Chilluminati Podcast - Episode 101 - The Faceless Humans and Nuclear Dreams
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Hey guys, since it's episode 100 and everything,
I feel like we should probably do something
to shout out Deanna for doing all that research and stuff,
you know?
Oh my God, yeah, we should see if Bigfoot
would come down out of the mountains and smoke her out.
What?
What are you talking about?
Yeah, what, you know Bigfoot?
Oh, come on, that's not what I meant.
Bigfoot doesn't exist.
So you don't think he'd be down?
See, this is why we need Deanna here.
No, we need Deanna because you two are crazy
and someday it's gonna get us canceled.
Yeah.
Man, I wish she was here right now
so I could thank her for keeping us honest.
I wish she was here right now
so I could thank her for reading all those weird books.
I wish she was here right now,
so she could tell you guys Bigfoot isn't real.
Guys, I am here.
And if you're talking about the 1967
Patterson Gimlin film or PGF,
most experts will tell you it's fake.
But technically, the jury is still out.
Oh, hey!
Also, I'm pretty sure Bigfoot doesn't smoke weed.
It'd be cool if he did though.
I give up.
Honestly, it's been so fun.
Happy 100 episodes, everyone.
And from all of us here at the show,
thanks to all you people out there
listening and keeping the dream alive.
And?
What?
Oh, come on, you know.
Ah, fine.
And become part of the show yourself
at patreon.com slash IlluminatiPod.
Here's to another 100 episodes, guys.
And Bigfoot Christmas, everyone.
Hello, everybody, and welcome back to the Illuminati Podcast,
Episode 101.
As always, I'm one of your hosts, Mike Martin.
I'm your host, General, my two other co-hosts, Jesse Cox,
and Alex Fosyane.
Hello, boys.
What's good?
Oh, we're so old now.
101?
And we're on the other side.
We'd end up on, like, Good Morning America.
They'd do a whole thing about us.
Oh, we're not that.
No one would ever care that much.
That's where we even do.
We'd come on with, like, evidence.
We'd come on with, like, some weird, like, model of a.
Speaking of evidence, have you?
The UFO news has been out of control lately.
Excuse me, everybody.
Happy birthday to Jesse, by the way.
I don't know the name of it.
On my birthday.
Don't spill lies.
Happy birthday to you.
Did you watch 60 Minutes?
I did not watch 60 Minutes, no.
Oh, man.
These pilots are saying they're seeing this stuff every time
they go up.
They said every day for the past two years.
Every day that they go up in the air, they see aliens.
Well, UFOs.
They use the word aliens, exactly.
They called them the grays.
No, they didn't.
They didn't.
No, they did not.
They didn't say aliens, but they did say they see them every day.
And they had another video come out along with it a couple days ago
of another, like, it's again, it's another black blip on like a flur radar.
They are what they're watching way out in the distance
and hovering over the water for like a good long while.
And then it just blips under the water and you just hear the voice in the back.
We have splashed down.
We have splashed down and it just fucking goes away.
It just goes under the water.
So it's cool.
The Navy's already acknowledged that it's a real video.
So it's not like one of those folksy videos.
But just like the other ones where, like, you know, who knows what it is.
It's the same thing. We don't.
It's not like you have an HD. You think it is.
I don't know, man.
I don't want to be honest with yourself.
What do you think it is?
Which is not what you want it to be.
What do you think it is?
I don't. I don't know because I don't.
I don't think it's anything of ours, like our government or another government.
Because the way these things move,
they'd have to be hundreds of years ahead of us in technology,
like well beyond just being able to just like go 13,000 miles
and then turn on a dime and disappear and appear, you know, 60,000 miles
and 30 seconds somewhere else.
And if it's ours, there's no reason.
There's no reason for them to be like, it's it exists.
If it's ours.
Yeah. How how is the information not trickled down to the right people?
I don't want to jump to aliens, but I don't I don't know what it is.
I don't know.
I genuinely don't know.
I have my hunch says it's something we just don't have a way of understanding yet.
Like whether it be extraterrestrial,
interdimensional or literally just coming from under the ocean
that we've only explored what five percent of up to this point.
Like who F and knows, man?
I don't know the reason.
The reason it fucks me up a little bit is like it's obviously hard.
It seems reasonable to be like it's not going to be like contact from aliens.
That's crazy. You know what I mean?
Because it is the idea that aliens would come.
Like if you look at the like stats that people always say, it seems ludicrous,
right? Like it's just inconceivable that in like a year, for example,
we could be like, oh, and first contact, we had first contact a year ago.
And now we're like talking to these people from space, et cetera, et cetera.
It's like it's crazy, right?
But the fact that they're like, this has been happening for a while.
We don't know what it is.
I'm like, if they don't know what it is, there's no reason.
If they if they have reason to believe it's from an enemy,
they shouldn't be talking about it.
If they if it was us, they shouldn't be talking about it.
So it leads me to believe that they really don't know what it is
or what the nature of it is.
And then you start to think back on all these stories from all these astronauts,
people even like John Glenn and shit.
Like people like real, real, reliable public astronauts
who are like vetted, credentialed people being like when I was up there
in the thing, I saw stuff a lot of times and we didn't know what it was.
And we just sort of mentioned it and never talked about it again.
And it happened a lot and we got used to it, you know,
and it's like been happening for years and years and years and years.
And I just and to me, that's just really unsettling.
Like, I don't have any sort of feeling like on
some people are saying that they're from underwater because of the water thing.
But I don't have any feeling on that.
It seems like pure speculation.
But just the fact that it like the fact that there is something happening
that the government doesn't know about is such a different vibe
than I would have said was even thinkable three years ago.
And I don't even remember what the document is.
I'm sure somebody a little bit more versed in it could tell me.
But there was some document from some think tank a long time ago.
I've said this on the show before about like drip feeding it to us
so that we can like digest each piece of information fully before we get
the next piece of information so that we don't become like those crazy people
on the top of the tower and Independence Day that gets zapped by the aliens.
Or something like that, or people start, you know,
it would happen anyway, let's not pretend that's going to happen anyway.
Yeah, that was no matter what, there's going to be a contingent of people.
Yeah, I mean, now that we've been through a global pandemic
and like there's people that like we were making fun of in 1918 still around today.
Anything is anything is on the table.
But but it just freaks me out.
It just it seems.
It seems.
Legitimized a little bit in a weird way
that I don't even feel comfortable acknowledging because it like starts
to mess with my like conception of reality in a way.
Like I don't have a conception of American history.
Yeah, I feel similarly we have a topic today by everybody.
We'll get to in a minute, but this is just exciting shit.
Like in a couple of weeks, like the government is supposed to be releasing
a full report on what they've seen known about UFOs.
However, I don't hold a huge amount of hope
because every time they release a report, it's heavily redacted
and it's like it's hard to parse much information out of it.
So I don't know how useful it's going to be.
But leading up to it, there's all this like, you know, 60 minute stuff.
And the mainstream media seems to be putting out stories a lot more.
There was a CNN article and ABC article.
It's just a ton of stuff kind of coming out.
For me, though, if they were like, yeah, they're from outer space.
We don't know what they are, but they they're definitely from beyond.
My my whole I want that really bad.
But I also understand I feel like my whole perspective of things
would just be shattered.
Everything would just mean something different.
Why do you say that?
It's it's your perspective.
Like, what about you, particularly, would that shatter?
Well, one now and now I would know that there's this.
There's this existence beyond us that probably within my life.
I don't believe that.
Yes, but say visiting us like literally coming into into our planet
and we're getting like aliens.
We're like France, you know what I mean?
Like if you could just like go to the alien embassy and chat to aliens.
That's it's like the biggest thing that's ever happened in our history, right?
I'd have so many questions I would never get answers to.
I think my life would be too short.
I think that it would be like a Star Trek moment, right?
Shot first contact.
The best Star Trek movie, but whatever the case may be.
Actually, like, fuck, yes, it is 100 percent.
Yeah, I don't want to get political, but I agree with you 100 percent.
But like, I think if there's ever a moment
where we ever meet something that isn't human
from another planet or another star, it should, in theory,
if they don't decide that we're like not worth the effort, it should, in theory,
change the way we see our world.
Yeah. But the thing that I'm trying to get at with you is.
I think if anyone is ready for that moment, it's you.
I mean, like you're not here every day being like, well,
according to the Bible, six, you know, the world is only so many years old.
And so, you know, like dinosaur bones are a trick.
Like, like those are the people I'm worried about.
Those are the people that, like, I don't know how they would handle
like they would be like those are demons, right?
They would have to.
That's the only thing they can.
They would be like those are demons.
I guess I just I guess I don't mean like I would lose my mind in that regard.
It would just my in a philosophical way.
I'd have to reevaluate everything.
It's the same way.
Not in a bad way.
It would mean it would mean our understanding of our own sciences
meet our meaningless, right?
Because no, it means that we just haven't caught up yet, right?
It means that like they have they've had more time with it than we have.
It doesn't make our work any less valuable.
They're just ahead of us.
They've been doing it longer like that also would make me.
But if they are able to do these things,
it means they could just snap and obliterate us if they ever so chose.
And that would be kind of scary little thought in the back of your head.
Yeah, but here's the thing.
A meteor could do the same and we would have no say.
So like I have those thoughts.
Let's let me remind everyone.
We literally watch like a small fraction of the sky at any given time.
And so just, you know, I think come on.
No, I just get us. There's nothing you can do.
Let it go.
I think it's just sea change anxiety.
You know what I mean?
Like just the conceiving of like conceiving of that world is like stressful to me.
But I am also like, I mean, I'm excited as well,
because I've always wanted to know because that would change everything than
the average person I think about it in most ways, especially culturally.
It's so crazy.
Like as the person here, least likely to believe any of this happening,
I'm also apparently the one with zero anxiety about it.
I would be like, awesome, utterly awesome.
I would be like, yo, this is the coolest thing.
I would finally actually believe we had a chance rather than everyone being like,
oh, Earth is doomed.
The aliens are going to get him.
I'd be like, we might have a chance to pull ourselves out of this death.
It really depends.
It really depends on what the message is, though, doesn't it?
Yeah, absolutely.
It would also depend for me what alien we see.
Are we going to see a graze?
Because then that adds a whole interesting layer.
You know, I don't mean any of those things.
It's not. But if it was, but if it was, how fucked up would that be?
If it was, if it was, I would owe Mathis a steak dinner.
At least one steak dinner.
You know, like hold you to that.
If a great show's up and it's like, hello, take me to a leader.
I'll be like, but Mathis, we've got to go.
You want your brother?
Yeah. Oh, God.
Well, we'll see what happens on that front.
I'm excited, though.
We'll see.
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Today, though, for episode 101, I realized it has been since
Halloween, since we've done a reader or listener story episode.
So I figured we were well due for one of those.
Really Halloween?
It's like seven months in a row.
Seriously, I'm we actually did a reader or listener story.
I feel like we're doing them all the time.
Like I think about it like we do one in a we do mini soles with one or one or so.
No, but I mean, I feel like I'm like in my mind,
I'm like, we shouldn't do too many reader story episodes because yeah.
But I only do like two or three a year.
I think over. That's crazy.
Someone's going to correct your ass real quick.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
No, that's correct.
You're wrong. All right.
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All right.
All right.
The story is so all right.
Thank you guys, everybody.
These all came from Reddit because you guys are just endlessly
pouring your own stories onto that onto that area.
So hey, go check out the Reddit, by the way.
There's so many good stories over there from all of you guys.
The first two stories are going to be UFO based because obviously
with all the things going on.
So I'll take the first one.
Here we go.
This is called A Tale of Two UFOs by Kriny Shome.
So to start, when my parents were first married in the late 80s,
they lived together in a little apartment right by the water
in Hermosa Beach, California.
South Bay, representative.
Hey, my, my, don't know.
Yeah, wherever that is.
Sweet.
I only know.
Yeah.
No.
My mother was pregnant with my older brother.
My father split time between working in a television studio
and surfing, and they had a large pet turtle named Stimpy.
Stimpy.
Stimpy.
Yeah.
Oh, that cartoon disturbed me as a child.
It disturbs people to this day.
Let me tell you.
Yeah.
Have you seen the one, the adult one?
It's great.
No, I haven't.
I forgot they need a new one, isn't it?
There's an adult Renn Stimpy and they sneak into a shower
and it's great.
I think I'm supposed to be mad at the guy who makes that show,
but I don't.
Yeah, no, like after the guy, but like shout out to both Renn
Stimpy for being perverts.
Anyway, continue, please.
OK, continuing.
My parents have always been very religious and superstitious
folks, so anytime they would tell a wild story,
I took it with a grain of salt.
Anyway, on to the UFOs.
My mother told me that one sunny day in Hermosa,
she and my father were taking a walk by the beach.
As they approached an area where the sidewalk ramps down
to meet the sand, my mother saw a strange light coming
from the ocean.
She pointed it out to my father and several onlookers
began to crowd around to look as well.
As they all watched, my mother claims that a huge shape began
to slowly emerge from the ocean and flow above the water.
She described it as an enormous white metallic disc
with a smooth surface and no distinguishable markings on it,
save for a brilliant blue glow from the bottom.
At this point, my mother says police and unmarked cars
were speeding up to the scene and ushering people away
from the area and asking them what they think they just saw.
As this happened, the craft began to rise more and more
quickly before zooming off into the distance,
moving like a leaf falls, but in reverse on many occasions.
Yeah, I'm trying to picture that as well, like like the side
to side, like if it. Yeah.
But it's going up.
Well, it's going to take off.
I'm just thinking of that feather and forest gump.
Yeah, I can't get it out of my mind, but reverse.
On many occasions, yeah, you want to go ahead and do a go
a forest gump impression, a forest gump impression.
Yeah, is that what we're doing?
Mama always said a spaceship is as a spaceship does.
Right. Thank you for that.
Yeah, there you go.
On many occasions, both my parents told the story.
Stereo.
The toilet died.
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Nice.
On many occasions, both my parents told the story
the exact same way with the same small details.
But without the other present to influence them.
However, neither knew any of the people they claim claim to
witness it and any search for stories of sightings at the
same place and time have come up with nothing at all.
So I'm naturally naturally skeptical.
But here's where things get funny.
My folks were really shaken up by their sighting and discussed
it on and off for days after not able to explain what they saw.
About a week later, very late at night, my parents were back
from a party and had been drinking quite a bit.
As we were getting ready for bed, an intense light from the sky
shone into the windows of the apartment.
My father rushed to the window, looked out into the sky and
shouted, oh, my God, they're back.
They're here for me before descending into a fit of panic.
Yeah, I don't know why your father immediately thought that
they were there for him.
How is this not like one of the biggest UFO sighting stories of all time?
Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good.
Well, hang on.
My mother peered through the window and out into that inky black sky.
And you will never believe what she saw.
The fucking good year blimp.
Oh, my God.
OK, there's your answer.
South Bay represent.
The blimp would regularly take passenger tour
touring flights over the South Bay and it had been at a very low
altitude over the city, just cruising along.
Naturally, my mother died laughing and had to explain to my father
through bouts of gaffawing that it was simply a blimp.
For years after up until she had kids and even before my father passed,
anytime a blimp went over our house, she'd get big eyes,
point and tell my father, look, John, they've come for you.
Then absolutely lose it.
Meanwhile, John's like, I get it, OK.
The man was traumatized that night.
Well, I don't at all believe they really saw UFO.
This story is a favorite in our family and always makes us laugh.
Now, something shorter and less funny.
My father was a man always prone to melancholy and anger
and seemed to find it impossible to find any common life.
He was well known in our community for a short temper
and generally grumpy mood.
My father claimed that one night as he was attempting to fall asleep
on the couch, laying back with his eyes closed, he began to feel
a strange electricity in the air and found that he couldn't open his eyes.
He heard the sound of whooshing air and felt a light weight
from two feet standing at the end of the couch.
He then felt this thing's body lay directly on top of his toes touching,
knees touching, chest touching and foreheads touching.
Oh, my God, I couldn't open his eyes.
Then the thing spoke to him in a horse low voice and said,
don't take life so seriously.
It is not a game you can play to win.
You will be visited again in due time.
He then felt the thing touching him disappear all at once.
And when he could again open his eyes, his room was empty.
From what we know, he never had another experience of this type before he was gone.
Well, I think the story, too, can be explained away with reason,
or maybe these were all the Mothman checkmate atheists.
I definitely think it makes for a spooky little tale.
Thanks for reading.
I love you guys.
Keep doing what you do best.
And I'm going to leave that call for Alex to take care of.
I want to say if I were ever to get visited by anyone who just
wanted to like lay on top of me first off, I hope they're like,
you don't know, like a light spirit.
I'm fine with that.
But the fact that it was like, yo, bro, don't take this shit seriously.
You'll never, you'll never get out of life.
I'm like, I would have been like, hell, yes, man.
I feel you.
Just touching forward to forward.
I imagine the ghost like leans up and just gently kisses the forehead before
he leaves his eyes closed.
Just like, you're doing good, but below his friends.
I'm fine with that.
I've been like, you know what?
It wasn't creepy.
It wasn't weird.
It's just like, hey, don't take it too seriously, dude.
I'd be like, yeah, thanks, pal.
Back to bed.
I go.
All right, Jesse, I'm going to let you take on this next one.
Oh boy.
Here we go.
So this is UFO over the I-10 by CJ Maximillium.
So the I-10, I guess it'll be explained in here, but that's what I took
when I was driving to go to the wedding a few weeks ago.
Oh, so I have experience.
I have experience with the I-10.
It is a road with nothing on it.
Nothing is on that road.
All right.
Anyway, it's just desert.
After a while, you're like, whoo, OK.
Long time listener.
First time caller here.
This story happened in July of 2020.
And it's not the first time I've seen weird things on the road.
Jesse is not allowed to poo poo this because I slipped in a good local
eatery into the story form.
That's how it works, right?
That is how it works.
Yes, I have to.
I can't wait to see what the local eatery is.
I was the time a cross country truck driver had my own truck and was
contracted to a company hauling air cargo between airports.
It was a sweet gig and paid really well with weekend runs being the best paying.
The only downside was it was always overnight work.
So it's a cool Friday night in the middle of summer.
And I have a run that's going from LA to El Paso.
And it doesn't have to be there until Monday morning at 8 a.m.
I have the time to drag my feet and I could get a run
and I could get the run put on a one pace.
Oh, boy, that English hard one.
I could get the run put on one pace dub and make an extra grand on top of it.
Damn. I rolled out of the LA warehouse about
030 local time and with the warehouse being off the California
91 Highway on Victoria Street and Wilmington Avenue,
that is a very specific place.
A quick aside, that's a really good Chinese place with a walking distance
of there. I know exactly where that is.
I had a ways to go before I got on the valley.
And out into the desert.
It's now about 2 30.
I just left truck stop just before going up the hill and burning towards Phoenix.
I love I love the trucker lingo in here.
I just want to let you know that it adds like a flavor to it.
Burning towards Phoenix.
That's like a great phrase.
It is.
And I was in a really good mood.
I'd be in a good mood burning towards Phoenix.
I was burning towards Phoenix earlier today, dude.
She was lit.
The further you get out of the marine layer near Long Beach
towards the interior, the warmer it gets.
That's that's a truth right there.
I had the windows cracked and the air conditioning running just enough
to help circulate air through the whole cab.
My shoes were off.
I had one of two bangs open and one cup and in one cup holder.
I had two.
I had one of two bangs open.
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
They have one of their two bangs that they're going to drink open
and in a cup holder.
But what is a bank?
It's a drink.
Oh, oh, oh, OK.
Yes, yes, I'm old means drink.
No, no, no, it's an actual brand of energy drink.
Oh, is it? Oh, like bang energy.
Oh, OK.
I thought again, I thought this is a more cool trucker lingo.
I was like, I have one of my two bangs open.
I was like, Alex, this guy's cooler than I'll ever be.
And a lit cigarette between my lips.
He is cool and over.
But this guy was like too late rolling down the road.
I actually had an episode.
Jalumnati playing over the speakers.
Listen to the James Dean murder car episode.
If I remember correctly, I'm in this story.
Yeah, he's he's he's painted a vision.
Now we're part of it.
Yeah, this is great.
Now, at this point, I was in the middle of nowhere.
Had to have been somewhere between
Shirakho, Shirakho, I'll say, Shirakho Summit
in the state line with Arizona.
It was a new moon out.
So the only thing lighting this way ahead were my headlights.
The winds were calm and the air was gently passing through my cab.
The dull glow of the football lighting was the only thing illuminating the cab.
Eventually, I noticed something out of my right peripheral.
Well, there was no moon out.
There were still plenty of stars out.
So you could still make out the outlines of mountains in the distance.
The thing was I could make out the outlines of the mountains,
but there was something in the sky.
It looked to be keeping pace with my truck
and skirting about maybe 100 meters over the surface.
Now, I know what a plane or a helicopter looks like.
I grew up in a house that was directly under the helicopter flight path
of an air for an air base, even if they were flying in a similar altitude
with all exterior lighting off as they usually do during exercises.
They still make a hell of a racket.
Like shake your windows out of their frames kind of racket.
Doubly so for a plane,
even a turboprop airframe would produce enough noise that it'd be a dead giveaway.
I know it was dead.
Quiet. Yeah. Out my windows.
So I'm like I'm not so I'm very close to LAX
and I'm not like in the path of the airplanes,
but why I am in the path of is every time a president or dignitary comes here,
the helicopter flight path goes right past my apartment.
Those things, I'm just going to say, I'm going to let everyone know right now,
dear presidents, it is.
It is like shocking how close you come to my apartment.
And I'm going to let you know I can like see Marine one just like
and I feel like that's dangerous.
If I am that close, I don't think I'm just saying.
Yeah, but it's not like it's not like, you know, it's like a fortress.
I mean, I guess they didn't have a tack, it's always cool.
They have like a tack helicopters with it.
It's very cool.
I guess if I'm over here like, boo, they could turn around, just blow me up.
They want to. But dude, I live so close to the freeway.
Like there's like this like motorcycle ride that goes by my house sometimes.
Even those little tiny motorcycle engines will like
rattle your face off, you know, when you when they go by.
Like, you know, imagine just a plane, how much louder
like a helicopter is or a plane engine is, how much louder that is.
If you ever want to have a great time and be terrified,
go get stuck at the red light just in front of LAX on Washington Boulevard.
You are like in the path of the planes landing.
They are a hundred feet above you.
And the whole like world shakes as they go by.
It's crazy. Yeah, nuts.
Anyway, I spent the next few minutes keeping an eye out on
keeping an eye on it out of the corner of my eye,
only looking at it directly for maybe half a second each time.
Good. Keep an eye on the road.
I was properly spooked.
There was something there for sure, but I couldn't identify it.
It was only then the truck lurched and the dash cam.
The dash came to light with an electrical fault.
Typical. The truck thinks it's out of fuel when I top off less than 200 miles ago.
I hit the hazards and brought it to a stop on the shoulder.
The lights of Blythe, I know where Blythe is the place that
while I was driving back to LA, all the sign said, be sure to stop there
because it's the it's the first city in LA in is the first city in California.
So everyone there sells pot. That's what I that's what I.
Yeah. So everyone coming from Arizona was like, that's where I'm stopping at.
The lights of life are twinking in the far distance.
I checked the clock. It was about three fifteen in the morning.
I popped open the passenger side door, stepped out and lit another smoke
while standing in the swirling dust and glow of my headlights
while searching for this thing. I found it again.
And I watched it carry on going eastbound over the interstate.
I didn't feel afraid or terrified.
A little spooked, sure, but not like I was pissing my pants.
I got about a mile and a half out before making a hard 90 degree turn straight up.
And oh, it did. I don't know why I said I was like,
and then he took off and flew away. I flew in space with him.
Yeah. And I joined him. I joined him in orbit.
And we held hands. We flew in a space.
I took a good long drag of my cigarette and stood there and all for a couple minutes.
I stepped back in my truck shadow facing away
from the road to take a leak.
OK, I spat my nearly spent smoke on.
Damn, this guy has the coolest bird here.
Yeah, I spent my nearly spent smoke into the damp dirt before.
I love that he took a piss.
And then, you know, no force fires through his cigarette into that piss.
I'm I love everything about this man.
Anyway, it I spent I spent my nearly spent smoke
into the damp dirt before climbing back into my truck, took a few tries,
but eventually the damn thing decided I have plenty of fuel and fire right up
the Detroit diesel rumbling under the hood.
I chuckled a little while and got back up to speed
and back on the pavement and saw my first UFO.
It was kind of cool.
That's the story.
I thought it was great.
I love the fact this man was supposedly listening to our show.
It's a great story.
I cannot read Cool Lingo to save my life.
I am not. I'm not the character who's like literally the phrase.
I spat my nearly spent smoke into the damp dirt before climbing.
I can't even read that.
I couldn't read it there.
I can't do it. It's like too cool for me.
It's like rebel without a cause over here.
And I'm just like, he was burning on the way to Phoenix.
I'm like, I don't deserve to read this story.
I don't even like I'm ashamed.
And you feel like shitting on it, though.
He said you're not allowed to.
Well, I mean, I didn't know much knowledge there is, you know, like you got to be.
You got to give him respect for that.
Like he's like, here's my knowledge about airplanes.
This is why it wasn't an airplane, you know, at the very least.
Say anything that was like crazy.
He was like, I was driving and I saw a weird thing and I don't know what it was.
And then I saw it like shoot up into the sky.
Like that's the out of all the stories we've gotten.
That's one of the least like it was like.
And then the gremlins said to me, who to who?
And you're like, what is the most believable story these ones
and ones that are like really weird are the ones that I always believe.
Like this one is like very like exactly how you would imagine this going
in real life, right?
If you had to imagine it realistically.
But then there's that story about the door, you know, from the other day
with the floating door.
I think I don't remember if that was in an episode or in an episode.
So yeah, it was a mini.
So yeah, the floating door story was very bizarre, which you can find right now
on patreon.com slash 90 pod and, you know, it's just so specific and weird
that I'm like that probably happened.
Like I don't know.
I don't even understand the motivation of coming up with something like that
because it's just like strange.
It doesn't make you seem like cool or anything.
It's just like a weird thing that maybe happens, you know?
Yeah. Yeah. Those are those are really fun.
And I like the ones where they're so high, they break themselves
down to mathematical equations. Always always.
It's it's relatable. You know what I mean?
That's relatable. Yeah, exactly.
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This one's for you, Alex.
OK, so this is called the shy toilet ghost by Hannah.
And there's a trigger warning here that for mentions of suicide.
So just be aware of that going forward.
Hello, Mathis, Alex, Jesse and anyone else reading this story.
This is perhaps the most confusing story I have.
I don't understand why it happened.
I don't think I ever will.
And honestly, I'm OK with that.
It was scary at the time, but it's fairly comical looking back at it.
So without further ado, the story of the toilet ghost.
My friend went to a private school.
This school has boardings.
Yeah. What's up?
Is this like this?
It's like, yeah, let's say this is Myrtle.
So anyways, I was the fourth name that came out of the Goblet of Fire
in the tri-wizard train.
Dear man, this is crazy because I don't have parents
and I'm just trying to figure my shit out.
And this old wizard is trying to kill me, who killed my parents.
And it's just annoying.
And now a ghost is trying to have sex with me in my bathroom.
You know, it's hard to walk straight through a wall to get on my train.
Anyway, anyway, this is a dumb bit.
My friend went to a private school.
The school has boarding students and consequently some fucked up kids
and a history of suicides.
There were loads of ghost stories I've heard from my friend
and other students there over the years.
One of the ones that made me most uncomfortable
was the story known as The Blue Boy.
I might get some details wrong here, but here we go.
This story, as I remember it, consisted of two graduating class photos,
one from early in the school's life, I think, around the mid-1800s
and another around the mid-1900s.
Both pictures had the class in front of a part of the building
with a bunch of windows.
Both pictures featured a blue-tinged boy in the window, the same boy.
As I understood it, most of the students held this story as true.
However, I wasn't convinced.
At the time, I was highly skeptical of everything paranormal, including ghosts.
And this occurrence has made me someone of a believer.
However, I still am, for the most part.
This brings us to the night of a play.
I believe it was Antigone and my friend was doing lights or sound for it.
I got there early and took a leisurely walk to the bathroom before finding a seat.
I opened the door and immediately saw something strange.
Someone was sitting in the smaller stall.
As they heard the door open, they withdrew their legs behind the stall wall
to hide from me, I guess I don't really know.
I thought, OK, strange, but OK, sure.
I shrugged it off and proceeded into the bathroom.
I quickly noticed that the stall door was open.
The way the bathroom was set up, you could see almost the entire
stall interior from just a step or two into the room.
I was shocked to find there was no one in the stall.
I checked the other stall, also nothing.
There was no way they could have snuck past me.
I was standing in the only entrance to that room.
The air ducts were way too small for anyone to fit in.
And the windows were barred due to concerns that kids might jump.
I was a little shaken to say the least.
So I quickly pissed and then left, which is how I like to leave every situation
that I leave. That's one of my life rules.
I watched the play, but I couldn't stop thinking about what the hell just happened.
I proceeded to tell my friend and some other friends from the school
with my wild stupid tale of the shy toilet ghost while doing an incredibly
bad French accent to ease the tension.
As was I, we had been that they did do to being fairly accurate at the time.
I still am, but I try not to care and that seems to work.
After that night, I always went to the further, less convenient
bathroom for the remainder of my days using men's restrooms.
Thankfully, I am no longer living as a man and the conveniently
placed women's room in that school has never held any spooky experiences for me.
And now I hardly set foot on the property anymore.
Say for the occasional event, me and my friend attend to support our
underclassmen friends there.
This is one of the two paranormal stories that I have.
However, this is the more interesting one.
This was my first strange experience that I couldn't chuck up to anything
other than paranormal happenings and has opened my mind a little.
I am now somewhat less of a skeptic.
However, I still don't know if I believe.
Hope you all enjoyed and feel free to share on the podcast.
Thanks, Hannah, for that story.
That is maybe the most horrifying imagery that I can imagine
associated with the ghost sighting, like that I wouldn't lose my mind about.
If you know what I mean, like it's right on the edge of pure terror.
Where I wouldn't be like, oh, you know, but I but like, I don't think I
would have been able to pee.
Oh, I mean, when you got a pee, you got to pee. That's.
I don't think I would have been able to go through with it.
I mean, you got to come up.
Maybe it was someone in the bathroom.
And they like slipped and fell in the toilet.
We always hear about it.
People always ask you fall in while they were watching it.
And they were like, yeah, this could be a cautionary tale.
Yeah, people always say you fall in and we always think they're joking.
But they're people are concerned about you.
Or maybe that happened 200 years ago and this and that's just the ghost.
You know what I'm saying?
And when the feet disappeared, that was the feet being sucked back in.
Yeah, I didn't hear anything.
And the way you got to remove those hauntings
is you have to have somebody die the same way on a toilet in Australia.
And then the two they meet in the middle.
The ghosts rotate too.
Yeah. And they meet and then they and then they on get it every each other.
I mean, somewhere in the core of the earth and their their souls.
That's how diamonds are made.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Right. That's how diamonds are created.
Diamonds are the souls of the dead. Yes, of course.
Yeah. Thank you for that story.
I mean, look, these are the types of stories I like because there's there's no like.
I looked it up and it turned out that every detail in my story
was in a single magazine article about this from 10 years earlier
that I definitely didn't just read like I like this one because it's just
like a shamelessly personal story
that is totally believable as something that could have happened.
And there's no explanation.
And I like those types of stories more.
They resonate with me more.
Agreed. All right, Jesse, I'm actually going to give you the next one as well.
All right. Is this one written by another incredibly cool person
that I won't be able to keep up with? Are we good?
And I don't know. I think you'll be able to keep up with this one.
We'll see how it goes, but go for it.
All right. Sorry. Oh.
The show is a beauty.
All right.
The nuke dream desires by design.
The new design by design is like something.
There's like as a clone or something.
Yeah, it's definitely like a series of adult novels.
Yeah. That are only sold through Amazon.
design by design graphic designer, right?
Who falls in love with the things he creates.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I rarely remember my dreams, but when I do, I write them down.
One of the few dreams I remember goes like this.
Here we go.
It's late afternoon when the dream starts already going about my day.
For some reason, I'm working in the fifties diner,
just the way you'd imagine a stereotypical fifties diner to look
red and white color scheme, glass windows, everyone dressed in fifties clothing.
The diners in the middle of the desert, no discernible country or region.
The day seems to go about normally for what my dream
interpreted, what a fifties diner might be like.
Out of the blue, a fight breaks out between two of the guests.
Neither of them have any faces, totally blank.
No eyes, no nose, no mouth, the sound of static rings through my ears.
Like they're trying to speak, but it's muffled.
Have you ever seen a scramble TV?
You know what it's like when channels mingle with one another
and the voices are muffled. It's like that.
The sound of their static voices
muffled, muffled more and more and become faded until it is totally silent.
Everyone freezes, staring out the windows.
Time suddenly stops as I slowly turn.
I see a flash of white.
A nuclear bomb is slowly exploding in front of the restaurant.
I wake up and then the ink spots come in over the speakers.
I don't want to.
I mean, I play a lot of fallout.
It's haunting, you know, this is the this is the vibe that I love that.
The that scene that everybody makes fun of in Indiana Jones
is actually really beautiful, like the one where he like hides in the fridge
and survives a nuclear blast.
I mean, here's that scene.
The moment we walks around that like the place we're going to do the test
is like haunting, it's great.
Yeah, it's the result is kind of silly,
but like that moment is certainly interesting for sure.
Yeah, it's awesome.
And yeah.
This is like the American nightmare, right?
Like this is like, I don't know how old you are, desired by design.
But if you're like 50, like, you know,
this was probably something you thought about all the fucking time.
You know, maybe maybe if you're maybe even a little older than 50,
you know what I mean? Like, yeah, I remember my my cousin's grandpa told
this story that he was like, all right.
Yeah, here's the orientation for if there's a nuclear blast at your school.
You go you get under your desk, you get your head and you tuck it down
between your legs and then you tuck it all the way down farther and farther
and farther till your head is sticking out from between your ankles.
And then you kiss your ass goodbye.
Yeah, that sounds about right, man.
I mean, I literally had to Google are was just like dreaming of a fifties
diner like I know most dream things.
I've never it's so specific, a fifties diner.
If you're American, I could interpret it as like,
you know, just wanting things to be how they were kind of vibes.
Well, I mean, there's no more romantic image in American imagery
than a fifties diner, right?
Yeah, like like a diner in general.
It's like like when you dream of a diner,
it's kind of like a comfort feeling, right?
It's like the nostalgia of something when you go to a diner,
you're eating comfort food, like that kind of thing.
And so I know a nuke, even though it seems weird,
is it's supposed to mean a new beginning, right?
Like whatever happens after that, like it's you've ended.
It's like a solid ending.
So I don't know what any of this means overall.
I don't know why the voices are muffled.
And it's like it's very specific, but I know that, you know,
it all ends because a nuke goes off and that's like, yeah, what a weird.
All right, like let me just let me let me take a crack at this
really quick, just because it's almost like they wrote this.
You know what I mean?
Like if you're if you're really getting into it, right?
Like if you want to get like this is me being a comparative lit major, right?
So you got the two people fighting in the American diner,
the classic idyllic setting, like I say,
the most romantic setting in American culture, I think.
But it's just noise. Yeah, they're just yeah.
And there's two people that you don't know that you don't recognize them.
They don't they're not connected to you, you know, like we know Joe Biden
is the president of the United States, right?
But we don't know Joe Biden, you know, and even more like, you know,
somebody like Putin or somebody like Kim Jong-un or, you know,
some some nameless threat to the country, you know, two people fighting that you don't.
But we know it's an American diner.
Hence, they are Americans, right?
But I'm just saying to people, it's symbolic, right?
It's just two strangers that don't have anything to do with you.
Like creating conflict.
And that's if there was a nuclear blast, you know what I mean?
It would be the result of two people fighting that you can't really understand
or that you wouldn't know, even if it's not necessarily,
you know, two guys in the diner next to you.
The the the the the perfect American lifestyle being wiped out
by a nuke as the result of or connected to two people that you don't understand
or really know or have, you know, it's that, you know, it's the difference
between being a senator and voting for a senator.
And I think that, you know, you could be having anxiety about that.
And I think in this day and age, especially when, you know,
we weren't even sure there was going to be a transfer of power this year.
You know what I mean? Like it's a it's a it's a it's a tumultuous time.
It's possible that aliens are going to land.
Did I send you guys that?
Did I send you guys that?
I'm going to I'm going to actually going to read that later on the mini
so that is available later on Patreon.com, such as the 90 pod.
Dude, I love the reputation.
You're really getting there.
I want to get on it because it's the best website on the internet.
You know, it's so earnest.
I will say that just like while you were talking, Alex,
almost every single person who mentions an explosion or
so it's all about anxiety.
So this is a great anxiety dream.
Like it's it's almost the way you describe it.
It's almost exactly what you would imagine anxiety dream to be about.
You're stressed about something.
Yeah. Yeah, I like it.
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Well, here's another one.
This is called the same nightmare by foggy
pansofic and try the fog foggy pansofic.
I think that's perfect.
I think you nailed that.
Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.
I started listening a couple of months ago.
Love the podcast, but basically at the beginning, he says, Jesse,
I swear to whatever is up there.
If you don't believe me, this is a hundred percent true.
He also wrote in parentheses yesterday.
I wrote in parentheses.
Hold on. He doesn't believe me.
Well, he says he already doesn't believe me.
I already don't.
No.
When I was around twenty two to twenty three, my ex then girlfriend
came to my dad's house for dinner with my stepmom and brothers,
one who was 10 years younger, the other 12 years younger.
It was a fun time, warm and comfortable.
The house was beautiful then.
But when my dad first moved there, I was around eight.
It was far from that at that time, roughly 14 years prior to the dinner.
It was owned by a creepy old lady.
And the house was what I called the Adams Family House.
The upstairs had bedrooms with outdoor shingles lining
in some inside walls of bedrooms, red carpets, dead flies on window screens
and dilapidated walls. That's awful.
The stairs led down to the main floor,
but turned awkwardly at the bottom.
Strange columns in the living room held up nothing,
and the kitchen had weird vents in the walls.
The gothic style door to the basement had maybe 30 separate pieces of rope
all tied into various knots, which were labeled and nailed to the door.
The basement itself had gothic doors leading to other rooms with iron cages
at face height, oddly placed tiles, a fake trap door that went nowhere
and a fake industrial revolution type of furnace.
All right. Let me just stop you real quick room.
What the fuck is the rest of the mansion?
This I don't know where the story is going,
but if you were just to stop there and be like, it was a weird house,
I'd be like, this is the scariest story we've ever had on here.
This is awful. Why would you? I'd be like, no, I'm good. No.
What puts it over like a little too far for you?
For me, it's the knots hammered to the door.
I mean, yes.
What the fuck?
Like the fake trap door that goes to nowhere.
It went to somewhere one time.
A fake furnace, a fake industrial revolution furnace.
That's so what it's like a Brett Easton Ellis novel.
I don't know what's going on here.
Maybe this was like someone who worked on films and like save stuff
from the like their set piece. I have no clue. I have no clue.
But that's that's an interesting idea.
At the time, my room was upstairs with the attic attached to my closet.
And the closet door had a red light on the outside when the attic light was off,
which is a stupid design and freaked out young me.
Whenever I wanted to sleep and everything was dark,
there was always the red light looking at me like the fucking eye of Sauron or something.
The house was creepy enough.
And now I had a red light at face height when I wanted to sleep later.
I can imagine that's like torture every single night trying to get to sleep.
It's like that episode of Seinfeld.
Oh, is it?
The Rodgers Roasters, the Roasters.
Yeah, it goes crazy later.
As my other two brothers were born,
they all had that room to at some point for a few years,
all of us shuffling around, but having occupied that room for a while individually.
One night, I had a nightmare.
The neighbor was making a Frankenstein's monster and was inhumanly wailing
in a high pitched voice about his bloody fingers right at me through his bedroom window.
What does that mean?
The neighbor was making a Frankenstein's monster.
This is the nightmare.
Yeah, this is the nightmare he's having.
Yeah, OK, I was like, yeah, yeah, time out.
What? We are.
We are.
OK, you know, it was a Frankenstein's monster.
I'm the problem. Yeah.
We are now in the nightmare.
So yeah, the neighbor was making a Frankenstein's monster
and was inhumanely wailing in a high pitched voice about his bloody fingers
right at me through the bedroom window.
It was borderline traumatizing how real it felt.
I was paralyzed and unable to yell in my dream and freaked out upon waking up,
unable to sleep for the rest of the night, and I kept the room light on.
I kept it to myself, chalked it up to a dumb nightmare
when the sun came up and forgot about it.
So now fast forward to the dinner where I'm like 22
in this amazingly refurbished and warm house that I've gotten used to
over the years with none of the creepy shit left over.
And we were just joking about how much how much changed in the house
and how creepy it used to be.
All sharing stories.
One of my brothers brought up that room with the light
and said something about it, bothering them.
I laughing brought up that nightmare and said something like,
yeah, that room creeped me out.
And one night I had a nightmare that the neighbor was yelling at me about some kind of
and I couldn't quite remember.
But my brother, 10 years younger than me, chimed in like he knew the answer.
Yeah, Frankenstein's monster.
My blood went cold.
That was it.
I forced myself to ask how he knew that, despite the sudden shift in mood
and me being pretty freaked out.
He said something to the effect of I had that same dream when I was in that room, too.
We were all we all were quiet.
But then just kind of moved on because it was so weird.
And I don't think anyone wanted to address it.
And neither did I.
So I had a few drinks to chill and forget about it.
And we all went back to having a nice dinner.
But my ex and I are still friends and she still will car out.
And she will corroborate that story for me.
And I think about how crazy it sounds.
And I convinced myself I'm misremembering something.
She doesn't like to think about it either.
Was it the house?
Something else I have no idea.
Any takers, thanks for the great content, guys.
Keep up the amazing work and look forward to new episodes.
You all rule.
That's cool.
Have you guys ever had to share dream experiences before?
Because I had a party.
I had a party one time at my grandma's house
that was like four generations of my family at this party.
And one of us started telling a story about a ghost we saw.
And then suddenly it was like so creepy because everyone at the table was like,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
And we'd all had like extremely similar ghost experiences
all in this same house because we'd all live there for at one point in time.
And we were just all finding it out over dinner, over 40 years of living there.
And it was just totally creepy.
That's wild.
And then one time me and my mom actually called my friend,
my childhood friend and his mom, because we the same night
had a dream where they went on a cruise and died.
Oh, my God, Jesus Christ.
And they were like, we're not going on a cruise.
You know, we're fine, like whatever.
But yeah, that happened one time.
That's crazy. Yeah.
My shared dream, I remember it well, was when I was young.
I was like nine, eight, probably eight or nine.
I was right after my grandmother died and me and my mom had the same dream
about my grandmother, myself and my mom all hanging out
and those like this weird kind of like comfortable goodbye type thing.
Granted, you know, you could chalk it up
to filling in each other's holes because I don't remember it exactly how we told it.
But I remember us have kind of coming away and be like,
that was really weird that we both kind of had that dream.
That's cool.
Some wild things do weird things.
Like, yeah, like a coincidence or not, you know what I mean?
Like, yeah, exactly.
The idea, like the metaphysical implications of a coincidence,
even on like a weird mystical thing, like a dream is so like
interesting in its own right that it's like paranormal almost
without even having to be anything.
All right, Alex, this is the last story of the episode, all yours.
OK, here we go.
This one is called an odd encounter at Alton Towers,
which I think is also a roller coaster tycoon scenario.
Just kidding.
And this is by Delvin with demo demo.
Here we go.
So I will start by saying I am a partial skeptic when it comes to ghosts.
As in, I don't believe that ghosts exist in the sense
that they are the manifestation of people long dead.
More to the idea that I believe there is more scientific ideas
like dimensional bleed through or warping in time in reality.
OK, that's, you know, so that's a theory on ghosts, right?
But that people have, as some people may know,
Alton Towers is a theme park in the UK situated in Stafford, England.
It was once a country home to the Earl of Derby Charles Talbot.
The house was built in 1801 and was occupied for many years
and now is a shell of its original self.
Visitors can wander through the house and gardens.
In 2001, myself and my dad were pass holders to Alton Towers,
which meant unlimited entry.
So one weekend we decided just to spend the whole day exploring
Alton Towers house and the gardens and other areas around the park
and not actually go on any rides until later in the day.
Now, at this time in the UK, there was an outbreak of foot and mouth,
which meant the park was extremely quiet.
Less than a thousand people in the park most weekend.
So it was especially quiet in the old house,
because I imagine it's probably like the boring shit, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
He had taken the north entrance that I'd taken the south
and we was due to both meet at the tower on the roof.
Neither of these routes would connect us together.
Remember walking through the dining hall and looking out over the park
as I turned around, I thought I saw the head, arm and back
and left leg of a figure walk left of a corner.
I thought nothing of it as I just assumed it was my mind playing.
He tricks on me.
But as I walked further into the house on two other occasions,
I had spotted what looked to be a figurehead in head to toe in black
walk between doors.
And I had to follow as they were in the direction of where I was heading
to meet my dad on the roof on another two occasions.
I had heard whistling and by the time I had got to the roof,
no more than 20 seconds later, my dad had appeared via the opposite roof entrance.
To this day, I still don't know exactly what I saw.
Maybe my dad was being an asshole.
Spelled arsehole here, but I can't say that without sounding like weird
and playing tricks on his 12 year old son or possible paranormal activity.
But that was my experience in the house of Alton Towers.
Years later, I came to find via most haunted, the TV show in the UK
that it is meant to be haunted.
And my God, if you love go shows, there is maybe not a better one
than most haunted with that fielding.
Shouter out once again as many times I can.
I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'd love to hear from others in the UK
who may have had the same experiences in older houses.
PS to the people from other countries.
There is a cool tale, which is a ride base,
which a ride is based on in the park called Hex.
It is the story of a local oak tree,
which is changed to stop the members of the Earl of Derby's family
from dying after a curse was put on their family.
It is a real tree.
You can find pictures of it and is a great tale.
And they based a ride on it off a tree.
What it's called the Hex is the case called Hex.
Maybe it's like a roller coaster that looks like chains, you know, kind of vibe.
Oh, yeah, I kind of want to look it up now.
Hang on and see. Yeah, I've got to get a glimpse.
Roller Hex, the legend of the tower.
Oh, my God. Yeah. Wow. It's like a ride.
It's like a full on. Oh, yeah, there it is.
This is like some like a castle.
That's a budget and some stuff going on here.
It has like Twilight Zone energy to my God.
This thing looks like really good.
Yeah, it looks freaking insane.
All right. Yeah.
I mean, there is something to that, right?
Like, I don't know.
I mean, people always say it's like
like frequencies and stuff or vibrations.
Yeah, that like cause you to have like weird hallucinations and stuff like that.
But there's just certain old places that just give you this vibe.
And sometimes it's new places, too.
There's like there's I feel like there's like a special amount of emptiness
that needs to be there.
There needs to be like a lot of space.
It's usually not a claustrophobic space that's haunted.
It's usually like a big open, winding space.
It's like almost like you have no sensory
like excitement going on.
So you like invent more activity or something.
I don't really know it.
I feel like it might be something like that, like some animal.
Instinct to just to keep you on your toes or something like,
you know, that trick that even survived as long as we did
because we're just afraid of everything.
Yeah, you know, we were very aware of our surroundings at all times.
You know, people do that thing where you can like trip out without doing drugs by playing.
You like play static, really loud and in headphones.
And then you tape half a ping pong ball to each of your eyes to like shut like.
It's almost like a sensory deprivation tank.
And then without the input, your brain just starts to like.
Create shit to fill the void.
Yeah. So there's no dead air.
People do that, too.
I used to watch this is before we were doing shilluminati used to watch
this ghost hunting crew on like on YouTube.
I can't remember their name, but they used to do that.
The Ouija board where they'd have they put the guy and they put the Ouija board
in his lap, they would tape two ping-pong balls to his eyes,
give him like sound blocking like earphones.
And then like tape his mouth shut and then just like ask questions
and like have the Ouija board, quote unquote, answer.
It was wild, very bizarre.
That's nuts.
Yeah, crazy.
Anyway, that's it for us here on the store on this episode.
Thank you guys so much for the stories.
If you want to drop stories and you're on the discord or over on the reddit,
you can do so on either one.
We kind of go through them every so often like for these episodes
and we love your stories.
They're I mean, the UFO encounter ones are my favorite
just because they're they're so interesting.
I just know more of those, please, if you've got them.
Don't make them up.
The only honest people. Thank you.
I will check your history and run them by the police
and have you arrested and put in jail if you lie.
We're going to go record a mini so now for patreon.com slash
Shaluma Naughty Pod.
Thank you guys so much for listening and we'll see you all next week.
Bye.
Bye.
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