Yeah, so it was after the first year in 2017. Matt LaFleur ends up going to the Tennessee Titans to go call it. Zach Taylor gets promoted from assistant receivers coach to quarterbacks. He doesn't name an offensive coordinator. A couple guys were on that staff. Shane Waldron was on that staff. A couple guys that I knew. I knew Zach a little bit when he was at Cincinnati. I was at Maine.
We played UConn, had a little bit of a familiarity there. So knew a couple guys in the building, but ultimately it was a blind op. Like it was a blind op. I mean, Shane, I knew a little bit, but it was a blind op. Those guys that I kind of were in the interview process against had connections to Sean. I had no connection to him. Came in.
I was the offensive coordinator at Maine and then a quick stop at Holy Cross that I didn't even get to coach at. Go in, interview for the assistant receiver's job. And he's got me on the board doing, you know, protections. He was drawing up an Abbey front, which we talk about the split mug. It's the Zimmer stuff with the double A gap mug stuff.
And he's like, hey, man, how are you picking up nickel mic pressure out of this look? And I'm up on the board like, wait, I'm interviewing for the assistant receiver's job. Right. And you got me talking protections. Right. And I had never seen that, that look. And he's like, I turned to him. I said, I don't know what this is. He's like, man, don't worry about it. It's new in the league.
We're just trying to ask a bunch of people and figure it out. So it was an honest kind of opportunity. Yeah. And I felt like I ended up going and winning the job.
What is it? It was a play action concept with basically a max pro play action that I knew that they had run a few times with Deshaun Jackson when he was in Washington. It was like a deep V cut pylon route, we call it, which is like an 18 yards. stick your foot in the ground, go to the back pylon.
And then he would use read on the sale concept and be able to chase it with it with a max pro play pass. I drew that one up. We had used that main. Um, and then really on third down, we drew up my favorite, uh, drop back concept was what we call pressure drive, which is an old, you know, old school West Coast concept that he had run for a long time. And but the detail. Right.
It was like detailing that play, I think, was cool to to be able to talk through because, you know, when you get off the board and he's not really hitting you on a ton of different coaching points, you feel like at least you nailed it. Right. Right.
Yeah, fast. That is what we talk about fast. You know, fundamentally sound, attacking, situational masters, and tough, both mentally and physically. So that's where it starts. That's where it stems. I think that the mentally and physically tough part, though, is the one that we really want to talk about. We go into Tampa this past year.
They have the 32nd ranked run game in the NFL in the last two seasons. And we go and bring it to number four this past season. So it was buy-in. It was all about toughness, physicality, the way that we wanted to play the game, our style of play. I mean, dude, Mike Evans is digging out support on safeties. He doesn't have to do that stuff. And so we got him to that point. There was immediate buy-in.
I think that that's where it all kind of stemmed from.
Fast. Okay. Fundamentally sound. Attacking. Already not a great acronym if you have to use two words, but keep going. Fundamental. Attacking. Situational masters. Again. What do you mean? Situational. This is bad. Situational.
How do I achieve situational mastery? Dude, there's a lot of tape that we can go back and watch. Yeah. I mean, we watch Super Bowls, two-minute drives, four-minute drives, clock management situations from – we try to show them the good and the bad, right, but from previous years. Like Belichick had this book. Coach Belichick had a book.
It was like the Bible that you have, and it's been kind of passed along through a lot of different people, and he's got – specific games, situations, when things came up, to where you can go back and look at, those situations still come up to me.
Do you really?
I mean, it was pretty clean. Or situational pretty clean.
Situational masters.
Fast. Fast. Fundamentally sound. Attacking.
Okay. D minus. D minus. Pretty easy. But also the fast is also the F. Ask Baker. I think he'll probably say it was pretty good. Listen, that was... I think those guys all bought in pretty quick. Wait, who? Baker? The entire Tampa Bay offense. Yeah, Baker's a dog. Yeah. Baker's dog.
I don't feel – you know, it's not bad. It's unfortunate in ways because of the competitor, because of the person that he is. You know, we got really close. Obviously, we worked together in L.A. for those last kind of like five or six weeks. He was paramount, you know, kind of in my –
evolution to coming to Tampa like getting there so yeah you definitely feel uh you feel unfortunate for the situation because of the type of dude that he is um but he's in a place where he's continuing to ascend like he's just doing this right now he's got a ton of confidence he's at a place where a lot of people love him and believe in him and I think that's only going to continue
Did you ever text him back? Oh, yeah. What do you mean? Because he said that you he was left on read.
All right. Good. Good. Good.
I'm going for two.
That's smart. Just so you know what you're going to deal with moving forward. All right.
You're going to have to use that op. You're down there. You're down there. You're going to have to use that op.
Yeah. You're down there. And you're an opportunity to go score a touchdown. You're that close. Yeah. We all know how hard it is to score in the red zone in this league. So when you're down there, you've got to have your op. I think you've got to be aggressive there.
2018, Seattle. We're in Seattle. We're up – We're up one in Seattle. We're on like the minus 40. And we're playing Russell Wilson at the time. They were rolling. And we were in a back and forth game. They hadn't stopped us. We really hadn't stopped them. And we take a timeout. It's fourth and one. And Sean goes around the whole headsets. What do we want to do? You know, sneak it or punt it.
Obviously, give those guys the ball back again. Every single dude on the headset said punt it. Everybody. He goes to Wade Phillips. He was like, man, we haven't stopped him once. Go for it. And we went for it, sneaked it, won it. Game over. Yeah. If we didn't, it was could have been catastrophic. They're going to go five yards basically to go, you know, kick the game winning field goal.
But it was like that aggressive mentality there that believing in the guys and have an understanding of like you haven't stopped them yet. Yeah. So that's not probably going to stop at that point. That may not change. It may. But play the odds. Yeah.
So what was going through your head? No, it was just a cadence, right? I'm a quarterback by nature. I'm using my cadence. And hey, at the end of the day, you have to adapt to different cadences. That was my cadence at the time. And now, hey, I'm going to learn from these guys and be able to do a better job next time.
I mean, I just go back to Dan Campbell talking about biting kneecaps. Yeah, yeah.
For sure.
Yeah, I think kind of a message for, you know, ShotKhan and what we're trying to do is be bold and be different. And I've never, you know, this past season in Tampa was my most truest authentic self for the first time. I wasn't trying to be Sean. I wasn't trying to be Kevin O'Connell. I wasn't trying to be Zach Taylor. I was just being myself. And, yeah, that was my cadence that day.
Obviously wasn't too loved, but I think these guys, once we start winning games –
Yeah, there you go. It's the eyebrow, I guess. Just keep the other eyebrow down.
There you go. So we actually were having this conversation in Tampa two weeks ago. My son, three-year-old son, just did it. I can do it. My dad does it. It's just kind of a thing. It's not probably the coolest thing, but it's a thing.
Yeah, they do.
Did he have any issues moving forward?
He's good.
LA, we were together. Yeah, did you reach out to him when you took the job?
He is the best. He took us to golf at Calabasas when he was living out there. He lives right around the corner from the golf course out there. We went and played a few times. I mean, the boat's a stud.
Yeah, he's all in on that.
He actually gave us my realtor. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, he's the best. He's the best.
He's, I mean.
He was so, he gave me a completely different perspective on the quarterback position when he came to LA. You know, I mean, Jared was young, still growing and still just that kind of little, the mentality, the little bit of the, Hey, screw it. I'll go let it rip and go play. This is who I am. This is how I play. He's like, dude, I'm like Chuck Knobloch.
Like he would kill himself. He was like so self-deprecating. But it was good. It was in a good way. That's actually a good word in our profession.
Yeah.
Yeah, I watched him play as actually a freshman in high school. Like, it was random. I was there recruiting a different player on his team. He was in a playoff game against Beaufort High School in Georgia, and he went and, like, ripped it. He was getting smashed in the face, just kept getting up, making plays. And so when I got with him, you know, a couple weeks ago, it was just you felt –
a dude that just wants to go take it to the next level. He's mentally and physically tough. He's been able to go through a lot of stuff, and he's been through a ton of change, and all he wants to do is be great. He really does. He just wants to go be coached, go pour into this thing, and I think he's primed to go do that. He's going through a ton of change right now, obviously. Yeah.
had the injuries a new father new coaching staff for the third time now right yeah um ton of humility but like he's got a feeling where he's like man I need to kind of play to my potential I haven't reached it yet um and that's cool to see
Very important.
Dude, we swam there. Played there in Clemson. We played Clemson, Kentucky in the bowl game. I didn't even see this thing. Yeah. Seriously? We swam in it with Doug Marone. Is it clean? Yeah, it's clean. Yeah, very clean. We were wearing jeans. You went full clothed? No, just jeans. I was one dozen Florida.
Open up the pool. Yeah, open up the pool. It's like a family. Yeah, I got you. I can respect that.
Yeah.
Start to shame people. Yeah. You can shame people for peeing in it. Yeah. Okay. I respect that.
No, it's more that you're in a support role. Okay. Obviously, he's got a ton of responsibilities with offense, defense, special teams, personnel, a lot of stuff. So you're really the rhythm of the week. You're trying to help.
create the clean rhythm right make sure everybody's staying on task getting their stuff done getting the scripts done defensive scripts cards you're essentially organizing throughout the entire week and then as he gets caught up and gets into the more the roots of the game plan then he can start to dive into like how he wants to attack how does he want to call the game so is it is it difficult yeah i probably underestimated that going from calling plays in kentucky
to going to that role in LA after they won a super bowl, probably underestimated that for me. Um, but you know what you're getting into, you know, that you're going to go support a dude that's a complete stud and does things the right way, treats people the right way. Uh, and it's super infectious. So like, that's what you're going to be a part of. And you kind of know what you're getting into.
No, we've kind of had some of those conversations this past year in Tampa when we were trying to get the run game going. Right. Todd's so multiple. Coach Bowles is so multiple on defense where you're saying, hey, we might have to have a couple of periods where we're just static here, where we can just go block people that are staying put. Yeah.
So we can get good at blocking a double and a B and a single and a deuce. If we don't get those blocks in practice, how are we supposed to get good at them in the game? And the guys that can really adapt and see it from both lenses. Those are the probably, you know, usually the most successful ones.
Dude, it's, it was like, I felt like it was just a barrage in training camp, but you don't know where it's coming from. You really don't. He's so multiple that way. I've never seen somebody in the second half of games adjust in 10 minutes. We all know what halftime adjustments got. You're getting the stuff you hadn't called in the first half or things that are working.
How do you now dress it up to go do it differently? Todd Bowles had an ability in second half of games to take what they were doing and almost be like, we're going to do this and completely shut people down. I had never really seen that before. He ran the entire show. It was pretty cool to see.
dude i know the that was one of the coolest moments i've ever been a part of man uh i think at the time i i liked it for mike evans a lot i i give him all the credit in the world i didn't like it from the saints because it was like you're you're supposed to hate the bucks right they didn't let it happen you don't think so not at all so what happened on that play we got him open and he made a play
Dude, we ran the same exact play in the red zone the prior play when Bucky, Baker flips it to Bucky. We had had that play called, but Baker checked out of it because he thought he was getting zero blitz. So he checked out of that exact play. We ran something else. It wasn't open. Mike wasn't open. He ends up scrambling, flipping it to Bucky.
Bucky just kind of innately gets in the end zone, and everybody's like, oh, my God.
What did we just do? Yeah. You know, we just ruined this for him. And so when we got the ball back, we went back to that same play that we wanted to call down there and obviously didn't check out a bit. They weren't letting that happen. You don't think it was? Not at all. Ask their coaches. I've talked to their coaches. There was no shot they were letting that happen.
It was the coolest moment.
See the reaction of those players, man. It was awesome. It was the coolest moment of the year, hands down.
No, man, I gained such a different respect for Rashad after this year. When you go through it and see what he brings from a pass protection standpoint, there's probably not a lot of backs in the NFL better than him, and that goes so unnoticed. And he can still do it in terms of making people miss in the screen game. No, Bucky's just a dog. Yeah. Like that dude is in the building at 5 a.m.
every single day hanging out with Tom Moore. Yeah. 87-year-old Tom Moore and Bucky Irving, one of the youngest players on our roster, hung out every single morning. Yeah. Like dude's a stud. All right.
I think we're going to beat the Eagles.
It was I interviewed on Zoom Wednesday. OK. And I never got in person. OK. Never was able to kind of get in person until after I end up going there. Yes. After that. Yes. But yeah. ultimately it came down to new information. New information became available.
And like when you're going to buy a house and you figure out like it's either not as good or better than you thought. And some of the people that ultimately have kind of helped me throughout this journey have said like at the end of the day, you're allowed to change your mind. And that's like kind of life.
It was the most gut-wrenching week of my life. It was. That's genuine. You sound like a lot of my boys that lived in my neighborhood that were diehard fans. They were pissed at me. Feelings hurt. Yeah, they were pissed. But they're cool now. We're good.
And at the end of the day, with the guys, the boys, and they're FaceTiming me from the Bahamas, all excited, and I just go hug Todd Bowles and those guys, like... It's all good. It's all good.
At the end of the day, man, it's entertainment, right? I mean, as much as it is, I grew up a Patriots fan. Die hard. Die hard. So I get it, man. I understand.
Yeah. You think he was down? I watched that game live. Boat was, I mean, he was dealing. They were running the ball really well. Nah, dude, that shouldn't have been called down. I'm all Jags. I'm going Jags.
There's loyalties now, yeah.
I've known Grizz for a while, man. Met him here. I met him here, I don't know, five, six years ago. He's he's like he's a Yale dude, but he's a bro. I mean, he's a guy that he connects with so many different dudes like he can connect. He's smart. He's so smart. He dialed up all of our third downs. He did so much of the red zone, all the pass game.
He can see it from an all 11 perspective, both in the run in the pass. He's going to be a really good force. For you guys, he will.
Doesn't matter. No, what's cool is, like, he grew up on the sidelines. His dad was a coach. He grew up, like, on sidelines in the locker rooms. So we share that vision, right? And I think that's kind of what's cool about it is, like, we're coaches' kids. We have a chip on our shoulder. We want to prove it. Like, we want to go do it.
And we've learned from pretty darn good people, and now it's an opportunity to go do it.
We're gonna run it up on you.
Seriously. We're gonna do a watch party for that.
If I had to vote for the Heisman, I would vote for Ashton Shanty. Oh, get out of here. Get out of here. I would happily be okay with Travis Hunter winning because I think that these are the two best Heisman-like contenders that we have had in so long. That's what I said. Neither is a loser. It sounds better coming from him. Shador should be number three in the Heisman voting, too.
I don't know what's going on there.
That is a possibility. I think I would personally vote for Jenty. I think it's not talked about enough that the second-laying rusher in the country is Ashton Jenty after contact. I think it's insane.
It's crazy to watch. This is backfiring, PFT. His Heisman run was derailed because of injuries. Foot injury. Stamina's important. Stamina's important. Yeah, he was in a boot after.
Tell us all the votes you have, by the way. What votes do you have? Bolitnikoff. Bolitnikoff. Nick Nash. Are you going to vote for Travis Hunter for that? I vote for Nick Nash. Yes. Triple crown. Nick Nash. San Jose State. One of my big things about wanting so badly again for the voting scene personality thing in college football was...
the group of five representation representation for all the other people that didn't do it so i thought to myself if i don't vote for nick nash yeah nick nash you've become who you hated correct so four years ago liam would be livid i you know like jerry stearns got robbed of his bullet in the cough right a few years ago so nick nash triple crown leader it's kind of a no-brainer yeah he's electric what other votes you have
Uh, Davey O'Brien. We've over there.
Um, what else?
I vote.
North Dakota stays fullback.
All right. Tough name to say, but.
Alabama's 100% in the playoffs. Yeah, it sucks, but it's going to happen.
Yes. And I don't think they should be, but as a fan of college football. I'm not against it. I kind of love the chaos factor of Alabama getting in there and make stuff happen.
Kanye is great.
I like the most so far, Preston.
He was very good. Even took a few carries over for Gentee because their RB2 and RB3 were hurt.
Okay.
Whoa. Jump on it. They're very good. We allow them to say what they want. They are great for college football players.
Thank you.
I think Liam might be our college football expert. They're single-handedly going to win Travis Hunter the Heisman. You got to give him some respect.
Double-handedly.
Quadruple-handedly.
That's what I thought. That's what I thought.
Yeah. Truman Waremeyer.
Truman Wehrmeyer. Straight out of Fargo. Fargo kid went to play at NDSU. North Dakota State.
Oh, Tyler Warmeyer. Truman Warmeyer.
I think.
19.
Yes.
No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Standing on the corner, Jameis Winston, Cuyahoga. Such a fine sight to see. He's throwing seeds against his old team. Revenge against New Orleans. The Gumballs spoiled it. You gotta boil it. Rizzy clogged the mic. A pregame toilet.
Yeah.
I always am.
That's something that gets you worried?
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. They're not going to get them.
Yeah. Ferocious.
The G-Men, 14.
All right. I mean, we would have voted for Ashton Gentry if we had a vote. Yeah. I think we all agree on that.
That's a good one.
That's a bridge. Got it.
We head out west where Hank is out there for the Cardinals and Patriots game.
I don't know if I trust.
Yeah.
Badger, that was tough.
Yeah.
How good on crutches are you?
And it definitely feels a little different.
Yeah.
Yeah, I love that Hank is salty about this. This is great.
44.
Bye.
Yeah.
2023.
Mm-hmm.
For sure.
I will take the Ravens minus six and a half.
Buffalo Bills minus 14. Wow. You're right. You're right. Do you want to say it? Nope. I fucked that up last time and I lost. 49ers Dolphins over 44 and a half.
Uh, Preston and I go over to her house, take her safe, bring that over to my house before we do anything.
I watched her.
Put her in the trunk.
So I was driving, and I had her buckled in.
In the passenger seat, she looks like she's just sleeping.
She's just sitting up.
Fuck my leg up. Like, the weight from her body, like, made me fall, and my leg, like, went up. So now I'm lifting, my leg's fucked up, and there's three cars coming up. So I grab her body.
He was able to sit there and talk about how he killed his friend
Didn't do anything.
Nobody was there?
He was in Florida.
I fucking dropped my phone at Sarah's house.
My phone was at Sarah's house.
Yeah, I lost it.
I had timed everything out so that... Dude.
Strangling someone?
To look for my phone, though, which is a reasonable, like, thing to do.
Which is kind of, like, me losing my phone is kind of a good thing, because the cops are like, oh, he's hanging out out there.
Wait, is it because like at Dudley Market, you can only make reservations outside of peak hours and then everything else is.
Okay. They were like dancing. They were in love.
so are they almost toast what nicks yeah no wait can i actually the photo the photo of me is kind of all the time you'll just have to blur yeah i will the girl this is a caught caught in action with my insane w riz i guess people were saying airdrop it you have to blur her though yeah that would be a violation i think
It was a big party. And I was about to say I think I'm due for a chill one, but we are going to Margaritaville at sea in two days.
I actually didn't pay anything. I don't know if they're going to request me, but I didn't pay anything.
It was, like, they were, he was like, do you want to just, like, stay in the harbor? It's a lot more, like, it gets kind of choppy out there sometimes. And so they were like, yeah. And then after an hour and a half of just circling the marina, we were like, all right. So Liam was like, told him, was like, let's go hit the seas. And we get out there and it's like, it was like too much, kind of.
I don't know. I just want to know.
That might be it, actually. It was very cool. But it was funny that we were saying, like, I am the captain now. Like, if all that happened, but it was just, like, 12 of us, like, drunk on a yacht. Like, oh, yeah, okay, yeah. That's fine. We got, like, boarded by pirates. Like, oh, my God. Can you just drop us off? I don't care at all. You can have this.
If you don't kill enough guys, you got to go shoot a gun to get a better gun so you can shoot it. And then there's like a giant sometimes.
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Or just like all those little, you know, like finger condoms. Yeah, yeah. When you cut your finger at work.
It was like tapas.
But I think everyone, no one knew like who was supposed to order the tapas. So I feel like no one ate anything.
But then we went to Not No Bar after and he still had the thing taped on his arm. And like people just like in our group kept like hitting it because it was like just like a... How can you help yourself? And it just kept nailing this one girl behind me. And I was watching it. And I was like, guys, I don't know. I know what I'm talking about. Maybe we don't. And then she was like, stop.
And then my friend Sophia was like, what? It's a balloon. And I was like, okay. I think...
It was just funny that he had this thing on his arm and it was like not a problem until we got drunk.
It was just people could not stop just punching it.
The guy behind them is just like, what the hell? That's awesome.
I was hoping they were going to do like, pew!
Every mile you're driving, you're like, oh, fuck, I'm going to have to retrace this.
And then I'd also emailed the cross-country coach, and he said, practice starts tonight, come to that. And I was like, I... I don't even know my, I was just so, it was so intimidating. I guess, I think what scared me about both of them was that the practice started like before school started. So I was like going into high school.
I'd been a tiny private school going into like a bigger public school.
That would be funny. Like, if there was an alien here, that would probably be an underrated, like, difficulty. It would be just... Yeah. Everyone would look the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, if you went to an alien planet. Yeah, do you think they're going to show up? It's like, what are you talking about? I'm white. It's like, that is not even...
You know I'd be doing it around y'all motherfuckers. Come on. All right.
I read this... He, in his later years, I guess after he wrote fucking Huckleberry Finn or whatever, he invested the equivalent of $8 million, including borrowing money and everything he could scrounge together into something called the Page Compositor, which is supposed to be a typewriter... I don't know. It was like some... It lost to a different kind of typewriter. It was like...
He thought it was going to be the future of typing. And he put, like, everything that he could get together into it.
And, like, apparently, like, he lost his, like, creative edge after that. And just kind of his life fell apart after he invested everything.
I heard this on the way up.
Somebody from the warehouse gets on Jeopardy, and Michael can't wrap his mind around how that is possible. He organizes a big watch party and screams wrong answers after every clue, all while the warehouse worker wins a million dollars.
Jim and Pam take him and the whole office to poor Richard's to calm him down, where it is trivia night, and they pay the host to only ask about things Michael knows to restore his confidence.
Dwight becomes convinced that somebody is stealing office supplies, so he sets up a hidden camera on the supply shelf. Jim sees what he is doing and comes in at night when he knows Dwight is watching and pretends to hide a bomb in Michael's desk. Yeah. Dwight comes in in the morning frantically yelling about a bomb and looks like a total bozo when there's no bomb in Michael's desk.
I was on my phone for the first part of that. I was looking for this video to show you. I wasn't just hacking. And my neighbors just texted that someone broke into our yard. So I got a little distracted by that. This is Scott and I at dinner last night.
He had three phones. It was filming us through the window while we were eating dinner.
He's holding two phones, and then he has one on a tripod.
We were showing our waitress, and there were these other girls sitting behind us that were like, what the hell is that guy doing?
also if he's facing the window why is it there's it's just glare against so that's the other thing he's like initially he was kind of filming like other people and we were like what the hell is that guy doing and then i think he caught on and i was just i was like this is the funniest thing i've ever seen and i think he caught on to how funny i thought it was it was like it's like if you give him a reaction then right that's what he wants if you give us i think if i had just not if i completely ignored him i might have been better off but i was laughing so hard that i think he came up and just really got into it
That's sick.
I know this one.
Oh, no. Well, like the original video I've seen.
That's funny.
Oh, I didn't know Billy was a William.
Did you do that often, going to class?
Like, toward the end of the year, I'm hoping?
Maybe she's a minimalist.
What was the joke? I think that podcast will be out by now.
I've been seeing so many TikToks recently. Not so many, maybe.
Nice. One or two videos recently of bears just being in people's homes. I saw this video of these girls come home drunk and there's a bear scavenging through their fridge. And then the bear just leaves with a plate.
Like not even any food.
What does this mean?
Oh, I don't know.
When did I say that?
I think you got to focus on breakfast.
No, but that's my point. Like, if you wake up and you're committed to making, like, a healthy breakfast, like, that will just, like, set your day up better.
Wake up, scrambled eggs and, like, some fruit.
Same. I used to be the person who would be like, oh, I want to get to the front. I'm like squeezing by everyone. I'm the same way.
It's so much more fun to just be free and not be squeezing up against people.
Underwhelming.
And you can't really see. I went once and I was standing up on a ledge and I still could barely see.
That's true.
Wait, when they wiped the blood on your face, were you like, oh, gross?
Oh, that's actually pretty huge.
I love Jersey Mike's.
That's true.
Are there Paneras in LA? I wanted to order it on Sunday.
what is it no no continue panera let's see let's flash this joke out will oh my uh my friend from st louis oh they call it they call it uh breadco because that's where it originated so it's just breadco breadco yep
Yeah. That's just what all the signs are there.
I like vegetable soup the best.
It's so good, you guys. Okay, that looks weird, but... No, it's so yummy.
They're like... It's like al dente noodles. They're kind of hard, so it's not...
It's like couscous kind.
That whole sentence is crazy.
That is weird. Why would they keep the pieces?
You should buy some for yourself.
The other night when I got Chipotle, you know how the best part, one of the best parts is the lime rice, the lime white rice, whatever you call it.
Cilantro lime rice. That's okay. Hey.
Thanks. I went the other night and the rice was just like normal white rice.
They didn't have any, no green specks, no flavor. I'm like, what the hell?
Not always.
Right. No, no, you're okay.
I wanted to ask about your live show last night.
Oh yes. Teach me something.
I'm pretty stoked about my cake.
Okay, we'll see how that ends.
I probably shouldn't have started eating my bar during the one time I have to talk.
But before we do the pitch submissions really quick, can I do my two truths and a lie?
Yes. I wrote them down the other day, and I wanted to get chosen, and I didn't, but I still want to read them anyway.
Is that fine?
All right. I've pet Gracie Abrams' dog. I went to the principal's office six times in second grade. And three, I've pet Harry Styles' dog.
whoa jerry gason whoa when did you pet jerry gason i love jerry gason jerry gason is that a real guy uh no he used to be uh when did when did you pet crazy abrams i was at great white last year it was probably like march of 2023 and she was sitting right next to me and troy were there it was like a tuesday morning i took work off because i was like kind of sick and she was sitting right next to us and i was like oh my god before i knew it was her i was
I think it was after Coachella, and I was depressed and scared.
Okay, well, it was before I worked here, so it's fine.
But no, I was like, oh my gosh, can I pet your dog? She has the cutest little wiener dog. She's like, yeah. And then we were chatting for a little bit, and then I realized it was her, and I was freaking out. And then I always think about that.
I've also seen her around here on Abbot Kinney really last summer yeah she's probably too famous now though I know I used to like nobody appreciates good riddance and I was telling all my friends listen to good riddance oh did you see um did you see Riffwood reposted our clip hell yeah love those guys Yeah, they're epic. All right. Pitches, pitches, pitches. First one is from Bryce Goats.
To Really D, Wusty, and Low Dog.
What is the worst part about eating or drinking something hot?
burning your tongue. That's right. So I introduce to you the remedy of this minor inconvenience called Taste Buddy. It's a pocket-sized little container like Listerine breath strips that you apply directly to your tongue. It heals your burnt taste buds in seconds. So next time...
When you are really excited to have that first sip of your oat milk latte or bite of bolognese, you won't have instant regret of not waiting for it to cool down. Love the pod and love you guys. Thank you for healing my inner child playdate by... Oh, for healing my inner child playdate by playdate.
Random side comment. Are you guys tired of the Creator fans?
His new album's really good. i'm kidding i just wanted to ask okay steven fudena oh he says what is up lauren shuttlecock and birdie i'll take it consider this what is the worst part about seeing an animal you've never seen before
What's the worst part about seeing an animal? Yeah, what's the worst part about seeing an animal?
So, what rest? You said that's right. Not knowing what its name is. Well, fear not.
Well, fear not. I bring to you Shazanimal. We are high level, so Shazanimal can be downloaded and slash implanted into your brain. Or maybe they're just glasses and Shazanimal allows you to look at an animal and it'll tell you what kind of animal it is. The animal name and info will appear in your field of vision, like the inside of Iron Man's helmet.
It can be turned off slash take the glasses off as you please. I feel like this would be particularly convenient for bird watching. Love the pod. Love you guys.
You like run over them. That's a good question.
No, I think this is great. I'm so stuffy these days.
Did you booger all over the mic?
What about A-I-T-A?
Am I the asshole?
Do you guys think you're the asshole this week?
Like, just yes or no. Do you guys think you've been... Oh, no, I think I've been pretty nice.
Yeah, that's good.
I have, too. I have, too.
I think it's awesome and has a lot of potential.
It's not going to happen overnight.
That's what I was thinking.
That was actually a very sweet little moment of inspiration, though.
I kind of needed that, too.
That's not true. You look good.
You both look great.
Yeah, let's do it. all righty this says this is like kind of gross but i thought it was funny okay am i the asshole for keeping things i found interesting at work i'm a veterinarian i'd picture them just like taking staplers out and being like i thought it was interesting yeah i thought
It's fine. Wait, I have something to announce, actually. You know how last week I was talking about that Cantina Crispy Chicken Taco? Yeah. So I was at work late last night, so I get home, I don't really have much food in the refrigerator, so I order Taco Bell.
Am I the asshole for keeping things I found interesting at work? I'm a veterinarian technician student in my third semester. I'm getting experience in completing required skills by working in a local vet clinic. It's the dog's uterus. being removed were in very good condition and easy to identify. I commented on this, and the tech I was shadowing asked if I wanted to keep it.
I thought that it was super cool, so I said sure. I preserved it in a bottle of formaldehyde and took it home. My boyfriend is horrified and wants me to get rid of it. However, he is a hunter and keeps the taxidermied heads of deer on the wall, and I claim that that's not so different.
He refuses to agree because it's normal to keep taxidermied animals that have been hunted as trophies and it's not normal to keep preserved things removed in surgery. I'm refusing to get rid of it. Am I the asshole?
So this is a real guy.
I thought it was funny.
I'm pissed.
No, no. This is Pirates of the Caribbean.
It's how you preserve. It's like that smell, you know, when we would do... If you threw it at the wall, the room would explode.
No, no, no, no. Dude, we had formaldehyde all over our hands when we were doing whatever you call it in high school.
Someone commented and they're like, so this is just a podcast where friends lie to each other.
Okay. Taxidermy, though, is also gnarly.
I don't think I would date a guy that had that in his house.
Or people that actually do that to their pets. You're insane.
You haven't heard of this? People will, like, taxidermy their cat or dog so they can have them.
No, it's insane.
Mark is like the target.
No, it'll be fast. And there's no formaldehyde involved in this.
Am I the asshole? Roommate is mad at me for making sound in the night. So I work.
You do. Okay. I ended up telling her that it's reasonable to want me to be quiet at night, but I'm not going to be silent. We were both paying rent, and we both have rights. She said I'm not being quiet. I told her that at this point, it's not my problem, and she got very upset. I don't know what she's planning to do now.
I don't know. I think I'd be annoyed.
If she's working the night shift and, like, that's her time to... That's what I'm saying.
Oh, no. I think they're maybe not.
I don't, like...
Oh, God. Well, can you describe what we're looking at?
Tiny frog. All right, here we go. I'm actually obsessed.
I want those boots. They're cute.
It says on the screen, which high spirits drone flute sounds the best.
I love that.
Also, that was Zach, the flute guy. Love you. You're great.
I gotta go back to typing school.
I remember that one.
I thought it was funny too.
What are some of your favorite Greek myths?
i ordered the cantina crispy chicken it was such a disappointment yeah yeah i've been trying to say it's not good it was ass cheese you've had it uh yeah i've had it i had it after the halloween party when i had a few drinks yeah i was sober last night yeah i wanted to vomit nerd yeah yeah that's how taco bell works but but i got i always get the bean and cheese burritos a safe you know no but it's sometimes it's not good
You know what else we didn't do? Number 64. Oh. Number 64. Or 64-year-olds.
Oh, no. Who's 64?
I was, like, thinking her in my head. That was weird.
She looks fantastic. She does.
All right. Giving up. All right, comment if you know someone who's 64 years old.
Real guy? Lady Luck, they call her Lady Luck.
That's one of my favorites.
Oh, my God. I love that.
I'm going to steal Dora the Explorer's personality because I don't know what I'm doing this weekend. I'm just going to maybe try to explore LA more because I haven't done that in a while.
How are they documenting that?
They lock eyes.
It's kind of savage.
Did you say how old was he when he died?
Wait, just you and who?
Sitting at the end of the road.
It means you got ass crickets. You have craved cereal.
Honda Civic with a Jewish bitch. Her name is Christian.
We're putting on a civic with a Jewish dude. His name is Christian. It's kind of funny, Raven.
Silent night. Holy night. All is calm, all is bright, round yon virgin mother child.
Whippin' a Honda Civic with a Jewish dude, his name is Christian.
S-I-M-P, squirrels in my pants.
Is that what this is about? Pulling down a girl's pants and going, who did this to you?
Where's your penis?
Teach me something. This guy rocks.
What do you mean part two is coming out next year?
It was the mousetrap thing.
Wait, tell me the story of your first kiss, Willie.
I fucking feel like the Michelin Man. I'm poofing all over the place. I feel bloated. Twisted tea, zero carbonation. It's made with real brewed tea, so it goes down smooth. And guys, we love it. Get some twisted tea today. Keep it twisted, brother. All right, guys. We are here to talk about one of our new favorite partners, Dollar Shave Club. Guys, facial hair is personal. It grows from your face.
We all grow it, shave it, and style it differently. And we think that's pretty freaking great. It all makes us more interesting. Personally, I have been using the Dollar Shave Club 3-in-1 Freestyler, and here's why.
I know. You got a razor on one end. You got a trimmer on the other. You can get all the stuff you need out of one thing.
Okay, and for our full-bearded friends out there, give the double-headed electric trimmer a try.
It is funny. Sometimes we're like, enough horsing around.
What's your favorite part about grooving? Oh, wait, we didn't do our favorite. Welcome back to favorite things about each other.
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Oh, that first part wasn't recorded?
World-altering sloppy.
This summer, Warner Brothers presents...
Also, now that we learned babies watch this, we have to be more convenient. Babies. So many babies.
Bobby, I want you to meet my colleague, Dr. Hamilton.
Oh, I'm looking at it now. That's hysterical. Pull the picture up. No, Jack's been doing this face. It's so bashful. Lauren, pull the picture up. We'll put it right here for the viewers at home. But I need you to show Will this. Lauren posted a picture where she looked very chic, very stylish, very beautiful.
Can you please pull it up?
All right. We have a beautiful episode for you guys today. We're going to hear your pitches followed by our pitches followed by two permitting divisions of the building department. Yep. One from Will, one from me, followed by our pitches, followed by this guy, Rox.
All right, then we're going to do everyone's favorite segment. Teach me something. Followed by, guys, we are playing the hits today. We're doing sayings that don't exist, country songs that don't exist, slang words that don't exist, and rom-coms that don't exist. And let me tell you, there might be a couple special guests coming in. We got Liam for rom-coms.
What's her first name again?
Julia, I loved the pitch. When you doubled down and said that if you don't like airport talk, find another fucking podcast, you made your way into my heart.
I love it, Julia. Lauren, let's hear another pitch.
Yeah, like they have an employee do that.
Is like just get in bed TV, whatever.
Lauren, is my hair going to look okay?
The team over at Accelerator, every time I think I can't like these guys anymore, they got wind.
I don't know. Okay, Lucy. Lucy. Lucy goes, me again. I have a crazy good prank call for you guys.
So not like a great part of my job, but I just have a few questions for you if you have a moment.
We ran into a weird thing where, and honestly, we probably should have told you guys about this. There is this squirrel named Musco. Have you seen this at all? Musco's moment? No.
But they're probably going to give you a call here in a second and try and clear that up with you if that's all right.
pranked right now like is this even real uh you are getting pranked your daughter your daughter your daughter submitted your phone number and we do this thing we do it did i have you at all for a little bit did you believe me
I know you blew it. I know I blew it. I blew it. Well, you were you were a great sport. Thank you so much for doing.
This was Lucy. Oh, my God. Oh, my gosh.
All right, Lauren, pause this immediately. And I mean, it's mine. Oh, Oh, sorry. No, you're good. Pause it. Uh, this is,
Because they would bring them?
We have a beautiful set of drafts for you guys today. Billy's here.
I bought it yesterday because I had 15 minutes to poop before I had to come here. So I stopped at the gas station. They didn't have any Lucy's. So I got a vape and a Red Bull.
That should mean a fish getting... That might be a saying. I'm a fish caught with two hooks.
Guys, thank you so much for 100 episodes. I think we try and say it as much as we can, but you guys mean the world to us. You've given us the coolest job that's ever existed. The coolest job that doesn't exist. And we love you so much. You make our day. I hope we make yours sometimes. Comment.
We love you guys so much. Thank you, guys.
Oh, yes, yes, yes. Sorry, sorry.
Real quickie. Song of the day.
Welcome back to Rusty's Song of the Day.
Jimmy Buffett, I hope we brighten your Mondays, but I always thought what was great about this song is Monday is objectively the worst day of the week, and he made it into a positive. I love Jimmy Buffett so much, and this song means a lot to me. I hope it means a lot to you, and I hope when you listen to this playlist, you think of me, Lauren, and Will. We love you guys so much.
Have a great rest of your Monday. Have a great Tuesday and we will see you bright and early on Wednesday for our Wednesday episode. Thank you guys so much for giving us the coolest job in the world. We love you so much. We love you guys. Love you.
Montoya, por favor, happened again. This guy had to watch his girl get railed on television again.
Das ist traurig.