A Ghostly Encounter, a Cruise Gone Wrong, & a Copperhead Bite: Listener Episode #29

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They have so many Steeler jerseys, but they want the numbers, they want Bradshaw and Minjo Green on the back, so now I'm getting vintage names, and there's a lot of options online. Now, again, I could have started this in September, but of course they didn't know who they wanted to be in September. - Right, that would have changed. - If they had ideas in September, you would have bought the wrong jerseys. - Right, and so I actually did it in plenty of time, that I might be able to do now a second wave of Halloween ordering, because they were so excited when everything came, and then they were merely like, I mean, Axel's like this, he's making me get him shoulder pads, and he's like, they're too small, 'cause I got costume shoulder pads, so now I might have to get actual football shoulder pads for Axel. And then Ash, you know, it's just a mess, he's like, this jerseys too big, and like, they make jerseys big, you know? - Yeah, you know why they make them big? - Oh, no. - So shoulder pads can go under it. - I know, but these are like, it's hard, man. And then the pants, I got them pants with pads, and they're like, I don't want those, and I'm like, good news. I ordered two of everything, so now there's like sweatpants, steel pants, I don't know, man. It's gonna be-- - Yeah. - Who, the other question is, which we have to figure out, you know, 'cause obviously we're gonna be their mom and dad, and I kind of, in my head, I forgot, in a shame on me. Like, trick-or-treaten happens at night. - Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? In my head, I was like, oh, we'll just go day time trick-or-treating and then have dinner, but like, we might have to have like an early dinner and then go trick-or-treating. - Well, I don't-- I mean, have you looked up when trick-or-treating is in those neighborhoods? - I'm gonna tell you something, the some trippers, some very friendly trippers who have reached out, and mentioned some neighborhoods worth looking into. - Okay. - Like, hey, if you're coming to Pittsburgh, you gotta come here, or you gotta come here, they block off a street, house close together, so I'll do, I'll do a little bit of research. - Okay. - I think they're tripsters also. - Tripsters? - Yeah. - Yeah, I think who knows. - But I do appreciate when tripsters reach out, and let us know. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But I think that also, you know, in the, I don't know, in the nanny state that we live in these days, we used to trick-or-treat at night, and I feel like people were like, I don't know, it's a little too scary. - I get a sense that this is a real like, we're gonna do it at night in a neighborhood, but like, we're really, I'm gonna nanny down on it. - Yeah. Well, that's good. That's the way it should be. - I mean, I also, you should know, like, I don't, you guys don't have to go trick-or-treat with us, but, you know, I do think the boys, I think it'll be very cool to take the boys trick-or-treating in a non-New York setting. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And it'll be very, I'm looking forward to it, but I'm sure, mom will be bullshit for some reason. - Well, maybe because she doesn't have a costume. - Mama doesn't like to wear costumes, not our mama. - No, trying to think of what we could just take her normal look and how you put one tweak on it to make her costume. - Yeah, what would, I mean, I feel like this is some real delicate, we're in very delicate footing right now, trying to. - Anyway, so we've got that coming. - Yeah. - Yeah, very exciting. - Very exciting. - Yeah. But Fall is in full swing. Mackenzie went back home last night. She was on a red eye and she said the foliage is still popping, which is amazing. And yeah, we got some fall stories. - We have fall stories. I do want to say one other thing about the fall. We had an incredible weekend. - Just incredible fall foliage. And for, I look, I, you know, obviously don't love the beach, not a huge fan of skiing. Obviously, I think the Grand Canyon is a big ol' sack of shit. But fall foliage, anybody wants to take a trip to go see fall foliage? Like that to me is worth 100 canyons. And it's just, it's almost, it's obscene how beautiful it is. - And had a great time when pumpkin picking with the kids. - Oh yeah, you sent a picture to you and our buddy, Lazarus, our kids carved the pumpkins at the patch. We brought our own gear. So we were like, let's, you know what, let's not carve at home. Let's go over to the side of the patch. They carved down. Kids are all like doing their own thing now. They don't need you. Even Adi wouldn't let me scoop out the guts. She wanted to do the guts herself. And I was like, oh my God, boys, I had to do pumpkin guts for the boys. I figured I'll be doing it when they're carving pumpkins in college. But she was like, I want to do the guts myself. That was great. And anyway, it was, it was a really good weekend. And Sunday night, we're all sitting around, you know, a Lexi in the three kids. And I'm like, you know what, this is really, I just had a great weekend with you guys. And I'm just in such a good mood. And it's because I got to spend all this time with you guys. And then a Lexi goes, I think it's because Northwestern and Pittsburgh both won their football games. And I was like, oh, that is, you know what? That's what it was. That's what I'm so happy. Don't hurt. It don't hurt. It don't hurt. Yeah. A couple. I mean, not to make this a sports podcast, but a couple great escapes by the two football teams I root for this past weekend. Yeah. Neither of which I was able to watch on television, I will say. That's all right. 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All right, well, uh, it's all stories. It's a listener. You some fall stories. Apparently some are just stories, but we uh, we asked you guys for stories and apparently two of you called in. So thank you. All right, great. And Sam, what do we got? What's our first one? Hi, Seth and Josh. So back in 1998, my now husband and I moved into our first apartment. This house was an old home that had been turned into apartments. We love the Big Front porch, the big high ceilings. Everything was great. Then all of a sudden, weird things started happening. We would come home from work and the phones would be unplugged. Our first Christmas, we were sitting looking at our beautiful tree and the radio music started going up and down in volume. And little things like that continue to happen. When I would do laundry, I would have to go into an unfinished basement that had a dirt floor. That's how all the house was. And I would often feel like as I came up the stairs, that little children were grabbing my feet. The final straw that made it that we needed to move was one day it came home from work. I opened the kitchen door that looked all the way to the end of the house and on a bench, I saw a woman sitting there. I literally walked out the door, locked it, drove to where my husband was and said we need to move because I just saw a woman sitting on the bench. When we told neighbors that we were leaving, they begged us not to go. We had a really good time with them. But then we told them what was happening. Their response was, well of course, this was a boarding house for children when George Washington went down the Connecticut River. So many other stories that happened with this house. I know these things are true. I've lived in three houses since I've never had the thought that anything else was haunted. It's a great conversation that my husband and I have many days. And just so you know, my life goal is to do day drinking with stuff someday. Thanks guys. Love your show. Listen weekly. I almost want to take you day drinking, but you know what I'm going to do if I go day drinking with her potty. Just you have to go downstairs. You're going to grab her ankles. I was going to hire a bunch of like child actors. No, we can be drinking at a table and have them underneath and maybe do ankle grabbing. The idea of like, I felt something on my way up the stairs. What was it? You know, that sensation with like children are grabbing your ankles. I can't believe she needed to get like that wasn't the breaking point. She also needed lady on bench. Yeah, those unfinished, those unfinished like dirt floor basements. Those are classic horror movie. You know, it's a trope. Yeah, that's a horror movie trope. Yeah. And I love also that the neighbors were like, well, of course, it was a boarding house. That's why all the ghosts are there. Are you officially leaving? Then we can tell you our secret. It was a boarding house for children. George Washington was like, I got to get out of here. Yeah. It's tough going out there. I think for people who encounter ghosts. Yeah. Because there's such a skepticism from I have to figure me. You know, but also probably 90% of the population more. I don't know, maybe less than that because people like to believe in that stuff. I choose to believe in ghosts because it's more fun to believe in them than not to. Interesting. Do you think it's fun to believe in ghosts? I think it's, yeah, I do. That's such a weird word. That is not the word I would use for the existence of ghosts. Well, I think there are a lot of, I think they're good ghosts as well. Gotcha. You wouldn't want to live with one. I don't know a good ghost like a straight-up Casper. How about this ghost and you tell me if you're going to stay on the beach? Ready? Yeah. Woman on bench ghost. No. Yeah, right? You don't even know she's good or bad. Here's what I'm saying. When it's neutral because a good person and a bad person are just as likely to sit on a bench, right? Yeah. When it's neutral, you're like, that's a bad ghost. And that's why ghosts aren't fun. Yeah. The ghost has to be like, observably good for them to be a good ghost. Any other ghost is bad. But what if it's just like you keep coming around the corner and like there she is and you're like, "Athel, stop it. What do you need?" Nope. She doesn't talk. She just sits. She's perfectly good. She's well-behaved, but she's always on the bench from one to two a.m. Yeah. Maybe not. You're not. You don't want it? Yeah, probably not. But yeah, that's spooky. So here's my question. Ethical question, Posh. Yeah. They're going to sell that house, right? They're going to get to go. Yeah. Yeah. What responsibility do you feel to tell people this is a boring house for kids and it's full of ghosts? I don't know. I mean, she said it was an old house that had been converted into apartments. All right. So maybe they're renting and maybe they're renting. But yeah, I mean, like back to your disclosure sort of question. If you did live in a haunted house, what's the, what do you worry about? So the question is, has a ghost in the house, in the haunted house ever done be quiet finger to me? If like Ethel on the bench did one be quiet finger? then I'd be like, this is, this isn't my choice. This is Ethel has asked, she made their request. 'Cause the last thing you want to do is anger and ghost. No, you'll be like, oh, we have a washer dryer in the basement, but where are tube socks? Okay, congratulations, I'm going for this. - Yeah, I guess I'm not. I guess I wouldn't be into a ghost sushi. - No, I'm not that excited. - Okay, and you love horror movies, but you like that and you like to be scared, but you don't want to know they're living with you. - Yeah, no. - I also, I will say, I love horror movies. I love going to horror movies in theaters with friends, but if I'm at home alone, I'm not watching a horror movie. Yeah, I gotta be honest, that's why I've fallen behind on horror movies because I don't, you know, I don't see that many movies in theaters now. And the same thing, it's a little, I'm like, yeah, I don't like, this is a little too scary. - Yeah, I did watch, which I know is not the way you're supposed to watch it. I watched Obsession in my office. - Okay, I still haven't seen Obsession. Here it's great. - Oh, really? How did you guys didn't see that one? - It was traveling a lot, although it wasn't theaters forever, but it's, we almost, Mackenzie and I almost watched that on our anniversary, which was last week, I feel like you have to have our friend Jill over and watch that at the house. I feel like she's seen it. - Oh, yeah, yeah, that's a bummer. - But also, Mackenzie and I, for our first anniversary, we watched The Substance, which was not a very romantic film. - I mean, this year we did, you've got mail, which is fantastic. - Yeah, I have a question because you're obviously the professional moviegoer amongst the two of us. - I feel like I made a huge rookie mistake last night. Me and my brother-in-law's act went to see the Nathan Fielding movie. - And eight, 10 showing. And we met outside at eight. - Yeah. - And by the way, we, you know, movies, very, I think every hour, but in New York, three hours and our seats were, you know, you had reserve seats, middle, second row. And we got in empty theater and I'm like, oh, but we're gonna be able to have our pick of the litter here. - By eight, 30, it was packed. - Yeah. - Because I think everybody else who's still going to movies in 2026 are like, hey, you old suckers. You don't show up at eight, 10 for an eight, 10 movie. What time do you sit down for a movie, Poshy? - Well, this is funny 'cause I-- - You don't like trailers. - I don't like, yeah, I got burned on this weekend actually, funnily enough, but like at the AMC theaters, which is mostly what's around me now. Some new things are popping up, but it's, there's like 20 minutes, 25 minutes of trailers and commercials and things. So typically I would try to be there at the time that it starts. - Okay. - But I think 15 minutes late and you're fine. I always worry that someone's gonna assume I'm not gonna be there and we'll have sat in my seat and I'm gonna have that awkward thing of like, "Hey man, this is my seat." And they're like, "Oh," and then you're creating a kerfuffle. - Yeah. - But this week, Sunday morning, me and my buddy Devin went to go see Digger, 10 AM screening. And he was like, I'm up in, and Cino, I'm gonna be like 15 to 20 minutes late. And I was like, "Yeah, no problem." And I stopped to get gas on my way to the theater. I walk in a theater at 1006, movie has started. - Wow. - And I don't know if that like first movie out the gate on a weekend, it's like people that are like, "No, we just want the movie, like let's go for it." And I meant to ask afterwards like, is that standard operating procedure that on first movie of the day, you just started. - Did you feel like you, did you miss too much? - Sure, was it okay. - It was okay, I caught up. And I love Digger, I love Digger. - I feel like, I feel like the first wave of Digger press was a little negative. - Yeah, it's very positive. - Yeah, I really want to see Digger. - I haven't spoken to anyone who's seen it and didn't like it. - I was so good. - I was so good. - Yeah. - Great. - Anyhow, that was a great story. Appreciate it, I'm glad you got out of there with your ankles intact. - Yeah, same. - Yeah. - What's our next one, Sam? - Hi guys, this is Laurie from Connecticut. I have a chilling Halloween family trip story for you. On October 28th, 2011, my husband and I went on a two night Halloween cruise to nowhere from Boston on a very popular cruise line. Now there's two things to keep in mind. One, in 2011, cruise ships did not have widespread Wi-Fi. Usually, at that time, you connected through an internet cafe and prices were through the roof. So my phone was brick. It stayed off and it stayed in the ship safe. Two, ships don't have local news. Usually the TV is limited to a less than exciting international package with no local weather and just kind of weird sports and weird programming. So as a result, we were pretty unplugged and disconnected, but we were chill and we're ready to just kick back and enjoy the weekend. Although we did overhear some ladies talk about Noreaster that was brewing off the cape. Eh, no bother. We had a nice weekend ahead of us. But maybe the first sign that the storm was serious was that the pilot got on the ship a day early. Now for those of you who aren't cruisers, the pilot comes on a small pilot boat and jumps from his moving boat onto the moving cruise ship so that he can navigate through the port. This maneuver could be dicey and even rough weather, but I'm sure it could be very dangerous in a Noreaster. So by the second day, this Noreaster was for real and the ship was rocking and rolling. It was rocking and rolling so much that as a seasoned cruiser, this actually became the first time that he had ever felt queasy on the ship. It was to such an extent that I decided to ditch my Halloween costume of a Hawaiian tourist and just wear half of it to the party. I put a flower in my hair and wore a lay with a Halloween t-shirt instead of getting all dressed up. My husband and I walked back and forth in the interior decks so I could walk off the nausea. And that worked. The next day, we pulled into port on October 30th and we saw accumulated snow on the ground. But Boston did a good job of clearing the roads and hey, we're from New England, it's no big deal. So we got in the car and things started to take a turn on the mass pipe. The snow was looking pretty deep and there were a lot of down trees everywhere. By the time we got to the West Hartford Connected area, things started to look grim. Utility poles were down with wires and trees were blocking the road. By the time we got home, we realized that there was over a foot of wet snow accumulated. Trees and limbs were down everywhere and our town and all the surrounding towns were enveloped in darkness. In fact, a grocery store was running on the generator. We just had sailed through the most catastrophic October snowstorm in history. It knocked out electricity and over 800,000 homes in Connecticut and that electricity stayed out for most folks for over a week. But not our house. We were luckily on the same grid as the fire department and we were the only neighborhood in town with power. - That's fantastic. I mean, it is like a very good opening promise for a horror movie, Poshy. - Yeah. - To get on a boat, no internet, no television and then you come back and everything has changed. - Yeah, like there's, you know what I mean, it's spookier. There's a movie that just came out the Rose of Nevada or something that has a premise where like a fishing boat comes out and comes back and it's like a time travel thing. - Oh, gotcha. - But I think that's a good spooky thing that you don't know what's going on. - Yeah, and it's not sort of like obvious. You don't come on to shore and it's like, all the zombies are like, you know, it's slow back to your hometown and you notice little thing by little thing. - Halloween cruise is a pretty fun idea. - Yeah, also cruise to nowhere. - I like cruise to nowhere, it's a very fun idea. - Yeah, like what's your ports of call? - None, we're just going out. - We're going out, coming back. - Don't have a storm while we're gone. - That's, you gotta be pretty into Halloween to go on a Halloween cruise to nowhere. - You gotta be into two things. You gotta be into Halloween, you gotta be into cruises. - Yep. - Yeah. - So I think that's a pretty, yeah, it's pretty big. - Yeah. - That's what I like that, well, I don't know if I quite, oh, I just got a text from mom. - Just saying to say. - Adamant is his middle name. - Oh, can I guess who that might, yeah. - Is that maybe dad's middle name? - Yeah, I don't even know what to say. - It's in response to you, but he's an adamant that something probably happened right now. There's no other context. - Adamant is his middle name, no context, nothing. - I've received one text from her today. There isn't anything preceding it, saying something. That's just that. - I mean, I will, so I tell you, it is his middle name. I mean, it would never have been established before, but yeah, but bailing on the car. I guess if she didn't feel well, yeah, I just went t-shirt. Yeah, I could see not wanting to be all gussied up in your Hawaiian tourist. I get it. And yeah, I mean, I'm not sure I'm going to go on a Halloween cruise to nowhere, but I celebrate the idea of it. Yeah, same, same. I mean, I think a laxies, when we've had a fight once, she has said, why don't you, she goes, when do you go take a Halloween cruise to nowhere? Wow. And that's what she said once. So that was, that was a little bit, uh, you know, that is used to you have learned her accent like perfect. Hey, say, why are you shoes all out here like this? Stack them up nice. Stack them up. Stack them up fancy. Uh, I got a new pair of running shoes. Yeah. And, uh, they were out in the hallway and, uh, Alexi was taking the kids to school today. I usually do, but today it was Alexi. And so Alexi walked out with the two boys and then Ash forgot a sweatshirt and he walked back in and he walked by me and, uh, he said, uh, she don't like the new shoes dead. By the way, they're running shoes, right? Like who cares? Yeah. All right, but I'm going to, I, we won't say the brand because, you know, in case, you know, I won't be negative. Well, I'm going to put my shoe into the shot. Oh, I can't. I forgot. This is a YouTube, uh, week podcast, but you can show me. Yeah. Oh, but you're saying even by showing it, that's too much. It'll be. Well, yeah, I mean, yeah. Okay. Um, sorry, everybody watching on YouTube is like, oh, especially if you're like into feet, you're like, oh, here we go. And also, man, you Google anybody's name, uh, feet is like the fourth thing on Google. It's weird. It is really like, yeah, feet, foot fetishes are real. They're really keeping the internet afloat. Yeah. Um, hey, we stack them up real quick. Mackenzie bought a trench coat. Um, what is that? I'm so bad at this. Victoria Beckham's gap truck. Which is, which is really nice. But the night she bought it, she kept like sneaking up around people and going, hey, stick them up. And it's like the trench coat sort of is more flasher than it is like, yeah, stick them up. But stick them up has become a catchphrase for Mackenzie. And it's always like, it has a weird, like she doesn't often do like, yeah, character voices. But it's really like, stick them up. It's not intimidating. It wouldn't get you to like hand your money over. Yeah. And, uh, yeah, stick them up as a regular. How Mackenzie is. I mean, I guess it'd be fun if you were a flasher and you're like, stick them up and somebody's like, stick what up? And then you open it and you're like, this, stick them up. Do you think anybody, I don't think anybody's saying stick them up anymore? No, I don't think so. Yeah. Yeah. It is funny. Like that was really what you used to say. And I think is that because people would put their hands up and then you would take their stuff out of their pockets? Yeah. Well, stick them out. I think my stick them up was like, let's just know funny business. I want to see, you know, put your hands where I could see them. I think that maybe hand, I think now you say hands up. You wouldn't say stick them up. I don't know. Yeah. I don't want to get into the business just to bring the phrase back. Yeah. Now it's like, get your hands in the air. Get on the ground. Yeah. Put your hands back. I'll tell you this. There's too many instructions all at once. Yeah. Stick them up. At least we all were in agreement. But when bank robbers now were like, everybody has a floor. Get your clothes down. It's just like a slow down. Yeah. How about stick them up and then everyone could put their hands in the air? Let's just stick them up. Yeah. Thank you, Lori. Maybe I'll start being, maybe I'll start, maybe I'll be a rapper. Maybe I'll start a rap career. And instead of get your hands up, it'll need to be stick them up. Stick them up, stick them up. Everyone's clamoring for your rap. Oh, you're a rap term. Yeah. Oh, rap term. Support comes from Mint Mobile. 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I have a two-part family camping trip fail. My wife and I subjected our kids to that I'd like to share. I now live in North Carolina, but both my wife and I grew up in the mountain west. I grew up in Colorado and my wife in Montana. We both grew up on camping. I loved summer camping trips on the Rocky Mountains. During the pandemic, my wife and I were itching to get out of our house and decided to introduce our two daughters, then about eight and six, to the joys of summer camping. In August, in North Carolina. We bought a tent, all the gear, and settled on a campsite in a state park about 20 minutes from our home. I don't know why neither my wife or I had made the connection. The temperatures would not magically drop 30 degrees within a 10 mile radius of our home. But soon enough, we found ourselves sweating profusely as we attempted to tuck our equally sweaty and miserable children into their sweet sleeping bags in 90 degree heat and 400 percent humidity. To make matters worse, the state park was in the fight path of an airport, so the sounds of jets taking off and landing just added a layer of misery. We only lasted one night. Our temps at sleep interrupted by frequent trips to the car to sit in the air conditioning. Determined that this would not be the last word, we made plans with some camping enthusiast friends to go on a second trip later in the fall, further from home and with cooler temperatures. About six weeks later, we arrived at a campsite on a lake out toward the coast. It was buggy, but temperatures, while definitely not cool, were at least bearable. All was going well until we once again found ourselves tucking the girls into their sleeping bags. I was reading them a story as my wife walked over to the restrooms to brush her teeth. Moments later from 30 yards away, I hear my wife shouting that she'd been bitten by a snake. Sure enough, a newly hatched baby copperhead found my wife's ankle and chaos descended. With the kids now wide awake and fearing for their lives, I and our camping enthusiast friends jumped into panicked action. My wife was driven to a hospital about an hour away because a closer medical facility didn't have antivenom. Meanwhile, I tried to call my children and get them to sleep, which ended up with them in the car because they refused to sleep anywhere that might be eye-level with a snake. At two a.m., my wife returned to the campsite, weary but relieved that the bite did not require antivenom. We managed to persevere through the rest of the weekend with two very reluctant children, but if not camp since. Thanks so much. Love the pot. Well, I mean, it is very fun to find out just two stories later. what's worse than a ghost child grabbing your ankle? It's being bitten by a baby copperhead. - Yeah, first bite. - They say this is, you know, I feel like at the first hospital, when they didn't have the antivenom, there's just an old guy who's like, some say there's good luck to be in the first bite of a baby copperhead. (laughing) - Where at the first bite, I would not try to get that bit him out. - I mean, though, although I feel like you're saying the hands down worse of the two is to be bitten by a baby copperhead. I think having your ankles grabbed by ghost children under the stairs. - Well, that's interesting. I mean, if we're the kind of podcast that posts polls, I'd put them up there. 'Cause I'd say I would still rather have a ghost child grab my ankle than get bit by a baby copperhead. - Yeah, I mean, maybe. I don't know. - 'Cause you know what, to quote my brother, maybe they're good baby ghosts. (laughing) You know what those baby ghosts were doing? The kid ghosts were like, don't go up there. You're gonna get bit by his snake. - They were trying to guard his ankles. - It was warning. - It was a warning. - It was a warning. - Yeah. Yeah, that's, I can't believe that we were bailing on camping situation. In the moment, like we're still, that she came back to the campsite, although I guess it is, it's hard to wrap everything up at night. And if they weren't 20 minutes from home on that second one. If they were 20 minutes from home on the second one, you'd be like, let's sleep at home. And I'm gonna come back tomorrow and get our tent and stuff. And that's it. - It is very, yeah. God, I mean, anti-vendom. It's not the sound of world I wanna be in push. - Yeah. - Yeah, no, I think about it out here in old Los Angles with the rattlesnakes. - The rattlesnakes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I broke my leg and back in jaw in Mexico years ago. And they were like, do you, what hospital do you wanna go to when I was in the back of the ambulance? And I said the best hospital. And they were like, okay. And then they said, we drove for like five minutes. And they were like, do you want X-rays? And I said, yes. And they were like, oh, different hospital then. And it was like, wait, the best, the best one didn't have an X-ray machine, so that's how it went down. And then we pivoted and wow. - Yeah, so very, very useful pivot. - Yeah, I applaud the pivot. - But yeah, when that close hospital doesn't have everything you need. - Yeah, it's a bummer. - I remember when I split up my chin and I have a, up at Lake Winnipezaki, I split my chin open and I called dad on the way to the ER. And he's like, make sure they have a plastic surgeon. And I was like, I don't think they're gonna have a plastic surgeon. - It was very sweet though. Dad was concerned even at that age. He's like, I think he had big plans for us, Pashy. - Yeah. - He was like, you're gonna be on camera. Don't have a fucked up chin. - Yeah, I got one. We, everyone, I feel like everybody splits their chin. - Yeah, mine was just walking out the front door of the house and hitting the ice and going, youep. - Which house, back where? - New Hampshire. - How old? - Boy, I don't know. I mean like fourth grade, fifth grade, something like that. - Didn't resonate for me at all. (laughing) - I was really helping you be like, junior or senior year of high school. - Yeah, I mean, I can't say, I can't really put my finger on it. So, maybe you keep your finger on your chin 'cause it's still too tender. - Yeah, ow, ow, ow. - But we were just in a lake house in Michigan and everybody begs had to go to the hospital. It was like 45 minutes away. - Yeah. - We eat our rural hospitals, Sufi. - Yeah. - To be stuck with anti-venom and plastic surgeons. - Bags was on what hydrofoil? - Yeah, we have to talk about this, but yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And it was that great, was that great thing? And we like, if this guy was like, oh, the best thing about this campsite, no baby coverheads. - That's what, that's how the hydrofoil was presented. - The best thing is nobody hurts themselves. (screams) - That it proceeded to almost take freshies head off. - It was yeah, come on, man. All right, thanks for the stories everybody. - Yeah. - You know what, two spookies and then the last one was maybe spookies to all of it. It wasn't even trying to be spooky. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, if you're looking for a good book, boy, a boy, that demon copperhead, a Barbara King solver, who's got a new one out, but that demon copperhead's great. - And happy Halloween everybody. - Happy Halloween everybody. - I can't wait Sufi to see your kids in Pittsburgh and I'm gonna be able to report back. - I can't wait to talk about it. - Yeah. - Do you have a costume for me or am I in charge of myself? - I don't think we're gonna wear costumes. - Okay. - Previously, you said. - You have to dress like Jack Tatum, but that's over now. - Okay. - Because Axel switched to Joe Green. - Well, I'm glad I pumped the brakes. - Maybe I'll be the little kid with the Coke one. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Okay. - Get an old, I'll get you a vintage can of Coke. (laughs) - Sounds good. - All right, let me see if he. - Love you, Paji. - Do it. - Do it. ♪ Family trips with the mildest brothers ♪ ♪ Family trips with the mildest brothers ♪ ♪ Here we go ♪ ♪ Well, when Andy was little ♪ ♪ He loved summer camping ♪ ♪ But when he took his children ♪ ♪ Didn't count on the heat ♪ ♪ So we tried it again ♪ ♪ In the fall by a lake ♪ ♪ But that also failed ♪ ♪ Wife got bit by a snake ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Allowing crews to nowhere ♪ ♪ Go away for two nights ♪ ♪ During a free ignoring stir ♪ ♪ With no Wi-Fi ♪ ♪ Glory got back to Boston, she didn't know ♪ ♪ The power was out, the trees were down ♪ ♪ So much snow, so much snow ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Allowing crews to nowhere ♪ ♪ Slish, splash ♪ ♪ Sticking the road to nowhere ♪ ♪ Waves, splash ♪ ♪ Allowing crews to nowhere ♪ ♪ No, chefs ♪ ♪ And called David 98 ♪ ♪ Put to our house, it was so great ♪ ♪ But it wasn't right ♪ ♪ Something wasn't right ♪ ♪ The phones went beyond love ♪ ♪ Feelin' little hands, kept talking on your rainbow ♪ ♪ Grabbing your rainbow ♪ ♪ And it all came through a head ♪ ♪ With the woman on her bench, she was her ghost ♪ ♪ Old lady ghost ♪ ♪ Nibbler's calling her to save her ♪ ♪ Cloning, she said, "Go away, ghosts of the ghost!" ♪ ♪ A freaking ghost!" ♪ Thanks for the spooky stories ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Scary but not too glorious ♪ (upbeat music) ♪ Wishing you lots of dreams ♪ (screaming) ♪ Over this hallu-ree ♪