We're Here to Help - WEIRD Here To Help: Cursed Baby Doll & Psychic Sons

Episode Date: July 3, 2026

Toronto Fringe Festival has a cursed baby doll on the loose, and our first caller knows exactly who to call for help! Later, a cool Dad hopes to tap into his two sons' telepathic communication abilities. Guest theme song by Michael Peloquin!Want to call in? Email your question to [e-mail]: https://patreon.com/heretohelppodMERCH: heretohelppod.comINSTAGRAM: @HereToHelpPodIf you’re enjoying the show, make sure to rate We’re Here to Help 5-Stars on Apple Podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a headgum podcast. Friends, are you weird? Do you need help? Then you've come to the right place. It's weird here to help. Uh, okay. It's time to get weird, everyone. Steve Berg, Eric Kettlestein.

We're so happy to be back in this weird world with you. As things get strange, just get stranger. I'm so happy to be here now live from Omaha, Nebraska. The greatest man I know, Steve, Eve, Berg, Erg. Stevie, what's going on? Buddy, you know, wait, what did you say? You had a great log line or a great quote.

When things get strange, just get stranger? Yeah, right? That should be the tagline for the show. I think that's, I think we all need to. This world is getting interesting. You're cooking a gas. We just are going to float above it right here. When things get weird, get weirder.

What is, Honor Simpson, when the going gets rough, the crazy gets to go professional or something? No, no, when the going gets weird, the weird term pro. that's it we're pros it's a great it's a great it's a great great quote we are the otani and erin jr and erin jrne or no we're the otani and bobbywood junior of weirdness steve that's exalt you you made me cry eric i had uh uh an interesting uh morning yesterday oh give me i uh so my dad and i we played tennis uh my dad's 84 just turned 84 and he is just still a uh committed tennis player still playing single how cool i know i know i know he's

He's a better shape than I am. It's embarrassing. But we were walking under the court for our usual 11 a.m. match. And let's call him Timothy, who kind of runs the Dewey Tennis Center. He was like, you know, he's a great guy. We love him, right? And he takes care of everything. He's a volunteer.

The guy's, he's an amazing person. But he came up to my dad. You know, he's like, Chris, I got, you know, I got to talk to you. And my dad's like, oh, yeah, hey, Timothy, what's going on? And he goes, well, so by the way, a little side note, we play on clay courts. And there's like four clay courts. Like ruined heroes? Yeah, well, exactly.

But it's green clay because it's, you know, North America. But I guess we've had a lot of rain lately. And supposedly one of my dad's tennis partners who plays with all the time was seen sweeping the water puddles off the clay, which I guess I just learned is a huge no-no. No. What? Because it's, well, it spreads the moisture on the clay, then it makes it harder to dry so people can't play. Anyways, Timothy was a little bit up in arms.

He was like, you know, to my dad, it's like, well, so, you know, your partner, who I'm not going to mention his name. Mention it. Mention it. Was seen. Sweeping the puddles off the court. Was seen.

It was claimed to be seen. And it was on the day my dad was supposed to play with him. So my dad is now implicated in this thing. Oh, I love the drama. So, you know, Timothy is like basically interrogating my dad. And I'm just kind of sitting back watching this, wondering how my dad's going to handle this.

And at the end he goes, look, look, Timothy, the reality of situation is blank, I'm not going to mention his name, was not, was not sweeping the water off the core. I'm not sure who told you that, but they were misinformed or misidentified it. My dad kiboshed the whole thing. After Timothy, whatever his name walks away,

my dad looks at me, goes, I ain't no rat. I was like, Dad, you're the man, dude. You're the man. And I was so proud in this moment. This is another reminder of how you got to be who you are, because you come from great stock. You don't come from rats. You don't come from narks. All right? You're about this Donnie Brasco life. Your dad ain't snitching. You absolutely swept the water off. It might have gained a competitive edge for you. Absolutely. But I was. What a great. Did you just bust out laughing right there in the court? I died. How can you not? I laughed so hard. I laughed so hard. I immediately, like, called my brother. My brother was like, I don't think I've ever been more proud of dad. Like, you know, it's like... Because he's not a rat. You know, and it's, and like, I was so worried because, you know, my dad's older.

Like, I thought he would just, like, you know, and he is an honest Abe, you know, like he is, uh, the man's never said a curse word in front of me. Wow. He is a straight arrow. He's never banged his fig. Like, you know, he is like, you know, like the straightest arrow, high quality man. And he stood up for his tennis buddy. and I was like, that is so amazing. My brother and I are just having the most fun with that.

It's absolutely hilarious. Oh, that's amazing. I love it. And your dad's never sworn. Never. Oh, my dad swears judiciously. Like, I remember once we went to see Saving Private Ryan, and we were both real quiet.

We kind of walked around the Vancouver Mall. And then he just turned to me. He said, you know what, Eric? Hitler was a real asshole. I mean, that is judicious because, I mean, Like, you know, it's like he's saving it for the worst to the worst. It is. Another time, this is when I finally left home to go to college.

I went to community college, and I went to Gonzaga, 20 years old. He's not an extremely emotional guy. He's definitely able to share and deal with emotions. But we had like a hug and we're both so sad as I'm leaving. Then right as I get in the car and start take off, he waves me down, waves me down. Like, oh, here we're at a real emotional moment. He goes, hey, Eric. When you're driving, don't ever put AMPM gas in your car.

It's rock that gas. It'll fuck up your tank. Thanks, Dad. Okay. You want to know what it's weird? Oh, God, no, I can't. Kate, she's an improviser in L.A. I improvised it over a long time.

She was from, like, tech, I think Dallas Fort Worth or something like that. And she said the same thing, because there was an AMPM that used to be on Franklin close to UCB. Sure. Yeah. And I referenced going to. there. Yeah, I referenced going there because I think I was like giving her right home. She's like, don't go there. They watered down their gas. I'm like, what? She's like, everyone in Texas knows that. So I didn't know. Yeah, I've never gone to AMPM. We're probably, we're losing them as a sponsor right now.

But my dad, I've never, then I feel guilty. I have done with a rental car. And that, that's a really sad thing to admit. And I'm not proud of myself. But I'm like, it's AMPM. It's so cheap. It's watered down. I get some nuts in there. Oh. I do. You know what? I do love like a planter. It's like a real shaggy. When you're on a road trip and just stopping at like a big old A&PM and I just over my.

They're so good. You can get like sometimes regional stuff. Like I was near Bakersfield recently and I got okra, fried okra in a bag. What in the ding dung were you doing at in Bakersfield, your weirdo? Yeah, a little road trip coming back from coming back from Cino Tani in San Francisco. And you stop in Bakerfield? Yeah, I got to see the great man pitch. You have a poll.

I feel like, you know, when I live in L.A., it was always like, you know, I can't meet for lunch. I'm in Bakersfield. I feel like if you weren't at home, you weren't in a show where you weren't at an audition or working, you're in Baker's Field. Bakersfield is my Palm Springs. It truly is. Bakersfield, everyone else go to Palm Springs. Bakersfield is glorious.

You know, Jake Johnson and I announced multiple Bakersfield Blaze games. You did. And that's cool as hell. Rest and peace to the Blaze that are no longer there. I love. love, love, sing live music in Bakersfield. It's like the only place in California that's like Texas or Outlaw. It is country.

It is a bunch of Texans came there, founded it. I've seen Neil Young shows at the Fox Theater. I walked down from the Padre Hotel. James Kirkland and Reg were there, Jack and McLaughlin. It was an incredible time. Anytime Willie Nelson plays in Bakersfield, I try to go. Merle Haggard. Merle Haggards from there.

Oh, are you kidding? And all the honky talk. He played in trouts. You know, Merle famously warned us to not swim in the Kern River, man. Well, he was right. The Kern River will take people this year, not trying to bring it down. So let's bring it right back up. Steve, we have some incredible calls today.

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from or fake calling from hello my real name is miranda and i am really calling from Toronto in Canada oh we love Canada we love Canada we love Canada and now let me say this because we're all different archetypes from sex in the city are you You have Miranda that's also a Miranda? This is so embarrassing, but I've never watched Sex and the City, so I don't really know. I haven't either. You know what? It's a fun watch.

Eric's a fun watch. Eric's a diehard. I bet I've seen them all. He went to Sex and CityCon in Trent, New Jersey last year. Eric, well, really quick, Eric, what Sexner City lady would I be Cynthia Nixon? Without seeing it, I feel like I would be. Ah, see, I think there's amalgams. I think you're kind of Cynthia Nixon, Charlotte.

Uh-huh. and I think I'm what's the what's the spicy one? You're the one who gets around I think I think it's that one a little bit of Charlotte I'm naive and then I'm dabbling and having a whole lot of fun you're dabbling

Miranda give it a watch because I'm sure you get it sometimes because of your name but sometimes stuff's great for a reason it'll take you back to New York in the 90s when life was simpler and a lot of people have been clamoring for a watch-long party with Eric and I watching the pilot for Sex and City so we'll make sure that happens. Okay that's going to happen on the

Patreon very, very soon. Everyone's been asking. Miranda, break it down for us. Let's get a album, a book, and a movie slash premium TV show, and we're mixing it up, friend. We're constantly expanding. In honor of Steve Berg and his greatness,

we want a food item. You're on a desert island the rest of your life. You get a food item now, too. So, food, album, movie, book, drop science on us, friend. Oh my gosh. Okay. I thought I thought about this in the 30 seconds before this call because I realized that we asked this. Right. For album, probably a stranger, Billy Joel.

Oh, I love it. You know, when I was a kid, these are all root causes because I love going to shows by myself. And people are like, how long have you done that? 10 years from? Nope, I went to Billy Joel on the stormfront tour by myself because no kids ago. I was probably 12 years old, and my mom said, well, I guess we can get you a single ticket. Rick and Sherry Jackson are going, but you won't be sitting with them. And I'm like, that's fine. So I was like a 12-year-old kid by myself at Billy Joel Stormfront tour. So I am deeply in with your album.

I also went to the moving out live Broadway show, and you better believe Billy played. I love Billy. Steve, I bet you don't love Billy. No. Why not? I love Billy. Because he can't love Billy. It's not punk enough for him.

No, shut up. Shut up. I mean, like, not everyone has to like. I like Hilton John. He's not punk. I'll take Billy over Elton. Yeah, it's more of a thing that, it's more of a thing that his music doesn't appeal to me. But that's, that's okay.

We all have, like, I'm sure. But there's so much more than Uptown girl. And the funny thing of Billy is, but did you watch the documentary on her? I actually, I did because my wife likes him and so she made me watch it. I enjoyed the documentary because I'll watch any documentary about musicians. That's like my favorite genre in the world. And he's true kind of crazy. So I thought it was well done.

You may be right. I may. be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for. Come on. That's the song. I'll tell you what, my, my like, MK Ultra Activation song is heart attack, you want to know. Hold on. It makes me like, must kill the queen. It's like, yeah. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Miranda, we're divided on Billy Joel and Steve's wrong. That's fine. Break us off with a book and then your TV slash movie. That's okay. One of my all-time favorite books is,

I mean, I love the Golden Compass series by Philip Pullman. They're like a young reader series. Sure, yeah, fantasy stuff. So great. Movie is definitely a Knight's Tale. It's an all-time favorite movie. Oh, with Heath Ledger. I've never seen that.

I remember it was controversial when it came out because he had modern music done by Queen. Am I right? Yes. I mean, it's very anachronistic. They've got Queen. They've got David Bowie. And they were kind of the first ones to do that, where they were taking like modern music at,

placing it in like a period thing, and then that became kind of trendy. Yeah, people, it's got a very poor Rotten Tomato score, which I think is an absolute shame. It's my all-time favorite movie. It's the 25th anniversary of its release this year, and I went to a 25th anniversary screening at a community theater in Toronto. So, how cool. So people were mad that they had Queen? How can you get mad about what did they want, like a loot and a liar?

That's what they wanted. They went a loot and a liar. Oh, man. Queen makes everything better. I was at Umami burger with one Jacobus Johnson. Named Rob. When we found out that Heath Ledger died. And I remember we were both like, and we were both like, God, this is kind of hitting

it's hard, even though we weren't like, you know, like Ledgerheads. But we were both like, ah, he's a good guy. He was a really good actor. Yeah. Did you ever see, and I'm sorry, Miranda, I promise, you know, but you broke your body. You know who we are. Did you ever see the footage when they told Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger passed away? I told him.

It's truly pretty amazing. And I think about it as somebody that plays a lot of. lot of bad guys. And that was Jack Nicholson, gave a lot of advice to Heath Ledger, don't get too into the Joker. Learn how to decompress and let those vibes go because he's sitting out there. You can find this footage easily. He's in Paris.

He walks out for a smoke and starts signing autographs. And the paparats are like, what about Heath Ledger? What about him? And like, he just died. And then he just pauses and he goes, I told him. I told him. basically saying don't turn into the Joker. Leave that shit on set.

Don't drive home with the Joker. And like I see people to play bad guys that torture themselves and I worry about them all. Be more like me. Play a bad guy. Then go home, blast Neil Young, have fun. Hang out with the people you're just terrorizing on set because we're just playing make-believe.

We're playing pretend. But watch that Jack Nicholson Heathley ledger footage. It's pretty darn wild. Okay, what about an album? You're crushing it so far, Miranda. She already mentioned an album. Which one? Stoner.

What? Billy Joel, the freezer. Okay, so all we have left is food. We got a book. I admit it, I admit it. It's early. I just think to honor Steve, and Steve's curious anyway, he's been wanting to ask this a whole time.

But this is also a great way to know you because there's a difference between a pizza person and a burger person and a suvlocke person and sushi. And, you know, you're on a desk. Island, you can only have one food item. It's a venany machine that reproduced. I'm going to ask Steve that. Steve, you can only have one food on a desert island.

What is Steve Bird picking? I think a lot of us don't know. My gut feeling, I'm going to say what my guess is after you go, but I'm genuinely curious. Well, see, okay, I'm thinking of, like, what I'm not going to get tired of and what is going to have, what's going to have all the nutrients I need? I think it would be like a really fine chicken chihuamama plate with like roasted vegetables that yellow rice really nice cooked chicken shwarm i got the protein got the starch got the

vegetables that's what it would be with a nice yogurt tahini sauce um good god that's absolutely what i'm getting after i don't think you're gonna get sing that brother it's hard like like halal cart stuff you know like that that that's kind of like the food i'm eating the most right now it's clean mediterranean diet you know and it's delicious always i can eat it every day oh that's exciting All right, Miranda, what's your food dish? I think my mom makes probably the best chicken wings in the world. Everyone maybe says that. But she double broils them, so all the fat comes off.

Yeah, you render that stuff. And it's a honey garlic chicken sauce, and it's just truly the best. All other chicken wings are in for me. Yeah, when you double boil, you're really rendering all the fat off and it's making that skin really thin and crispy. She knows what she's doing. That's how I do it. Sometimes I broiled them put on the grill just for those marks.

Oh, God, I'm starving. That sounds so good. But Miranda, we're not here to talk about culinary delights. We are here to help you with a little advice. We are and Steve. They listen to the show. It's 30% of where we end up, buddy. I figure we should just lean into it now, you know?

Yeah, that's true. Dead man's curve. You just turn more and you're fine. It's all food advice from here and out. Yeah, please. We're here to have food. Brandon, what's cooking, friend? Oh, my gosh.

Well, you're not just helping me today. You are helping the Toronto Fringe Festival today. I work for the Toronto Fringe Festival. I do. It's true. Oh, how cool. Could you, I know what that is. Can you please explain to the listeners what the Toronto Fringe Festival? Yeah, of course I can.

So we are an independent, well, we're a part of an organization of French festivals. French festivals, the Toronto French Festival is an undiournish festival. festival, which people can submit through a lottery, get their show chosen, and produce it under the heading of the Toronto Fringe Festival. We're at 27 different venues across the city this summer over about two weeks. Going from June 30th to July 12th, I work as the patron services coordinator. So I'm doing, I'm exhausted. We're about to do staff training and it's all exhausting. But it's very fun and we're very excited. And we have. invited a curse into our office.

Oh, okay, okay, okay. Hold on, Miranda. I have one really nerdy question for you. Is one of your venues potentially going to be Massey Hall? No, it's not. I need, there's this important Neil Young bootleg live for Massey Hall, and it's

incredible Steve, right when he was getting famous. If you could help Eric track that down, that would be bonus points. Okay, yeah, sure. I will be a Massey Hall one day. I will write you a personal check if you can get that for Eric. But, Steve, no pressure. We just have to. to say the Toronto Fringe Festival right now.

Are you up to it, buddy, on this Friday morning? I, Eric, I would love the beginning. We love Canada. We should do a two-man. You and I will two-man improv. We say how Minnesota is the friendliest people, but that's only because we're not counting Canada. Minnesota's partially so friendly because they're so close to Canada, the same of the Northwest.

That's right. We love Canada. We revere at the altar of Teagan and Sarah, Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell the Toronto Raptors Vancouver Grizzlies RIP What kind of curse Yes

What kind of Oh I heard they just crushed it For incredible shows My buddy's like I wasn't even that big a rush fan It was one of the best things I've ever seen I'm not either but I like them You know what I like and respect It's high mind music

It is high mind It's high mind You don't find a lot of idiots in a Prague rock Is how I'll put it Living in the Limeon's the Universal Dream Dream of those who wish could be. We've now paid tribute and honor to Canada. Miranda, friend, what kind of curse did you bring in a Toronto Fringe friend?

What is going on? First of all I have to defend it wasn't me personally. This is all one of our co-leads, I will blame for inviting the curse in. And we've all kind of now taken up a shared mantle of caring for the host of this curse. So the story starts probably three, I think it was three years. ago or two or three years ago, one of our co-leads of the festival went to a value village and found a baby girl doll, who we call baby girl. Boy.

Haven't you seen that movie? I think I've died in that movie. Like, come on. It gets worse. It gets worse. Oh, no, I'm sorry. Keep going. Oh, no, I'm already scared.

She had three faces. Oh, wait. What? Hold on. Is it like a face you could rotate? It was exactly. You could rotate the head and it would change what face was on it. Like different moods? Like happy, sad, like happy, sad. One was happy, one was sad. One was, like, terrifying angry. And it's all evil. It was, it was very creepy. She was a bit of an icon. But they decided to basically buy her and give her away as a prize at one of the artist events because we host a bunch of like fun, silly artist events throughout the festival. artists can come and be like, come see my show, come see my show. And one of the events, this was

the prize. So the company won baby girl, took her on tour, gave us like a photo album of her time on tour, and then mailed her back to us. So we got her back. And then, I'm sorry, it keeps going. Last year, we gave her out as a prize again, because at that point it was tradition. And then she went out for a night on the town with the company who won her after the second year and throughout the night lost an arm and a leg and basically disintegrated. The person or the doll? The doll. The doll. Thank God. Right. We can celebrate that. Focus on the dog and up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then this year, we reached out to the company saying, whatever happened to baby girl, we don't know. And they told us what had happened, that she had kind of fallen apart. And then as an apology,

sent us a new cursed doll, who I think is creepier because she has the face of a baby, but the body of a toddler, and she's kneeling like she's like praying, but her hands aren't quite touching. She's just so creepy. Do we have a picture of this doll? I'm already so scared. I almost don't want to see this. So when you were sent this doll, is it you that's believing this is cursed?

Or they're like, hey, we say, so you open up a box and with a little note that says, like, hey, we send you a new cursed doll, have fun. I hope you have a good French festival. I mean, nobody has said she's cursed, but you look at her and you know she's cursed. Oh, God. I am looking at her, and yes, you're right. Maybe because she has evil, terrifying eyes. Maybe that's part of it.

Like, are you kidding? Oh, God. Ew. Ew. Oh, I don't want to look at it. I don't want to look at any more. I'm looking away. Yeah, I see why you think that.

Yeah. Now, definitely, there is a new element of this, which is, I know for a fact, staff now have been taking baby girl. We call her baby girl We Incarnated, this new one, or BBGR, have been taking her and hiding her around the office and, like, leaving little notes for people saying, like, come find me. And, like, people will spell it out in banana graham's letters in the office. It's very, like, most of it's in, like, good spirits for, like, a fun and silly tradition.

But I'm also, I'm typically not a supernatural or superstitious person. but I'm also aware of the fact that like first off, theaters get so many ghosts We're so cursed already Every theater I've ever been in It claims to be haunted And I can say that comfortably The only superstitions I really

Actually adhere to our ones related to theater Because it's so part of my life Because they're true, I agree, I agree, I agree And you know, I guess we're just We're really close to the festival now We have like 123 shows in the festival Wow, that's awesome. How cool.

I just want to make sure everyone's protected. You know, we can play around with BBGR. We can have a good time with her. We can include her. We don't want her to feel excluded, especially she's kind of part of the fabric of our team now a little bit. But I also don't want to invite anything too dangerous. You would like to render this doll inert,

instead of speak. like I want the fun. You're an expert. My first instinct is what if we could rope off a seat for her opening night and give her the respect she deserves? And will it scare people? Sure, but it saves lives. I look, I think probably, I think Eric is really onto something.

I'm going to put a quick pin in Eric's thing. Eric, remember what you just said. So my friends, Dana and Greg Newkirk, who they actually host a very, very successful tour tour around the country called the haunted objects tour. Oh shit, get them for fringe. And they bring all kinds of objects that have been sent to them, that they claim are haunted and paranormal activity happens around them.

But they know how supposedly to render haunted objects inert. So, and the thing is like, you can look them up. Greg and Dana Newkirk, haunted objects, they have a podcast. They will take it for sure. And they will fix it. they, but what they use is a form of chaos magic call, and they do a banishing ritual. And a banishing ritual is something that magicians use

after they conjure something. They banish it so it so it goes away. It's exactly what it sounds like. So you could look up, now I don't know if you want to like dig deeper into occult practices. I don't think there's anything to be scared of. That's just me. But like there is banishing ritual.

as you can probably find on Google that you and you could actually make this part of like the theater show like a special like during one of the shows maybe the year ends like hey we're gonna do a group project we're gonna do a banishing ritual on stage and we're gonna ask for audience participation to focus and help us banish the curse from this doll

and then like Eric said you also part of doing this the real thing that I think will work is that you're making it into a bit. I think comedy is a great way to battle negativity, fear, and whatever, you know, you, however you think of evil, whatever. I do think doing bits and being light with it, if you, if you were scared of it, the fear will only increase. But if you can like figure it how to turn it into a bit and a joke, which you're already doing

with the notes around the office, I think that is the way to go. Yeah, she's a central character on our, on our Instagram posts as well. Oh, no way. So you're already halfway there. Oh, you're killing it. I would, I think the final nail in the coffin

for this little creepozoid doll is to bring it into the festival on the stage and ask for a thing. And also, like, if I'm an audience member and before a show starts or after a show starts or if it's just like the introduction night, and they ask all of us to participate

in a banishing ritual for a haunted doll, that is a show I would remember the rest of my life. So I think not only are you maybe addressing the problem, you're also creating theater around it, which is in the spirit of the French festival. That seems like a no-brainer to me would be to make it into like this lighthearted thing, not serious, you don't want to scare the audience.

I think the more like theory you feel towards it, well, it would only increase. So I do think treating it as a bit, laughing about it and giving people an extra little like appetizer of theater who would it love that and theaters are haunted anyways it's like it's a fun part

of the theater tradition when you're an actor or you're in the theater it is it just is like everyone even comedy club like oh it's haunted there's a Jader saw an apparition of you know uh you know Wilford brimley the other night I'd pay extra for that I would too I would too Yes

ghost yelling you about his diabetes Oh he's got diabetes Oh, yes, you have diabetes. You're going to eat that? But that's the thing. Numbers for our house are incredible. I think in the spirit of what's happening up in Toronto, this beautiful festival, weave it and make theater out of the stall.

That would be my recommendation. Yeah, I think that's definitely a good route for us to go. I like also the idea of having a designated spot for her. I agree. Like maybe in our office where we're located during. the festival itself just so she feels centered. You can live stream it forward this little creep, this little creepy doll,

rope off a, you know, put a little piece of tape on one of the seats that says reserved and place her in it for a couple of the shows. I think weaving it into the fabric of what's going on at the French Festival and turning this curse into theater would, like, look, art conquers all people. It's the most powerful thing we have.

in this world. That's what makes humans. It's human. Yep. So I would, I would, you know, grab the sword of art and go into battle. Okay.

You know, which is the theater way, you know, it is, it's what a Despians do. Yes. And we love a bit. There's nothing. We love a bit. There's nothing. There's nothing. There's a world going around. Of course. Now, let me throw this out there. What about after this year's festival, which was going to be incredibly

successful now that we've cleared the energy of this doll. What if we send this doll for two weeks the little Stevie Berg. Let him experiment with it, let him look at it, let him render it inert. Get that energy out and into Omaha. Yeah. I don't hate that idea. You send it insured.

You send it to Steve Berg's PO box. Would you be comfortable sharing this sacred, haunted doll with Stevie Berg? I think that would be great. I got to check in and make sure she's on a prize again for one of the artist's defense. Find out. If it is, we encourage that. When we get it back from the prize, Steve can have a look at it. it or send it on its way out to be a prize.

But just know, this is what he does. This is his life's work. And I think that haunted doll would find a very happy temporary home in Omaha, Nebraska. Yeah, I mean, I have a 401K wrapped up in this. I mean, like, it's my retirement plan. Like, I'm making six figures. You can take good care of her. I can't.

And I'll study her. My wife will freak out. However, you know, she's used to it. We're here. Also, we want to let you know for next year's fringe festival. 13 feet. Eric and Steve are shocking. Shockingly available and shockingly affordable.

You just let us know if you need us to emcee a gala with this doll, I won't go near it. I won't touch it, but Steve will interact with it. But we stand ready to come to Canada. And I do feel, Marita, while I know there is like an application, like an audition, so to speak, situation with getting it. I feel like because we had this conversation with you, we kind of have it in a little bit. This was it. This was it. We won.

Would you, would you say that's safe to say we have a little bit of an end with you? I think that is safe to say you have an in with me. I could definitely connect you with some good people. We are. We're in. We're in for French Toronto. 13 feet. Imagine 13 feet.

I want to start. Greening around Toronto. Try in various pootines. Oh, getting in the mix. Are you kidding? I love Toronto. I'm so in.

I don't want to crush your dreams. Part of being a part of a fringe festival is we have to be a lottery system. So I'm not 100% sure what it will look like. But if you guys want to come by the Toronto Fringe this year or next year, we would love that. I mean, or put us in the lottery. We'll come and help people live on stage and start making that Canadian citizenship. But also we could do special evening programming with you guys at our hub. Oh, yeah.

We'll do the hottest comedy Toronto's ever seen. Although that's saying a lot. You know, we got Marty Short, Catherine O'Hara. Everybody, Akroyd. There's some, all the great community. Mike Myers is. back. Dr. Eagles on your screen. We got Austin Power 4.

Oh, buddy. Coming out. The timing could have be more perfect. This is, what a fun call. Also, I love that you're doing a, I love the, I never have done a fringe festival. Obviously, Edinburgh was always like the pie in the sky dream. Now it's Toronto. You know, now it's Toronto.

Now it's Toronto. Also, a fun thing to do would be to, like, maybe send this doll to other French festivals around the country. And then it's like a traveling, cursory. That's kind of like part of the tradition of theater. That was kind of what happened on her, on the first baby girl's year when she went around because one of the companies was touring to a bunch of different fringe festivals across Canada. So she, she, she, in her original form, did a bit of a tour. But it definitely be cool to get it, get other, uh, other fringes that are part of the Canadian

Association of Fringe festivals involved. I think so. It would just be fun. Like, I think, you know, look, I think like, I think like, I think like taking the the piss out of scary situations with like doing bits and comedy i don't know it's worked for me my whole life man when i'm scared i have like i have a very good sense of gallows humor like i was ghost hunting about five or six weeks ago i was legit like nervous because the place is terrifying and i pretty much annoyed all the ghost her because all i was doing was taking the piss out of the situation

and like doing bits and like which i thought i was honestly i thought it was bringing the high heat my A game. They were not laughing. They didn't like my my jokes. Although Eric, I was killing. Dude, I, that's on them. I was on fire. They don't deserve you, babe. They don't deserve you. They were vaping. If you're not down for jokes while ghost hunting, go to hell.

Yeah, look, look, people who are wearing corn or slept not shirts, they do not like my vibe. I'll tell you that. No, they never will, Steve. No, they never will. They never will. People are into rap metal. Don't like me. I found out.

No, but aren't you glad? glad? Yeah, I've kind of cultivated that, I suppose. Yeah, that's on me. Yeah, you're on the fringes. Our friend Miranda's in the fringe, and we're here to help, and we want to thank you so much for calling in Miranda, and we want a full update, and if there's a way to get that haunted doll to Stevieberg in Omaha, we would love it. Absolutely. We'll give you my PO box.

We'll take lots of photos of baby girl throughout the fringe and make sure it all gets to you. Please do. Broke that seat off for opening night, please. Yeah, and if we'll, if we get a, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, we'll, try to get a banishment ritual in as well at some of our artist events and then send videos of that too. They're not hard to find. They're pretty run-on-the-mill these days. Just your run-of-the-mill banishment ritual?

Rather than-the-mill management ritual. It's run-in-the-mill to Steve. My Google searches are not normal. Oh, you're being tracked for sure. Your flagged. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm definitely flagged.

Well, Marina, thank you so much. Please let us know how the festival goes and what you guys, how you ended up. greeting the little psychopath doll. I mean, truly scary. Although I'm glad it's not the three-faced doll because honestly, that mood-faced doll, that is, I don't scare easy, but boy, I wouldn't want you to send that to me.

I'll be, it disintegrated. Yeah, she was, she was, I mean, they're both creepy in their own rights. They both have their own claims to fame in terms of the creep world, but. And, you know, just to circle back and book end this, I'm going to quote the great Steve Melchmus when he said, what about the voice

of Getty Lee. How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy. I know him and he does. And you're my fact-checking cuz. Oh, that is good. I could cry. Sorry, I just got emotional. I just got emotional. Well, Miranda,

this is a great call. Enjoy the festival. I hope it goes absolutely amazing. I hope you guys make some money. Keep on doing it forever. And we're definitely going to need you to grease some wheels for Eric and I to come to the show next year. I'll get you in touch with the show next year. I'll get you in touch with my people.

My people will be in touch with your people. We don't do lotteries. So, you know, it's going to have to be offer only. But, yeah, I'm kidding. But we will, but we are interested. No joke. Oh, yeah. To quote the great Neil Young, I was born in Ontario where the black fly bites and the green grass grows.

That's where I learn most of what I know because you don't learn much when you start to get old. I was born in Ontario. We want to come to Ontario, friend. We do. We do. We do. We do. Get us there.

Okay. I will get the end. All your shoulders, Miranda. All your shoulders. No pressure. I'll book the plane to do. The way to the world and this haunted doll

rests on you, friend. Oh, God. Okay. Well, thank you. Good luck with the festival. Have a good one, Sister, X. Thank you so much. Have a good day.

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You have found yourself another episode of Weird here to help with your friends, Eric Edelstein and Little Stevie Berg. Friend, what is your name and where are you calling from? My name is Christian, and I'm calling from Orange County, California. Orange County, all right. You know, it was kind of the cradle of seven California punk rock back in the early 80s. You got Black Flag. You got the descendants.

You got the vandals. Asian Orange. Are they from Orange County? Asian Orange, absolutely. No doubt. Yeah, we don't need to mention them. You didn't like their first album? No, not at all.

Not for me. Fratchett Kingdom? It's a whole play on Disney, Steve. that is unimpressive to me but I will be so what's your first off what's your favorite

Orange County punk band probably the band good call I mean that's cool I loved them when I was a little kid yeah I used to have a descendant's shirt

when I was 12 years old I thought it was pretty cool I think you were I also had a I also had a skateboard and I remember I wrote because I was trying to be punk rock

and I wrote band B-A-N-D the bomb like because I heard about band the bomb it was like a cool thing punk rock kid would say

because it was during the 80s. My dad saw it on my skateboard. I wrote in a Sharpie, and he's like, banned the bomb. It's banned the bomb. And boy, did I feel like an idiot. Anyways, okay, but that's not, we're not, you know, reliving my punk rock roots. Friend, if you were on a desert island

and you could take one film, one's, or premium television show, a book and an album, what would they be? Let's start with the album. Album? Does live recordings of the Grateful Dead count? Sure. Buddy, oh, you are at... Buddy, you are... Yes, it does.

In fact, you get bonus points out of the gate already. Okay, perfect. Then it's... Be very specific with the year and everything. 72487 Oakland Coliseum. Oh, wow. Eric, you just said... Eric, you just said...

What? Eric, okay, first off, I want to point out a couple things. 99% of deadheads are going to give you a show from 72, 7, 7. or 77, myself included. Very few people are going to give you an album from the Touchhead era and that you just, I don't know if you know this, my friend. I bought Eric a Brent Midland t-shirt. I wish I was wearing it.

What you say? No, I want that one. I want that one. Eric is the card carry member of the Brett Midland fan club. Christian, I just lost out on a Brent Midland bobblehead on eBay. It was the last one. I waited. I was doing low ball offers.

Also, I will say this. When I went to what we thought two summers ago were the last dead shows at the Oracle Park, my buddy Scott Sayer and I, the morning of the show, we knew the only place we could go. We went to visit Brent. That's incredible. I was also at that show, and I got to sit next to Bill Walton. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

I know exactly where you were sitting then. This is like your long-law's brother right here. brother i'm not even joking you could not have referenced two people more in eric's wheelhouse than brett midland and bill one that's incredible and bill knew and bill knew and i bill was a personal hero i got to talk to him on the phone once and christian i don't know if you've seen the three part 30 for 30 series on bill the luckiest man alive i actually bought it i bought it an apple and it's one of those things i put on after my wife goes to bed just to feel great bill i'd better have to watch probably more than anyone else is the person i most aspire to be like and i'm sad because i'm seeing bob dillon i don't know if you're going brother i'm going to bob dillan saturday and sunday after going to santa barbara two nights ago and i know bill would have been there because his big three were the dead neil young bob dillan i am not but i should have looked up that yeah well san diego's not sold out friend that's just a little little hob skipping a jump for you okay so i i i i'll okay boy we could just do a whole episode no no no no no no rain me in i mean my no no no no no no i'm

myself in. I'm going to just one more thing before I move on. Was hell in the bucket on that set list? No, no. My brother Esau is though, which is Eric. Oh, wow. Okay, this is so hard to move on for this, especially for a couple deadheads like Eric and I. To answer your other questions, I've thought a lot about this. Party Down is my

premium television show. Right? Great, great, great, great. Yes. My book is Bad Karma by Paul Wilson. It's about a surf trip to Mexico. That goes horribly wrong. You sound like a cool dude, man. You appreciate it. I'll say what. You would be a grade three and me and Eric Hang. Right? Completely. We'll see you at a concert one day. Life's funny that way. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Well, and I'm up for it whenever. So you guys tell me when and where. Hell yeah, Christian. So talk to us about what's going on, man. How can we help you today, pal? Okay. So before the question, just want to tee up. Like, I have two boys. They're great. Five and ten. My oldest is nonverbal and on the autism spectrum. And my youngest is a completely neurotypically. kid. But my youngest and my oldest seemed to have telepathic communication. And there was a podcast that came out about kids with autism who are non-verbal. The telepathy tapes? Yeah, exactly. Oh, I heard that was incredible. I'm familiar.

My wife and I do not have it. And my oldest will just get up off the couch and be like, brother wants a snack. Go outside because he knows that his brother's going to do something bad. He'll be like, I'll be like, do you want to go do this? And he'll be like, no, I'm going to stay in and watch on brother. But I want to, A, know how I can encourage my youngest son to continue to develop out his telepathic connection with his brother, but also B, what can my wife and I do to build it out in ourselves? Because we don't have it. My son communicates with an AAC device, which is an iPad that you could type into. So he types to communicate with us. But I want

him in my brain. Come on. Yeah. How do I get laid up? Wow. Well, Well, I mean, okay. Oh, boy. You know, okay. So the first thing, there is a wonderful research name, Dr. Russell Tark, who worked at the Stanford Research Center in the 70s and 80s and did a lot of studies on parapsychology. And like, legit study. This is that Stanford.

It's not like what Vancomen was doing at Ghostbusters. It is a swear. I mean, well, no, no. It really, it was, actually. But it was being funded by a, you know, a high profile college, which was probably funded by some nefarious organization. You beat me to that. You beat me to that.

We won't get too deep into that. We don't need to talk about my paranoia. There are something called a Zenricar. You mentioned Ghostbuzzers, funny enough, Eric. But one of the ways a lot of these researchers say to develop psychic abilities and work on it, like to flex the muscle, is to use Zenricars. And do you know what a Zenir card is, my friend?

I do not. And I'm pretty woo-woo. I have like crystals and Palosanto. and like, like, I want to, I want to learn. So if you think about the very, like the very beginning of Ghostbusters when Dr. You know, Bill Murray is showing those two test subjects, these cards with symbols on them. Oh, yeah.

And they're trying to guess what's behind them. These are actual ways at Stanford, they, they were having people with psychic abilities come in and they had test subjects who weren't psychic, but they found, like, you know, practicing a layup, practicing with Zenner cards. they found that there was actually legitimate results and there was actually like peer-reviewed papers written about it. So I would say pick up some Xenna cards,

may you can order that on Amazon, probably get a Father's Day discount if you do it now. I would start there. But like I do think like, you know, I think there is something to certain people having these abilities. You know, I mean like even like, you know, local police, you know, police. I mean, like there's, in Omaha, they used a psychic once to find a dead body in a Missouri River

and they had been dragging the river trying to find it and then they finally got desperate found a local psychic and the psychic found it like in an hour. That's incredible. But like police departments actually I mean like there's many cases where you're missing kids and stuff like that

they'll use remote viewers to find it. They found a missing Meg airplane during the Cold War that went down by using remote viewers. Found it in the ocean. They found it before the Russians. That made your ad dame, Steve, from the, The Great Art Bell show.

That's not Major Ed Dames. Did he ever find anything, Steve? No. He just made terrible apocalyptic predictions. I think we just lost Major Ed Dames. We also, sadly, since we're talking about that iconic Ghostbusters scene, we lost Jennifer Runyon in March, the actress in that scene, who I remember having a big crush on when Ghostbusters came out,

and I didn't really even understand what I was feeling. That's neither here nor there. Oh, big time. Still does. Are you kidding? There is no Dana, only Zool. The other thing, Christian, I'd recommend, is if you're already woo-woo, do you have a meditation practice?

I always feel like that kind of just lifts the veil back a little bit. I would dial deeply into that. Yeah, I think you're right about that. I do. And I'm, you know, finding bodies would be cool. It's mostly snack-based right now, so I would like to encourage him. Well, what do you think is more important to Stevie Berg? If you could send him off to find me some keen.

wah and red millet with just a little bit of bean oh that kid is golden but like you can increase this stuff and i also always think little kids are always highly intuitive and then adults using 10% of their brains slowly tell them that that's crazy but if you want if you want to get really close to the veil talk to a young kid about that stuff and i think it's great that instead of him being discouraged from this glorious stuff it's going to be encouraged with this meditation the stuff Steve is talking about. Then I'm going to tell you what you're going to do as you, because it's also your job to increase your child's

psychic ability. Indeed. What you're going to do as you increase that psychic ability? You're going to call me and I'm going to start meeting you at Orange County Casinos. And we're going to get filthy, stinking rich. And I'll cut you in. I'll give you 10% off the net. I can't do it off the top.

I'm sorry. It's a whole thing. my account, you deal with him and her. But we need to start using your incredible child to make some money at casinos. I agree. Gaming. What do you think?

I'll meet you at Hawaiian Gardens. I'm going to need more than 10%. Done. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 15 and a half. Yeah. Yeah. I'll agent you on this. We'll figure out. We'll handle that later. We'll talk percentage of the numbers. Eric is and Tori. You know, there's a way we can make a whole bunch of money here. and because my dad is actually a card counter and he's been kicked out of multiple casinos. Are you serious?

So I think, you know, any, yeah, the d'animal's been kicked out of mold. And I don't understand why he doesn't just get kicked out of everyone. Make money get kicked out over and over again. But I think it embarrasses him. But, you know, if we can find a way to make a little bit of coin on this while increasing his psychic ability. But, Kristen, just out the gates, you're such a good dad. And I love how you're handling this.

And, you know, because a lot of, too many parents. It's probably not listening to our show, would be freaked out by this. And instead, I think it's golden that you want to increase it and then meet him where he is and get a little bit more intuitive yourself because it can be increased. Steve's also going to tell you to smoke a bunch of weed. You don't even do that. No, no, Steve, you weren't? That just, no, I was.

I was going to mention. So, mushrooms? Your son who is tapped in to your nonverbal son, you know, does he ever talk about having sink? If you don't know what a synchronicity is, here's an example. You'd think about an old friend from high school and then 30 seconds later they call, yet you haven't talked them for 20 years. You know what I'm saying? Not to that level.

The first time he really just got off the couch and was like, I'm getting brother Goldfish. And I was like, how did you know? And he just kind of shrugged. And they keep getting more weird. And I don't think he, since he's only five, I don't think he really knows how to verbalize it yet. Right.

But he's constantly thinking about. his brother and it's it's very interesting to see how it's grown um over the years and most recently like I said it's been snack based and and activity based like I have to go make sure brother doesn't touch the TV destroyed a TV like that is not covering on the carpet but how he knows I don't know well you know I mean like there are people who I you know like and I don't know if this is part of the hard sciences but there are people who I believe are have like special empathic abilities that aren't necessarily woo-woo or psychic, but they can read facial features, like little physical things. And sometimes there might be certain, like, physical traits that he is

recognizing that to him mean he's hungry. You know, like, so like, I wouldn't discount that that he's just, your son is a wildly empathic person, which is such a wonderful way to be, especially as a brother, looking out for his brother. I mean, like, you couldn't ask for a more beautiful situation, man. I love that. It's so cool. It's really cool. I don't know if he's as Wu.

Like, he's definitely not Wu. My wife and I are wooed. He wears golf shirts and told me, that's the Orange County. It's undefeated. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I put him in a tie-dye the other day to go to school and he cried. He said, I don't want to dress like dad.

I want to be handsome. Oh, that's hysterical. That's hysterical. No one wants to dress like your dad, though. My dad dressed like a nerd. I wouldn't do anything else. No matter how rad you think you are, your children will rebel in the other direction.

It's true. It's very rad, Christian. You know this. You know Brent. You gave us a Brent live show. Are you kidding? Kind of circling back to your, like, part of your question where you said,

how do my wife and I kind of tap into this? Well, there's a wonderful guy name. Oh my God, no I'm forgetting his name. Oh, yeah, Dr. Jeffrey Krippel at Rice University. And he is a pretty famous guy. And he is a, you know, academic, you know, by the books guy. But he studies a lot of the subject of synchronicities and kind of like, you know, like, you know, science of the impossible.

And that's kind of how he frames it. But he and Carl Young both said, the more consciousness expanding research you do, the more synchronicity start popping off in your life. So to him, he's like, if you're meditating, if you're reading about anything that's consciousness expanding or like learning something new, synchronicities start to pop up. They actually phrase it as a synchronicity generator. And synchronicity is directly related to kind of the psychic realm.

So that would be my, like, you know, it's kind of boring. But if there's a subject matter that is in the kind of consciousness expanding realm, even like a UFO history book or something like that, try reading that.

And then every time you have a synchronicity, write it down. Have a synchronicity journal. Amazing. And then you can start, like, collecting data on yourself and then start noticing when these things pop up and then lean into whatever is happening when those things pop up. Well, I will also add, sorry, Christian, didn't mean to go ahead, brother. I'm looking at a book called Psychic Migrations right now that I have not yet cracked. So I will definitely begin that.

There's your synchronicity. You're being nudged toward it right now. Yes. I also love, and I made Steve do a chant once. There's a Dr. Wayne Dyer. Perhaps you know him he's a PBS TV, you know, stalwart. Him and Rick Steves are on there a lot. We lost Wayne.

He has this crazy meditation called Meditations for Manifesting. It's like four bucks in audiobook. But he talks about doing this meditation. I would say probably any meditation allows you to start to manage the coincidences and the synchronicity in your life. And I have found that to be very, very true. I will also do this crazy thing. visualized stuff and it is

crazy the stuff that has happened down to doing a tire commercial Shoheyotani who left Orange County, I'm sorry but Artie Moreno didn't want to match his salary. That's neither here nor there but look into both of those young and give Dr. Wayne Dyer's spin because I've

certainly had results with his meditation and managing some of the synchronicity in my life and anyone's questioning it you're listening to me now that's right. That's right. Results who's got. They're taking their faith. Come on.

They do. They do. They do. So, Kristen, do this, do this help you? Indeed. I'm going to start tracking synchronicities, expand my meditation practice, and encourage it in my child, hopefully for maybe not finding dead bodies, but other items related outside of Diet Coke and Goldfish.

No, piegau numbers at the Hawaiian Gardens Casino. And then also, through the David Lynch Foundation, they start kids. early with what they call a walking meditation. And that is something, and you don't need to pay money. There's a lot of places that do mindfulness. There's even that Soka Center that's in Orange County, the Buddhist one. But starting kids on a mindfulness routine and you're doing it with them can only increase those psychic pathways as well, I would guess.

Amazing. And I'll throw some iron in my pocket, too, just for good measure. Yeah, you never know with the face. Always for Steve. Always. Keep the bastards at bay. There's a documentary that I think would be a great interest to you. that may lead you down some paths of strengthening your psychic abilities,

and it's called Third Eye Spies. What? Yes. Oh, I thought you're going to drop an only fan's account. I'm glad it went there. No, it's about the government remote viewing program. Indira Dames? Dames is a, dames is a, yeah.

He was not in it, okay? He's a little bit of a bit of a bit. He might be our handler, Christian. Be careful. I mean, it could be true. But I would, I would highly recommend watching that, because I think it might give you some ideas. And also just kind of like let you know maybe some of the mechanics behind some of these abilities that people have or claim to have.

But interesting, I would really like to know, you know, give this a couple months. And I think it is one of these things where like the more you commit, the more you'll find out like, look, I'm not tapped in. It's never going to happen. Or you're like, oh, I'm getting a little better. And I would buy Xenner cards. Like I would do that today and start practicing. Also Zinner cards, it's a fun little game. Like, I used to have him as a kid, and I would just, like, do it with my friends.

Surprising to no one? I used to take him to school for inside recess, and I used to give psychic tests to my friends. Oh, here's our root causes. Oh, wow. Oh, I love you. Yeah, a young occultist. But, you know, no, I, there are these little things you can do. And I watch third-eye spies do some consciousness expanding research and get those inner cards.

Amazing. Thank you, guys. I really appreciate it. Of course. I'll see each other. How it's going. Yeah. You as well.

And Jerry, we trust, Christian. We are everywhere, Jen. In Brent, we trust. And we are everywhere. Yeah, yeah. Thanks, guys. All right, brother. Have a good one, man.

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