The Crying Shore | Ghost & Ghouls Ep 14 | Season 1

When Ethan and his friends decided to camp near Pyramid lake for some fun, they never thought their night would turn into a nightmare...

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to the Ghost and Ghouls podcast. I'm your host, Tyler. And with me, I have the Sasquatch, Smash and Dash Colford himself. My co-host Anthony. How are you doing today?

SPEAKER_02 0:12

Are you alleging that I Smash and Dash a squat a Sasquatch?

SPEAKER_00 0:15

Yeah, possibly. Or you might have got well, I could have said Smash uh Sasquatch, Smash and Dash Victim. But I was giving you a one-up. I figured you would top a Sasquatch. I mean, I mean, it's only natural. If you're new here, this is how this works. I'm gonna read Anthony here, a fictional horror story about some kind of ghost, ghoul, cryptid, nightmare, paranormal, extraterrestrial, alien monster, historical haunting thing, where I removed all of the uh names of the creatures and replaced them with descriptions or hints. And then Ant gets to guess what possibly we could be talking about this week. Then we'll go over his history to use pop culture, a little what would you do scenario, which I did again where I made like an 80 branching roleplay thing just to f with him, and then finally our monster movie maker moment where we'll put our two thick skull brains together and come up with a wonderful movie idea, or two, or three.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

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SPEAKER_00 2:16

So yeah, you get it a day early. Tell your friends about ghosts and ghouls. Yes, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Go ahead and share around that you know you've seen this or heard this, blah, blah, blah, blah. And you think we're pretty interesting to go ahead and talk to, you know, or talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Go out there and be like, yo, there's this hot guy on the internet. His name is Anthony, but he gets told that he smashes sasquatches, that he dips out before uh before breakfast. The internet the the the the the hotties will flock. Men, women, grandmas, all to come see him. The guy that smashed Sasquatch.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

Are we just trying to make this a thing?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah. It's already a thing. I get to sit next to you, you know, like sitting next to you, I'm Marty. It's tough. What? It's tough. Alright, so Anthony here gets three guesses to kind of narrow down, and then a little shot in the dark guess, figure out what we might be talking about today. Oh, that's the dog trying to get in. Uh um, yeah, so Anthony here gets three yes or no questions and then a shot in the dark guess uh about what we could potentially be talking about today. Um what season zero, which was like the first like what 16 episodes that we put. But uh they're all the ones with like just the like the red door and the silhouette in them. Um all that was done around the world. I was just throwing darts at whatever I thought sounded cool. Um, but for season one, we're staying in Europe for the whole year, 52 weeks. Europe? Um I'm sorry, North America. God. We're in North America. We're in North America. I'm sorry. I'm I had a day today. I did nothing at work. I got a crony that does all my work now, and I literally have just been sitting there like spinning in a chair. Because I didn't, I for some reason just not getting great subtle reception in the in the office today. So, yeah, that's what I did today. It was great. So, three yes or no questions. North American something. Here we go.

SPEAKER_02 4:25

Alright, is this thing uh from does this thing derive from Native origin? You mean like Native American? Yeah, Native American, yeah. Yeah, it does. Yes. Oh, it does. Okay, so this thing is old, pretty much I would say ancient. Uh uh. You know what? I'm just gonna throw a shot out there. Does this thing is this thing form from a curse? No. Okay. Like the curse of like cannibalism or just the Okay. Alright, alright, so no curses, native origin. Uh, I'm gonna go ahead and then say uh that's not a yes or no, though. Would you still accept that one?

SPEAKER_00 5:11

I mean you could you could ask a question and just look at my face.

SPEAKER_02 5:15

Is it is it is it more beast than man or is it man more man than beast? No? Okay, I'll cut that one. Uh okay. Is this thing the dead pam, like is this more an that's I was asking. Is it more animalistic? But anywho, I'm gonna say I'm gonna ask.

SPEAKER_00 5:40

I mean you could ask if it's animalistic.

SPEAKER_02 5:42

Yeah, I could, but I don't I don't think is this one more no, because if it's native origin, it could be spirits as well. So I'm gonna go ahead and just say yes to that myself. I'm gonna go ahead and ask if this thing has a big event surrounding it. That one could be a yes or no. If it has a big event surrounding it. Like big of not big event, but like a big like uh like the conjuring house. Like, oh no, so it doesn't, so it's more like not well known worldly. It's more locally. Okay. Very local to this place. I have no clue with all those questions asked, I've got nothing. Uh, but I will go ahead and throw out something crazy with native origin. I'm gonna kind of go with uh not well known, so it's not a skinwalker, because that would have been kind of more. I'm gonna go ahead and say, I don't know. I'm trying to come up with a name because I feel like it would be like a weird name, you know, like the spearfinger spearfinger late spear, whatever. Spearfinger, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Like her or like the uh This does not have this has a very like what it is name is what it is.

SPEAKER_02 7:04

That's what I'm trying to say. You know, like like rolling head. The rolling head is like, oh, it's a rolling freaking head.

SPEAKER_04 7:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:10

Uh I'm trying to. I feel like you would associate it with the name that you've given me, so like Sasquatch. So it has to be something close to Sasquatch or something kind of resembling.

SPEAKER_00 7:22

So, you know, I'm the exact opposite.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Could be the exact opposite, but I feel like you're trying to mine.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Trying to mind fuck ya? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Uh I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go. I don't know. Yeah, I got nothing. I got nothing. Nothing? Nothing today? I was No, I ain't got nothing. That's okay. Yeah. That's okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

Do you want to hear the stor the the title of the story? Sure. It's called The Crying Shore.

SPEAKER_02 7:59

The Crying Shore?

SPEAKER_00 8:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:01

The Crying Shore. Yeah. Oh, this is gonna mess me up because it was just like that other creature. I thought it was something to deal with the water.

SPEAKER_00 8:10

Oh, you're talking about the the what is it? Ninny Titati.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Ninni Tikati.

SPEAKER_02 8:20

I forgot what the title of that one is, but yeah. Um I think that one was that Hunger That Sings. Yeah, the Hunger That Sings. Yeah. So, oh, never mind. It's no, the story started off somewhere near the the lake, and I was like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 8:34

Yeah, it was like mono lake or mono lake or something like that.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

The crying shore. This sounds kind of like, you know, I would think like a mermaid of sorts. Uh a mermaid banshee almost the you know what? I'm just gonna go with that. The crying lady.

SPEAKER_00 8:55

Nope.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

You ready for the story though?

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Sure.

SPEAKER_00 8:59

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Go ahead and say just go ahead and say this is the story. One like what? Just go ahead and repeat the story name and then go into it. You okay? Yeah, I'm good. I just hate that, like, it's gonna be something so obvious and like it's gonna Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

Okay. This story is called The Crying Shore. The locals around Pyramid Lake never call them by name after dark. During the day they laugh about it and tell the stories to tourists, sell postcards, point out the shimmer blue water beneath the desert sun. But once night fell, voices lowered, conversations ended. No one under any circumstance camped too close to the shoreline. Ethan, of course, did not believe any of that. Ghosts, he scoffed, tossing another piece of driftwood onto the fire. That's just a story people made up to keep kids from wandering off. The fire snapped, sending sparks into the black Nevada sky. Around him, the others shifted uneasily. Maya hugged her knees. It's not just a story, my cousin's friend. I knew a guy who came came out here and heard something weird, Ethan interrupted with a grin. Yeah, yeah, every town's got one. Jordan stared out at the lake instead of at the fire. You hear that? Everyone went quiet. At first there was nothing but the soft hiss of the wind over the desert and the faint laughing of water against the rocks. Then it came. A cry, high-pitched, thin and trembling. Like a baby. Maya's breath caught. That's that that's what they said it would sound like. Probably coyotes, Ethan said quickly, but his voice wasn't as confident now. Another cry followed, closer this time. Wet and gurgling. It echoed across the lake, then stopped abruptly as if something had been forced underwater. The group exchanged looks. Nope, Tyler muttered, standing up. Nope, I'm out. We should pack up. We just got here, Ethan snapped. We're not driving three hours back because of some animal noise. Jordan didn't turn around. It's not just one. Everyone looked at him, and he pointed. Out on the surface of the lake, something was breaking the water. At first it looked like ripples, then small shapes. Tail and round, heads. Dozen of dozens of them. They bobbed at just above the surface, barely visible in the moonlight. Too smooth, too still, and watching. Maya's voice dropped to a whisper. Why are there so many? The crying started again. Not from one direction this time, but from all of them surrounding their camp. Tyler grabbed the flashlight and swung it towards the water. The beam hit one of the shapes, and for a split second it lit up a face. It was small and infant-sized. But the gray blue skin was stretched too tight over its skull. Its eyes were wide and reflecting the light like glass. Its mouth hung open in a silent wail filled with rows of tiny needle-like teeth. The light flickered, and the thing sank beneath the water. The crying stopped. Silence fell so suddenly. It was heavy. Okay, said Tyler, backing away from the shore. We're leaving right now. No one argued this time. They scrambled to grab their things, sleeping bags, packs, anything they could carry. Then Maya froze. Where's Liam? Everyone turned. Liam's sleeping bag was empty. Liam! Ethan called. Hey, quit messing around. No answer. Jordan's voice came out tight. He went to get more firewood earlier. A soft splash echoed in the darkness beyond the firelight. They all tore turned towards the sound. And near the edge of the lake, something moved. A figure stood there. Liam? Maya said, stepping forward. He didn't respond. He was facing the water, completely still. Dude, stop screwing around, Ethan said, walking towards him. We're leaving. As Ethan got closer, something felt off. Liam's shoulders jerked slightly. Not like he was moving, but like something beneath his skin was. Liam! Ethan reached out and grabbed his shoulder. Liam turned. His face was soaked. Not with water, but something thicker, darker. His mouth opened slowly, and from deep inside his throat came that awful, awful cry. Not human, not anymore. Before Ethan could react, Liam's body snapped forward with a natural force, slamming into him. They both crashed to the ground. Liam's jaw unhinged wider, and something small and pale forced its way out of his mouth, clawing, wriggling, and screaming. Maya screamed. Tyler dropped the flashlight. The beam spun wildly, illuminating chaos. More shapes dragging themselves out of the lake. Small, twisted, child size. Their limbs bent wrong as they crawled across the rocks, their wet skin glistening. Their cries filled the air, overlapping in a deafening chorus. Jordan grabbed Maya's arm. Run! They bolted for the truck. Behind them, Ethan's screams cut through the night, then choked off suddenly. Tyler fumbled with the keys, hands shaking. Come on, come on. Something hit the side of the truck hard. A small hand slapped against the window, and Maya turned and found herself face to face with one of them. Up close, it was even worse. Its eyes were too large, its mouth stretched into a grin that split its face nearly in half. And then a cry right against the glass. The sound was so sharp, so piercing it felt like it was inside her skull. Drive shouted Jordan. The engine roared to life and Tyler slammed on the gas. The truck lurched forward, knocking several of the creatures aside. More crawled after them, their small bodies unnaturally fast as they scrambled across the ground. One leapt onto the hood, another clung to the side mirror. Their cries followed them as they sped away from the lake, echoing into the desert night. It wasn't until miles later that the sound finally faded. No one spoke, and no one looked back. But as the truck sped down the empty road, Maya slowly turned her head towards the back seat. Water dripped onto the floor. A small, pale hand curled over the edge of the seat, and from the darkness behind her, a soft but hungry cry began to rise. What do you think it is?

SPEAKER_02 15:33

Brother, what are we what are we smoking? Like, oh my gosh. Okay, uh I'm at first I was like, oh I saw okay.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

I was like the crying infants, but uh it's like so I I found these things uh and I was like, ooh, this is dark.

SPEAKER_02 15:54

Uh I'm gonna I'm gonna say like infants uh no that children of the lake. Glows! Um two words.

SPEAKER_00 16:04

Two words? Two words is how they refer. And it is like the simplest, like the rolling head.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

Rolling heads. These are crying kids. Crying infants?

unknown 16:16

No.

SPEAKER_02 16:17

No? Kids. It has children in it?

SPEAKER_00 16:20

It uh something pertaining to kids, maybe a little bit younger. Oh, infants? A different word. Babies? Yeah. Baby lake? These are the water babies of Pyramid Lake. The water babies. The water babies of Pyramid Lake come from the oral traditions of the northern Pyuet or Numu people, and their history is a mix of indigenous folklore, cautionary storytelling, and later distorted by urban legends. So the indigenous I found these things and I was like, holy fucking shit, these things are crazy.

SPEAKER_02 17:02

Okay, hold on. In in the story, the the the guy named Liam. Yep, did his face get ripped off?

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Is that how it No, it it it split his mouth open and it crawled out as esophagus. Yeah, so I just had this like visceral image of this guy like this thing attaching to him. Like while he's out there picking up firewood, it baits him towards the water, it crawls up and attacks him and crawls in his mouth. And he's just like piloting him like Ratatouille over to the like a horror version of Ratatouille. And he's like looking at the water and he's like, Hey guys, I found our our next meal. And then like Ethan comes up and grabs him and he turns and his head just like slides back, and then just like out of the neck hole comes this arm. Oh, like a baby arm, like ha okay. Okay, so for the indigenous origins, Pyramid Lake is a sacred place with deep spiritual meaning. Stories like the water babies were a part of a larger system in teaching about nature and survival. Water babies are described as small supernatural water spirits that live in the lakes and rivers. Around Pyramid Lake, they are often said to sound like crying infants at night. Their cries were believed to lure people, especially children children, towards the dangerous water. Okay? So this is kind of like teaching that respect for the lake, respect for nature, like stuff like that. Um, you know.

SPEAKER_02 18:23

I thought it was also like teaching to stay like away from the lake, like with no like at with the unsupervised to stay away from work.

SPEAKER_00 18:30

Yeah. And then um also about drowning hazards, sudden drop-offs, and currents.

SPEAKER_02 18:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Um, across many of the Great Basin tribes, similar beings exist, not just at Pyramid Lakes. Water babies appear in multiple indigenous traditions as powerful water-dwelling spirits, sometimes linked to sudden drownings, flood warnings, or changing water conditions, other spiritual other worlds beneath the water. Um, in some traditions, they have an even shamic or symbolic role representing forces humans shouldn't disturb. Now, um there are interpretations tied to grief and memory. Some of the indigenous storytellers describe the water babies as in a more emotional way as spirits formed from the lost or tragedy near a lake, always remembering real drownings and hardships faced by the community. Now we have the distortion version, which is the one I came across, which is mainly a non-native retelling and more of an urban legend, but many indigenous per uh it was said that the indigenous people of the lake were were at war. They knew they were going to lose. Like they were they were on that step. Like the the warriors are wiped out, the warriors from the like from the other people are coming. What do we do? And the women took their babies out to the lake and drowned them so they didn't have to become slaves or prisoners of war. So infyside. In infantside. Um, there is another telling of it where um in the Spartan history, like in Greece, where they'd have like, you know, a weak child or deformed child or whatever, and they just throw them off a cliff. Same thing here. So it's like, oh hey, this one's not gonna make it. What do we do? We give it to the lake.

SPEAKER_02 20:27

Okay. It's like a sacrificial ritual or something.

SPEAKER_00 20:31

Um so this version appears mainly in non-native retellings and uh as urban legends. Many indigenous perspectives reject this explanation, emphasizing that the water babies are independent spiritual beings, not human spirits. But like dryads and everything. When I came across the human spirit option of like these are actual babies, I was like, holy shit, that's fucking terrifying. Um, so today the story is blended into modern folklore. Visitors still report hearing strange cries across the lake at night. The legend is often linked to missing person stories, the lengths, depths, cold water, and dangerous conditions. Scientists suggest natural explanations like uh wind through rock formations, echoes across water, bird call distorted by the environment, but culturally, the meeting goes deeper than any explanation. Um, obviously, this is respect nature. Yeah, you don't know what's out there. Absolutely. Um now I did read about um them pot like thinking that under this specific late, under under Pyramid Lake, there is actually a natural tunnel system where these things reside. Oh and then at some point that broke open, and that's how these things got out. Kind of crazy. That is. Um there are so then I did this because there's not a whole lot of pop culture on this, and Like the oral traditions, like the history of this thing. I found like two websites that actually even talked about this stuff.

SPEAKER_02 22:05

Yeah, I don't see this thing being like a lot of things.

SPEAKER_00 22:08

It's not crazy, like top tier, crazy like a Wendigo or b Bigfoot or anything like that.

SPEAKER_04 22:14

No.

SPEAKER_00 22:14

But that's what we're here for. We're here to bring you weird ones and like new ones that you guys never heard about. And what's more terrifying than infant spirits crawling out of the water to drag you into a lake and drown you in Egypt, right?

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Or potentially possessing one person.

SPEAKER_00 22:30

Oh yeah, to have them drag you into a lake. Yeah. Yeah, I see your I see your mind move working for Movie Maker. Okay. So what I did is I looked at a couple other water spirits, some that we've already covered, and some new ones that we might cover in later series. Um, Water's babies versus the Rus Al Rus Alka. Russ Alka from Slavic folklore. Uh the Russ Alka are female water spirits from Eastern European folklore. Similarities associate associated with drowning deaths lure people towards water, often connected to tragic or restless energy. Um differences is the Rosaki or the Rosaka appear as young women, not infants. They usually use beauty in seduction, while babies the water babies use distress. Both manipulate human opposing or both manipulate human emotion but in opposite ways. Yeah. Um then we have the water babies versus Kappa from Japan. The Kappa are amphibious river creatures known for dragging people underwater. Similarities, they live in lakes and rivers. They're known to pull victims into water and often tied to uh these legends are often tied to child safety warnings. So don't go near the water kids. Some of you adults, Anthony, especially. We have to keep him safe at all costs.

SPEAKER_02 23:59

I can swim, you know, I'm fine. Bro, like these are just never mind. Never mind. Carry on.

SPEAKER_00 24:06

Differences Kappa are more physical and animal-like. Water babies are more spiritual and eerie, relying on sound and presence. Both act as warning. Water can kill you if you're reckless. We're putting it down here. Water is dangerous. Don't go in it. Don't take a shower. Pheromone max. What? Anthony's doing it right now. No, I'm not.

SPEAKER_02 24:29

Just like I took a shower.

SPEAKER_00 24:36

I tap it. Um, all right. Um where was I? That was a kappa. So water babies versus Nixies, uh, which are German, Germany, and Scandinavian and Orcher. Uh, the Nixie are shape-shifting water spirits. They use sound, mimic voices to lure people associated with deeper hidden water dangers and differences. Nixies often appear as human and actively deceive. Water babies are more uh unnatural and unsettling, trying not to necessarily look human, but they're just kind of like babies crying. And I think that's kind of like their whole shtick is like we're gonna cry and then like make you come into the water and look for your child. Yeah. Both rely on uh the both rely on sensory manipulation. What you hear leads you to danger. And then one we've covered, the knuckle of V. That was like episode what, three?

SPEAKER_02 25:33

Uh yes, episode three.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

When we did the Harry Potter fan fit.

SPEAKER_02 25:37

That's actually when we started doing a little bit of the movie maker or was that like the like the that was the first beginning of like if we're gonna make a movie.

SPEAKER_00 25:48

And then it's just formulated in if you don't know what a Knuckle-V is, go watch episode what three?

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Episode three. I would listen to it. It's in our early stages.

SPEAKER_00 26:02

Yeah, the the video is gr is gruesome. Yeah, just put it on the background. Yeah. But the Knuckle-V is a uh horrific sea demon associated with the disease and death. It is it is a nightmare-fueled thing. Yeah. Um, but similarities deeply tied to the fear of water environments and seen as something you should never approach. You don't go near the water babies, you don't go near the Knuckleview. Um, difference is Nucklavy is openly monstrous and destructive. Water babies are subtle. They lure you in before they attack. Um, one is terror in the open, and one is terror that calls you in. And then finally, we have water babies versus the encantado of the Amazon folklore. Um, the encantado are shape-shifting river beings that lure humans, similarities connected to mysterious, mysterious disappearances near water, blurred lines between natural animal and supernatural beings. Umce again often transform into humans. Water babies remain something a little more unnerving. So, one of the big patterns. Water equals danger. We don't go near the water. Deep, cold, and fast-moving water has always been deadly. These legends encode survival knowledge. Luring behavior, crying. Have you ever heard uh oh my gosh, what is it? What is the animal? I've heard it once before hiking, and it it sounds like a women like a woman screaming, like a bobcat. Sounds like a woman screaming. Oh my god. Like, and it is like the most unnerving thing ever. Like it's terrifying. Oh yeah. So obviously, these are kind of one of those creatures, like, hey, don't go near the water. Now, I have two witness accounts from Reddit. So take this with a grain of salt. But everybody was up there, and I was like, you know, I can kind of go to Reddit and just kind of poke around, see what kind of is fun up there. The cryptid, creepy stuff like this. Yeah. Um, this is from Sammy Ferox from five years ago. Quote, my mom and I went out to camp at Pyramid Lake for my birthday one year in September with our Pomeranian who is a nervous bugger, but he doesn't make any real noise. We found a spot and we settled in. We were only there out on the beach, and it was nice and quiet under the stars with no light pollution and no other noise from people. It was beautiful. And at the time I had the station wagon that was big enough for both of us to sleep in the back, so if we opted out, so we opted out for that. I had rigged the trunk door to stay open about five or six inches during the night for air to circulate as we slept. Mind you, I've done this in the past many times alone and have had and have had strange occurrences and have had strange occurrences have happened from afar, hearing moans, children cries, dark humanoid shadows passing over covered windows, but I was not prepared for what happened this night. At roughly two or three in the morning, I wake up and I look around still laying down, trying not to make a noise or move too much. My mom grips my upper arm tightly, and I d notice it. I can't hear a thing. Not even the waves of the water that we clearly clearly heard as we went to sleep. Dead silence, nothing. For what felt like an hour, my mom and I laid in dread, anxiety high, and we knew something was very wrong. Suddenly, our dog growls very threatening as a piercing screech of wind hits our ears. Rushing footsteps from the side of the vehicle catch my attention as the trunk door is slammed with such force it shook the whole vehicle for a minute. I kept my focus on the back covered window to see a shadow running off towards the sound in the towards the sound in the distance, and the silence was back. We both fell into an uneasy sleep and after after that and rose when the sun was rising. Relieved when we heard the sound of waves outside the car, we checked the surrounding area around us, and there were no footprints at all, save for ours where the campfire was and to the car. But no others that suggest anyone had been there with us. Sunrise was beautiful though. I still go out camping. That was the only time I was scared out of my wits like that. Um so this one is another one. Um now this is a a story from another person, so this is from deleted from five years ago. Haha, this is pretty crazy, but I just told some stories to my GF last night. I decay if any of it's true besides the ending, but they're fun stories to tell nonetheless. The first part involved my dad when he was around 18 or 19. He claims that him and a bunch of buddies went out camping at Pyramid with a couple of tents and a trailer and were out there for a couple days. Just drinking and bullshitting. Until one night a friend of his was drunk and swore he heard a kid crying out in the lake. So his immediate reaction was to go swim out there and save the kid from drowning. My dad said everyone on shore was yelling for him to come back, but he insisted there was a kid out there screaming for help. Eventually the guy swam so far out that no one could see him. He sw swam past the light source on the beach and just disappeared in the dark. Never came back. My dad thinks the guy kept hearing the kid, and every time he thought he was getting close to the sound, he would just get further away further and further away until it was too late. The guy must have just drowned.

SPEAKER_02 31:48

That's insane.

SPEAKER_00 31:50

Right? Oh like that, that's kind of like fitting the bill of these things. And there's there's more stories on Reddit regarding this. Yeah. Um, but I guess it is kind of like Pyramid Lake in of itself is a very popular stargazing area because it's super, super out there. Like you got to drive into the desert to get to this lake, and you can camp around it, and the stargazing's insane. I was looking at like Pyramid Lake at night photos, and it is gorgeous.

SPEAKER_02 32:20

Because the light blue, yeah, there's no light pollution.

SPEAKER_00 32:23

You can see the whole, the whole everything.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

Nice.

SPEAKER_00 32:27

So, um, pop culture wise, I found a singular short on YouTube, um, which was like a trailer for a another it was literally called water babies. And it was like uh I watched the trailer. It was a uh a man and his wife, and you know, la-da, lottie da, they're staying near a lake, and then she hears a cry and she runs out into the lake, gets drug under, and then it's like, oh my god, and he like runs out after and he ties the raft to his waist and he dives in the lake and he swims out and he ends up getting her into the raft, and then like the water baby's like and then the trailer ends. Um, I wasn't I was unable to find the actual short video. Oh, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 33:15

I'm gonna have to look that up. It probably never made production.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

I mean, if if they they shot that trailer, like that it should have, but like water babies, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 33:28

But I again they can still do the trailer, but like it just probably got canceled. Yeah, you know, so might have that or it's on like tubi instead.

SPEAKER_00 33:37

Yeah, it just are one of those things where I feel like you could do like a really fun horror comedy, or you could do like a super gruesome telling, like super gruesome, yeah. But anyway, we'll get to that. Scenario time. Okay, you ready for this? Yeah, or do you have I'm sorry. I I meant to ask. Do you have any input? Do you have any like any any any thoughts, any questions about the water babies?

SPEAKER_02 34:07

Absolutely not. The thing is, it no. These are disturbing. Okay. Or the human telling of it is disturbing. I'd I'd rather just deal with the spirit form of it.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Alright. So, you arrive at Pyramid Lake just before sunset. The desert heat is fading, replaced by a cold wind rolling off the water. The lake stretches endlessly in front of you, dark still, and far deeper than it looks. The distant silhouette of Onhano Island cuts into your horizon. There's a little island on the lake. Like something watching. Local warned you not to stay after dark, but you didn't listen. Your camp is set. Tent pitched, fire crackling, supplies laid out, the sky has gone black, stars scattered overhead. Then you hear it. A faint cry. Thin, weak, like a baby. It echoes across the lake. The sound feels wrong, too distant, and too close at the same time. The wind dies instantly. The lake goes still, then the crying comes again. Closer. You check your gear. You have a flashlight, a pocket knife, your keys, your vehicle is about 40 yards away, a phone with no signal, a campfire still burning, and the crying becomes louder and more desperate. So you take your flashlight, you step closer to the edge of the lake, and water ripples and something breaks the surface and disappears. Another cry right in front of you now. You raise your flashlight, the beam shakes and catches something just beneath the surface. A pat a pale round shape, a face too small, too still, and his eyes snap open. What would you like to do? Why am I near the lake? Well, you're camping on the shore of the lake.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

Yeah. I'm saying, why am I getting closer to the water? Because you hear crying. No. No. If you're using your common sense, you notice there was no one else around you. Why is there a there's people, there's people all the time at Pyramid Lake. So so when I got there, there's other people around in my vicinity.

SPEAKER_00 36:01

This is where I'm bringing common sense in. So I mean, there there are people like you can see other campfires burning off in the distance, yes. I would go to them. You hear crying, and you're just like, fuck this kid.

SPEAKER_02 36:14

I'm going to the This is an infant child that I'm hearing. An infantry. Well, you're hearing baby.

SPEAKER_00 36:19

You're hearing crying. Well, the difference between a tie a toddler and an infant crying is not very different. They both kind of wail.

SPEAKER_02 36:28

My question is, is, is, is, is, of course, the parents of said kid, right? It's like how far away? That's all I'm saying. Like, it do I know there's other people? How far away is the other campfire?

SPEAKER_00 36:43

Hmm, it is, it's it's a small dot on your radar. It's it's a ways away. Oh, it's ways away? Yeah, it's a ways away.

SPEAKER_02 36:50

Oh, heck no. If I've if I've already scouted the area around, because this is the first thing I'm doing when I get there, is I'm scouting everything.

SPEAKER_00 36:56

I mean, it's it's a but this is the thing, it's like a walkable distance. Like it is, it's walkable. It's gonna take you a minute to get over there, but it's walkable.

SPEAKER_02 37:04

Because I feel like if I've never heard like in or seen a kid walking into the lake, it's like, where did the crying come from? Right? And if I don't see anything from a first like glance and it's still crying, first things first is the sound's gonna be weird. It's like, wait, it's not breaking, there's nothing breaking the water, but I hear the the crying like clear as day. Yeah. Like it's outside of water. My first instincts is to not look towards the water. Because I don't hear splashing. You're gonna hear I don't hear splashing. I don't hear splashing. Okay. I don't hear the the cries like uh like a watery, you know what I'm saying? Like when you have water-filled lungs or with mouth or whatever.

SPEAKER_00 37:51

So tell you so tell you what, you're camping on the on the shore, right? Because that's where you have to camp, because that's where the sand's at. Otherwise, it's a lot of water.

SPEAKER_02 37:59

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

You your campfire. Yeah. The water, you proceed to walk in a full circle, trying to pinpoint where this thing is at. And when you get to between the fire and the water, that's when you see this thing. Okay. In the water.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

First thing first is I'm keeping my like I I see the thing like pop up, right? Mm-hmm. I'm keeping my flashlight on it.

SPEAKER_00 38:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:24

I'm pulling out my knife.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 38:26

And I'm walking backwards away from the water. I'm not getting near that water.

SPEAKER_00 38:30

Okay. Where are you trying to go? Uh you going back to the fire or are you going back to your car? You have your car keys on your head.

SPEAKER_02 38:37

Yeah. Believe it or not, I feel like the car is a bad idea. I I actually feel like the car is a bad idea. I'd rather try to defend myself with the fire. Because I I feel like if this thing is small, it could get into the car easily, right? And I feel like it'd be the and if I'm like in that situation of like fear, I'm gonna fumble the keys. I feel like I would be the one to fumble. Like, well, actually, no, everything's touch, but I feel like you would put a keys, like actual keys instead of like the click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click. I'm just I'm just locking it.

SPEAKER_00 39:11

Unlock, lock, unlock, lock, unlock, lock.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

Actually, believe it or not, no. I'll do that. I'll put the horn on. I'll I'll like set the uh the horn thing. Okay, set that off. I'll grab some of the firewood, and I'll I'm like knife in one hand, fire. I'm like this.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Um, you run back to the fire. Um, I didn't run. Well, you're going back to the fire.

SPEAKER_02 39:35

I'm right there next to it already.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Yep. Okay. Um the screaming, the crying intensifies. Not just one, but you hear multiple. A chorus of shrill infant-like wails chasing you across the dark edge of Pyramid Lake. Um, and something skitters behind close behind you. Um, too low to the ground. You don't look back, you can't. Um, and you're using, are you you are you picking up a burning log? Is that what you said?

SPEAKER_02 40:07

I'm sure I have something in there, like as like a fire mover, you know what I'm saying? Like I'm using it as like a fire pig, I guess. You know what I'm saying? I'd probably pick that up. It's probably burnt at the the ends of it. It's probably hot.

SPEAKER_00 40:19

They're there at the edge of the darkness, just beyond the reach of the firelight. Dozens of them, crouched and watching, their pale bodies switching unnaturally, heads tilted at sharp angles, silently now. One of them inches forward, the fire pops, sharks shoots outward, sparks, shoot outwards, the creature recoils violently, letting out a sharp hiss. It retreats back into the darkness. They don't like the fire, but they're not leaving. They begin to cr uh circle slowly just outside the light, waiting, learning. Oh. Then, from behind you, a soft sound. Drip, drip, drip. You turn slowly towards your tent, and the fabric is moving. Something's inside. A small wet hand presses outward from the tent wall. Then another, the zipper begins to slide down from the inside. So you and I are surrounded. Creatures outside held back for now by the fire, something already inside your camp. The crying starts again, but softer and closer and smarter. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_02 41:17

This thing doesn't like fire, right?

SPEAKER_00 41:19

It doesn't seem to.

SPEAKER_02 41:20

No, it's starting to say I'm like surrounding. So I'm keeping the flashlight. I'm probably gonna have to bite onto the flashlight because I have the fire pick and the knife. Okay. So that's how I'm like rocking. Um, we used to say for like the sake of it, it's like a headlight. Sure. Because I don't want to like mouth this thing, like holding it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:42

Oh run up to the other campfire, like, ooh! He's just running, like, what is going on?

SPEAKER_02 41:53

Uh so I'm gonna believe it or not, I feel like my adrenaline would be so high up there, right?

SPEAKER_01 41:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

I think I'm gonna have to grab one of the fire logs. Like, fool, I'm burning my hand. Okay. I'm gonna throw it to the tent to burn it. I'm burning it. And then I'm probably gonna have to get the fire, right? Or I'm actually gonna have to like do the one thing that I said don't do in this situation is actually try to try to make a run for it, but with the fire to my side, and like, you know, do like a sweeping motion. Okay. Even like occasionally doing like a sweep around, and then the knife like this. You know what I'm saying? Kind of like going back and forth.

SPEAKER_00 42:33

Spinning in a circle.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

Yeah, but I'm going in a clear direction, not like fully, like 360. Like, I'm not ballerining like to my car. Yeah. All right. I'm gonna try to get to the other camp. All right. No, I I feel like they're gone.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

They might they might be dead already.

SPEAKER_02 42:50

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm like, I if I choose to go to the camp, they're dead. They're they're gone. Like, I just see that they're like standing upright. And I'm like, ah, shh. They clearly did not listen to the survival one-on-one.

SPEAKER_00 43:02

So we're we're gonna go with you're throwing a log at the tent.

SPEAKER_02 43:05

Throwing the log at the tent and then making a dashboard with the fire.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Don't hesitate to snatch a burning log from the fire, heat biting your hand, and you hurl it straight at the tent, the fabric catches instantly. Flames crawl up the nylon like something alive, devouring it in seconds. From inside, a scream, not like the others, higher, sharper, angrier. The tent thrashes violently as something small and twisted slams against the inside, silhouetted by firelight. You step back, heart pounding. Stay in there, you whisper, gripping another burning branch, and the zipper burst open too late. Something falls out out of the flames, it hits the ground hard and then slowly rises. This one's different, a little bit larger. Its limbs are longer, more defined, but still wrong. Its skin stretched thin and blackened in places from the fire. It heads its head tilts too far, its mouth opens, wider than the others, and instead of crying, it laughs. A wet, choking imitation of laughter. The creature in the dark dark no the creatures in the darkness react instantly. They start screaming again, but not hurting cries, warning cries. They retreat slightly, circling wider, giving space. The burn one step towards you, unafraid of the fire. It takes another step and another. Its eyes lock onto yours. You feel it, not fear, recognition. It knows you now you've done something in like you've done something important, something bad. It opens its mouth and mimics your voice perfectly. Stay in there. Your stomach drops. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_02 44:41

Okay, I notice these things are backing up. They they respect the 1v1. I respect that. Okay, these little malicious little fuckers are actually very respectful. You know what I'm saying? Nap up. It's a 1v1 now. I like these odds. Alright, winner takes all. Okay. Okay. I'm about to be the king of the water babies. Alright. I'm going in there. I'm slashing. I'm dashing. You know what I'm saying? They don't know me. Alright. I'm in this situation. I'm winning.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Motherfucker, did you just say I'm gonna be king of the water babies? If that ain't some Epstein style shit, Jesus Christ. Fucking, what is it? Miami Pete would fucking turn over. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 45:29

No, nobody's gonna take it that way. Anywho.

SPEAKER_00 45:33

So you're you're you're going swinging head on.

SPEAKER_02 45:36

Uh, I'm gonna have the the fire stick and the knife, right?

SPEAKER_00 45:39

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 45:41

So I'm occasionally like, this is how the fight's gonna go.

SPEAKER_00 45:44

It's like I'm kinda No no no no no no, bitch. I tell you how the fight's gonna go.

SPEAKER_02 45:48

Yeah, because you clearly you're you're using AI and and and it's not accounting for the the fighting style of the great one, Anthony. You know what I'm saying? Boom! And then occasionally trying to get in and then get the slash in. You know what I'm saying? This thing's gonna try to come up to me and like grab onto me, but I'm gonna like stick the fire straight into this.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

You know what's crazy is you might actually survive this.

SPEAKER_02 46:14

I'm sticking the fire straight into its mouth.

SPEAKER_00 46:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 46:16

And I'm gonna try to stab it. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Okay, okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:21

You tighten your grip on the burning log, no more running, no more hesitation. With the shout, you charge.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

What do you need to say, like a la Akbar or something like that? Uh the creature doesn't move, it just watches it, it heads tilts further and further until something in its neck pops, still smiling. You swing, the flaming wood connects with its shoulder with a sickening crack. You're hitting a baby. Fire splashes across its body, igniting patches of its thin, slick skin. Once again, you're assaulting a baby. For a split second, it recoils, its mouth open, and a shriek of and a shriek tears out of it louder than anything before. The smaller creatures erupt into chaos behind it, scattering and screaming in panic. You swing again, this time its face. You're assaulting a baby. The impact snaps its head sideways, the flame crawls up its jaw, its grin twitches, and then disappears. It stumbles back, burning and shuddering, and for a moment, you think you're winning. Then it stops moving. The fire spreads across it, but it doesn't react. Slowly, its head turns back towards you, skin crackling, eyes wide, still conscious, and then it inhales deep, unnaturally deep. The flames on its bodies begin to dim, not extinguished, but absorbed, pulled inward like the fire itself is being swallowed into its skin. Your burning log flickers, weakens. The creature steps forward again, now smoking, not burning. It opens its mouth, and multiple voices pour out at once. Yours, the crying, something deeper, older, closer. Behind you, the fire collapses inward, shrieking. The smaller creatures creep closer again, embolden the circle tightens. Your weapon is failing. The fire won't protect you much longer, and this thing is adapting faster than you can react. What would you like to do?

SPEAKER_02 48:18

This is some bullshit. So hold on, hold on. So so the fire pit itself.

SPEAKER_00 48:23

So being a water spirit, it is absorbing the heat, basically. Like it is a Pokemon.

SPEAKER_02 48:30

And it is what else did you say I have?

SPEAKER_00 48:33

A flashlight, a knife, and the keys to your car, and a phone with no cell service.

SPEAKER_02 48:38

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 48:38

Okay, so But you gave up the phone, the phone for the flashlight, and then the the knife and the burning log. So now you gotta now you got a gimped up hand because you burned yourself.

SPEAKER_02 48:52

Oh no, my adrenaline is like it's still good.

SPEAKER_00 48:55

Like you I don't like the way you just you said it's still good. It's still good, but you grabbed solo.

SPEAKER_02 49:04

It's still good. All right, it works. Alright. So so the fire pit is is like it's it's shrinking down.

SPEAKER_00 49:18

So it so as as this thing like and like sucks the fire in that you ignited it with, your log that's on fire smolders out, and then the the fire goes from the tent? It's still burning. No, the tent's burned up. Like that that nylon went up. Like, if you've ever you've ever lit a tent on fire, it's pretty much gone. Oh but the fire collapses, so it's still burning, but it's much smaller. So the light that it's casting is retreating.

SPEAKER_02 49:49

So even the fire pit is is a little bit down because of it, too.

SPEAKER_00 49:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 49:53

Uh I can't find like a new log in there.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

Yeah, you can. Yeah, you can grab remaining fire embers and throw them into its mouth as it speaks.

SPEAKER_02 50:02

No, because it's adapting and it's shrinking the fire, so it's not gonna it's not gonna work. I feel like I need to rely on my knife now. Like I actually need to rely on the knife.

SPEAKER_00 50:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 50:14

But what I'm going to do is because of the fire, I'm actually gonna use the flashlight now, right?

SPEAKER_00 50:20

Okay, just right?

SPEAKER_02 50:23

It's like what? You know, it's a baby, man. It's a baby. No, it's not. This is clearly uh I'm fighting LeBron. I'm fighting LeBron, though.

SPEAKER_00 50:39

No, this is clear clearly just a big baby. No, so this was an American baby that drowned.

SPEAKER_02 50:46

That's that's larger than the others.

SPEAKER_00 50:48

Yeah, no, it's an American baby. Just this is bigger.

SPEAKER_02 50:52

How big are we talking? Like, is it punting size? Possibly, yeah. You could probably try to kick it in his legs. How big is this thing? He's you said this thing is like larger. I feel like I'm fighting.

SPEAKER_00 51:03

Like, you know, you know, like a baby's baby, it's like, no, it's like this big. It's like, oh, it's Chucky size? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 51:11

Yeah, and you just walked up and whacked it twice with this burning log. Why is that thing? Why why are you saying, like, oh, you're assaulting a baby? It's like, no, because it's a toddler. I clearly am not. It's a baby, its literal name is water baby. This is a spirit that is after my life. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Clearly, it's a big thing. What do you want to do? What do you want to do? What do you want to do? You want a couple options? Sure. You can drop the weapon and make a desperate scrape for your car. Bad idea. Tackle the creature and try to physically overpower it.

SPEAKER_02 51:46

Bad idea.

SPEAKER_00 51:47

Grab remaining fire and throw it into its mouth as it speaks.

SPEAKER_02 51:52

Decent.

SPEAKER_00 51:52

Break its legs, cripple it, and create an opening to escape.

SPEAKER_02 51:56

Uh, that's also a bad idea because it's like, I don't know. I don't know. I I I don't know. I don't throw the fire ember in its mouth.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

You're gonna throw some fire at it? I'd I I that's what I would do.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Because I feel like running would be bad. Because you're still surrounded. So it's like, yeah, I might crimple this thing, but like, what about the rest? I would try to throw the fire into it, but like, am I not using the knife at all? That's so stupid.

SPEAKER_00 52:22

Alright, so you hit it with the fire, it burns up. Right? Um, flames are up from its throat, from its eyes, from the seams and its bodies. Smaller creatures instantly react. They scream, not hunting, not warning, panic, they scatter. The larger creature collapses to its knees, still burning from within, still screaming until suddenly it stops. The body caves inwards, crumbles, falls into smoke, twitching at your feet. The shoreline is open, the creatures are gone, retreating into the black of the water of Pyramid Lake. Your fire is nearly dead, your hand is burned badly at this point, but you're alive. You don't wait, you run. Straight to your car, no resistance this time. Your hand, no hands grabbing you, no screams chasing you. Get in, lock the door, start the engine, and drive. You survived. Miles away, your vision blurs from pain, your hand throbs, angry blistered, but something else is wrong. The burn. It's not normal. Skin around it is too dark, too smooth. As you drive, a faint sound fills the car, not from outside, but from the back seat. From your hand, a tiny soft crying sound. You glance down, the blister shifts, moves. Something beneath your skin presses outward, small, restless, and alive. You didn't just survive, Pyramid Lake. You brought part of it with you. And this time, it's in. You survived, bro! Look at you go. Sure. Now you just got a baby in you. That's what I've been trying to do for years. But whatever.

SPEAKER_02 53:55

Whatever. Carry on.

SPEAKER_00 53:57

I mean, you you hit the point of the survival thing of going back to the fire. That was exactly what I would have done.

SPEAKER_02 54:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:03

Like, grab a log, beat the shit out of these things, and try to fend off for as long as you can. Because I shit you not. That other camp was dead. Those people were like zombies stumbling over to you. Welcome to the Monster Movie Maker moment, where we're gonna talk about water babies. Uh, do you guys have something already? I have a couple ideas. Uh let's. So I I thought of a just a fucking comedy wild horror comedy movie where like the Stooges teenage like cast goes out there like very much like the stereotypical like horror people. Um, you know, you have the jock, the guy that's always high, the final girl, the slut, like those, right?

SPEAKER_02 54:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:52

They go out to Pyramid Lake to party, whatever, the final girl's reluctant, whatever, blah blah blah. And they have to fight these things, but it's done in like very much like the Tucker and Dale versus Evil way. So it's like they're driving golf balls out into the lake, and so like one is just like driving these things off of the golf club and just sending them like me, meh, meh, just like relentlessly, just shit like that. Like, there's not really a whole point to it. It's just like dumb fun, like slapstick comedy, but it's just like these infant monsters that are crawling out of the water, and I want them to all be fucked up, like one of them missing a hand, one of them missing legs, like it is just like knuckle dragging, like hopping hit things, and just like make it the infyside babies, right? Like they're they're the fucked up ones that they didn't need, they didn't want, so they threw them into the lake, and then they just like these four teenagers have to just fight off wave after wave of these things as they're just getting tormented by these things.

SPEAKER_02 55:59

I was gonna say the golf scene. Like, is this just these three watching this one man holding them off? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my gosh, one's behind you.

SPEAKER_00 56:08

Yeah, they hits it behind, but it goes straight to the build a firewall, like two like burning fires, right? And it makes like a choke point that all the water babies are funneling into, and he's just out there just like crushing, just whack, whack. They're just sending them all back into the water. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:27

Oh, I was gonna say he hits one, he goes, hits like just straight into one of the girls' face and just starts.

SPEAKER_00 56:34

Yep. Just that that like just dumb B-rated like horror. Um maybe we expand the cast a little bit so you have some a couple deaths.

SPEAKER_02 56:44

What what's the correct, what's the politically correct way to say midget? Isn't it short person? Just short person. Yeah, it's an actual just it's like uh who who played in uh I I'm forgetting his name. Played in uh Games of Thrones. Yeah. He just walks and was like, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_00 57:01

You just it's I couldn't imagine like a scary movie of this. You know what I mean? Like a rip on this, like lore.

SPEAKER_02 57:09

I've got something for it, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:11

Like a scary movie style?

SPEAKER_02 57:12

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Not like scary movie like this.

SPEAKER_00 57:16

Like the the the the satirical.

SPEAKER_02 57:20

See, that's the thing. Scary movie, they put multiple scary.

SPEAKER_00 57:23

Juice shows up dressed in his in his white women thing, and he's just like fireworks are going off.

SPEAKER_01 57:31

This guy's just belting these water baby spirits back into the water.

SPEAKER_03 57:38

Could you imagine that being in the final girl? It's just Juice in white chicks makeup.

SPEAKER_02 57:49

It's like one of the dudes like, I'm finally gonna sleep with the man. He's like, this is Drewski. He's in bed or in the van. The van's rocky. And it's like, Amanda, where did you come? Oh, I got firewood. It's like, then who is he with? It's just Drewski.

SPEAKER_01 58:09

No, Amanda is played by Drewski in the makeup.

SPEAKER_02 58:13

Yeah, but it's the actual I was gonna say it's actually Amanda. Like, that would make it.

SPEAKER_00 58:18

I would I would love for him to be like, like, what was it? It's like, no, I'm a virgin. I have the Bible. And he does like the look at the camera like again and again and again. Oh poor Erica. She is yeah, but yeah, we'll have him cast as as Amanda. I'm trying to think of who else we'll have. She's gotta be the virgin. I think we need like a cast of six. Because then we can have like a couple throwaway people that die. I definitely want Matthew Lillard to be like the harbinger of doom, like the guy that's like, don't go out to Pyramid Lake after dark. It will get you, you know. And then like kind of explain the water babies thing. They're like, water babies, yeah, okay. And yeah. I'm trying to think of who else would be like a fun cast in this.

SPEAKER_02 59:12

Trying to think of who I've been trying to think of other scenes for it. Other scenes for it?

SPEAKER_00 59:17

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's just what it is. It's like they they pull out like the whole party, like the whole party, and like, you know, this, that, and the other. I want like the zombie baby or the the water babies like controlling zombie corpses and like running up to the party and like dancing and shit, and then like all hell breaks release.

SPEAKER_02 59:38

Oh, we should have a scene to where it's like it's gotta be out of an RV. I was also thinking of like having a scene of like something, you know, the uh that that middle party raft that people they have in the middle of the lake or whatever. It's like there's something up there that they need, or they left the keys or something like that to get out. It's like, okay, I'm the fastest swimmer. It's like, okay, I gotta do it. Like they did, they try to yeah, they make a sound so that they're attracted, and he gets up there. He's like, they all the baby the babies look towards him, and they're like start going after him, but there's like a scene of him looking back, and it's just the water, and then he looks to his side, it's like Michael Felt falls there. It's just like random ass. Like he was like making it. Not even he's just like going and then just gets attacked by the baby.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:27

Oh god, he's just gone. And then like Oh, and then we could do like the blood effects like in the piranha movie. If you ever watch piranha 3D, where like the people would get pulled under and it was just like a bubble of blood, and it was just like as they're feeding, like make them piranha ass.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:43

We wouldn't need to have it too. It's like in the cabin or whatever, like, or whatever it is.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:47

You'd be in an RV.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:48

Oh, RV. Yeah. It's like, oh, it's locked, we need it open, blah, blah, blah. And then it opens from the inside, and it's just the baby, and it's like he gets attacked. Because the thing was in the RV as well, and it just attacked him.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:00

But it's Drewski crashed in that thing, like, move, bitch! And like throws him out, he hits the ground. He's like, what the hell? And he looks up and he just gets mobbed by these water babies.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

It's like different, like I would just have like different clip ends of random people.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:20

I love it. I love it. The idea of the bit the the baby opening the door to the camper. And Drewski dressed as a white woman stupid. Just eating him onto the floor. Like moves, yeah, pushes him down.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:37

Grabs him by his chain and his diaper and just throws him out. He just gets mobbed by these things.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:45

As he's getting mobbed and whatever, they look like the slowly looked out to the window, all you hear is the ad his ad lib, and then it just like closes.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:54

But and then it's just Drewski with that fucking Bible. Let's pray. Some lives couldn't be saved. Some lives couldn't be saved.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:10

That's why we pray for their souls. That's why I have a Bible.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:17

Gosh, dude. I don't know if I can keep this stuff in some of it. Oh my gosh. I'm trying to think of what other scenes we can do with this movie.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:26

But I think that would be it. It would just be a like, oh hey, like, you know, oh man, are you finally gonna sleep with Amanda? Yeah, I'm finally gonna sleep with Amanda. It's like we've been dating for like three years. Yeah, we're ready. It's like, hey Amanda.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:44

What's up? Just like daft them up.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:49

I I have another scene easily for this. Uh-huh. It's like they're they're out there the camping or whatever, they're they're dealing, they they've already hit like dealt with some of these stuff. And they're like, they see another camp, like camp offside. It's of course it's the desert type, right? Or a little bit like a desert.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:07

Yeah, it's a it's a desert surrounding it. So it's like, we're gonna just run around the shoreline to get there.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:12

There's another RV over there. They go to it, knock on it, and it's literally uh Jesse and uh what it call from Breaking Bad. Walter. It's Walter and Jesse. Just like how did you find us? How did you find us? Who sent you? Was it Gus? Was it Gus?

SPEAKER_01 1:03:34

And Jersey's like, I got a promise, I got a promising career in government. Let me back up.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:40

And fucking dips.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:46

Amanda, what? What's wrong? No, I have a promising career in government. I gotta leave.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:52

They close the door, and it's like it's time to get back to cooking. And then they just hear screams of the RV. It's like, and then the cast is turning away. It's like the baby's like jumping through the window, killing him.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:03

Like putting through.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:05

And like he walks out the RV, like falling down as the team's walking and they're like talking. It's like in the background, and it's just like they're dying. And it's just like, oh, that was a bust.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:16

I could I could see this move like the the only way I could see this movie being like truly scary in terms of like taking away from like this like the scary movie style, like satirical, and making it uh actual scary as like the infecide. But dude, I I think I think this one has to be horror comedy for me. Like, I I don't see a way that like you can make this movie and make it scary and make it scary without making it absolutely just cheesy and funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:53

Yeah. I'd say I would say that the the thing with this one is you make it to where you're actually just making fun or have a parodies of famous TV shows like Breaking Bad, Games of Thrones, yeah, or Game of Thrones, and like uh maybe other stuff too.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:10

Oh my gosh, we could have like uh the the guy that played Jon Snow come up.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:15

Well that's why I said Peter and uh Dinklage.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:17

Oh yeah, but no, you can have like even the guy that played Jon Snow like come up and he's like, I'm here for the LARP event. They're like, What? And he comes back at the end, fucks his aunt. That's what happened in the Game of Thrones.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:31

It's just Drisky again. Oh my god. It's all Drewski.

SPEAKER_03 1:05:35

I don't want to see Jersky's black ass getting fucked.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:38

No, no, it's just that they're in dead after. Yeah, it's Amanda. Amanda. Jon Snow looks completely mortified.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:47

But like how he's walking with a limp. No. Amanda's got the cigarette. Jon Snow's walking with a limp after her.

SPEAKER_00 1:05:57

I'm trying to think of what other shows you could rip off that. You could just like throw it all in there. Oh, dude, I don't.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:03

Those were the closest things I could think about.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:06

Oh my gosh, that would be so just dumb funny.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:11

And to have oh my gosh, the Drewski thing would just be just gold in that. Let us pray. Drewski, if you want a movie roll, hit us up. Then you have to fund it too, buddy.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:25

You have to fund it.

SPEAKER_00 1:06:26

You have to fund it, and we're gonna fly out to Pyramid Lake, and we're gonna we're gonna exist on the side of this lake for like three months and put this together. Oh gosh. We'll need a lot of babies. Have you seen like the Spirit Halloween zombie babies? No. I'm gonna get one. I'm gonna get one for the shell.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:50

So I did have an idea, but I think I'm just more invested in this pair of comedy, honestly. The the I was gonna have like another like unsettling.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:00

But Kerrendale show up with a wood chipper and they're just locking them in there. Just seawater and seaweed spitting out the other side because they're water. You can try drinking one.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:12

Okay, alright.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:13

I think that I think that like shrivels up like a capri sun pouch.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:19

I think that calls for you. I think that's it.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:22

I want one more. I'm trying to think of anything that I've like seen like traveling wise. Like, oh, we went on a trip and XYZ happened. Let me watch more movies. I was either thinking like movies or TV shows. Can't think of any. I watched Willow last night. Did we get the burnt peanut to voice one of them? One of the like the lead baby, the big baby. It's just his eyes and mouth grafted onto this this this baby.

unknown 1:07:55

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:57

It's time to meet your maker!

SPEAKER_00 1:08:01

Just all the babies run. It's just an internet meme parody.

unknown 1:08:06

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:09

They all line up, and it's like, I did my part. I did my part. And Drewski's like, I didn't do fucking shit. Dressed as Amanda. The star of my show. Drewski in white woman makeup with a blonde wig. We can do it. Drewski hit us up. Don't hit us up. Hit us up. I give you the sickest dap that you have ever had. Sure. Alright. Hell, I'll let you kiss Ann on the mouth. Okay. Alright. No?

SPEAKER_02 1:08:45

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SPEAKER_00 1:09:23

So uh that's gonna be they were super terrifying at the beginning, and then we just turned them into one big joke.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:29

They I think that's the the human side of things. The sphere side's more calm and more like respect nature and nature will respect you. But then like I feel like it became like as the natives told foreigners, foreigners like, oh, this would be a crazy, scary monster. Yeah, boom, this it just kills you. It's like whoa. Well, they don't kill I mean No, they kill, no, they they just go straight.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:54

They they drag you out. I think the native side of things they get you out there in the water yonder. Yeah. Ruski, hit us out. We got a movie idea. Ghost and ghouls. Bring your makeup guy.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:08

Ghosts and ghouls.