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Welcome to the oddity shop , where

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the bizarre is always on sale

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. What's

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up , oddballs ? Welcome back to the oddity shop

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. I am one of the two hosts

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, zach sitting here with Kara , and

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this is the show where we tell you creepy , odd , weird , strange

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, paranormal , murdery

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stories I think we said murdery last week from around

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the globe .

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Hello .

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The hell is up with you , kara .

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You know I had something that I needed to tell you

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and all day I was like don't worry about

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it , because I'm going to remember , don't need to read it down

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. Guess what ?

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no clue . It will text me the second we're

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done recording and let me know what it was . Yeah

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, I'm really trying to .

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I have no idea . So .

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All right , all right Perfect

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.

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It's almost Christmas . We're both dying because of

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what just needs to be .

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It is almost Christmas .

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It's one of those things where I want it to be over but then it's kind

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of like dang , that came so fast

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but stressful .

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I just feel like I've been saying since June

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that I can't wait for the next month , because life

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is going to calm down , and it just fucking hasn't . But

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you know , that's life and we roll with it

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. I'll say it's Christmas in a couple

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days , what , like five or

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something . Yeah , five days . For

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most people , they are well past Christmas , listening

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, though , so hopefully you all enjoyed your Christmas

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. We got good gifts . I know I started

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to tell you , but I'm proud of myself . What did

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you do ? Because at age 30

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years old , I finally learned how

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to do a beard fade , and I didn't mess

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it up so badly that I cut off my entire

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beard , which is what happened the last few

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times I've tried .

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Where did I read about beard oil ? Do you remember

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?

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It was a vendor at the mid-Michigan paracon , which

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is an odd place to buy beard oil , but

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I cannot remember their name . I can't

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either because you like it which is good . I

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do like it . It is actually a really good product . I'll have

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two . Maybe we'll post it on socials , but

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other than that , in Christmas and

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just working and trying to get ahead of everything

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, so I can actually take two weeks off and enjoy it

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, while two weeks off of not work

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or my other job . I'm making my

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chores lighter for two weeks .

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I'm just like what are we talking about ? Geez

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Louise I don't know .

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I'm just making my life as less busy

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as possible for the next two weeks by

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packing it up . This is .

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Yeah , we're really exciting .

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This is why we need y'all to write in some stories

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and things for us to talk about , because our lives are boring

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. So , even at this point , just let us

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know the exciting things going on in your

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lives so we can live vicariously .

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Yeah , I just thought we've got nothing going

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on .

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We got nothing . We

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need what we said , I think , last week

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or two weeks ago , but we need to get a vacation on the

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books so we can look forward to something .

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Yeah , where are we going ?

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Costa Rica and just never coming back . I don't know if I want

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to stay in Costa Rica .

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Well , I guess we don't have to stay there . We're just not coming

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back home .

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But it's a lot easier to get citizenship there

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than most other countries , and I

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hear there's a lot of stray dogs , so True

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true , okay , so Costa Rica is

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for the dogs ? Yeah , nothing else

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, there we go . We're

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sticking to it . Okay Alright

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, what do you got for me this week ?

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Oh my god , I don't have a question for

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you . Oh , sugar butt

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.

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My question for you is are you kidding me

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?

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I just in this moment realized .

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You haven't messed that up in months , damn

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. I'm

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going to let you think for a second , or are we just going to

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?

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I'm trying to think , and now I'm just thinking Well

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, let's just not . Well , this is just all I can think

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of . That is something that you're hoping

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, since we haven't had Christmas yet , that you're

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maybe hoping that you get for Christmas .

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My parents have always been huge on

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Christmas and they always kill it with the gifts , but the last couple

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years is they have gotten way craftier

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. I get a lot of handmade stuff from them . So

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mom does a lot of quilting and sewing

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, dad does a lot of woodworking stuff and

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the last couple years we've gotten really , really cool

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handmade stuff from them , and that's

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what I'm most looking forward to no watch

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.

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I can't watch .

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Oh no , they've already teased it . I

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know I am , I'm so excited that

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I can't take them .

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Okay , all right . All

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right , now are we ready .

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We're ready . Oh , that was a question you could have

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just asked me if I was ready .

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You would have been . No , you wouldn't have . You'd be like that's

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that .

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No , I wouldn't have .

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We're going to start with a little bit of history

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, okay , so

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you ?

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sound like me , I'm trying .

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You know what I want to be more like ? Yeah , that's

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my New Year's resolution .

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Are we in the New Year now ? Who wouldn't want to be more like

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me ? Okay , so .

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We are going to talk about a little bit . We're

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going to talk about the Wampanoag tribe . Have you

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heard this sound familiar ? Yeah

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, okay , I bet a lot of people are

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like no , and that's terrible .

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But that's okay , probably so

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.

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Their nation ones included all of Southern

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Eastern Massachusetts . Oh my

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god . So

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Wampanoag means people of the first light

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, which I kind of like , but also

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that I started thinking about it and I was like people of the first

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light the fuck does that mean ? I mean

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, I'm sure it's something highly spiritual

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to them . I know no .

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I think it's cool . I like it .

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But then when I was like I love that

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meaning and then I was like , wait

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, what does that actually mean ? Okay , what does it mean Exactly ? Okay

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, so

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in the 1616

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hundreds , there were as many as 40,000

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people within the 67 villages . In

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1620 , the pilgrims arrived in Plymouth

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. The Wampanoag people taught

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them how to survive their first winters

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. Remember the first Thanksgiving

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? Yes , oh yeah . So

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that just could be an entire episode in itself

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, but yes , so

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now I'm sure some of you are like , oh

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shit .

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I didn't even have turkey .

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That's , that's your main concern .

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I mean , yeah , I'll take that back . No

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, it's not my main concern , but it's still upsetting .

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Yeah , so Wampanoag people

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are still present today and

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I'm probably saying they're wrong . I know it's Wampanoag

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, wampanoag .

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Usually I come in clutch with the words

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.

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I abbreviated it to and I said it 400

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times . Ok , so Wampanoag people

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are still present today and we're going to talk about

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something that you've been waiting

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for . Don't just just

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hold on , hold on . Ok

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, so Moushop

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is a deity who created the landmass

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that we know as Cape Cod . Ok

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, so , moushop , love

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the Wampanoag tribe . He was described

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as a lovable giant . He

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was , in fact , a giant , and

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the people loved him just as much as he

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loved Earth . Oh my God , why

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can't I talk today ? They loved

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him just as much as he loved them . Ok , so it was like an

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adored . They adored each other . Ok , and

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it was said that he was the one that actually taught

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them how to survive on the land originally

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. So , moushop and his wife

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and their pet frog I don't know their pet

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frog's name they lived in harmony

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with the Wampanoag people . Que

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the chaos Drumroll plers

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Paco

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Jeez .

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Oh , what , hold on ? I think

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I actually have . Do you have a drumroll ? Oh

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, but it's not playing . Oh , I , just I .

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You got it one in this episode .

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I was looking at all the different settings on our

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software and there is a drumroll . But now of

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course it's not drumming , it's OK .

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You can edit it in , all right . So Paco

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Jeez , which I don't know why , in

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my brain , every time I tell myself

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or talk about my yeah , I talk to myself about

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Paco Jeez . Don't ask me why , but in

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my head I say , like hot pockets , paco

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geez . Oh , it makes sense . I don't know why , though

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. Ok , paco geez also

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got along with the tribe . However , they

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soon became enraged by jealousy

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. You see , they were not found of

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the love and affection that the Wampanoag

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people were giving to Moushop . Now

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, for those that don't know , like Zach

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, what a Paco geez is , let

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me explain .

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Honestly , since the first time you mentioned them

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, I have held myself

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off from research . Oh my God , I could go

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into this , fra OK .

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So Paco translates into

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person of the wilderness , or

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little wild man

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of the woods that vanishes , and

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I would like to have that be my identifier

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.

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I would like that to be written on my tombstone

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.

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A little man of the woods that

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vanishes .

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Yes .

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You might think of them as a cryptid or

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a fairy , a troll or

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even a dwarf . Ok , paco

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geez , stand about knee height and they can

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go up to about three feet tall , as

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they resemble a human looking creature

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in a way . They also have a longer

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like bigger ears , sometimes

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like almost like pointed like an elf , and

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they have a bigger nose . Like

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they look like . They look like a person , but

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kind of like a , like a weird

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person . That

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was so fucking stupid .

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I think I've got the mental image though .

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Like their nose . Their fingers are all longer

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. They often are described

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as having grayish , brown skin , but

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smooth skin like a human . So it's

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not like rough or whatever , but it's smooth . Ok

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, the biggest differentiator

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, differentiator , say it , differentiator .

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Thank you .

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Comes from the top of their head all

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the way down their back they are covered in

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spines resembling

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a porcupine and often

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mistaken from behind to be that of

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a porcupine . So from the back

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they look like a little porcupine . Which porcupine From the

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couple pictures ?

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I have seen of them from when we were talking . That's

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like what sticks out to me . Yeah

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, they look like a little troll dwarf Like

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. I don't remember their faces , but I remember the porcupine

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back .

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I guess if you're a Harry Potter fan and one of the movies , I guess there is Puckwitchies

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or a Puckwitchie . Really I

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don't know which one , but I read that , hmm

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, ok . So now that

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we're clear on that , jealousy

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from the Puckwitchies turn out to be the Puckwitchies turned into mischief

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, so Puckwitchies would

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often play tricks on the humans and

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can you just imagine like a little porcupine

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man pinching you , like fucking

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with you .

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I'm going to try not to imagine that . I don't know why

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.

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they just left me speechless when you said that , because I'm like

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Well , because that's kind of what happened , like they're all

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jealous and then they started just kind of like playing

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tricks on everybody and just being really mischievous

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and like pinching and kicking and just like being

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little brats . But they're like little porcupines

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with noses , I

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mean like human , like .

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I mean , I would imagine a porcupine .

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I know that twice , ok , ok . So

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now these pranks , though they turned a

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little more sinister at a time as

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time went on , and before you know it , the tribe

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was meeting with Moushup's wife for further

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assistance . Squannet

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was Moushup's wife and she

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relayed the tears that the Puckwitchies were

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like , wreaking havoc on the

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tribe , and she relayed them to her husband

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, soon . All the Puckwitchies were gathered

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and spoken to by Moushup and were ultimately

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exiled . So this is funny Once

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gathered , moushup flung

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each Puckwitchie as far

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as he could , and then that's why

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they say that it's like the thought as to why

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another seems kind of everywhere , like in India

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, and like all these faces , because he

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just got thrown Plop All

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right Now .

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So this is like a real American folklore , because

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it's like so literal , such a strange way , I just love

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it so much .

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It just it makes me really happy stuff . I don't

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know Like I love reading stuff like this . Ok

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, so he flings little shits , ok . So

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now , as you can imagine , though , these little

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shitheads found their way back . Only

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this time it was worse . Before

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it was just your minor food stealing

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, kidnapping children , pushing

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people off cliffs you know harmless

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stuff . But once Banak and

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Warren rage , the Puckwitchies

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wanted revenge , and they became more

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malevolent and killed Moushup's

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five sons .

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Oh yeah , All he did was fling them

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a little bit across

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the world .

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I know it's really sad . So now

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, at some point though , moushup kind of disappeared

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from the Wampanoag folklore , and

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this is kind of thought because people thought that the Puckwitchies

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actually killed him too , because it kind of coincided

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like basically once like reading

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in their folklore once he starts to disappear , you

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realize that it's kind of in that timeline . So

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people think that this is proof that the Puckwitchies

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also killed him . So this is essentially

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the origin story of where we get

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the bad little Puckwitchies Everywhere

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kind of has like their version of Puckwitchies

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, but this is kind of like where it originated

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. Ok , so Puckwitchies

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are still a bit disgruntled

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with humans . They just they

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have not gotten over all

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of this , and so yeah , that

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never goes well for humans . They just maybe

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hold in a grudge . So my

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advice if you cross paths with one

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, leave it be . They

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might still mess with you , but if

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you annoy them it'll be worse

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. So if you're just like strolling down the

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street and you see a little porcupine

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man , just keep on going . It might

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still , like you know , kick you or

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tease you or whatever try to play a trick on

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you . But if you just like mind your own business

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and don't like entertain it or don't be mean

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or annoying it , it'll be , like you know , 10

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times less of an issue .

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Why does it kind of give me a little bit of like naan

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Rouge vibes Kind of I ?

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mean , I'm sure , like the guy was supposed to leave him alone . Yeah

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, he said he bopped him on the head and then it turned into

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a whole thing . Yeah , that's actually

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a really good point . That's hilarious . What would you

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do if you saw one ?

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Well , after what you just said , I know

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, but would you be like oh my god , I would probably . First

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of all , I would get really excited . Then

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I would have to remind myself you can't talk to the Puckwudgy

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. You got to ignore it because Kara told

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me to and

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then hope that it . Well , I was just saying hope that it doesn't

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kick me , but I kind of hope that it would kick me . Like

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how many people can be like yo ? I got kicked by a Puckwudgy

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.

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I just love that their names are Puckwudgies

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and that makes me think that , like to me

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, Puckwudgy just seems like cute

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and like I just want to like squeeze

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your little dick .

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You know I hate that . They're not friendly .

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I would make one friendly to me , so

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I just lost my spot

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. Okay , so you might be thinking

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though . Okay , so they have spikes that

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might hurt , they might steal my food

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, that would suck . Food prices skyrocketed

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. The cliff part would not be convenient

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, however .

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Not at all .

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Puckwudgies are a serious issue

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if messed with Okay .

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Worse than being pushed off a cliff .

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These little things are wild

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, wild , okay , they

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can create fire at will , so

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they just make fireballs .

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Okay , I could see , how that could be

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bad news .

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So Puckwudgies can

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appear and disappear as they please , and

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often just to confuse humans and drive them crazy

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. I would try to make fireballs , though

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.

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They are Balls of fire . I

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mean they kind of sound fitting for Harry Potter

16:39

, even though I don't remember them being in there .

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Yeah , oh , and they love , though , to

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launch poisonous arrows , but like

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little ones , oh , little poisonous

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arrows , because they're little .

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Oh my God , I'm sorry , this is

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a nerd moment . There's a version of them in Diablo

16:53

three . There's like these little porcupine dudes

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who shoot poison darts , and I've never noticed

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that they're basically supposed

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to be Puckwudgies .

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What are you supposed to do ? Just get past them . No

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, you have to kill them .

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They're well . The whole game is fighting demons spawn

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.

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Oh , okay , that makes sense . Yes , they're little Puckwudgies

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.

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Except for they're like five foot tall or bigger

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.

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Well , everything else is very Puckwudgy-esque . I mean

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, I'm sure some Puckwudgies can be

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taller than three feet , but that's just like you know

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, okay , and sometimes they like attack

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you with little daggers , which that's

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annoying , you're going to dagger

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me .

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Yeah , but that also seems like right up there

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, I know .

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Throwing sand in your eyes to blind

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you is a good trick of theirs and that's just

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a dick move . That's why these are little

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shits . They're wild

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. Okay , I'm sorry , the

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range of like . I'm going to manifest a

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fireball and throw it at you to just

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like you know , I'm going to kick sand in your eye . You

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just never know what you're going to get

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.

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Yeah , I don't . I feel like I would rather have the sand than

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stabbing or being pushed off a cliff , but

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still , none of it sounds great .

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No , it doesn't . But like think of like little little

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daggers , like that's probably just so annoying

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, like just little stabs

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, like get the fuck off my ankle , little

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ankle biters . Pukwajis

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, don't come for me , I love you . Okay

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. So Pukwajis love magic and using

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it to lure you to your death .

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They also like to plant thoughts . Why are they so mean

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? I know .

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They also like to plant thoughts of like offing

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yourself in your mind .

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Okay . So going

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back to the the Deat Love

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Pass episode where you first told

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me about them , it makes sense . It

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kind of it could have been them . They did try to

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lure people and they did die . We're not

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ruling them out , Okay , Sorry .

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No , you're fine . Oh , but this is the best part

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. Did I mention that they can shapeshift

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? Cause they can ? No

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, okay , they

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usually pick like large , scary

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animals to present as like

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a cougar or something . However

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, they're often known to choose a family

18:55

member of yours and like call

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you kind of like a flesh

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pedestrian .

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Yeah , like getting into flesh pedestrian territory

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or when , when to go ?

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Yeah , or they just like they'll pick

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to be like your pet , like to change into your

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pet and , yes and like , lure

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you into the woods or whatever . Their

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range of mischief

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, if you will , is unsettling

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but hilarious . I love it

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.

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Are there really as many creatures as we

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talked about , like the flesh pedestrians , the

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dog man and the puck wudges , or is it just one

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thing that is ? Taking on all these different

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forms .

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Yeah , it's kind of a thing and

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I think we should . Well , we will eventually do episodes when

19:34

to go and just kind of walk her , because

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that is commonly brought up with puck wudges is

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that they are very , very similar , as into

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certain things that they do present as

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things like that . So that's kind of like a thought

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. Is that , is it just in

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different cultures it is a little bit

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different , just a little bit different , but

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like , yeah , the same essentially

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, whatever you want to call this thing .

19:57

Okay , yeah , I mean , it's definitely a possibility

19:59

.

19:59

I don't know . I think my favorite thing is just

20:02

thinking of getting like a little fireball

20:04

or like a little arrow shot at me from

20:06

like just a little porcupine man

20:08

, like I'm not saying- .

20:10

That's your favorite thing .

20:11

I'm not saying that I want that to happen to me , but

20:13

like would I be mad about it after

20:16

? No , I don't think .

20:17

I would . It depends on how poisonous the dart is .

20:20

Oh , that's true , they are poisonous . I forgot . We'll

20:22

just throw a little fireball at me , it's fine , okay , okay

20:25

, all right . So

20:28

my advice if you come across a Puck Wedgie

20:30

, just leave it be no , I

20:32

can't leave you with without giving

20:34

you like an encounter . I knew

20:37

it so , but let's , I just

20:39

do want to kind of like discuss them a little bit , like we

20:41

kind of just touched a little bit , but there

20:43

, that's kind of all the information that there is

20:45

on Puck Wedgies , which is crazy , because I feel like

20:47

I do hear them quite a bit . But that's really

20:49

it about Pakkujis . They're

20:52

just really spiteful . They weren't loved

20:54

so , and then they never got over

20:56

it .

20:57

Do they say anything about

20:59

, like the origin of them ? Are they like elemental

21:02

in nature , or were they human ? So

21:04

no , that's the thing .

21:06

And that's kind of why people don't know if you consider them

21:08

a cryptid . A lot of people think that they're

21:10

more of a fey , like they're in the fey realm

21:12

.

21:12

That's that a lot of

21:14

other thing , other than what you've

21:16

told me about them , is we went to one talk

21:18

where they barely Mentioned them . I

21:21

was super excited and it

21:23

does . It kind of gives off more of that , that fey

21:26

or Of the earth

21:28

type of creature . Rather than it

21:30

being like a living organic creature

21:32

, it's more of yeah .

21:34

I would go more fey fey

21:36

. That's what I , that's what I think . Yeah

21:38

, I was wondering what way you would go . Okay

21:40

, are you ready

21:42

?

21:43

Yes , ma'am .

21:44

Okay , I've

21:47

been debating for a while about telling this one

21:49

back story . I grew up

21:51

about a half hour's drive from Boston

21:53

in a house that's easily 200

21:55

years old . It was built into the side

21:57

of a hill and when you first walk in , to

22:00

your immediate left are stairs to the second

22:02

floor and to your immediate right is

22:04

a living room which was a bay window

22:06

, through a short hallway . Next

22:08

to the stairs with a door is

22:10

the kitchen and that splits off to several

22:13

, several other

22:15

doors for the basement , bathroom , backyard

22:18

, pantry , laundry and bedroom . In

22:20

the middle of the kitchen , on the In the middle of

22:22

the kitchen on the right . Sorry , this description

22:24

doesn't make sense to me , but that's okay . Against

22:27

the kids against against the kitchen's

22:29

back wall we're two big windows

22:31

that overlooked the down slope of the hill

22:34

, and to the right is an old-fashioned

22:36

lamp built into the wall With one

22:38

of those plastic pins that you slide

22:40

left or right to turn it on and off . I

22:43

lived in that bedroom , so I won't go into that too

22:45

much of the rest of the layout . I don't know why

22:47

this is me talking that in this scenario

22:49

. I don't know why . It really begs me when people but

22:51

I do it too like when people try to

22:53

explain the layout of something

22:56

, or like this isn't the first time you've

22:58

brought that because , I find that so funny .

23:00

It's a pet peeve of it .

23:00

It's not a pet peeve , but do you get what I mean ? Because

23:03

it's like when I'm explaining a layout that

23:05

you've never been to , in my head it makes complete

23:07

sense because I am there every single day

23:09

. And to another person I'm like I cannot even

23:11

talk . I don't even know what you're talking about . Oh

23:13

, I just agree right , but do you get what I mean ?

23:15

That's why it's like when you're right , I have no

23:17

actual mental image .

23:19

I have no image of what this person

23:21

just said , like they could have probably

23:23

left all of this out and it would have been okay . Okay

23:25

, so 15 years ago my mom

23:28

used to go to work at 3 am In the morning . I

23:30

was always a night owl and I remember it was a

23:32

month before Easter and it was

23:34

a Saturday because I didn't have school . She

23:36

had already gone and it was getting close to 4

23:38

am , so I went to turn off the little lamp

23:40

and go to bed . I took my glasses off

23:42

and went into the kitchen and I hear a little

23:44

clicking and look to my

23:47

left towards the open door wall

23:49

Doorway , sorry to the living room

23:51

. It was my German shepherd , jade , who always

23:53

slept in my bed . So I leaned forward

23:55

and said what are you doing out here , jade

23:57

? Just then I heard my dog

23:59

jump off my bed from my room

24:01

. That was when I realized I Was

24:04

looking at . Most certainly not my

24:06

dog . It stood perhaps three feet

24:08

tall , on two legs and

24:10

had wrinkled skin . I had somewhat leathery

24:13

, pointed ears and , stuck out from

24:15

its head , had reddish brown hair . It

24:18

had a devilish look and could

24:20

see the individual hair , and I could see

24:22

the individual hairs , even a widow's

24:24

, peak through the soft lamp light into

24:26

the room beyond and it wore Well

24:29

, looked like hides to me

24:31

. It even had some kind of moccasins

24:34

or boots on , enough that they

24:36

clicked on the tile when it walked

24:38

, the thing took a few Waddled

24:40

steps towards me and out stretched

24:42

its hands Like you picture

24:44

in your head of a monster movie . I

24:47

did the only thing I could do , being 16

24:49

, with no cellphone , no camera and nobody home . You're

24:52

not Jade .

24:53

I ran to my room .

24:54

I slammed and locked the door and kept my light on

24:56

, not leaving until the sun came up . I

24:59

didn't go to bed until that afternoon when my mom

25:01

came home . I don't sleepwalk . I

25:03

never had sleep paralysis . Our co

25:05

detectors were regularly checked by the city

25:07

and I have no history of mental illness

25:10

. Swear to God , it happened

25:12

. Edit forgot to mention

25:14

that it had tawny skin like

25:16

the color of a faded leather

25:18

jacket , and A rather

25:20

bulbous nose , not

25:23

unnaturally so , more like Old

25:25

human person kind of large . It

25:27

also had a wide mouth , but again not

25:30

unnaturally so , think Aerosmith

25:32

.

25:33

Okay , is that that's yeah that's it

25:35

.

25:35

That's from reddit user . I don't

25:37

even know .

25:38

I have three comments . One , the

25:40

way she described the face put it . I've been

25:42

trying to figure out like how to describe it and all I

25:44

can think . I know I'm on a Lord of the Rings kick

25:46

, but like the dwarves from the Hobbit .

25:48

Yeah , they're faces that wide mouth

25:50

. I love think Aerosmith

25:53

.

25:54

That's comment number one . Yes , it was . Smith

25:56

is great too . Comment number two I

25:58

don't know why , but the fact that it

26:00

make like little tippy tappy is like your dog's

26:02

nails for some reason that just like sends him

26:05

shivers . So you know , sorry , it's like you

26:07

know it's just like tip-tapping around and like how

26:09

many times have you been in your bed at night and

26:11

you hear that and you think it's your dog . But

26:13

then like your dog sleeping next to you like I

26:15

, when I had dogs , I dealt with that a lot

26:18

. Yeah probably whoa no Three

26:21

, comment number three I

26:24

100% believe her and here

26:26

is why she could have put any details

26:28

in that story . But her Exclamation

26:31

when she realized and said you're not

26:33

the dog , is such a human

26:35

, you're not jade , is such a human reaction

26:38

. Right , because it reminds me of like uh-huh , any

26:40

time in my life where I've actually been and

26:42

completely like , and terror

26:44

in terror , in like high state

26:47

of Just my surroundings

26:49

I don't know the right word for it . I mean , I

26:51

just start saying yeah , yeah

26:54

just completely obvious things , like

26:56

the first time a bear ran out in front of my

26:58

car when we moved up north . Me in

27:00

the car by myself . Go , that's a bear

27:02

Talking to nobody . You're

27:06

just so like flabbergasted

27:08

and your brain isn't working that that you

27:10

just scream something so obvious and

27:12

that actually gives me brownie points to believe

27:14

her .

27:15

Yeah , so that actually reminds me because

27:17

remember , when we dived into

27:19

bat squash and that

27:21

, yeah , that one and

27:23

I just , and we were like going back and forth of like

27:26

if it was believable , like the letter or whatever it was

27:28

, but the one thing that I was like this is

27:30

so random that you wouldn't think to

27:32

write and it made me believe it is . But he was

27:34

like when that one bat squash got hurt and he's like

27:36

I thought to myself , oh my god , should I go

27:38

help it ? And then you're like no , what

27:40

, that's a creature , monster , it's stuff

27:42

like that .

27:43

It's like those little things that just humanize

27:45

. Yeah , like that is yes , that is a totally

27:47

it seems like the not normal reaction

27:50

, but that is how a human would read that's why I picked

27:52

this one .

27:52

I mean there was several , but that's why I picked this one

27:54

, because I felt like it felt really real and

27:57

to your point , those type of details

27:59

. What's creepy to me and I have goosebumps , nothing about

28:01

it is that it's so

28:03

creepy because the way that she wrote

28:05

it and she didn't say this , but to me

28:07

it was Shapeshifting

28:10

into Jade at first until she

28:12

really looked at it and was like oh

28:14

my god , that's not Jade . So I think at first

28:16

it was like looking like her dog

28:19

until it like right . Showed

28:21

it's a real , and

28:24

then it started come like waddling towards

28:26

her with it's a hand . Oh

28:28

Ew , I

28:31

would die .

28:32

Okay , do they ever talk ?

28:33

Oh , you know what I think ? Well , I

28:35

would imagine , but I guess I didn't

28:38

read anything other than the fact that they do lure

28:40

you in by like sounding like your loved

28:42

ones and stuff . I would , I think

28:44

so , but honestly in my head I just thought they made like

28:46

you

28:49

know what I mean like right , like

28:51

their own little language . That's a right

28:53

. That's a really good question . I'm really mad

28:55

at myself that I never like looked that up .

28:57

I guess I just assumed , because they did coincide

29:00

with the Wampanoa tribe , that they spoke

29:02

to them well , I'm sort of thinking

29:04

back to like the , the when to

29:06

goes to the flesh pedestrians , right , like those

29:08

are the things that are also trying to lure you out

29:10

by , like shouting your name or using a familiar .

29:13

Yeah , but I wonder , huh , I don't

29:15

know .

29:15

Okay , that's sorry , go on .

29:17

No , okay , so , yeah , so we definitely think that

29:19

that story is true .

29:20

I do , oh , yeah , um

29:22

it might be coming less of a skeptic right

29:25

.

29:25

Just to give credit her , I'm not even

29:27

gonna try to figure this out it's K a

29:29

a L I T E N

29:31

O H I R A . That's

29:34

her username and that's where it was written

29:36

. I think it was like eight years ago , so it wasn't like

29:38

too fresh , but you know okay

29:40

, but wait , I want more , but

29:42

wait , there's more that way . I just

29:45

have one more . Are you ready

29:47

? My sister and I seen

29:50

one when we were little kids sharing a

29:52

bunk bed . I was maybe three or four

29:54

years old and she was six or seven years old

29:56

. We were just laying in bed at night

29:58

getting ready to sleep when something caught

30:00

our eye . It was a three-foot grayish

30:02

blue figure with elongated

30:04

ears and nose , kind of look

30:06

like Dabby , but had longer spiky

30:09

hair and Indian type clothing

30:11

. They walk from the side of the

30:13

wall into the middle of the room , stopped

30:15

and looked at us for a brief second , then looked

30:17

forward and continued to walk through the wall . I

30:20

remember looking down to the lower bunk

30:22

after it disappeared and asking my old sister

30:24

if she's seen what I saw . She agreed

30:26

we saw the same thing . Her and I

30:28

have always vividly

30:30

remembered this throughout the years . I

30:32

am 34 now and she is 37

30:35

and we still recall this night . Interestingly

30:37

, a few years ago I was watching a ghost

30:40

hunting show and they did things a little

30:42

differently . I believe it was a college

30:44

group . They they didn't just tell

30:46

you you had a ghost , but they

30:48

actually pinpointed what type of spirit

30:50

it was based upon the type of haunting traits

30:52

that have . Anyways , halfway through

30:54

the show they said the ghost

30:57

was called a Pukwajee . It didn't catch my

30:59

attention at first . They started at

31:01

first , until they started describing it . This

31:03

is what . Oh my god , this

31:05

is was a two . Hmm

31:08

.

31:08

You got this .

31:09

No , I'm reading it the way it is . This is

31:11

was a that's what it says . This

31:14

it was a two to three foot

31:16

grayish , glowing figure that

31:18

resembled a smaller troll

31:20

with long nose and fingers and ears

31:22

. I perked up immediately

31:24

, as I knew I have seen a

31:26

similar one before , did a Google

31:29

search on Pukwajee's and seen a few

31:31

images and , holy shit , mind

31:33

blown . That was the exact same figure

31:35

my sister and I saw as kids . I teared

31:38

up , not in fear but in fascination

31:40

and uneasiness . I didn't say

31:42

anything to my sister . I sent her a picture

31:44

via text of the Pukwajee , with no

31:46

other text . She responded holy

31:49

shit , how did you find this ? That's

31:51

the exact thing we seen as kids . Even

31:54

more interesting is the place we lived

31:56

at was said to have an Indian burial

31:58

ground in the area . I always thought it was just

32:00

a way to scare the kids of ghosts , but

32:02

it all makes sense now . I haven't had any

32:04

encounters since , but it still hits me every

32:07

now and then what I seen and I start

32:09

researching more . Not sure I

32:11

like to encounter one again , but it definitely

32:13

makes me a believer of the netherworld , such

32:16

as fairies and trolls etc . That have

32:18

been described in the earliest of literature

32:21

, very interesting stuff

32:23

, and that is from intelligent

32:25

underscore , speech underscore for

32:27

, and I believe that one's okay .

32:30

That one kind of gives me . It

32:32

really draws in that elemental

32:35

or the fey kind of feeling

32:37

of it right because it has those like non

32:39

Ethereal properties .

32:41

Yeah , I guess she didn't necessarily

32:43

describe it to me where

32:45

I would have thought it was the Pekweci , but then when she

32:48

saw the pictures of the Pekweci's , that's

32:50

what she knew she saw , if that makes sense .

32:52

Right and I guess like that's the thing , though

32:54

, if they can shift like nobody's

32:57

gonna see the exact same thing .

32:59

Exactly , and it just kind of pops

33:01

at the wall Whoop .

33:02

Yeah , that part's so weird .

33:04

Pekweci's .

33:05

I like how , sometimes , though , they decided to

33:07

fuck with people , and other time I'll

33:09

never not hear the hot pocket .

33:11

I know , but this one is so funny because it just

33:13

looked at them and was just like , and then just

33:15

went on this way because it like again

33:17

. Like I said , if you just ignore

33:20

it , if they might just be like , okay

33:22

, whatever , I guess the girl with the dog , I

33:24

mean it started waddling at her .

33:26

Yeah , but that one started yeah , waddles which

33:28

, like why do all cryptid mysterious

33:31

creature things ? Why are none of them

33:33

good on their feet ?

33:34

mothman , night crawlers , pekweci's

33:36

that's a really good question , I think , because they prefer

33:38

to not walk . Well , I guess . I guess

33:41

night crawlers only do that .

33:43

Yeah , but not well .

33:44

No , I know , but I was just thinking cuz like my eyes

33:46

most often Pekweci's can just

33:48

like pop , shoot around as a fireball

33:51

. So I mean yeah . So

33:53

, yeah , that's not really a long one , but

33:55

it's . It's one that you've been

33:58

wanting , my little puck , which I have

34:00

been wanting it . I still feel like I

34:02

would want to see one . I think

34:04

that I could treat the Pekweci's right and

34:07

they could be my little friend .

34:08

Well , when you come to me one day with your eyebrows

34:10

burnt off because you tried to befriend

34:13

the Pekweci , here's where I'm trying

34:15

to me here's me to suck the poison

34:17

out of your wounds .

34:18

I know , and here's where your mom's gonna be like what the hell

34:20

cuz they're basically .

34:21

Yeah , their faces are . Known is basically

34:24

I .

34:25

Think it's , and they are actually really creepy

34:27

looking . They're not cute .

34:29

They are not cute .

34:30

I don't know why . I just like that . They

34:32

have little porcupine spines . Did

34:34

I tell you what ?

34:35

what Nick bought mom for Christmas . No

34:38

, did you it was a set of

34:40

make your own like knitted ornaments

34:42

no yarn ornaments , but they were

34:44

all gnome heads . You almost

34:46

got the same one .

34:49

That's cute for her . For her , not

34:51

for me . Alright , dude , that's Pekweci's

34:54

. What are your final thoughts ? Good job .

34:57

My final thoughts . I I'm being non

35:00

skeptic these last few weeks . One fully

35:02

believe in these ones . I do think they are more

35:04

like elemental or fey . I

35:06

don't think they're like a past living

35:08

thing . I think there's something that's probably

35:10

been of the earth for a long time . I

35:12

like that . They're just kind of like goofy little tricksters

35:14

. I here's what makes me push

35:17

you off a cliff and kill you , shoot you with poisonous

35:19

arrows .

35:20

This is what makes me sad , is I

35:22

don't like that they just like got jealous

35:25

cuz they weren't getting the love and attention

35:27

that they were like . That makes me sad that they

35:29

just have this like revenge , jealousy

35:31

, revenge and like now they're forever

35:34

jaded . They forever hate humans . Because

35:36

of it , I'm like , oh little puckwadgies

35:39

.

35:39

Honestly , more species should probably

35:42

forever hate humans . Well , this is

35:44

true . I don't blame them actually

35:46

right .

35:46

Maybe that's why I identify with them so much

35:48

. Shits

35:53

just like shooting arrows

35:56

, poking people . Well , nice job .

35:58

Thank you . I will now make sure I keep my eyes

36:00

out for them and Ignore

36:02

them . Yeah , don't actually keep your eyes out for

36:04

them because if you just , I mean , I'll have to keep my

36:06

eye out for them , because I don't want to like accidentally kick

36:09

him first .

36:10

Oh yeah , they can be puckwudgy women

36:12

too , I guess puck people .

36:19

All right , cool , good job , thanks . I've been waiting for

36:21

that one . I I'm I'm surprised I haven't looked

36:23

it up . I it takes me so much effort to

36:25

like .

36:26

I'm surprised awesome .

36:27

All right , if you have ever ran

36:29

across a puckwudgy or any other

36:31

strange little woodland creatures

36:34

, what a little men who disappear

36:36

into the woods . We , we want to know , if

36:40

you feel so inclined . Men

36:43

of the woods that vanishes and

36:45

if you think Kara , the little woman of the work

36:47

, woods you're not sorry . Well

36:50

, I ever , every time I say you're not a woods person

36:52

, you yell at me and say you are an atri . But anyways

36:54

, if you think Kara did a good job long story

36:56

short I think she'll leave her a review

36:59

. Oh , podcast .

37:00

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37:02

Yes , tell her how good she did . Yes

37:04

, all right , what else should the people do ?

37:07

Right in some ideas , thoughts of what

37:09

they would like to hear . Um

37:11

, it's not the new year . What

37:13

are your new things ? What do we knew

37:15

? What's new in our lives that we're working

37:18

on , working towards ? What are we , what are

37:20

we doing with our lives this 24

37:23

?

37:23

and it's a new year , so if you haven't told Kara she's

37:26

pretty yet this year , now might be a good time

37:28

.

37:29

Okay , anyway , that's it . So do all those things

37:31

we really love and appreciate you . Sorry , this was

37:33

a shorter episode , but you got your puckwudgies

37:35

and that's

37:37

it . So thanks , um , goodbye

37:40

, and , most importantly , creepy really

37:43

eyeballs . Goodbye , bye .