Ghostly Moments (Compilation)

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  Tomatoes of goblins, two fables of specters. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. It's time for...

• 2:09Speaker 03

  Bob, do you have ghosts in front of you?

• 2:12Speaker 04

  In front of me?

• 2:13Speaker 03

  Is there a window in front of you or something?

• 2:15Speaker 04

  No. Are you referring to this?

• 2:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, I saw a shadowy figure. What is, what is going? It looks like a window and someone's walking by it. What is that?

• 2:26Speaker 04

  I'm in a basement. Let's be, let's be very clear about this. I'm in a basement. This is a TV that's off, that is reflective, but what it usually reflects is my monitors. And I just saw that.

• 2:37Speaker 03

  Yeah, you saw that too? Someone walked by?

• 2:40Speaker 04

  You could see my hand in the monitor, right? We could see like right here when I-

• 2:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, our angle, I can't, but I believe you.

• 2:46Speaker 03

  I swear something walked by.

• 2:47Speaker 04

  I saw that because you made me look at it right where the hat, it looked like, but what is that?

• 2:51Speaker 03

  What again? What is that?

• 2:52Speaker 05

  Well, I saw it.

• 2:54Speaker 03

  What is it?

• 2:55Speaker 04

  I'm in a basement.

• 2:56Speaker 03

  You got ghosts, man.

• 3:00Speaker 05

  What's happening?

• 3:01Speaker 04

  My monitors are all static, except for your images right now.

• 3:05Speaker 05

  Good luck putting that in a YouTube short editors.

• 3:08Speaker 03

  Man, Bob, if this is a prank, it's a good one.

• 3:10Speaker 04

  Dude, this is a prank. I'm pranking my own self here too. What the fuck is happening?

• 3:15Speaker 05

  Hey, I'll give you 20 bucks to stand in front of this light while I'm recording an episode and just walk back and forth.

• 3:20Speaker 04

  I'm in a basement. There are like basement windows, but there's no way that they're reflect, that's what's reflecting because they're covered by horizontal slats.

• 3:28Speaker 05

  It keeps happening.

• 3:30Speaker 03

  Man, I didn't mean to derail your episode, but yeah.

• 3:33Speaker 04

  No fucking idea what that-

• 3:35Speaker 05

  Well, what, what's reflecting right now in that top part? Like what is that green line?

• 3:39Speaker 04

  I don't know. Watch right here, right? You can see my hand shadow right there. That's my hand in front of my monitors. What is up? Wait, I can obstruct that?

• 3:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 3:52Speaker 04

  It's a, I, I don't have an explanation for that.

• 3:56Speaker 03

  I think there's someone hiding behind your monitor. I think that's the only thing.

• 4:01Speaker 04

  The only other thing in my office that emits light is I have a, over there up high, I have a computer, but it's purple. It's all purple lighting inside my computer. It's not green.

• 4:12Speaker 03

  All the listeners are shaking their steering wheel.

• 4:17Speaker 05

  Listeners, there's a TV that looks like someone's moving in front of a reflection in it. There you go. You're welcome.

• 4:23Speaker 04

  It honestly looks like someone is walking back and forth in front of the reflection. I'm alone in a basement. I don't know what to tell you.

• 4:30Speaker 05

  Are you?

• 4:31Speaker 04

  Okay, I hope so. I don't know.

• 4:33Speaker 05

  Oh, they walked the other way.

• 4:35Speaker 04

  It did go the other way. I saw that. If a face appears and stays there, maybe we'll talk to it. Maybe that'll be the episode. I don't like that. I don't like that. Oh, this is not a big thing, but it's preparation.

• 4:47Speaker 05

  Okay, so the day the mountain swallowed, I want you all to close your eyes, okay? Imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine, imagine.

• 4:53Speaker 03

  I went searching for the truth and like a fool, I found it. But some truths are best left undiscovered.

• 5:04Speaker 07

  Well, I turned around and there it was.

• 5:08Speaker 07

  Bigger than I could have imagined.

• 5:10Speaker 03

  The hikers claim that when they turned around, it seemed as though their friend had simply vanished.

• 5:15Speaker 07

  When I turned around, my whole farm was gone. I don't believe in ghosts, but when I turned around, I couldn't explain what I was seeing.

• 5:26Speaker 03

  This is Morbid Mysteries of the Missing Millennium.

• 5:31Speaker 03

  Viewer discretion is advised.

• 5:35Speaker 04

  If I swallowed this right now and die, will you give me the point? That's worth at least two points, I guess, yeah. Everyone pull over to the side of the road. You gotta watch this one.

• 5:46Speaker 07

  Oh, big gulp. I'm dead.

• 5:51Speaker 04

  That's two points to mark, I guess.

• 5:53Speaker 05

  Jesus, I'm getting railroaded here, man. Well, thankfully he can't compete for any more points now, right?

• 5:58Speaker 04

  If he comes back to life, he loses the two points, just to be clear.

• 6:01Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 6:01Speaker 04

  Anyway, interesting discussion. I think. Hey, what's up, guys? Back from the afterlife here. Want to finish this episode out strong? I'm gonna cross out dead and take those two points away real quick. Can I get one point? I'm a ghost, man. All right, I'll give you one ghost point. Okay, cool. You hear my echoey voice and everything? Editors, don't do any of this. Just make him live with what he's done. No, please. I sign your checks. That's not even true. None of us sign shit. You're right, but I can.

• 6:26Speaker 03

  All the person who does.

• 6:28Speaker 04

  I I know them too. I have their number two. I'll call them and tell them not to listen to Mark. You don't even worry about it.

• 6:34Speaker 03

  All right, fine.

• 6:35Speaker 04

  We have to talk about a very important topic. I want you to use science. I want you to use mysticism. I want you to use personal beliefs regardless of facts shown to you. I want you to use whatever methods necessary for you to discuss the important topic of are ghosts real?

• 6:55Speaker 03

  No, final answer.

• 6:56Speaker 04

  All right, episode over.

• 6:57Speaker 03

  All right, thank you, everybody.

• 6:58Speaker 04

  Mark wins because he answered first. Thank you for listening to the podcast. Uh, make sure that you watch it on Spotify. No, well, so we can talk about this from several different perspectives. Thing number one that I have that I enjoy is ghost hunting, both the TV shows that exist around ghost hunting and the actual devices that you use to go ghost hunting, like EMF readers and and sound talk boxes or whatever they're called and all the different little tools that you use to try and detect the presence of ghost. All that stuff is very entertaining and hilarious and bunk. Do you guys believe in any of that stuff? That it works, that it means anything?

• 7:33Speaker 05

  No.

• 7:34Speaker 03

  Those shows, no. It is interesting that they would believe that it does. Because if you, even if you watch this as a show, the EMF thing with like the radio where it cycles through and it grabs like, they'll be like, a word came through. And I'm like, yeah, you're going through radio signal, the spirit box, the spirit box.

• 7:52Speaker 05

  EMF's the little light that like electromagnetic field detector.

• 7:55Speaker 03

  Yeah, but it's just so funny to me because it's like, yeah, this thing, what it does is it cycles through the radio frequencies that are passing through.

• 8:03Speaker 04

  Yeah, it picks up words that are broadcast into this realm.

• 8:07Speaker 05

  But what happens whenever you ask it a question like, what do you want? And you hear apple. And it's like, clearly the ghost wants an apple.

• 8:13Speaker 03

  And you hear, my hips, love. And it's like, and you're, oh, Darren's Lauren. I heard that.

• 8:21Speaker 04

  It's, I used to watch those ghost hunting shows quite a bit. They're very funny.

• 8:24Speaker 03

  They're so entertaining. They are edited in a way that just never gets to a conclusion, ever. And it's like straight through the, like, it goes up to the commercial break. It does. It's not even a cliffhanger. It's just a constantly building like, and then this happened. They circle back to the same clip of like a little dot going through with a circle on it. And then the circle's bigger and then it closer to the circle. And it's like, I can stretch that out for 10 minutes.

• 8:46Speaker 04

  And the sound, dude, the sound stingers they use. Oh, my God. It's a black and white infrared shot of a door that's already open that just goes.

• 8:57Speaker 07

  And then I saw that the door was open. Show the clip again.

• 9:02Speaker 07

  And I don't remember opening the door. And they put in the squeak sound effect. Yeah, I love those shows like.

• 9:10Speaker 04

  No, and it's like a Dane Cook joke too. Some of those two, they'll, they'll be in a room and they'll, the door will move or whatever thing falls over. And they're like, Gary, Gary was downstick. Gary, come up here. Gary's got the EMF. Gary, come up here. A minute and a half ago, did you get anything like, well, yeah, no, I got like a three, like a three out of five on this, uh, reader thing. Why did something happen up here? He got a three out of five.

• 9:34Speaker 04

  It's like they're all through the house and it's like, I was, I was in the basement using the dividing rods. You were in the upstairs with the dolls. I don't know why, cause it's also painfully boring. Cause you just know, you watch a show, you know, the formula and you're like, oh, after the commercial, they're just gonna come back and circle back to that one thing that happened. But I have to see it cause I wanna see them all get so excited about it. All right. So this has happened a couple of times in my life, but specifically last night we were in a hotel. Um, we just got back from traveling today. Last night at like 11:30 PM isn't too late, but we have a baby. So he was already asleep for a couple of hours at this point. At 11:30 PM, some like kids, some like middle school kids were staying in the hotel, I think.

• 10:14Speaker 04

  But they just slammed our door. Like we were staying in a hotel. The door was locked with all the extra security locks. And then we're just sitting, Manny and I were sort of laying in bed, like talking, kind of falling asleep. And it was just like.

• 10:29Speaker 04

  And like I heard feet, footsteps running away, right? Like I know that a human did it. But that shit has happened to me multiple times. How many people slam doors in hotels? Are I just really unlucky?

• 10:39Speaker 05

  That's never happened to me.

• 10:40Speaker 04

  It was scary.

• 10:41Speaker 05

  I've heard, I've had noisy people in a hotel, but I don't think they've ever slammed into my door. The box is waving at us, everybody. Hi, box.

• 10:48Speaker 03

  That's horrifying. What is happening to that box?

• 10:51Speaker 04

  Hi, box. Hi. Okay. You stay back there. Don't, don't attack me while we're recording.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  Unless that'd be great footage.

• 10:57Speaker 03

  I, I don't like that.

• 10:59Speaker 04

  Manny's actually just off screen right now, just doing that. At some point she's just gonna lurch out, tackle me.

• 11:04Speaker 03

  Okay. So, um, hi, welcome to Distractible.

• 11:10Speaker 03

  I assume that it has started already. When, when did we start? The haunted box really threw me. We're not gonna talk about why that's doing that. If you're watching this on Spotify, you're seeing it, but you're seeing it and like just you got really squint and hold your phone really close up to your face.

• 11:25Speaker 04

  Yeah, it's probably small on your phone. It's fine. It's fine. Don't worry about it.

• 11:29Speaker 03

  Totally fine.

• 11:30Speaker 04

  Will won't zoom in on that or anything at any point. It's, it's just not a big deal.

• 11:34Speaker 03

  You were right. Thank you for admitting it.

• 11:38Speaker 04

  I thought, I thought that we were just having a goof and it was just a joke for an episode. Our new house is haunted.

• 11:47Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 11:48Speaker 04

  Our new house. So my, Mandy's parents live 20 minutes away from our new house, right? So we're, it's in Ohio. We still, we're still in California right now. So they're like watching the place, right? They go over there.

• 12:01Speaker 03

  The new house is haunted.

• 12:02Speaker 04

  The new, the new house we don't live in yet is already haunted. They go over there and they like make sure everything's good. Make sure, you know, whatever. They just check on the house just to make sure. And so this is the garage. Let's get a show on my phone. Wow, that's hideous. There we go. This is like a hatch like into the attic of the garage, right?

• 12:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 12:21Speaker 04

  They went over there one day and they sent us, they like panicked, sent us some text messages and we're like, something, something moved in the house. We think someone's been in the house. I can't, we can't tell. It's weird. It doesn't seem like any, no, there's no break in, but look.

• 12:38Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 12:40Speaker 04

  Look, they sent that like a week ago, maybe, or a week, a while ago now. And on that day, they sent that and we were like, whoa, what the hell? Did the previous owners like leave something in the attic in the garage and they came back and broke into the house? Like they had a key or something and got in or what? We don't know. Like what happened?

• 13:00Speaker 03

  But for those listening at home.

• 13:02Speaker 04

  Sorry, listeners.

• 13:06Speaker 04

  Good idea, Mark.

• 13:07Speaker 03

  I wouldn't even tell him. The first picture was like, you know, it's an attic access. So you push up on it and it slides. It's just a big piece of wood.

• 13:16Speaker 04

  And then you climb in the hole into the attic.

• 13:18Speaker 03

  The first picture was closed and sealed. The second picture was slightly askew with gaps where I could see the darkness beyond.

• 13:28Speaker 05

  But it looks like, so I, correct me if I'm wrong, it looks like in order to move it, you have to lift up and twist it. This isn't just a panel that like can shift on itself. It used to be push up, right?

• 13:37Speaker 04

  It's supposed to be set into a thing where you push up and it goes into the attic. Yes.

• 13:42Speaker 05

  So it looks like, like my first thought was, okay, a raccoon or something. But a raccoon's gonna cross it wouldn't lift it up necessarily unless they dug at it.

• 13:49Speaker 04

  Right. And there is a ladder in the garage. According to our, uh, parents, they, they, they left a ladder or something. I think. They went back to the house today.

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• 14:35Speaker 04

  It's the same hatch, more tilted open.

• 14:41Speaker 05

  Oh, did they reset it when they saw it last time?

• 14:43Speaker 04

  No, so this is on the ceiling of like a pretty high garage, right? The garage is like 12 foot. It's like a tall garage door. So they couldn't reach it and, and they're not trying to climb up on a ladder or something. They just, so they left it from the, they left it in this condition here where it's very slightly tilted open. That was a, like a week ago-ish. That was a while ago. They went back today and it's open by like a few more inches.

• 15:08Speaker 03

  It's way more open.

• 15:10Speaker 04

  Your, your reflections are showing in my phone. Hey guys, how's it going?

• 15:15Speaker 05

  I can see the latency.

• 15:17Speaker 04

  So the house is haunted, you bastards.

• 15:19Speaker 03

  That's haunted. That is haunted.

• 15:21Speaker 05

  It doesn't look light. It looks like it's got some weight to it.

• 15:23Speaker 04

  No, it's like made of wood. It's got a metal, like around the edge, just metal for like the seal. Got a handle on it. It looks like it would, it wouldn't be like hard to open, but you would have to climb up a ladder and like. And move it out of the way to get into the attic.

• 15:38Speaker 05

  That thing's gonna be out and falling and breaking on the floor soon.

• 15:41Speaker 03

  So it's either a ghost or someone lives in that attic.

• 15:47Speaker 04

  I thought, that's what I thought it was, if I'm honest. I thought they sold the house and didn't tell, uh, Crenfield, the guy who lives in the attic? And then like, he came out for his monthly trip to the grocery store and was like, guys? Oh no. Oh god, they forgot about Crenfield.

• 16:07Speaker 05

  So 4th of July, I went over to my mom's and we like, my family came over and we had like a little get together for 4th of July. And we had a weird event where we were sitting around talking and one of my like mom and sister's dogs went and like was chewing on, they grow like their own like herbs and vegetables and stuff in their backyard. And the dog went and like started chewing on one of those. And like mid-sentence, like we were talking to my mom and my sister, my mom just starts yelling, Jalapeno, jalapeno, jalapeno! And we're like, okay. We were talking about like cameras, mom, what the hell, what just happened? And she's like, well, it's hot. I was like, excuse me? It's what we yell to the dogs to get them to stop eating stuff they're not supposed to, because jalapenos are hot.

• 16:47Speaker 05

  I was like, you trained them on a jalapeno, a four syllable word to tell them to stop? Or hot? And they're like, well, no, we didn't train them. So why do you yell jalapeno?

• 16:58Speaker 04

  Guess the dog knows jalapenos are spicy and the dogs don't like spicy food.

• 17:04Speaker 05

  But the dog doesn't know jalapeno. It's just as fucking shocked as we are that my mom goes from talking calmly and normally to screaming jalapeno like she's being murdered in the backyard.

• 17:16Speaker 04

  We trained our dog to react to me screaming nonsense words out of nowhere very hysterically. It always works.

• 17:24Speaker 05

  Because it's just so shocking. My mom will be like, oh yeah, that's cool. You know, jalapeno, jalapeno! And um, I thought she was being possessed by a demon because, did we do an episode since I went ghost hunting?

• 17:37Speaker 04

  No, no.

• 17:38Speaker 05

  Wait, you went ghost hunting?

• 17:40Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 17:40Speaker 05

  No. I did go ghost hunting. I don't know if that video will be out yet. We're actually waiting on a cameo from a uh, expert in the field to fully edit the video. Look forward to that. But I went ghost hunting down at Bob Mackey's, which is in Newport, Kentucky. It's like a bar that uh, has a history of like being owned by the mob and people being uh, interrogated in the basement and other such events. We went down there and uh, filmed some stuff. And uh, nobody would do the Ouija board with me, except for D Live. Everybody was afraid, like even non-believers were like, uh, Ouija board. Which I don't get it. What is so special about a Ouija? Like you'll get a spirit box, you'd be like, ghost, show yourself, give me, pinch me.

• 18:19Speaker 04

  Suck my balls, ghost.

• 18:21Speaker 05

  Punch me, ghost. But if you touch a Ouija board, you're like, what is your name? They're like, oh, don't ask that. Not on a Ouija board.

• 18:29Speaker 04

  That's.

• 18:29Speaker 05

  And the Ouija boards like says fucking Parker Brothers on the bottom, so it's a goddamn kid's toy. But for some reason, it's the scariest ghost hunting device, and I don't understand it.

• 18:39Speaker 04

  It's cuz they're real, Wade. Okay, the rest of that stuff is technological gobble gobble. Ouija boards are made of wood and like, plastic and glass and whatever. And it's just real. It's just the spirits reaching out and sending you a message, okay?

• 18:53Speaker 05

  People are walking around with their holy water, their cameras, their EMF readers, all the other devices, and they're like, ghost, pinch me, throw a table at me, do something. And I'm like, what year were you born? They're like, oh, you fucking fool, that's a Ouija board. So we wrap up and we're coming home and I was like, hey, can you guys carry this out? I was like packing up equipment. I was like trying to get someone to carry the Ouija board. No, no one would touch it. My sister went with this and she was like, um, I'm not taking that back home with me cuz it was their Ouija board. She's like, you can have it. So I brought the Ouija board back and now I own a Ouija board that everyone thinks is possessed by a demon. And when my mom started fucking screaming jalapeno, I was like, oh my god, they were right. She's possessed.

• 19:35Speaker 04

  You look over at the window and the Ouija board is pressed up against the window and the thing is just frantically pointing at yes, the Ouija board is all yes, yes, yes.

• 19:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, um, but that was the only thing that could possibly have explained jalapeno till she was told me what the hell was going on. But ghost hunting, man, is it more expensive than I thought? And it's like four or five hours of being in a very uncomfortable building uncomfortably with not much happening.

• 20:00Speaker 03

  Maybe it's because you got a cheap Parker Brothers one and not an actual authentic.

• 20:04Speaker 05

  I thought that was authentic. Is there a, is there a brand of authentic Ouija board?

• 20:08Speaker 04

  Real Ouija boards are hand hewn by Monsieur Ouija himself, obviously.

• 20:14Speaker 03

  They only come from the Ouija part of France.

• 20:17Speaker 04

  Yeah, everyone knows that. You were using a sparkling board.

• 20:22Speaker 04

  That joke really landed.

• 20:25Speaker 05

  It's the same board that we use for Drowned Man.

• 20:27Speaker 04

  Oh, well, then you know it works.

• 20:29Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's extracursed.

• 20:31Speaker 04

  So you're gonna burn that house down now that you moved into the new one?

• 20:33Speaker 03

  The fiery man!

• 20:35Speaker 05

  I don't want to be the fiery man. Please don't wish that upon me.

• 20:39Speaker 03

  Yeah. Oh, no, no. What's other disaster is funniest? What disaster would be funniest to befall you?

• 20:45Speaker 04

  The gas leak man!

• 20:47Speaker 05

  Yeah! Dude, I just had propane work done. Don't wish that upon me.

• 20:52Speaker 03

  The carbon monoxide poisoning man!

• 20:56Speaker 04

  The bad grading man. All the water's gonna drain right up against your foundation.

• 21:01Speaker 05

  Oh!

• 21:02Speaker 04

  Your basement's gonna be so moist!

• 21:04Speaker 05

  The sinkhole man!

• 21:06Speaker 04

  Ooh, that one sounds dangerous.

• 21:08Speaker 05

  No. Oh, the other ones are safe?

• 21:10Speaker 04

  Yeah, probably. I don't know.

• 21:11Speaker 05

  I don't like any of this shit for the record.

• 21:13Speaker 04

  You know what's gonna be cursed is your car. You ever get a car? That's where it's gonna be.

• 21:18Speaker 05

  Well, I've beat them to the punch. If you don't have one, they can't curse.

• 21:21Speaker 03

  The semi man.

• 21:23Speaker 04

  The crashed man. The crushed man. Well, that sounds violent.

• 21:28Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. The, the fired man sounds so less violent.

• 21:31Speaker 04

  But you could run away from a fire if you're, if you're crushed, what are you gonna do? Uncrush yourself? I don't know.

• 21:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, all the people that have died in fires, they just didn't run fast enough.

• 21:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, idiots. Obviously, you just run away from it. Fire can't be that fast.

• 21:45Speaker 05

  Silly, silly.

• 21:46Speaker 03

  I have something I want to play for you. Have you ever felt a chill up your spine?

• 21:52Speaker 07

  I don't know, man. Something just feels off.

• 21:54Speaker 03

  Like you know there's something standing right behind you, but you just can't turn around.

• 22:00Speaker 07

  Cut it out, man. You're giving me the creeps.

• 22:02Speaker 03

  What if I told you that the world was stranger than you could ever possibly imagine?

• 22:08Speaker 07

  I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't believe in ghosts. But something just feels weird.

• 22:20Speaker 03

  Welcome to unusual oddities of an unreal understanding.

• 22:28Speaker 05

  Unusual oddities of an unreal understanding. I enjoy the reference back to turning around and ghosts.

• 22:38Speaker 05

  Of course. Can't believe you would interrupt that. I put so much work into that and you just interrupted? Yes. Interrupt the 15 second interlude in that song?

• 22:46Speaker 07

  Will, cut him out.

• 22:47Speaker 05

  Yeah, yeah, cut him out of there.

• 22:50Speaker 03

  No, Amy was literally like, oh my God, in that gap, they're gonna start talking in there because they're gonna think it's over. Well, yeah, there is unnecessarily long pause. That that that huh is 50 seconds long. I don't know why in that song. I made that literally in between the break. I told you I was gonna get food. I skipped food to make that.

• 23:12Speaker 07

  I don't know, man. Stop it, man. You're giving me the creeps. Like sox, man. Oh my God, they never miss. Mark, how is that such a skill you possess? They're literally all bangers. I don't understand. I don't believe in ghosts.

• 23:27Speaker 04

  Cards on the table. I found this in a Cracked article titled, "The Seven Most Ridiculous Ghost Stories From Around The World", and I read it passively while I was brainstorming ideas for this episode. But I came across this ghost and I had to tell you all about the Hantu to tech. So just to give you the background, the legend has it, the Hantu to tech is a female spirit apparition ghost, some say a witch, a Balinese witch, with an unimaginably enormous rack.

• 23:59Speaker 04

  This ghost's purpose is only to float around and smother disobedient young men to death with her shocking bazooms. Guys might hear that and be like, "Pfft, alright, if I have to die." This is not like some anime fantasy girl is gonna show up and come fulfill all your dreams or whatever. Hantu tateks are described in a lot of ways, generally they're described as being very large or extremely obese, decrepit, looking like deathly old woman sort of look. But the real absolute banger of all of this is the hilariously large fun bags are in

• 24:39Speaker 04

  the spookiest location, not in the front where regular boobs go. They're located on the ghost's back. No. Yes, the spookiest place to have boobs, obviously. That's terrifying. Back boobs sound kinda nice to me. But anyway, this ghost comes from Malaysian culture and actually recently had quite the stir up. In February of 2021, had quite to come up on Twitter. The account @BunginBerry, I have no idea what inspired this person to do this, but they posted some sketches of what they thought this ghost looked like. And Twitter couldn't decide if they were gonna be horny about it or terrified about it. And they basically went with both.

• 25:22Speaker 04

  A lot of the responses were dudes just being like, "Oh, how do I summon a little Hantu tatek? I want some of this in my..." And a lot of them were like, "I would not mess with this ghost."

• 25:33Speaker 03

  Well, I mean, if it's a ghost, is it really actually gonna be able to physically interact with you? It seems to suggest it might be some sort of poltergeist instead of just a ghost.

• 25:42Speaker 04

  Yeah, I mean, the descriptions are vague. This is an old... It comes from Malaysia. I am not Malaysian, I don't know if you can tell from my appearance or... You know, all the information you know about me, but like, it's hard to find a lot online. I'll show you all of the links I found online. I will put in the discord so you can look. Who knows how it uses the boobs to suffocate you? I don't want to find out.

• 26:07Speaker 03

  Being crushed to death is not a good-

• 26:09Speaker 05

  Volunteer's tribute.

• 26:10Speaker 03

  Okay, never mind. I would deduct points from you, Wade.

• 26:14Speaker 05

  We all gotta go sometime, man. If you're gonna go, you might as well enjoy it.

• 26:17Speaker 03

  No, that's the exact logic that the stupid people are getting. You're getting crushed to death. It doesn't matter if it's between backmams or frontmams.

• 26:25Speaker 05

  I survived 2020, maybe I'll survive the back boobs too. You never know.

• 26:28Speaker 03

  It's just like, I don't get how that's an appealing death.

• 26:31Speaker 05

  What is an appealing death?

• 26:33Speaker 03

  You're getting smooshed between humongoid boobaloo's.

• 26:37Speaker 04

  So I will say, uh, you guys, I don't know what pictures you've looked up exactly. Uh, let me find the one. This website has some good imagery that really might swing your opinion about, it's not in English. And I couldn't get it to translate. It's from the Wayback Machine, but there are some images that I feel like might really swing your opinion about whether or not you want to get smothered to death by those big old headlights. The top one's a little more childish, a little cartoony.

• 27:09Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 27:09Speaker 04

  But if you get to the bottom there, you really get more to the meat of what I think a hauntu to tech looks like. Cause anime has taught us that boobs grow as like spheres or something.

• 27:21Speaker 03

  Perfectly spherical. We all know this.

• 27:23Speaker 04

  Not how boobs work. I had to break it to you.

• 27:26Speaker 05

  I've never seen anything quite like that, though.

• 27:29Speaker 04

  They really are like scarves or like snakes even.

• 27:33Speaker 03

  Uh, see, the problem is like, I, I disagree fundamentally that bigger is always better when it comes to boobs. Like, uh, like, a- and to be perfectly honest, I am a, I shouldn't just be making big declaratives about judgment of boobs, you know, in general.

• 27:47Speaker 05

  Hey, I agree with your disagreement. I think that, uh, any size can be very ni- I'm gonna get myself in trouble, man. I'm a married man.

• 27:54Speaker 03

  Well, I didn't say bigger, bigger may not be better, but I didn't say bigger was worse. You know what I mean?

• 27:58Speaker 05

  No, I agree. I don't, I think it, uh, each titty deserves to be judged on its own merits.

• 28:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 28:04Speaker 04

  Why do titties have to be judged? Why are you judging?

• 28:07Speaker 03

  Yeah, why they gotta be judging?

• 28:08Speaker 05

  There it's it's it's like the they're all it's always a positive. Fuck, fuck, I'm in trouble. Go ahead.

• 28:14Speaker 04

  But yeah, look, so this is an interesting topic. It stirs a lot of different emotions about general horniness, a general discussion of like death, but death in a way that's sort of comical. But like, does that make it better? The thing that I find really messed up about this saggy specter, gotta work in my name.

• 28:31Speaker 03

  Nice, nice.

• 28:32Speaker 04

  At least to some extent, it comes, from my understanding, comes from parents using this to scare their young male children into behaving themselves. This isn't just like some goat, like I could totally imagine someone creative coming up with this character, some adult or whatever, someone over, you know, teenager, older, coming up with this and be like, ah, big tits and stuff. Ah, it's a scary, funny ghost. This was used by adults to influence children. And like, I was a young boy once, right? And if my parents had described the giggity ghost to me as being very old and grotesque and scary looking with back boobies, it was confusing. I would probably be scared, but like, young boys are really horny.

• 29:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:16Speaker 04

  And I would definitely at least have toyed around with the idea of like, how much do I misbehave to just get a like a little threatening smoosh without actually being smothered to death? Like, where's the line?

• 29:28Speaker 03

  Just get slapped with one tit, you know, like it's it's it's a tough slap, but you know, it's more disciplinary. I just posted a picture in Discord of something I found about the hun to tech.

• 29:39Speaker 04

  Oh, man.

• 29:40Speaker 03

  Yeah, might lean a little more on the horror side of things.

• 29:44Speaker 05

  That one I definitely lean a that that that one would be one that would work.

• 29:47Speaker 03

  Yeah, when it's 50% nipple and yeah, if you're listening at home, you can find, maybe, find this on the distractible podcast website, either that or we will do a faithful recreation of it, or it won't exist at all.

• 30:03Speaker 04

  Unless we don't need a special license to post it. I don't know.

• 30:06Speaker 03

  Exactly. But yeah, no, that doesn't look good. Sidebar, there's a whole discussion to be had of like the sexualization of breasts in general, you know, the stigma behind it and all that stuff. But for you guys, not even the nice pictures do anything for me. I don't look at this creature and I'm like, well, maybe if I saw this and I I wasn't sure it was just a person that needed help, I would be running and screaming as fast and as loud as I possibly could.

• 30:36Speaker 07

  Yeah, I don't think this is exactly what I would be fantasizing about ever.

• 30:39Speaker 04

  I mean, I think you're right, but also like your parents described this to you, or maybe you see it. And it, I think I agree. I would not see an image of any of these things in real life and be like, yeah, let's see where this goes. All right, this is my last one, but I gotta work it in. I would come upon this flabbergasted phantasm.

• 30:57Speaker 07

  That's another point, right? That's another point, yeah!

• 30:59Speaker 04

  And I would be absolutely shocked and running like you're describing. But in my mind, like this is, you know, it's kind of embarrassing to think about and admit, but in my mind, I know I would have fantasies about this. You can't throw something that like sexual and, I mean, it's not sexual, but the boobs, like at least in, in the culture I came up in, boobs were sexual, then everything was like this weird, I would twist it into a fantasy of like, oh yeah, that's pretty hot, actually, like, you know, what, that's how, that's how young boys' minds work. And maybe part of this is that Malaysian culture is different. Maybe boobs are not as sexualized by the culture. Maybe it's a whole different thing. Maybe this is terrifying and I just don't understand it.

• 31:40Speaker 04

  It's possible. But I just think that would made, and that would have made it for some really messed up childhood, like fantasies and thought. It's just a weird angle to go for keeping your kids in line. There's gotta be better ghosts and things to use to scare your kids into behaving right.

• 31:58Speaker 05

  But Wade here, ready to pick it back up and, uh, bring it back! I'm looking at this like wheel of emotions and they've got different colors associated with them. But the three main colors are like red, yellow and blue, but red, yellow and blue are kind of somewhat closer together. And then they've got green across from red, which is a little bit weird. And for the life of me, I cannot figure out why in the world it's designed that way instead of having red, yellow and blue equidistant from each other. And I'm just curious why green gets like two shades of green and a light blue. But red and blue just have one pink between them. Uh, red and yellow just have one orange between them. And I don't know why green gets so much love on this list.

• 32:39Speaker 07

  Are you trying to distract me?

• 32:41Speaker 05

  Huh? What do you mean? Oh, is that on the list? That's crazy!

• 32:47Speaker 04

  I've never been more focused on anything in my entire life. Are you kidding me?

• 32:52Speaker 07

  Oh my god. For those who weren't watching for that moment, there is no words I could describe. Except yes, I have words to describe.

• 33:02Speaker 05

  Oh, uh, sorry, my little weird paper towel ball?

• 33:07Speaker 04

  Yeah, I'll try to describe it, listeners. Wade sat with his face barely in the shot, and that's why he sounded so distant. And then he was just waving a weird, crumpled up paper towel in and out of the other side of the shot the whole time he was talking about the colors.

• 33:23Speaker 05

  Oh, man. Mark said this was the best episode ever. I had to give it my all to do. I don't like to admit it to anyone, but yes, I paid this man $60 to come to my house so I could smell his fingers on my birthday. Oh, did you? Yes, three separate times I smelled this man's fingers. Three times? That's a little strange. And none of the times did his fingers smell like maple syrup. They were ba- it got way from bad to worse. The mystery thickens. You know, and there were only two pipes you rubbed on, so I really, I honest, I swear to God, I don't know what the third one was that I smelled, but they were all bad. I don't mean to say it, but have you thought about a Canadian ghost? Like? I hadn't. There are a lot of Canadian ghost refugees in Ohio. Are you, are you, is your house on a Canadian burial ground? Is this, like, I, I just gotta ask?

• 34:08Speaker 05

  Yes, people do. They, they, uh, they have their pilgrimage from Canada to Cincinnati to bury their loved ones where I live quite often.

• 34:16Speaker 04

  I feel it.

• 34:16Speaker 05

  I had an experience in Phasmophobia the other day. So Phasmophobia had this new map and new game mode. They had Nightmare Mode, a new map called The Campsite. And in The Campsite, there's this campfire. And sitting by the campfire is just like an acoustic guitar laying against like one of the chairs. And immediately, all I could think of is like, mm, campfire guitar guy. Don't want to be campfire guitar guy. Don't want to be that one guy. And, uh, I was hunting this ghost, forget what the ghost's name was, but, uh, one of the audio clues is to figure out where it was. It randomly played the guitar, like it just strummed it. So I heard the guitar play. And I was like, you gotta be fucking kidding me. We actually have a campfire guitar guy ghost. And I jokingly said that it was a yokai. And yokais are the ghosts that get angry and are more likely to hunt if you're talking and using your microphone. It can hear you and it gets more agitated and more likely to hunt. Sure. And I said that because I was like, well, if there's one thing that campfire guitar

• 35:01Speaker 05

  guy doesn't want, it doesn't want people talking while they're trying to steal the show and have all eyes on them. And it ended up being a yokai. But it made me think of the that one guy campfire guitar guy. Not to point any fingers at anybody that I know, but I do know a Couple of campfire guitar guys that carried around guitars or carry around guitars and uh, not necessarily did it for the whole same reasons as the stereotype. But I definitely think of like, you know, you watch a movie and there's a stereotypical guy that, you know, people are sitting on the beach and they're all having a fun conversation. Someone's just like, "Oh, by the way, uh, we play Wonderwall for you." And they pull out their acoustic guitar out of nowhere. And everyone has to stop talking and just put their eyes on campfire guitar guy, who was miraculously not wearing a shirt, you know, hair drooped down to their shoulders, muscly playing their guitar. And everyone's just like, "Well, we were talking and having a good time.

• 35:46Speaker 05

  I guess we'll just stare at you now." And I got that ghost and phasmophobia, but that's another that one guy.

• 35:52Speaker 05

  No? No campfire guitar guys?

• 35:53Speaker 04

  I've never experienced that in real life, ever.

• 35:56Speaker 03

  No, you, you talk about campfire guitar guy way more than anyone has ever experienced campfire guitar guy? Cause I, I know this is a thing that you tell, you're campfire guitar guy talking about campfire guitar guy guy. You literally mentioned campfire guitar guy.

• 36:12Speaker 04

  He's real.

• 36:12Speaker 03

  Any turn. I remember when I was trying to, I was playing the guitar like for the tour and I was like, "Yeah, I'm trying to improve and better myself." And you're like, "Oh, here comes campfire guitar guy with his guitar." I think you just hate people that play guitar.

• 36:25Speaker 05

  I might, maybe. I think I do.

• 36:32Speaker 04

  Jesus, I didn't, I shouldn't have put my desk up and standing, but I was just fucking fell over.

• 36:37Speaker 03

  Oh my god.

• 36:39Speaker 05

  This image is a guy, uh, with his hands up in fist form with his chin resting, eyes closed, and the fart genie is leaving his armpit.

• 36:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, imagine the statue of the thinker. Yeah.

• 36:52Speaker 04

  The man is pulling a double thinker.

• 36:54Speaker 03

  Why is he grabbing his head like that?

• 36:56Speaker 05

  Wants to make sure he doesn't look back here to see what's going on, you know?

• 37:02Speaker 05

  This guy's like, "You don't want to see what I'm about to do, bro."

• 37:06Speaker 03

  Oh, wow.

• 37:07Speaker 04

  I feel like this, this one's such a peculiar image. It'll, it must be obvious.

• 37:12Speaker 03

  It's the most trash bag like ghost I've ever seen.

• 37:19Speaker 04

  It's like someone saw one of those online tutorials like all you need is some chicken wire and paper mache and you can make a ghost decoration for your front yard for Halloween. And then they tried to make it and they got this.

• 37:30Speaker 05

  Maybe it's the angle, but like the face of the ghost does not look like it could possibly be this dude's face.

• 37:36Speaker 03

  This gave me an idea because I'm going to get back into learning Korean as soon as I'm done with this frigging movie. These would be great for flashcards.

• 37:43Speaker 04

  This would be great for flashcards for Korean.

• 37:45Speaker 03

  Because for flashcards, what's really good, if you have image flashcards is getting images that are memorable, but also completely unique. I don't think that there's anything more unique than this. And if you can even relate, even somehow relate it to a word or a sentence, that'd be very good for that. All right, I'm a blaze, you tell me if you hear it. Isn't something smell a little off to you? It's too loud?

• 38:09Speaker 04

  It's a little loud, but yeah, I do hear it.

• 38:13Speaker 03

  Back up, pretend you didn't hear that.

• 38:16Speaker 03

  Here we go. Ready? Are you ready?

• 38:18Speaker 05

  No, don't do it again.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  Isn't something smell a little off to you? Hey, do you smell something? Well, that's a weird smell. I don't know what it is. Have you ever felt the chill run up your spine? It was like something trapped me on the shoulder, but when I turned around. Get ready to forget everything you know about everything. Guys, I'm still smelling something weird. A whole city of people just turning round and round endlessly. All right, if someone doesn't say they're smelling what I'm smelling, I swear I'm. Oh my God. What happened to the moon? You expect me to believe we're surrounded by gases that we cannot see? I know what clouds look like. Those aren't clouds!

• 39:02Speaker 03

  Welcome to the show that was formerly known as Don't Look Up, but we were sued by some dumbass in a movie studio. This is It's in the Air. Viewer discretion is advised.

• 39:21Speaker 07

  So. So. When I told you I was late because I was working on a thing.

• 39:31Speaker 05

  Mark, it's so good.

• 39:32Speaker 07

  That's great. Sorry, it was so loud. I tried to do a hack to get it to play for you guys. Pretty sure.

• 39:39Speaker 05

  Yeah, Mark was late to the recording today because he was working on this. I think I'm understanding why Iron Lung's taking a while.

• 39:46Speaker 04

  Damn.

• 39:47Speaker 07

  Look, guys, I'm not gonna lie.

• 39:49Speaker 05

  He spent three days on this.

• 39:52Speaker 07

  So I'm not gonna lie. I spent so long working on this this morning, I didn't come up with an idea for the episode. I didn't this because I was like, ah, I'm gonna bring up the small thing during small talk. This will be a funny way to do it because I haven't done one these in a while. And I had a bunch of, I had a bunch of problems with the software because I haven't done it on this computer in a while. And so I had to, I had to reinstall DaVinci and all my software. So. Anyway, did you?

• 40:24Speaker 07

  That admission actually gave me a headache. My brain could not comprehend. You'll never guess what I'm Googling right now.

• 40:33Speaker 04

  He's trying to figure out what gravity is? What is this?

• 40:35Speaker 07

  Nope.

• 40:36Speaker 05

  He's like, apparition.

• 40:38Speaker 07

  Welcome to the first sushi restaurant in space. You won't have no gravity here. You'll be eating your sushi flowing through the air. I got the ghost of Sato Takahashi here. A real dead apparition to cook you your sushi. Not a lot of cooking going on. Mostly just cuts it up, but he's good for a ghost and you're gonna be good for paying money for this fish. It gets sent up with a catapult in space, flash frozen in an instant right into our back door. You get sushi from the water to your mouth, all in the first sushi restaurant in space. Come with your friends. You never leave.

• 41:17Speaker 04

  Teacher stick and action.

• 41:20Speaker 07

  Are you tired of ghosts in your kitchen? Trying to eat dinner, but they're on a mission.

• 41:24Speaker 08

  If you and your friends want peace like we do.

• 41:27Speaker 05

  Hey, we gotta try our new ghost trap. We're ready to assist you. Do you have apparitions in your kitchen causing you quite a stir? Well, we have the new apparition trap ready for you. It uses a gravity based system that lures them in. And we have learned a very unusual secret that ghosts are attracted to dead fish. Therefore, we use sushi as a bait. We place it on the trap, the ghosts fly over, grab the sushi, the gravity well sucks them in, and they're put in the trap, bringing you peace. And you don't have to leave the dinner table to catch them and you can enjoy your meal. Call us today. Who are the people on the side?

• 42:02Speaker 04

  You don't know that reference? What? Does no one here know references? That was the Ghostbusters bit.

• 42:07Speaker 05

  That was the Ghostbusters, when they're on the TV, their commercial.

• 42:09Speaker 04

  We're ready to believe you. I don't think I've ever actually seen Ghostbusters.

• 42:15Speaker 03

  What?

• 42:16Speaker 04

  I have to do the rest of this episode in this closet, this broken closet. All right. This is my curse. Bye.

• 42:23Speaker 05

  No, no, no, no. People in the closet aren't cursed. That's not how that works.

• 42:27Speaker 07

  Oh, I'm gone. I'm a ghost. Oh, my God. He's actually gone away. Hold on, actually.

• 42:32Speaker 05

  I don't have object permanence, so I'm scared.

• 42:34Speaker 07

  Oh, that gave me chills.

• 42:40Speaker 07

  I'm like, where did he fucking go? What the fuck is that?

• 42:43Speaker 04

  Mark, I need to borrow your tape.

• 42:45Speaker 07

  No. Oh, my God, you can have it. Jesus Christ, where'd he go?

• 42:49Speaker 04

  Whoa.

• 42:51Speaker 05

  No, it was a ghost.

• 42:53Speaker 04

  It was a ghost hand.

• 42:55Speaker 05

  This is why we're the top 50, in the top 50 of best podcasts in the world. This right here is why.

• 43:01Speaker 07

  Are we still there? Are we still top 50?

• 43:02Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 43:03Speaker 04

  Oh, yeah. I'll take the win. And the fuck did I just hear? What's happening in everyone else's locations today? What?

• 43:10Speaker 05

  The hell?

• 43:12Speaker 04

  He's just leaving.

• 43:13Speaker 05

  I heard what sounded like someone crawling on all fours down my hallway.

• 43:18Speaker 03

  That's such a specific sound. How would you know that sound?

• 43:21Speaker 05

  It's, it's like a slidey, slappy noise.

• 43:24Speaker 04

  Slidey, slappy?

• 43:25Speaker 05

  I might be about to get samarid.

• 43:29Speaker 04

  Well, I'm gonna keep the recording rolling then.

• 43:31Speaker 05

  I don't wanna leave the camera.

• 43:33Speaker 04

  Theory, theory. I'm scared of everything. It's because I have aphantasia. I can't imagine what anything looks like. So while I'm experiencing things, as soon as I have it in my head, it's like, oh, there's a ghost. But then in my head, I'm like, what, what, there's a, what does a ghost look like? Which one's a ghost? What's, and then in real life, my body is like, oh, we don't know. It could be anything, because I don't know what it is. It's just a feeling, and the feeling is fear. That's interesting. That's an interesting thought, though. Maybe. Because if, if everything's always unknown to you, because you can't picture it, I, that's. What is, what does a ghost smell like? I imagine bad, but it's hard to say.

• 44:10Speaker 03

  In an age where digital content reigns supreme, a mysterious audio series emerges, captivating minds within its enigmatic themes and challenging narratives. But behind the allure lies a shadow organization with a hidden agenda. As listeners become unwitting participants in a clandestine experiment, ethical boundaries are shattered and lives are irrevocably altered. Unbenoits to them, select individuals are identified for their psychic potential, drawn into advanced studies from which some never return. As desperate families and anonymous insiders come forward, the question arises, how did a seemingly innocuous form of entertainment become a conduit for something so dark and dangerous? Well, it all lies in the person at the center of these events.

• 44:55Speaker 03

  The eye of the storm that is the whirlpool of darkness and dismay. I would like to start with some quotes that pertain to the event from people that were affected directly. Quote from Sarah Williams. "I was a regular listener of Distractible, but things changed when they sent me a cryptic email after I submitted my reactions to one of their special episodes. It was as if they were probing not just for my opinions, but for something deeper, something inexplicable. I didn't sign up to be a lab rat, so I..." Unsubscribed. Still, it makes you wonder what they're really after. Another said, "After I responded to a prompt in a distractible episode, they sent me an invite for what they called Phase Two. I was curious, so I agreed. The next episode was different. Intense, disorienting, seemingly spinning off in random circles,

• 45:38Speaker 03

  covering topics they already talked about weeks, sometimes years before. I had nightmares, and then I started seeing things, shadows, flashes of images that weren't there. Whatever they were doing, it's not just a podcast anymore. Something darker, and I want no part of it." At the core of all this is one man, one man above all else. Bob Muyskens, host of the popular podcast Distractible, is in fact a cover for a sinister government operation known as Project Distraction. In the podcast, Bob seems to talk about random, unrelated topics, but in reality, he's subtly planting seeds of doubt and distrust in the minds of his listeners. It's all a psychological experiment aimed at identifying potential recruits for the organization. And I'm here to expose the truth about it. Wait, would you...

• 46:24Speaker 00

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• 46:52Speaker 05

  Like to contribute? I found some information that I found to be very intriguing that, uh, I don't know, Mark, if this corroborates what you found? Hmm. Or if this is its own thing? I have found evidence from... What was the name of the person you... Did you say Sarah Williams? Yeah, Sarah Williams. Okay, there's either the same Sarah Williams or a different Sarah Williams, because I've also got information from Sarah Williams. Probably the same. Suggesting that there are either two, he's living a double life, or he has a twin he's never revealed. While the well-known version of Bob Muyskens is a well-known YouTuber and gaming content creator, primarily known for his gaming videos and collaborates with other content creators, Sarah Williams talks of the same person in an entirely different set of circumstances, and I actually have her testimony. Sarah Williams is...

• 47:31Speaker 05

  Investigative journalist with a passion for unraveling mysteries and is an avid fan of Myskirm's gaming adventures and content. She heard some rumors floating around that there was a Robert Muyskens, a scientist and inventor, doing all kinds of like ungodly horrible deeds in the town of, let me see what it was, Hicksville. He was known far and wide as Myskirm, a name that sent shivers down the spines of those who heard it. Myskirm had a reputation for being a recluse. He resided in a grand ancient mansion on the outskirts of town, a mansion that seemed to hold secrets of centuries past. Some said it was cursed, while others believed it was filled with hidden treasures. The townsfolk whispered tales of ghostly apparitions and unexplained phenomena surrounding the mansion, fueling the curiosity and fear of the locals.

• 48:14Speaker 05

  One fateful day, a young and brave journalist Sarah arrived, determined to uncover the truth about Myskirm's ancient mansion. She believed there was more to the story than spooky legends circulating in the town. Her journey was fraught with obstacles, including skeptical townsfolk who warned her to stay away. But undeterred, she persisted, researching old archives and interviewing those who dared speak about Myskirm. As she delved deeper into the mystery, she discovered that he had once been a renowned inventor and scientist, has mentioned held countless inventions, many of which were years ahead of their time. "One evening," she wrote, "as a storm raged outside, I ventured into the mansion, determined to find the truth. I uncovered hidden rooms filled with mesmerizing gadgets, intricate blueprints and a journal detailing Bob's life's work. I realized that Myskirm had not been a recluse out of fear or malevolence, but rather to protect his revolutionary creations from falling into the wrong hands.

• 48:57Speaker 05

  As I explored further, I encountered holographic projection of Bob himself. In this hologram, he explained he had dedicated his life to advancing technology for the betterment of humanity. He remained hidden to safeguard his inventions and ensure they would only be revealed when the world was ready for their potential. I asked, 'What about your public persona, your gaming content, your streams?' To which he replied, 'Oh, I'm not prepared to talk about that, for you see, that's not me.' As soon as it begun, the hologram ended, leaving Sarah confused, wondering, what did he mean? Were there two Bobs? Was it one Bob? Did he have a twin? And such a lot is left to our imagination."

• 49:32Speaker 03

  Yeah, I've got actually, I think I corroborate that like perfectly because there's an anonymous insider from the organization that this mysterious Bob was running that is trying to expose the truth. They said, quote, "I worked or I work or worked within the organization behind Distractible. The public needs to understand that this isn't just an experiment. It has real consequences. People have disappeared and not just figuratively. I can't reveal my identity for obvious reasons, but someone has to blow the whistle on this. Don't engage with their special episodes. Don't become another missing piece in their twisted puzzle." What I think is happening is it's a consciousness upload program where they're trying to get people to upload their consciousness and then use their corporeal forms as puppets. But they can control the population.

• 50:13Speaker 05

  So you think like the public persona version is forming an audience just to have sheep to lead to the slaughter, so to speak?

• 50:20Speaker 03

  Absolutely. You upload the consciousness of the individual, they can exist online making content they've never seen them in real life. It's Pied Piper, leading them all into the machine slaughter.

• 50:30Speaker 05

  I feel like if we looked at certain points of Bob's career, we could probably pinpoint the progress, what he was uploading, how he was acting, where he was living.

• 50:37Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:38Speaker 05

  And different events that were happening in those areas. I think there's a lot of dots to be connected. And Sarah Williams is the key.

• 50:43Speaker 03

  Yeah, I actually have another quote from Sarah Williams. I think it's her last one. So this is from, uh, this is a text transcription of an audio log that Sarah left behind on her final exploration. "I've made it into a room that appears to be some sort of control center. There are monitors displaying real-time analytics of listener engagement, biometric data, even geolocation. It's not just a podcast. It's a data collection operation on a massive scale. And there's something else. Files marked Phase 3. I didn't open them, but their very existence is chilling. This isn't just unethical, it's organized, premeditated exploitation. I've gathered as much evidence as I can and I'm getting out of here before I'm discovered. What I've seen goes beyond mere speculation or conspiracy theory. It's

• 51:23Speaker 03

  organized manipulation with unknown but clearly dangerous aims. Whoever's behind this has resources, intelligence, and a complete disregard for ethical boundaries. Listen, if you're tuning into that podcast or thinking about it, just stop. Don't be another pawn in their game. I'll do everything in my power to expose them, but for now, stay safe and stay skeptical. People have disappeared." And the rest is just screaming.

• 51:47Speaker 05

  I tried to look up what happened to her and I what I got was Sarah Williams, the intrepid investigative journalist, had always been relentless in her pursuit of the truth, but when she got too close to a shadowy conspiracy, she mysteriously vanished without a trace, leaving behind a trail of clues and a haunting question that still lingers in the world of journalism. Kind of fits what her warning was all about.

• 52:04Speaker 03

  Absolutely. I think at the core of all this, we need to look more deeply into who this Robert is.

• 52:12Speaker 05

  Agreed.

• 52:14Speaker 03

  Also Bob, points?

• 52:16Speaker 04

  Haha, haha, haha, haha. Hmm, uh, haha.

• 52:22Speaker 04

  So, listen, hey folks, that's all we have time for today on the Curious Conspiracy Corner. We've explored some wild theories, some wacky ideas, maybe even ventured a bit too close to the edge of absurdity. Uh, remember, conspiracy theories are meant for entertainment purposes, not for taking seriously. So please don't go accusing anyone of secret syndicates or government activity or anything without any evidence, which we did not present any today, because this was just for jokes and stuff. And, uh, yeah.

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