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Tales From the Spookiest Town in America
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Until then enjoy this episode just in time to get you in the mood for the spooky season as Traneisha and her "Big Cuz" discuss the horrors of driving around the city of Indianapolis.
What's up, gang? Trenisha English here and you are listening to the Things you Should Know podcast. And before we start today, make sure you like, follow and subscribe to the pod Wherever you get your podcasts. Sometimes I be feeling like I be yelling Alright, what's up everybody? It's what's up everyone. It'sinisha english. Nope, these are gonna be the whole word.
Speaker 1:Oh my goodness, all right you ready welcome back to the things you should know. Podcast featuring trinitia english. I am trinitia english. I have missed you all, um, and we are on our way back with some episodes. Trust and, believe me, just hold on a little bit longer. But as you continue to wait, we wanted to give you a little something for spooky season, um, and so I've got my big cuz on the podcast again. What's up, cuz, what's up, what's up, what's up, trey? Um, how are you?
Speaker 2:I'm good, I'm good, I'm, I'm, I'm, uh, I'm not in the spooky season mood.
Speaker 1:But I've been seeing, like everybody, I mean I feel like it's kind of a little extra, I mean not to say like I feel like I'm really noticing it a lot this year. But I think the spooky season is a contrast to the election. I think the election is really overbearing and so people are really leaning into the halloween thing. And I'm into it because I into the halloween thing and I'm into it because I actually love halloween.
Speaker 2:It's actually really, really dope that thing is a good distraction too. But I agree with you, alf, even as I think about it. Growing up as a kid, I didn't see as many like yard decorations and like these blow-up things, like people are really going going out for it with the dick, with the decor yeah, they really are, which is interesting to me because I feel like people don't really trick-or-treat anymore.
Speaker 1:I feel like kids don't go like door-to-door trick-or-treating as much anymore because you have like the trucker treats or the like community things or whatever. So it's really weird that it seems like people are getting more into the holiday.
Speaker 2:But the thing, and I guess maybe halloween isn't just about trick-or-treating, but I just feel like that's what halloween's about yeah it's about in my mind it was about candy, and I'm hoping for real that this year, because we are seeing so many decorations. If you, I don't understand, if you don't have decorations, why you don't have candy too like oh, that's real yeah, it's a both and thing.
Speaker 2:It's not like either or. But then even the businesses like. Yesterday I seen something that really I thought was really dope and I don't really like skeletons, but it looked like this boy. He was coming out the ground he was amazing. I was like, oh, they're doing it over there, they're into it, they're into it I mean I would be.
Speaker 1:So someone asked me this uh, the other day I'm gonna ask you and then I'll tell you what I said if you had unlimited funds, how would you decorate your house? Like what would you do for Halloween if you had unlimited funds? Unlimited unlimited funds. What would you do for Halloween?
Speaker 2:I'd be to had uh uh vampires.
Speaker 1:I'd be to have real bats every time you open the door, just yes, too bats, because it's too much, not a real bat.
Speaker 2:They do the doves at the cemetery I would have a cemetery in that mug I would have all kinds of and I'll be honest, I'm not a big Halloween person, but I think I like decorations for occasions.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's real. So, like you're into the flag day stuff, yeah, if you're going to decorate do it.
Speaker 2:I like the Christmas decorations. I'm not doing it, but I like to look at it and I'm like oh, y'all making Halloween the thing.
Speaker 1:So yeah, if you're going to do it, do it Unlimited, funds, unlimited. What was your answer? Oh, I would do some sort of like haunted house. I don't think I would actually use my garage, but I would use like something like that. I would have something set up so that there was a haunted house that the kids would walk through, like I would probably throw like a big, because you know like I'm super into Halloween, I love like group costumes. I'm like, yeah, for those, like years, for like years in a row, I made my friends dress up like me, for we all were a thing for Halloween, like no lie, like and not like oh, we're kids Like no grown. Like going to the clubs, we wear a theme costume, like no serious. So, like one year we did Arthur.
Speaker 1:Oh, no, and so everyone was just someone different from Arthur. Aaliyah was DW, my homegirl Kira was Baxter. Mike Coleman was the brain. I was Arthur, oh okay.
Speaker 1:It's real cute and we did a whole bunch of things. It was also when the big the Arthur fist meme was real big, so I got a bunch of pictures like doing that. And then one year we did the walking like I talk it, music video. So they're like this oh, they do like a throwback to like 70s or whatever, and drake is dressed up like barry gibbs and I dressed up like drake from the walkie, like I talk at video for halloween, and yes and yeah like barry gibbs and my like kayla and alia and mike coleman were off set, quavo, take off.
Speaker 1:And we were like, yeah, I'm gonna put, I'm gonna pull the pictures. Like we were actually like really dope, like we were like, oh, I'm going to win the hot, like the costume contest did you contest? No, I don't think we did, but I think the dude who dresses big worm did.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I mean that was probably just, I think, you know, you know you got to play to the crowd yeah, and I think for real, like you said, unlimited Funds. I'm thinking cause I just watched the Addams Family and to be Pugsley.
Speaker 1:And Morticia Lurch.
Speaker 2:And I can't think Of his name Gomez, I think that's his name?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think so. I don't know Me either.
Speaker 2:But I'll do now. I will say I like that movie. But I do think, if I could say this, there is a fine line between okay and too much for me when it comes to Halloween.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because I feel like Halloween is about the fun like the spooky the startling, and I feel like halloween is about the fun like the spooky the startling, and I feel like when you start to get too gory, you're going scary movies.
Speaker 2:and while I understand that scary movies are associated with halloween, to me halloween and scary movies are two separate things, like yeah, I, I never thought about it like that because so many times halloween and blood and guts have been associated with the same like yeah same thing, yeah, but I just think sometimes you can just go a little too far yeah 100, and I have a great example yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So yeah, give us an example of a little too far guys so, as you know well, no, y'all don't know things.
Speaker 2:you know things you're going to find out. You're like, I am driving to work as a regular, normal Marion County, indianapolis, indiana, and it's in the morning.
Speaker 1:You know what time in the morning Like it's really safe to say, it's like eight thirty. Yes, you are on your way to thirty am.
Speaker 2:So not only am I on my way to work? I'm in morning traffic, right, so we're all hustling and bustling and and and I have if anybody out here is listening to this and you work for a dpw highway patrol, um 465 committee, you're on any of those guilds boards or you make any decisions. Thank you for closing 465 south. So therefore I now have to take the street way all the way to work from the northwest side, because I work downtown. We really appreciate your decision making. So back to what I have to say. So I'm riding down, we riding down. Uh, what was we running down? Mlk, mlk, at 8 30 in the morning. I'm not a morning person, so I'm wiping the stuff out my eyes, just kind of clearing my vision. I wear glasses, so my eyes is not all the way working. And because I, if I may say this, I'm riding down there and I look in my rear view mirror just like glancing back, just kind of glancing back, because, because I'm a responsible driver in indiana.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely, and you're on mlk like we really must be paying attention.
Speaker 2:There are some things that happen on mlk during the rush hour. So so I'm just riding casually and I'm like I look in my rearview mirror and guess who's riding behind me.
Speaker 1:This isn't too much, so you can see who's in the car behind you. Yeah, I can see. It's Michael Myers, mind you, not a guy named Michael Myers no no, the one and only so michael, someone in a michael myers mask is driving their car in morning rush hour traffic behind you.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly so here's the other part. You can say someone in a michael myers mask, but it's in the morning, right? I don't see nobody.
Speaker 1:I don't see nobody, I see michael myers, um, and I can't dress like michael myers, this person right, because it's actually wrong to assume it was a man, but it probably okay. Yeah, yeah, this person.
Speaker 2:Whatever your pronouns are it probably was a guy, wherever you are like yes, driving down the street at 8 30 in the morning with the michaels myers, I would say how close to halloween is this? Well, look, it's the I mean, we're still three, we're five days, we're, oh no, like four, four, five days out this was the week before last so we're talking about single digit october yeah, we're talking about and probably let me see, maybe I don't want to say yeah, maybe teen october for sure. So definitely teen october my.
Speaker 2:At the end of the day, in my mind, it's just too early to be playing these games it's too early in the month, 8 30 in the morning it doesn't matter when it doesn't matter, it could be on halloween day it is 8 30 in the morning and my feeling is you don't have anything else to do so well, okay, because, yes, maybe they don't have anything else to do.
Speaker 1:But my mind goes to how long have you been driving in the car with the michael myers mask? Great question so like, did you tell anybody you were gonna do, do this Like?
Speaker 2:But my, I guess my thing is, not only do you got the mask on, but you got dressed like you was this, this guy? So you got on the jumpsuit.
Speaker 1:Like you bought this costume and planned Okay, do you think maybe this person planned to be Michael Myers for Halloween and then was like I'm going to drive my car, like Because this I Myers for Halloween, and then was like I'm going to drive my car.
Speaker 2:I don't know, I can't really give a lot of common sense to this because you're driving at 8.30 in the morning.
Speaker 1:You're grown because you're driving.
Speaker 2:You're an adult.
Speaker 1:Not even just a grown up.
Speaker 2:You're an adult Driving at 8.30 during the week. This ain't no Friday, so it's not time to play games yet Nobody at 8.30 in the morning on the street is trying to play games yet.
Speaker 1:And I think that's probably they're following Michael.
Speaker 2:Myers. Michael Myers is running around Indianapolis.
Speaker 1:You know what? This is just down at 8.30 in the morning. Maybe it was a kid, maybe it was a teenager.
Speaker 2:At the end of of the day, you got enough common sense to know it's too early for you to be playing. It's too early in the morning for you to be playing, because hallucinations and stuff happen in the morning. I'm not in my right mind so good, okay.
Speaker 1:So you look in the rearview mirror and you think, oh my god, that's michael myers. How do you know it was actually michael myers?
Speaker 2:because um, the person, the, the we, because the person. We're not going to assume that he was a guy.
Speaker 1:We're not going to assume it's a guy. We're going to say that person, it's 100%, probably a guy.
Speaker 2:They came up on me in traffic right.
Speaker 1:Like up next to you. Yeah right.
Speaker 2:Now they're not only behind me in my rear view right, they're on my passenger side. And here I am. I'm grown, grown, grown, I'm getting nervous. So I'm like not only does the mask accompany the suit, but y'all the the music from michael myers accompanied this whole. Get up, like this entire thing. There's music. Whatever the michael myers. I wish I could find it the michael myers music. Michael is playing loud enough for me to hear, and my windows are up. My windows are up Because I'm nervous, I'm nervous.
Speaker 1:So just for the listeners, just for clarification, just so I can make sure I understand You're telling me that 8.30 in the morning, 8 am 30.
Speaker 2:8 am 30.
Speaker 1:On Martin Luther King Boulevard king boulevard yes yes, yes you look in your rearview mirror and there's someone in the michael myers costume full thing mask and jumpsuit mask driving. You proceed to continue to drive, I do. This person gets comes up next to you, yeah, and is not only dressed like michael myers at 8 30 in the morning, but it's playing the michael myers theme song and in character.
Speaker 2:So here's my other problem. Like, okay, cool, fine, I will be able to stomach this if michael myers, if this michael version of michael- myers was a little normal wave like acted as if they were like cool no, whoever this person was, I want to shout out to whoever you are, because I hope you hear this you stayed in character, I mean, and you know, y'all know that death stare.
Speaker 2:Michael Myers has he don't move fast, but he always catch you. Yep. So it was the slow way that the man person, sorry looked over from their driver's side with this mask on, the jumpsuit and the music and it's loud enough for me to hear. I'm nervous, so I'm looking over. Yeah, this morning, that morning, I'm that person staring in the car and he slow turns. They, sorry, slow turn. I'm that person staring in the car and he slow turns. They, sorry, Slow turn. And look at me and stare at me Like who's the woman that's in the movies with him.
Speaker 1:Isn't it? Jamie Lee Curtis?
Speaker 2:Yes, Jamie Lee Curtis. As if I'm Jamie Lee Curtis, he's. They are Actually Michael Myers, and death stares me. So what am I to do at this point?
Speaker 1:I'm and we had a red light.
Speaker 2:I'm in a red light, I nervously start laughing.
Speaker 1:I mean, I don't know what else to do.
Speaker 2:But on the real, I'm a little scared. I don't know if he gonna come through the window. I don't know what's finna happen here, but all I know is it's too early for me to think anything with my common sense brain. So now I feel like I'm dreaming. Yes, what's going on here?
Speaker 1:like I don't like. I'll be my own personal opinion. I don't like none of them michael myers, freddie krueger, uh, with any of them, ghost face?
Speaker 2:none of them. I don't, I don't care for that but michael myers, let me say, this too happens to be the one I don't like the most. So I don't understand how fate had me meet Michael Myers in traffic on the way to work. What does that look like?
Speaker 1:because somebody laid in the bed the night before and knew they were gonna do that and knew they was here's the part because all of that has to be intentional knew they was gonna have a victim.
Speaker 2:They didn't know it was gonna be me. They just knew they was gonna get somebody and you know they got me shoot.
Speaker 1:They got me somebody intentionally. Yeah, did that. Do you think they told somebody else?
Speaker 2:they had to, because I know I look stupid. If it was me, if Rose was reversed. I would have called somebody as soon as I hit the corner, yo, my man was to win, get out mission accomplished. I did that. I would have been called back.
Speaker 1:I did it. I did it. Oh my goodness, what would I say if a man or a person because we're not assigned gender it could have been michaela myers, anyone, right, we don't know. It could have been michelle myers, it could have been my quisha myers.
Speaker 2:It could have been michelle myers it could have been my quisha myers.
Speaker 1:It could have been anybody, it could have been myron myers, we don't know. But if somebody told me, hey yo, tomorrow I'm planning to drive to work in a Michael Myers costume, I don't actually know what I would say. I would be so dumbfounded, I know.
Speaker 2:I would say you come to me talking about, because I'm finna, dress up like Michael Myers and I'm driving to work. What's wrong with?
Speaker 1:you. Are you okay? Here's the thing. Right, because you could be dressed like Michael Say they were having a costume contest at the job. You can be dressed like michael myers in the jumpsuit and not have the mask on. Like bro, you put the mask on and you are intentionally trolling.
Speaker 2:Excuse me, people that are on their way to work innocently. I am innocent, I'm going to make some money and you're trolling me. Do you not have enough decency to put like in the park?
Speaker 1:if you hear this, please call us. Two, three, nine nine, six, nine six, please call us.
Speaker 2:We must know maisha myers, we must know my quisha myers, michael myers, mckaylin myers, whomever you are, you did a great job and in your friend circle I want you did a great job and in your friend circle I want you to know that you have a really good friend circle because they supported you in this dumb stuff. They supported you in trolling people.
Speaker 1:I don't think I would have told anybody that I did that.
Speaker 2:I just wonder do you have a camera? Because that's something I need to record. I need to remember?
Speaker 1:Is it just like something that lives up here? Is there someone in in the city who is at home and for the last couple of weeks thinks about your face and cracks up?
Speaker 2:laughing for sure I've been. I know they sat around the table and said this dude was giggling because this nigga was nervous. This dude was nervous, I could tell this nigga thought I was gonna jump out of the bushes on him for sure because I ain't know what to do. I'm like it was my brain playing tricks.
Speaker 1:To me is the fact that the music was playing like that, that right there, if I was trying to case, I would be like.
Speaker 2:That signals intentionality intentionality you with this and what is it? Uh, it was something, something manslaughter. You did that on purpose.
Speaker 1:This is premeditated you chose to try to ruin my day before the day even started and not even here's the thing right, not even specifically yours. So if you also saw my question, my ears if you saw my question, my, please join our class action lawsuit. The number is two, three, nine, nine, nine, six, nine, six, nine six, nine, six like yeah, that's hilarious at this point, I mean I'm overgrown that and you know what. To go back to your point, that's 100. Someone actually just doing too much like you were.
Speaker 2:You're absolutely doing too much. You're doing way too much. You're doing way too much, yeah, and I think you ought to be tried. I think you ought to be tried because this right here is I mean, this is trauma like you, wouldn't you need to process this. It's traumatic in the morning, though I ain't even ate breakfast yet I'm trying to focus and I'm trying to.
Speaker 1:Let me ask you this. Here's the number one question were you running late?
Speaker 2:now I don't understand.
Speaker 1:I don't like that question and no, I don't mean it like that I don't mean it like that, because I'm always running late I don't even know if I was running late. That's how early this was, yeah because I'm saying like sometimes when you're running late, you're already even more anxious, and then that jumps on top of it. So that's why I was asking not to be shady oh, no, no, I'm even more anxious.
Speaker 2:Like I said, shout out to the highway patrol because y'all wanted to close the highway for 65 cell anxious. Point number one, number two I'm having to travel all the way mlk, all the way downtown, anxious part number three, that's a trend. On top of that it goes from.
Speaker 2:It goes from like three lanes, two lanes one lane on top of the mere fact that it's already construction all over the city. Shout out to DMD, dpw, abc, cbs, fox 59. Shout out to every single abbreviation and acronym you can find for closing our city like this. So.
Speaker 1:I'm already hyped, are you sure cause?
Speaker 2:I blame them all all the reporters, y'all, I know, y'all just reporting, but y'all, you know, shout out to all of the workers like, for real, keep safe y'all. Uh, look at what they say, look around, save a life like I get it.
Speaker 1:Slow down, buckle up, save a life. All of that great.
Speaker 2:Don't drink and drive save, save a life, everything.
Speaker 1:Please reopen. 465 going north at Shalen 56.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying y'all Like this is getting crazy. It's nuts. This is getting crazy, you cannot get anywhere.
Speaker 1:In fact, I know the entire city, like I know the back of my hands, because I have to take the streets to get anywhere, everywhere.
Speaker 2:Everywhere.
Speaker 1:The construction is wild.
Speaker 2:I feel like you're talking about halloween season. I think our whole entire city is a haunted house at this point because, there are so many holes that you can fall in. There's so many uh surprises around every corner. Michael myers, or michaela myers? There's so many like dips and crevices, like the whole city is underneath halloween, so we all celebrate with the orange vest.
Speaker 2:Celebrating with the orange vest and the orange cone we're in here, we're doing it, we're doing it spookiest town in america indianapolis, indiana, 2024 we get it the 317 we we scary out here forget the salem wish trials, forget salem, forget all of those people up there like it's all here and now, yeah, so if you want to do something scary this halloween season, just travel through it, just travel forget about all the haunted houses and all that drive haunted acres drive the city at 8 30 in the morning and it'll, and then at 4 15 in the afternoon. Drop the city there to see how scary you get it's real crazy out here.
Speaker 2:It's real scary, real spooky, out here, real spooky. Like real scary, real spooky out here, real spooky like for real.
Speaker 1:Hey, listeners, just a quick reminder to subscribe and follow our podcast so you never miss an episode, and if you're enjoying the show, be sure to rate and review us. Your support means the world to us. Now let's get back to the show, because I have to thank you for stopping in and giving us, letting us know when halloween goes too far. Before we get out of here, I'm gonna give people one thing that that y'all take a little too far in the reverse okay, oh yeah because I know it's people right now that are counting down that feel like november 1st means christmas.
Speaker 1:That is not true it's not true.
Speaker 2:There's an entire, there's a whole holiday.
Speaker 1:That's right that we must celebrate, we must be thankful, right at the end of november. So october 31st, you can pull your ghost and your ghouls and your skeletons, but the pumpkins stay out at the turkeys and we're gonna do that.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't think that's probably not you. We did that as kids, like I was gonna say at the feathers, but I don't know, but christmas.
Speaker 1:Christmas season does not start until the day after thanksgiving. And let me tell y'all how inconsiderate y'all are, because not everybody celebrates christmas, everybody celebrates thanksgiving. I think something like that, people, everybody gets that day off to eat. If they don't, they should, but not everybody celebrates christmas, so y'all give thanksgiving, it's due it's due like.
Speaker 2:Don't bring the snow no faster than it would. It needs to to be. Leave Santa Claus where he at for right now. He's busy, he's busy man.
Speaker 1:That's why our Christmas keeps being raggedy, because you're rushing it. Yeah, give him the money, keep all of that.
Speaker 2:Keep all those ornaments and those trees we like to put up. Keep that until it's time.
Speaker 1:Keep until it's time.
Speaker 2:It's not appropriate right now. You're being really kind of disrespectful to the Gregorian calendar. Okay, you're trying to rush stuff you don't understand. Don't rush. Don't rush, it's coming. Don't rush Mariah Carey's music.
Speaker 1:Listen, because when it's time, it's more than enough days. It is more than enough days.
Speaker 2:We have more than enough time we do.
Speaker 1:We don't need to add any more. So give Thanksgiving the love that it deserves.
Speaker 2:Yes, we need green beans and yams and I'm going to put this out here and I already know cuz ain't going to agree with me and a little bit of chitlins. I know I get it a little bit, just a little bit of chitlins.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to yuck your yum, as they say.
Speaker 2:I've never heard that.
Speaker 1:So if y'all want to chitlin it out, do what you need to do. Baby, Live your best life. But guess who will not be in attendance? Just a little bit, no thank you.
Speaker 2:I mean I'm not going to yuck your yum.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to yuck your yum Because I'll yuck it in a minute. I'm not going to do that I'm not going to talk about you chitlin folks. I ain't going to talk about you pumpkin pie eaters, I ain't going to talk about nobody, I am just going to get in line with Thanksgiving and I'm not celebrating Christmas until Thanksgiving. It's over.
Speaker 2:It's over, it's over. But I really blame the stores too, because I think they probably got.
Speaker 1:Valentine's Day stuff out already. Y'all retailers be confusing us.
Speaker 2:Like what day is it? What time is it? Like it don't matter. What are we celebrating here?
Speaker 1:like we're yeah, it's I don't what day, I don't know the friday after thanksgiving. Y'all got it y'all can black friday we got black friday shop yes after that, you can start the christmas stuff with.
Speaker 2:And I already know y'all gonna go crazy with the decorations. And please go crazy, because I like to see the stuff. I really like me too, like if and yes, because the pies, the pies, the pies for thanksgiving I agree with, but I feel like poppy pie in the end of the year be everywhere, like blackberry pie, apple pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato pie, um, I don't know that. I even know what other kind of banana pie, cherry pie, chocolate pie.
Speaker 1:I am pied out you know, because I don't, I don't suffer from that, really I don't like pie at all.
Speaker 2:I'll eat pecan pie never, I never had it. What never I've had chest pie, but I've never had pecan pie, pecan pecan, pecan pecan, pecan pecan, pecan, either one depending on where you're from, but you know I feel like cake is the superior.
Speaker 1:Yes, you do, yes, you do, and I'm not a cake either.
Speaker 2:I don't cupcakes and slices of cake.
Speaker 1:I can keep all that I gotta we're gonna limit cake because I got a piece of cake over there that I am disrespected right now and I think I got that piece you did. It was for my birthday. I appreciate you. I'm back. That would you know.
Speaker 2:It didn't go to waste what I'm cooking for thanksgiving. Hey, y'all not gonna want to see what I'm cooking. I've been asked what I'm cooking. My spread this year. I I'm doing something spanish, like a spanish turkey. I'm doing a spanish, a spanish and spanish green beans and probably some German German chocolate cake.
Speaker 1:Y'all not gonna wanna see.
Speaker 2:I'm doing, that's what I'm doing. I'm doing me some.
Speaker 1:Everybody get ready for the pictures of the plate, and if your plate look nasty, y'all. Thank y'all so much For listening.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me Cause. Thank you for coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks for coming Cause. Really appreciate you being on the podcast. Appreciate you all listening. I'll see you next time. Bye we out. I'm cooking something Spanish and it says Spanish Green beans. What? What are Spanish green beans?
Speaker 2:I don't know I have no idea what are spanish you know, the issue is it's not thanksgiving carols uh-huh oh yes, it is.
Speaker 1:Uh, and I'm thinking of the. Missango song.
Speaker 2:Yes, give me a game of that Can I get to the yams? Yeah, yams, sweet baby. Thank you, missango.
Speaker 1:Shout out Because you gave us the first Thanksgiving song, exactly. So, before you start, mariah, play your Missango.
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, so I'm live right now.