Episode 33 - Garden Gnome Lore and New Cryptid Spotted!

What do mischievous garden gnomes and a mysterious new cryptid have in common? More than you might think.

This week, we dig into the strange and surprisingly deep lore surrounding garden gnomes. From their roots in European folklore to modern stories of tiny guardians, tricksters, and unexplained sightings. Are gnomes simply decorative lawn ornaments, or do they stem from centuries-old tales of hidden beings said to live beneath our feet?

Then, we turn to a brand-new mystery: reports of a secretive cryptid recently spotted by multiple witnesses. We examine the sightings, the theories, and the growing buzz surrounding this elusive creature. Is it a misidentified animal, an internet-fueled legend in the making, or the latest addition to the cryptid canon?

Grab a flashlight, watch your flower beds, and join us for an episode packed with folklore, weird encounters, and creatures that may be hiding just beyond the garden gate.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:00

I'm Alex, and I'm Megan, and we are the two filthy whores.

SPEAKER_01 0:17

You're all beyond the veil now.

SPEAKER_03 0:19

Happy, happy, happy hour. Do you have anything like going on?

SPEAKER_01 0:25

I can officially feel the baby move. So that's super fun. Yeah, that's been so exciting. I sometimes will lay down just to feel her because typically it only happens when I'm laying down. But um I have been noticing her whenever I'm standing up too. So it's been a very new development throughout the week. It's been so fun. That is so exciting. It's really weird. It creeped me out at first. At first, I was laying down and I just felt boop. Like it felt like a roll. Like it literally felt like she went like and did like a whole somersault and my stomach like went and I was like I was like, right? And then I was like, oh my god, that was definitely her moving. And then and then I loved it and I welcomed it, but it freaked me out at first. It felt so weird.

SPEAKER_03 1:13

Yeah, like kind of tickles a little bit. Like I don't know how to explain it. I mean, people who know know, but like it it does like tickle a little bit at first. Um it's creepy. It feels like like a I don't know, like a little snake moving around or something. I don't know how to explain it.

SPEAKER_01 1:33

Yes, like how do you explain this to like a man? Like it's so weird.

SPEAKER_03 1:37

And then but it feels different as they get bigger though. So like once she grows more, like it will feel different. Um and then yeah, just depending on who she is in your body, it it may hurt at the very end, it may not, it just it just depends because some people have no issues. Ben will knead the fuck out of me all the time, like knee stretch, like kicked me, like you could see his like foot through the fucking stomach.

SPEAKER_01 2:05

No, swear to God. Well, I don't think I'll have that problem since I have the cushion in the front, like the um my placentas in the front. But uh I think she's gonna be rambanctious just from how she is now. I think I'm gonna be on my toes a lot because she will not stop fucking moving. Like when I'm like, oh my god. Yes, and I don't even drink that much good being.

SPEAKER_03 2:29

Like, what is going on? I it's like a wives tale, but they do say that like whenever the baby is the most active is like when you're like they'll be the most active whenever they're born too, and probably when you will be born, like when she will be born. I don't know. Uh Ben was active all the time for me for the most part, so it I don't really I don't have experience with that, but that's what they say.

SPEAKER_01 2:52

Oh my gosh. Well, I forget who I was talking to. It was probably you, but I said about how I wanted her to be born at least after 3 a.m. Because, and this is like a weird thing, it's probably because I have a disorder, but I want her to be born at least like like at like not 1 a.m. not 2 a.m. not 12 a.m. It has to be after 3 a.m. Because like since we're on the East Coast, if her birthday is October 2nd here but 2 a.m., it'll technically be October 1st in California. And that stresses me out because the time difference. And I think that's not how it works.

SPEAKER_03 3:30

You already know not how it works, but my my brain knows that it's and I know it doesn't matter because like you know, in fucking Europe as soon as midnight, as soon as midnight hits, it'll be her birthday regardless, whenever she's older, so it's okay. But I do I do understand me in particular, I get it. Uh Ben was like at he was born at 128 in the afternoon, so it was like it was so funny too because like there it was so fucking hectic for our labor, and the doctor was like they were like, I didn't clock the time, and I was like, Well, I did. It was like it was 128. So like it literally clicked the 128.

SPEAKER_01 4:06

What the fuck did they not clock that? There's a thousand people in the house. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 4:10

Someone had to be on charge. I think because there was just it was there was a lot going on for mine. So Wow, but normally, yeah, normally someone's like, you know, that's their job, but I uh I don't want to go into detail too much because like we already talked about like labor delivery and stuff, but I tore her really bad. A lot. So I think the doctor was so worried about me and just making sure Ben was okay in the combination of that, and we had a med student in there too, so it was just like a yeah, I was like, I told her I was like, I'm so sorry, I probably like scared the shit out of you.

SPEAKER_01 4:45

And she's like, No, fine, but her face was like she looked like she wanted to cry. Oh, I bet. I bet I remember it was pretty bad. I was so sad though, because I think I had stayed the night, and then I woke up and I was like having to share the bathroom with Dylan, and then you were yelling at us because Oh, because it was time, it was like time. I mean, it wasn't time time to place where the contractions were getting bad. You were you were not okay. No, at that point I was really going through like you were you literally were like holding something and throwing up in it. Um, and I was like, okay, um, I'm gonna go to school now. I love you, bye. And you were like, get the fuck out.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

And I was like, No, I felt terrible. It is you and I are like best friends, and I was like, Oh my god, like I just like I yelled at you. I've never yelled at you before. It's fine.

SPEAKER_01 5:34

It's okay. But I was like, okay, love you bye. And then I got it was an hour before I got out of school, and I planned to drive over to the hospital again and wait. I was like, please don't come yet, please don't come yet. And then he fucking makes an appearance literally an hour before I'm supposed to leave. I was like, you fucking baby. Like, how dare you?

SPEAKER_03 5:54

No, I uh I still to this day feel guilt about that though. I just want you to know, and I know that you don't hold it against me, but I do. No, um, but at that point, like you should not feel any type of way about that, Megan. I literally, like, at that point, like thought I might die. Like it was like one of those like moments where I was like, like this might be the it for me. Like at the end for me, like I was like, I I really did. I was like, the you came right before I started accepting the pain. Remember, I told you like I was fighting the pain, and then once I accepted it and stopped fighting it, is like when I progressed more. And um, it was right before that. So I was like horrible, like not okay. So I'm I am sorry.

SPEAKER_01 6:38

Stop. You don't ever have to apologize for that. I think it's funny now. Like, and I wasn't even mad in the moment. In the moment, I was I knew I was like, You were like scared, you looked scared. I was like, I gotta go. I didn't want to, but I had to. Like, I I think it was my senior year of high school, and I had already missed so many days. Like, I was almost not able to graduate or walk, you know what I mean? Like on stage to receive my diploma. So, which is funny because I was a really good, really good student, really good kid, straight A's, like I was goody two shoes, and then um, and then I wasn't, but it was just the senior year where I acted out a little bit and I still walked, everything's good, I'm fine.

SPEAKER_03 7:16

Hey, I mean, if you're gonna act out, it might as well be when you're young and can fix it instead of like an older person acting out and then having a much harder time to fix it. So yeah, it's better to do it when you're young. Uh speaking of missing days of school, Ben hasn't. I mean, he has missed a couple of days because obviously he's gotten sick or whatever. We had a like a mental health day one day, whenever Dylan and I were gonna be going out of town, so we kept him home from school because Dylan works out of town, so he was gone and then he came home for a day and then was leaving again, and I didn't want Ben to not see him, so I kept Ben home from school and they spent the whole day together. Um, but anyway, um we he's missed a couple days of school, but right now, because of the like I obviously we record these ahead of time, sorry guys, but because of the holiday weekend, like it's been an extra amount of time, like he's still in school at this point. He has like four days left of school. This kid keeps we have a code. He texts me a cut like a code in school if he needs to come home, like in he doesn't like the nurse won't let him cut like won't call me or something, and he it's something serious that he needs to come home. And he keeps texting me, and I'm like, not today he hasn't, but like all week he has, and I'm like, Ben, you're not leaving school just because you don't want to be there. He has heard us, he's all he does. I I asked him last night, I was like, buddy, what's the issue? Like, why don't you want to like be in school right now? Because like I was worried something was going on, and he's like, he's like summer mode. He's like, Because of my birthday party and like uh the holidays, like I took so much time off. Like, because he they were off for like six days, seven days in a row, and he's like, I don't want to go back. And I was like, Okay, but you have to. I'm like, you have to finish up.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

I know you can't even be mad at that. Like, he was so fucking real.

SPEAKER_03 9:02

We really appreciate to just be honest and real in our house, so like I'm glad he is, but like you also were like, Okay, I respect it, but you gotta go. Yeah, that's I told him, and I was like, This is the last year, like all these kids and your teacher will be in your class and and your teacher. And I'm like, you might have different kids in your class next year, you might you'll have a different teacher. I'm like, just go in, yeah, appreciate the time with them. You're not getting testing or anything like that, just go have fun. It's just fun. It's just the end of the school year, you can push through. I'm like, because in a month you're gonna miss them. Um, but speaking about his party, it did go really well. It was cold, but the pool was heated and the kids loved it.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Yeah, so and it got really sunny at some point. I mean, I got burnt.

SPEAKER_03 9:45

I know, I got burnt too.

SPEAKER_01 9:48

I was like, Oh, I was also by that heater a few times. I was like sitting by a heater, the sun was pelting down on me, the heater was pelting down on me, and then I was eating buffalo chicken dip. So, not an amazing combination. But you're gonna like expect it. I was only burnt for like a day. Uh yeah, almost. I was like getting red in the face, too.

SPEAKER_03 10:07

It was like Yeah, he adored his birthday party. He had so much fun, it was fun, and he loved every single thing he got. Uh, you got him that that uh like whole airport thing, right? That terminal. He's obsessed with it. As soon as we got home, I'm so glad he came home, he put down the mat that my friend got him, like that airport mat, like rug thing. Yeah, and then he took out all the little things that you got him and put like set them up on the carpet and uh like was like playing airport and stuff.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

It was so fucking I'm so glad because I knew that he was gonna get a lot of planes, and then I think some planes came with that, but I was like, he doesn't have to use those because he had like the real deal planes. Oh good. Um, but I was like, he can totally just do something with this because I thought it would just be something cute.

SPEAKER_03 10:53

No, it was perfect, it was like probably like probably the most perfect toy, honestly, because like uh honestly, all the sisters really fucking killed it this year. Like everything that you court in did our other sister agree to say her name on here? I don't know. Okay, we went to our other sister. Okay she sent him a couple things too, and like shirts and stuff too, and he's just like like you guys knocked it out of the park. Like he loves everything.

SPEAKER_01 11:18

He looked super stoked whenever he opened our gifts, so I'm really glad.

SPEAKER_03 11:24

He was raving about I think Courtney got on the British Airways one, and he was he talked about it for like three days straight, just carrying the plane around.

SPEAKER_01 11:32

Adorable, it was so fucking cute because he opened it and he was like, My Aunt Courtney got me this, and then I think he was like, She's on a she's all she went on this plane like just recently, and then someone was like, Oh, where'd she go? And I think you said Scotland or something, or where's she at? Or I don't remember, but it was adorable.

SPEAKER_03 11:48

He fucking loved it. Yeah, and uh yeah, it was cute.

SPEAKER_01 11:53

It was really cute, it was adorable. Just seeing him so happy was great, and like all of his friends, I loved it so much because they were just standing there so excited for him to open his gifts, and I'm like, This is what this is cute, like they were and they were helpful too.

SPEAKER_03 12:07

Like they weren't like you know, trying to take his things or damaging or being weird.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

They were or they were helping gifts about him getting stuff, yes, and they were cheering him on.

SPEAKER_03 12:17

Like that one time he like got like a $50 bill, and like all the kids just started screaming. Like they were all excited.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

And they were so like when he would get like Robux, like the gift the Robux gift cards, like they were so fucking stoked for him, and I'm like, I love this so much, it was very refreshing, it was so cute. Yeah, um, I met a fan of the pot there. That was fun. Oh yeah, it was amazing. I don't know, it was just a good day.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

I did, and people saw that you were actually pregnant.

SPEAKER_01 12:44

They did because well, somebody somebody in your family, I think it was. I I I asked Dylan who it was, but he was standing inside and he was like, Oh, congratulations. And I was like, Oh, thanks. And I was like, Oh, the baby, like he probably saw I was pregnant. Then I was like, Well, did he or did someone tell him? And then I think I asked you and I was like, Did he know I was pregnant? You're like, Yeah, I talked to him, and I'm like, I thought so. And then you were like, Alex, you look pregnant, like stop.

SPEAKER_03 13:07

You literally like look like so not like so pregnant. I don't see I don't mean so pregnant as in like you're huge or anything like that. Like I just mean like belly that you're obviously pregnant. It's wrapped. Like the yes, it's not like you got yeah, it looks rapid a belly, like a baby belly, you know, like a real one.

SPEAKER_01 13:24

I feel it. I feel like I've grown since I've been to like since I was there last weekend. Like it's insane.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

You probably have honestly. You grow like when you're pregnant, like at this point, like into the second, third time.

SPEAKER_01 13:36

Yes, it's so fast.

SPEAKER_03 13:37

You yeah, it comes like so quickly, everything just comes, and then she'll start gaining weight, like uh, I think not until a third trimester, but she'll gain like constantly.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Yeah, I think uh towards the end it's like a pound a week or something. It's really weird, but um, she's the size of an ear of corn now. Like an ear of corn.

SPEAKER_03 13:57

That's so big. That's so cute, too. But yeah, but I was like seven to eight pounds, and they were like, Yeah, we're gonna have to induce you because I had gestacial diabetes and the babies gained like about a pound. They were like you need we need to induce you.

SPEAKER_01 14:12

So Oh my god, that probably was so scary, but also you were probably like get him the bug out.

SPEAKER_03 14:17

Yeah, I just wanted him out at that point. I was missing. I couldn't breathe, eat, anything. It it's rough in the end, but it's great. It's still yeah, it's great. I just remember being so pissed off too, because the birds uh because it's like right the week he was born is like the week that the birds get really loud in the morning. Like it's five o'clock in the morning and the birds are just fucking chirping, and then it's like eight o'clock at night and they're chirping in the trees still, and I'm like, shut the fuck up. I just want to sleep. Shut up like I hated the birds when I was pregnant, hated them. The fucking birds, then drones, man. Like, I just remember being like irrationally like pissed off at the birds. Like I wanted to punch them. That's actually really funny.

SPEAKER_01 15:03

Well, I remember when Ben was like, I think either you were at the end of your pregnancy or he was firstborn and somebody, like some kid or something, was doing something at your guys' apartment. He like either threw something out the window or there was something like that.

SPEAKER_03 15:17

It smelled so bad. You were like livid.

SPEAKER_01 15:21

And I think his mom found out, or you told her like something something happened to her. I was like, I like nice.

SPEAKER_03 15:29

I don't know what it was. I'm like, can you please like tell me what it is?

SPEAKER_01 15:32

It was food of some sort of thing.

SPEAKER_03 15:34

Yeah, she said like food and and he did get in trouble, which I felt bad about. But like I also was like, and I wasn't even like I don't know how to explain it now, because I I feel like you'd understand because you are pregnant though, you get like angry, but you know it's not actually at the person. Like you don't hate the person necessarily, but you're like pissed off so much and you want to hate someone.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

And like that little kid is that literally what I'm going through every single day.

SPEAKER_03 16:01

Yeah, like I was like, it's so bad. Like, yeah, I was livid. I was like, oh my god, I don't like I can't stand I like my whole house smelled like that smell, and I was like feeling like I was gonna die. Mm-hmm. Yeah, no, that was proud. Yeah, so that was real bad. I don't even know I thought it was, they just said it was food, but I don't know what.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

I mean, it was also a long time ago. They might have told you, I don't remember, but I know that it was gross and I know that you were fucked off about it, and you saying that makes me feel super validated because I've been doing a lot of like inner searching lately because I've been so irrationally angry and just full of hate. Like I will look at someone and I think like in my heart, I'm like, I think I genuinely hate them, but I don't. I just am so angry, but I've been like, do I need to go to therapy? Which I think I think I should. I think you know therapy's great. Um, I haven't been there in like two years, but um I just feel so validated because I know that I don't hate like anybody, but I'm so irrationally angry, but at the same time, I've never been happier than I am right now. Like I'm so full of love, but I'm so full of anger. It's so weird. I hate it so much.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

Very weird situation whenever you're pregnant because you do, you're so like grateful and happy and loving and like glowing, but then you get like not in you as in you specifically, just women. I most women who are pregnant go through this, and then uh, you know, you're pregnant, so you're like irritable and very quick to get angry, and like it's like a a fiery angry, it's not just like uh like irritated, it's more like a like I want to throw something at this person. Yeah, like not just like oh they're so annoying. It's like no, I literally want to throw something at you.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah, it's bad.

SPEAKER_03 17:51

And it's hard to explain, especially to people who like haven't experienced that.

SPEAKER_01 17:56

Yeah, yeah, it is because I think I'm generally a fairly happy person. Unless you piss me off, then I can get a little fiery.

SPEAKER_03 18:05

But you are overall, I'm fine. Yeah, you are a very happy, nice person, and you're also when you do get upset, you're someone who talks it out and like gives the other person like benefit of the doubt in a way, like not necessarily benefit of the doubt, but like yes, you like allow them space, I guess, to to discuss the situation, but you are like if someone does push a button the wrong way though, like and it's not like if you have a limit, and if someone reaches that limit, then you are very fiery, like redhead temper, you know what I mean? Yeah, so but for the most part, I think you're super understanding.

SPEAKER_01 18:46

I think so too. I try to be, unless it's like someone hurting someone I care about, like situations like with you, you are very protective. Yeah, I won't. I will never forgive them, I'll never give them the benefit of the doubt. They can literally die. I'm just kidding. That's too much.

SPEAKER_03 19:01

They could do the smallest thing. Like, guys, listen, seriously, if you would tell me that like my eyebrows messed up, she'll like not like you.

SPEAKER_01 19:09

And I won't, and I will I'll die on that hill. I don't want anything to do with you. I don't think you're a good person. I just get out.

SPEAKER_03 19:17

Like, if someone does something to you, like obviously you'll get irritated, and you do set boundaries. Like, I'm not saying you don't, but like you're more forgiving when someone does something to you than to your family.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

Like, if something someone does something to other sisters, you're like, oh my god, that's when it's game over. Oh yeah, because like someone can like obviously we went to purgatory and someone kind of disrespected dad. I sat there and laughed about it. But if that would have been anybody else, I would have fucking snapped.

SPEAKER_03 19:42

I think I would have like flipped the table. We went to purgatory for Ben's birthday because that's where he wanted to go. And uh um which I think we've explained this before, but to people who aren't from the area, like Burgatory is like more of like a Pennsylvania Pittsburgh thing. Like it's a it's originated from here and it's like a burger place that you can just make your own, like they have tons of toppings, buns, like seasonings, everything, different types of meats. You can get tons of different things like on your sandwich. Um, but anyway, that's where he wanted to go for his birthday. And as soon as we got there, Dylan was like, Do you want us do you wanna do you need a knife for your burger? Or whatever the waiter said. Oh, Dylan, because the guy who came over.

SPEAKER_01 20:24

Do you need a knife for your burger?

SPEAKER_03 20:25

Yeah, the guy who came over, like had he was really nice, but he had like a slight list. It wasn't the same guy, but but Dylan was like, Is that the guy? And I was like, No, it's not. That's really funny. Yeah. But I think that's all that I got. I mean, summer vacation's starting soon. Uh Ben his last week is next week, so I'm very excited for that. And he's probably gonna be dragging me to the pool every day, or I'll be dragging him to the pool. Who knows?

SPEAKER_01 20:52

But yeah, I'm coming too. Yeah, and I will be driving out there at least once or twice. Please do. You can come out whenever you want to, so definitely.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

Definitely, really, Megan never criticizes.

SPEAKER_01 21:16

I was like that.

SPEAKER_03 21:17

I was like, oh, I took it too far. No, I won't dunk the refresher. No, I do have a pineapple package. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

Okay. There's a moment that happens to almost everybody at some point in life. You're outside at night, maybe taking out the trash, maybe walking through a neighborhood, maybe just looking out a window. And then you see one. A little human figure standing perfectly still in the dark. Nope. In the dark. Watching the yard, watching the house, or watching you. And somehow, despite the fact that it's smiling, it could make you feel deeply wrong. Tonight we're talking about garden gnome lore. And I know that that sounds crazy, but there So much about these cute little things that I really didn't realize the rabbit hole I was diving into until it was too late.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

I want to learn, please. I'm so glad you chose this topic.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Well, you're all you're here, you're on the ride with me now. So because the deeper you go into gnome lore, the stranger it gets. The modern gnome looks harmless enough. You know, big beard, round stomach, pointed red hat. They look cheerful, they look like cheerful old men who enjoy soup, but that image is hiding something much older. The word gnome entered popular Renaissance Europe through a 16th century Swiss alchemist named Paracelsus. I think that's how you say it. I have heard of that.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

I literally thought you were saying like Paris Helton for a second, and I was like, what? Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

Yeah, she was back around the 16th century. So according to him, gnomes were not decorations. He wrote about elemental spirits in the early 1500s. And to paraphrase, I said that weird, to paraphrase, he believed that earth spirits were gnomes, water spirits were undines, air spirits were sylphs, I think that's how you say that, and fire spirits were salamanders. He believed gnomes lived underground, guarded treasures and minerals, and avoided humans unless absolutely necessary. Which is cute when you think about it, because garden gnomes today are basically tiny dirt wizards with lawn jobs. Like they really do love the earth, so it just makes sense.

SPEAKER_03 23:23

Do you call them dirt lizards? Is that what you just said?

SPEAKER_01 23:26

Wizards? Wizards.

SPEAKER_03 23:27

Oh wizards.

SPEAKER_01 23:28

Oh Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 23:29

Okay. That makes sense. That's what I was like, why why lizards?

SPEAKER_01 23:34

Because I was thinking salamander's little bit. Now I'm gonna have to pay attention to it whenever I go back. If I said lizards, I'm keeping it. No, it's probably me. You're fine. But I did question why they look the way they look, meaning the very specific red hats and beards and such, and it turns out that it came from German miners. In parts of Germany, miners believed little underground spirits protected mines and would warn you of danger. The pointed red hats on gnomes resemble traditional miners' caps. So the classic gnome look is beard, work clothes, red pointed hat, and they're typically holding a lantern, pickaxe, or shovel. So, you know, aka mini magical miner grandpa, MMMG.

SPEAKER_03 24:14

You're ridiculous. I wish our listeners could see your face. We do need to add camera to this.

SPEAKER_01 24:18

We we have to We have to figure something out with camera, because I I do think I make funny faces. You do. In the 1800s, wealthy Europeans started putting ceramic gnomes in gardens because they were thought to protect crops. This came from the European folklore because they thought that these earth dwellers were magical caretakers of nature. Not only would they help their plants grow, but they also would ward off evil and bring good luck. Victorian people loved symbolic garden shit. Entire estates were built around fairy aesthetics and hidden mythological figures. And I love this so bad because before I got pregnant, I knew that I wanted to do something small in my yard for my kids. So I want to build like a fairy garden and like put things in it. And like specifically when like this baby is a toddler, I want to have her plant little jelly beans in the yard and then a few days later put like little dumb dumb lollipops, like replace those.

SPEAKER_03 25:16

Oh, we did that for Easter if then not this year, bigger, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:21

I want to do that so bad. I just think it would be adorable. And I'll be like, the fairies did it, the gnomes did it, like they helped make that grow.

SPEAKER_02 25:29

Yeah, I love that.

SPEAKER_01 25:31

I'll lied to her a little bit. Some people believe that they must hide from the sun. It's it was said, and this is like an old folklore thing in Europe. It was said that any ray of light to touch them would instantly turn them into stone, which makes it pretty eerie if you think about garden gnomes just around the neighborhood being bodies. Like kind of freaky. Yep. It is adorable. Northern European and Scandinavian folklore really leaned into the idea that garden gnomes were nocturnal helpers. So think Toy Story when Andy isn't looking. They believed extensively. They made children's books and they knew that gnomes would secretly parade around the garden at night taking care of plants. They think they would move objects around and freeze when humans would see them. Which thinking about that reminds me of when you did the leprechaun lore and the one guy swore he saw leprechaun running and we were cracking the fuck up. Because it's just the complete opposite. Like, garden gnomes will not be caught, but leprechauns don't give a single fuck. Like they will just go.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

I'm not when you first like started your thing, I was like, is she doing like another play on leprechauns? For like for a second, I was like, because it sounded like that. So no. Yeah, and then I I caught on.

SPEAKER_01 26:51

Oh my gosh, yeah. This one was really fun to do. Um, it just there are a little bit of like similarities, like the the one lore about them, or like the one lore, the one folk lore about them turning to stone reminded me of like when you did that fucking Greek mythology one, and it freaked me out thinking about like um all of these like Roman statues being real humans and like we're just looking at them and like touching them and stuff, and then this leprechaun one freaked me out, or not freaked me out, but made me laugh.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

Yeah, but dude, I slight tangent. You haven't watched Doctor Who, but like the Weeping Angels. I'm sure there's people out there who listen to this who know Doctor Who and know the Weeping Angels, scared the literal fuck out of me. They were like st stained juice sta supposed stained juice. Stain juice like a statue, like like angels that like covered their eyes, and like they would like if you were looking, their eyes were covered, and then they would yeah, and then they would just like come at you when you weren't looking, they'd come like towards you to touch you, and then they'd turn you to stone or whatever, or turn you put you in different time or something. I don't remember the thing now. It's been a while since I watched it. Um, I love Doctor Who though, so I'm I'm probably gonna re-watch all of them very soon because I'm obsessed. You should. Yeah, but anyway, um if you ever want to get just like a fun little spook, slightly freaked out, yeah. It's like a cute little like show, but it's it's also like spooky at times. So I think you would enjoy specifically that uh.

SPEAKER_01 28:23

Oh sure I would. I do think I remember you watching some of that whenever you were pregnant with Ben or like right when he was born because I was over all the time. Like I'm I think I watched maybe a smidgen with you, but nothing like super crazy, like nothing I remember. But I remember you liking it. But I do think it's cute about the garden gnomes because they just wanted to help and tend to their owners' gardens and stuff. But some fancy gardeners hated gnomes. They thought that they were tacky and low class, and some prestigious garden shows would strictly ban them. Which I mean, I understand, but like why are we being classists towards a ceramic elf? Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_03 29:00

Well, also at the same time, like why every hobby or like situation need to have like prudes in it, you know what I mean? Like you're literally gardening why you're not gonna be.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

Yes, like who cares if the gnomes come along? Like they're fine, they're not even anything.

SPEAKER_03 29:16

Even with like but like readers, like people who read and stuff, like like they like look down on like okay, even within the smut world, people who like like like real life smut for like mafia or something like that versus like the Fae, there's like they're like some of them can be kind of prudy. And I'm like, we're all reading a book, like why do you care so much? I'm just happy people are reading. Shut the fuck up and read.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

No, literally, like just expand your mind a little bit. If that's something like fiction smut, that's okay. Like, it doesn't have to be fucking billionaire in New York City marries poor girl, yeah. Like, it doesn't have to all be fifty shades of gray.

SPEAKER_03 30:00

I agree, or like people who are like always reading like artsy or poems and stuff, and they judge like other people who read like history or smut books, and it's just like, dude, just calm down. Like, just read a book. Like, it doesn't matter. Yeah, I don't judge so no, honestly.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Like, I that's what I want to raise my kids to be like, too. Like, I I want everybody to have their own opinions, but maybe don't speak on them unless asked, and also don't yuck someone else's yum unless you're like, Ben says it to me all the time I'm gonna punch him.

SPEAKER_03 30:32

I literally, I swear to god, I'm gonna punch my kid. I'm just kidding, I'm not really gonna do that. But no, we went. We went to the ice cream place for his birthday, like uh Coldstone ice cream creamery if you've ever been there. He you like just they have a bunch of different like flavors and then like different toppings, and they chop it up and mix it into your ice cream. And he got like cotton candy ice cream with weird shit in it. Gummy uh gummy bears and so like something else. I don't remember what it was, but something gross. And I was like, Ben, why are you doing that? You're not gonna like it. He looks, he turns around in front of everyone. And he said, Mom, why do you always yuck my yum? Um my jaw fucking dropped. And I was That's hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 31:15

I was like, okay, get it. And then he hated it. That's why you yucked his yum. You were trying to like save him from terrible choice.

SPEAKER_03 31:22

Like, I wasn't like shaming him. I was just like, dude, I don't think that's a good idea. But yeah, whatever.

SPEAKER_01 31:28

Like, you're not gonna like that. That is wild. I do think that these people didn't like it at a certain point back then in Europe because they eventually got mass produced and the quality of them went down. Like beforehand, they were like terracotta, ceramic, and like nowadays there's ceramic too, but they would be like imported from Germany and stuff like that, and then they started to be mass-produced, and anybody could get their hands on them, so then the wealthy were like, Oh, we don't really fucking want these anymore because that's what wealth people do for some reason. But I don't know, I think no matter what, they were cute and they were nice, and they just won't help your plants grow, hoes. So you can discriminate all you want. But in the early 2000s, people started, um, I don't really know uh gnoming, I guess you can call it. They would, and I didn't know about this, but they would take garden gnomes from front yards, take them on trips around the world, take photos with them at famous landmarks, and then drop them back off on the respective lawn.

SPEAKER_03 32:35

I didn't I have seen people doing that, but I didn't know they just took someone else's like garden gnome.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

Oh yeah, it would be like a random neighbor, or like if they were just traveling, they'd like pick it up, go take it, take pictures with it, put it back, and then go home. Like to their country, whatever. Like it's crazy. And this was inspired by a movie. Yeah, Courtney's Scotland right now.

SPEAKER_03 32:57

Oh yeah, well, and then you went the wrong way with it. You were like, You should be taking it. I was like, I'm taking yours.

SPEAKER_01 33:04

That's funny. Take a picture um at Barb's pool with it. Put it back in the city.

SPEAKER_03 33:13

Like when we go to the cabin somewhere, I'll take it there.

SPEAKER_01 33:16

Mika composed with it. Oh my god, on her. Oh, likely, likely. At least when she's standing like four legs down. But yeah, this was all inspired by a movie called um Amelie or something. I'm gonna butcher that. I'm so sorry. It I it's a different, yeah. But she basically does this to her father's garden gnome to inspire him to travel, and then since then it kind of blew up. And people really had opinions on this, and they argued that gnomes it's not funny, but they argued that gnomes were oppressed, and it's unfair that they have to sit in bad weather, get bird shitted on, and have to just sit there all day and then slave away at night. So they felt heavily called to liberate them. So, and not everybody did that. That was just something that some people took pretty seriously, but most people, it was a funny ha-ha to just take gnomes, take pictures, and put them back. But it's it's funny to think about people caring a lot about that. And I'm not I'm not trying to yug someone else's yum. It's just funny to think like in the movie.

SPEAKER_03 34:23

Did they take like gnomes and take them on trips then?

SPEAKER_01 34:26

Yeah, this one girl took a garden gnome from her dad's house to inspire him to.

SPEAKER_03 34:31

Oh, never mind, you did say that. Okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's it. I forgot. Like, I don't know how I forgot that quickly, but I do remember you saying that she did this with her.

SPEAKER_01 34:38

No, because let's fucking talk about this for a split second because we always talk about how you'll read a fucking book and then you'll instantly forget. I don't think people understand the extent of that. Because Megan will be like, oh, you should read this book. I'll read it 10 minutes later. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but I'll read it like pretty shortly after, and I'll be like, oh my god, main character, blah blah blah. And you're like, who? Like, oh the fucking main character. And you're like a book, I'm like the one you just told me about, and you're like, oh, I forgot.

SPEAKER_03 35:09

I'm sorry, then I'll like forget, like I'll only remember like really strong, like plot things, and then like I'll forget like little things. Like I'm just so bad. I'm so bad. Or I'll remember the most random fucking thing, and then like I'm like, you gotta tell me more about where you're at so I don't fucking because I won't remember like what order it happens in. I get that.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

It is difficult when I'm reading a fantasy book, though. Like that's hard. But no, it's okay, it's just that it's one of the quirks you have, and I respect it. It's terrible. My brain is. It's funny, but it's alright. You can just read books again for the first time. These days, gnomes widely represent college core vibes, nature magic, old world folklore, and chaotic law and energy. Internet culture even ramped them up a bit by making goth gnomes, animal gnomes, anything you can think of gnomes. They're kind of a meme creature, but I love them. They aren't my kind of decor, but I do support the gnome culture, and I would love a small designated area for my daughter to play in with the cute dirt wizards. Dirt wizards, not dirt lizards. You already suspected or hoped I would have some first hand experiences. And I do. Call me your wizard mommy. Fuck yeah. Just kidding, don't you? Don't, don't, don't call me that.

SPEAKER_03 36:25

Let's go, wizard mommy.

SPEAKER_01 36:28

Okay, so Megan, you'll have to tell me what you think about this one. This one is called Unexplained Experience with Garden Gnomes in my childhood. It happened when I was eight years old, and having seen my nephews and nieces turn eight, I can see eight-year-olds are very lucid and aware, and absolutely don't live in some fantasy delusion, which is what I probably convinced myself of. My parents and I were driving in Cornwall, a part of England steeped in mythology and folklore, the home of the Merlin story, etc. And we passed a house that we lived nope, and we passed the Nope. And we passed a house that we passed many, many times in my childhood. An old man lived in this little cottage and beside it was a statue of a j of a giant gnome's boot. I used to play on it as a kid. This particular time a table was set out in the front covered in garden gnomes, as in the little inanimate statues. Either for sale or on display. We pulled up and rolled the windows down to take a look. My parents told me to say hi, so I said hi gnomes and waved at them. Then they said to say bye, so I said bye gnomes, and I waved again. Instantaneously their faces went from their typical mischievous smile, and simultaneously all dropped to a frown. In a split second, their faces just dropped before my eyes, as if their smiles turned upside down. I jumped because I was taken back and told my parents immediately in a very freaked out tone, their faces frowned when I said bye. My parents both laughed as we pulled away, and my dad explained to me that it was projection, like the Mona Lisa, and people see a smile or a frown depending on what they're feeling. I didn't say anything else and just sat there silently pondering this and thinking, but that doesn't make any sense. I didn't feel happy or sad. My mood didn't change at all, and I know what I saw. And twenty six years later, I'm still convinced that I know what I saw. It wasn't some fant I wasn't some fantastical kid with an overactive imagination. I've never hallucinated I've never hallucinated in my life. Oh, I was gonna do that. I don't have vision. I don't fuck. I don't have vision problems or mental illness. This is a totally nope. This is a totally isolated event, and I've never had anything like this or anything vaguely unexplained or paranormal happen to me before or since. I'm not saying it was paranormal, I'm just saying it was completely unexplained and continues to be until this day. I actually feel pretty embarrassed telling this story because they know how absolutely insane it sounds. Has anyone experienced anything similar, or does anyone have any insights into what could have happened? Help put a 26-year-old mystery to bed. And then they edited it a little bit and they said, I found it while this is surreal. It's extremely dilapidated and run down now. Then she put the link there of the street view, and then she edited it again and said, This boot is the yellow structure on the left being engulfed by the bushes. So it turns out this place was actually a shop called the Pixie House. I believe the stone cottage was the shop while the house beside it was where the owner lived. And this is what it looked like at the time in the exact view I had from my car window the day of my strange experience. And then she put pictures where you could like see their grins, and like it it's definitely creepy. And she said, It's so weird seeing this again, I can't believe I found it. And I'm just curious, like, what do you what do you think? Like, what do you think about that? If you have a thought.

SPEAKER_03 39:38

I am not sure. Sorry, I was touching my mic, so I might sound weird. I'm not sure. Uh because Ben's eight. So, and that's how old she is, right? Or was she eight? And that is like I mean, they have an imagination at that age, but not really not not in that sense normally, like in the middle of the day. Like I could see if it was like evening or nighttime, and they're a little bit more spooked type situation, but like it seems like it was middle of the day or morning time. I think you touched on that, but I don't remember now, sorry. But unless I was just assuming okay. Um, but yeah, I just it's creepy.

SPEAKER_01 40:20

It is, and some people commented thinking that the gnomes were actually playing a prank on her because they're sentient beings, and I think it's a cute idea, and I would also like to copy that way of thinking, so I think they were playing a prank. Oh, I definitely think so, yeah. Okay, and I do have one more. I did sift through a few of them. I just thought that this was a pretty cute story. Um, I didn't want to keep this too long, so I'm gonna wrap it up. When I was a young, maybe seven or eight. A young what, Alex. A young what? When I was young, maybe seven or eight in summer camp, we went camping one night in a forest somewhere about an hour and a half north from my city, and we had a rule that you had to tell a counselor if you needed to use the restroom. There was an out-of-site campsite, but only about a three to five minute walk away, and you had to take a buddy with you. So I woke up late at night and needed to use the restroom. I woke up my tent mate and we woke up a counselor and she told us to go ahead and let her know when we get back. My tent mate and I must have taken the wrong path as we quickly got lost, which I literally cannot imagine. Especially like imagining my child seven or eight being lost. Like that's literally Ben being lost, like with a friend just randomly at some fucking thing like in the dark in the woods. Yeah, nope, nope, absolutely not. He's not even allowed to go to camp now. We were in our pajamas with only flashlights. We were getting increasingly worried and we were wandering around for about 15 minutes, and I knew I was going to pee my pants if I didn't find a way out soon. All of a sudden we heard a rustling sound in the bush next to us. We assumed it was an animal, but then the rustling continued and was really loud. It started moving forward along the path and we decided to follow it. I'm not sure why, but it seemed like it wanted us to follow it. The bushes were very thick and very tall, definitely tall enough for a small child to stand up straight and not be seen if they were in the bushes. After following the rustling for a few minutes, we reached the campsite. It had led us back. I went back to the counselor who had started worrying about us and told her what happened. She brushed it off and told me to She brushed it off and took me to the bathroom herself. The next day as we were about to leave, everyone was gathering by the buses to go home and the maintenance guy was there. He asked me if I'd enjoyed my trip and I told him about what happened. He started smiling and told me it was the gnomes. He said there was a community of gnomes in the woods and they were rarely seen, but that they were very kind. They'd often come out at night and they were known to pick up trash on the campsite and stuff like that. He said that they must have noticed we were lost, but didn't want to scare us, so they stayed hidden but still let us back. I told my mom when I got home, but of course she thought he was trying to entertain me and maybe he was, but it seems odd to me to this day. And I thought that was really cute because they just wanted to help. That's so adorable! I love it. Between folklore and decoration, between protector and intruder, between silly and genuinely unsettling, they're one of the last surviving mythological creatures people casually place outside their homes. Dragons stayed in books, fairies stayed in stories, demons stayed in religion, but gnomes. We mass produce them and station them across the suburbs, thousands of tiny earth spirits standing guard beside tomato plants and mailboxes. And maybe that's the real reason they feel sentient. Not because they look ridiculous, but because some part of the human brain still recognizes what they used to be. Ancient watchers of the earth, frozen in stone, still standing quietly outside the house long after everyone forgot why they were there.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

They gave me a little bit of goosebumps.

SPEAKER_01 43:45

Oh, I like it.

SPEAKER_03 43:46

I like the thought of that.

SPEAKER_01 43:48

Yeah, I know, right? I thought it was fun. I had to change my wording a bit.

SPEAKER_03 43:53

I feel ya. That's I'm really worried about choking all words for mine because choking out words. I wrote I wrote it up, roaded it up uh, you know, a while ago. Rided Yeah. Tonight we venture into the misshrouded farmlands of rural Maryland. Outpast decaying barns and the endless whispering fields of corn. There lies an isolated dwelling. And within that dwelling sits an entity known only to a few. Local legends whisper of a creature bound to the earth. A reclusive phantom that never crosses her own threshold into the blinding sun. They okay. The weaver of the red horse.

unknown 44:37

I can't fucking.

SPEAKER_01 44:40

I knew there was gonna be something as soon as I heard the the something about not going in the sun.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

I knew I'm sorry, my kids going nuts right now. That's okay. Come on.

SPEAKER_03 44:54

I'm so pissed that you figured it out that quick. Witnesses who have caught a glimpse through the dust-streaked windows describe a striking otherworldly vis visage. Vissage? What how do you pronounce that? Vissage. Okay, okay. That's right. Every time I say, like, I literally will know, like when I'm reading a book, I'm like, this is how you say it, and then as soon as I'm on the podcast, I'm like, I I don't know how to say words. Okay. Her skin is impossibly pale, translucent like porcelain, catching on the moonlight in a way that feels distinctly unnatural. Framing this ghostly face is a shock of strawberry crimson hair, cascading down like a crown of dried autumn leaves, but it is her eyes that paralyze those who look too closely. Wide, piercing blue orbs, cold as a frozen lake, yet filled with ancient calculating intelligence.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

What is happening? Who is this creature? Because it's in Maryland, and you're sounding it's sounding a lot like me.

SPEAKER_03 45:55

I don't know. This is the first time I came across as cryptid, so I had to tell you guys. What's her weaver? Okay, it is the weaver? Yeah, the weaver threat. Holy shit. The weaver's been known to establish its den more than 70 miles from its birthplace. But perhaps the most unsettling detail reported by the brave few who approach the perimeter is her changing form. The entity is said to be undergoing a strange biological swelling, a physical manifestation of an impending event. She carries a growing presence within her, expanding week by week, as if she's just stating a new generation of her mysterious lineage. Unlike most creatures or animals that scientists have been able to observe, this cryptid doesn't reproduce for the first 25 years of its life.

SPEAKER_01 46:42

Megan. What? Is this me? I'm so fucking confused. Is this a troll moment? Like, is it me?

SPEAKER_03 46:55

Like You're gonna have to just shut up and listen. We can talk all you want, but you'll find out at the end. Babe, just let it happen. Okay. To sustain this exhausting metamorphosis, she does not hunt in the traditional sense. Instead, she summons a bizarre, glowing familiar. Deep within her lair, observers have witnessed her manipulating a strange cauldron, boiling a bright golden substance. It is heavy, dairy-based elixir mixed with pale noodles, a rich, comforting paste that she consumes in massive quantities. This is such a fucking troll.

SPEAKER_01 47:39

I'm literally gonna cry.

SPEAKER_03 47:46

I can't What the fuck is happening? She does not leave.

unknown 47:51

Hold on.

SPEAKER_03 47:52

She does not leave. She sits in the quiet dark, manipulating the physical world through bizarre rituals. Rich bizarre, oh my fucking god. She does not leave. She sits in the dark quiet. And I'm sorry. She does not leave. She sits in the quiet dark, manipulating the physical world through bizarre rituals. Why can't I say rituals? Rituals. She crafts objects of unknown purpose, surrounded by heavy, bound grimoires. What is she reading in those hours of isolation? Smut. Hold on. What is she reading in those endless hours of isolation? I have investigated the text she consumes. They are tales of intense forbidden passions. Dark, scandalous, scandalous. Oh my god, dark scandalous Chronicles of romance and carnal desires that would shock the waking world. It is as if she feeds on the raw emotional energy of human infatuation to sustain her solitary existence. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 49:06

I can't.

SPEAKER_03 49:09

But do not mistake her reclusiveness for docile. The weaver has a digital footprint. She projects her consciousness into vast simulated realities. Virtual battlegrounds and digital labyrinths where she hunts and competes for the from the safety of her lair. And when the night grows truly dark, she seeks out her own kind. Armed with electronic elec hold on armed with electron armed with electromagnetic sensors and static field audio recorders, she actively hunts the spirit of the dead, seeking communication with the ghosts. And she's not alone in that house. Cryptid cryptids are often solitary, but the weaver has surrounded herself with a circle of beasts that act as her guardians. Two feline familiars patrol the shadow drenched hallways, their eyes reflecting the dark.

SPEAKER_00 49:58

Sorry.

SPEAKER_03 50:02

A larger four-legged beast, a loyal hound, sits at her feet, guarding the threshold from an outside any outside intrusion. And strangest of all, suspended in a liquid chamber, a silent, sleepless, aquatic entity entity watches the glass glowing under an artificial light. Yet her greatest power may lie in her mastery over the elements of sustenance. Those who have been allowed inside the cottage report that she possesses an uncanny ability to transform raw basic ingredients into culinary masterpieces. She blends spices, proteins, and herbs with the precision of an ancient apothecary. Is that that's how you say that, right?

SPEAKER_02 50:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 50:40

Okay. Creating feasts that are said to be dangerously intoxicating to anyone lucky enough to taste them. A pale pregnant spectre with eyes of ice and hair of fire, trapped in a loop of creation, dark literature, and digital phantoms. What cosmic curse binds this creature to her rural sanctuary? What is the true nature of this Marilyn cryptid? Well, it's not a cosmic curse. It's actually motherly fatigue, an addiction to cozy gaming, and a massive stack of spicy romance novels. That's right. The terrifying weaver of the Redwoods is actually just my sister, our wonderful Smashy Kokos, hanging out at her house in the country. I can't believe you did this. That's why it was a little small. If I would have known you would have caught on so quick, I I was going to reach out to people. I didn't. Okay. I was gonna kept reach out to people and get like first hand like reviews of like of you, like of like seeing the cryptid. Like I was gonna ask Tyler and dad and your mom, but I knew that someone was gonna give it away. So I was afraid to, and so I didn't. I think you would have made it so much funnier if I would have though.

SPEAKER_01 51:48

If it would have been Tyler, Courtney, and like I don't know, a friend.

SPEAKER_03 51:55

And that's the ones that were at like the gender reveal or something, or yeah, and I knew I if Courtney wasn't going on the trip, I a hundred percent was going to do it. But I couldn't do just Tyler, and I didn't know who else to reach out to. And then I was like, I could try Edna, and I was like, I don't know. Oh, you can blank her name out if you want. I don't I don't know if she's allowed uh wants her name on here, but um, but I was gonna reach out to her and then I was like, I really can't risk her fucking up saying something.

SPEAKER_01 52:21

I don't think she would, but I get it, I get it. Um I love when you fucking did that. I love that. I had no okay, because I heard Marilyn Cryptid and then something about the sun and then red hair, and I was like, okay, this is about to be a fucking joke. Like she's about to make a joke, and then you said weaver, and I was like, oh my god, who is this? And then I tried to Google it. I couldn't find anything. I couldn't find but I still didn't know. I still didn't know until you talked about the cauldron of mac and cheese, and then I knew. And then I was like, oh my god, this is all I was trying to do things.

SPEAKER_03 52:57

They're like so like iconically you. And you do, I know you don't like crochet or knit, but I don't even know if you knit, you were just crocheting, right? I just crocheted. I know you haven't been doing it like lately, but I was like, I should have done the Legos, honestly. I should have added that in there. But I was trying to think of like things I enjoy doing.

SPEAKER_01 53:14

So you got it, you nailed it. Um, that's definitely what I do. I cannot believe you did that. Like, I don't even have any other words to say about it.

SPEAKER_03 53:23

Yeah, Dylan helped me with it too.

SPEAKER_01 53:24

That was hilarious. I don't even know what the title of this. What do we garden gnomes and Alex Lore? Like, I don't know. Red Weaver the Weaver of the Yeah, you could do weaver.

SPEAKER_03 53:36

I can uh you could put like new cryptid or something like that.

SPEAKER_01 53:42

Weaver of the red new cryptid discovered.

SPEAKER_03 53:45

Yeah, because maybe it'll like catch people and then they'll be like, what the fuck is this?

SPEAKER_01 53:52

You are clever. That was a really good one. That was that definitely threw me off. I was like, what? I was like, there's no way.

SPEAKER_03 54:01

I wanted to say it 100% straight face, but there were times where I just cracked up so hard. But I'm glad. I mean, do you have questions about the fucking cryptid?

SPEAKER_01 54:13

And then well, I was like, oh my god, this is about this is about me. And then I was like, there's no way, because then because you at first you were like, Oh, you bitch, you caught on. Then I was like, I it went over my head, like I didn't think anything about. Oh, okay. And then you said something about her not reproducing it for 25 years, and then you were like, Is this about me? Yes, I was like, that's when I really started to question. I was like, there's no way, like, there's a cryptid like this. Like, who is this? And in Maryland, there's no way I was hanging on to every word, and then the mac and cheese came, and I was like, That's funny.

SPEAKER_03 54:48

I'm I'm yeah, I was trying to figure out how to like do it to where you wouldn't catch on immediately. And I was like, I had a feeling when I hit 25, you're I actually had 26 originally, and I was like, Well, she is 26, that's not gonna work. So I changed it to 25.

SPEAKER_01 55:04

Uh I did not catch on, and I was very caught off guard, and it was very clever.

SPEAKER_03 55:09

So could you I have been planning to do that forever, and I was like just waiting until the right time to do it because I was like, I'm I've I've been telling Dylan, you can ask Dylan, and I was like, I've been planning this for a long time, and I was like, I don't know if I want to do it in lore or cryptids or what, and then we hit lore, and it's like I'm doing it.

SPEAKER_01 55:26

That's really funny. It was clever. I want to do it, but now I can't.

SPEAKER_03 55:31

You can still do it, just wait a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 55:33

I'm just gonna catch you up. Oh, I will. It'll be like episode hundred. Like, um I'm gonna fuck it up. No, but that was that was good. Good, uh, good lore.

SPEAKER_03 55:43

Thank you. I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 55:45

It was funny. I was like, all of that is raw reaction. Like, I was like, oh my god! I feel like I was so annoying.

SPEAKER_03 55:54

So sorry to everybody listening. I couldn't, I didn't want to stop saying it and like acknowledge you because I didn't want to give it away. Does that make sense? Like, that's why I kind of was like talking just through it. And then I was like, if she asked me questions, like I don't know how the fuck I'm gonna like I wasn't prepared for that. You know what I mean? Like it was like if I'm not quick on my feet, like I feel like you'll do great with it when you do it to me because like you could you think quicker on your feet than I do. Like I stutter and like go like uh I had to think a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 56:25

I do no, I just overanalyze, like I I try to come up with every scenario in my head so that I can be prepared. It doesn't work, but yeah, I gotcha.

SPEAKER_03 56:36

I mean I do that too sometimes, but you're better at it than me, or maybe worse, I don't know. Worse at it than I am or better at it.

SPEAKER_01 56:42

It's yeah whichever way you look at it, uh one or the other.

SPEAKER_03 56:47

Then I spin the wheel this time, right?

SPEAKER_01 56:49

You do, you can spin the whale.

SPEAKER_03 56:51

Right, you spin aliens? Okay, yeah. Oh, fuck, what am I doing? Okay, hold on.

SPEAKER_01 56:55

Where where are you at, huh?

SPEAKER_03 56:56

Can you see the wheel?

SPEAKER_01 56:58

Yes, I see it now. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 57:02

Allen's Oh my god, it's making me dizzy. Oh, we can't do that.

SPEAKER_01 57:09

Please. Oh wait. Where was it at? Oh, nah. Just redo? It was amusement parks. Yeah, we gotta respend. It was too soon. Everyone's like, oh, I bet you're so happy. You're right.

SPEAKER_03 57:21

Oh my god, literally don't stare at the middle of this when I spin it.

SPEAKER_01 57:26

I haven't. Okay. Hmm. Okay, we can figure something out then. Because we already did those ones. Yeah. We're gonna do Appalachian Mountains. Yeah. Throw an appalacha. Oh hi, Leo. One of my um what'd you call them in the lore? One of my familiars over here. The ginger one. I didn't see anything. Oh, it was just my ginger.

SPEAKER_03 57:53

Uh Google Docs. My house is a rack looking behind me. It's terrible.

SPEAKER_01 58:01

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SPEAKER_03 58:09

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SPEAKER_01 58:15

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