0:29

And welcome back everybody . What

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is going on ? Hey

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, hey , hey . Shit , I

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forgot . I think I was going to do normal voice this

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episode .

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You fucked .

0:41

Yeah , too late for that one . That'll have to

0:43

be next episode , because

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apparently this is just so damn ingrained

0:48

I can't help it .

0:50

This is you now . Yeah

0:53

, it's kind of this was me .

0:55

Yep , it's kind of like the fucking Little

0:57

Nicky thing . Yeah , that was me before

0:59

, but this is me now

1:01

. Now , get

1:03

in the flask Now get in the flask .

1:05

Get in the flask .

1:07

Well , I think , if I remember

1:10

right , we actually had a couple of stories

1:12

today . Well , story

1:15

slash , interesting

1:18

history .

1:20

Yeah , okay

1:25

, want to go first .

1:27

Yeah , I'll go ahead and start . So

1:30

this is

1:32

about a Japanese

1:35

doomsday cult . Now , this is old

1:37

, but I

1:40

don't think I've ever heard of it , so

1:42

the chances are you guys might

1:44

not have either . Guys , gals , everyone

1:46

out there that listens . So

1:49

now , being this

1:51

is from Japan , I'm probably going to

1:53

butcher everything , so I

1:55

apologize .

1:57

I'd laugh if you're like I'm probably going to butcher and you just get everything

1:59

perfectly right , right , that'd be

2:01

insane . You lied .

2:04

No one knew that I was one quarter japanese

2:06

. Yeah

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, brother . So this is um . Shinrikyu

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, translated as supreme

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truth had emerged in

2:18

japan in the 18 sorry 1980s

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, under the leadership of

2:24

shoko ashihara

2:27

, born chizo

2:30

matsumoto in 1955

2:33

wait , his name was chizo , shizo

2:36

. Well , I mean well , yeah , c-h-i-z-u-o

2:40

chizo if

2:43

I had that name , why would you change it ? That's like the greatest

2:45

name ever again , I'm not japanese

2:47

, so I know I'm butchering these and I apologize , but

2:50

I'm doing the best , all right I'm

2:52

gonna run under the assumption his name was cheezo

2:54

right , but uh . So

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this person claimed to be a masonic figure

2:59

with supernatural powers and

3:01

attracted many followers disillusioned

3:05

with mainstream society . So

3:07

the group's teachings were a blend

3:10

of elements from different religions

3:12

going for like buddhism

3:14

, hinduism and

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christianity , which to me is a really

3:19

odd fucking mix yeah like

3:21

how ? How do you mix those

3:23

three out of all of them together ? But

3:26

he was proclaiming himself as the one

3:28

and only who could save humanity from

3:31

the impending catastrophe . And

3:34

they amassed considerable wealth

3:36

through its businesses , including computer

3:38

programming and , oddly

3:40

enough , yoga classes . Huh

3:43

. Yeah , again kind of

3:45

a weird thing to be incorporated

3:49

with . But I mean , I guess this is back in

3:51

the day when you know now crime

3:53

is quite a bit different .

3:55

Yeah , so it's yoga and fucking

3:57

computers .

3:58

Yeah , yeah , like super

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legit businesses , okay

4:02

. Like

4:08

super legit businesses , okay . Um . So in the early 90s the group's activities became increasingly

4:10

controversial , with reports of abuse and brainwashing

4:13

and illegal activities surfacing . However

4:16

, it was the sarin gas attack

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on the tokyo subway system

4:21

on march 20th and 95 that

4:23

brought global attention to them . So

4:26

I remember hearing about a gas attack

4:28

.

4:28

But I didn't know it was a cult . I didn't know much about

4:30

the cold , but you brought that up . I was like I've heard of that part

4:32

yeah , so that's .

4:34

That's pretty interesting cheeser . Why

4:37

so ? During the

4:39

attack , the members

4:41

had released sarin nerve gas on

4:43

several subway trains , resulting

4:46

in the deaths of 13 people

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and injuring thousands . The

4:51

attack shocked Japan and the world

4:53

, leading to the widespread condemnation

4:56

and massive crackdown on the group by

4:58

Japanese authorities . So

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now , in the aftermath of all this , the cult and several high

5:14

ranking members were arrested and charged with various crimes , including murder

5:16

and conspiracy . And

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the cult leader was found guilty and sentenced to death , along with several other

5:23

key members . And then , I guess , they did even more investigations

5:26

and uncovered more illegal activities

5:28

by the group , including other attempted

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chemical attacks and the murder

5:33

of dissident members . So

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they did a rebranding in 2000

5:37

as aleph a-l-e-p-h

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, claiming to have renounced

5:42

its violent past and embracing a more

5:44

peaceful philosophy . However

5:47

, the group remains under close surveillance

5:50

by Japanese authorities , who

5:52

continue to monitor its activities

5:54

to prevent any resurgence of violence

5:56

or criminal behavior .

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Damn , so they're still around .

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Yeah , they are still around , just rebranded

6:04

with a different name and different philosophies

6:06

, or so they say .

6:09

Not on bite .

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It's hard to say . I mean , you know , you

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probably do have some people that

6:15

regret choices and what was done

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, but at the same time , others , or

6:19

most of them , are so

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far gone in the brainwashing that what

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they're told is life .

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So is Cheezer still alive , or did they kill him ?

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Well , I mean , he's the one that was sentenced to death

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, so , and that being , this was before

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2000s , so

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he was sentenced to death back in the nineties . So

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yeah , I'm pretty sure he's . He's dead

6:42

. Japanese death row is is

6:44

very interesting .

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What was his name ? Again Cheeser .

6:49

No , no , no , no . Well , his name

6:52

, his born name was

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Chizio Matsumoto

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and he was born in 1995

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. But his name for

7:03

the Super Bowl .

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Wait , he was born in 1995? .

7:05

Sorry , 55 .

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Okay , I was about to say what the ? I

7:09

was like a baby was running that cult .

7:11

Yes , and his

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name for

7:16

the Supreme Truth cult was

7:19

Shoko Asahara .

7:23

Shoko Asahara .

7:24

Yes .

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Nah , Chizuo was a better name .

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I'm just still . I can't wrap my head around

7:30

how they blended Buddhism , hinduism

7:33

and Christianity . Those

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are , in my opinion

7:39

, definitely

7:41

polar opposites .

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Okay , so I did some research on Shoko

7:46

Asahara Chizuo

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Matsumoto , All

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right . Born March 2nd 1955

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. Yep . Died July 6th . You

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want to guess what year ?

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Well , the bombing happened in 95

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, so I'm going to say 97

8:03

, 98 .

8:04

97 , 98 ? Nope . Yeah 2018

8:06

, say 97 , 98 . 97 , 98 ? Nope 2018 .

8:08

Oh damn . So he was on death

8:10

row for a minute .

8:12

Yeah , he was sentenced to death in 2004 .

8:15

Holy shit .

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And his final appeal was 2011

8:17

, and they scheduled his execution

8:20

for 2012 , but it was postponed due

8:22

to the arrest of all members

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, so they moved

8:27

him for like a while until they

8:29

executed him in 2018 .

8:31

Damn . So they were like oh

8:33

yeah , you know you're going to die , but

8:35

you don't know when . Motherfucker .

8:36

Oh yeah they executed him along with other senior members

8:38

of the cult .

8:39

Damn , that's pretty brutal Dude

8:41

. That's fucking wild . Yeah , yeah

8:44

, it's one of those things that you never

8:46

Like . I said , without

8:48

doing

8:50

this research , I never would have known that

8:52

one they were a cult , or

8:56

two , that they were

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fucking related to that .

9:00

Yeah , because I always heard of that bombing thing but

9:03

I didn't know anything about it .

9:04

Yeah .

9:05

That's fucking crazy dude .

9:07

Yeah , no , that's very interesting

9:10

. I kind of want to see if I can find some more

9:12

shit on him now have you seen a picture of him ? No

9:15

, you'll have to show me after this

9:17

. I want to see him .

9:17

He looks like the sleepiest Jesus I've ever seen

9:20

.

9:20

Oh God .

9:21

He's got resting , sleepy

9:24

faces .

9:25

So he looks like Permahai .

9:27

Yes , that's exactly what he looks like .

9:30

He's the one who never got not

9:32

stoned . It looks like he ended every

9:34

sentence with man oh yeah

9:38

, come and join my cult and I

9:40

promise we'll make you rich and you'll

9:42

be godly man . You want

9:44

to release toxic gases into the subway

9:46

man ? You know what'll happen

9:48

? Man , we'll stick it to

9:50

the man , man .

9:52

Yeah , fuck it , I'm going to call him Cheezus

9:54

.

9:56

There you go .

9:57

Cheezus looks like he could fucking hacky sack . Maybe

10:01

, that's crazy . I'm going to have to do some more research on that

10:03

. That's fucking wild .

10:04

Yeah , like I said , interesting history

10:07

lessons . For

10:09

those of you out there that knew about it , that is awesome . But uh

10:11

, yeah , I didn't , and I

10:13

will work the telegram

10:16

invite , hopefully , into this

10:18

description or this

10:20

podcast episode's description . So

10:23

keep an eye out for that one . So

10:26

, uh , what you got for

10:28

me .

10:29

Yeah , my story's way shorter than that , so

10:32

mine's less about murder and crime and

10:34

mine's more like ghosty Not

10:37

scary ghosty , more like helpful ghosties Helpful

10:40

ghosty .

10:41

I don't know how much I trust helpful ghosts Demon

10:44

. Yeah , it's like you know your theory

10:46

with kids and ghosts .

10:50

Helpful ghosts are just demons demons ? Yep , I don't

10:52

think so , but all children are

10:54

all children .

10:55

Ghosts are demons I mean sometimes

10:57

children are demons you're

10:59

not wrong no

11:01

, now I get to experience that every

11:04

day with my little demons oh

11:06

, jesus , I love them though .

11:07

Yeah , I remember you guys too . Yeah

11:10

, they do . Here I'm manned and outgunned .

11:11

If they decided to go full demonic , we'd

11:14

be screwed , demon uprising . Yep

11:16

.

11:17

Yeah , so mine is more about a helpful goose

11:19

.

11:21

Hmm , let's hear about your

11:23

real-life story of fucking Casper . Fuck

11:25

off Casper wishes .

11:26

Fuck off , casper

11:28

wishes Right . So mine

11:30

doesn't take place in Japan , mine

11:32

takes place in Mexico . Oh

11:35

, nice , nice , okay . So

11:38

my story is basically about

11:40

this sir , his name was Ramon , he

11:42

was like late 30s , early

11:44

40s and he was like

11:46

the grave digger , kind of like caretaker

11:49

of , like the great graveyard in mexico

11:51

. Yeah , more specifically , I think

11:53

it was in matamoros . So matamoros

11:55

is basically like further

11:57

in mexico and it's very dangerous

12:00

. There's another story I eventually want to do about a satanic

12:02

narco cult that ran out of matamoros , but

12:05

we'll come back to that later . That's a that's a separate

12:08

episode oh yeah , definitely

12:10

gonna have to delve into that one so

12:12

, mr , so don ramon well

12:14

, not don ramon , I just call him ramon but

12:17

he was a caretaker and he like used to clean

12:19

up , like the graves , and he'd stick around throughout the day and then

12:21

he like helped whoever needed help , like cleaning

12:24

graves and all that like helping to

12:26

find like locations and stuff right right

12:28

and then they'd give them like a couple , like bucks

12:30

or some shit . So you know how , like us

12:33

dollars are worth more than mexico

12:35

dollars , right ? Yeah , so I'm gonna refer

12:37

to the mexico peso as

12:39

dollar . So just so you . So

12:43

the story takes place in like

12:45

90s , all

12:48

right , and yeah , mid

12:51

90s again . So Gotta

12:53

love the 90s . So Ramon's kid got

12:55

like really sick and he needed money for medicine . Yeah

12:58

, and , as you probably know , a lot of people in Mexico don't

13:00

have a lot of money and there's not a lot of like well-paying

13:02

jobs . So he would stick around and try to

13:04

help people out . So

13:12

he saw this old lady and she was like struggling to clean off a grave by herself . Like sweep it . So he goes over and

13:14

like he helps her out and like he's like , do you need help with anything ? Like do you need a job done or something . He's like , oh yeah , just

13:16

please . Like sweep this tomb right here and like

13:18

, like , clean it up , like make

13:21

it look nice , please , yeah . So

13:23

he's like , oh yeah , I got you , I got you

13:25

. So he ended up doing that and

13:27

she ended up giving him 300 dollars , which is 300

13:30

pesos , which is like 30 bucks

13:32

. Yeah , that's what he needed for the medicine

13:34

. And he's like , oh , thank you so much

13:36

, that helped me so much . And she's like don't thank me , I

13:39

didn't bring this to you . Like it's the dead . If

13:41

you ever need like help from them or you need to like

13:43

to ask him something , or something like that , just

13:46

light a candle for the dead and they'll help you . So

13:49

every day after that he'd light a candle and nothing would happen

13:51

. He's like this is like I don't know why I'm still

13:53

doing this . This is insane . Yeah , this

13:56

is crazy . He's like this old lady doesn't know what she's talking about

13:58

.

13:58

I'm not seeing any results . God damn it pretty

14:00

much , yeah .

14:01

So then he stopped for a while . He was like

14:03

they're not helping , they're not answering me . I

14:06

wish I keep doing it . And then a

14:08

couple years pass and then his wife gets

14:10

really , really , really sick , like

14:13

at death's door . He really needs medicine , money

14:15

, but again he's poor . He

14:17

needs about 500 pesos , which would be like 50

14:20

ish bucks . Yeah , like I

14:22

said , a lot of people in mexico don't have money , and further you

14:24

go in , the poorer people are . It's

14:27

not a very balanced system

14:29

there . So he's like you know

14:31

what , fuck it , it doesn't hurt for me to

14:33

like try it one more time . So

14:36

he lights a candle and he leaves it there and

14:38

he's just cleaning around and he's like I'm gonna stay

14:40

like later , because more people come during the night yeah

14:42

so he's cleaning

14:45

and it's about like I think it's like two or three in the

14:47

morning . He just didn't want to go home and

14:49

he sees this young guy come up like early

14:52

20s , dressed to the nine

14:54

, and like fucking gold necklaces , rings

14:56

, like fancy , like dress shirt

14:58

, like nice cowboy boots

15:00

and all that shit , and he has a cooler of beer under

15:02

his arm and he asked the guy

15:04

to instruct him where a tomb's at . He's like , oh

15:07

, it's over here . And the guy's

15:09

like , do you need money ? The

15:11

guy's like yeah . He's like , what can I do ? He's

15:16

like go clean these mausoleum over here . So just like

15:18

just kind of like context

15:21

In Mexico , narco

15:23

, people , when they die , they build them like these giant

15:26

fucking mausoleums . I think I've showed you before .

15:28

Yeah .

15:28

They're like mini apartments that have like Wi-Fi

15:30

, like fucking air conditioning , so

15:35

like when their families come down they can stay there for a bit . So Tom's like , go clean this mausoleum

15:37

for me real nice . It's like make sure it's

15:39

sparkling , it's clean , it smells nice and all that

15:41

. The guy's like

15:43

, all right , cool , I got you . So he goes and the guys just sitting there drinking

15:46

beers and they're talking and all that

15:48

. And then

15:50

the guy's like the Ramones

15:52

like all right , well , I'm going to take off my peace out . So

15:55

he's just kind of shoot the shit and he's going to take off

15:57

. And then the guy's like , well , here here's

15:59

a thousand bucks , not a thousand

16:01

pesos , a thousand bucks . Oh

16:04

damn , oh damn , yeah . So he's like here

16:06

you go . He's like thank you so much , I appreciate . It's

16:08

like it looks beautiful , like better than I've ever seen it

16:10

before . And

16:12

he's like , all right , cool . And he takes off . And

16:14

then he comes back the next day and his boss is mad . He's

16:17

like hey , come on . He's like what time did you leave

16:19

? Like like two , three in the morning , why ? It's

16:22

like somebody went into this tomb right here and

16:25

they fucking . They there's like beer

16:27

thrown all over the place , there's cans

16:29

, there's cigarettes . Like there's fucking

16:31

, there's coke . It's

16:33

like it's all right there . He's like what the fuck he's

16:36

like ? I thought you were supposed to be watching . He's like I was . I was here until

16:38

like 3 in the morning and then

16:40

the lady goes , she pulls out her phone and is like and

16:42

then the boss

16:44

says and

16:52

the Ramon describes him like how he was dressed . And

16:55

then you see , like the lady that was there , like pale , she

16:57

turns like fucking pale and starts sweating and

17:00

she quickly goes into her purse and she pulls out her phone and starts scrolling

17:02

through pictures . And she pulls out her pictures

17:04

like is this what he looked like ? And

17:07

then he's like yeah , yeah , that's him , that's the kid

17:09

. And then she goes this is my son , he

17:19

died three years years ago and that mausoleum right there that's his

17:21

mausoleum . So basically the story is how a ghost gave this guy money .

17:22

Huh , light a candle for the dead yeah

17:25

, I mean , it

17:27

just goes to show you that you

17:30

know , sometimes , uh , your beliefs

17:32

can get you kind of far , maybe , not

17:35

necessarily monetarily

17:37

far like that .

17:39

Yeah , but it's wild to think about their stories where

17:41

people they've interacted with ghosts and they don't even know

17:43

until later on , like vivid .

17:46

Well , what is it Like ? The video

17:48

that went around on YouTube . It's a Mexican

17:50

mechanic and his

17:53

boss is watching surveillance video

17:55

with him and he's having a conversation , but

17:58

there's no one there and

18:00

he's talking about a car that he's working on

18:02

and he ends up uh , his

18:04

boss radios down to him like hey , what are you doing

18:06

there ? calls him , and he you know you

18:08

can see him moving and going like oh , I'm talking to

18:11

this guy yeah and he's like , oh no

18:13

, he , uh , he's the one who died

18:15

in this car accident like fixing

18:17

his car shit , and he looks

18:19

around and yeah , it freaked him the fuck out

18:21

, because then that guy wasn't there what

18:23

the fuck yeah why is it always mexico

18:26

?

18:27

that or japan , oh yeah they always have

18:29

the trippiest fucking there's gotta be some kind of like thin

18:31

spiritual line there that allows like so much

18:33

shit to go on right ?

18:36

well , I mean , I believe people in other

18:38

countries as well are a lot more spiritual

18:41

than we are I mean if you

18:43

think about it . Yeah , we have people that you know will

18:46

say they're religious , but that's

18:48

really only jumping on the bandwagon of saying

18:50

, hey , I'm part of this group yeah

18:52

it's . It's not like other places

18:55

where faith is basically

18:57

put into them from

19:01

, you know , when they're basically born , but

19:03

it's done in a way where it's friendly and not

19:05

kind of oh yeah , this is what you're

19:07

doing , this is what you're gonna do and you're gonna fucking

19:09

lack it , type thing yeah , like there's

19:12

more forms of like different spirituality

19:14

in those religions , yeah , most definitely . Well , not religion , the cultures

19:16

, because , like spanish , they have like , like , there's more forms of like different spirituality in those religions ?

19:17

Yeah , most definitely . Well , not religion , the cultures , cause , like Spanish , they

19:20

have like Santeria

19:22

, paloma , my own Bay like

19:24

Catholicism , christianity

19:26

. It goes deep , like the same thing

19:29

for the you could be said for anything , but they

19:31

have like a deeper respect

19:33

for the spirits .

19:35

Yeah , which is a good

19:37

thing . I mean we all should yeah .

19:40

But there's a lot of people you know that I'm like well , I'm fucking

19:42

my name's Toby , I'm

19:44

going to fuck with this ghost today . Right

19:47

, I go , suck my ass . It's

19:49

shit like that . That's really annoying , Cause you see

19:51

people like , oh well , I , I could actually

19:53

want to help , like this family

19:55

that's being terrorized by this ghost . Oh , it's not actually

19:58

terrorizing them , it's like a loved one trying to help

20:00

you out .

20:01

Yeah .

20:01

Then you got to fucking . Yeah , suck my ass

20:04

. I don't know why I'm stuck on . Suck my ass

20:06

, ghost . Like fucking , fight me , ghost

20:08

, show yourself .

20:10

If you know , you're just a coward and you deserve

20:12

to die again . You're

20:15

a ghost bitch , it's like all right , Toby

20:17

, whatever , Go back under your

20:19

rock .

20:19

I felt a breeze . I felt a breeze .

20:22

No

20:24

, someone just passed wind in your direction .

20:26

Yeah , but if you watch ghost hunting shows

20:28

in Spanish , they're a lot more respectful about

20:31

that . They're like we're

20:33

going into this place . You have to be very respectful

20:35

. Don't taunt anything like , don't challenge

20:38

it , just if it's going to appear to you

20:40

.

20:40

It's going to appear to you and a lot of times it

20:42

starts popping off yeah

20:45

, I think , uh , at

20:47

least any non-malevolent

20:49

spirits will probably have a better reaction

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towards good reactions

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than you know yeah , shit talking

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, oh yeah now I did notice

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in what is it ? Uh , japanese

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and like asian ghost

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hunting videos , like their thing is

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talking shit . But it's not out of disrespect

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, it's just their reaction

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.

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I've seen that it's your

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mother bitch . Your mother bitch ghost .

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I was like jesus they run after

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him like it's insane .

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Oh yeah , they get like shit thrown at them and they're like

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what happened ? Why , what is ? I don't

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know what happened . What did I do ? And then

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they run over in the direction yeah

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, you fucker , you fucked around and you found out . That's

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what happened , right , so

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nobody's fucking stupid enough to do that . Yeah

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, yeah , or .

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Yeah , or who knows , it could

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be brave enough for them , is

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it ? It all depends on your definition

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of brave .

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They're fucking dumb is what they are .

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But you know what I

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believe ? That's all we have for you , folks , today

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.

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Yes , sir , it was a little bit of a shorter episode

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, but you kept it nice and sweet .

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Yes , so hopefully you guys enjoyed that . Again

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, I will put the telegram

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in , so join in there . Notifications

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and all that shit work a hell of a lot better

22:06

on there , so that's

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why the switch .

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Yep , yep , remember

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, guys . Light a candle for your ghost , toss a coin

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to your witcher and we will see you

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next time in Helheim . Bye

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, thank

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you .