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Welcome to the oddity shop , where

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the bizarre is always on sale

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. Hello

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everybody , welcome back to the oddity

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shop . This is the podcast where we tell

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you creepy , odd , weird , strange , bizarre stories

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from around the world . I'm your curator

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, zach , sitting here with the other lovely

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, wonderful , gorgeous , stunning

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, amazing curator Kara

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, how are you ?

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Holy crap . What did I do to

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get all that ?

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Nothing . You just made a different face or gesture

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every time I said a word and I wanted to see how many moves

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you could pull out . While

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I'm talking , she's basically voguing

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. I wish y'all could see her .

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We can make it a clip .

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We'll try .

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Hey .

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Hi , how are you ? Oh

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, okay , obviously

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, we're both all over the place , so I've got a few

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things to tell you this week . I've

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got a couple things that have been giving me life . Are

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you ready for the first one ? Yeah , have

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you heard of the Glasgow Willy Wonka

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experience ?

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No , but it sounds miserable

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to me .

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It wasn't supposed to be , but it was . It's

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so amazing . So somebody

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put on this Willy Wonka

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interactive experience for kids in

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Glasgow , scotland . Oh no , but

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they hired these struggling actors and gave everyone

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this AI script and kept

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them at the script the day before . So

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they all showed up . Nobody knew what they were doing . They

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made up a fake new villain called

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the unknown , who just lives in the walls of

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the chocolate factory . That was terrifying

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the children . Then , like at the end of

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it , they were supposed to get treats . They got

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half a cup of lemonade and one jelly

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bean each and like this thing looked like

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there was like 10 decorations in this giant

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auditorium and like the actors

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have been coming out on . TikTok . I don't

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know . The best consensus I

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could find is they think the actor who played the

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villain may have been the one who

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orchestrated the whole thing , but

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it's hilarious . You guys look

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it up on TikTok because there's

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so many little clips . There's

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like the best one is like when they unleash the

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villain who literally just stands up behind the mirror

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, and the Willy Wonka guy is like what is that ? It's

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the unknown . And you just hear these kids , no

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, like a mom called the cops

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.

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She was so upset with it . It's horrifying

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.

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It's horrifying , but it's hilarious

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. It's just like laughing Because

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it like . It looks like they

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have a Oompa Loompa who's like supposed to be running like

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the chocolate lab , but it looks like a meth map

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.

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Oh .

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I'll send you some videos . You guys need to look it up

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, though it is . I mean , it's

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almost episode worthy .

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Holy moly , okay , so

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wow .

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So that's one thing I have for you . The other thing

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I have , which you already obviously know , but I'm super

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excited about it , is we could spend the

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whole weekend together , we do

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, we do . Let's get

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ready , because we're going to do some work . We're going

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to have some fun . I'm going to take you to a bunch

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of new places .

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Yeah , we're going to do some things . Well

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, that's kind of what I have . Is

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that I'm coming to see you ? Let

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me give you something bad , since you gave me

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something kind of bad . There's a tornado

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here .

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Yeah , I've been waiting for you to actually bring that

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up to me , because after that storm rolled

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through . I saw a video of

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it . I'm like there's no way that's real , because

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I don't believe . A tornado went

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through your town and you did not

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call me freaking out .

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I went back to bed because what was I going to do

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? It hit like a mile

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away . It was so fucking bad

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, yeah . And we have a door wall in our

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bedroom and the branches and shit were

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smacking so hard in the middle of the night

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and the sirens were going off

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for hours and hours and hours .

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My errands , you know , like up and like panicking

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, not really panicking but you know , worried he's

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just like , even though he doesn't have a biological

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child . I'm sure he was just in like full dad

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tornado mode .

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He was , and so he was like you

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know . I could see that he was like looking on his

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phone and like tracking or whatever , and I was

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like I literally popped up Me and Daya

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popped up . I said should we go into the

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basement ? He's like I don't know . I said

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then we're going back to bed . And then me and the little

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weenie rolled back over and we went back to

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bed .

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Was it closer to like Deb's house ? Because the video

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I saw looked like a street just like Deb's .

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No , it was closer to my house . Oh wow , it

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was very , very close .

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Yeah , I was . I think I even did something

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to mom . I'm like , yeah , she hasn't even mentioned

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anything , so it couldn't have been as bad as

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those videos .

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It's because it was really bad , but

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I'm sorry , it just didn't affect me

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, so I just kept rolling with

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my life . That's terrible and no people

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are going to hate me for that , but , like , what

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was I supposed to do ? Nothing happened to me

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, I was good . So I woke up the next day

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and I went to work .

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I really thought we were going to get one here , because it , like

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you know , they always say it sounds like a freight train before

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a tornado and it was really bad . It was just doing

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that forever .

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Yeah , it was crazy .

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All right .

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My good thing is I get to see you .

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Oh .

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We already went on over there .

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Yeah , that's right . Okay , well

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, with all that being said , then , what do you got

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for me ?

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Okay , are you ready ?

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I am ready .

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Ask me one more time if I'm ready .

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I know I gave you shit for it already , though , so

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I love it .

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Okay , if you were cursed

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and you could pass the curse off

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to someone else , would you do it ? And

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you but but hey , you

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can't say there's some stipulations

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. You can't say that you'd pass it to someone that you don't

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like or somebody that like deserves

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it . You know what I mean . So you can't be like oh

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yeah , they just , if they're a terrible person they deserve

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it , I'll pass it off to them , or

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I just don't like them . So you can't say those two options

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.

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So I can't just like pick anybody

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. It has to be something I like .

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Well , not necessarily . It's just

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that maybe it's just like a random person that

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you have known nothing about .

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My very quick absolutely is fading

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away . How bad is the curse

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? I don't know . Fuck

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it , I don't want to be cursed , I'm

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giving it away .

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Oh my God , you're terrible . What if it had to be

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like the first person that you saw and it was like just

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like a little no-transcript

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, like a four year old child ?

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I know that you really like the first one After our last , like three

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or four episodes talking about how much we dislike

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kids . You really think that's ?

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I would never curse a child . You

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would , I would never .

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What's the alternative ? How bad is this curse ?

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You're cursed .

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Can I live with the curse ?

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Yeah , that's what a curse is . You'll live with

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it .

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I'm still giving it away . I don't want to be cursed

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. I know All right what

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curse is this story .

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I like how you thought about it , but you were like you're

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just lying , I know .

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I might not be being very ethical right

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now , but at least I'm being honest .

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Okay , moving forward .

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What do you got in the shot ?

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Let me continue on with my life .

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I'm ready .

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Growing up on Bayou Tetra

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, it's like Kesha by Tetra . I

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had to look up the pronunciation and then I wrote Kesha

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by it , so I figured that I would share that

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with you .

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Thank you .

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Okay , deep in Cajun country I've heard tales

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of the Rugeru monster many times

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. According to those who

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claim a sighting , the Rugeru is

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a humanoid wolf-like creature that

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prowls our small settlement , snatching

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pets for food and sometimes snatching

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people too . Story after story

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of the Rugeru being seen right before

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he runs deeper into the swamp to hide

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, townspeople like to speculate

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if there could be more than one

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monster Growing up in our tired

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little Bayou town . Talk of the Rugeru

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was constant . I've heard all the tales

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but always believed them to be nothing

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more than a fun story , something

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told to pass the time and make long days

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a bit more interesting . Simply a campfire

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story that's told deep in the swamps

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of the Louisiana by generations

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of Cajun French families .

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I know better now .

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I was a high school senior , near in graduation

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when it happened . Few in town and

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even fewer in my bloodline have ever

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left the Bayou . The vast majority

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of those born here always die

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here . I longed for more , wanted

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out and saw college as my ticket to

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freedom . Much to my family's dismay

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, I was accepted with a full ride

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at a state university three hours

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north . My hard work had finally

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paid off and I started spending my days dreaming

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of a life and a future far away from

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the simple ways of the Bayou folk . I

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wish this is me . Even

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lazy afternoon after school , the

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sun was starting to drop and I was laying

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back in my . Okay , you guys are telling

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me how to say this because I did look it up but then

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I couldn't . It's like a canoe , a

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prologue .

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Oh , you got me on one , I don't know

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.

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Okay , it's

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P-I-R-O-G-U-E . When I looked it up , it said it was like a longer

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version of a canoe and I thought you would

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know .

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I mean , usually I do know that kind of stuff , but

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maybe I know .

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That's why I thought you would Okay . Well , I'm going to say canoe

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.

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Okay , better than

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me making up an explanation and passing it

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off . Is right , okay .

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So I was laying back in my canoe , a

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small flat bottom boat . I

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was staring at the clouds , listening to

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the chatter of the frogs , daydreaming

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while letting the slow Bayou current push

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me downstream towards home . All

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of a sudden I jumped up , startled

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out of my days by a loud splash

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. I quickly looked at the water around

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the canoe , trying

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to find the telltale

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ripples that could indicate

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a gator was close by . I would pee my pants

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, but I like it like gator .

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I was going to say I'd be kind of excited .

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I know , okay , gators

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often splash around our boats , but they're usually harmless

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If we leave them be . They leave us be

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well for the most part . But

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this time I saw nothing but flat water

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. There didn't appear to be any gators

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nearby . Lots of creatures call

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swamp home and I started to relax again , deciding

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it was probably just a snake dropping from

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a tree into the water in search of food . But

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then I heard a fast series of

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cicado splashes and

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turned around to find myself face to face

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with what could only be a rugaroo

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.

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What's it look like ? What's it look like .

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The water chest , high on me

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, came up to its hips just

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below its waist's arms were abnormally

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long this happened in Harry

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but its face is what caused

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me to open my mouth to scream

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. Large , soulful

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black eyes tucked under Harry

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ears , over a flat snout

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with large , yellowed canine teeth

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hanging crooked out of its mouth . The

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rugaroo's hair was colored the

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browns and reds of the swamp , from the muddy

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brown color of the bayou water to

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the dark reds of the cypress tree roots

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. Where the scream could leave my

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throat , the rugaroo clamped its

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giant hand over my mouth

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and no sound escaped . It

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then pushed me to the floor of my canoe

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and pinned me down

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with its foot . I was terrified , certain

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that I was being snatched for its dinner

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.

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Real quick . Are rugaroos bipedal

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or are they on all fours ?

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Bipedal .

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Oh , I've never looked at a picture of one . I've always

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just imagined they were on it . You know , a rugaroo

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, it sounds like it would be on all fours .

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I mean , I think , it can be .

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It makes the visual of like standing in water

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to its hips make a lot more sense . Okay

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, oh , yeah , yeah , yeah .

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Okay , just as in the tales

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I've heard all my life . Not gonna lie , I was

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scared out of my mind . I quickly pissed

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myself and began to shake and cry . I

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really wish I could say I fought a violent

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fight for fight that day , but

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that's not how it went down . I was unable

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to move , frozen with fear , couldn't even begin

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to fight back . As I lay there , pinned

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down , I heard a familiar sound of

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my backpack's zipper being unzipped

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. Then I felt a shifting

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of weight as I heard the rugaroos inhale

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deeply one giant , loud sniff

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. Most of my backpack's contents

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were then strewn around and inside

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the canoe , landing everywhere

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.

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Was he looking for a vape ?

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My calculus textbook banged me

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squarely on the forehead , drawing blood

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. I heard a crinkling sound as the

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rugaroos suddenly jumped up and leapt

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into the water with amazing speed and agility

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. Once it got out to the shore , it took

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off running into the distance , was

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quickly shrouded by the thick

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swamp vegetation and was gone . I

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spent who knows how long just attempting

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to compose myself . I then rinsed

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my pants out with the bayou water , trying

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to wash away both the smell of urine

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and shame I felt in my cowardly reaction

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. I had finally stopped shaking and

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started repacking my backpack when

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I had realized there was only

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one item missing . The Rugeroo

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had taken only one thing .

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Was it a vape .

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No , my favorite

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study snack , the

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snack I was known for always having

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in my book bag , my extra

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large sharing sized bag

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of M&Ms . It

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was gone .

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Are we sure it was the Rugeroo and not ET

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? Oh , no , wait , that's Reese's

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pieces , isn't it ?

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Oh yeah , I was like what are you talking

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?

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about .

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Yeah , I think it . Yeah , I think it's Reese's

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pieces .

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Maybe it's the piano player from Princess

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Diaries . Why is that ? Her best friend's

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little brother who , like , had M&Ms on there and then

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she gave him the M&M pizza and never mind Bad joke

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, go on .

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Oh , he did have them on the keyboard . The only

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thing that came to mind is when she wrote with M&Ms on

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the pizza .

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I forgot the part , right , okay .

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After I eventually calmed down and made

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it home after the sun had set , I let my

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dad holler at me for being late and

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no one noticed the cut on my forehead

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. After that day I gave up floating

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the bayou alone and never saw the Rugeroo

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again . I went on to graduate high school

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and moved away for college as I had planned . Getting

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out of the bayou had seemed has been everything

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I'd hoped for for , and more . I

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go back to visit family once per year

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, usually around the holidays . When I go home

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I still hear the old Rugeroo tales

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being told , but now told to a new generation

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of Cajun kids . My family has

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never left the bayou to come visit me , but

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it's okay . I've come to understand some of

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the pull the swamp has on them . Aside

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from getting the story off my chest here , I've

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never shared what happened to me that day with

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a single person , not one . I

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haven't added my Rugeroo encounter to

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the infamous bayou Rugeroo lure

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, nor do I plan to . Some

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stories are best left untold . You know that

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. And I never eat M&Ms anymore . I

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haven't eaten a single M&M since that day

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. I shared my bag with the Rugeroo .

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Oh , that would be so sad .

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They did have a username on Reddit , but I don't

16:25

know if I'm going to share it only because they

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just said that they didn't want to be known , even

16:29

though they shared it . So , Alright , it's

16:32

linked if you want to look . So are you

16:34

familiar with the Rugeroo ?

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I am familiar with the Rugeroo , but I've only

16:38

ridden it before .

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Rugeroo , Rugeroo , Rugeroo .

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Yeah , no , I've ridden the

16:44

roller coaster , the Rugeroo , and

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I've known of it as a cryptid , but I actually know really

16:49

little about it . I will say so far

16:51

, I really want some Cajun food , but

16:54

hit me with them facts .

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Alright , the legend of the Rugeroo has been part

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of , like Cajun folklore for centuries

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and it's said to have originated in French-Canadian

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folklore . It kind of goes you

17:06

know how these types of things are . It's actually

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hard to figure out . Cryptids are really

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hard to figure out where they come from

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sometimes .

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It seems like the same thing is

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seen in many places and

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it has like 18 different names .

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so so you know , you can't figure

17:20

out that . And then it's like who saw first , who talked

17:23

about it first , I don't know . But they

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say that the folklore is brought to Louisiana

17:27

by French settlers who migrated to the area

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. So here's the thing I saw in

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the 16th century , the 17th

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century , the 18th century and

17:36

the 19th century . So we're just going to say

17:38

between the 16th and the 19th

17:40

century , just so nobody comes for me

17:42

.

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I will say I've done some like history

17:45

research in that like Louisiana

17:47

, new Orleans area , and it is super hard

17:49

because every source you look like

17:52

much of that history was passed

17:54

down orally , so every

17:56

source has like a different

17:58

time or place or and

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I'm going to say that when I start , when I

18:02

knew I've known I wanted to talk about the

18:04

Ruger for a while , but when I was doing research it's

18:06

like there's a lot but very little , because it's

18:08

all kind of the same few little things

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.

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It's like it's weird . Okay , so

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the Ruger is derivative from the French

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words loop guru , which

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means werewolf , so a lot

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of people actually call it the loop guru . Okay

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, so you can hear it Ruger , loop guru , loop

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guru , which means werewolf , and if y'all

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know me , I love me a werewolf .

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No .

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And werewolves deserve their own episode , and we

18:33

will get to it eventually . But we're here

18:35

for the Ruger , okay . Okay , so

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the name might derive from the meaning of werewolf , but

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they aren't the same .

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How are they different ?

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Yeah , the Rue , as I'm going to call it , because

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we're besties . That's my nickname

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.

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You can't just be best friends with every cryptid

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you write up yes .

18:52

Yes , I can .

18:52

Okay .

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Wait , I don't want to be not everyone . There

18:55

are some little creatures , I get away from

18:57

me . So

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the Rue is

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often described as a muscular

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, hairy , often

19:06

having just black or like really charcoal

19:09

grapher . They have long

19:11

, sharp teeth and claws

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and they also appear

19:15

to have glowing eyes which

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. I will say I don't know

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if people actually mean that they're glowing

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or , like you know , when you look at Delilah in the

19:25

light at night and her eyes just glow

19:27

.

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Red Cats and dogs , yeah .

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I think that might be more of what people see is

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like glowing red eyes like that , because

19:34

, like Delilah , has little demon eyes and the dogs

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too , and not like mothman beams . But

19:38

I could be wrong . It's just said

19:41

of glowing eyes , so that's just what I

19:43

personally think . So some

19:45

say that they have the head of a wolf

19:48

with a stature of a man

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, but other people say that they have more of

19:52

like a human looking face with

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just like a long snout , so

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really kind of like a dog man .

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I was going to say very dog man coated .

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Yeah , that's kind of where we're at , like where

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you're . Yeah , so , like you were just kind of saying , we're

20:04

bipedal , very muscular , so really

20:07

looking kind of manly in the stature

20:09

of like the body , I guess .

20:11

Sounds hot .

20:13

Right , I know , really muscular

20:15

. We like a muscular , aggressive

20:17

man that likes M&M's

20:20

and snagging . So

20:25

fucking stupid . Okay , so in

20:27

medieval France they would

20:29

blame various crimes on loop

20:31

gurus , so like if your house

20:33

got robbed or your child

20:36

went missing anything really

20:38

they would just blame on this poor ruguru

20:40

. Okay , it had to be the ruguru .

20:43

Makes sense .

20:43

If your spoon disappeared , you couldn't

20:45

find that spoon . It's a fucking ruguru

20:48

.

20:48

I mean , who else could it possibly be

20:50

?

20:50

Exactly so . Here's

20:53

where it gets , where

20:55

we always get as humanity

20:57

. No-transcript . No , oh god . This

21:00

caused people to capture and

21:02

accuse people of being a

21:04

Rugeroo . Basically , there were

21:06

witch trials , but for cryptids . So

21:09

anybody that did something even remotely

21:11

weird or strange , you must be a fucking

21:13

Rugeroo . And then they were put to trial

21:15

.

21:16

So is the Rugeroo a shapeshifter

21:18

, or is that just like during this time ?

21:21

I'll kind of get into it . But yes , it is kind

21:23

of like it depends on what lore you go

21:25

off of . But yes , I would say it is definitely

21:27

a shapeshifter . It wasn't common

21:30

for anyone to argue that the accused

21:32

wasn't a Rugeroo , for they obviously

21:34

feared of being accused themselves

21:36

. So like , just like in the witch trials , like you're

21:38

not going to defend anybody because you're probably

21:41

going to then get accused yourself , got it ? Everybody

21:44

was a fucking Rugeroo if you were weird and then you just died

21:46

.

21:47

Sounds like a great time to live in France .

21:49

Jesus Christ . It was also

21:51

like we commonly hear , children were

21:53

also told to behave , and if they

21:56

didn't , a Rugeroo would come in the middle of the night

21:58

and snatch them up .

21:59

This seems fitting .

22:00

Yeah , I would probably tell my kid that . So

22:04

in France around the 16th

22:06

century this is when a Rugeroo

22:09

is more of almost a

22:11

genetic disorder , and this

22:13

is the version that I was always familiar

22:15

with Essentially the Rugeroo would

22:17

live in normal human life until some

22:19

of that event would trigger the condition

22:22

. So you're totally fine . Maybe

22:24

something horrific happens to you or something triggers

22:26

whatever the chemicals are , clicks

22:29

you and then all of a sudden you

22:31

are , you're

22:33

like , caused to have a deep , deep craving

22:35

for meat .

22:36

Oh .

22:37

But like human meat .

22:39

Oh .

22:40

So once they get their first bite

22:42

of human flesh , then the full

22:44

transformation becomes complete , and

22:46

then you're a Rugeroo .

22:47

Okay , so it's like half zombie

22:50

, half where- .

22:51

Yeah , but you could also just not

22:53

eat a human , and then you would never fully

22:55

be a Rugeroo .

22:56

I mean , that seems like the easy way out .

22:58

Yeah , just you know , fight

23:00

that addiction of the feeling

23:02

to eat people Anyway .

23:05

I mean it's . You know , I've fought that addiction very well

23:07

for 30 , 31 years at

23:09

this point .

23:10

So You've wanted to eat people

23:12

.

23:12

Well , no , I'm just saying I

23:14

was gonna say I've fought it off because I

23:16

just haven't felt it Okay .

23:18

All right , moving on .

23:19

So I'm definitely not a Rugeroo . That's all I'm saying .

23:21

You know what's in my head right now ? Kesha

23:24

cannibal .

23:24

No , I'm not

23:27

even gonna start it . Okay , oh

23:30

, it's already in my head .

23:31

Cajun country legend is when we

23:33

kind of switch to Roo and not

23:35

Loop , so we're full Rugeroo . But

23:38

so in the swamps of New Orleans

23:40

is where the Rugeroo is said

23:42

to live . So this legend says

23:45

that the creature hunts down Catholics

23:47

that don't follow the rules of Lent .

23:49

Seems like another Catholic way to

23:53

make you feel guilty . Right , absolutely

23:55

. If you're not going to actually feel guilty , you're

23:57

going to get eaten by a Rugeroo

24:00

or just like turned .

24:02

I don't know if it would eat you or just turn you

24:04

. So another version

24:06

is that the Rugeroo is under

24:09

a hundred and one day

24:11

curse . Okay , so a curse

24:13

usually comes from a local witch , sometimes

24:15

a voodoo priestess , and

24:17

after the hundred and one days the affected

24:20

person can transfer the curse

24:22

to another human being by drawing their

24:24

blood , which kind of makes people think that

24:26

they're more of like a vampire-esque

24:29

creature . So during the

24:31

day the creature then returns back to human

24:33

form . So you've bit your person , drew blood

24:35

, you come back to human form and then

24:37

you're often just feeling like very sick , but

24:39

you are not going to reveal to others

24:41

what happened because you know you

24:43

don't want people to know that you are a Rugeroo and

24:46

they'll kill you .

24:47

I wonder do we know why a hundred

24:49

days ? Or is that just kind of ?

24:51

I have no clue . I couldn't find anything . No , it's

24:53

a hundred and one .

24:54

Okay , a hundred and one Got it .

24:56

Okay , but

24:58

some versions say that even looking one in the eye can transform

25:01

you into one .

25:02

Oh Lord .

25:03

So I don't know , excuse me . So basically

25:05

, you either have just this creature

25:08

that is around to , I guess

25:10

, kill Catholics that don't follow

25:12

the rules of law , eat children if

25:14

they misbehave , something to

25:16

blame , all of just the

25:18

bad things that humans normally do

25:20

, like robbing your house and stealing your children

25:22

on .

25:23

And losing your spoon .

25:24

Yeah , it could just be a

25:27

creature that was , or person that was cursed , that

25:29

was turned into this . So we have all these different

25:31

types of reasons

25:34

.

25:34

I guess you could say I got it , I got it .

25:37

So what do you think you're leaning with ?

25:38

Before I answer that , do they go

25:40

between human and rugaroo

25:43

, so like , if you're a rugaroo , are you always

25:45

in roo form ?

25:47

So some people say this is where it gets like so

25:49

crazy . So some say that

25:51

, like that hundred and one day thing , there were

25:54

some things that were saying that you are

25:56

a rugaroo fully for a hundred

25:58

and one days and then after the hundred and one days

26:00

, that's when you can transfer it and

26:02

then you become your human form . But then some

26:04

were saying , basically , like during the night

26:06

you transformed and then during

26:09

the day you were just a person . So it's kind

26:11

of one of those things like it just really depends on which

26:13

one you go with . Like what you think

26:15

, I don't know . I was always called kind

26:17

of told or sorry , told

26:19

. I always thought that it

26:21

was more of like

26:25

a medical condition , not like

26:27

a condition or whatever like it's like a disease . If

26:30

you trigger it , then what is it ?

26:32

The four werewolves like Anthropy .

26:35

Yeah , I don't know . Okay

26:37

, so what I was told is that once

26:39

it's triggered , then you go back and

26:41

forth , okay , like you can be

26:43

a person , but then you can shift

26:45

into a rugaroo . So I guess that's just

26:48

like .

26:48

It's one of those things where I was like , damn , no one has a clear

26:50

Well , I'll say this knowing the

26:52

voodoo culture of New

26:54

Orleans and the spitefulness of the French

26:57

, I am going to go and say that

26:59

it's a curse .

27:00

Yeah .

27:01

Based off of those two things alone .

27:03

And then also , though , you could say that yeah

27:05

, it's a curse , and then you could still go back

27:07

and forth .

27:08

Oh , I thought you were just asking me where it starts .

27:10

Sure , no , no , no , I meant like you could go like

27:12

you could be a rugaroo , and then go

27:14

back to human , like you could shape , shift back and forth .

27:16

I mean , it kind of seemed that way , especially like that first story

27:18

, right Like a very human mannerism

27:21

to search out just the M&M . So

27:23

what's ?

27:24

in the backpack ? Yeah , yeah . All right

27:26

, I can't

27:28

not give you rational reasons

27:31

for werewolf mania , even

27:33

if I don't believe in it . So here are some medical

27:35

reasons .

27:36

You're saying you don't believe in werewolves

27:38

, so you don't believe in , not werewolves .

27:40

I don't believe in not-wear-wolves

27:42

.

27:42

Okay , that's what I thought .

27:44

So here are some medical reasons . One

27:46

might think you are a rugeroo , okay

27:48

.

27:49

Okay .

27:49

Licanthropy .

27:50

Hey , that's what I just said .

27:52

Yeah , which is a rare psychological

27:54

condition that causes people to believe

27:56

they're changing into a wolf or other

27:59

animal Food poisoning . I

28:01

don't know why that's on here .

28:03

Okay .

28:04

Hypotrixosis , I think , is how you say

28:06

it A rare genetic disorder

28:08

causing excessive hair growth .

28:10

Got it , that one tracks Rabies , yeah

28:13

, yeah .

28:15

Hallucination possibly caused by hallucinogenic

28:17

curbs .

28:18

Okay .

28:19

Acid . I just added that one , that

28:21

one's harmless , but I think that

28:23

would make maybe one person think you're a rugeroo

28:25

.

28:26

I mean , hey , if people were eating people's faces on

28:28

bath salts , I could see it .

28:30

Okay . So , knowing that that's all

28:32

bullshit , here's what you can do . That's

28:35

what you can do , though , if you come across a rugeroo

28:38

.

28:38

Ooh , all right , all right .

28:40

Okay , keep a piece of silver on you . That's

28:43

supposed to kind of be protection .

28:45

We need to start an oddity shop

28:47

. Cryptid survival guide .

28:50

Or like a kit .

28:51

Yes , like how to survive all the cryptids

28:53

? Okay , cryptids , crippids , crippids

28:56

, crippids , crippids , crippids , crippids

28:58

, crippids , crippids , crippids

29:00

.

29:05

Crippids is what you can . Protect yourself against the rugeroo

29:07

by laying 13 small

29:09

objects by your doors or windowsill

29:12

or if you just like . Let's just

29:14

say you have like a bunch of change in your pocket . Just fucking

29:16

throw it at them , because apparently

29:18

when a person changes into a rugeroo

29:21

, they forget how to count past 12 .

29:23

Oh , that's very specific .

29:25

I saw that where they just have

29:28

to count it Like that's not necessarily that

29:30

they can't count past twelve , they just

29:32

have to count whenever it's in front of them . I don't know , it

29:34

can go both ways , but the

29:36

Rugeru will see 13 objects

29:38

and try to count them , and they'll be unable to

29:40

count them all , and then , because of its confusion

29:43

, it'll continuously try to count all

29:45

13 . So then you have time to escape .

29:47

What's the other thing that's like that ? It's

29:49

an Appalachian spirit it is

29:51

. Because you're supposed to put the broom over your

29:54

door , because it'll get distracted trying to count all

29:56

the bristles .

29:57

Count the bristles . Yeah , you know it's so

29:59

funny , because when I was writing this I was like

30:01

what is that ? And then I didn't look it up , so I

30:03

know you're going to do it for us right now .

30:04

I got you Maybe .

30:06

Oh no .

30:07

Well , it just says to keep ghosts and spirits out

30:09

of the house . I know it's a certain

30:11

type of spirit . I thought it was too . It

30:14

like gets really distracted by counting .

30:16

Yeah , it's like it's just the same concept . So even

30:18

that's why they say if you have anything in your pocket like changing

30:20

your packages , fucking check it out .

30:22

All right . So don't make it rain , make it hail , Got

30:24

it .

30:24

Yes , they might possibly

30:27

have a fear of frogs , so

30:29

just throw a frog at its face , which

30:31

I don't want to hurt frogs . I

30:33

don't know why they're afraid of frogs . They live in the

30:35

bayou , yeah . Why would

30:38

they be afraid ?

30:38

of frogs . I feel like there's probably a lot of frogs around .

30:40

Did I ever tell you about this story ? Oh no

30:43

, okay , this is so funny

30:45

. Maybe I'll try to find the picture . It's a terrible

30:47

picture of me , but maybe I'll try to find the picture . Put it in here

30:49

, okay . So Aaron and I were in Florida and

30:52

it had just stormed , like you know

30:54

, one of those Florida storms . We're

30:56

out on the beach and we're at a beach bar

30:58

, you know so we're like sitting outside on

31:00

the bar or whatever , and this frog

31:03

because all the animals are all out

31:05

, you know , because it's just been pouring and this frog was sitting

31:07

on the bar and he was the cutest , fucking little frog

31:09

and I was like , oh my God , I want this frog . So

31:11

I picked him up and I'm holding it in my hand and

31:13

I'm like , you know , cupping it in my hand and

31:15

I'm like Aaron , take a picture of me . And Aaron's

31:18

like get that thing with you . I'm like just take a fucking picture

31:20

of me . So he takes the picture of me and

31:22

as he's doing it , the fucking frog

31:24

jumps on his face and just

31:26

swats the fucking frog though and

31:28

it goes shooting across the bar and

31:30

I screamed because I thought he killed the frog

31:32

. The bartender is like what the absolute

31:34

hell ? And Aaron's like I told you to get that goddamn thing

31:36

away for me . I found the frog , he

31:39

was okay .

31:39

Good Is Aaron afraid of frogs ?

31:42

He's afraid that frogs jump in his face

31:44

.

31:45

I love frogs .

31:47

I know they're so cute . So I have this cute little picture

31:49

of the frog . I put him on my shoulder and then I got a cute picture

31:51

of him on my shoulder because , Aaron would knock

31:54

him close to this thing and then , oh wait

31:56

, this is even funny . Then I found this cute

31:58

little frog , like this porcelain frog

32:00

, and then bought it for him for his

32:02

ornament for Christmas that year . I'm

32:05

sure he loved that he did not Okay

32:07

, so anyway , throw a frog .

32:09

Throw a frog .

32:10

Got it .

32:11

Every cryptid kit from the oddity shop comes with

32:13

one live frog .

32:15

Oh , okay . Well , everyone

32:18

knows that a circle of salt sells

32:20

everything , and a rougarou

32:22

will burst into flames from salts

32:25

. Oh , so you could just have salt

32:27

, and then I guess you don't need any of that stuff .

32:29

They're like burning pillars of salt in Sodom

32:31

, gomorrah in the Bible . The Catholics

32:33

really locked onto this one . I feel like

32:35

.

32:36

That I don't . I have no idea . I'm gonna take your

32:38

word for it .

32:38

Okay , I can't remember if they were burning , but there

32:40

was definitely pillars of salt .

32:42

Okay . Pillars of salt Okay . So

32:44

, basically , depending on what version

32:47

, anyone can be a rougarou and you

32:49

wouldn't even know it .

32:50

You could be a rougarou , and how would anyone know that

32:52

? I hope .

32:52

Well , yeah , I was gonna say I wonder if you know your rougarou . But

32:54

yeah , you do , because that's why you wanna get rid of the

32:57

curse , and if you shape shift , you would know

32:59

.

32:59

Oh , my God , aaron , and his aversion to anybody

33:02

hair . He would hate you .

33:03

Yeah , but also I have

33:05

read stories and stuff that people

33:08

don't know , that they switch it to a rougarou

33:11

. Okay , would you wanna know or not

33:13

know if you were one ?

33:14

I'd wanna know If I was getting

33:16

up to crazy shit and trying to eat humans at night

33:18

. Yeah , I'd wanna know , so I could lock myself up .

33:20

Yeah , cause he would feel so guilty

33:22

and so bad .

33:23

but yeah , I'd have to like put 10

33:25

frogs outside my door every night just

33:28

to keep me in .

33:28

It'd be like asm Buffy when he has to just

33:31

like cage himself up in the library .

33:33

Oh yeah , I would definitely wanna know

33:35

, though , do some damage control .

33:37

Yeah , I think I would wanna know too , just so that you

33:39

could , like you said , make some . What

33:41

is it pre-caught ? What ?

33:43

Damage control precautions . Precautions

33:45

You're doing amazing , sweetie .

33:47

So thank you . So that's

33:50

really all I have in the rougarou cause , like I said

33:52

there's . I thought there was gonna

33:54

be so much more and I

33:56

searched for more

33:58

encounters and there really are not

34:01

any there are . Like . People

34:03

say that they see them , but they're not like stories

34:05

like that , not like very detailed . Yeah , and

34:07

so that one I thought was just like really , I mean , it was just like a

34:09

good story , whether we believe it or not , I mean

34:12

I mean , I mean . I think that was

34:14

real , because I would not write that I pissed myself

34:16

.

34:17

I think that the creature

34:19

itself is probably real , right . I especially

34:21

when you're mixing in that that Louisiana

34:24

and culture of storytelling . There's

34:27

probably so many things that get blown out of proportion

34:29

of how it happens or whatnot . I'm

34:31

almost on that boat like where we

34:33

call it the North Michigan dogman , but it's been seen

34:36

all over the Midwest and every state Like

34:38

is this some sort of just creature

34:40

that is in existence in

34:42

North America and we just don't

34:44

know about ? It , I mean

34:46

and then every culture starts to call

34:48

it something different .

34:50

That's 100% . What I was going to say is that

34:52

it is a werewolf , a dogman

34:55

, the Rugeroo like . It's all you know

34:57

.

34:57

Have you ever ridden the Rugeroo ?

34:59

No , I don't think I have . Isn't it newer ?

35:01

Yeah , it's newer . It's built on the

35:03

track that the Mantis used to be at at

35:05

Cedar Point and the Mantis is my favorite

35:08

one . No .

35:09

Is that the one where you stood up ?

35:11

Yes .

35:12

My favorite one .

35:13

Okay , let me tell you about the first time I rode the

35:15

Mantis .

35:16

Then , I think you've told us , but tell us again

35:18

.

35:18

I may have actually stood on the podcast , I think .

35:20

I did it for some reason .

35:22

I think I was a little bit too short to ride

35:25

the Mantis and there

35:27

, so it was a stand up but it

35:29

kind of had almost like a bike seat on

35:31

it . Yeah , when you're a little bit too

35:33

short . It just crushed my right nut

35:35

the whole time to where I black like my

35:37

vision went black as I went over the hill . But

35:40

now that it's the Rugeroo it's not a stand up thing

35:42

anymore , so it's much more comfortable and way more fun . But

35:45

fuck the Mantis .

35:46

This is why you don't lie about your height .

35:48

I didn't lie . They just probably shouldn't have let me

35:50

on Like I think I hit the height

35:52

mark , but like I've always

35:54

been like we're walking on your tippy toes to try to get it

35:56

. I'm just like I'm as much torso

35:58

as I am leg . I probably needed like a little

36:00

bit more leg .

36:01

Oh my God , anyway

36:04

, okay . Well

36:06

that was the Rugeroo .

36:08

Very good job .

36:09

If I met one , like I

36:11

would , this would be my dream . I

36:14

meet one and then I would hope

36:16

that by meeting

36:18

it , them , by

36:20

meeting them , it doesn't mean that the curse

36:22

gets passed to me . Like I want to join

36:25

the pack , like I want there to be a pack

36:27

that we all ride at dawn you

36:29

know what I mean Like I want the

36:31

community of Rugeroo , because I want to be part

36:33

of it .

36:33

So you don't want to just get Rugerooed

36:35

, you want them to like share

36:37

it with you .

36:39

Well , like , if , okay , if we're going

36:41

off of like , I don't want it to be like I

36:43

meet a Rugeroo and he bites me or they

36:45

bite me to then be human

36:48

again . No , I don't want to be a Rugeroo

36:50

alone . I don't have a gang

36:52

.

36:52

Okay , what are you going to do with your unstoppable

36:55

flesh ?

36:57

Okay , this is what I'm going to do . I'm

36:59

going to have my Rugeroo gang Pre-occupation . I'll get back

37:01

to you guys . Yeah , I'll get back to you guys on the gang

37:04

name . Yeah , it's got to be something

37:06

Rugeroo gang

37:08

Something .

37:10

The Rugeroo gang . It's going to be something Sure .

37:12

And then what we do is we're like

37:14

vigilantes and then we just

37:17

fucking kill those that deserve

37:19

to be killed .

37:20

So you're like a Rugeroo Batman . Sure

37:22

, do you have a Roo Cave ? What is

37:24

the Roo Mobile ?

37:25

I'm going to buy you a canoe , it's

37:28

. What is that canoe called ?

37:31

A . Piogue , piyogue , piyogue

37:34

.

37:34

Yeah , okay .

37:34

No , we're just being simple Listen , listen . Yeah

37:37

, I have a gang of Rugeroo's

37:40

in a fucking canoe and

37:42

we , first of all , how many

37:44

people do you think you can fit in a canoe

37:46

, let alone nine foot tall

37:49

Rugeroo's ?

37:51

Okay , I want like a Viking ship

37:53

thing , what are the Viking

37:55

things called ?

37:56

A sailboat .

37:57

It's on a sailboat . Vikings

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are not a sailboat . A sailboat

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.

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They are called a

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long ship . Is that right ? I

38:10

looked at , okay , a long ship . Yeah , I looked it up

38:13

and the thing that it said just a cargo vessel

38:15

, but I'm like I saw a picture of it , I'm like that's a long

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ship and yes , it is .

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It's not a long ship full

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of Rugeroo's for my gang

38:23

.

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I want somebody to explain to me why there's so

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many needless J's and

38:28

K's in all Viking

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language .

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All right . Well , that's

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my dream .

38:35

All right . Well , kara's going to start a

38:37

Rugeroo gang . She would like

38:39

the curse . So if you or anybody

38:42

you know is or was , or

38:44

can get access to , the

38:46

Rugeroo's Me in contact with a . Rugeroo

38:48

yes , please do , she wants

38:50

.

38:50

Give me gang names .

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She wants to also hang out with you . So if you need

38:53

Rugeroo friends , you know you

38:56

got one who's ready and willing , Gang gang

38:58

, oh my . God , all right , good job

39:00

. Another cryptid in the book

39:02

. Stay tuned , like we said , for

39:04

the Oddity Shop cryptid survival

39:07

kit . And

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that's all I've got for you . What do you got , kara , anything

39:12

else ? Yes

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, okay , go Perfect .

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All right . Well , we appreciate it and love you all

39:18

. Thank you so much for being here , for the chaoticness

39:21

of my gang talk

39:23

. Love you , goodbye . Do

39:27

everything that we would normally tell you . Most

39:29

importantly , creep it real yabbles . Goodbye .

39:31

Bye Oddity Shop , bye Bye , oddity Shop . Bye Bye

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, bye , bye , bye , bye

39:37

, bye Bye .