It's our favorite season! Halloween is pretty much our favorite holiday as a family, and movies are our love language. 

Scary Movie Reviews

So what better way to kick off our movie review series than with some of our favorite scary movies? From family friendly PG rated, to rewatching old classics with our teens, here's our least and most favorite spooky season movies to watch. In this episode we also talk all things spooky season like our favorite memories growing up with haunted houses, and how we've celebrated with our kids over the years.

Welcome to the Happily Ever Laughter podcast,

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Dynae: a positive space where we try to

find the humor in the craziness of life

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Matt: because life is crazy.

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Dynae: That's for sure.

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Matt: I'm Matt

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Dynae: and I'm Dynae.

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Matt: And now on with the show.

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Dynae: What do you want me to do about it?

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I can't not have saliva.

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Matt: Stop making mouth noises.

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All your

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Dynae: it's hot in here...

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Matt: so take off all your clothes...

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I am gettin too hot.

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Is this how we're going

to start the episode?

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Dynae: Yeah.

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So we're talking about Halloween.

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Matt: Just talking about

Halloween and stuff.

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Welcome.

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I'm just going to start it.

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We're going to leave that in there.

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Mouth sounds and all.

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome

to the next episode of the

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Happily Ever Laughter Podcast.

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Dynae: I'll try to keep my

mouth sounds to a minimum.

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Matt: Okay.

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That's probably good.

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, Dynae, tell us what we're

talking about today.

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Dynae: Spooky season,

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Matt: spooky season.

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Dynae: It's our favorite season.

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And I thought it was timely because

we're coming back right around

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this time, Halloween is next week.

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And I don't know when this is gonna

air, but it's right around that time.

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Matt: We're still trying to

figure out the new schedule

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Dynae: and when we're going

to actually release episodes.

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Matt: And the new hosting.

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Like, we've started with

a new hosting platform.

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Yeah.

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We are now on Captivate.

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So if anyone from Captivate is listening.

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Dynae: It was one of those where it

was like, they had a lot of tutorials

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and stuff I could learn how to do.

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Yep.

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That's what we're hoping.

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It'll go well.

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Matt: Indeed.

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You know what, before we start, can I try

something that I've always wanted to do?

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Dynae: Okay.

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Matt: Because it is the Halloween episode.

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Dynae: Okay.

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Matt: Okay.

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So I've always really liked, well,

Michael Jackson's my favorite musician.

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Like I grew up, I mean, that

sounds really bad to say right now.

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Dynae: Yeah.

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In light of some of the other

stuff, but growing up when we did.

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Matt: Growing up before all of the

questionable things came out, Michael

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Jackson was my favorite artist.

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Dynae: Yeah.

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Matt: That's what I meant.

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Um, so I've always wanted

to do, I like to do voices.

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We talked about it in the last

episode, doing voiceover work.

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I've always wanted to try to do a

Halloween version of the thriller.

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Vincent price.

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So I'm going to put on some spooky music

and then try one live right now with you.

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And then you can tell me if it sucks.

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Dynae: Okay.

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Matt: We won't be able to hear the

music until I put it afterwards.

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But yes, I'm cool.

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And my voice feels really deep today.

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So that's my voice feels because

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Dynae: because you didn't sleep.

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Matt: Oh, so maybe I shouldn't

sleep before we ever do podcasts.

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Dynae: There you go.

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Matt: And that'll be the way to do it.

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Okay.

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Dynae: You gotta prep.

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Matt: Let's do this.

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Darkness falls across the land.

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The midnight hour is close at hand.

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Creatures crawl in search of blood

to terrorize yall's, neighborhood

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and whosoever shall be found.

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without the soul for getting down must

stand and face the hounds of hell and

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rot inside a corpsey shell and though

you fight to stay alive your body

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starts to shiver for no mere mortal

can resist the evil of the thriller

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Dynae: I was gonna say you

have to end it on the laugh

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And a cough, apparently.

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Matt: The old laugh and a cough.

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Dynae: You know, we're

getting old, and that happens.

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Matt: There's so many things that old

people do that I'm looking forward to.

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Dynae: That we're finding ourselves.

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Matt: Yeah.

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Like the, uh, the hiccup burp or,

you know, the things where you just

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make a bodily function sound and then

another one comes out, you're like,

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whoops, no, that was that a whoops.

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Like I, all right.

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So

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Dynae: you can tell what

kind of mood we're in.

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Matt: Yeah.

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We got a Vincent price in there.

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We got a little bit of Halloween.

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We got a little goofy mood this morning.

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Accidental sharts.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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Welcome to the podcast.

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Dynae: I thought they're

always accidental.

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Matt: This would be a good clip

to cut to put as our trailer to be

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like, Hey, listen to this episode.

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Do you have accidental sharts?

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Dynae: You could do the ads.

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Matt: I should.

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Oh, Oh, All right.

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Dynae: All right.

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We got some new ideas going on.

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Matt: We should probably start

talking about spooky season because

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Dynae: We're gonna go over so long.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it's our favorite season Next well,

we like Christmas as well But this is

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like one of those holidays that just kind

of gets overlooked by a lot of people

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But it's so much fun for the cult of

people, obviously, that love it like us.

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Matt: So I would 100 percent

take Halloween over christmas.

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Dynae: Oh, would you?

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Well, there's a lot of commercialism

and stuff in both to be fair,

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but it's just one of those.

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It's just kind of fun and you can

do whatever you want and we are

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a family of actors, so it's fun

to dress up and do all of that.

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Matt: Yeah.

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Christmas always seems like though it's.

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Not forced, but you know what I mean

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Dynae: like an obligation.

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Matt: Yeah, like oh if you really

love me, you'll buy me something

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expensive Instead of just being

like hey, let's be with family.

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Halloween is kind of that though where

you just get together Yeah, you're with

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all the kids you're with your nieces

and nephews you go trick or treating

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and that is more of a family vibe

Yeah, but we also like the more macabre

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Dynae: Yeah.

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Matt: Darker stuff in our house.

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I mean, we're sitting in my music

room slash office slash YouTube

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studio slash all of the above.

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Dynae: Media room, basically.

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Matt: Media room, yes.

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I can see five skulls

just sitting where I'm at.

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Because.

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Dynae: You question is that is that

too many skulls, you know, I don't know

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come by our house during spooky season.

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Matt: There you go I'm

actually getting ready to redo.

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I know this is off topic again.

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We'll get into this We have a

skeleton hanging from our front

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door kids named him Sheldon.

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Dynae: Yeah, Sheldon the skeleton.

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Matt: Yep I actually just did a

video and I haven't posted it yet.

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So I'll post it on our TikTok Uh,

if we ever get the name changed.

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So basically I took a

skeleton I got at home Depot.

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I tried all the stuff where you

put Saran wrap around his body and

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then you use a heat gun and it kind

of melts it to look like flesh.

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And then it

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Dynae: kind of like has

that zombie look to it.

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Matt: Yeah.

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So it's like a.

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Stuff kind of hanging off and there's,

there's strings in between the

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bones and strings between the bones,

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Dynae: which in all honesty

we thought looked pretty cool.

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But then you hung it up and I came home

with Cora and instantly, soon as she saw

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it, she's like, Nope, don't like that.

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Yeah.

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Like the Michael Scott meme.

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Just Nope, not going to do that.

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Matt: Well, and I used like

different shades of brown.

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So it looked like it had crawled out

of the earth and that type of stuff.

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She didn't like it.

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So my next idea was I was going to be

like, well, what if we made every skull

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and skeleton in our yard, neon eighties.

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Dynae: And we're like, go for it.

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She liked that idea.

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Matt: And I think that'll be dope.

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So currently I'm in the

process of changing Sheldon,

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um, our front door skeleton.

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Dynae: Which hopefully we get done

because it's supposed to rain for

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the next like four days, which sucks.

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But you know, we'll see

what happens by Halloween.

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If not, he'll be nice

and fancy for next year.

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Matt: Is that like that?

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Getting all fat and sassy.

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Dynae: Yeah, exactly.

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Only it's a skeleton.

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Matt: Indeed.

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But you know, it's just like a lot of

people with their Christmas trees as well.

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You and I kind of leave our Halloween

stuff out a little bit longer.

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Yeah.

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Like through.

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Dynae: I mean, we put it up.

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Week or two.

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August this year.

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Last week of August.

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Yeah.

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Because Cora's birthday is

the beginning of September.

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So she was like, I want

to go ahead and decorate.

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So we're like, okay.

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Matt: Well, the unfortunate thing

is where we live and probably.

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Whoever's listening to this, where

you live, they start Christmas like

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two weeks before Halloween at Target

and Home Depot and all those places.

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Dynae: Yeah, we have, our whole town

has Christmas stuff out already.

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So, you know.

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Matt: And has for the last month.

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Dynae: We're like, okay, we

have some principle here.

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Let's get through one holiday before

we like go gung ho on another one.

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But.

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Well, and That's an argument everyone has.

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And , at the end of the day.

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Everybody just do what makes you happy.

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Who cares?

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We don't have to have the argument

of when you should decorate and

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when you can't and all of that stuff

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Matt: That's why people

come to this new podcast.

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It's the hard hitting issues.

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Dynae: Yeah, like who

cares when you decorate?

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Yeah You want to leave your Halloween

stuff up all year go for it.

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Matt: I want to interview neighbor

versus neighbor Fighting battles of

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like, take your decorations down.

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Dynae: We could do that sometime.

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Maybe during trick or treating, we'll just

go and interview some of our neighbors.

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Matt: Just interview the

neighbors for some reason?

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Dynae: They'll be like, what the?

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Matt: How do you feel about

having Halloween decorations

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out until Thanksgiving?

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Dynae: Oh, we live in, we have a

homeowner's association, so they'll

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probably be mad about that or some crap.

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Matt: That's true.

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Dynae: Anyway.

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Matt: Like, listen, get the

dead bodies out of your trees.

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It's Thanksgiving.

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Dynae: It's over.

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So, yes, the other thing we wanted

to start with this episode is getting

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into our movie review kind of stuff.

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Matt: Ooh, nice.

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Dynae: Because you talked about

a little bit about the trick

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or treating, the family time we

like to spend together and stuff.

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Yep.

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And a couple of the other things

that we really like are movies.

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Mm hmm.

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The scary movies and Halloween y movies.

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Yeah.

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Um, and also, but let's come

back to that because I did want

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to talk about, Haunted houses.

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Matt: Yes.

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A little bit.

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I do see that in your notes.

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Dynae: Because that is one of the,

just, quintessential growing up.

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Yeah.

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We were either, you know, from elementary

to junior high, our town always put on

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a fall festival and there was always

a school sponsored haunted house.

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Yes.

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The different high school clubs

and stuff would put them on.

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Matt: Whether it be FBLA or the

band or any of that type of stuff.

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Dynae: So we were either always

either working in them or going and

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participating and like going through them.

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Correct.

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Correct.

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Which you...

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Never liked going through.

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Matt: I was always scared as a little kid.

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I kind of talked about it in a recent

YouTube video that Camryn and I did.

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Where I walked in on my parents, what

if I just stopped right there as a

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horror thing, I walked in on my parents,

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let me finish that sentence, I walked

in on my parents watching pet cemetery.

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Yes.

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And so I kind of, you know, peeked

around the couch because as a little

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kid, you're always going, Oh, I

wonder what mom and dad are watching.

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And there was a part where the

sister of the lady was dying.

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I still, for some reason, have in my brain

where I say she died choking on a chicken

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bone, like you could see it in her neck.

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We recently watched it.

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And I don't recall any chicken bone.

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That part did not happen, but

somehow it scarred me enough

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that I had made that in my brain.

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And so I still, that's all I can see is

her choking on a chicken bone because

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my brain had developed it into that.

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Anyway, long story short, I walked in

on that too young, scared me to death.

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Dynae: And so from there you didn't

really, like, scary anything?

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Right.

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So haunted houses were out?

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Yes.

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Gotcha.

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Matt: I saw that and then I saw a part

where, , isn't there a part, is it Pet

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Sematary 1 or 2 Maybe they were watching

both and I came back in on the, man,

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and my parents just, Mom if you're

listening, why did you do this to me?

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Dynae: It's always the parents fault.

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Matt: But isn't there a part where

like there's a guy on an operating

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table and his face is all busted up

and you think he's dead and then the

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guy goes in but then he like wakes up.

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Dynae: and the second one, Honestly.

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Matt: Gotcha.

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Dynae: So yeah, there

is a scene like that.

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Matt: And I still remember my dreams.

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Which is funny, we talked about

that in the first episode.

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Dynae: Here we go with dreams again.

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Matt: We should have a

dream person on here.

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But I can

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Dynae: Let's find that.

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Matt: I can see the dream in my

head now that I had as a child.

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Dynae: Yeah, that's how impactful it was.

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Matt: Yes.

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Dynae: Gotcha.

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Matt: So I was in the basement of

grandmama and granddad's house,

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and like Darin and a friend were

playing Nintendo Super Mario.

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Dynae: Darin is his uncle by anyone that

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Matt: my uncle, yes, um, who also

should be listening, and if not

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Dynae: Get on that.

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Matt: Yeah.

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What are you doing, Darin?

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What are you doing with your life?

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Other than teaching young minds how to

cook and Create culinary masterpieces.

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Dynae: Yep.

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Matt: He's the culinary

teacher at our high school.

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Anywho, so, and this wasn't

even real, it's just a dream.

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He was down there playing Mario

Brothers and I was trying to run

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up the stairs because that guy with

the busted up face was chasing me.

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And then other people that looked

like him were kind of coming out

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of the ground in the basement.

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And every time I went up a stair,

my foot sunk in the next step, and

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I just could, like, tar, and then

they were all gaining on me, and, um.

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You have quite the imagination.

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Yeah.

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You're, you're traumatized.

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I am.

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Reading this right now.

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So anyway.

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Maybe that's why.

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So that dream is why you don't

want to go to haunted houses?

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That dream, seeing that movie, that's

why I didn't when I was younger.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Similar thing to you.

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Um, also when there's loud, scary sounds

and everybody always has a chainsaw.

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Yeah.

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At a haunted house.

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And you're a big chainsaw fan.

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Obviously.

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I do not like

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chainsaws.

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I don't really even know why.

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I don't know what that is or

where that comes from exactly.

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But I think it's just the

loud, startling, you know.

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It is.

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It's just an intimidating sound.

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And they use it in horror movies.

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Yeah.

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For sure.

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Like being cut up by a chainsaw is that.

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You know, but yeah, so, but that

changed your mind on haunted houses.

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Yes, but let's go into

still another story.

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My first haunted house I never would

go through because I was too scared.

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My dad was one of the heads of

the FBLA club in our high school.

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Future business leaders of America.

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The future business leaders of America.

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And so they put on a haunted

house every year and one year

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they rented out, where was

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that?

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It was like the old

bank downtown, I think.

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Well,

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that one was cool.

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Yeah.

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Because that one was.

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indoors.

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Oh, there was another one.

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And there was another one

that was like, yeah, outdoor.

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Yeah.

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Like a warehouse outside, but it

was enclosed if that makes sense.

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So that one was really cool.

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So they set up just different areas

and, , they were trying to find somebody.

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They brought the pole vault mats

in and there was a section where

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they come around this corner.

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They didn't really know

what to do with it.

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They had a mat there.

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So they wanted somebody to just like fall

and scream and land on the mat and die.

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And I was maybe, is this

your first acting gig?

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I probably was.

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Well, you know what I mean?

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I kind of, uh, every family

get together with some sort of

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dance monkey in my direction.

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Anyway, speaking of other trauma

of why I am the way I today,

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that sounded really weird.

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Why

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you are the way you are.

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That's why you're here.

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That's why you're here to help me today.

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Yep.

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So anyway, all of these high

school kids kept trying it.

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I was maybe 10, 12

somewhere in that age range.

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And then like Cora, I can't even

imagine now thinking about that.

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And it was probably 20 feet high jumping

down onto a pole vault mat on the ground.

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And just falling and dying.

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And so just being a daredevil, I

was like, Hey dad, can I do this?

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And he's like, yeah.

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So I did a flip.

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And landed on my back and screamed and

then all the high school kids are like

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he's in yep So then I recruited a little

mini So then I got the job is like, you

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know, the kid that dies from the rafters I

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guess I always like enjoyed

working in them, too Doing the

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makeup and yeah, it's kind of that

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theater kid background because we

were both in band as well and band

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every year had a haunted house and

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we actually like our

fundraisers for school.

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That's what we did instead of all

the like, Cora, just the other day we

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were selling cards like coupon cards.

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We did fun stuff like fall festivals.

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Yeah.

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So

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do you sell cookie dough?

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No, we scare the living crap out

of people, but you're like, all

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right.

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Yeah.

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I wish they would bring that back on us.

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It's probably a lot of liability

issues now that I think about it

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back then that we probably shouldn't

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have done.

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But we had an old part of our high

school that we called the armory.

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Well,

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it was an old military armory.

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That's

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probably a whole section of that that

had a basement and like a really

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creepy area and that's where the band

had their haunted house every year.

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And so we were part of that.

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I remember being in several of those

where I'd hide in the walls and come

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out with a little skill saw or something.

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It was always

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more fun working in them than

going through them, in all honesty.

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So that was our childhood

experiences with haunted houses.

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And then we got older.

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Maybe that's why we

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love all this stuff today.

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Because

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it scared us when we were little

and now we're just kind of like.

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Why were we so scared?

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Which we're going to get into when

we talk about the movie section.

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You're

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always fascinated with stuff

that scares you, I think.

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Yeah, it's one of those things.

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Like a love hate relationship.

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Trying to figure out why, because

it's that adrenaline rush too, that's

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almost like a dopamine rush too.

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That's true.

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You know, there's psychology

behind all of that.

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Like you feel like you're going to

die, so you get that adrenaline,

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but you know you're safe.

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I got you.

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Yeah.

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So what you're talking about

is, how long ago was that?

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Did you look it up?

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Nine years ago.

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Nine years, holy crap.

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Time

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moves on hyperspeed once you get

past age 30, I feel like, honestly.

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Well, Dynae and I, one of our

favorite trips we ever took

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together, we left the kids at home.

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Solo trips, yeah.

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Maybe I should just stop there.

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Our favorite trip we took,

we didn't bring the kids.

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Any parent can relate, you

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know.

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That's true.

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But we went to Universal Studios and

we'd never been to Universal Studios and

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we specifically went during Halloween

horror nights Yeah So we could do the

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part during the day and the horror

nights at night and walk around and

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experience all of that which you Were

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very nervous about doing honestly Well,

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it's because I had all of that past

issues and I thought am I gonna

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be able to handle this Even though

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I'm like you were afraid you were

going to punch somebody if they

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came at you too much or something.

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I

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think that might be it.

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My fear response is very fight heavy.

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Yeah.

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And I'd never want to hurt somebody

knowing they're just an actor.

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Yeah, that they're just an actor.

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But luckily for me, gaining

that maturity, obviously.

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Now I'm like, Oh, I'm

not going to punch you.

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We did it.

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And that was

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honestly so fun.

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It was a lot of fun.

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The year we went, , it was

silent Hill, walking dead.

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And what was the other one?

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I can't remember.

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It was another movie that had just

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come out.

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I can't remember.

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We waited in line for hours and hours.

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to get in, but it was so fun.

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Yeah.

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I was, I was glad we went

during that time of year.

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And that's one of those things

now when our kids get older,

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we want to take them all.

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Our family is really, like

we said, Halloween is super

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fun for everybody for sure.

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And now that the kids are gotten

older, our youngest is just 10.

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She's not into the scary stuff yet.

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She likes Spooky stuff like Hocus

Pocus, you know, we're still in

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that realm with her, but the other

two started to watch more of the

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horror movies and stuff like that.

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We watched growing up.

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They just watched Silence of the Lambs,

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their first horror movies that they

really, well, maybe not first ever.

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It

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was Chloe's.

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Was it?

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They watched it.

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The remake.

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The new remake.

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Yeah.

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It one and two.

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Chloe was like.

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11 or 12 and they loved it.

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Yeah, so it's still like one of her

favorite movies, which is hilarious

520

because she's a super sweet little,

you know, unsuspecting child.

521

If anybody has seen.

522

the TV show Wednesday.

523

Yes.

524

There's Wednesday and

then there's her roommate.

525

Chloe is actually both of them.

526

Somehow.

527

But 90 percent of the time she presents

as the real flowerly, colorful, neon.

528

Yeah, but she's got a dark side.

529

Yeah, and then every once in

a while she'll come out with a

530

joke and I'm like, oh my gosh.

531

Maybe I should lock her

in her room tonight.

532

This is creepy.

533

Yeah, so our kids are funny.

534

So yeah, they have started at the older

to definitely started getting into

535

more of the scary movies and stuff,

which is fun watching them with him.

536

Well, when they don't talk a lot, I

don't know if everyone else can relate

537

to that, but we have kids when they get

nervous, they talk a lot and you can't

538

watch a movie you haven't seen with

539

them.

540

Well, and we had to come up with stuff

because I know you don't have this on

541

your notes, but I mean, when we went

through COVID, everybody had issues.

542

You know, around the world,

so we couldn't go anywhere.

543

We had an unfinished basement.

544

And so as an entertainer, I tried to

think what would be fun for the kids.

545

So I

546

put Yeah, it was that crazy time.

547

Remember when we all didn't go trick

or treating, we were all afraid we

548

were going to get sick from stuff.

549

And yeah, it was just,

550

whoa.

551

Which I'm glad we didn't, because

we could have got sick from stuff.

552

So we stayed home.

553

I had a bunch of glow wrist straps and

glow sticks and all kinds of stuff.

554

And so Basically our

basement was unfinished.

555

You could see through all of the

556

walls.

557

Cause you know, that's creepy

already, you know, unfinished

558

basements are always creepy.

559

So I

560

brought down a speaker that I put

down on top of a board and I cranked

561

up, you know, the scary, like

562

scary haunted house.

563

So we made our own haunted house in the

564

basement basically.

565

Well, first it was the glow sticks

and then second, it was me hiding in

566

different areas that they didn't know

where I was going to be to scare them.

567

And my favorite one was probably the last

one I hit in the very back corner and

568

did the thing where I ran on all fours.

569

Yeah, which Chloe

570

does excellently now.

571

Oh my goodness.

572

She's creepy, man.

573

Yeah, I don't wanna, I don't wanna see

her in real life doing it, let alone

574

in, she'd be perfect in a haunted house.

575

Yeah, she

576

would, she would.

577

Yeah.

578

It would be so much fun.

579

Yeah, cause she

580

is so scary looking.

581

You're so mean to Chloe.

582

I know.

583

Well, Chloe.

584

She's beautiful, but she

makes some scary faces.

585

That's why Chloe is so dark, I think.

586

Because Chloe and I are really good.

587

at ripping each other.

588

Just that real kind of dry, I gotcha.

589

You roast each other a lot.

590

Yeah.

591

And then she'll get me right back.

592

But yeah, so that was super fun.

593

So we, we did that like

two years in a row because.

594

You know, COVID lasted longer than

we all thought it was going to.

595

Anyway, but it was fun.

596

It was a super fun memory

that I forgot about.

597

You don't even have it on your notes.

598

And I was like, Oh yeah,

I should talk about that.

599

Yeah.

600

Um, Cora was still too young.

601

She was scared to come down

to the basement because

602

she could hear the sounds.

603

So we got to where she would do it.

604

If we Turned off the speaker,

and obviously I didn't hide.

605

Yeah.

606

You know, she would come down

and try to find the glow sticks.

607

Yeah, yeah.

608

And, you know, we're not in this

to just terrorize our children.

609

No, we don't want to

do what was done to us.

610

Yes, we want, we want very fond

memories, not chicken bone in the throat.

611

Not trauma.

612

Yeah.

613

That's a fine line as a parent.

614

It's like, how can you give

your kids memories without the

615

trauma?

616

That's something I think would

be fascinating to talk about in

617

a future episode, because I think

about this, honestly, a lot.

618

There's a handful of

things where I remember.

619

These are the four or five times my

parents got really mad and I remember

620

them screaming or throwing something

Or the other way around too, you know,

621

like these are the amazing memories.

622

So I'm always curious, and that's why

I try to do these fun things with them.

623

Like what our kids are going to

remember when they're our age.

624

Yeah, I'm always curious to be like,

will they remember all the times

625

that I got mad and yelled at them?

626

Or will they remember all the fun

things that we created and made up?

627

And we're a very creative family.

628

So a lot of times around the dinner

table, we'll just make up stories

629

and do like our own little miniature

versions of dungeons and dragons and

630

just go through stories and go, Hey,

what would you do in this situation?

631

And

632

Well, and as a parent, you

hope it's obviously, you always

633

hope that it's more good.

634

Stories than the bad stories,

but you know, that's unavoidable.

635

I feel like to, to a point, it's just

life is messy and life is crazy sometimes.

636

However, I think we must be doing

something right because we just did

637

parent teacher conferences and our

youngest Cora is 10 and her teacher

638

gave a bunch of super glowing reviews

about how creative her brain is.

639

And she can come up with stories and a lot

of kids struggle with the comprehension.

640

It's not as much fun to read because yeah.

641

But we, we definitely have lots

of imagination in our house.

642

Yeah,

643

but getting back to what we were

actually talking about, sorry, we

644

do go off on these tangents a lot.

645

So that's a big reason

why we like spooky season.

646

But let's get into some of

the movie reviews because we

647

were talking about childhood.

648

And another thing that we wanted to talk

about was going back and re watching

649

some of the scary movies, quote unquote,

from when we were kids that we never

650

watched because we were too afraid

651

to.

652

Yeah, we realized a lot of

the horror movie classics.

653

Like the cult classics.

654

Yeah, like, uh, Nightmare on Elm Street.

655

Friday the 13th, Halloween.

656

Yeah, because we were

657

little kids in the 80s and then tweens

and teenagers in through the 90s.

658

So it's one of those where that

was a big, huge time for horror,

659

horror movies.

660

So we were more in the Final Destination,

Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer.

661

Yeah, that era.

662

That was our era.

663

That we were kind of in the prime.

664

Yeah.

665

So we've been, and just a

warning, spoiler alerts.

666

We'll probably talk about these movies if

you haven't seen them like us from now.

667

I don't think we're going to give too much

away, but just so you know, spoiler alert.

668

Even if we do spoil something,

sometimes it's worth going back

669

to watch and go, wow, that was

just as bad as they explained.

670

Dynae: Because what we have learned,

and this goes for all movies, honestly,

671

that when we were growing up, we've gone

back and rewatched some with our kids.

672

And it's like, that did not hold up.

673

Yep.

674

Horror movies are the same way.

675

Yep.

676

In all honesty.

677

So lately we decided to do this thing

and we've been going back and re watching

678

those movies like Nightmare on Elm Street.

679

Yep.

680

We never watched the originals.

681

Never watched Halloween

or Friday the 13th.

682

Yep.

683

Alien.

684

I never saw Alien so we went back and

watched that one and um, one more.

685

Texas Chainsaw.

686

Yes.

687

Texas Chainsaw, which I will say

the remake came out when we were

688

teenage college age somewhere

in there And it was good and

689

Matt: frightening.

690

That one was definitely

scary in comparison.

691

The old one very weird Let me just

say right off the bat before we go

692

into any in depth stuff the major

consistency between all of the old

693

horror movies is Lots of teenagers die.

694

Mm hmm.

695

And most of the acting

is very questionable.

696

Dynae: Yes Cuz I was going back and I

was like man I didn't realize all these

697

actors were in these movies like Johnny

Depp and Kevin Bacon and you know All

698

of these really famous actors got their

start in some of these horror movies,

699

which I didn't realize back then and

it's like Wow, you got a lot better.

700

Or is it the directing?

701

You never know.

702

That's true.

703

That might be the case.

704

Because that's been the funny thing.

705

Like, when we were kids, it feels

like horror movies were very just

706

along that campy cult classic

stuff where special effects hadn't

707

come very far yet and everything

was obviously very fake looking.

708

But also, back then, it

was new for them, you know?

709

That's true.

710

And so it was terrifying.

711

But when you...

712

If you're a horror fan and you start with

a progression of like, let's say movies

713

that were made in the 70s up through now.

714

Yeah.

715

It's unbelievably different.

716

Oh, for sure.

717

And so we went back and watched the Evil

Dead series because I'd never seen them.

718

So there's definitely the

old Sam Raimi kind of style.

719

You know, which are campy and fun, but

720

Matt: I've always been a big,

big fan of, of those movies.

721

You've never been as big a fan.

722

And I

723

Dynae: don't know why I

just never watched them.

724

Matt: Well, and I think it also

progressed because by the time you

725

get to army of darkness, you have evil

dead one evil dead to army of darkness.

726

It's basically a progression

from gore scary to.

727

Gore scary, but also kind of funny.

728

Yeah.

729

And then it's basically a horror comedy.

730

By the

731

Dynae: end of that.

732

By the Army of Darkness.

733

But then they

734

Matt: remade them recently.

735

But then they remade Evil Dead 2013.

736

And then they just recently

did Evil Dead Rise.

737

And those are.

738

Woo.

739

Yes.

740

Dynae: And I love them.

741

I watched them.

742

Like, I was surprised.

743

Like, I was never a huge horror fan.

744

I mean, I did watch, you know,

like, Scream is one of my favorite

745

movies, even though it's a

slasher film and stuff like that.

746

But I think it was the comedy

mixed in with it that I enjoyed.

747

So I enjoyed those kind of movies.

748

Movies like Saw or Hostel or anything

like that are also, like, not my jam.

749

Oh, no.

750

Like the torture porn kind of stuff.

751

For sure.

752

That's just gross to be gross.

753

I do not like any of those type of movies.

754

Yeah.

755

Um, so I was questionable about Evil Dead

because you kind of warned me about them.

756

But I also feel like it's one

of those where it's so over the

757

top that it is almost comical.

758

That's true.

759

You know, there are definitely

parts that I just didn't watch.

760

My trick is I take off my glasses.

761

Because you're

762

Matt: blind.

763

Because I'm legally blind.

764

So even if we're watching on my computer

and we're two and a half feet away

765

from it You can take your glasses off

and be like, I can't see anything.

766

Cause my

767

Dynae: thing is, is I do have

a very vivid imagination.

768

I do dream about things

and stuff like that.

769

And there are certain things

that I just don't want to

770

Matt: see.

771

But it's fun on those old movies, because

when somebody's head gets like ripped open

772

or something, sometimes you watch it and

you go, Hmm, how does that cream corn?

773

Yeah.

774

What are they using?

775

Dynae: But yeah, we do watch

behind the scenes stuff quite

776

a bit, but it is funny now.

777

It's like, Oh, I see how they

did that, you know, but now

778

with the special effects, it's

just like on a whole new level.

779

So, and I will say that movies back

then obviously were reliant only on

780

the shock and the grossness factor.

781

That's true.

782

Um.

783

And not on the storylines and

acting, like you said, so alien

784

was the first one where there was

actually good acting for direction.

785

I

786

Matt: feel like there was a definitive

switch from all the other ones

787

we had watched where we're like,

Whoa, there's actually, this is a

788

Dynae: legitimate movie.

789

So it makes sense.

790

That's one of his early films.

791

He's a great director, but it's one

of those things where it's like,

792

you could definitely feel like you

can tell what they were focusing on.

793

And now in horror films, it

is very much about the story.

794

And like some of the more recent ones that

we have seen that have been excellent.

795

That's like, whoa, that came out of

nowhere, you know, was well, well,

796

some of your favorite ones lately, uh,

797

Matt: recent.

798

Well, I love the conjuring series.

799

Yeah.

800

Because those are terrifying, but yet not

in the disgusting gross out way in a lot.

801

Yeah, it's just more like that

802

Dynae: sense of dread.

803

Speaking of that's one of

Chloe's favorite series as well.

804

The conjuring series.

805

Yeah, it's great.

806

And there are some gross parts in there,

but they're relying much more on that.

807

and the, you know, acting

and directing story.

808

Some of the oddballs that have been out

there, which we're not really going to

809

give spoilers about because I feel like

they're even better when you go in blind

810

and don't really know anything about it.

811

So

812

Matt: should we give them two?

813

Because I've got two

on the top of my head.

814

And I think they're the same ones.

815

So these are ones you do not

want to watch a trailer or

816

anything or read anything about.

817

Just go in blind.

818

Go in blind.

819

And just have your mind blown

because they do not go the

820

direction you think they will go.

821

And that is Barbarian.

822

And malignant.

823

Yes.

824

It's so

825

Dynae: out there.

826

It's so insane.

827

I never saw what was going,

what was gonna happen.

828

Yeah.

829

And we're pretty good about that.

830

We're pretty good about, especially

me, I'm like, I can pick up on patterns

831

and recognize what the storyline's

gonna be pretty quick, usually.

832

Matt: Well, and I think that's

why they did such a good job in

833

that movie, because they're like,

hey, look over here at this hand.

834

Yeah, we're gonna,

835

Dynae: we're gonna lead

you down this road, but.

836

Matt: They do that little thing

where they tap you on the shoulder

837

on the other side and then they kind

of look away and you're going, who

838

Dynae: was that?

839

So yeah, those are definitely

two that I'd say go in without

840

knowing anything about it.

841

It'll pay off.

842

And then

843

Matt: one of our favorite genres

though is the horror comedy,

844

obviously the Shaun of the Dead's.

845

The stuff like that, that's still

scary, spooky, Halloween, zombies,

846

whatever, you know, could be vampires.

847

Dynae: Well, and that's why I like Scream.

848

That's why I thought I, you know, it was

one of my favorites when I was younger,

849

Matt: too.

850

Another one I'm gonna give

out to the audience that is

851

my favorite horror comedy.

852

Um, don't read anything about it.

853

Just go in.

854

Just go in because the way that they kind

of turned the horror trope on its head for

855

this movie was really fun and hilarious.

856

And also there's some disgustingness

because it's shock value.

857

You'll know why when you see

858

Dynae: it.

859

It's kind of along the evil dead line

that it's just so over the top that

860

it's comical though at the same time.

861

So

862

Matt: that one's called

Tucker and Dale versus evil.

863

And you got to watch that

cause it's one of my favorites.

864

And I

865

Dynae: think over the years, especially

recent years, I've gotten a lot better

866

about watching scary movies cause there

for a while there were certain ones

867

that I'm just like, I'm not watching.

868

Um, you made me rewatch candy

man cause for some reason that

869

one scared the bejesus out of me.

870

I don't really,

871

Matt: I didn't really remember it.

872

That's why I wanted to watch it again.

873

Um, just like when we

talked about Pet Sematary.

874

Dynae: By the way, I feel like

those two, the older ones are,

875

they still hold up pretty well.

876

They're still pretty scary.

877

Like if our oldest watched them,

I feel like they would enjoy them

878

because they're still like, oh.

879

Matt: I think in comparison to

some of the stuff they've seen now.

880

Dynae: Which they enjoyed

Silence of the Lambs, you know.

881

And that one's got some

quite gruesome content.

882

Um, our oldest has seen seven.

883

Put the lotion in the basket.

884

Our oldest has seen seven.

885

Those obvious questionable scenes

in it, though, that I don't

886

think Chloe will appreciate.

887

So we've kind of, we give them, we

definitely watch all the movies first.

888

We don't just let them go in blind.

889

Oh, for sure.

890

So we can give them trigger warnings.

891

Yeah.

892

And just be like, just be prepared.

893

Matt: Well, in Seven, we went in

and we let them know like, hey,

894

this is more, So if it was real.

895

Yeah.

896

So

897

Dynae: that one, obviously that

was a great movie when we were

898

younger too, that came out.

899

That was part of one of the

haunted houses that we did.

900

What's in the box.

901

Yeah.

902

Yeah.

903

So that's one of those things.

904

It's been fun going back and

revisiting a lot of these movies and

905

just, we were kind of telling the

kids, it's like, well, these aren't.

906

We did go back and watch

recently, Friday the 13th, and

907

I'm like, why was this so scary?

908

But I was, it may be a similar thing.

909

I walked in on one when my older sisters

were watching it when I was younger.

910

And I'm like, Oh, I can't do that.

911

Cause that was always a thing in

our house is my older siblings would

912

watch the scary movies with my dad.

913

And obviously my mom is

scared of everything.

914

So she would never participate.

915

That is very true.

916

So I would always be in the other

room with her when they did that.

917

So it was kind of like their bonding

time, but also like I knew I can't.

918

I can't go out anywhere or I'll

see something I don't want to see.

919

Well,

920

Matt: your mom is famously afraid of

the flying monkeys from the wizard.

921

Yeah, there's some trauma there.

922

And so anything past that

level, we know she can't do it.

923

Yeah.

924

Stay in.

925

So, um, Your mom will walk in and

she's like, what are you guys watching?

926

Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

927

I'm out.

928

Dynae: No, she loves that movie.

929

That's true, she does.

930

She told Cora to watch it, which

Cora did, and it was pretty funny.

931

Yeah.

932

But anyway, it's the funny

things that your family watches.

933

So we did go back and watch

Nightmare on Elm Street.

934

I didn't feel like it was scary at all.

935

Yeah, because they

didn't explain anything.

936

And now I'm used to seeing stories

and storylines in the scary movies.

937

So going back then, it was just like,

they just plopped you in the middle of the

938

action and it's like, who is this person?

939

Why is he doing this?

940

It's, and I have trouble with

movies that give no explanations of

941

Matt: what's going on.

942

Well, and here's another thing

I'm going to put this right here.

943

Spoiler.

944

So if you want to click ahead like

30 seconds past what I'm talking

945

about, or two minutes, then that

way you won't ruin anything.

946

If you haven't seen them.

947

30 seconds to two minutes,

how long are we going to talk?

948

Oh, I could go all day, baby.

949

Dynae: I know when we talk about movies.

950

Matt: So basically the funny thing about

those when you go back and watch them.

951

The original Friday the 13th,

um, Nightmare on Elm Street.

952

Those characters are not even

who they are known for now.

953

Yeah.

954

Like, Freddy is known for being

a very campy, making a lot

955

of bad puns and saying stuff.

956

In the first movie, he wasn't.

957

It was trying to be scary.

958

In the first Friday the

13th, major spoiler.

959

Pause, pause, pause.

960

Jason's not even in it.

961

Yeah.

962

So that's a crazy part.

963

He's not the killer.

964

I know.

965

Yeah.

966

So you have all these, uh, origin

stories that are not even fully

967

fleshed out and developed yet.

968

Yeah.

969

Yeah.

970

Which is kind of an interesting

971

Dynae: thing to see those first ones.

972

Well, and that makes sense why

there's so many of them because they

973

probably along the way started to

develop it more and stuff like that.

974

To be fair, we haven't watched.

975

I think I have seen like

a more recent Freddy.

976

That we watched Freddie

versus Jason or something.

977

I don't really remember it at all.

978

Which has

979

Matt: also gone into that ludicrous kind

of partially funny, you know, cause at

980

one point, Jason's in his dreams and he

sees, uh, like a naked girl in a sleeping

981

bag, you know, when he goes over and then

just zips her up and, and picks her up and

982

then just like start swinging her into a

tree, like a baseball bat with the bag.

983

So it got to the point where

things just go so over the top

984

that it's comical, but you're also

going, Oh, did you see that kill?

985

Dynae: Which is hilarious.

986

Yeah.

987

But again, there's psychology here that we

should probably dig into more with some of

988

Matt: that stuff.

989

Well, if you think about that though,

everyone really loves the horror movies,

990

but what is today's number one thing?

991

True crime.

992

True crime, murder podcasts,

documentaries on Netflix.

993

Dynae: And it's one of those things

that gets really popular with women,

994

I feel like, because it's almost like

a education, in a way, what not to do.

995

I mean, for me particularly, and I know

a lot of other women that listen to those

996

kinds of podcasts or the documentaries

and stuff like that, it's about,

997

okay, now I can recognize red flags.

998

More than just don't leave your

windows and doors unlocked, don't

999

sleep downstairs, all these other

00:36:44,323 --> 00:36:44,523

Matt: things.

00:36:44,543 --> 00:36:47,143

The old horror movies,

The Red Flags, were...

00:36:48,628 --> 00:36:53,748

on fire in your face, red flags that the

women are like, should I go in this house?

00:36:53,848 --> 00:36:54,118

And in

00:36:54,118 --> 00:36:58,138

Dynae: all honesty, that's why movies

like silence of the lambs, I feel like

00:36:58,138 --> 00:37:03,208

candy man and some of these others still

hold up because it is more well, seven,

00:37:03,228 --> 00:37:06,588

it's more the realism type stuff, right?

00:37:06,588 --> 00:37:10,188

Cause those are based on, well,

not candy man so much, but the

00:37:10,188 --> 00:37:11,518

other ones are based on real.

00:37:11,703 --> 00:37:13,523

Kind of true crime stories.

00:37:13,633 --> 00:37:17,803

So, I think that's what makes it more

scary because it's based in reality.

00:37:17,983 --> 00:37:21,813

Matt: But I think that's also why today's

horror movies are so much more effective.

00:37:22,023 --> 00:37:22,283

Mm hmm.

00:37:22,353 --> 00:37:26,583

Because, I'm not saying it to degrade

any of the old ones, but the new

00:37:26,583 --> 00:37:28,383

horror movies are just smarter.

00:37:28,538 --> 00:37:28,888

Yeah.

00:37:28,968 --> 00:37:30,208

Like they're more well thought out.

00:37:30,218 --> 00:37:33,568

They're more, they know

that you know the tropes.

00:37:33,568 --> 00:37:36,698

And so they're trying to think, how do

we, how do we twist these, avoid the

00:37:36,698 --> 00:37:39,558

tropes, but yet still make it terrifying.

00:37:39,588 --> 00:37:41,938

Dynae: They completely use

those tropes to make fun of

00:37:41,938 --> 00:37:43,698

things like cabin in the woods.

00:37:43,768 --> 00:37:45,058

I just watched with Chloe the other

00:37:45,058 --> 00:37:45,258

Matt: day.

00:37:45,298 --> 00:37:47,028

Cabin in the woods is another great one.

00:37:47,038 --> 00:37:48,508

If you've never, which is kind of a

00:37:48,898 --> 00:37:51,398

Dynae: horror comedy as well

in a way, because it's so over

00:37:51,398 --> 00:37:52,508

the top that it's comical.

00:37:52,518 --> 00:37:52,748

Yeah.

00:37:52,823 --> 00:37:56,023

And the way that they handle things, but

yeah, that's one that kind of takes a

00:37:56,023 --> 00:37:59,093

left turn that you don't necessarily see

coming, even though they're using all the

00:37:59,093 --> 00:38:00,903

tropes, they're doing it for a reason.

00:38:01,323 --> 00:38:03,483

So that's a fun one if

you haven't seen that one.

00:38:03,873 --> 00:38:05,653

And I think Chloe really

enjoyed it as well.

00:38:05,693 --> 00:38:05,783

Yeah.

00:38:06,503 --> 00:38:09,833

So, but yeah, so we've just been

going back and forth and like, well,

00:38:09,843 --> 00:38:14,293

held up what didn't and we've come

to these conclusions that some of

00:38:14,293 --> 00:38:17,133

these old ones that we were so scared

to watch when we were growing up.

00:38:17,963 --> 00:38:19,643

Really don't hold up at all.

00:38:20,133 --> 00:38:23,273

Matt: One of my favorite moments when we

were watching Pet Sematary though, there

00:38:23,273 --> 00:38:27,563

was the part where the cat got killed

and they kind of like brought it back.

00:38:27,983 --> 00:38:28,993

And he's all mean.

00:38:29,063 --> 00:38:34,083

Yeah, and both of our cats were sitting

on the ground, like just watching the

00:38:34,083 --> 00:38:35,413

TV going, what the hell is happening?

00:38:35,993 --> 00:38:38,543

Dynae: They kept looking back

at us like, why is he so mad?

00:38:38,863 --> 00:38:40,643

Matt: Like they could

tell something was wrong.

00:38:41,233 --> 00:38:42,723

That was pretty funny, yeah.

00:38:42,953 --> 00:38:45,843

What if we just did to our cats

what our parents did to us?

00:38:46,233 --> 00:38:46,373

We

00:38:46,373 --> 00:38:47,183

Dynae: probably did.

00:38:47,413 --> 00:38:47,733

Yeah.

00:38:47,943 --> 00:38:49,603

Yeah, we traumatized our kitty cats.

00:38:49,883 --> 00:38:50,613

That's so sad.

00:38:50,623 --> 00:38:50,843

Or

00:38:50,843 --> 00:38:52,583

Matt: they're just stupid cats.

00:38:53,583 --> 00:38:54,313

Actually, they're not.

00:38:54,373 --> 00:38:58,383

I love our cats more than anything.

00:38:59,673 --> 00:38:59,833

You

00:38:59,833 --> 00:39:01,083

Dynae: didn't think you'd be a cat person.

00:39:01,123 --> 00:39:03,133

Matt: I freaking love cats.

00:39:05,013 --> 00:39:05,823

The greatest.

00:39:06,188 --> 00:39:09,508

Yeah, I didn't think I would be,

but I think it's also one of those,

00:39:09,528 --> 00:39:13,908

my persona, um, I'm so energetic

and in your face and doing all this

00:39:13,908 --> 00:39:17,248

stuff on stage that when I get home,

I want to kind of just chill out.

00:39:17,748 --> 00:39:23,048

And so cats are, oh man, and cats are

so good at knowing they can be crazy

00:39:23,048 --> 00:39:23,528

Dynae: though too.

00:39:23,758 --> 00:39:24,308

That's true.

00:39:24,328 --> 00:39:26,948

So they're pretty funny and

hilarious at some points as well.

00:39:26,948 --> 00:39:27,358

But,

00:39:27,548 --> 00:39:30,668

Matt: but you know, when you're sick,

any, anytime the kids are sick, all

00:39:30,668 --> 00:39:32,318

three of our cats will go lay on them.

00:39:32,563 --> 00:39:33,953

Cats just know.

00:39:34,103 --> 00:39:36,953

Dynae: Yeah, they're attuned

to your nervous system.

00:39:36,993 --> 00:39:37,163

Yeah,

00:39:37,253 --> 00:39:38,163

Matt: I don't know why I went off on cats.

00:39:38,163 --> 00:39:39,863

Cats are a horror movie

00:39:40,133 --> 00:39:40,283

Dynae: thing though.

00:39:40,913 --> 00:39:41,373

Black cats.

00:39:41,513 --> 00:39:43,533

Yeah, we were talking about Pet Sematary.

00:39:43,583 --> 00:39:43,893

Yes.

00:39:44,693 --> 00:39:48,403

Church, Church the Cat, which is pretty

funny when you think about that too.

00:39:50,433 --> 00:39:52,793

Which I have not seen the

remakes of Pet Sematary.

00:39:52,793 --> 00:39:53,523

You have.

00:39:53,603 --> 00:39:54,043

I have.

00:39:54,093 --> 00:39:56,503

Um, so I should probably go

back and watch those as well.

00:39:56,523 --> 00:39:56,963

Well, and it's

00:39:56,963 --> 00:40:01,263

Matt: tough too because we've watched only

the first ones of a lot of these series.

00:40:01,283 --> 00:40:01,713

Yeah.

00:40:01,753 --> 00:40:03,173

But then you also look at it and you go...

00:40:03,433 --> 00:40:05,703

Oh, Nightmare on Elm Street Part 12.

00:40:05,883 --> 00:40:06,273

Dynae: Yeah.

00:40:06,513 --> 00:40:09,673

Well, like I said, that's why they

probably developed the character and

00:40:09,673 --> 00:40:14,113

everything into the myth and persona

that it is through all of the sequels.

00:40:14,133 --> 00:40:17,263

Matt: I will tell you one thing, I

hope I don't divide any of our audience

00:40:17,263 --> 00:40:19,273

if you are huge horror movie fans.

00:40:19,743 --> 00:40:25,803

One of my least favorite movies that I've

ever seen was the first Hellraiser movie.

00:40:27,183 --> 00:40:28,363

Cause it was just gross.

00:40:28,393 --> 00:40:29,973

Dynae: Well, so I think

that's torture porn

00:40:29,973 --> 00:40:30,233

Matt: kind of stuff, right?

00:40:30,243 --> 00:40:33,623

It was torture porn, but also the

acting might have been worse than

00:40:33,643 --> 00:40:35,323

any of the movies we've seen so far.

00:40:35,333 --> 00:40:35,923

Oh, wow.

00:40:36,053 --> 00:40:36,753

That's pretty rough.

00:40:36,803 --> 00:40:39,643

But I would be curious to go back

and watch it with you just for that.

00:40:39,783 --> 00:40:40,493

I don't want to watch

00:40:40,493 --> 00:40:41,193

Dynae: anything like that.

00:40:41,193 --> 00:40:42,753

That's just gross to be gross though.

00:40:42,783 --> 00:40:46,703

Matt: Well, and the funny thing is Pinhead

really isn't just like the other movies.

00:40:46,713 --> 00:40:50,093

He's not like a major

feature like you think he is.

00:40:50,243 --> 00:40:51,003

Dynae: It's just that.

00:40:51,303 --> 00:40:52,963

scary vision of it.

00:40:53,273 --> 00:40:56,523

Matt: Somebody in our high school

though did that and they did pinhead

00:40:56,623 --> 00:41:00,013

as a mask and put on it looked amazing.

00:41:00,013 --> 00:41:00,353

Yeah.

00:41:00,613 --> 00:41:03,843

So, but it's kind of like, you

know, the, the fear of the unknown

00:41:03,843 --> 00:41:05,623

or you don't know, like jaws.

00:41:06,203 --> 00:41:08,213

I think that might be another reason why.

00:41:08,553 --> 00:41:09,553

You don't like deep water.

00:41:09,563 --> 00:41:11,803

Yes, I wash jaws probably too early.

00:41:12,213 --> 00:41:15,753

So I've had a, even to this day it's

hard for me to go swimming in the lake.

00:41:16,193 --> 00:41:20,543

And I only do now because the kids aren't

scared and they just jump in off the dock.

00:41:20,873 --> 00:41:21,793

You have to be the protective parent.

00:41:21,793 --> 00:41:24,973

I have to be dead and I have to be

there and ready for them even though the

00:41:24,973 --> 00:41:26,853

whole time like my butthole's tingling.

00:41:27,763 --> 00:41:29,773

What is swimming around me right now?

00:41:30,693 --> 00:41:31,923

Your butthole is tingling.

00:41:31,973 --> 00:41:35,603

Is that a bad sign if you jump in the

lake and your butthole starts to tingle?

00:41:35,823 --> 00:41:37,193

It's probably not a good thing.

00:41:37,433 --> 00:41:39,463

Let's clip this and use it as a promo.

00:41:40,933 --> 00:41:41,503

Dynae: Oh my gosh.

00:41:42,583 --> 00:41:44,543

Uh, welcome to our humor, you guys.

00:41:44,543 --> 00:41:44,903

Indeed.

00:41:45,063 --> 00:41:49,593

Matt: But the reason I brought up Jaws

is basically you don't see Jaws for

00:41:49,593 --> 00:41:54,103

the first hour plus in the scariness.

00:41:54,233 --> 00:41:58,323

You maybe see the fin, all that

type of anticipation type stuff.

00:41:58,713 --> 00:41:59,033

Yeah.

00:41:59,768 --> 00:42:01,058

And Pinhead was the same way.

00:42:01,108 --> 00:42:04,258

Like you don't even see Pinhead

until like the very end of the movie.

00:42:04,928 --> 00:42:06,368

And man, the acting is so bad.

00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:12,218

But I did just out of curiosity

because when I go on my work trips,

00:42:12,338 --> 00:42:14,788

I know there's a lot of movies

that you don't like to watch.

00:42:14,808 --> 00:42:17,348

So I tend to download

a lot of horror movies.

00:42:18,653 --> 00:42:19,313

And for me.

00:42:19,343 --> 00:42:22,423

Yeah, and then I can, I can

sift through, because I think

00:42:22,423 --> 00:42:23,953

I found a meme the other day.

00:42:23,983 --> 00:42:25,343

Did I end up sending it to you?

00:42:25,573 --> 00:42:26,843

You have to be more specific.

00:42:27,023 --> 00:42:32,233

But it was basically something along

the lines of going through 50 terrible

00:42:32,233 --> 00:42:34,183

horror movies to find that one gem.

00:42:35,053 --> 00:42:36,513

That's kind of what I do for you.

00:42:37,093 --> 00:42:37,543

Does that make sense?

00:42:37,553 --> 00:42:40,788

I watch a lot of the bad stuff, and

sometimes I'll come back and go, Hey,

00:42:40,788 --> 00:42:41,978

this one was actually really good.

00:42:41,978 --> 00:42:42,708

We should watch it together.

00:42:43,368 --> 00:42:44,898

Dynae: Like you watch

the Terrifier movies.

00:42:44,898 --> 00:42:47,158

I know right away I don't

need to watch any of those.

00:42:47,358 --> 00:42:51,078

Matt: Talk about movies

that will divide a crowd.

00:42:52,228 --> 00:42:56,368

They are the grossest things I've

probably ever seen, if that makes sense.

00:42:56,788 --> 00:42:59,808

Like, that is full on

torture porn for real.

00:43:00,308 --> 00:43:08,238

However, the villain, Art the Clown, Is

a mime and his performance is phenomenal.

00:43:08,708 --> 00:43:09,028

Okay.

00:43:09,088 --> 00:43:09,758

Like as an actor.

00:43:09,758 --> 00:43:10,608

I'll just trust you on that.

00:43:10,618 --> 00:43:10,838

Yeah.

00:43:10,978 --> 00:43:16,158

Like as an actor myself and as a,

you know, just movie buff and his

00:43:16,158 --> 00:43:18,528

performance is mesmerizing to watch.

00:43:18,848 --> 00:43:22,008

It's almost like I'd rather watch

a whole movie of him just being

00:43:22,068 --> 00:43:26,678

a mime, a creepy mime clown and

leave out all the gory other stuff.

00:43:26,678 --> 00:43:27,238

Other stuff.

00:43:27,288 --> 00:43:27,558

Yeah.

00:43:27,798 --> 00:43:28,558

Art the clown.

00:43:28,588 --> 00:43:29,278

Phenomenal.

00:43:29,378 --> 00:43:30,418

The movies themselves.

00:43:30,998 --> 00:43:31,488

Dynae: Ooh.

00:43:31,898 --> 00:43:32,258

Yeah.

00:43:32,413 --> 00:43:34,213

So yeah, we're kind of in this place now.

00:43:34,213 --> 00:43:37,513

It's like, we've got, with

our kids, it's like, we got to

00:43:37,513 --> 00:43:38,583

do the family friendly stuff.

00:43:38,583 --> 00:43:41,283

Like, I tried to watch Sleepy

Hollow with Cora the other day,

00:43:41,283 --> 00:43:42,843

but she still wasn't quite into it.

00:43:43,203 --> 00:43:45,123

Instantly, we tried to

watch A Quiet Place.

00:43:45,123 --> 00:43:46,463

We thought, okay, she might handle that.

00:43:46,483 --> 00:43:47,843

Because she likes Stranger Things.

00:43:47,853 --> 00:43:49,163

She watched all of those.

00:43:49,403 --> 00:43:52,963

Granted, we did, the last season

especially, kind of, you know, filter

00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:54,413

some stuff because she didn't need to see

00:43:54,413 --> 00:43:54,673

Matt: that.

00:43:54,713 --> 00:43:57,683

Yeah, we watched it beforehand and

knew when the bad parts were coming.

00:43:57,683 --> 00:43:58,193

And so kind of

00:43:58,193 --> 00:44:00,643

Dynae: skipped over a few or

warned her to be like, okay, you

00:44:00,683 --> 00:44:01,893

might not want to watch this part.

00:44:02,083 --> 00:44:06,403

But, we tried to watch A Quiet

Place and as soon as that one first

00:44:06,403 --> 00:44:07,923

scene, she was like, nope, I'm out.

00:44:08,288 --> 00:44:08,708

I can't do

00:44:08,708 --> 00:44:08,938

Matt: it.

00:44:09,018 --> 00:44:12,888

Well, a quiet place does

such a good job with tension.

00:44:12,988 --> 00:44:14,238

Yeah, she couldn't take it.

00:44:14,278 --> 00:44:18,138

I remember when we went and watched it

in the theater, and just how purposeful

00:44:18,138 --> 00:44:20,328

they make it so quiet in the crowd.

00:44:20,448 --> 00:44:23,468

Every time I'd eat my popcorn,

I'd like grab a handful.

00:44:23,508 --> 00:44:24,208

You're like, shhh.

00:44:25,318 --> 00:44:25,728

And then I put them out.

00:44:28,078 --> 00:44:28,998

Dynae: Oh, you'd be dead.

00:44:29,238 --> 00:44:29,498

Yeah.

00:44:31,283 --> 00:44:33,563

Matt: Oh, that's probably

legitimately why they did it.

00:44:33,643 --> 00:44:34,173

Oh man.

00:44:34,213 --> 00:44:35,793

I love me some psychology.

00:44:36,223 --> 00:44:38,663

Dynae: And maybe that's why we like

horror movies so much too, because

00:44:38,663 --> 00:44:41,693

there is a lot of that in there and

like psychology of fear and what makes

00:44:41,693 --> 00:44:43,933

people, you know, scared and stuff like

00:44:43,933 --> 00:44:44,173

Matt: that.

00:44:44,213 --> 00:44:47,293

Well, and I think people like it

too because they intentionally

00:44:47,293 --> 00:44:50,143

make the people in the movies do

the stupidest decisions possible.

00:44:50,143 --> 00:44:51,733

Yeah, and you're like,

why would you do that?

00:44:51,743 --> 00:44:54,323

Because you as a person would

go, well, I would never do that.

00:44:54,333 --> 00:44:54,613

Which is

00:44:54,653 --> 00:44:56,293

Dynae: why I loved the movie Nope.

00:44:56,598 --> 00:45:00,658

Because it was very just relatable, like

everything that's scary happened in there.

00:45:00,658 --> 00:45:02,768

We're like, I'm not doing, nope,

we're not going to do that.

00:45:04,218 --> 00:45:05,798

And the Jordan Peele movies are great.

00:45:05,838 --> 00:45:08,948

We've, we have watched several of

those with the kids and they do enjoy

00:45:08,948 --> 00:45:09,158

Matt: those.

00:45:09,248 --> 00:45:10,178

Get Out, Us.

00:45:10,698 --> 00:45:10,878

Yeah.

00:45:10,908 --> 00:45:11,298

All three of

00:45:11,298 --> 00:45:11,848

Dynae: those are great.