Why did Bunnie just give this away for free??

Summary

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Podcast Summary: Dumb Blonde

Episode: Why did Bunnie just give this away for free??
Date: October 19, 2025
Host: Bunnie XO (Dumb Blonde Productions)

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Episode Overview

This episode of Dumb Blonde is a lively, unfiltered roundtable featuring Bunnie XO and her close crew. Labeled as “asking the questions others are afraid to,” the show dives into real, often hilarious discussions around relationships, personal quirks, trauma, mental health, and some truly wild and spooky stories fitting the October season.

Throughout the episode, the group transitions between updates on their creative projects, candid behind-the-scenes anecdotes, social commentary, eerie true crime and internet stories, and a dash of psychology. There’s lots of camaraderie, offbeat humor, and honest self-reflection.

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Key Discussion Points & Episode Breakdown

1. Creative Updates, YouTube Growth, & Patreon Departure

Timestamps: 04:34–07:24

• Bunnie XO announces they’ve paused regular interviews for October in favor of themed discussions and spooky stories.
• Celebrates hitting 21,000 subscribers on her new YouTube, Dumb Blonde Pod, after leaving Patreon:

  “We were able to announce that we departed from Patreon and we're sticking to our guns. We're not going back.” (06:04)

• Explains the split between her two YouTube channels:
  • Bunnie XO (lifestyle, vlogs, streaming)
  • Dumb Blonde Pod (podcast, “Ask How”, confessions, throwbacks)
• Shares a positive farewell with Patreon’s CEO:

  “We outgrew them, and that's all that it is... We had closure.” (05:55)

2. Streaming Plans & Social Media Strategy

Timestamps: 06:17–08:28

• Excitement about new streaming ventures on YouTube, Twitch, and Kick.
• Bunnie’s enthusiasm for learning social media algorithms:

  “Once I start streaming and I start seeing how it works... I’m about to stick my dick in this dude. Like, I can't fucking wait.” (07:41)

• Bunnie jokes about streaking down Broadway naked if she hits a million subs—humor-laden talk about virality and authenticity.
• Her husband’s suggestion to “tone down” posting, and reflection on realness online:

  “I do this because I love it... I don't know how to pretend to be a certain way, because I've always been so forthcoming.” (09:05)

3. Self-Disclosure, Health & Fitness Journey

Timestamps: 10:03–11:53

• Bunnie shares her health journey, including obsession with step-counting and sleep tracking gadgets:

  “Even though people keep fucking calling me fat, I'm like, in the best shape I've ever been.” (10:03)

• Describes using both a Fitbit (on her ankle) and an Oura ring for health tracking—motivational but unfiltered discussion of body image and wellness.

4. Team Banter: New Crew Member Jaime, Relationships & Humor

Timestamps: 13:02–16:16

• Jaime, the new videographer, is introduced (ex-videographer for Jelly Roll, now part of Bunnie’s crew).
• Playful conversation about Jaime’s fiancée, and raunchy humor about “laying pipe.”
• Nostalgia for Jelly Roll’s transition from “rapper roll” to “vegan roll.”

5. Lucid Dreaming & Technology Collide

Timestamps: 16:49–20:21

• The crew discusses a news story about researchers achieving two-way communication between lucid dreamers using "REMyo" dream language.
• Commentary on sleep habits, REM cycles, and how sleep quality affects dreaming.
• Reference to Netflix’s “Behind Her Eyes” as a pop culture example of dream-walking.
• Notable quote:

  “Listen, a motherfucker don't want to step in my dream... That was a nightmare—what is going on in this fudgeing Tim Burton scene?” (19:10)

6. Viral Controversies and Parenting Debate

Timestamps: 21:39–25:14

• The group reacts viscerally to a viral TikTok where a woman jokingly claims to have given up her daughter for adoption to “be free.”
• Bunnie’s emotional response and call for empathy:

  “There's women who are fighting to have children... and for you to just be like, ‘I don’t care, I’m gonna be with my boyfriend’...” (24:45)

7. AI Erotica, Dangerous Attachments & Technology

Timestamps: 25:21–27:28

• News about ChatGPT and AI generating erotica—concerns about users falling in love with AI and real world consequences (including a tragic case of a boy being influenced by AI).
• Connection to movies like “Her” and “Weird Science,” and humorous yet dark sidebar about a man who slept with his car.

8. Internet Urban Legends & Spooky Stories

Timestamps: 28:20–41:00

• The group shares internet legends and personal creepy stories:
  • The “Liminal Index,” a web page that reveals unknowable personal facts before disappearing ([28:27])
  • Classic disturbing sites from the early internet: Rotten.com, Faces of Death ([30:10])
  • Mismatched search terms leading to kids accidentally finding “rabbit.com” porn ([32:09])
• Notable spooky tales:
  • The Watcher House: True story of threatening letters to new homeowners ([32:21])
  • Corpse in the Woods: A found body and subsequent disturbing dreams ([35:10])
  • Kentucky Whistling Entity: An unexplained, whistling nighttime visitor ([40:02])
  • Dead girlfriend messaging on Facebook: A chilling digital haunting ([52:28])

9. True Crime Interludes

Timestamps: 41:02–44:43

• Discussion of the infamous “Hello Kitty Murder” in 1999 Hong Kong.
• Morbid fascination with homicide investigation, working in asylums, and confronting evil.
  • Bunnie:

    “The amount of people in history who have done that is unsettling.” (43:56)

10. Psychological Snapshots – Jaime’s On-the-Spot Crew Analyses

Timestamps: 45:35–48:22

• Jaime gives quick personality readings to each crew member, candid and unsparing:
  • Haley: Trusts too quickly, sees the good in everyone—even when it’s not deserved.
  • Mimi: Highly capable with others, less so handling her own needs.
  • Bunnie: Jumps without a parachute, trusting that things will work out—raw confidence and resilience.
• Notable quote (on Bunnie):

  “Jump out of a plane, build a parachute on the way down... You just know that it's gonna work out.” (47:47)

11. Haunted Childhoods: Fear of Windows, Pranks & Empathy

Timestamps: 55:01–58:39

• The group shares childhood fears (creepy windows at night, parents’ scary pranks, basement stair dashes), and the negative impact of feeling unsafe at home.
  • Emotional sidebar on children's reactions to scary and sad media, and the importance of sensitivity.

12. Final Thoughts & Call to Action

Timestamps: 58:50–59:10

• Bunnie invites listeners to share their own spooky stories in YouTube comments for possible future episode features:

  “We will read them on the podcast. So love you guys. See you next week.” (59:06)

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• “My fucking brain is like a sponge for music... But you tell me something and I will not remember it. You sing it to me, I got it.” – Bunnie (03:58)
• “I feel like I got my creative wings back.” – Bunnie (07:09)
• On body-shaming: “Even though people keep fucking calling me fat, I'm, like, in the best shape I've ever been.” – Bunnie (10:03)
• “Listen, a motherfucker don't want to step in my dream, all right?” – Bunnie (19:10)
• “Once I start streaming and I start seeing how it works… I’m about to stick my dick in this dude.” – Bunnie (07:41)
• “The amount of people in history who have done that is unsettling.” – Bunnie (43:56)
• “Jump out of a plane, build a parachute on the way down... You just know that it's gonna work out.” – Jaime on Bunnie (47:47)
• “We will read [your stories] on the podcast. So love you guys. See you next week.” – Bunnie (59:06)

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Timestamps of Important Segments

• 04:34 – YouTube milestone, Patreon departure, channel split explained
• 06:17 – Streaming plans, social media, platform strategy
• 10:03 – Health, fitness, step-counting, body image
• 13:02 – Meet Jaime, inside crew banter
• 16:49 – Lucid dream communication, sleep, “Behind Her Eyes”
• 21:39 – Viral TikTok: mother giving up daughter, emotional reactions
• 25:33 – AI erotica, dangers of emotionally dependent AI
• 28:27 – Liminal Index urban legend, early internet horror
• 32:21 – True story: The Watcher house
• 35:10 – Dead body discovery, lingering nightmares
• 41:02 – Hello Kitty murder case, true crime discussion
• 45:35 – On-the-spot psychological profiles by Jaime
• 52:28 – Digital haunting: dead girlfriend messages from Facebook
• 55:01 – Childhood fears: windows at night, pranks, empathy in parenting
• 58:50 – Call for listener spooky stories

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Tone, Language & Style

• Unfiltered & Candid: Raw language, adult humor, and self-reflection throughout, yet always with mutual support and team spirit.
• Relatable & Funny: Jokes about gadgets, body image, media, and viral moments balance heavier true crime and eerie stories.
• Heartfelt: Serious topics (mental health, trauma, fears, loss) are handled with sincerity and empathy amidst the laughter.

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For Listeners: Why Tune In?

If you crave podcasts that are unafraid to mix deep, dark, and weird with genuine humor and healing, this episode is a perfect sampler. You get:

• Candid insights into online fandoms and creator struggles
• Real talk about body image and personal growth
• Fascinating, little-known spooky internet lore and true crime
• Straight-up, off-the-cuff psychological interpretations
• Honest and supportive conversations modeling radical authenticity

And, as always, you’re invited to be part of the show—send in your own stories for future shivers and laughs.

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Transcript

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[B]

Is this thing on?

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What's up, you sexy motherfuckers? Sexy motherfuckers. It's the snap.

[B]

It's offbeat.

[C]

Snap.

[B]

Everyone's offbeat.

[A]

Suck on my chocolate salted bow.

[B]

That.

[A]

Stick them in your mouth, then suck them.

[B]

That is top tier. The fact that you remember that is wild. Remember what that song.

[C]

She remembers every weird.

[A]

That is part of my autism that everybody gets so mad at me about and tells me I don't have. I can hear a jingle and it will stay in my head forever.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

My. My fucking brain is like a sponge for music. It just records everything. But you tell me something and I will not remember it. You sing it to me.

[B]

I got it from a sing. From here on out, everything important and be like, you have a meeting.

[A]

Bro. If you do it, I swear to God I will probably. You better do this shimmy. You gotta do the shimmy.

[C]

Please start telling her all her meetings.

[D]

I will.

[A]

She's literally gonna just.

[C]

Everything's gonna be so.

[A]

I can't wait. I need to see those pigtails slapping like we just did because that was awesome, dude. Holy shit. All right, so we're still continuing on. It's October, so you guys know we pause all regular interviews. And for everybody that's joining us now on YouTube. So let's talk about this really quick. I'm so freaking stok stoked. Like, I think right now we're already at like 21,000 on the new YouTube, which I'm happy with that. Like, that's great. Awesome. We did that in like a few days. Like, it's amazing. And we just dropped a vlog on.

[C]

So.

[A]

Hold on, let me pause. I'm just so excited. So we have two YouTube channels. We have the Dumb Blonde Pod, which is the new channel. And then we have my old channel, that is Bunny XO that we're dropping Meet the D Forwards, Bunny Xo show vlogs. We'll be dropping two vlogs a month, I think, starting out, see how you guys like them. And then everything else podcast is on Dumb Blonde Pod. So ask how. Confess the podcast, Throwback podcast. Everything will be on this channel. So super stoked. We were able to announce that we departed from Patreon and we're sticking to our guns. We're not going back. We had a meeting with the CEO of Patreon. Super Sweet guy sat down face to face with them. His name's Jack. Shout out Jack if you're watch super sweet guy. Just, you know, I think it was.

[B]

No longer the right fit.

[A]

We outgrew them, and that's all that it is. But we actually got to sit down with Jack and let him know some of our concerns about the platform, and we got to, you know, have closure. I got to hug Jack, and it was really cool, and we moved on. So I don't know if you guys saw the new vlog, but your girl has streaming stuff.

[C]

I can't wait.

[A]

It's gonna be so fun, dude. I'm so excited.

[C]

We're.

[A]

I can't tell you guys what we're gonna do, but it's gonna be fun. So if you guys want to watch it, I think you'll be able to see it on YouTube, which it'll be on my Bunny XO YouTube. And then it'll be on Kick, which is the Bunny xo. It'll be on anywhere we want to Twitch.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Are we doing Twitch too?

[B]

We can. Yeah.

[A]

Do we have a Twitch account?

[B]

Nope. But it will be tonight.

[A]

Yeah, we'll get a Twitch account too. And we're just gonna stream everywhere and have fun. And I'm so stoked for this new beginning.

[B]

And let's clarify where we're streaming. Anything that we're streaming that's going to be like, lifestyle type stuff will be on the Bunny XO channel on YouTube. And then anything that we do podcast related, Asto confess related. Anything along those lines, maybe a new show will be on the Dumb Blonde Pod channel on YouTube. And that's where the two different streamings will come through.

[E]

Yes.

[A]

So I know it's a little confusing, but if you subscribe to both, you won't miss anything. So it's that simple. We're stoked. I feel like I got my creative wings back, so I'm, like, really excited about that. And I don't know, I think it's just gonna be fun.

[B]

The vlog was hilarious, by the way.

[A]

I know. The vlog was funny. Jaime did a really good job editing it.

[B]

When you told that do you like his hairdo?

[A]

And then he turned right to the camera when I said I liked his hairdo.

[B]

He said.

[A]

He was like, thanks. And it was just like, it was Perfect.

[C]

When you said, are you a streamer?

[A]

Well, because he was looking at stuff and I was going to ask him questions like, what do you use? You know, like, I'm. Listen. You guys know my brain when it comes to figuring out algorithms and social media platforms, that is my fucking gift. I love it. So if I can find out every once I start streaming and I start seeing how it works and figuring out everything, I'm about to stick my dick in this dude. Like, I can't fucking wait. And I told you guys, if I get a million fucking subs on Kick, I will fucking run down Broadway naked. And I was not fucking lying when I said that. So million. How about a million subs on Kick Or Twitch? Either.

[B]

Or.

[A]

Or dumb blonde pod.

[C]

YouTube.

[A]

Yep. Whichever one.

[B]

Headlines Bunny XO runs down Broadway naked.

[A]

I don't care.

[B]

Can we do Kylie Jenner and just cover you in glitter?

[A]

I'm literally already the media outcast. My husband literally had to sit me down a couple weeks ago and was like, you don't have to post as much as you used to. You know, we've made it, we've made it. And I'm like, I do this because I love it and because it's just us. Like, this is how we got here was from me posting, you know? So he's like, all right, I love you, but can you turn it down a little bit? And I'm just like, maybe I'll think about it.

[B]

So it still hasn't turning up.

[A]

Yeah, but he's encouraging it. He's encouraging the. He's just like, be careful with what you say. He's like, but. And you know me, I'm just not a PG person. I'm just like, this is me. If you don't like it, take it or leave it. The good, the bad, the ugly. I don't know how to pretend to be a certain way because I'm only always been so forthcoming. Yes, granted, I have learned to keep my mouth shut about certain things that I want private. Like, you know, the fertility journey and stuff like that. Like, stuff I really want to keep close to my heart. But I mean, if it's me streaking down Broadway, I'm doing it.

[B]

Go ahead, bring the Fitbit in. Let's go. She's so concerned about the Fitbit.

[A]

Yeah. So by the way, guys, thank you. Momo, Say hi, say hi to everybody on camera. I, I thank you so much. I spray tanned before I got here.

[B]

By the way, guys, she wears it on her ankle.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So I'm Going to tell you guys, I spray tan before I got here, so I had to take my Fitbit off, but I'm obsessed with counting my steps. So let me introduce you to the Fitbit. It's 80 bucks on Amazon. I'm not fucking sponsored by these people at all. And it is the most delightful little gadget you will ever have because I have been on the super, super health journey. You guys know that even though people keep fucking calling me fat, I'm, like, in the best shape I've ever been. Is crazy. I think people mistake muscle with fat because I'm not, like, super sickly skinny like I used to be, which I don't think I was ever sickly skinny. I was just very. I don't know, like, Link. I'm a little bit more lankier than I am now. Like, I'm putting on, you know, muscle. So anyways, I'm on this super health journey. I wear an aura ring to track my sleep and all this other stuff. And then I got a Fitbit to count my steps, because I try to get in 10 to 13,000 steps a day, and you would be shook at how many steps you don't get in.

[B]

She's very serious about this, guys.

[A]

Yes, I will be. I will stay up till midnight.

[C]

1.

[B]

She was doing the laps around the Airbnb the other day to get her steps in.

[A]

I'm telling you right now, the toes for free. Do I have spray tan on the bottom of my feet?

[B]

No.

[A]

Anyways, look at this.

[C]

What's it? Fit bit.

[A]

Fitbit. I'm telling you, put it on your ankle. It tracks every step you do. I didn't realize that my entire life, I never walked 10,000 steps a day unless it was, like, mandatory or, like, I was probably walking through casinos to go see clients. But literally, I looked at my freaking. You know how your iPhone holds, like, all your fitness stuff? I looked all the way back to, like, 2018, 2019. There were some days I did, like, a thousand steps.

[C]

What the was I doing holding your phone? Like, sometimes when you are, like, walking around. So I don't have my phone all in my hand every time. And also, like, apparently you have to, like, swing it.

[A]

Yes. So that. That brings up another point, because people are like, bunny, why are you wearing an aura ring and a Fitbit? I'm wearing an aura ring to try to track my sleep and stuff like that, because the aura ring doesn't track your steps as much as it should. So if I've done 13k steps on my Fitbit My aura ring will tell me I've done six, so that's why I have the two different ones. And I don't wear the Fitbit on my wrist because these signals can give you, like, anxiety. So because it happened to Viking Barbie, she wore a Fitbit on her wrist and the, the aura ring and she literally had to take it off because she started getting panicky because they were fighting for a signal. Oh, yeah.

[B]

Do you remember when we had a competition of steps during tour that year? We're doing like 20,000 a day.

[D]

Yeah, it was.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

He guys were counting those on your phone. Right. So that means you probably did double that.

[C]

Did more than that.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

A lot of trips to catering.

[B]

Yeah. Find the dressing room, find the catering. Go back to the bus. All right, now we got to go back. Yeah.

[A]

I love that. Are you on camera finally?

[D]

Yeah, I got a camera.

[A]

Damn. I was literally about to fudgeing. Get mad because I watched a podcast the other day and everybody's like, who's that in the background talking? And I'm like, I've been asking for Jaime to get a camera. So tell everybody hi. Tell them where you're from.

[D]

I am from the west coast. Moved here with myself for college and now I'm here.

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[A]

But tell them the lore. You were my husband's videographer.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You've been around the crew for about what, five years?

[D]

Yeah, for a minute. I started working with Jelly, say like four years ago. Damn, four years ago already? Geez. Yeah. Started out there and then took a little bit of a break. And you guys accepted me back with some open arms, so I'm very happy.

[A]

Yeah. Except my husband gave them to me. He was like, here, you can have him. No, I'm just kidding. He loved Jaime. He was gonna hire Jaime back, but I was like, I need a videographer. So poor Jaime has been stuck with us. Or listen, working for my husband is stressful.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[A]

That's all we're gonna say.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Especially four years ago. I can't imagine.

[D]

Yeah. Oh, for sure. It's a whole different story now. Back then, he was still, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll where. You know, Rapper Roll. Rapper Roll, where he was bringing bottles of tequila to radio. Radio meetings.

[A]

Kind of miss, that guy. I just said kind of miss.

[B]

Now he's like a vegan.

[D]

Yeah. No, but. Yeah, no, very happy to be here. And.

[A]

Yeah, that's how. Oh, by the way, he's got a big titty blonde. That is his fiance. And he's got the hottest fucking girlfriend. Dude, I know. If you guys listen to an ask how confessed. We had her send pictures of her boobs while she was. While we were on air.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Nicest rack ever. She's fucking hot. Anyways, yeah. So Jaime's fucking. He's. He can lay the pipe down, obviously.

[D]

Hey.

[A]

All right, so moving on. You have a story that you need to tell us?

[B]

Did you guys see that a researcher in California was able to let people talk in their lucid dreams? Yeah.

[A]

Explain.

[B]

All right. Okay. Wait, what phone is it on. I don't know.

[A]

What is a.

[C]

What does it lose is losers when you're awake but dreaming?

[A]

I think so it's kind of like a daydream, right?

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I've only had. But wouldn't that be like hallucinating, manipulating a hallucination?

[B]

Oh no, because you have to between hallucinating and dreaming, that's two different chemicals being released in your brain. Right.

[A]

If you're lucid though, you're half awake, half asleep. So why. How you could manipulate that easily. That's like when people talk in their sleep. It's like. And people are like questioning them and getting answers out of them. It's. That's lucid dreaming, right?

[B]

Lucid dreaming was. You were. Yeah. No, lucid dream is when you're Chat. Yeah.

[C]

When you're awake in your dream, you're.

[D]

Conscious that you're dreaming, you're aware. It's what I've heard.

[B]

Hey, chat.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

So you're half awake, half asleep.

[F]

Hey there.

[E]

Wide awake and ready to help. Or at least as much as a virtual buddy can be.

[A]

I hate it.

[B]

What is a lucid dream?

[A]

Nothing about her is fun.

[E]

A lucid dream is basically when you're dreaming, but you actually realize you're dreaming while you're still in the dream. So you're kind of aware. Hey, this is a dream. And that can let you sometimes control what happens or just expand, explore the dream world with that awareness.

[B]

Are you partially awake when this is happening? Are you fully asleep?

[E]

Yeah. So you are still fully asleep. During a lucid dream, your body's in that REM sleep stage where dreaming normally happens, but your mind just kind of wakes up inside the dream. So it's not like you're half awake in bed.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Okay, so that's crazy.

[B]

This it says. A Silicon Valley neurotech startup, REM Space claims they have now achieved a ground breaking two way lucid dream communication.

[A]

Who's communicating two people in bed together.

[B]

Using specialized equipment in a dream language called Remyo to translate a single word from one dreamer to another while they are both asleep. So I'm guessing they have to be wearing devices for this to happen. The CEO Michael sees this as the first step towards enabling a real time interpretation communication in their dreams, potentially reshaping how humans will communicate in the future.

[A]

Listen, a motherfucker don't want to step in my dream, all right? I'm telling you right now, that was a nightmare. Like what is going on in this fudgeing Tim Burton fucking scene? What is Happening.

[B]

I still can't get over the fact you dream at night.

[A]

I had another dream last night and I did it again. Fucking just. I dream at night. I guess maybe that dream. I dream if I sleep good. My aura ring. According to my ordering, I get like two and a half hours of deep sleep every night, and I get two and a half hours REM sleep and I get like one and a half hours of the other sleep. But I get, like, really good sleep. So I dream a lot. There was a time where I stopped dreaming and I didn't dream for like a year.

[B]

Jason doesn't dream.

[A]

It'll come back to him. I wonder why.

[B]

It comes very rarely to him. But, you know, he's just now on a sleep apnea machine and stuff, so that definitely helps because I don't think he ever REM sleep slept because he had sleep apnea.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. That. Isn't that crazy?

[A]

Yeah, no, that is crazy. It'll come back, though, because mine went away for a long time and I was like, why am I not dreaming? And Jay, the same thing happened to him. He wasn't dreaming for a long time.

[B]

So that's really weird.

[A]

Yeah, that's crazy. I don't. I would like to explore that more. I don't know if I would want to hop into somebody else's dream and talk to them.

[B]

It reminds me of Behind Her Eyes. Such a great show.

[C]

Have you watched that yet?

[B]

You gotta watch that.

[C]

You need to watch that.

[B]

What is it? It's like a little mini series watch.

[C]

It's like eight episodes. But I've. I've made so many people watch that because it's just crazy.

[B]

Crazy.

[C]

It's so good. Yeah, you need to watch it.

[A]

I literally was gonna come on the podcast and talk to you guys about this video that came across my f. Apparently this girl is, like, talking to the camera and she's saying, like, my daughter's 7 years old. I'm taking her to school today, and I'm dropping all that off to get adopted. And she's like, I. I'm just so excited about this. We're gonna rent. We're gonna buy an RV and sell the house. And I don't have to be a mom anymore. I'm gonna be free. And when I tell you the horns on my back poked through my skin. I was ready to hunt this lady down because I was kidding me. Anyways, she posts another video where she's talking about, like, okay, my. I gave my daughter up for adoption. She's. I. I can't I can't believe this. Feels so good. Like, she's so happy about it. Right. And finally I look in the comments because, I mean, everybody's just tearing this woman to pieces. I'm talking, like, this video got, like, 20 million views, right. Tearing her apart. And then finally I see somebody say, don't people realize you're reading somebody else's stories? I was about to blast this woman and put her through the ringer on the podcast, because I didn't. I had just seen the video. I didn't read the caption, which I need to read the caption. And I couldn't believe it. I was so angry, my insides.

[C]

I read so many of the comments, and they were like, good. Like, I'm glad you are.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Those are. Bots have to be bought.

[C]

No, no, no, no.

[A]

There was real people. And listen, I can see both sides of the coin. If somebody's not a good parent and is not fit to be a parent, then, yes, do give your child an opportunity to have a amazing life, you know, but make sure they're going to an amazing home. On the flip side, it's like, God bless you with this child. Get your together, you know? So I. I understand both sides, but I lean more towards, like, get help so that you can be the mom that you need to be. Yeah. I don't know. But, yeah, I saw that thing and I was just like, oh, hell, I know it's true crime, but it's about to be a true crime.

[B]

Yeah. Because I must commit the true crime. Yeah.

[C]

That's why people were saying, I'm glad you're dropping her off instead of, like, killing her.

[A]

Yeah. Or putting her through hell the rest of her life or something like that, you know, Which I get that. I understand.

[C]

But also, I did not know she was reading someone else.

[A]

Yeah, she was. Yeah.

[C]

No wonder she had no, like, empathy. Yeah.

[A]

No, I. The way she did this. Should we play it? I think I have it so that you can see it. I should have played it for you before. I told you it was the day.

[G]

That I get to drop my daughter off for the rest of her life. I can't really say that I feel sad about it. I really don't care. I gave up custody of my kid. I put her up for adoption. She's seven years old.

[A]

Oh, sorry.

[G]

I just literally just woke up.

[B]

She's going to school.

[G]

I'm about to drop her off to.

[B]

Her last day of school I have.

[G]

To take her to, and. And then the adoptees are picking her up from the school pickup line. And, yeah, I'm a free woman after that. I'm selling my house. I'm buying an rv. I'm about to travel the world. I'm pretty. I'm pretty excited. I have been, like, waiting for this moment my entire life, ever since I had her. And I was being guilty and not giving her up just because, like, I felt like, as a mom, you're not supposed to give your kid up. But then I had a good talk with, like, my boyfriend, and he said that it doesn't matter what other people think. It's what you want. And I don't want a kid, so. Yeah, so she got. She has an adoptee. It's not like I'm bringing her to a foster care system. She has a family that wants her. And, yeah, she's seven years.

[A]

You understand why I was like, oh, my God, like, how is this woman? And this lady has, like, a hundred thousand followers, too. I was like, how does this feel, woman? Have a platform? Like, I was about to go off, but then I. I realized that the story was somebody else's story, which is also horrific. Where did you get the story from? Who are these people? Where is the little girl? Like, I want to know if she's okay now.

[B]

You don't deserve to be a mom.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

No, whoever did that, I just. It's. I can't. It just breaks my heart because there's women who are fighting to have children who are literally, you know, going through so much to just have a child. And, you know, for you to just be like, oh, I don't care. I'm gonna be with my boyfriend. Okay, well, dude cheats on you and ruins your life or does what? Because he's already ruining your life. Any real man would not just be like, oh, yeah, give up your child so you can be free. But anyways, yeah, so I didn't mean to go off on that tangent, but that's rough, right?

[B]

So mad right now.

[A]

So mad.

[B]

Good lord. What else?

[A]

You had another thing you wanted to talk about?

[B]

Don't feel like I should follow that story up with what I was about to say.

[A]

Oh, no.

[B]

Chad's going erotica.

[A]

What?

[C]

I saw that.

[B]

Did you see it?

[A]

Chat's going to what?

[C]

Like, it.

[B]

You can now get, like, erotica on chat. GPT.

[F]

What the.

[A]

Is erotica born sex stuff?

[B]

What? Yeah, creating AIs that are so that it's so excited to fall in love in a pathway to human disempowerment. Yeah, it says they will have a personality that behaves more like what people like about you. About the last version of the program will adapt further and treat adults like adults. We will make Chad GBD pretty restrictive to make sure that we are careful with the mental health issues following that.

[A]

Oh, so people are just kind of falling in love with their child. It's like the making movies about this.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Fox movie.

[A]

There's another one before that, though. Weird Science, of course, created the first one and then there was another one.

[D]

Was it her?

[A]

I can't remember. I think it falls in love with, like, a computer.

[D]

Computer. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

It's not even like a person. It's like her voice. Like it falls in love with that.

[B]

Did you see what happened to that little boy who fell in love with his. His AI and he ended up committing. Yeah. Blank. Because she told him to. So the mom is now suing.

[A]

That's terrible.

[B]

Yeah. No, I'm telling you, it's very scary when you start leaning into like. Like the falling in love with AI type movements. It's like those people who would marry roller coasters and stuff.

[C]

You know the guy on addiction.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Slept with his car.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Where did. What hole did he stick it in? The gas tank.

[B]

I always thought that it was the cross pipe.

[A]

Are you serious? He got down on his knees. Remember him?

[B]

What did you just say?

[D]

Cup holder.

[B]

That's a. You got to be huge to call it a cup holder.

[A]

He. The cup holder.

[B]

No, you weren't just calling out holes, but imagine how girthy you got to be to get.

[A]

I would think the gas tank.

[B]

Right.

[A]

You can stand and just stick it in there and it's kind of tight.

[B]

I would think the pipe.

[C]

I don't want to think about this.

[B]

Anymore, actually, like, bending it up in the handle.

[A]

I'm just trying to think of what felt good. Like, I need flesh all over.

[B]

Oh, he's like licking it instead of his red car.

[A]

The car.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What happened? It got.

[B]

Yeah, he's got a new car accident, right? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. And then the lady who married a roller coaster. Yeah.

[A]

I hate people. I hate people. That's why I love animals so much. People are so weird and up. It's crazy. Am I gonna get canceled for that? I don't care. Now that we're on YouTube, I'm gonna.

[C]

I can't.

[A]

I gotta be careful what I say.

[B]

But the whole podcast community, like, beep.

[A]

Literally. Literally. All right, so moving on, we have. We scoured the Internet for some of these scariest stories that we could find to fit into spooky season. So, who would like to kick this off?

[B]

Go ahead.

[A]

Oh, the ghost has a butthole fetish.

[C]

No, mine's not about buttholes this time.

[A]

Okay, good.

[C]

So there used to be a website called the Liminal Index. Have you guys heard of this?

[A]

No.

[C]

Not many people remember it because you couldn't find it unless you weren't looking. For was a plain black page with white text and no images. The only thing on the screen was a single search bar at the bottom. In tiny gray letters, it said, find what? You almost forgot. If you typed in something random, like old cartoons, childhood park, my first phone, the site would return one result. Just one. It always had a title, a few paragraphs, and a date. But the strange part was that the entries were personal. People on old message boards said it showed them things they never posted online. One guy saw a description of his missing dog with a final line saying, he still waits by the mailbox. A woman saw a transcript of a phone call she'd had with her grandmother before she died. Another person claimed the site showed him a grainy photo of himself sitting at his desk, timestamped two hours in the future. Every story ended the same way. The user hit refresh and the site was gone. Some users said that months later their browsers would auto complete. And even though no domain was registered, a few claim they could still access it briefly during power outages or storms. The text appearing faintly in the middle of a black screen, like an after image burned into the glass. No one ever found the site's creator.

[B]

What?

[A]

That is probably some the creepiest I've heard. That's crazy.

[B]

That's a good find.

[A]

That is a great find.

[C]

Scoured for that one.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What?

[C]

Creepy, right?

[A]

Do you guys remember back in the day, like, there was like, Faces of Death? There was like. What is it? Rotten.com.

[B]

I got a shirt from rotten.com.

[A]

The Internet was. Was insane.

[B]

Before we had censoring. Yeah, it was like the black web was just everywhere.

[A]

Yeah, no, it's. I mean, the Internet's still a scary place, but I'm telling you, like, back.

[B]

In the day, being a kid, finding those is.

[C]

Yeah, I never. I didn't know any about that. Like, none of it. No one from where I'm from ever talked about any of that or did.

[B]

Any of that be nice.

[A]

Did you guys ever.

[C]

The only thing I did was somehow got away with this. When I was like a junior senior, we had to do like, informative papers. Like, informative research papers. Had to be like 10 pages. I did mine on The Illuminati. And I don't know how my school let me do that. And I was able to, like, look up everything on YouTube. But the stuff I did find was crazy.

[A]

Oh, yeah. No, in high school, it's crazy. The web. The Internet was just insane.

[B]

It's.

[A]

It's a sick place now, but back then, people, like, could find anything online. You could buy drugs online. I'm sure you still can now, but, like, it was crazy.

[B]

I remember I was a kid, and this was like. Of course, you had, like, the community computer back in the day. And so it just sat in our kitchen area, like a dining area. And all my friends were over, and I had just gotten a rabbit, and I wanted to, like, look up, I guess, stuff on the Internet. And I put, like, rabbit.com. well, it was a porn site. And so, like, all my little friends, we were sitting around, and it was just, like, people doing it, and I was just like. And my mom was like, oh, my God. So they should, like, call on my friend's parents and tell them that it accidentally came up and it was a mistake and they, like, saw porn. I had to have been, like, Olivia's age, so probably, like, eight years old. Oh, no. You know what? Yeah. Because I remember the year I got the rabbit. I was, like, in fourth grade, so, yeah, I was about 8 or 9 years old.

[A]

Yeah. The Internet's a wild place. You want to go next memes?

[B]

Yeah. Okay. So I dove into a little bit, and this is, like, totally true, because they ended up making a Netflix series about it, and I don't know if you guys watch it. It's called the Watcher.

[A]

Oh, yeah, I watched it. Yeah, I watched it.

[B]

Okay. By the way, didn't know that was true.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

It's a true story.

[C]

Wow. I still don't know who it is.

[A]

You gotta watch it, bro.

[B]

You watched it, right? Watch the watch.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I know.

[C]

So it doesn't tell you who the watcher is.

[B]

They never found out. Yeah. The. The dearest new neighbors at 657 Boulevard. Allow me to welcome you to the neighborhood. My gr. Grandfather watched the house in the 1920s. My father watched in the 1960s. And is now my time. Do you know the history of the house? Do you want to know what lies within the walls of 657 Boulevard? So at first they thought it was just a prank. But then the letters got darker and darker, and the anonymous writer began referring to their three children by nicknames, even describing them playing in the yard, and then would write letters to them about their children. The letters kept company, mentioning things that could only be known by someone who's very. Watching very closely. The family never even moved in. They were too terrified. The police investigated for years using handwritten experts, DNA testing, neighbors, mailboxes, and the Watcher was actually never found. They ended up making a Netflix series about it called the watcher. And in 2014, Derek and his wife had bought their dream home. It was a beautiful six bedroom house in a quiet New Jersey neighborhood. But before they even moved in is when the letters even began. So I know in the series it's a little exaggerated, but they actually never ended up moving into the home because the letters were so creepy.

[A]

Yeah. Anybody writing about your kids, I would never like. That's crazy.

[B]

That is terrifying. Yeah, honestly and super terrible. The fact that you never found it is similar to like the zodiac and this was in 2014. Technology's pretty great in 2014. I understand the zodiac because that was like so long ago and we didn't have. Have technology like we do today. But the fact that in 14, you couldn't catch this person doing.

[A]

How could they not pull a fingerprint off of a letter?

[C]

Right.

[A]

Like, how do you.

[C]

You can't.

[A]

You have to hold a letter and gloves, I guess. Yeah, but I mean, you would think like a hair, a eyelash, like something.

[B]

How do you not track it? Like when it gets to the postal.

[C]

Yeah, they had to deliver that. I don't know. Because also if like they hand delivered it, I mean, no one seen them.

[A]

Ring camera in the front.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

I feel like ring's been around for a long time.

[B]

Thinking about 2014. It is a little bit ago. I always think that wasn't that long ago, but that was 11 years ago. All right.

[A]

All right. I scoured the Internet myself and I think I found some good ones.

[C]

So.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

A few years ago, I was walking through the woods, off the beaten track a bit, and I smell this really overpowering sweet smell. Being nosy, I pulled back the undergrowth to have a look and found a dead body. The guy had clearly been there a while and wasn't looking great. All swollen and green and black with various runny bits. The local wildlife had been dining well for a few days. I called the police, who told me to wait with the body until they arrived. Being in the middle of nowhere, it took a while for them to arrive and it got dark and I, I would just sat there in the dark with him for a long time. It turned out he had unalived himself for a long time afterwards. I had dreams about him and he would talk to me and not say nice things. Mainly about how he was so angry that I had disturbed his resting place and he wanted me to off myself. Probably just my imagination, but all pretty disturbing at the time. He still turns up in my dreams from times to time. And no doubt will be tonight after typing this. Sounds like his spirit latched on.

[B]

Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like she definitely got something from that day.

[A]

He needs. That person. Needs to send that person to the light.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Or, you know, tell him that he needs to get away from him.

[B]

Yeah. Because that, that. That's terrifying. That person clearly didn't get the final moments they wanted. So I guess it probably hadn't been there very long before she uncovered it.

[A]

She said it'd been there for a few days. Said it was a little bloated and runny and animals had been.

[B]

Have you ever seen pictures of bodies like that?

[A]

No, I'm not into dead bodies. I don't like them.

[B]

I had a client who was a homicide detective, and when cases would close, she could bring me photos from it to look over. Crazy.

[A]

Who looks at that willingly? Like, what's wrong with you? Why do you want to see that?

[B]

I actually wanted to be a homicide photographer.

[C]

I wanted to be a CSI person.

[A]

I wanted to be a mortician. I wanted to embalm people. Because I have such a fear of death. I figured like, that would be the one. I'd have to stare death in the face every day. I even looked into it and they didn't have like a mortician school in Vegas.

[B]

Yeah, it turns out like, a lot of. Of like funeral homes and stuff are family owned. They're not like, really, they're not corporations or anything.

[A]

It's like passed down from family members.

[B]

Kept within the family and like that sort of thing so they don't bring insiders out. Because I. I wanted to do something along those lines. And yeah, I did hair for a client of ours one time after she had passed. It's very strange.

[A]

Yeah, it's. It's crazy when you do, because obviously I have seen a dead body. I've seen my mom's dead body. I've seen a few. When you look at a dead body, it's like the entire person is deflated.

[B]

It's so not them anymore.

[A]

But it's so weird how a soul feel. Fills the body up.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

But when it leaves, it's like a shell. It's like almost like. Like when A crab. You know, like the freaking hermit crab. Switch shells, you know, like. It's crazy. It's so weird. It's like an abandoned house.

[B]

That's it. An abandoned house is the best way to describe it. Like, when we did Peggy's hair, I was like, she's. That's not her. Yeah, that's just her show.

[A]

For sure.

[B]

It's her empty house. Because that. That's not her. And, like, I felt that. That's so crazy. You've done makeup before for someone also. And, like, it did it. Was it the same? It was like.

[C]

I can't even talk about it. Yeah.

[B]

Start crying.

[C]

No. Yeah.

[B]

Those things are crazy.

[A]

Yeah. All right, who's next?

[C]

I do know. You know what a dead body feels like?

[A]

They're cold. No, it's stiff.

[C]

Your hands.

[B]

Yeah. No, I felt it.

[C]

And then do this. Yeah.

[B]

That's what a dead body feels like. That's crazy.

[C]

You want to do it?

[A]

I guess. Come on down, because now I'm curious.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

Weird, right? How do.

[A]

First of all, how did you figure that out?

[C]

We used to do that in elementary school.

[A]

I feel like dead bodies are a little bit colder than that, but they're cold.

[B]

Sure, but why is that? But, like, pretty similar.

[C]

It's like, you're it. When I did makeup on them, it reminded me of those, like, lifelike dolls that it's like. It's, like stretchy plastic, if that makes sense. Like, hard, squishy.

[A]

Hey, man, we're all gonna be there one day.

[C]

All right. I got a short little sweet one.

[A]

Go, baby girl.

[C]

A man in rural Kentucky posted that every night he'd hear slow, deliberate footsteps outside his house and a tune being whistled. He set up cameras, but nothing ever showed up on video. But the audio always caught the same tune, growing louder, stopping exactly at 3:03am When a neighbor commented on the post, he said, don't open your door. It used to whistle at ours, too.

[E]

No.

[B]

Nerve. Don't want it.

[C]

What is it?

[A]

Yeah, like, what are we talking about? Like, how are you gonna say that and not elaborate?

[B]

Hate it.

[A]

I don't love it. That was terrible. If something whistled, like, Jeepers Creepers.

[C]

I never seen that.

[A]

Oh, watch it. He whistles by myself.

[B]

Nope.

[A]

Yeah, watch it. Watch it with your brother. You guys watch it together, all right? And I'm okay.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

No. Absolutely not. Have you guys heard about this one? I feel like I went in a different direction. I went with, like, people who've been murdered, and it was, like, things I hadn't, like, heard before, but have you guys heard of the hello Kitty murder?

[A]

No.

[B]

Okay, so in Hong Kong in 1999, a 23 year old woman was kidnapped, tortured for weeks, and ultimately killed by three men. In Hong Kong, they stuffed her skull inside of a hello Kitty mermaid doll, which is how they got the name of the case. The details are so gruesome that seasoned detectives reportedly sought therapy afterwards. The crime took place in a small apartment in a busy district of Timbuktu. Yeah, there. So the crazy thing about these, these guys were like in their 20s and early 30s. They were not like old. It was three dudes. They were later joined by a teenage girl who was one of the dude's girlfriends, who became a key witness in the entire case. It began where they literally stole like about $504,000 in Hong Kong from Chan and one of their regular clients. Instead of demanding repayment, he kidnapped her to teach her a lesson. This is how she became one of their victims. For the next month, they held her captive in his apartment. And they beat her daily with metal bars and kitchen utensils. They were forced to smile and laugh during her torture and burned and whipped sometimes while the men played video games nearby. So they just lived with this woman in their apartment and just absolutely tortured her. So they would also deny her food and drinks, everything for long stretches of time. Eventually, she did. They did not kill her purposefully. She died from the injuries and dehydration.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And she succumbed to her injuries and ended up passing away. She died and the men began to panic. They dismembered her. Boiling organic. Right, Boiling parts to hide the smell of the dead body.

[A]

Did they, what did they think? Beating her and not feeding her. Did they think she was not gonna die?

[B]

I know. Literally I'm like, what did you guys assume was going to happen to this girl? Yeah. They ended up sewing her skull into a hello Kitty mermaid doll, leaving her organs in plastic bags. Months later, the 14 year old girl who had witnessed the events went to the police saying that she was haunted by her ghost. The confession led investigators to the apartment where they ended up finding her skull inside of the hello Killy. Hello Kitty doll.

[A]

That's insane to me. Like, how? First of all, I could never just dissect a human body and be okay.

[B]

The amount of people in history who have done that is unsettling.

[A]

It's crazy to be able to crush a human bone and rip it apart and cut open skin and get all the like, like, you know, like when.

[B]

Cartel, like empties them and then like Puts all the drugs in them and sews them back up and drives them over the border.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

How do you do that?

[A]

No, that's just. It's so barbaric and gross.

[B]

I hate it.

[A]

Yeah, I can't do it.

[C]

All right.

[A]

This one is short and sweet. I once sat across from a guy who told me about killing his girlfriend. He cut her up into pieces and boiled her head. He explained why he killed her and wished he could talk to the parents so that they could understand that what he did was a good thing.

[B]

What?

[A]

I sat with him for 45 minutes as he went into detail. It was one of the most surreal 45 minutes of my life. I also worked in a maximum security health facility.

[B]

I would love to do that.

[A]

Yeah, I would, too. I would love to work in a. Because I've been in one, so I would love to work in a mental health facility. Health hospital. Just to. For the lore, I think. But to one, to help people. But to also just d. I don't know, just deep dive into how. Yeah. How crazy and twisted things can get.

[B]

You know, I would love to just like, ask someone questions.

[C]

There's one right next to my hometown. Like 5ish minutes.

[A]

That we can work at.

[B]

Huh?

[A]

That we can work at.

[C]

That I'm sure. I have strings. Actually, I do.

[D]

I got family members who do. Psych tech in California.

[A]

You what?

[D]

I have family members who are psych techs, which is the people who work in those facilities and take care of crazy people.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Two, I think, cousins who do it.

[A]

That's crazy.

[D]

I almost did it. I almost wanted to.

[B]

Oh, yeah. Because you're, like, trained in work psychology stuff. Yeah. He dissects everybody.

[C]

Yeah, they.

[A]

Okay, so Jaime. Jaime is trained in psychology. So I need you to get. I need to get you to give each one of us a summary of ourselves.

[D]

Summary of yourselves.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

While we're on the podcast and this is. This is unedited, we're not even going to edit it. You have to tell the truth. Don't hold back.

[B]

Okay.

[D]

Who do you want me to start with?

[A]

Start with Haley.

[C]

Jesus.

[D]

Haley is somebody who. I hate to say it, but.

[C]

Say it.

[D]

If I were to want to take advantage of somebody, you'd probably be an easy target.

[A]

That's very psychopathic to say I like it.

[D]

Only because you see the good in people. And when. When the truth stares you in the face, you look for any little bit to hold on to confirm your view.

[A]

Don't hold back, though. You gotta be brutal with all of.

[C]

Us because we're all gonna hold back a little.

[A]

Don't hold back with me.

[C]

I want to know.

[D]

Gotcha. And I mean. Yeah, but overall, you're. I mean, I'd say you're a pretty good person.

[A]

You're.

[C]

Thanks.

[D]

Not very narcissistic. Yeah. I mean, nothing crazy.

[C]

All right.

[A]

What about Mimi?

[B]

Mimi.

[C]

Food habits.

[D]

Mimi's like the most type A slash type B I've ever met.

[B]

Don't know what that means.

[A]

Yeah, I do.

[D]

Type A is like, you're very. Like. You can delegate and get shit done in, like, other things. But I feel like when it comes to something that you gotta do yourself, it's harder. You do a lot better with a target that's away from you than here.

[B]

Ah, yeah.

[A]

Hence, I had to fucking make her go to the doctor last night. After two weeks.

[D]

Yeah. Yes. Yeah, but if it were Bunny, you'd be like, girl, what the hell are you? Like, get out of here. Go to the hospital. But if it's you, it's.

[B]

I'll be fine. All right?

[F]

I'm scared.

[A]

I got butterflies in my stomach. Go ahead, Jaime. Fire away.

[D]

ADD for Buddy. It's. Your personality type is very like, jump. Jump out of a plane. Build a parachute on the way down.

[B]

Oh, my God. Does that not describe their last week?

[A]

I land on my feet every time, though.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You got that fate on your side where you know and you've experienced to where you don't really need a direction. You just know that it's gonna work out.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, it's. It's gonna be fine. I feel like that's always in your mind, that it's. It's gonna work out.

[A]

No, it has to.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't have a choice. It has to work out. So we're gonna do this. And it's work, so.

[B]

Bunny.

[A]

I love it. That was good. We love that.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

So do we have any more stories? You guys wanna.

[B]

I've got some.

[A]

Come on, who's next?

[B]

Next.

[C]

Oh, but, yeah, talking about the. The mental hospital, though. They escape a lot.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

We've had a few that have come through our yard, and I'm like, maybe six miles.

[B]

Excuse me.

[A]

They just run across the front yard.

[C]

Yeah. I mean, I live on a farm, but yeah, they'll. They'll, like, go hide in the woods and stuff. It's a lot of woods and, like, you know, the Midwest, but they'll go hide in the woods. Like, we've had, like, police, like, go through our yard, like, looking like four people. Yeah, they're. And they're they're insane. I talk and there's tunnels.

[A]

Yeah, no, I believe it. I talk about my mental health, my mental hospital stay in the book.

[B]

I just re. Listened to that chapter the other day. Whoa.

[A]

Was it bad?

[C]

No.

[B]

It. You gloss over your life so much that I'm like, how? How? Like, that chapter still, like, I've listened to it like, three or four times. It still is like, what? Yeah, What? Like that me up.

[A]

No, I mean, I again, turned a pos. A negative into a positive, though. I had a great experience there at the end.

[B]

So when you just, like, befriended it, this girl was really cute.

[C]

Yeah, of course she did.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

I love Instagram.

[A]

It was literally, I'm here to party. I'm not here for a good time. I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a good time. Let's figure it out, man.

[B]

You were so. Who you are through your whole life, it's kind of crazy.

[A]

Yeah, it is weird.

[B]

Definitely a lot of traits that circle back. I'm like, oh, that all makes sense.

[C]

Even just seeing the old picture of you today, and you still have the same hairstyle that you like.

[B]

It's like a different version. Yeah, same thing, different font.

[A]

It was like, which picture?

[B]

The big picture where you're sitting like this.

[C]

We did change that.

[B]

And you had an updo and you were in lingerie, and it was for, like, a promo.

[C]

Oh, God.

[A]

That.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Your updos is like, what Mimi does today.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I love it. All right, go ahead. We're giving away too much of the book.

[B]

Yeah. Jill's gonna be like, what the hell, guys?

[A]

Yeah, Joe. Listen, my poor publicist has a heart attack every week with me. I don't know how, why she represents me, but shout out Jill, because I love you. Like, thank you for letting me be your wayward child.

[B]

Yeah. Okay, hold on. I thought I had one more. Maybe I don't.

[A]

I have one.

[B]

You go ahead.

[A]

Because she just woke up out of his sleep. Because I made the fart noise. Yes.

[B]

He's terrified. Can we do it again?

[C]

Yeah. The wrong side.

[A]

He's like, I'm going to give you a chance.

[B]

He's gonna.

[C]

He's over. He's about to leave.

[A]

Chachi hates farting noises. For you guys who didn't see that tick. Do it again. So what he's saying, do it again. For you guys who didn't see that tick tock. Chachi absolutely hates farting noises.

[B]

Do it again. He's not having it.

[C]

And I'm out.

[A]

He hates it. He hates it every time. Looking at me right now, just pissed off. All right, he's probably gonna go lay with you guys now.

[C]

Come on, let's go.

[A]

Oh, come here.

[B]

Come on. I make. Come on.

[A]

Come on, man.

[C]

Come with your auntie.

[A]

Sleepy old man won't fart at you. Yeah, that. By the way, I did a tick tock that got like 5 million views of Chachi doing that. And he hates it.

[B]

Hates it.

[A]

Yeah, don't fart around Chachi. He's the only one that can fart. Anybody else he gets mad about earlier.

[B]

When he farted was wild.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

But I thought, sleepy boy.

[C]

Okay, this is called my dead girlfriend keeps messaging me on Facebook.

[A]

Oh, geez.

[C]

After my girlfriend Emily died, a man or I began receiving messages from her old Facebook account. At first they were old recycled texts, but over time, the responses got specific. When I confronted Facebook support, they confirmed no one else had access to the account. Her final message just said, I'm cold. Then her profile disappeared.

[A]

That's terrible.

[B]

I got chills.

[C]

I got chills when I read that one.

[B]

I don't like that. Don't like it.

[C]

No, the fact that he contacted Facebook support. He said no one.

[A]

Not into it.

[C]

We all had very different vibes of stories.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

It was like mine was only a tweet. Internet.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yours is like true crime. True.

[B]

Yeah. I went with, like, the weirdest things that have happened.

[C]

All right.

[A]

I got this one right here. I had awesome parents who let me sleep in the living room on weekend nights when I was very young because my sister was a light sleeper and I could stay out up until dawn. But of course, I always end up sleeping on the couch because Nick at night made me. Made me tired. So one night, I wake up to the prickly feeling like an instinct just bolted into a sitting position and stared out the front window. We lived in rural Georgia, so you can imagine the magnitude of trees. In perfect light cast from the moon, I see a silhouette of someone in the tree. The family dog dashes to the window and is snarling into the glass. Terrified, I run into my parents room and try to explain to my parents that there's a stranger person outside. My dad grabs something defensive and darts outside with the dogs to beat the wax off the hot head, Whatever that means.

[C]

All right.

[A]

I tremble in mama's arms until dad comes home and says he saw no one and to go to bed. I decided to sleep in my regular bedroom and I fill my sister in as to what happened. Dad is making regular Rounds in the house with a cup of coffee. We're all still. And finally I think I can sleep.

[B]

Nope.

[A]

I look outside my window and I notice the man outside my window. From what I can see in the moonlight. He gives me a signal.

[B]

Nope.

[A]

And runs away. Just turns around to run a straight line away. I couldn't stop crying for what felt like hours. My sir. That was a peeping Tom. That was a peep of Tom.

[B]

That's like my worst fear. When you guys were kids, did you ever, like, have a fear of black windows? Like if you have to go, like, close the shades and it was like dark outside. I couldn't do that as a kid.

[C]

Like, if my blinds look outside the windows at night. Yeah.

[B]

If my blinds were open and I didn't close them before dark, it would give me severe panic attacks.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yes.

[B]

Yeah. That's like you would go up and try to like, close them. I. I'm fine now, but like, I.

[C]

Literally stand to the side of the window and be like this.

[A]

Yeah. No, I hate that. My parents, our front room had nothing but windows and they would have every light on in the house and all the curtains open. Every night I used to go and close.

[C]

No wonder you have PTSD with curtains.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I. I'm obsessed. I have to have color covered windows at all time. Even if we are like traveling and go to Airbnbs. I h. I will not rent an airbnb if it does not have curtains.

[B]

Yeah. Remember that one time we duct taped sheets?

[A]

I will duct tape a thumbtack. So any thing we have done all those things to cover a window.

[C]

Blankets.

[B]

I'll do some blankets is the top tier.

[A]

I will do whatever. I can't. I cannot not have. No. That's why I think if we go to the Appalachians, it's going to be so fun because we're all facing fears.

[B]

I'm good now, though. Like it was when I was younger.

[A]

Well, I mean, let's see how you are.

[D]

You said.

[B]

No, no, not about the apple. I meant windows. So rude jumped ahead of me there.

[A]

She's just rude.

[B]

I couldn't do that. And I couldn't turn off lights through the house. I always felt like something was rushing behind me. Same the feel. Really.

[C]

Exactly the same. I would have to turn on the light and then turn on the other light.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Like going room to room.

[B]

Yeah. But even then, like, I didn't like the darkness behind me. I would literally feel like things were like running towards me. That's the feeling I got going upstairs. Don't even get me started.

[C]

We had a. We had a basement, and any. The basement would be dark. And then, like, I just have the light in the stairwell when I tell you I would run up those stairs, so. And you know what? Now that I think about it, I think it comes from one time. My dad was hiding downstairs and chased me up the stairs as I was running because he knew that was my fear. And he did. Of course. That's my dad.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

He always would scare us. We had. My dad had this old man Halloween mask that was creepy. My brother was younger and he hated it so much.

[B]

And I'm sure he'd wear it all the time.

[C]

Oh, my dad, like, it was like, middle of the night. He came to his door and was, like, scratching his door. My brother opens the door. My dad's in the mask. My brother punches my dad in the face. My dad got so mad. Brain got in so much trouble, but he legit, like. Like, hit him in the face.

[B]

You were scared.

[A]

Why would you trouble, bro?

[B]

For sure, like, out of both my kids. Olivia likes scary stuff. Cash is terrified of anything scary.

[C]

Cash is very. Yeah.

[B]

Oh, he hates it. Like, I'm talking it. Olivia is cool with, like, scary movies. Like, she Loves Beetlejuice. He also doesn't like sad movies. Yeah, he'll be like, is he a little empath? He is. He'll be like, can we fast forward through the. The sad part? Like, even Cars, he'd be like, it's a little sad. We're gonna fast forward through that at some point. Yeah, it is. Cars can be sad. He doesn't like. He doesn't like to feel sad.

[C]

Don't show him up.

[B]

Oh, he won't watch it.

[A]

Yeah, don't show him. All dogs go to heaven.

[B]

Absolutely not.

[C]

I don't think I've seen that.

[A]

Oh, my God. You gotta watch it, Haley.

[C]

I don't think I went.

[B]

What's the one I text you the other day? And I was bawling. I forget it's like, the little girl because, like, she did actually end up dying.

[A]

That's all.

[B]

Oh, it is?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Okay.

[C]

Apparently, yeah. Like, he.

[B]

Sobbing. Yeah.

[C]

I used to be obsessed with, like, reading about that. Like, his. He had to, like, redo that line so many times and made everyone leave the studio.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I never remember. All right, well, before we all start crying, we are going to put up a post on the Dumblon Pod YouTube. And if you guys have any scary stories, leave them in the comments under this video or under the post. And we will read them on the podcast. So love you guys. See you next week.

[F]

Bye.