I'm recording now, Alex, so you're gonna wanna stop talking about whatever filth you're talking about.About all these swinging bachelors?You're muttering to yourself on the couch over there like Gollum.
I don't turn on until I walk into your house and immediately stop muttering, I don't turn on until you hit record.
Yeah, it's 6.30, you've been in the house for half an hour, but we've been sitting in stony silence.Waiting.
Yeah, I went to the bathroom once in the toilet bowl, I talked to myself and I said, he lies!
You talked to yourself in the toilet bowl?Oh, I see, like... I completely forgot that we were talking about that.
Yeah, it's not my fault you don't put any mirrors in your house.
I can't, otherwise I'll fall in love with my own reflection and drown.A witch told me that.
Oh, that's just like Ghaul.
Welcome to the Impostor Cast.My name's Andy North.
On this podcast, we play games and score points and try to be the winner of each episode.Can I pander to the fans right now?
You absolutely may, Jack Black.Do you know who... Good reference.Do you know who's sitting next to me, right next to me, like a cute little button?Who's that?You can tell me.
It's Gibby!Look, hello!Gibby, who for whatever reason, she's always come up and said hi to you, but been a little bit hesitant, but tonight has just decided that she is gonna be in love with you and hang out.
Do you think it's because there's a big hole in your house?
Probably, it's a very scary hole.I guess we should talk about that.It is the elephant in the room.People are going to be able to hear it in the background.
Our audio is going to sound different.The reverb.
Yeah, there's a big hole in the floor of my house.Not to get too deep into the weeds of home ownership, but it's like... Don't want to go too deep in a hole.
We have some sort of a thing going on with our floors that nobody can tell us what's the problem.And I always thought, as a kid, that the problem with being an adult when things like this would come up is that it always costs money.
On sitcoms it's like, oh no, this is going to cost us so much money.
I'm not a fan of crin culture, but one of those things that really gets me is when they're like, when the punchline of a joke is like a serious person being like, actually that cost $600 and then like the goofy sitcom character has to pay the money.
That destroys me.I cannot watch that.I watched Bone Tomahawk, and someone gets scalped in that, and I'm like, huh.But then, meanwhile, Scott Totts from The Office, where he has to pay all that money for kids, it's like, ooh.
i don't think i follow what's the what is the joke that you have a problem with that's too cringy you're saying whenever in in a sitcom yeah they do something and at the end they like have to force like pay physical money for like the gag oh of like if like if it was just like an off scene like someone's if let's say chan was having a fit in a
someplace and he knocks over, knocks over a cat.He knocks over a vase and the vase breaks.And then the guy comes up and be like, that vase is actually $1,200.And then he has to pay it.
I'm like, Oh, really?Yeah.I wonder why that hits you in a certain way.
Because it is like if I feel like not to cut you off, but like what you were saying before about like when real money comes around.
Yeah.And it's like, that obviously is bad, but I was emotionally prepared when, you know, it's like, things are gonna go wrong with the house.We'll have to pay to fix them.That's part of the way that it goes.
This is getting me though, because we just have these people come out to our house and we're like, there's this hole in our house.Can you fix it?And they're just like, no.Like, I don't know how.I would love to take your money, but.
And we're like, okay, well, who should we call that can fix it?And they're like, I don't know.And it's like, what are you talking about?
We're still, we've been working on it for like three weeks now and we're still in the, in the like diagnostic phase where we're like, just someone please tell us what's going on with our house.And people being like, no idea.It could be ghosts.
There's something, something's just rotting our floorboards and nobody knows what. So yeah, that's what's going on.It is spooky season.It is spooky season.If we could call the Ghostbusters out here.Which Ghostbusters?The OGs.
What do you mean, which Ghostbusters?Yeah, there's so many other Ghostbusters.Are you trying to set me up so that I say I wouldn't want the Lady Ghostbusters to come out here?
He said it.No, I'd be happy with any of those wisecracking gals or fellas.Have you seen the latest Ghostbuster?The 2016 one or the new ones that are like nostalgia?
Like the one that came out this year that is nostalgia bait.
I have tried to watch them and I just don't enjoy them.I'm sorry.
I enjoyed them a lot more than I thought I would knowing that they were nostalgia bait.
I just like the one part is that there was gay undertones between a relationship between a teenage girl and a teenage girl, but this other teenage girl was a ghost.
Talk about ectoplasm.I'm not sure what I mean by that. Something sexual probably?
I don't know.I don't know.It's spooky season after all.
It's spooky season.Clip it.This episode has been four minutes long at this point.Speaking of spooky season, this is, yeah, this is going to be our episode that comes out on October 21st.And I do have a spooky game for you.
Do you have a spooky game also?No.This is not our Halloween special.We will have a Halloween special episode.
I thought the Halloween special sounded like it was going to be forced upon us in the lore of the Imposter Castle.Us talking about us having one is sort of diminishing the surprise.
Well, we could have a Halloween special planned and maybe it'll get interrupted if some unexpected thing happens.
Oh yeah, that's right.A Halloween special of just you and me doing spooky stuff.
nothing else bobbing for apples on mic talk about ectoplasm thank you i have a game for you can we play it yeah you want to do a spooky game yeah do you want to go first uh i oh yeah i mean i can do you have a spooky i don't i don't have spooky games oh okay i think you thought you learned about this why don't you go first and then we'll do the spooky game for our second one okay uh i guess this is spooky a little bit okay because i'm talking about
real life news.News, okay.I was like, is it going to be nudes?No, it's going to be news.This is a little game.I do call it Send Nudes.Oh, nice.I like that.Yeah, which longtime fans will know that we actually played this for our TESP cast
and haven't played it since.Well, long-term fans won't know that.
How would they?We never released those test episodes.No, we never did.But if they were that good of fans, they would know.That's right.You guys should have found out by now through talking to us.I forget then.I don't know that I remember this game.
Yeah, this is the one where I have found wacky news articles online that are 100% real.And I've taken one thing out and... Oh, yeah!
Yeah!I was not good at this game the first time we played it, but now I've had nine months of getting used to your little tricks and drags.
And I had nine months to prepare a game, so I actually linked the articles in case we want to figure out what more things to talk about to it.But yeah, to explain to not just Andy, but to the stuff, I've got here these news articles.
They're from the subreddit NotTheOnion, which is like, Promotes weird articles that feel like they should be the satirical newspaper the onion You walked for the onion No.Nope.
Nope.I was just up in the area before the onion was like nationwide.It was just a Madison, Wisconsin only thing for a while.And, uh, so we have had it since I was a little boy.A wee little boy.Can you imagine?Isn't that weird to think about?
That's like, you guys didn't have the onion for like the first 10 years that it was around.It was just our secret thing.And now it's everyone's thing.Talk to like a child that like, doesn't understand, like,
like oh yeah don't tell me to talk to a child okay like a child that's like uh oh yeah i've i've watched all these marvel films like from iron man to end game in like two months and i'm like that's wild to think of because i can clearly pinpoint every moment in my life when some of these games like i don't know some of these movies came out like i don't know when exactly all of them came out but i know where some of the
older ones did, but like, if you said, hey, do you know where you were on this date when Iron Man 2 came out?
I'll be like, yeah.I think about that sometimes in like the generation before ours.If you didn't see a movie in the theater, you might not get to see it again for years because it's like, even VCRs were like pretty new when I was young.
So like, it's not like you could go and rent the movie when it came out in Blockbuster.It's like, no, you just don't get to see Jaws for maybe ever again, kid.
And now they show it every summer.That's right.So hey, this game's said newsed.I have articles here.Andy, I'm going to read out.I'm going to leave out a critical part of it.And you have to tell me what is missing.Okay.So here's the very first one.
I got five of these. I guess if you get it right, you'll get five points.
If you get it wrong, if you get it close, or if you make me laugh, I don't know.
Oh no, don't put it on that.
Yeah, you're just going to sacrifice.
I'll get performance anxiety.
So here's the first one.Coca-Cola recalls it's popular zero sugar drink because it contains
Now I got to assume that you wouldn't have picked this if it weren't something goofy, so I'm not going to pick like aspartame.Okay.Or anything that would be like a carcinogen.Recalls a zero calorie drink.
If you want to know, the 13,152 cases of Minute Maid zero sugar lemonade was recalled.
Oh, okay.So it's a recall as in like something was tainting these.
Uh, it does say that it contains something in it.
Urine.Urine.I think there was a disgruntled employee that peed in some Minute Maid that figured out which batch it was.
It's the perfect drink to do it.Yep.Uh, nope.The answer is sugar. I thought, hey, you know what, this would be an easy one to start out with.So they recalled their zero sugar drink because it contains full sugar is what they say.
How did they make that mistake?Good thing I brought this article and I love to read.If they recalled 12 ounce cans, they shipped from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio. Yikes.
Oh, they don't talk about how they made that mistake.Oh, you know how that could happen?I bet that happens all the time with Dr. Pepper and Diet Dr. Pepper.
Because they're not a doctor?That's correct. Do you like that there's Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb?
Yeah.It's like a Jekyll and Hyde situation.It's all this credentialism.It's out of control.Mr. Pibb does just as good a job as Dr. Pepper does.
But he, just because he failed out.
It's not who you know, it's what you know.Here's number two.Okay. And remember, some of the news is depressing.The hardest part to make this game is finding nothing like super political or super depressing.
I did get nervous when you said this was based on the news.I'm like, oh no.
It's a spooky one.It's a pre-spooky episode.
Great.Oh, by the way, are you keeping score or do you want me to keep score?
Okay, nice.I have zero points, but
And I got all them points that you didn't get.But you're gonna get this one.
Nah, I'm gonna get this one.
I'll do this.Since it's very cut and dry of what it is, I'll look in the article and you can ask me three questions.If I can find it in the article, I can give it for it. Okay, sounds good.
I can spend points to ask clarifying questions.Great, great, great.But nothing too obvious.Nothing too obvious.A sheriff calls for backup over wrong blank.
Sheriff calls for backup over wrong... Okay.Is this related to the equipment with which he was... Is it like he called for backup over the wrong frequency or channel?Like he accidentally was calling on, I don't know, like FM radio or something?
That's a good question.Nope.It does have to do with the wrong physical thing that was in front of him. And I guess that gives you also a little bit more because it's a thing and not like a wrong person, right?
Okay, so it wasn't to do with the situation.It's not like he saw a person running around and it's like, that's a ghost.I got to call for backup.And it wasn't a ghost, it was a real person.
Or like somebody carrying a camera and he thought it was a gun or something.He's using the wrong physical object to call for backup.Yes.Okay, so I think he called for backup using
the wrong so so yeah so um he he called for backup everything police wise he did it right but the reason why is wrong do you want the quote of uh Do you want a quote that the sheriff said?Yes, please.Hey, do me a favor.
Wait, that's not a good sheriff.You got to have mirrored sunglasses.Yeah.Hey, do me a favor.I need to get all I need to get is the owner's name of whoever owns this damn facility or the manager.
Um... Geez, I've got no idea, then.You're saying this doesn't have to do with what he was using?It's not like he grabbed the wrong walkie-talkie?Oh yeah, and he accidentally- I assume he doesn't have multiple walkie-talkies in his car.
He called, like, his 8th grade son.Oh, no.That's the other walkie-talkie.Oh, come help your dad!That's my walkie-talkie to talk to mom! Here's another quote that's also very funny.I don't need no damn money back no more.
I just need to find out who owns this place so I could do an official complaint.
Who owns this place?Was he at like A blood bank?And he was investigating a normal bank robbery?I don't know.The sheriff wouldn't be investigating a bank robbery.I got no idea.
The wrong blank.I do like that.Nope, the correct answer is Burger King order.
what he got the wrong burger king order and he called for backup he wanted like another deputy to show up and help him do what was he gonna arrest the burger king he knows he runs this place it's the king uh let's see here give me his name
a video shows the deputy shows up uh appearing the the video shows the deputy running red lights and sirens when he arrives uh the deputy so the so what came out was the deputy's body cam of coming to the sheriff's aid of uh having the wrong uh
The restaurant doors were locked, the employees were still inside, customers would act out violently, or even resort to talking if so they were trying to be safe.Whoa.
On the other hand, the sheriff argued that a simple business dispute that citizens could have called in.
Huh.Wait, I'm sorry. Was the sheriff himself the one who got the wrong Burger King order?Yes.And then he called in help.Hmm. And that seems that doesn't seem like something that he should be doing as a sheriff.Yeah.
I don't want to get too political on this podcast, but that's seems that's not something I can support.Well, you've never got a wrong order so much.I have, but I just sob.Are you are you are you a eater of the wrong order?No, no way.No way.
But I've also never had anybody like I think if somebody was like arguing with me over it, I would just leave and never go back to that restaurant.Yeah.
Right.Yeah. Generally, it's like, hey, I ordered this and like, okay, I don't really care so much.Great, great.I do like your world where he was at the wrong bank.It is really hard to get these because it's like, what?Yeah.
This was a little bit more because I left a little more clarify things.Okay.Blank, starts out with a blank.Cuts speeding by German police traffic cameras as traffic camera. snaps picture of this Sesame Street staple.
Someone was caught speeding and they are on Sesame Street.
Is it?Now you just have to think about Big Bird wouldn't fit in the car.
Elmo?Elmo's like four years old. Well, I know that, Alex, but guess what about all of the Sesame Street characters?
No!Don't!Don't you say it!Well, okay, here's what I'm assuming happened here...
And this is a stretch, I guess, when I have to say it in words, it sounds silly, but I'm assuming that maybe one of these puppets was blocking, was sat in such a way in the driver's seat that it looked like the puppet was driving the car, but it was actually a person with one of these puppets on their hand or on their lap or something.
First of all, Muppet, you son of a bitch.Muppet, apologies.Secondly, I will say this, they do include the picture that I'll show you afterwards.Now, where is someone in full costume driving as this character down the line?
It's somebody in a full costume?Okay, that narrows it down because there's only a few full-body Muppets.Big Bird wouldn't fit.Snuffleupagus wouldn't fit.I don't think Sweetums would fit and he's also not on Sesame Street very often.
Oh, who else is full size Muppets?Cookie Monster?He's one of those, uh, one that they don't put the heads in though.Yeah.
But I mean, uh, I mean, it is wild also, as I'm reading this down too.It was just, he was just going 10 miles over the speed limit.
10 miles an hour.Okay.I'm interested in the, is this a Muppet I'm going to know, or is this one of the more obscure Muppets?No, no, no.You know him.Um, uh, okay.I'm going to go against my gut here and say, Oscar the Grouch.Oh, Oscar the Grouch.
But it was in fact Cookie Monster.
It was Cookie Monster.Okay, so Cookie Monster is one where like one it's a it's a hand in his head and a hand in the
One in the head and one in the... Well, Cookie Monster's a two-man puppet, right?I think someone controls the hands separately outside of the head.
I see.So this was just a person in a Cookie Monster costume.Oh, yeah.
Let me show you the picture.Oh, man.Oh, no.
Oh yeah.That doesn't really look like Cookie Monster.You got to put this on, um.On the gram.On the Instagram.I will.I'll make a note of that.Hang on.I got to say, Alex, this is not Cookie Monster.
Are they saying, are they trying to say this is the, this is Cookie Monster?Yeah.
Keep, keep on scrolling down the article.They, they say Cookie Monster.
I believe they say it, but this is not Cookie Monster.You look at that guy.There's a, we are looking at a German Cookie Monster.We're looking at a. Oh, I see it more in this one, but yeah, this is definitely a knockoff Cookie Monster costume.
This isn't Cookie Monster as you would... If this Cookie Monster appeared on TV, you'd be like, something's up with that Cookie Monster.
I'll get it, because you offhandedly said Cookie Monster.I'll give you some points.Thank you.That's all I ask.But I was three points out.Three points sounds great.I think the audience is going to be with me in being like...
Yeah, audience, if you can come up with a better Cookie Monster outfit, costume and send it in, I'll give Andy two more points.
I'm just saying I think I feel like people would follow the same logic I did, which is like.
There's a difference between a person in a costume as one of the Sesame Street characters versus someone was manipulating a Sesame Street puppet in such a way as it looked like it was driving a car, which is what I thought.
Yeah.Okay.Let's do this.Everyone who's been listening so far, go to our Instagram, write in our comment section.
Open up Instagram right now.
Yeah.Make this our most commented picture of our whole account and saying, I stand with Andy or I stand with Cookie Monster. I stand with Cookie Monster is way more fun to write.Oh, we got two more of these.
Here's the one scientists say potatoes are better than blank. for making space bricks?
Potatoes are better than blank for making space bricks.Yeah.That's interesting.I'm going to say concrete.Oh, wow.
No questions asked at all.No.OK.You know what's funny?They call it the space concrete.It's twice as strong as conventional concrete.The frozen potatoes?But.Or the actual thing that they use.
So in this article, it is saying about how they created a thing called space concrete.And they're using potato scratch from it.But before they had that, they used human blood. That's the answer.
Potatoes are better than human blood for making space bricks.
I have to say, human blood would have been way down on the list of what I would have guessed they're using for making bricks in space.
Why do they even need bricks in space?Hang on.Okay, you have some ideas for the space wolf.
Well, no, but if you need bricks in space for anything, human blood can't be your most plentiful
How do you think they came up with that?In their study, a mixture of using simulation Martian and lunar soils.It's more than double than ordinary concrete.But what does it talk about blood?
Typically, uh, hey, did you know that, uh, to make 200 bricks, you need the same amount of stuff that takes 7,500 bricks on earth.
Really?The same amount because it would be denser?
I don't know.Cause it's space.
I, okay.So here's what I'm thinking.I'm thinking that this article is saying we were testing a whole bunch of different stuff to try and figure out what makes the best bricks on Mars.
And not that human blood was what we were going to use until we figured out potatoes.It's that when we're ranking everything, potatoes ranked higher than human blood.
Is that what this is?You're gonna, you're gonna kill, you're gonna kick yourself for this one.
I'm not gonna kick myself for this one.
Oh yeah, because I found, I found down in the article, I found this paragraph that says, potato starch wasn't the first medium that the University of Manchester scientists tested on their research, blah, blah, blah.
In previous study, the same team explored the possibility of using human blood and urine as binding agents. The blood and urine of astronauts, after all, are renewable resources!Unbelievable sentence.Do you remember that scene in The Martian?
Where he was trying to build a house and he had to keep bleeding himself?Yeah, bleeding and peeing everywhere.
Boy, oh boy.Yeah, no, I don't think that would be the first thing that we would reach for is human blood if we needed to build structures on Mars.
thanks scientists you know i um we talked about how we like to record fairly close to when these release to keep it pop culture and i did i did i did go back and try and find articles within like at least a month of this so this is happening right now these are the cookie monster was driving down the autobahn as early as october 7th 2024
Oh, what a sight.All right.Here's the last one.
Here's the last one.I'm going to get, this one's going to be five points.
I'm going to get it right off the bat.Flavio Putin.Ever heard of him?
Oh no, there's no way this one's going to be fun.Vladimir Putin, big Kelsey Grammar fan.
Yep.Urges citizens to blank during walk breaks.
Is this, this is not a bummer?
In conventional sense, it's not.
Okay.During work breaks, people should have sex, I bet.I bet he's saying you should be working or making more Russian babies.Those are the two best uses of your time.
Is that your final answer?
Andy, you're completely right on the mark. Yeah, apparently Russia, as well as a lot of the, are we in the eastern hemisphere, has also been going through a lot of birth rate downs.
Yeah, didn't we talk about this on a recent episode about the type of person who's concerned that Americans aren't having enough babies?Right, compared to like, yeah.I think there is a Go back, go back to episode, and then you can insert.
But Vladimir Putin seems exactly like one of those people.People, yeah.Not Americans.He could care less about Americans having babies, but definitely I can see him worrying about the Russians not having enough new Russian soldiers.
I feel like Russia is probably one of the worst places to encourage people.Be like, oh, so what are you doing for your lunch break?Duh.That's Russia, right?
I think that was an excellent Russian.
Oh, thank you. I was rushing to get that out.
Come on.Do you think, um, here's my thing.Yes.If you're on a work break and you're having sex for Vladimir Putin for the future of Russia, do you think you're allowed to like, if you're like five minutes late coming back from break coming back?
excuse me talk about ectoplasm but do you think that's a do you think that's a valid excuse if you come back and you're like i'm sorry i was late i was having sex for vladimir vladimir putin do you think you get in trouble for that or you think that's fine uh i think that'll be because like who's the highest authority in russia so ultimately somewhere down the line you'll be fine yeah i think so we'll test it out is that what's what's i want to say what's what's the secret police
I don't know if it's the KGB anymore.I'm not up to date on my Russian secret police.I know.I'm trying to think about it.What's the... What did they used to be?The Svet... Svet... I don't even want to... People are going to be yelling at us.
I know.I've got one in mind, but I'm like, I think that has to do with... I don't want to say... I don't want people to know how dumb I am. Hey, you're not dumb.You got that one right off the bat.Thank you.
Giving you a total of eight points that entire game.
Thank you.Out of a possible 25?I did that.Math in my head.So are you just going to eat the other 17 that goes to you?
You know what?I think it's only fair that I take half of that.
uh 8.5 8.5 yeah that way i'm still beating you with my clever sneaky tricks i think that works i think that works yeah but somehow it just feels right because i would have argued you down based on the human blood and cookie monster ones yeah especially since he said urine earlier especially since i should get urine for all of them if urine's the answer to any of the questions i should have gotten credit for it i think
Alex, that was a great game.Thank you.
Can we play another great game about renewable resources?Yeah, great.This one is called The Spooky Tournament.Here's how The Spooky Tournament works.I've heard variations on brackets played on other podcasts, and I always thought that it sounded fun.
I've always wanted to do it on this podcast.Before we do this, I should make a quick aside about the fact that
When you're hearing this episode, this Thursday, October 24th, 2024 is the 30th anniversary of the premiere of the television show Gargoyles on the Disney channel.
And I tried my hardest to make a fun game about gargoyles, which I've been trying to do for months. for the 30th anniversary, and I just can't.And here's why.Not that many people watch Gargoyles.That's right.
So I'm like, well, we could maybe do a Dracula game about it.Like, which Gargoyles character are you in?I'm like, the Dracula games only work if, like, the audience has some idea.I would have to explain to you who all the characters on Gargoyles are.
Our Gargoyles Kingdom Hearts episode is gonna be on Flaunching Point.
We're gonna do one episode that's about Gargoyles in Kingdom Hearts, and then you're never allowed to mention it again. So I want to call that out.
I want to say, if you haven't watched it in honor of the 30th anniversary, look up the pilot to gargoyles and watch it.Uh, it's probably online for free somewhere.
I do not have a gargoyles game in that, uh, that makes me sad, but instead I have a spooky bracket.Here's how it goes.
And we'll probably, I'll probably stop the recording temporarily and put some fun, spooky music in here because you and I are each going to separately come up with a list of eight things.Oh, the spookiest eight things that we can think of.
And then I'm going to put them into the spooky bracket. Which is just a traditional like single elimination tournament bracket.They're going to go head to head and you and I are going to discuss honestly, which one we think is spookier.
Then at the end, one of us is going to, we're going to have one winner, the spookiest thing that either of us came up with.And whoever nominated that one will win the points.
And we can look at how far each of us got and sort of award points, I think, proportionally to how spooky the things were that we came up with.
But your objective is going to, out of your list of eight, to have one thing from your list be the winner of the spooky bracket.Does that make sense?Yes.
I'm going to pause the recording temporarily while you come up with your eight things, and don't tell me what they are.
Um, how specific do I have to be?
I think you're going to do badly if you pick something that is spooky to you, but that somebody else wouldn't find very spooky.
So if you're really scared of like saltine crackers, I would not suggest that because saltine crackers are not going to win that bracket.
And when you try to whistle, it's so terrifying.
I know, I know.I brought that up specifically because I knew that you were going to...
But should I get suspicious about this game?Or should I get specific about this game?
I don't think you should get suspicious about it.I don't have ulterior motives.
Okay, good.Should I get specific about this game, though?
I think specifics will serve you well, because I could put like a human skull.It's pretty spooky, but maybe not the most spookiest thing.
I don't think that's terribly spooky.It's frightening.
But we're talking spooky, spooky.Okay, okay.Things that go bump in the night.
Oh, why I'm afraid of bees.Goosebumps.
You've brought up why I'm afraid of bees by goosebumps.
Is this maybe the third time on the podcast?
If you want to pick why I'm afraid of bees to go on our spooky, cause it can be also like books and movies and things, or it can be specific like that.I think we can, we can go wide with this.Okay.Cool.Cool.Cool.Yeah.Okay.
Let's pause temporarily and then we'll come back. back on?Are you spooked?Did you scare yourself?
I'm looking over at you and you've got the hackles.Your hackles are raised.
Can I tell you something, Andy?Yep.For once, for once in this whole podcast, I took this very serious.I found myself doing it too!
I was like, first I went back and changed some joke answers that I had and now I've like actually focused on stuff that like frightened me as a kid and like
specifically and like just constantly and like still it's still here yeah maybe this won't be funny at all maybe it will just be actually terrifying i guess we'll find out oh now i've thought of another one but i'm trying to think if it's better than uh
You gotta knock out one of your existing ones?No.In order to go in there?
Just because it is funny.Let's do one humorous thing and then we'll be completely safe for the next 20 minutes.One of the big fear that I had as a child was sitting underneath a television, like at a restaurant.
Like that it would fall down on you?
It would fall down on me, crush me because it was so big, and then electrocute me because I would fall in, it'll break, and then I'll be in pain.
Yeah.Like Scream.Yeah.Spoilers for Scream.
Yeah.But it doesn't frighten me so much now because all the televisions are tiny.That's true.I would probably do more.I won't even feel it if a big television fell on me.
It sounds like the Final Destination movies would have been bad for you to watch when you were a kid because it would have just given you a whole bunch more ideas for
I'm calling, I'm in my horror renaissance as you know.
While watching Hereditary.
You walked in here in a three-piece suit with a monocle.
I'm in my renaissance where I'm finding myself being okay to watch some movies but there are some movies that like
that just generally not knowing like the concept that I'm like I think I'm okay with never watching and Final Destinations like that series on that is on that list.
Yeah that one's pretty tongue-in-cheek I mean it's they're almost horror comedies not quite right but almost yeah Okay, should we do our eight?
Yeah, now that people are laughing their asses off by that conversation.
Everybody, if you think you're going to be too scared, please feel free to turn off the podcast right now because it gets pretty spooky from here on out.
But, oh, to your point earlier, I did towards the end be like, I should throw in a couple here that are like, I do think they're spooky but are funny because all of these so far are pretty straight up just like that's just spooky.
This is something you'd put in a TV show or something.Yes.I do think they're spooky.They're ready?Yeah.My number one is
This is no particular order though.
No particular order.Just as they came to me.When, because this has happened to me recently, when you're in your house and it's nighttime and it's dark, all the lights are off, but there's just enough light that your eyes play tricks on you.Yeah.
So like middle of the night and maybe you're seeing like, it's like, Whoa, was that a. Yeah.
Can I, I don't know if I have one that sort of compliments that should I do it for that one or should I save it for like a different bracket?No, I think that's good. Uh, it's funny enough.I have a compliment for that too.
It's like when you're by yourself in a house and there's a noise.I have that one too.You don't know where it's coming from.You don't know what it is.You can't identify it.
I, that still happens to me, even though we have the cats.So I'm like, there's, it's very often that I'm hearing a noise, but there'll be times when I'll hear a noise and I'll be like, Andy, that's how people die.
I can't identify how the cats could have made that noise.So it's almost the same.Okay.So I'm going to take noise from upstairs home alone and give that to you.
I hate when Home Alone is playing and upstairs you get the noise from it.
That's kind of what our house is like now with this big hole.That's why I was shouting at you when you opened the door to come in because if you had stepped forward you would have gone right through the floor.
And there was a bowling ball that was swinging at me.Yeah, we have it all rigged up.
Okay, so, I was playing tricks in a dim house, and you've got a noise in the house when you're home alone.My second one is kids singing, especially like you get that, this is your nightmare on Elm Street.
You get the kids chants, or like the... ♪ Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na
They're doing the beastie rap, but they're really bad at it because they're kids.Beastie rap is an improv game.
I've got something that complimented that one too, funny enough. something that's made for children but has like an eerie thing about it.
My first go-to example is because I'm a 90s kid is there was an episode of Angel that Jim Henson company walked with.You know what I'm talking about?
uh where it's like a sesame street type show oh and it like sucks kids into it and make kids like hypnotized and like and but like it's because like there's a demon involved with it yeah it's like and that's also sort of like has been like the rage on the internet for a while like
people would find shows or like games are like, oh, this is an unfinished game.But like, it's meant to be for kids to like learn their ABCs.But there's actually demonic presence in it.Yeah.So like stuff like is purposely made.
I mean, to take a step back, it's made for adults.But like in the world of like what it is, it's like it's made for children.
and there's like spooky things so in our world it's made for like adults to like enjoy but like the law that they're trying to put out is like this was made for children
I think I kind of get that.Would it fall under the same category?Cause what I'm thinking of is stuff that was made for kids, but it's unintentionally way more scary and is still scary as adults.
I'm thinking of a lot of people think the, uh, like the, there's a show called, uh, a claymation thing from like 40 years ago or Rankin and Bass claymation thing called like the adventures of Tom Sawyer.
That apparently has a very scary sequence in it Even though it's a it supposed to be made for kids or even just the Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer claymation the abominable snowman I feel like it's very scary.
Actually, that's kind of what and another thing that inspired me was that there was just like Speaking about blockbuster earlier in this episode.There was a there was like a I can't remember not leprechaun like leprechaun the horror movie and
But like there was like unblockbust assessors like made for family, not movie night.And my mom picked it up and it had something to do with leprechauns.And it terrified me and my sister as kids.
Like I guess that's also true, like purposely made for children.And it's creepy.
Is it too scary?If I said too scary kids show?Yeah.Does that kind of cover us?
Yeah, I guess so.I know it's just it's just kind of. It's sort of different from what I was actually thinking of, but I think I actually do want to go for that.
Otherwise, that is more terrifying to me.Like some Kurtz, the Calloway dog sequences.Yeah.Yeah.
Okay.You can have that one.I'm going to have billowing curtain in airless room.
or no visible like thing that would be moving it it's just oh yes I don't have anything to compliment them as I guess I'll just go right down the list spiders spider pretty spooky just my true phobia skeleton with a job
I'm thinking in Ghostbusters famously, they get in that car and there's a guy who's basically a skeleton who's the cab driver when New York is being taken over by ghosts.
I'm thinking there is more than one story I feel like where it's like, oh no, the pilot of the plane is a skeleton.
Yeah, what a twist.I've got something that complements that too.It's that like some sort of human, some sort of creature that is like wearing human skin.
Creature wearing human skin.Yeah.Do you have a specific examples there?
Uh, just, just like. uncanny, uncanny valley of just like, it's like, oh, you think it's a human, but it like cranks its head all the way around.
It's kind of like if you took the skin off of the skeleton and you gave the skeleton a job and then the skin was just used for something else.
You just gave me what is going to fill in my slot that opened up when we took Noise Home Alone and put it on yours.Here's one. you Wind chimes with rustling leaves along with it.
Because I think you can, you can hear wind chimes in like the springtime and I feel like that's not super scary, but when the wind is blowing and it's setting off some wind chimes and you also have dry leaves blowing along the ground as part of the same noise.
Yeah.That's your spooky autumn sounds.Ooh.Maybe there's a Mike Myers going to come up and eat you.
Uh, what about a monster that lures their victims slash are intelligent? Intelligent.Like it's one thing just to be chased by a werewolf, but like, if they can like mimic voices, it's like the big thing I can think of.
Yes.Yeah.I don't like it when a monster can mimic a voice and it lures me into a trap.That's one of my least favorite things.Yeah.
I remember that time he was doing the complete imposter cast and I said, I love this podcast.And then they got me.
Right.I got you right at the last minute.I was like, Alex, no, that's an anglerfish.That's doing my voice. What if there is a figure standing under a streetlight?
Spooky.I thought about that last night. Why?Because I looked outside and I was like, is there someone?I was like, I was in my little neighborhood in my townhouse and I was like, is there?
I was like, there was like one light that was like shining in the middle of it.And I was like, first of all, I was like, I think I talk about trick of the eyes, like, right?I was like, first I was like, is that someone?But then it wasn't.
But I was like, what would people do if I just stood there? from like because it was like one o'clock and i was like what if i did would like would they call the cops that's the spooky thing about it is because it's like
If you're walking under a street lamp, fine.Everyone's got to do that.If you're standing under a street light, it's like, don't you have someplace to be?What are you doing?You up to mischief out there?Should I replace that though?
I'm wondering if I should replace that.
Well, let me, let me give you one of mine.
Give me one of yours.Okay.
Because I feel like this could also be replaced because we're sort of tied on this stuff.I just wrote being alone at night, like anywhere between two and 5am.
Yeah, if you're awake, alone and out.Like, if you're not like, not like in your house, just like being out for whatever reason.Oh, geez.Like after 5am, it becomes like, very calm.Maybe this is just me.
But like sometimes that time you like have somewhere you need to go somewhere you need to do and like, you're not, you're not really around people.
I don't know.That does sound spooky because I don't know the last time that was true for me.
Like that I was out by myself.I guess it feels less scary if you've woken up super early to like go to a flight or something.
Yes.And you got something.That's because your mind's preoccupied for something.
But if it was the end of my day and I was going home to go to sleep and it was like three in the morning. Alone awake and outside between two and 5am.Yeah.Yeah.
I'm wondering if I want to replace, because I can only pick one of these, but is figure standing under a street lamp more or less spooky than motion activated lights.
Because we've got a motion activated light on the side of our house and it is very sensitive and it just goes off all the time.
So very common occurrence is just the motion activated light turns on and I go over and look and there's just nothing out there.
and walking up onto the doorstep.So like, but sometimes it comes on and I'm like, yeah.And I'm like, it's the middle of the night.Is someone at my doorstep at 1am?Yeah.
Okay.I'm going to replace it.I think that is just because it's more common.I think I very rarely, if ever have seen anyone just standing under a street lamp, but motion activated lights, bane of my existence.
To play devil's advocate here, and he's pretty spooky too.You've never seen someone standing under the speedlight, but the moment that you do, I think that would be a lot more spooky than just a light coming on, right?Fuck.
I think I've got to replace skeleton with a job with figure under streetlight now that we're not doing bits anymore I mean don't get me wrong if I saw a skeleton with a job but even then I don't think I would be too spooked I'd be like I would be more amused uh my turn then yep uh the next one that I haven't hit is uh which I could have spent my time looking this up but I didn't
That one Japanese manga that's about the holes in the wall and everyone has their own hole.
That's Junji Ito.Yeah.I think that's... What's the one with the spirals?Junji Ito.Yeah, the spirals that's coming out.
That keeps on trying to get me to watch. HBO.
The Enigma of Amagara Fault is the Junji Ito story where there's holes.Even just the Google image search that comes up with this.
This is such a spooky.I think it's because I had no idea that this guy existed and made these horror stuff too.And I was like, oh, let me I was like, no way could just a comic scam me, right?
And then do you want me to put Junji Ito, the artist or specifically the Junji Ito?
That's good.That's good.Like just, just in general, but like specifically what made me think of it was exactly that.Like, I had no idea who he was.I had no idea what he did, but people like would post like online was like, this was real.
This is really scary.I'm like. How can something like this scam me?Like I'm just clicking next page, next page, next page.So it's that and then all of a sudden, oh yeah, really?Yeah.The Japanese can be kind of messed up.
They can be kind of messed up.
I would like actually recommend folks, if you're not a fan of spooky stuff, don't do an image search for Junji Ito to see what we're talking about because he is like very good at doing like single images that are very unsettling.
Yeah.The only thing on Instagram is going to be Cookie Monster driving.
Yeah, we're just gonna put Cookie Monster on there.No Junji Ito.Might be too scary for some folks.It's not like a horribly violent or graphic or anything.It's just unsettling.
I watched, I saw a ranking of the top 30 scariest horror animes. And I was happy to find that I actually did watch one of the top, I made all the way to the top six.
Um, I don't remember what it's called, but it's one where like, there's this curse in this school class and people keep on dying until they figure out who the person that doesn't belong in the class is supposed to be.
And in the, one of the big things is this one person dies because she's getting out her umbrella at the top of the stairs and then she trips into the umbrella.
Falls at the bottom the stairs and it stands upright and she falls onto oh, no Something on the wing of the plane
I know it's a very specific thing.It was just in a Twilight Zone episode and the remake of the Twilight Zone episode.But I saw that Twilight Zone episode when I was too young to be watching it, I think.
The one with John Lithgow, which I think is the scarier one.
Because in the really old one, the monster on the wing of the plane looks stupid.
He's just a guy dressed up.
But in the John Lithgow one, that's a very scary gremlin on the wing of the plane.
It's a very scary thought. I know flying is a lot safer than actually like even driving.Driving to the airport is when you're in the most danger than actually getting on the airplane and flying.
I know people have flying phobias, but it is in just a broader sense, it is scary knowing that you're in this location for up to how many hours it is.And then if something does go wrong, you're like, what are we going to do?
What are we going to do?There could be a John Lithgow on the wing of the plane.We would be powerless to stop him.I think that's what happened in that episode.
Very nice. Okay, last one then for each of us.Oh, yes.Just plain and simple.Faces popping out of nowhere.
Faces popping out of nowhere.You talking about like jump scares?
Yeah, jump.I hate jump scares.That's part of the reason why I was so turned off about horror movies for the longest time, which is just hating jump scares.But like, I have here noted, like in the Haunted Mansion, but
It's terrible.That's even, uh, I felt like that was not fair.Cause I, I, I'm a fan of horror movies.I don't like jump scares so much, but the trailer for the horror film smile had a pretty creepy jump scare in it.
And I thought, I don't feel like you should, in my opinion, they shouldn't put those in trailers.It was too scary.Cause people might not want to be with it. people might not be into horror movies that much.
Was I talking to you about this?I was recently talking about The Omen.I forget what movie I was going to see, but The Omen is about the boy who's also the devil.
And I saw the trailer where at his birthday party another little girl just like hangs herself.And I remember like, well now I don't want to watch Law of the Rigs or whatever PG-13 movie.I sat down and watched because I was like, why was this?
I was like, that's so unsettling.
Yeah, that feels really weird to be watching a not horror movie and see a horror trailer and have it be very scary.Just because I know that people don't like horror movies and get scared by stuff like that.
And it's like, well, you shouldn't make them watch that, guys.I don't know.Those of you who that have seen the Smile trailer probably know what I'm talking about.It's where the lady comes up to the car.Anyway, don't watch the Smile trailer if you're
there's another smile out because i keep on seeing trailers for that too the first one was pretty good i thought okay my last one yeah wax dummy wax museum madam tussauds They're horrible places, don't go.
If you saw a wax figure in a place where you weren't expecting one, I can't think of anything creepier.A lot of times, like you make a wax dummy of me, maybe you kill me and put it inside the wax dummy, that would also be pretty spooky.
Don't like them, no thank you.All right, you ready?Are you ready to start the tournament?And now we have to be, we have to take ourselves out of this.We have to judge these objectively.You understand?
don't be terrified single elimination tournament here we go should we uh real quick i've seen this so should we do like a three two one and then both say who we think should win and then if it does then we just push them on through without saying anything that sounds like a good idea except we're going to do this a bunch of times and i think people might get annoyed by hearing us say three two one over and over again so what if we just like
Looked at this as rapid fire.Just go with your gut.Maybe we don't debate these too long.We just like fire with our gut.And if there's an argument, then we can hash it out.But maybe shoot from the hip on these.Yeah.Cool.Cool.Cool.Sounds good.Okay.
Can I tell the people now that they should go to our Instagram and say, either I stand with Andy or I stand with Cookie Monster, colon, comma, and then put which one they wanted to win?
No!In a different comment thread, right?Here's what I think is the spookiest. We should do one of these in the future with user submitted stuff.Yeah.And then the person who submitted the thing that wins gets, Oh, that'd be fun.
I've been dancing around like a tier list type game for a while too.
Yeah.And let's do another bracket for maybe like Christmas or something.
That'd be good.Okay.Here we go. Which of these is spookier?Number one, your eyes playing tricks in a dim house, or you're home alone and you hear a noise.Ooh, this is neck and neck.I think you hear a noise when you're home alone.
I think it's noise too, because noise leads a lot more to the imagination.Eyes play trick might get you for a second, but then once you realize what's going on.
Yeah. And you're more on guard against your eyes playing tricks, I feel like, than you are against the noise.Yeah.Okay, here we go.Faces popping out of nowhere versus wax dummy.Which is spookier?
Hmm.I feel like I gotta go wax dummy.Oh, yeah, I think this just goes back to all We try to be impartial, but I think this is the fault itself faces being out of nowhere.
I Think waxing is eerie But like I don't there's nothing more that gives me the highest spook rate You describe a jump scare is spooky though.I
I'm not spooked by a face popping out of nowhere.I'm annoyed.
I would have everything here.I would probably be the most spooked for the least amount of time, if you know what I mean.
Okay.It'll go all the way up and then this stuff too.We'll do faces.We'll do faces.No, no, no.You know what?But now that I'm thinking about it, once it's over, then I'm just kind of like mad.And when you're mad, you're never scared.
You know, have you noticed that?Yes.
I feel like it makes me less scared than I was.
Because I get jump scared.I get, I get spooked.Like I said, it goes up and then I get mad.If I'm going down. If I'm walking into a wax museum, I think I'll just get more and more spooks the more I go down and I would not be getting angry at it.
I would just be like, oh, each thing is another fright in the wall.
Yeah.I think that's where I was coming from with this.Yeah.I'm happy to give up wax dummy because I don't think it's going to go the distance.
No, I think, I think I'd want to go with wax too.Cause the more and more I think about it is that's like, The face is looking at you.
Okay.Wax dummy.Wax dummy.Next one.Wind chimes with leaf rustle or intelligent monster that lures you into a trap.
I'm going to go with intelligent monster.
We can go intelligent monster.Yes.Because if there's nothing, if there isn't a monster that's going to get you, then wind chimes aren't very scary.It's just wind chimes.
Yeah.Some people find them relaxing.
This is my wind chime ADR.Creature wearing human skin or figure under streetlamp?I think streetlamp.
Human skin is very scary.Right.
But you're not spooked when you see that you're running.
yeah yeah again again i think things that leave more to the imagination yeah will be more spookier something scary that's about to happen is always scarier than something that is happening if that makes sense right the anticipation is what gets you right speaking of the anticipation billowing curtain in an airless room or spider i hate spiders
spider for sure maybe it's the spider that's making that curtain billow yeah it's blowing on it i've got yeah
Oh, I will say this spider web that's bellowing in an airless room.That happened to me recently.I was like, yeah, it was like all of us.I'm watching TV and then all of a sudden a huge strain is just coming in.I'm like, I don't even see the spider.
Oh no.Where'd this come from?Yeah.
Just brushing against your cheek.
Yeah.Kissing me softly.Wait a minute.
It sounds like you fell in love with this spider web.
Killing me strongly with her song.
Alone, awake and outside between two and five AM. Or motion activated lights.I think I got to go motion activated lights on this one.
I I'll go either way.Um, and I, I agree with lights because when you brought that up, you really did bring up like a core of like me standing.I'm like, why, why did these lights come on?
They're both.I feel like if you're, it's 3am and you're coming home and the lights flick on and you look over.
I think, I think 3 a.m.and you're going home, like, I know, like, it's, it'll be, despite what the media, the, the, the, the murder-tastic media wants you to believe.Joe Biden.Yeah.
I do think, like, if you run into someone late at night, it could be a little scary, but then you're like, oh, they just go on your way.
Like, what, nine times out of, Nine.Nine point one.
That's the right way to say that.Motion-activated light, I think.
Yeah, motion-activated light also is like, they both leave, like I said, they both leave a lot to the imagination.But I believe motion-activated light brings you in a very subtle state.For one, when you're out alone by yourself,
You know you're you're in this flight of flight situation when you're at home You're like this is my house.
This one.I think is a gimme.Okay, but I wanted you to tell me Something on the wing of the plane?Or Junji Ito?
I think you're really unlikely to see something on the wing of the plane, frankly.What if you saw Junji Ito on the side of the plane?Oh my god!I don't think I'd recognize him.I'd be like, what's that?
Japanese man?There's something on the side of the plane!
Is that famous manga artist Junji Ito?
What if his next comic is about us?
Oh my god. I think he's a very wacky guy.
I've heard he's a very goofy, silly, and loving guy in real life.
Isn't that interesting?I feel like there's a lot of overlap between people who are very funny or goofy and people who are really into horror.
I hate that this was a conversation I had last week.I think it was with theater people.So I do apologize if you're listening to this and I can't tell you who it was.But like, we were just talking.
Hugh Jackman, if you're listening.Yeah.
But we were just talking about how Junji Ito is a very fun-loving guy.Then, meanwhile, Miyazaki is a very grumpy guy.He seems like a very serious grump.Yeah, and he makes such a whimsical, like, the children are future-type media.
and i should say i apologize i have no idea how junji ito's name is pronounced so i'm just doing it phonetically so sorry if i'm mispronouncing that i don't think i've ever heard it said um okay last one in the first round two scary kids show versus kids singing kids going head to head here yeah did you hit a randomizer
Yeah, I randomized the seeds.
Oh, wow.Yeah.I think I think I've sort of been talked into like, when something that is made for kids is generally scary.Although, you think that one?
It's going back to like, well, here's the thing.
it's going back to like the kids singing stuff and like eerie it's the wax museum debate all over again it is uh what do you think about this i think kids singing has been overused to the point where it's like it is spooky but it's also been in so many movies and things that it's sort of itself now too yeah so maybe i mean i think if you still heard it in real life uh like kids singing in unison like a spooky song or something yeah pretty spooky
I've heard people being like, I don't find some of the horror movies realistic because people crack too many jokes.I'm like, no, I wish.It's like if I was in this situation, I too would be like, whoa, until I die.
You'd be goofing all the time.Let's do two scary kids show.I think you've talked me into it. Okay, now we are on to the second round.We've got eight, which will create our final four, and then our last head one.Okay, here we go, here we go.
Noise when you're home alone versus wax dummy.Easy.Yeah.
Three, two, one.Noise when you're home alone.All right, next one.Intelligent lure monster versus figure under street lamp.Ooh, this is hard.Because the figure under the street lamp is probably gonna lure me into a trap.
Yes, the figure on the streetlight could be the intelligent monster that is mimicking your friend's voice.Oh boy, oh boy.The way I think about intelligent monsters is like they comfort you up until the point where they get you, right?
Do you remember, I'm thinking of the scene in Terminator 2 when he's talking to his mom on the phone.
he's yeah because he's a because he's a shape-shifting robot yeah or the scene where like the security guard comes back yep and but he's already dead i think intelligent lure monster
Yeah, thanks, Terminator 2.It's Terminator 2, it's the spookiest, you heard it here first, folks.The scariest movie of the last 50 years.Here we go.Motion activated light versus spider.Ooh, this is tough.Yeah, I know.
I would have wanted these two to go up against each other in the finals, frankly.
Yes, I know.And I'm really trying to... Here's the problem.We've talked about spiders and we just said spiders and we've all been like spiders.We haven't really talked about it.I do have a mild phobia of spiders.
I don't like them.In fact, like I was in the Dollar Tree the other day and there was spiders that were like clearly like big Halloween colored spiders, but they look just realistic enough that I was like, oh boy.
I feel like I got to take myself out of this because I don't mind a spider.Sometimes I actually think like we get jumping spiders a lot in our house and I think they are very cute.Uh, so that's the thing too.
It's like, I know when I say spiders, I'm coming from a place that is very biased.
Yeah.I, so do you think we got to, I think we got to go wider for this.Do you think the audience is saying spider or motion activated light?
again it's when you explain to me motion activated light you really hit something too on the head too if i see a spider i'm like oh gross like i'll be like oh like okay here's the funny thing i think
Spiders also is coming from the same thing where I was coming from where faces appearing out of nowhere.Just jump scares.If it was jump scare with a spider, that sets me off.
And sometimes, yeah, jumping spider scares.Sometimes it's real.
Sometimes it's... Sometimes there's a real spider there.
Yeah.Sometimes you're taking a crap and the spider comes out of the drain.
Correct.And it waves to you.
It looks like you're not eating regularly.No, don't flush the toilet.
Wait, so I've lost track.Do you think that a spider should be the winner or motion activated light?
I feel like I'll leave it to you.I feel like I'm too biased.No, I want to leave it to you.I'm fine with both of them.I feel like I don't know if my bias against disliking spiders.Um,
uh will it should overweight the fact that like how eerie it is to be like this light shouldn't be turning on right now
This is gonna be controversial and I'll take the mail on it.I'm gonna go with motion activated light.
Because I think the thing is, whether or not there is something there when you look, when the motion activated light turns on and you go to the window and you look, either way, it's pretty scary.
I'll tell you a story to cover your ass.I was dog slash house sitting for a very good friend and friend of the podcast, Davis Tate, once.
And the way that his house is set up is like when I'm over there and watching things, I have no reason to go upstairs.
I have several friends house that are like that, too, that I have no reason to go into this room, usually their bedroom, like of that person, too.But they for a reason, there's like no way to it.
One time I was sitting there, too, and a light came on in the upstairs.It was to put the horse in front of the cart for the story. It was like a time of light that they had this set up that turns on and off.Oh no, the worst guy!
But like, I didn't know that.And so like, I even texted him.I was just like, hey, there's a light on upstairs that wasn't on before.And he never responded.Inside the house?Yeah.Oh no!And he didn't respond in a timely fashion.
So that whole time I was like,
I cannot think of anything worse.I mean, I can, but that is very scary.
So that sort of encumbrance having the, when like a light is supposed to come on too.
I'll also since I gave it that one I'll tell spiders one time a friend and this is a call-out post and I hope she's listening right now we did a escape room that had like some spider aspects of it yeah and I didn't even know there was spider aspects until like they pointed out at one point I was like bent over doing something and she came and
Touched it right on my shoulders and that freaks me out.
No, no.To this day.She wasn't trying to scare you.Oh, no, she was.
She knew exactly what she was doing.And then we were trapped in that escape room.So we couldn't do anything.
No, thank you.Okay, this one I'm going to leave up to you.Junji Ito versus Too Scary Kids Show.These are both yours.
Two scary kids scared me as a kid, but then I grew up.Junji Ito scared me as an adult.Yeah, okay.Junji Ito.Sorry, Coach Calviog.That's okay.You're very charming now that I'm an adult.
All right, this is it.This is the final four.So I shouldn't have said this is it.This is the final four. This is the second to it.Okay.Noise when you're home alone versus intelligent monster that lures you into a trap.
Can we just be real for it?We've been having a lot of fun.Can we be real?
Can we be real?Noise when you're home alone happens maybe on a weekly basis.Yeah. Intelligent monster that lures you into trap in concept.Yes, very scary, but unlikely to happen.
I think noise when you're home alone.I think people would be upset if intelligence lure monster one Okay, and motion activated light versus Junji Ito I
Did you eat us messed up?
But I just went on about how the When you read Junji Ijides, you are making a choice.Now that I know about it, no one's making you do it.A light that appears on is an outside thing.Davis' light that turns on in his bedroom freaks me out.
Should I change it to Davis' bedroom light?And then we just put that up on the Instagram and it's like, what?
The spookiest thing, Davis' bedroom.
All right, here we go.This is the finals and I think it's a good one. Noise when you're home alone versus motion activated light.Yes.I see.Also when you're home alone, but it doesn't have to be, it doesn't have to be. Also unidentified noise.
You don't have to be home alone.If you and your, whoever else's home or like in the same room and you hear a noise from upstairs or whatever.
Yeah.And also just like, imagine, imagine like you and eight close friends go to a cabin, you went to cabin for the weekend and then the people are like, oh yeah, there's a workshop shed, but you don't need to go in there.
And then there's a light that turns on in the middle of the night.All eight of you could be like, we didn't do anything.Why is that light on?
Here's what I think clinches it for me.You're at home.It's dark.Quiet.What? You hear a noise upstairs.That is just the beginning of the scariness.You've still got to like probably grab something.
For me, I will grab a baseball bat and head upstairs to check it out.Motion activated light, spooky when it comes on, but you go to the window and look and most of the time it's nothing.You can resolve that pretty quick.
You also don't have to put yourself in too much danger to check out what's up with the motion activated light.
If there's a noise in your house, to even investigate it feels like it's like, oh no, there could be an intelligent monster luring me into a trap.Okay.
Yeah.The noise that's in your house could be any one of it.It could be spiders.It could be a wax figure.
It could be a spider up there.It could be a wax spider singing a children's song.
There could be a plane in your house and there could be something in the wing of your plane.
This is all correct.So I think we've got to give it to Unexplained Noise When You're Home Alone.
I'm with you.That makes your imagination.I think in the most realistic sense, since we're not in a horror film, I think what spooks us the most is when your imagination runs wild.And that is... Let's do it, Noise.We've done it.
Happy Halloween, everyone.
The winner of the 2024 Spooky Draft, Happy Halloween.It's Unexplained Noise When You're Home Alone.
Listeners, send us in your spooky thing and maybe we'll do a full bracket sometime soon.
Yeah, we should set one of those up and we'll try and get 16 entries.
I got an idea.We'll talk about it later.Okay, we'll do it off mic.
That's a little teaser for you.Tune in next week. Um, we love you.Goodbye.
Oh, is that the end of us?I think so.We haven't even talked about the score.Like, oh shit.That's spooky.What's this episode that we do?What's this podcast?So who was I was no, I that's, that's the real spooky stuff.
I forgot which one was mine and which one was yours.
I think you were noise.I was noise.
You were noise.You were spooky noise when you're home alone, but you would light looking at the final four though.I did motion activated light, but it was a late game substitution.I need to get marked down for that.
And you had in our final four Junji Ito intelligent lure monster and noise when you're home alone.So I think out of 10 possible points, I think you should get eight and I get two.Oh, does that sound appropriate?That sounds great.
That means at the end, of, I think, the scariest possible episode we've ever done.I have, in second place, with 10 points, it's Mr. Andy North.And in first place, with 16.5 points, it's the Skull Boy himself, Mr. Alex James.
That's right, I've been a skeleton this whole time, I don't have a job!Oh no!Goodbye.Bye.
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