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Warning, this episode of Real Life Real Crime, the podcast, may contain descriptions of acts of violence or that of a sexual nature and should be for people that are 18 years or older.Heed my warning, people.
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And as always, I'm your host, Woody Overton.And today, I want to tell a Halloween story, y'all.Well, it ties to Halloween a lot, mainly.And it's an old cop story, but I think you'll find it fascinating.
But then I'm going to tell you the truth about it, OK? And once again, I'm recording from Wisconsin.I've been up here hunting with the Olopa family who, unfortunately, has a hero's son who was killed, I think, three days after.I may have that wrong.
Three days after he got his driver's license. And he looked at his mom when he was getting his driver's license and said, hey, I want to become an organ donor.And so he signed up.And then three days later, he was killed.
And his organs, LOPA helped him out.And one of his organs went to another young man who's up here in Wisconsin also. with us, and he actually got the kidney from the deceased hero.
So it's really pretty special, y'all, to have the mom and the brother of the hero who died and his organs went to whomever. But one of the organs went to the other young man who is here hunting with his mom.So they're all together.
And one of the deals on them coming up, I promised I'd come up and help guide them on the hunt and cook for them and stuff like that.But all these years I've been talking about Lopa.
The victims that I've seen, and the families that Lopez worked with, etc.The reason I got involved is because they save lives every day.
To be with these people in the same room and sit in the deer stand with them, etc., really, really, really touching.And I just tell you this, three hunts I made with the young man who received the kidney And I think he's like 22 or 23 now.
And he got it six years ago.He wouldn't be able to hunt with me.So I guess I'll start this one off with Lopa instead of ending with Lopa.It means a lot.You don't have to be a lifer from Louisiana.You could be from
Missouri and just go to lopa.org and sign up to be an organ donor.It takes a couple minutes.And the chances that you ever get, you know, you'll be a hero in my eyes anyway, and the chance for them to ever
do what they do with you after you're basically deceased are very slim.But it helps.And I'm an organ donor.And I keep spreading the word because of moments like this.And it's pretty touching.
And I haven't shared a lot about it on social media and so because it's kind of a private thing with these families that are together and we're doing these things together.So they truly save lives, people.So enough of that.Let's get to the story.
All right, I'm going to take you back to who, man, I was first first in uniform patrol with Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office.And I worked the east side of the parish because I've told you how many times Livingston Parish was divided.
in half geographically for law enforcement reasons.You had the east side and the west side.And the west side of the parish was more populated, still is today.That's one of the biggest cities, Walker and Denham Springs and all that are.
And then the east side is more rural with the small towns, which most of them aren't so small anymore now.But I guess it's been 30 years or however long it's been. And I started out on the east side in the Uniformed Patrol.
And, you know, I didn't know, really, the towns and the roads.And we didn't have GPSs.And we didn't have cell phones.We didn't have computers in our cars, no cameras in the cars.I'm talking about our units. I had a map book.
The dispatch would call and say, 259-361, we have a 103-B in Springfield at such and such, McCarroll Road.So I had to get out this orange map book. and look up where McCarroll Road was.I had to look it up in the index, you know, in the front.
I don't think anybody reads books anymore, but I had to look it up in the index and turn to the page where it was, and it would give me one page where McCarroll Road was.
And then you had to follow it out and reference pages of how to get to McCarroll Road and all that.It's freaking crazy how far technology has come and been advanced.
But the small towns, the small towns, look, when you work the east side, you're supposed to have three per shift back then, and now they probably have 30 or more. But back then, on good nights, you're supposed to have three.
And the West Side being more populated, they had more calls.And if you had three, chances were one of you were getting pulled to go catch calls on the West Side.911 calls, they all got to be answered.Or maybe a manhunt, whatever.
So most of the time, it was just two of them.And I told you about John T. Wilkerson. Moe, Rod and I, a partner, that he and I went to the LSU Academy together.
And then he actually was assistant chief for the town of Springfield before he transferred to the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office.Now, we were friends by this time.We'd been to the Academy together and everything else.
And I was working at Southeastern University Police Department, and I transferred over, and they put John T. and I together on the same shift, which was really cool.But we were on the east side of the parish.
But back to the small towns, that was your backup.Nine times out of 10, that's a huge geographical area to cover for two people.
And sugar turn to shit, and you got in a foot pursuit or shootout, whatever it may be, or you just need a backup on a call.The town guys were meaning the police officers for the Livingston Police Department
or the Albany Police Department, like my dear friend Leon Winstead, who's now deceased. He died right after COVID.I gave the eulogy at his funeral, but I was also the best man in his wedding with Ms.Flo, who's a real sweetheart.
But that was your backup.The Killian Police Department might have had one person on.Springfield would have one on.Albany would have one on.Most of them were part-timers. Like Leon, he didn't have to do it.He did it because he loved the job.
And who else?The French Settlement Police Department.That was it.You didn't have anybody else.And wherever you're at, most of the time, those guys weren't busy. writing tickets and stuff, and that they would come and roll and back you up.
Well, sometimes it worked the other way.Sometimes the town guys should return the shit, and they needed backup, and we were able to back them up.Now, why am I telling you this story? We would also hang out with the town cops when it was slow.
We didn't have anything to do.We'd pull in the bank parking lot.I'll give an example.In Springfield, late at night, there was nothing going on.There were no fast food restaurants or anything like that.
And we'd pull up in the bank parking lot and we'd get out.I probably shouldn't tell a story.I think I have that before.We would have quick draw contests.Terry Sanchez was one of them that worked there then.He works for Hammond PD now.
I think he's a detective. We would line up in the parking lot and make our weapons safe, meaning unload them.And we'd check each other's weapons, make sure they're unloaded.And then we'd have quick draw contests.
We'd stand there like Wyatt Earp and see who could draw their weapon the fastest.Pointing away, we'd be in a line and see who could draw the weapon the fastest.But you just kill time together.And so you become very close.
You work together all the time. And I keep going back to Springfield and this story for a reason.And this is a Halloween edition, y'all.I don't remember exactly what happened the first time.I know we used to run between.
like what they call the horseshoe in Springfield and another part of Springfield.There were two areas where narcotics were sold.Best people in the world live down there.Some of the shittiest people in the world live down there.But you catch people
coming out of these neighborhoods, especially late at night.They would just bought dope, and we'd go down there and harass the dope dealers and basically just hunt them.
Harass the dope dealers, go down there and get in the foot pursuits and vehicle pursuits.This was when the call volume was down, and we were kind of bored, and we were just having our own fun.It really was fun.
So many times now, I wish I could go back all those years and put on a uniform again and climb in that old blue and white mark unit and just go 10-8, just go on duty, in service and have some fucking fun.But life happens, right?
So back to it, Springfield is on the far eastern side of Tangipoa Parish.Actually, there is a bridge that you cross over right outside the town of Springfield.There is a red light in Springfield.It's a three-way.
And if you go due east, you cross into Tangipoa Parish.But the bank, if you come in, into Livingston Parish, the bank was right there on the right, and then you take a right on, I think it's Highway 42.
Twenty-two meets 42 there, and you take the right, and then it's Main Street. You have the bank, and then it's Main Street, and right across the street from the bank is the police department, Springfield PD.
And if you keep going west on 42, there's a Springfield Cemetery on your right, and then pretty much out of the city limits after that. But we were down there, it was Halloween time.
I'll never forget that because we always had to like, you know, earlier in the evening when you go 10-8, you'd have to have your units with the lights on in neighborhoods for trick-or-treaters and shit like that.
But I forget what night of the week it was, it was later on in the night.
I was close to Springfield, and I believe it was Terry Sanchez, that was 10-8, and I heard him say 2-5-9, or SB-3, 2-5-9, meaning Springfield 3, that was his unit number, 2-5-9, be in dispatch. He said, I'm going to be out at Springfield Cemetery.
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They have, I think, a brass cannon, like a Civil War cannon or something in it.And they had just some old, old, old graves all the way up to the modern graves.Big oak trees.It's kind of hills on both sides and all that.
And I passed a thousand times on duty, but I'd never been in there. And so Terry pulls in, I pulled in, and I said, what you got?And he said, I got these people in the cemetery.And I said, what's up with that?
What the hell are they doing in the cemetery on Halloween night?He said, bro, just come on with me.He said, I promise you, they're going to be 966, which means holding narcotics.I'm like, OK, whatever.So we walk in and no lights on.
We walk in on foot, you know, up on the hill on the right.You see lights around a grave.Right.And get up there.And there's literally like 15 people around this grave.They got candles lit, and they're chanting and shit.And I'm thinking, what the fuck?
There's some Halloween shit here, right?They're holding a seance or some shit.But we walk up on them.And Terry told me, he said, don't turn on your flashlight till we get up on them.And we walk up on them.
And I mean, they're in a circle, and they're chanting. Terry turned on his light, I turned on my light, and he said, he said, Springfield Police Department.I said, Sheriff's Office.Look, immediately, jackrabbits.
These motherfuckers scattered like cockroaches when the lights come on, right?I'm like, fuck, fuck, pursuit.And I tackled some guy.He didn't get far.And Terry grabbed another one.Well, shit, we had their cars blocked in.
It wasn't like they could leave.They had pulled in.It was like a one-pull-in driveway, and we had them blocked in.So we put a couple of them in cuffs, and a couple of them stayed by this grave where the candles were.
We brought them up the hill, and he said, What are y'all doing here?And they said, I didn't know anything about it at the time.It all went from Limston to Paris.And he said, this is the cemeteries closed.There's signs and you're trespassing.
And look, he made everybody stand still, and we went around.We're pat-frisking people.And one dude, I get up on him from behind, and it was one of the guns who had run.And I said, look, do you have anything on you?
I need to pat-frisk you for officer safety.This is before the interrogation began, and after we told him it was trespassing.And he said, no.And I'm patting him down.And I said, you don't mind if I pat you down?You don't have any tanks?
rocket launchers or navs or anything that's going to stick me.The reason why you're in the cemetery in the middle of the night around midnight. And you don't know who you're dealing with.
Before you talk to a large group of people, you want to make sure you're safe, no one has any firearms, et cetera.Well, shut up.When I'm patting him down, I feel what I know.And this is exactly how I wrote in my report.
I feel what I believe to be a plastic bag containing narcotics in this dude's blue jeans pants pocket.And I said, what's this?And he says, nothing. You don't mind if I take it out?"Of course, he did mind.
But what if he said no, and I would arrest him or whatever for trespassing, got to search him, incidental to arrest.I took it out, and it was a bag of wheat.No big deal, right?In the grand scheme of things, even 30 years ago, however long ago it was.
Twenty-five years ago, I don't remember, but they took out a bag of weeds.I placed them in cuffs.He said, this is mine just for my use.And I said, I get that, whatever. We go around, and I think a couple of them had weed and some shit like that.
And we just wrote them tickets, or Terry wrote them tickets, because I didn't write tickets.And he sees the weed, and I gave it to him.It's his jurisdiction.And the candles and what, after everything had settled down, we processed them all.
I'm talking about at the gravesite.And Terry was like, I wrote his tickets and all that.And so I'm talking to him, like, what's the deal?Why are y'all here?And they said, you don't know the story, Michael Brown.
And this is Halloween, and this is one of the most haunted places in Louisiana.I'm like, what the fuck are you talking about?And Terry was busy, but he didn't end up telling me everything later on. And this girl says, she says, this is sacred ground.
This boy got murdered.And after he was murdered, they buried him.And it was a whodunit.And nobody knew who did it.And then within one night, this drawing came up on the back of his tombstone.And the drawing shows him.
He was a big hunter gal, Michael Brown was, and he was a teenager.He was 15 years old when he got killed.And she said they buried him.And like two days later, after the tombstone was put up, you know, because it takes a moment to order.
It's not like you get buried and you have your tombstone immediately.But she said after the tombstone was put up, Two nights later, this drawing that Michael Brown did himself magically appeared on this tombstone.I said, what the fuck?She said, yeah.
And it shows that he was hunting and he got killed.I'll tell you how he got killed.I think he was 15 years old, if I remember correctly.And he was from Holden, Louisiana, which is another small town. on that east side of the parish.
And in between Springfield, or in between Albany and Livingston, the town, he said he got run over.And it was a whodunit.And they buried him, and they put up his tombstone.And then magically, this drawing appears of him hunting.
It's like a childlike drawing, y'all, and I'll post it. Kind of freaky.It shows him hunting and doing all this stuff.It looks like a kid's drawing.A kid drew this.I mean, a younger kid than a 15-year-old.It's just stick people.
It shows how he died, and it told who it was that hit him, who ran over him. And it was unsolved until this showed up.And then the cops used this information.
Once they found out people were coming out here and what was on the tombstone, they used the information to go question the guy who ran over him.And the guy confessed.I said, what the fuck?And I look at Terry and he's like shaking his head.
And I said, so why did y'all come out here?Why?She said, because it's haunted.His spirit came from the dead and he solved his own crime.And let me see if I can find an article on it while we're talking. I'm typing it on the phone.
And I'm like, fuck, that's kind of freaky, right?And I was thinking to myself, and it's Halloween night, and we're in the middle of the cemetery, and it's dark as fuck.And the people, they're adamant about this.
And there's candles burning and all this stuff.And I'm laying on the back of the tent saying, look, I saw the drawings.I mean, and I'll post them for you.They're there.And there's no doubt about that.But then Terry ends up writing all his tickets.
We basically let everybody go, and he told them, don't ever come back, blah, blah, blah.So we leave, and Terry said, man, this is all bullshit.And he said, but this is what the story is.And he said the same thing the lady had said.
He said, brah, ever since I've been with Springfield, every Halloween, every time around Halloween, The people show up at this boy's grave because of this story.And they do, you know, he said, we got witches that show up. ghost hunters that show up.
He said, it's just an ongoing thing.Well, we got called off on something else that time.But anyway, every time I'd pass by the cemetery at nighttime, I would look to see if there were any cars parked there.And over the years, there were.
Now John T, remember my road buddy I told you about, he used to be assistant chief for Springfield. And one day I asked him about it, and he said, yeah, that's some freaky shit, man.And he said, but the family says it's not true.
But he said, there's no denying what's on that boy's grave.Now, look, I found an article.Hold on.Let me read you this article, or at least part of it, and I'll tell you what I know about it as I go along. It says this is from September 14, 2003.
I would have been in the tactics by that time.So this is. This is after all my interactions.And look, I had a shit ton.One time, there was a tour bus, a fucking rented tour bus full of people that were there after hours, like a ghost tour thing.
I'll never forget that.And we rode all kinds, or they rode all kinds of tickets.I didn't ride tickets.But this was an ongoing thing, people in there.But most of the time, they were doing dope.
whatever, praying or seancing or whatever the hell it is people do around a haunted site or investigate or whatever.Let me read you this article. It says, Mayor debunks myth, all right?September 14, 2003.
It says, ghost stories about Michael Brown's grave were already going strong when Charlie Martin was elected mayor of Springfield in 1988, just five years after the 15-year-old Holden boy died in a car accident north of Hammond.
All right, I'm going to interject. Charlie Martin was the mayor the whole time that I was there.Oh, also my mentor, Kearney Foster, that I talk about over the years.
Chief Kearney Foster is just freaking, freaking absolutely responsible for where I am today.He lived just on the other side of Springfield, and he was really good friends with Charlie Martin.I'm sorry.I was going to hear the dogs barking.
Somebody must be here. Oh, well, you just have to put over it.I apologize that I'm professional, but that's upstairs.I'm in the basement.So Charlie Martin was the lifelong resident of Springfield and. And I did arrest somebody.
I got in a fistfight in a firework parking lot in Springfield sometime around the 4th of July, and I ended up arresting the guy.He was parked in a handicapped parking spot or something, and somebody complained about it.That was one of my pet peeves.
If you're parked in a handicapped parking spot, I was going to fuck with you. But the guy resisted, and I ended up taking him to jail and charged him with some good stuff.
And they dropped it down to the mayor's court, which if you get arrested, like all the tickets they wrote, you go to mayor's court, and that's how Springfield PD made their money.And Charlie Martin, whatever, he's a good dude.
He was an older guy, like I am now, but he'd been there forever.So let's go back to it. So the article says variations and embellishments attached to the story over the years, but the gist of it was always this.
Michael Brown was walking home along a back road after a day of hunting when he was killed by a hit-and-run driver.When his body was discovered, there were no clues, and his death would have remained unsolved if Michael's spirit hadn't intervened.
Shortly after his headstone was erected, some stories say that it was later that same day Michael's mother returned to his grave in Springfield Cemetery and found a drawing had been carved on the back of the headstone.
It depicted the accident and even named the driver.Check that out.Wilkerson, now no relation to John T. Wilkerson, but it says Wilkerson and his passengers Now, that's this on the drawing.
And it says, based on those clues, police confronted Wilkerson and he confessed.The tale had all the right elements for a good ghost story.
And local teens and college students have been passing along for years and challenging each other to spend time in the graveyard.
The story spread wildly and can be found on the internet at www.freakopedia.com as investigated and reported by Rex Z, who claims to be a new resident of Springfield And some say it was on Unsolved Mysteries at one point.And I interrupt again.
I did hear that a lot of the years like Unsolved Mysteries came out and did a whole TV special on how this drawing magically appeared and named that it's a kid's drawing and named the killer. And that the case was unsolved, but that's bullshit.
I can tell you that right now because I, I tried to look it up even back in the day when they were around Halloween, when it was on my mind and I couldn't find anything on unsolved mysteries.All right, but back to it.Um,
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Producers for Unsolved Mysteries say it isn't so, but Mayor Martin laughed at the spooky going-ons, as did other adults with good sense, and he would have considered them harmless fun were it not for the trash left behind
by party thrill-seeking candle wax on the headstone, wrappers from snacks and fast foods, crushed beer cans, and dozens of cigarette butts in traces that became increasingly hard to ignore.Now, you know, fuck.
If you're going to go to a cemetery, be fucking respectful, right?I mean, that's where people go to visit their loved ones.I don't go to cemeteries myself, and not even from my own family. This is not something I do.
I believe if you're gone, you're gone.But a lot of people get peace and solace from that, right?So basically, these people were going out there and throwing a party on this boy's grave. So back to it.
In 1997, about two years after his own son had died, Martin and his wife were visiting his son's grave when they were approached by Mary Anthony, who is Michael Brown's sister.
Vandals had knocked over her brother's headstone, and she needed help lifting it back on the coping.The Martins asked her if there was any truth to the stories, Mr. Charlie Martin and his wife. And she said they were completely false.
And she'd been telling people that for years when she encountered the Martins at Michael's grave.She said, but the people didn't seem to believe her. Mayor Martin added his voice to the denials then, but got no better results.
The visitors kept coming, wearing a path through the grass of the cemetery and desecrating not only Michael's grave, but also others nearby.
After police made a few drug busts there, and that would be years truly, because I did several over the years, Alderman considered locking the gates, but instead passed an ordinance against loitering in the cemetery between 8 p.m.and 6 a.m.
Since then, they issued 15 to 20 citations a month, y'all.That's year-round.So this is after, you know, my time.I guess they just pretty much catch them, what, one every two days, people in the cemetery?
Anyway, so they issued 15 to 20 citations a month, Martin said, but the night visitors have kept coming and legal visitors during the daytime as well.I didn't think about that.
Reporters have approached Martin several times over the years, but he had forgotten Anthony's name and never pursued it until he was contacted this year.
And with a little research, he discovered that Gertrude Wilkerson, Michael Brown's mother, had ordered his headstone from Louisiana memorials.He contacted her and suggested a meeting with local media to debunk the myth.
She was reluctant at first, fearing that if you put a lot of light on something that's nonsense, it just gets worse.But she came, and Mary Anthony came with her.
I moved out to Los Angeles in 1987, and before I left, we found candles and candy and such, but I never realized it was such an issue.
I remember thinking that Michael loved people and found good in everybody, so he was probably sitting up there having a ball.
But when Wilkerson returned to Holden in 1996, she discovered that her daughters, Anthony and Pamela Hoover, had been shielding her from the worst of it.
I went four or five times a year, and two out of three times I would go, I would find people there, Anthony said, and I always found litter. I would put angels on the coping and they would be broken.
I had to buy about 80 pounds of potting soil a year to fill it in.I guess y'all that is because they trampled the grave so much.
With evident contempt for the people who have been desecrating her son's grave, Orkson said, I'll probably never stoop so low as to let them bother me.I don't believe in ghosts or goblins or anything.
This is just so far-fetched because everything about his death was on TV. So there's no hidden secret.They can pull the accident report and they meet.I don't know how this could start.
There might be someone, God forbid, that the person I'm thinking of started this to get attention.But whoever did this, I forgive them.
The only truth to the story is that the headstone was originally put in place with the drawing on the back, but that only happened because of a mix-up.Louisiana Memorials apologized and picked it up and added the drawing as ordered.
So evidently, y'all, they did set it up, but without the drawing on the back, and then they fixed it. Leslie Moonves, the business owner, remembers it well.
When contacted about it at the main location of Walker, and y'all, that's a town in Livingston Parish, he was glad to set the record straight. They gave me a drawing on a brown paper bag.
He said, I traced onto the mask of the stone, cut it out and blasted it just like I always do.When I heard the stories, I told people the truth, but I didn't know what else to do about it.
One of my men even ran into a tour bus over there while he was setting up a monument. He told them the true story, but they didn't believe him.So evidently somebody was making some cheddar y'all off running tour buses.I ran into a tour bus there too.
This article continues.I don't know what the fuck that was.Article continues.
Despite persistent denials by everyone in a position to know the truth, the people keep coming and Wilkerson has little hope that her statement to the media will change things.
Mary Anthony took a lot of abuse from this and it left her really scarred.Wilkerson said, I'm doing this for some kind of closure on it.Whether this does it or not, it's the truth. And that's that's hard.
I'm going to see if I can find another one real quick.Pretty crazy.The.Let's see what this one says.This one says the haunted dirty South is in Springfield, Springfield Cemetery, the Civil War era.
air graveyard is located inside the town of Springfield, Louisiana.This was the first time that the Haunted Dirty South has investigated this site, but I will tell you in the middle of the day, it still freaked me out.
The gem here is the grave of Michael Brown.The story goes that Michael was struck and killed by an unknown motorist when he was only 15.Here's the clincher.
After he was buried in, I don't know what the hell this is, his tombstone put in place, a childlike drawing of his death appeared etched in the stone on the back of the grave.This is one of the creepiest sites we visited.My heart is still pounding."
That was from The Haunted Dirty South.Let's see if I can reach it. I guess I could see where people want to believe in shit and do whatever.Let's see if I have one more.That's the same one.Hold on.One more, one more, one more.
Good old Halloween story, I guess.Fuck.I erased it.Hold on. This one is y'all from the Reveille, which is a newspaper and it says get spooked.Checked out haunted tales surrounding Baton Rouge and Springfield landmarks says.
It talks about the old state capital being haunted, the old state penitentiary, the Spanish moon, different guaranteed income life, broadcasting building, all the supposed ghosts.All right, here it is.Springfield Cemetery.
The legend of Michael Brown's tombstone in Springfield Cemetery has since been debunked, but it made for a great ghost story in its heyday.
Located in Springfield, Louisiana, the tombstone of Michael Brown developed an etching seemingly overnight depicting a detailed scene of a road with several cars and people.
According to an article from Haunted Places, many believe Brown had been killed in an unsolved hit-and-run and this ghost had etched the scene of the crime into the tombstone, leading to the perpetrator's arrest.
As noted in the Livingston Parish News article from 2003, the myth has since been disproven by Brown's family, who clarified that the etching was commissioned by the family to put on the tombstone.Brown was an avid fox hunter.
I don't know how many foxes there are in Livingston Parish's surrounding areas.I don't know.They probably got that wrong.In the etching as a sketch, Brown had drawn of a fox hunt that he had recently been on.
It could have been a rabbit hunt or something like that.Maybe they had foxes back then.I don't know. So that's just another thing that's kind of freaky, that old school deal that I had forgotten about.
But it's Halloween, and I'm up here in Wisconsin, again, hunting with the lope.I say kid, he's a young man that received the kidney from this other family that's here.And Halloween, look, up here in Wisconsin, these people be loving some Halloween.
Everywhere you drive, like grand displays of giant skeletons and just a lot of Halloween decorations.I don't recall.I mean, some people put out pumpkins and shit and signs in the yard in Louisiana, but they got really elaborate displays.
And Halloween is today, the day that you're getting this. I don't know, I wanted to bring something different.And I appreciate y'all for listening.And I'm sitting in the basement, I'm freezing my ass off.
I'm about to take a shower and go watch some football.But I'll be headed back to the great state of Louisiana tonight.I'm not watching football.I'm recording this on Sunday, y'all.But I'll be headed back Tuesday night.
By the time you hear this recording, I'll probably be on my way back, 16-hour drive.But happy Halloween.Keep your kids safe.Check your candy and shit.
Back in my day, the urban legend was that some kid started eating this candy, and it had a razor blade in it, and it cut his mouth or whatever. Maybe somebody got poisoned.I don't know.Keep your kids safe.Check the candy.
Kiddos out there, are you listening?I love Halloween.My favorite part was coming home.
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