#7 Was It Just The Ex?

Caleb, Stefan, and Andy join forces to solve one of the biggest mysteries from Appalachia. A story of hiking through the woods alone and hearing scary noises and seeing haunting images. Could it be a wendigo or is it just the ex?

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Transcript

SPEAKER_08 0:00

Shut up, bye.

SPEAKER_06 0:01

Shut up, love you.

SPEAKER_02 0:03

We're back with the Digital Fire podcast. It's Stefan and Andy today with Caleb. And Stefan's gonna We gotta crack one with the boys.

SPEAKER_03 0:13

Yeah, you guys do what do you what are you having to drink over there in that big A. In the Charlie Brown cup. And my Charlie Brown mug. I have hot tea. Turmeric and I know it's pronounced turmeric. Turmeric and chamomile.

SPEAKER_04 0:30

Dude, I forgot to bring the Vaseline for the turmeric.

SPEAKER_03 0:32

And Stefan has blueberry tea.

SPEAKER_04 0:35

Blueberry white tea from Arizona.

SPEAKER_03 0:38

Andy with the healthiest.

SPEAKER_04 0:41

The Coca-Cola.

SPEAKER_03 0:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 0:43

Coca-Cola. Original taste. Original taste. Play the ratatouille song now. What's that one?

SPEAKER_09 0:51

What's the ratatouille? The French leaked a bit.

SPEAKER_03 0:58

Yeah, that sounded so French. The lact Stefan, I didn't know that you spoke fluent French.

SPEAKER_09 1:05

I I do. That's all I know how to do it. What did you just say? One, two, three, or Madame Blue Belly. Whoa. Remember the veggie? You remember the veggie tales? Veggie Tales, Madame Blue Belly.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

What was the the premise of it? It was the thing that we were supposed to learn from that one.

SPEAKER_09 1:24

Oh, it was about like no matter how many things you own, it's like you'll never be happy until you appreciate the smaller things given to you.

SPEAKER_04 1:31

I don't even remember that veggie episode.

SPEAKER_09 1:33

So Madame Blueberry went on like a whole thing of like spending money on everything because she was so rich and she's like, I have to have everything. And so then her house that was in a tree house collapses from all the stuff. But then she sees Junior and his dad in the store. He's like, Oh my gosh, this train set. And then he's like, you know, we can't afford it, and everything like that. So then he's like, Here, how about a paddle ball, son?

SPEAKER_06 1:58

And he's like, Oh my god, this is so cool. And then, like, they just and then she's like, Oh my gosh, no matter how much money I have, I'll never appreciate the things I already have.

SPEAKER_09 2:08

And then it's like, surprise, there we go. And then it's like Madam Bluebelly, and then she just does her thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:15

I feel so educated. I do too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

Who even needs to be? I should just do a veggie tales review. Yeah, you should do narration for all the nostalgia.

SPEAKER_04 2:22

Yeah, stop drawing Sonic and stuff, dude. Start doing Veggie Tales.

SPEAKER_03 2:25

Veggie Tales in one minute. Veggie Tales in one minute. Stefan Hansen.

SPEAKER_04 2:31

Million views.

SPEAKER_07 2:32

Easy.

SPEAKER_09 2:33

I'll do the next one on Larry Boy.

SPEAKER_07 2:36

Larry Boy, did it and dinner? Larry Boy. Larry Boy. Oh the baby. And he sings too.

SPEAKER_02 2:47

I do. We're gonna move on. I do weddings.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Stefano's weddings. Stefano's weddings. Stefano's weddings. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 2:59

Speaking of doing weddings, I'm doing I'm DJing a couple weddings this summer. No way. Yeah, dude. Almost like 1700 bucks each wedding that I'm holding. I'm DJ, dude. I'm pumped. I'm just gonna play baby shark if I ever do that. Alongside with the two or three jobs that I already have. Oh my gosh. Yeah, dude, turn about a house. A moment of silence. Trying to buy a house.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

Trying to buy a house. Fair enough. Yeah, good luck in this market. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 3:25

In this economy. If anything, I think the in this economy right now, the best thing I'm gonna be able to maybe afford is a mobile home.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

Maybe I'll buy a bungalow. A bungalow?

SPEAKER_09 3:34

Yeah. My folks, my dad down in Florida, he was like, Yeah, if you ever decide to come uh, you know, want to try something down here in Florida, I'm like, yeah, deal with hurricanes and like crocodiles. Yeah, I'm good.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

Alligators.

SPEAKER_09 3:45

Alligators, whatever. Get it right. Sorry, Steve Rowan.

SPEAKER_03 3:49

Yeah, but it's warm there.

SPEAKER_09 3:51

Yeah, it's warm, but I'm not wanting to sit here and have like a freaking alarm going off.

SPEAKER_04 3:57

Are crocodiles more likely in like South America and like uh Africa and stuff like that?

SPEAKER_09 4:02

It's like hurricane season. Oh my gosh, hurricane Katrina again, and then it's like everything gets swept up and flooded.

SPEAKER_03 4:09

Yeah, but the thing about Katrina is Louisiana is under the sea level.

SPEAKER_04 4:14

Below sea level, I mean under the sea, under the sea.

SPEAKER_03 4:25

But the thing is, is it's warm. Stefan, you could ride your bike all the time. I could. I went there in January last year, it was 80 degrees. Jeez. Yeah. 80 degrees sounds pretty nice. It does. Compared to here, because it's now it's like 46 degrees. In the summertime, it gets real hot, but at least you have the ocean breeze.

SPEAKER_09 4:46

Yeah, you're right. And sharks.

SPEAKER_03 4:48

Yeah, I'm talking about yeah, they don't fly in with the breeze. What if they did? It was Sharknado. I knew I knew as soon as I mentioned that you were gonna bring up Sharknado. I knew it.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

Classic movies, dude.

SPEAKER_03 5:00

Exactly. That is one of the best movies ever made.

SPEAKER_04 5:04

Do you remember when we watched like the first couple movies at our old house? Do you remember when they're watching the news and they had to put tape over the name of the TV because of uh what is it called?

SPEAKER_03 5:16

Really?

SPEAKER_02 5:16

Yeah, that's so stupid.

SPEAKER_03 5:18

I think they had to do it with a computer too, so it didn't say Dell.

SPEAKER_09 5:22

You know what's dumb too? They did the same thing with the uh the Queen Mary, so they made a Titanic too, and it's like set a hundred years in the future, so they're like, we're gonna replicate the Titanic, and they used the Queen Mary, but they had to paint over where it said Queen Mary and like make sure it had nothing to do in resemblance to that boat for copyright reasons. That's crazy. And then the CGI was so bad, it looked like PS2 graphics at best, maybe. And then yeah, so then it takes a it takes a turn for Poseidon, the one boat that capsizes at uh New Year's, and it takes inspiration from Titanic, and the boat still sinks like normal, and they're like, looks like history is repeating itself, and then like of course the guy dies and then the girl lives. So it's a whole Jack and Rose situation.

SPEAKER_04 6:07

Poor Jack.

SPEAKER_09 6:08

I would have kicked her off the door.

SPEAKER_04 6:09

Dude, Jack does deserve better.

SPEAKER_09 6:12

He did. Myth Bothers uh Mythbusters proved that though, that Jack could have survived. Yeah, yeah. They did it like years ago. They were like, Yeah, the buoyancy like works just fine. So Rose uh murdered Jack.

SPEAKER_05 6:24

I was like, whoa.

SPEAKER_03 6:28

How does he die? She just lets go and he sinks.

SPEAKER_09 6:30

No, he was so they tried to get on the door, yeah, and it was obviously like North Atlantic water, so it was like negative 20 degrees Fahrenheit or something. Yeah, he does it like freeze.

SPEAKER_03 6:39

And Stefan, the water was flowing, it can't be that freezing. It'd be ice.

SPEAKER_02 6:42

Well, it'd be like, I don't know, it was cold as heck.

SPEAKER_03 6:46

Yeah, I know. To the point there was icebergs, dude. It was basically Yeah, I know, but if if the water is below 20 degrees, it would be solid ice.

SPEAKER_09 6:53

I think it no, I think it was I think it was like probably 27 degrees. Like it was really cold because it was basically in 20 minutes, you like could die of hypothermia was high.

SPEAKER_04 7:02

Polar plunge, am I right?

SPEAKER_09 7:03

Yeah, it was bad. Yeah, but um, yeah, Jack basically he was trying to get on the door with Rose, but he was like, I want Rose to live. So then he just sat in the water from like the neck down. So the water just basically froze him to death, and he just died of hypothermia, and he was frozen to her hand, and he's like, I'll never let go, Jack. I promise. And then the hope diamonds in her hand, and she just throws it in the water at the end and then dies in her sleep, and they're like, Oh my gosh, Jack! And then they kiss at the end, and then it's like bada bing bada boom, done.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

Yeah, but doesn't she let go of him while she's floating on the door and he just immediately sinks? Yeah, which is not how this happened.

SPEAKER_09 7:40

Yeah, he just sinks like his hands up in the air, like he's almost reaching, and then he just like goes into the abyss, and then it just I need to watch that movie again. I have the hundredth year anniversary edition on Blu-ray. Wow, with deleted scenes.

SPEAKER_03 7:54

I'm gonna be honest with you guys, I have no desire to ever watch that movie. I'm glad you like it.

SPEAKER_09 7:57

It's like four hours long or something like that. It's crazy.

SPEAKER_04 8:00

So it's Justice League.

SPEAKER_09 8:02

But that was the highest grossing film James Cameron made before Avatar and before Avengers Endgame. Yeah. Uh actually Avengers Endgame beat it. Yeah, it was a great movie. Yeah, and James Cameron actually paid like homage. He was just like, Yeah, you guys beat my record and my you know things sank. But you know what? Props to you guys. And then his own other film, Avatar, beat Titanic and Avengers Endgame. Yeah. So he came back.

SPEAKER_04 8:30

Dude, the last two Avatar movies, I don't like them as much as the first one.

SPEAKER_09 8:35

The f yeah, the first one was really good. I saw the second one, I was like, eh. And then I don't know, I have not seen the uh what is it, Fire and Ash or something?

SPEAKER_03 8:42

I haven't seen the other two.

SPEAKER_04 8:43

Nah, I always thought Fire and Ash was not great. It didn't it did not see great uh receive great reviews either.

SPEAKER_03 8:48

Yeah, but like the bad person, that lady is bad, like a baddie. Come on. You laugh because you agree.

SPEAKER_09 8:57

I think I think Hollywood is just running out of ideas, so they're just like, let's make a Trinity.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

I think they're I I think they're just following the elements, obviously.

SPEAKER_09 9:06

Yeah, but it's like at the same time, it's like okay, fire and ash. If I saw my second film, like if I made a first film uh-huh and then it was like really well received and really good, and people are like, Yeah, let's make a sequel, and then the second one wasn't well well received, I'd be like, probably shouldn't make a third one. But Zootopia, the first one did really good, and the second one actually did do Zootopia 2 was actually really good. The second one actually surpassed that one.

SPEAKER_03 9:32

Ooh, I haven't seen the second one.

SPEAKER_09 9:33

Yeah, it's good.

SPEAKER_03 9:34

Well, here's the thing is everybody, even if the movies are bad, you're all still gonna go watch them. That's not true. That is true. You did you go and see Fire and Ash? No, you didn't? I I saw it on TV, I rented it.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

Yeah, you still you still gave money to it though, yeah, like three bucks instead of like 30 for popcorn popcorn.

SPEAKER_03 9:54

They're not getting the popcorn profits. Imagine James Cameron.

SPEAKER_08 9:59

He's like, I got this guy's $30 worth of popcorn, and he's just eating it. He just steals it from Andy and just is like, this is mine. This is mine now. Mine. Crazy.

SPEAKER_03 10:13

So should we get in?

SPEAKER_08 10:15

Should we get into what what this podcast is about? What an intro. How many minutes has it been? Ten minutes. Ten minutes. Yeah. Ten minutes you guys can't stop talking.

SPEAKER_03 10:25

Oh, him. Alright. Shall we? Let's jump in. Dumbest thing ever.

SPEAKER_08 10:36

But I love it.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

Oh, it's the dumbest thing yet. It's so great.

SPEAKER_04 10:39

I thought he said dopest thing. I'm I was both.

SPEAKER_03 10:42

I'm telling the creator of this podcast that you said it's the dumbest thing.

SPEAKER_09 10:45

Don't tell Caleb, Caleb.

SPEAKER_03 10:48

Alright, so we have two. One of them, we're gonna go off the beaten trail of the dating stories and go with a scary, spooky one from Tales from Appalachia. And if people don't like it because it's not dating, the second one is.

SPEAKER_05 11:01

So have to move on. Skip to 20 minutes and 30 seconds into the podcast and hear the dating story.

SPEAKER_04 11:08

We gotta talk that much now to be.

SPEAKER_03 11:11

Yeah, we gotta talk for 12 minutes, Steph, and you ruined it.

SPEAKER_04 11:14

Dang it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 11:15

So I better I better speed I better speedrun this. Hi, I'm not really sure how to start this, and I don't even Kenen! Hi, I'm not really sure how to start this. And I don't even know if this is the kind of thing you usually read on the show. But I've been listening for a while and I don't know who else to tell. Everyone I've tried talking to about this either laughs it off or tells me I was just tired or dehydrated or letting my imagination get to me. Dehydrated.

SPEAKER_04 11:46

And thus starts the movie The Nun.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

Well, people can do some crazy things when they're dehydrated. I guess. Or hungry.

SPEAKER_09 11:52

Hungry, yeah, I get. But dehydrated, I mean, I would see hallucinate, like, you know, be hallu what do you call it? Hallucinic.

SPEAKER_03 12:00

Hallucinating. Hallucinic is the one, yes.

unknown 12:05

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

Yeah, that's basically what said person is saying.

SPEAKER_04 12:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 12:10

That if they're dehydrated, you can that can happen.

SPEAKER_04 12:13

So they're hallucinating.

SPEAKER_03 12:14

But I know what I heard. There we go. And I know what I saw. This happened about three weeks ago. Why are you just telling us now? I was hiking alone through a stretch of the Appalachian Mountains.

SPEAKER_04 12:26

Three weeks to write that.

SPEAKER_03 12:27

Nothing extreme. Just a few days on a quieter, less traveled section of trail, which you shouldn't do in Appalachia.

SPEAKER_09 12:35

That's like a death trap right there already.

SPEAKER_03 12:38

I've done solo hikes before. I wonder if this is Ethan riding.

SPEAKER_04 12:41

What if it was Ethan? He was in the Appalachian. Dude, I've been meaning to ask him. Sorry to rabbit trail, but I've been meaning to ask him because he's gone through the Appalachian. Um, if he's ever experienced any like weird.

SPEAKER_03 12:53

Don't you think he would just tell us that if he did?

SPEAKER_04 12:55

No. What if he doesn't? What if he doesn't want to? He doesn't want to relive that.

SPEAKER_03 12:59

I've heard some pretty crazy stories about freaking Wendigo's and trail out there. There's trail adventures.

SPEAKER_09 13:05

Or Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_04 13:06

No, Bigfoot. Or Bigfoot. No, Bigfoot's in California.

SPEAKER_09 13:09

You know, there is something scarier known to man next to Bigfoot. It is Bigfoot.

SPEAKER_03 13:18

That was just not even worded properly. No, it's just so bad. That's what made it funny. Okay. Nothing extreme. Just a few days on a quieter, less traveled section of trail. I've done solo hikes before, and I actually prefer them. I like the silence. The kind that feels clean, like the world has been scrubbed of noise.

SPEAKER_07 13:42

But it wasn't clean for long.

SPEAKER_03 13:46

At least that's what it felt like. There we go. There it is. There is a sentence, where is it? I gotta find it.

SPEAKER_09 13:56

Is it labeled on your thing? Yeah. This story.

SPEAKER_03 14:02

Oh, dude, I wrote this so long ago. You told me to do the scary music. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 14:06

I forgot about this.

SPEAKER_03 14:09

The first day was normal, uneventful. Birds win through the trees the usual. I made camp before dark, cooked a simple meal, and turned in early. Nothing strange. What are you laughing at?

SPEAKER_07 14:27

Until it arrived.

SPEAKER_01 14:32

There you go. That was the perfect day.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

Wait for it. Here it comes. I remember Stefan thought this was the like the scariest thing I've ever made. It was.

SPEAKER_03 14:42

It really was. It really like freaked him out. He had had nightmares for days. There it is.

SPEAKER_00 14:47

It got you that time, too.

SPEAKER_03 14:49

Yeah, that time it did. Oh, it's just dying down, and they're just like It was the second day things started to feel scary.

SPEAKER_04 14:58

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_03 14:59

I noticed it around midday. I hadn't seen another person since early morning, which wasn't unusual, but the woods had gone quiet in a way I can't really explain. Not peaceful, quiet, more like everything had stopped at once.

SPEAKER_09 15:15

You know what's funny? Just to tie it in with this. So the when you have urban legends like the Windigo, Bigfoot, or whatever for like cryptozoology, it's said that when the whole forest goes quiet, like no birds chirping, no crowing. It's the animals showing respect to whatever is in the woods at that point to know that like you're clearly the alpha and we're nothing. So that's like when you're like run.

SPEAKER_03 15:43

If you're I would just think that they were thinking of me. Bro, if I need to get that noise. I need to get the riz noise. That has been missing. How did I not think about that? I'm I'm dumb.

SPEAKER_04 16:00

Next episode.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Yeah, next episode. Next episode. Next time, guys, sorry. Shut up. No, no insects, no birds, nothing moving in the underbrush. It felt like the forest was holding its breath. Hey, kind of like what you just said. Yeah. Stefan knows. I remember actually stopping on the trail. Are you doing the Call of Duty thing?

SPEAKER_08 16:27

Like when he comes up for air when he's swimming. Or when it comes to it.

SPEAKER_03 16:32

When you're like shot a bunch of times. Yeah, when you shot a bunch of times. I like how you just lay down and that's how you heal. As if that would really work in real life.

SPEAKER_09 16:40

Or you know, you just we should try it. You just do like a stimmy.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

Yeah, you just shoot me a couple times with a gun. I'll go lay down and see what happens.

SPEAKER_09 16:45

Yeah. You'll you'll regenerate, you're fine.

SPEAKER_03 16:47

You just come back, I'm dead.

SPEAKER_09 16:50

Guys, it didn't work.

SPEAKER_03 16:53

I remember actually stopping on the trail and saying out loud, hello, which sounds stupid now. That is stupid. But it just felt like I wasn't alone anymore. Not in the normal that are animals nearby way, but like I was being watched. Nothing answered, obviously. So I kept walking. About an hour later, I heard something behind me. Anyone want to take a guess of what it was?

SPEAKER_04 17:14

Another hiker. It was John Cena.

SPEAKER_03 17:19

Shot. We'll see if it's an invisible person. The answer is footsteps. Not animal movement, actual footsteps, slow, deliberate, matching my pace. Ooh. When I stopped, they stopped. When I started walking again, they started too.

SPEAKER_09 17:38

That's the creepiest thing to have happen. Is just if you stop and you don't hear them after you, it's like, ooh, no, thank you. I'm out. I'm running.

SPEAKER_03 17:47

I would just talk walking backwards.

SPEAKER_02 17:50

Yeah, they just walk backwards with you.

SPEAKER_04 17:52

I would just lay out a huge fart and then let them walk through it.

SPEAKER_03 17:55

What if they farted too?

SPEAKER_02 17:56

It's like just an echo of like a muddier one.

SPEAKER_03 18:03

I turned around expecting to see another hiker messing with me or trying to catch up. There was no one there. The trail behind me was empty, just a long stretch of dirt and trees bending out of sight. I stood there for a while, listening, but everything was silent again. No footsteps, no wind, nothing. Oh thank you. I told myself it was an echo, or maybe something shifting in the woods that sounded like steps. I tried to shake it off, but then it happened again. This time closer. Stefan is scared right now. I didn't turn around immediately. I don't know why. Something in me, excuse you. Something in me didn't want to look. I just kept walking. Faster now, and I could hear it clearly behind me. Step, step, step, no, perfectly in time with me. I finally spun around, heart pounding. Still nothing. Well, get on with it. Like, how many times is there gonna be nothing? I didn't know. No movement, no person, no animal, just trees. That's when I noticed something else. Oh. The woods didn't look the same. I don't mean I got lost. I was still on the trail, but the trees looked wrong. Taller than they should have been, too straight. The bark looked darker, almost wet, even though it hadn't rained. And there was this smell like damp earth mixed with something rotten.

SPEAKER_09 19:39

No, wendigo. Is that what it is? Yeah, wendigo. If it smells like that, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 19:44

Oh no, dude. I would I would run. I would run as fast as I could. Dude, you do not want to mess with I might pee my pants, dude. It would be poop poop universe in my pants. Just a trail.

SPEAKER_03 19:57

I'm gone.

SPEAKER_04 19:59

I'd be gone immediately.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Yeah, I'd probably poop my pants too. I'd have to get myself a fresh diapey. A diapy? Depends. I checked my map, my compass, everything. I was exactly where I was supposed to be. But it didn't feel like it. I decided to make camp early that day. Why would you camp in there? I would just keep running.

SPEAKER_09 20:24

Yeah, at that point, why are you gonna be like in the same spot? Like that something is clearly following you.

SPEAKER_03 20:31

But also walking through the woods in the dark is equally as scary.

SPEAKER_09 20:34

I would at least find like 100%.

SPEAKER_03 20:36

I would feel safer if I was in a tent and like under my sleeping bag and just closing my eyes.

SPEAKER_09 20:41

My thing, so when me and my dad and my brother all went camping up in uh what is it, Grayland, Michigan, or Grayling. Oh yeah. We we um we had it at night where we heard somebody like walking around all the tents because it was our tent, and then was like two other sets of people's tents that were like on separate sides. Like we could see each other if we like peeked our heads out, but we heard like the footsteps and everything, and we didn't know who it was because there was no flashlight to see if it was like you know a cop or something like that. Yeah, just somebody walking around, and we were like, we just all stood still because we were just like, What do we do? Like my dad had brought like a knife and everything else to like defend and a machete or whatever, but same time it's like we were, I think we weren't young enough to have a like a gun, but like we like just didn't have one. Like my dad didn't have one, I didn't have one, and my brother didn't have one.

SPEAKER_03 21:32

Yeah, it was always like a it's terrifying when camping.

SPEAKER_09 21:36

Yeah, I don't like I'd rather it be an animal than like a windigo or or even worse, a person. I'd rather honestly be that. At least it's like going by instinct to like to be curious. It's not like a human where you know its actions are like you know nefarious.

SPEAKER_03 21:52

Yeah. I didn't want to keep going deeper into wherever I was. Setting up my tent felt rushed. I kept looking over my shoulder again. Expecting to see someone standing just behind the tree line. Every little sound made me jump. As night fell, the silence came back. Total absolute silence. You're right, dude. No crickets, no owls, nothing. I've never experienced anything like it. It was so quiet that my ears actually started ringing like they were trying to compensate. Tonitis. And then I heard it. Tonitis. What did they hear?

SPEAKER_04 22:28

The hello back to him that he said earlier.

SPEAKER_02 22:31

Oh, dude, I would. Yeah, no, Windigo. I'm leaving the tent.

SPEAKER_04 22:35

Yeah, I'm leaving the tent. I'm leaving the sleeping bag, whatever else. As long as I can grab my machete or whatever I had as a tool, I'm running. Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:41

No, Windigo are known for that too. They they mimic the voice of like you or whoever else, and then they like try to lure you in.

SPEAKER_04 22:49

I thought it was a thing where they mimic the last person they killed, but it was like Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 22:55

They take their voice. And then the only thing is, too, with Windigo, it's really weird, but like how the legend goes of it is like they can't enter your house unless you invite them in. So like they'll That's vampires. They'll not oh yeah, that is vampires, isn't it? Why was I thinking Windigo was that? No, but there was something I heard.

SPEAKER_03 23:13

A vampire can only enter your house if you invite them.

SPEAKER_09 23:15

Yeah, if you invite it in. So like even if they're they're they're they're proper people. They're proper, yeah. They're proper blood suckers. They're modest creatures.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

Yeah. And then I heard it. My name. Oh no. Clear as day. Yep. Spoken from somewhere just outside the trees. It sounded exactly like my sister. Same voice, same tone. Like she was just calling out to get my attention. Nope. I froze. There is no possible way she could have been there. She was back home hundreds of miles away. And even if she wasn't, why would she be standing in the woods calling my name in the dark? I didn't answer. A few seconds passed, and then it came again, closer this time. Hey, can you come here for a second? Nope. Same voice. I would. I'd be like, okay.

SPEAKER_09 24:07

You know what? You're not even supposed to respond to those things, even if they call your name in the voice of somebody you recognize or whatever, because if you do, then it invites them over to like just basically stalk you even more and kill you at that point. It's I did a lot of I I love cryptozoology stuff like that. But Windigo are very terrifying. They are. They're the worst. Yeah, they're very scary.

SPEAKER_03 24:29

They sound scary. Stefan's like shaking. Freaking me out. Same voice, same casual, almost annoyed tone she uses when she wants help with something. I grabbed my flashlight and pointed toward the trees. Nothing. Just darkness and trunks stretching upward. But I swear, I swear for a split second, I saw something move between them. Too tall to be a person. It bent wrong, like its limbs didn't quite match its body. So terrifying. I turned the light off immediately. I don't know why. Instinct, I guess. That's when the voice changed. I tried again, but it wasn't right anymore. The words were the same, but the rhythm was off. Like something repeating a sentence they'd only just learned. Come here for a second. The pauses were wrong. The tone was flatter, less human. I stayed in my tent the entire night. I didn't sleep. Every so often I'd hear movement circling around the campsite. Slow dragging steps, and once, just once, I heard something brush against the side of the tent. Not a paw, not a branch, a hand.

SPEAKER_09 25:34

It reminds me of the Blair Wedge project. Do you remember like when they were in the tent and the hands were like being pressed up against the chest?

SPEAKER_03 25:40

Yes, and I also remember your dad telling us that was a true story, like a real footage movie, and I was freaked out. Yeah, it freaked me out. It came out when we were young, right? And then we were we couldn't even drive, I remember.

SPEAKER_09 25:52

Yeah, because it was at uh I'm not gonna dox their name, but like Deb, that one house. Yep. Yeah, we were at her place, and uh well, it was okay. Here's the only weird part about it, right? So swear to God, true story. So they my brother and him were sleeping on the couch in the living room because everybody was gone except for my dad, and they were just like, Yeah, just have the whole house to yourself, it doesn't matter, whatever. And they were on the couch in the living room, whatever. Me and my dad went out to his room where he was staying, and we woke up randomly in the middle of the like I don't know what time it was, probably like eight o'clock in the morning or earlier, but we heard like a like just three knocks on our window, and the dog that we had, Tiege, he perked up ears like literally like he heard it too. Yeah, me and my dad both sat up, like he was in his bed and I was on a sleeping bag or whatever, like sat up and we looked outside to see, and like nothing. Like there the camera didn't even catch anything either, which was weird, but it was a legit like knock three times.

SPEAKER_03 26:59

Yeah, I feel like it's not that creepy at 8 a.m. though.

SPEAKER_09 27:02

Yeah, but it's like weird that it would just happen after we just got done watching the Blair Witch project the night before. Yeah, jeez, yeah, it was weird because he again, my dad heard it, the dog heard it, and my dad just let Tej out, you know, just to see if it would catch anything. No, he like he he literally kept looking around too.

SPEAKER_04 27:19

It was scary, dude. Yeah, I I do it makes it ten times scarier too, if like because I guess there's like this folklore or whatever about animals, like cats and dogs, they can sense something that you can't see. Yeah, so if a dog hears it too, but you don't see anything, that's 10 times scarier. Yeah, no kidding.

SPEAKER_09 27:39

Yeah, they I think they have a more in tune with the the spirit wet realm or whatever. Like they can see stuff and hear stuff, like that's how like all the paranormal things happen, is like the pets will pick up on it first.

SPEAKER_04 27:53

I think that's why well a lot of people will have cats too. Same thing.

SPEAKER_03 27:58

They have more senses because I think when natural disasters like a tsunami is coming, animals start acting weird too.

SPEAKER_09 28:04

Yeah, and then babies, as weird as it sounded too, they kind of pick up on stuff while they're young. Yeah, like if they're like their imaginary friends, like could be like a poltergeist or something like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:15

I do not oh gosh, I don't want to have kids for that reason.

SPEAKER_04 28:19

I pray I pray that my kids don't do the imaginary friend thing. Nope. I don't pray.

SPEAKER_09 28:25

I don't think any of us growing up had an imaginary friend or anything. I don't think we did.

SPEAKER_04 28:28

I don't think I ever did the imaginary friend. I don't think I did either. It just seems weird to me. Yeah, they've made too many scary movies related to that too.

SPEAKER_09 28:36

Yeah, where it's just the kids that come up with this and it's like it's totally normal. And then like they show like the creature finally coming out, and the the kids like, oh yeah, that's normal. And then it's like a demon. It's like it's like whoa.

SPEAKER_03 28:50

Nope. Or I don't know how much longer the story is, but I'm ready. It's still scared. I'm scared, dude. Hurry up! Long fingers sliding across the fabric. I nearly threw up. By morning, everything was normal again. Birds were back, wind in the trees, the smell was gone. It looked like any other stretch of forest. I packed up as fast as I could and got out of there. I didn't stop until I reached a main road. Here's the part that's really bothering me though. I checked my gear when I got home. Everything was where it should be, except for one thing. My extra pair of boots, the ones I keep strapped to the outside of my pack, were gone. I know I didn't lose them. They were there when I set up camp, but they weren't there when I left. And yesterday I got a text from my sister, just one line. Why did you call me the other night?

SPEAKER_05 29:39

Run. I never called her. Imagine if it was just run.

SPEAKER_03 29:44

Why did you call me the other night? I never called her. I checked my phone, no outgoing calls, no missed calls, nothing. So I guess my question is what did I run into out there?

SPEAKER_09 29:54

When to go.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

And more importantly, is it something that follows you? Because sometimes late at night, when my house is quiet, I swear I can hear something outside. Walking. Not done yet. I only say that because I can see the end. Oh, okay. Let them finish. Matching my steps when I move from room to room, and once, just once from the hallway, I heard my own voice call my name. I don't go outside after dark anymore. I don't answer when I hear it. But I need to know did I do the right thing by ignoring it, or did that make it worse?

SPEAKER_09 30:28

Now here's my thing. I know this again from Windigo is sometimes if that happens, where like you invite it or it's like curious about you, and it does like the whole tent thing, and like how you were saying like the boots were missing, yeah, or whatever. Wendigo are known to if they want to stay in your presence, they will put something in whatever they can find, like it's a bag or your pants pocket or whatever. It's like a little token or something, and so then that still has it as an attached spirit to you. So that's where he's like, he probably I I would tell this dude to like check your bags or whatever else, because you might have something of that windigo put in there, and that's the only reason why it's following you. The minute you get rid of it and destroy it, it's like gone.

SPEAKER_03 31:13

Judging by how long the story is, I'm guessing it's a girl.

SPEAKER_09 31:18

A stalker girl.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

No, I'm saying like the person writing. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 31:24

So yeah, that's the only thing I would suggest for this person, too, for sure. Is just like literally check your bags and anything that you wore that night or had with you that night, and see if there's any kind of weird token or thing that this you know Windigo would have put in there because then the minute again you destroy it or get rid of it, it then it's just it detaches at that point.

SPEAKER_03 31:46

Do you get your boots back though?

SPEAKER_09 31:48

Probably not. Right, they were Tim's.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

You probably wouldn't want those boot bat boots back anyway. No, I wouldn't. No.

SPEAKER_08 31:55

Heck no, I'm like, you can keep them. You're not if they were Tim's.

SPEAKER_03 31:59

Since since this is a uh since this is a dating podcast, what if it was like an ex-boyfriend or something out there? That'd be even creepier.

SPEAKER_09 32:06

That'd be rather a windigo. Oh that's a serious problem if it's an ex- Oh gosh. At least I know if uh it's a windigo and it's hunting me down, at least I'm gonna die knowing what the heck it is or some terrifying monster.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

Yeah, with the idea of it being an ex-boyfriend, assuming this is a girl writing that wrote this story. It's like one of those things where it's just completely psychopathic.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Yeah. Well, let's assume it's a boy. What if it's an ex-girlfriend?

SPEAKER_04 32:29

Then she's also psychopathic.

SPEAKER_02 32:31

It is 2026.

SPEAKER_03 32:32

Yeah, but but does it make it hotter if it's an hot ex-girlfriend? So dumb, dude. Uh by the way, everybody listening, that was a nice fun story, and it was long. So don't forget to send your stories. They could be scary, they could be dating. Uh digitalfire podcast at gmail.com. Digital fire! Andy, what do you think it was in the story? Like, do you have an eye? Do you have a honestly? I still plug in.

SPEAKER_04 33:00

So I try to not I try to not like uh believe in the whole Wendigo thing. But I've I've I've been interested for a little while because I used to like just because Ethan also walked the Appalachian Trail, so I was like Googling him, like, where is it? Uh, what is it about, kind of thing. And some people also like believe in the folklore, like people that actually live there. Like they make the rules like at night, close your windows, uh, shut the blinds, everything. Do not even try to look outside of your windows during the nighttime, kind of thing.

SPEAKER_03 33:29

Yeah, but I feel like that's just because there's creepy people.

SPEAKER_09 33:31

That too. I'm sure it's just creepy people.

SPEAKER_04 33:36

But like most of these people that live in the Appalachian just seem like regular people.

SPEAKER_09 33:40

That's what they want to do.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

You you've gone to normal Appalachia. I'm talking like deep in the woods. Deep in the woods? Yeah. Where they probably don't have internet.

SPEAKER_04 33:49

Is it like one of those things too?

SPEAKER_09 33:50

Where they talk like in the game The Forest? Like a prospector from like the minor days. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

You say hello and they just respond with Yeah. Oh gosh.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

Gold. I don't know, dude. Gold. The Wendigo thing is scary though. Like my brother.

SPEAKER_09 34:08

He's like, and then he takes his pickaxe and goes, when he can't find gold, silver and gold.

SPEAKER_08 34:17

What is that from? That's Rudolph the Red Nose Radios from like the 40s. Yeah, the like Yeah. This one where they do like the weird I weren't you an elf practice.

SPEAKER_01 34:30

The movement and everything. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:34

Have you seen it? No.

SPEAKER_09 34:37

It's like from the 40s. It's like really old. Like.

SPEAKER_03 34:40

Is it uh like stop motion? Is that what stop motion?

SPEAKER_04 34:42

Like they use like all of like the little clay figures or whatever. Yeah, because then they're wallace and grommet.

SPEAKER_09 34:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 34:48

Yeah, but they're not really clay. They look like ornaments almost.

SPEAKER_09 34:51

Like ornaments are like little toy figures that they like move around, and then Rudolph was like, he had it.

SPEAKER_05 34:56

He's like, oh yeah, go, go, go, come here, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 35:00

And because the reindeers are making fun of them, and then the girl's like, Why do you think you're beautiful? And then died.

SPEAKER_03 35:07

Yeah, we have to show you a clip of it because it's ridiculous how they move.

SPEAKER_09 35:10

Oh man, it's great. Yukon is definitely my spirit animal. Why were you?

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Um, yeah, so back anyway. It could be like scary, dude. I don't think a demon would steal something. It would try to possess you. I don't well, this thing isn't necessarily to be thought.

SPEAKER_04 35:35

Well, yeah, demons. I mean I feel like they possess people though. They don't possess, they'll try to they will try to dis like just destroy you, like kill you. Like that's a demon's purpose. And Wendigo is in a way they want they do like yes, they do want to kill you, but they want to stalk their prey at first.

SPEAKER_09 35:55

So the wendigo is it's a Native American folklore of so basically if you it's cannibalism. So if you eat the other, if you eat like a human, even if it's in survival, like then that spirit of the windigo, the cannibalism, infests you and it slowly takes over. So basically, like again, how I read it is so that your stomach like is not like your normal stomach where you're like, Man, I'm craving McDonald's, and then like you eat the burger and it's like, oh man, I'm full. It feels like you have a second stomach and it just keeps craving and craving more, and then that urge of eating human comes in, and then that's when the cannibal or the uh the windigo like takes over at that point, and then you start forming into the long-legged creature thing, and it like yeah, and it's weird.

SPEAKER_03 36:43

See, I feel like that's just somebody who would be under demonic possession, yeah. 100% with you on that too. Because when I doesn't something happen when you eat human that like does something to your brain?

SPEAKER_09 36:53

I think so. Yeah, I think it's because obviously our bodies aren't like they don't even process, like, we could literally die from eating like human blood because of the iron in humans' blood, like ours. Like, it's crazy. And then like our bodies are not meant to digest that food because it's like almost like how if what is it?

SPEAKER_03 37:14

It's like you gotta cook the blood out, dude.

SPEAKER_09 37:18

But even then, too, it's like if you if you know it's even to the texture, like I don't know, there's probably some cannibals out there that have like like Jeffrey Dahmer that have said oh it tastes like chicken or something stupid like that, but it's like it's like when like if you were to feed a rabbit like that's a vegetarian strictly, like the way that their stomach is, you know, yeah, I guess made is if you were to even feed it a piece of meat, like it could die or just like get really sick off it. Yeah, like our bodies are not meant to digest and have human meat into it. But yeah, if you're just gonna cook it and do stuff like other people, I'm sure people have accidentally eaten human before. Like if it was like a Jeffrey Dahmer situation where he's like, here, have a sandwich.

SPEAKER_03 37:59

That was not oh, I was gonna say he did not accidentally do it, but I guess if yeah, he you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_09 38:03

But like somewhere in the context of that, whether it's intentional or not intentional, thing of like, here, have a sandwich, and then you don't know it's not human, and then you just eat it, and it's like oh I find it like ridiculous to hear stories of people that were actual like I could never cannibals.

SPEAKER_04 38:18

Like, I remember when I was young too, and I was watching the news with my grandparents, and it's it's funny because I mean it's it's Spanish, but you can tell what they were talking about because they're like, Oh, they found like human remains in like this guy's fridge, and like they were like meal, they were like meal planned things.

SPEAKER_09 38:32

Do you remember the story of like the campers or not the campers? They were it was a plane that crashed in the mountains, and it was like some college kids or something like that back in, I think it was the 70s. Uh-huh. And the so there was only like I think seven or eight survivors, but they literally had they were put into a position where nobody was coming for them. So they had to be like, okay, well, there's like 20 other dead bodies, and if we ration it out, then we may live. So they were forced to eat like human meat to survive, like, because otherwise they were all gonna die. And then another I think another hiking crew that were going up the mountain like found the plane crash and the survivors, and then yeah, they found them and they were like, Well, what's with the human things? It's like we were gonna die, like we weren't put in that position to like at that point. It's like, I don't even know if I I don't think I could bring myself to it. I just rather die.

SPEAKER_04 39:25

You know, it's crazy to get into a situation like that when you have to decide something like that.

SPEAKER_09 39:29

Yeah, dude, I wouldn't be able to do it. I'd just rather die at that point.

SPEAKER_03 39:32

I probably could. I mean, I mean, if they're already dead.

SPEAKER_09 39:37

I mean, yeah, if it's not like you're just like I'm gonna go on killing screen than just because you've been hungry before.

SPEAKER_03 39:43

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've never been actually starving. Yeah. And you would probably do some crazy things when you're actually starving.

SPEAKER_09 39:51

I guess.

SPEAKER_04 39:52

But I mean, for me, for my morals, I wouldn't I think what's crazy is to think about the idea of like if you're stuck in a s in a situation like that, why not try to find food? There's animals out there.

SPEAKER_03 40:03

Yeah, but if you're gonna happen in the winter time, yeah, it was in the winter time too. So why did they just eat snow?

SPEAKER_08 40:09

Why didn't they eat snow? You mean drink water?

SPEAKER_04 40:15

Well, there's still animal, there's still animals around with when there's snow too.

SPEAKER_03 40:20

Or uh or you could eat bark. I mean, it's something. It's something better than human for days. Yeah, there's probably a lot of fiber for in bark, but that'd be better than eating human at that point.

SPEAKER_09 40:30

Yeah, I'd rather taste bland barking.

SPEAKER_04 40:33

You can find fruits, like certain fruits and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 40:35

Yeah, but not in the winter time.

SPEAKER_04 40:37

You can eat like there's vegetation you can eat out there too. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Like I said, bark. Or if there's pine pine cones or something. Pine trees, pine cones. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:47

Try to like scrape out. Like you can try to find like you can eat the sap and trees.

SPEAKER_03 40:51

Yeah, you're roasted pine cone sounds good right now.

SPEAKER_04 40:55

Just imagine.

SPEAKER_03 40:55

I bet if you cook it.

SPEAKER_05 40:58

Like I'm roasting a marshmallow.

SPEAKER_03 40:59

Like a what did they do on SpongeBob? That always that episode made me so hungry.

SPEAKER_01 41:05

What was it?

SPEAKER_03 41:06

They would just like roast it and be like, and it was just like it looked so good. Do you remember it?

SPEAKER_04 41:11

I do. They would just like stab coral or random things and they just cook it in the fire.

SPEAKER_09 41:18

No, they got trapped in the Woods and Squidward with the magic conch shell.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

No, that wasn't it. That was a different thing. Are you sure? The magic conchell one was where they got magically got a hold of it.

SPEAKER_03 41:27

Could I have something to eat? Yeah. Because they got a match like magically a pick. I think it was the caveman one because they discovered fire and they started putting everything.

SPEAKER_04 41:35

It was like the small part where Patrick decides to cook a stick. Oh, yeah, he quit. It like tears through his mouth. But everything they cooked looked still, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 41:45

It looked like in the way they just ate it. They're just like, that was the same episode too, where everything was like fion churn. Yeah, like chrome.

SPEAKER_04 41:53

It's weird how accurate that was.

SPEAKER_03 41:55

Yeah, yeah, because he goes into the future.

SPEAKER_04 41:57

Well, I thought that was also I thought the future one was when they like they got pissed off because then like Squidward was playing the clarinet and they went crazy.

SPEAKER_03 42:05

What are you laughing at?

SPEAKER_08 42:07

You'll find it out in the in the editing.

SPEAKER_03 42:10

That piss isn't necessarily like a bad word.

SPEAKER_09 42:13

I know. You know what's funny though. What are we? 13? I've accidentally slipped a few times. Like there was one.

SPEAKER_04 42:18

Yeah, dude, you need to stop doing that.

SPEAKER_09 42:20

He cuts it out though. I just can't help it.

SPEAKER_08 42:22

I just sometimes it just slips, but I was sitting there because I try to replace it.

SPEAKER_04 42:26

You keep that you keep that up. We're just gonna fired. We're gonna get a white guy to replace you.

SPEAKER_03 42:33

It's weird. It's weird how accurate, how accurate the chrome thing was with Squidward. Oh, yeah, because everything's chrome. We look at the what which way the world is going now? Less color. Everything has this like stupid modern look, except for my apartment. This place is cool.

SPEAKER_09 42:50

You remember when McDonald's used to like be colorful and fun? Like you'd have the burger statues and the nugget statues like right before the drive-thru. Yeah, there's like I no, there's actually Plainfield has one. That's like the only one, probably because I don't see any other one. It's just burger king, even the same, too. Chuck E. Cheese is barely anything anymore. Like everything's just going bland and square and clean.

SPEAKER_04 43:15

The Chuck E. Cheese, the Chuck E. Cheese by my apartment freaks me out. I drive by it every morning when I go to the gym.

SPEAKER_09 43:21

You know, they started serving alcohol again like a while ago. They they used to cut it out because too many people were taking advantage of like of kids drinking. God.

SPEAKER_03 43:30

Well, probably.

SPEAKER_09 43:32

Yeah, I guess.

SPEAKER_03 43:33

That and it's like, why would you have a drinking alcohol at a kid's place?

SPEAKER_09 43:37

Well, it's just like how people used to smoke still. Like you could smoke in like a building.

SPEAKER_03 43:41

Yeah, but why bring it back? It's like I wonder if it just takes one creepy uncle to show up at Chuck E. Cheese. I wonder if the Chuck E.

SPEAKER_04 43:48

Cheese pizza is still as good as it used to be.

SPEAKER_09 43:50

Oh, yeah. No, it actually is. The I think it actually got even better somehow. Oh man.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

You've been there?

SPEAKER_09 43:55

Uh so would like my nephew, but they went, they got pizza from there. like the party or whatever, and so they brought back like a few slices and it was still fresh and hot. So yeah, yeah, I would say it tastes just like childhood, if not better. Like you know, like when you you know everything tasted good when you were a kid. Everything like the cosmic brownies, they used to taste so good. And then nowadays, yeah. They're just bland.

SPEAKER_03 44:21

It's I wonder if that's like they've changed them too. Probably companies are getting cheaper and stuff.

SPEAKER_09 44:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 44:28

Last time I was at Chuck E Cheese was for a birthday party and I had to give all my tickets to the birthday boys.

SPEAKER_09 44:33

Oh yeah. Yeah and then I climbed up on the skee ball table and the employee came over and goes hey kid let's not do that. And then I just that was it.

SPEAKER_03 44:42

We used to go to school with this kid named John. No last name required. No doxing and we were invited to his birthday party and it was at Chuck E. Cheese and everybody had to give the tickets they won to him. Yeah. It made me so mad I would not I don't know what was wrong with his parents.

SPEAKER_04 44:58

I'd be like I just everything piss off and give him the fingers like these are my tickets I work so hard for these things.

SPEAKER_09 45:05

His sisters were annoying every time I would hope it would be like a weekend like they were gone. I got a few weekends where I'd hang out with John and like his sisters would be gone I'm like thank God.

SPEAKER_03 45:14

Yeah they were so annoying.

SPEAKER_09 45:16

And yeah his his dad had no balls and then like the the wife was like the one running the show which is whatever but like she just was way more aggressive compared to it.

SPEAKER_03 45:25

She was like scary me. Yeah she was oh no like if you made it walk around eggshells oh every time you were around her yeah it was like one wrong move and it's like you're not you're gonna not gonna hear the end of this for real freaking bone and it was like whacked the table did you just say the F word? I said freaking oh I was gonna say I was like dude I don't want to bleep stuff out ah dude my bim I was freaking out Andy you made me really freak out oh I was gonna say then all that is and just yeah oh actually I I have a button that does the oh I think it's Oh oh oh my gosh the first the first what is the what is the ending I just speed it up the first time the first time he did that I thought that was him doing it right next to me I was like what are you doing? Oh my gosh okay we actually have a number two number two yeah it's very very short oh this is the dating story yeah this is the dating story all right which we we technically made the other story a dating story because I said it could be the ex-boyfriend or ex-girlfriend so nice correlation loophole yeah thank you creepy boyfriend this one's short how do I talk to the baddie at the reception desk when I go to the chiropractor I get nervous every time and there is always the old crone next to her cramping my style thanks your charger is like coming disconnected from there well I mean it's not my phone and it's at 98% any 97% anyway. Oh 97%. Someone unplug it how does how does this person talk to what they call the baddie at the reception desk that's the whole story yeah that's I mean that's pretty if he's what do you what do you need I didn't know I thought there'd be more context like there usually is it's not always making fun of these people we give them advice no I like making fun of them no we're making fun of them make fun of make fun of this person whatever you do some kind of loser go talk to the car it would have been like some kind of thing that's like was that good? Yeah that was good all right the one of the baddie so like the nervousness easily can get over but there's always the old crone next to her cramping my style so maybe there's like two receptionists and there's there's the old lady the old lady what if it's an old guy old well old crone and then you'd be like are you talking to my granddaughter you mother trucker grandson like stuff like that. Well I'm not talking nobody's grandson would lie to me I know why did you say grandson yeah grandson I don't know it's just like one of those things that's like how would you ask someone out if they're at work if stuff I would yeah you go in somewhere here's they're working at the desk here's the catch. Maybe you're not nervous and I work with them right no you're the nervous you walk into a store whatever there's someone working at the desk here's the catch.

SPEAKER_09 48:34

There's someone else working next to them at the desk now you got an audience tricky that's a tough one um I'm trying to think that is kind of a hard one that ain't that I I think I would just like probably make like small talk to just say like not like a cliche thing like how's the weather like just like notice something maybe like not obviously creepily look her up and down but like see if like maybe she's got like I don't know a Pokemon pin or something like that.

SPEAKER_03 49:05

You can be like oh you like Pokemon like what's your favorite Pokemon I don't know do you think baddies like Pokemon?

SPEAKER_09 49:12

Actually I can't see yeah I if a bad if a baddie likes Pokemon I'm I'm just saying but like as an example like just see if like there's something like you notice like around and be like oh do you like Pokemon or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 49:23

Yeah gosh.

SPEAKER_04 49:28

But you know what I mean is just find something like that just to like break the ice or just be like oh yeah you know like a doctor's visit is that is that Doljan Gabbana you're wearing just something yeah ask like that too with the airy voice hey what kind of shirt is that uh dude is that the one in Aeropasle that's their new line right nice bruh she's wearing Aripostel she's probably underage yeah that's fair or forever 21 then she's definitely 21 yeah because she's forever 21 exactly not saying airpostle's bad like I would still buy aropostal even now as long as it doesn't have the logo word on it I always hated I dude for Christmas I used to get a lot of Aripostel and I always hated that the name just went across the chest or whatever. Yeah I got that with American Eagle I never got American Eagle but it was always like Marshall's American Eagle I used to wear the American Eagle skinny jeans that's as far as American Eagle as it went they had some cool that one I remember that was a you still have that no I don't know what happened you probably fitted it with those big old arms you got on you.

SPEAKER_03 50:34

Yeah I probably ripped that swole chest heck yeah oh my bad sorry I kind of got a podcast hey there's there's women you need to not I'm trying to hype you up doc you need you need to not let these sisters stumble by talking about in a lustful light I'm telling your mom and I'm telling he's got that crimson chin type chin too I do not like Jay Leno chin yeah I don't want the chin about handsome Squidward chin yeah the Squidward face anyway I think one of the things is get over the dude you just gotta do it whether there's an audience or not like that's just how it goes.

SPEAKER_04 51:12

Yeah shot worst case she says no what's the old guy gonna do he's is he gonna is he gonna sorry is he gonna block you do that whole blocking thing I'm not gonna say the first word that comes with that but um yeah yes please don't yeah but anyway is he gonna be like dare she's waking and be like hey buzz off old man give me like 10 seconds old crone usually refers to like an old woman like an old witch basically yeah or an old tag yeah yeah so maybe this person maybe it's an old man but I'm I'm guessing it's just like some old lady or maybe it's Maybelline or maybe it's Maybelline yeah shampoo sponsored by maybe she uses Maybelline whoa I wonder if her hair looks nice. Yeah you could be one of those if it's an old lady now here's here's a game plan. Alright you're walking up there you're feeling good stop being nervous right you're all good take a deep breath go up there compliment the old lady first and be like dang I wish you were my grandma yeah now get out of here how about you make like her and get six feet under we're trying to we're trying to fan hey we're trying to win this right now yeah we are that's why you're still single obviously I'm kidding ladies he's got that um I would also put on a fresh diapey just in case you poop your pants one for you and one for the crony no so you don't get so just in case you don't what diaper do you wear bro do we wear the same yeah what do you got you should have been back yeah Spider-Man on it just in case they get scared the person gets scared asking the girl out it's like if you have that if you have that diapiness on it's like the diapiness yeah it's like you could be pooping your pants while simultaneously asking her out and you'd be okay but if you don't have the diapes on you missed out on the diapes diapes and you're pooping your pants diapy we went from what diapys to diapes good lord just like how Stefan's always got a skedgy right skedgy skedgy I did say that did I on the episode you were like uh Stefan's on every other week he's on a skedgy no I texted you that because you said I guess you said it on the podcast I did you did did you I don't know I don't I don't listen I'm just I'm I'm just bringing back the consistency the yeah we're trying to advertise old episodes guys listen through one through six don't forget to do it yeah and don't forget to email at digitalfirepodcast at gmail.com don't forget yeah make sure you leave a like comment subscribe and I'm I'm actually not on YouTube so you can't subscribe yeah we're not on YouTube you can follow on Spotify you can give a rating on Apple Podcast or Spotify there is a little bell there too to you know notifications yes you can notify you can get that blue dot on Mondays all right anyway back to it blue dot on Mondays do we have a third or is there only two no there's nothing no we still have to figure out how to help this guy we haven't even really helped him you'd put on I I I'm going with the diapy idea. Alright just in case you get scared but anyway you gotta compliment the old lady and then be like all right look let's how do you compliment the old lady without uh making it sound like you're hitting on her you look like you're 50 but you do this book past a day a day past board you'd be like oh shot I'm 60 so that's actually really nice of you to say the dentures fall out 60 you're six you're still 60 years away from your grave lady nice going is that how you do it yeah okay and then be like all right look then you go to the you know the the the baddie as you say all right look she's fine but what do I gotta do to get your number uh not bad not bad Andy got game I'm here every other week Andy got game what the heck we gotta make a let's make a song with that we we gotta make a song a rap rap album a whole album the lyrics are only Andy got game and different melodies and different beats game yeah yeah and just do that oh yeah that was a cool beat don't oh god dude we're Fred Dursting this whole thing dude yeah alright do you have any other advice or just it just compliment the old lady then look at the other girl and be like I just I just made I just made grandma feel good how can I make you feel good yeah maybe not go with that on uh my fault maybe that might be a little too sexualized yeah maybe not to feel good yeah feel good emotionally yeah but it's all right my fault that it's not gonna come it's not gonna come off that way in today's society if you said that like they're gonna like call you a creep and get the pepper spray out all right my fault yeah yeah so now you're over oh you were oh wait if they pull the pepper spray wait wait wait wait I'm already spicy don't don't spray me and then walk out pop the collar I'll give you like a quarter point quarter point good not great all right my fault but you're still no the first one the first one the first one was still good yeah I would I'll leave it at the first one make yeah make nice with the world you know I think that that's that's it you ain't got nothing else I nope all right everybody you know how to reach us that's the end of the podcast thanks goodbye shut up love you right