Voodoo Doll, Absolutely Knot, Ask Us Anything & VIP Table

This episode features a story of a Stepmother who resorts to creating a Voodoo doll of her stepdaughter during her engagement. 

We then dive into our usual of Absolutely Knot Spooky Edition, Ask Us Anything, and VIP Table: things we wish upon someone who has wronged us.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

All right. Welcome to another episode of Absolutely Not Another Podcast. I am Mr. Cassie alongside Wedding Procast. Here I am. I'm here. Spooky episode. Voodoo episode.

SPEAKER_01 0:18

We always have to theme the episodes. Well, we like to theme them, I should say, based on stories we get. And I've been sitting on this one for some time.

SPEAKER_00 0:25

Yeah. But it's not to say that like the kickoff everything, not everything's been voodoo for us. We've had a lot of engagements of friends and family. Oh, heck yeah. Over the past really like two months.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Tons of people. Three months, maybe. Our niece is engaged, which is really fun to see her plan. A couple of our friends are engaged and they're planning their weddings.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

So, niece, she's already gotten her wedding dress. Great for her, has her wedding date. My close friend from college, also a close friend of yours, too. He already has his bachelor party set and then his wedding date set. Yep. I can't like I think you you might have shared this online or you might have said this in another episode, but they planned both the dates before the proposal even happened.

SPEAKER_01 1:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:11

Or the wedding date.

SPEAKER_01 1:12

I used to think it was weird. Like when I was working in the wedding industry, I'm like, oh, people like venue shopping before they're engaged, but it's pretty common now, especially with like I feel like post-COVID, people, the booking period is sometimes like a year and a half, two years. If you're looking for a specific date or a specific venue, you could totally limit yourself. So sometimes you have to search before if you only want like a year engagement or a year and a half engagement.

SPEAKER_00 1:37

I feel like I see a lot of Friday weddings Saturday. Not like Saturday hits, but like if you can get the venue that you want, you might save some money by doing a Friday wedding. And I don't I don't have no idea if he's doing a Friday or Saturday, but he got it ahead of time where I'm pretty sure it's a weekend. I love a I love a Friday wedding. The bachelor party's in Scottsdale. He's from or he's not from the area, he's actually from Philly, boo. But he's lives out near there. He works at a university in New Mexico, actually. So we're all going out there for that. And then his wedding is in Florida. I can't wait. That'll be a good time. Our other friend, uh growing up, best friend. Well, it's not like he's still not my best friend now, one of my best friends. But we're recording this and he's actually proposing in like three days.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Yeah, in three days. So hopefully she said yes. Congratulations. When this episode comes out, they'll be engaged and planning their wedding.

SPEAKER_00 2:33

Imagine if they don't. If they don't, I'll just delete this all.

SPEAKER_01 2:35

I have also, I feel like when I see them, well, not when I see Goob, but when I see Dev, I am so tight-lipped and not standoffish, but like I don't want to be the one that spills the beans.

SPEAKER_00 2:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

I'm like, oh, gotta watch what I say.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

He made it seem like I almost spilled the beans, but he mentioned about, oh, we're going to the aviary. And I thought maybe this is something that she knew as well. So they were over our house, and I mentioned because he got golf clubs, and one of our bachelor parties that we're going to is we're gonna golf. So he wants to go before then. And I just trying to play it off. I'm like, oh, like, well, I can't do this upcoming weekend because this was this was last weekend. I can't do this upcoming weekend because we have a trailer event. But next weekend I have the Morgan Wallin concert, but the next day, I know you mentioned the aviary. Once you get done with the aviary, let's go golfing. So I'm trying to play it off because we there's a surprise engagement party that's happening after.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

Which obviously she doesn't know.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

So I was just like, yeah, let me just like play it off, act like, oh, that's what we're gonna do after you guys go to the aviary. And he made it seem like I almost like she was questioning about the aviary. Like, oh.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

Did they not plan it? Did he not? Did he not tell her, like, hey, we're doing it? It was like, uh oh. Listen, that's why I've been steering clear. Like when they're over, I'm like, I'm gonna be by the kids. Cause like I don't want to. I feel like a lot of the conversations that I'll have with people end up revolving around weddings because of everything that we do online and all the other stuff. It's wedding season. So people, if you're chatting with somebody, usually comes up. I'm like, I don't want to say anything. Like I'm so nervous. And if I have a drink or two in me, I can get a little loose-lipped. Loose-lipped. I'm like, I don't want to be the one that blows it. So literally, when I saw her the last time, I like steered clear of having one-on-one conversation because I'm like, I don't want to be the one that blows it.

unknown 4:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:31

And it almost just me. But it's one of those things. They not to say that she's not going to be surprised when it happens, but they have ring shopped prior to. So at least she knows it's going to, it's on the horizon, just a matter of when it's happening. Right. She has no clue.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

And I love when the engagement is a surprise. So I hope that like the way it plays out, that they have like a really lovely engagement. And then after when they go to the place we're having the party, that they're surprised. Well, not goob, but like she's surprised that everybody's there to celebrate.

SPEAKER_00 5:01

Some family. I'm very excited.

SPEAKER_01 5:03

And I'm like, I'm glad we're not going to see them before Saturday. So Gooby Dev, congratulations.

SPEAKER_00 5:09

Congrats. He did ask what I was doing the day prior. I'm like, well, I have a concert. Um, but he was asking during the day. It was the same thing. I'm like, I don't want to screw it up. Don't blow it. You're gonna blow it. Not them, me.

SPEAKER_02 5:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:22

So um, again, nothing about this episode has to that was all good stuff going on. Sometimes people like to throw some little witchcraft, some voodoo. Some voodoo.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

This story really was crazy. Like I said, I've been sitting on it for quite some time, and I really toyed about putting it on my TikTok, which it might end up going on there. Sometimes I'm like, maybe I'll tell these stories like later down the road. Um, but this is a good one. So I'm gonna dive into this crazy voodoo story.

unknown 5:52

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 5:52

I am so happy I finally have a place to share this crazy story. Most of the time I tell this story, people do not believe me. Here's the story how my evil stepmom tried to use a voodoo doll to break up my marriage, but it backfired and ended up with my dad leaving her. I give you full permission to share this on your page. Names, locations, and key to key details have already been changed. Short backstory for you my mom and dad were head over heels in love. They were married for 12 years before my mom got very sick and passed away from cancer. Very sad. I was six years old when this happened, and from then on it was just me and my dad for some time. We did everything together. When I was about 10, my dad met Celeste. She was, in fact, an evil stepmother. Not like, oh, I'm mad my dad fell in love and is moving on, but like Celeste wanted my dad, but none of the baggage that came with him. After they were married, my life became a little bit more dull. Less time with dad, pictures of my mother removed from the walls, no more talking about my mom and all of her favorite three things, and pulling me from my tight-knit private school to rough it in the real world at the public school. All pretty big changes for a preteen who had such a special bond with her dad. I could tell my dad loved her, and I tried to love her too, but she was cold and unwelcoming to me, plastering the smile and the hugs on only for pictures or when my dad was around. Celeste always told me she never wanted children of her own, and she was counting down the days until I was off to college. Which I gladly left the state for. That's kind of sad. I'm sorry. Sorry you had to deal with that. My now husband and I met at college and we were engaged by our senior year. Life was great. My dad seemed happy. We rarely had to see Celeste because she never accompanied my dad when he flew out to see us. We decided to settle closer to Adam's parents and siblings. We found jobs and we began wedding planning. I still remember when I called my dad and Celeste to tell them the news of our engagement, and her response was, weddings have a way of revealing who is really meant to stay together. Odd thing to say to a newly and happily engaged couple. My mother-in-law, Susan, wanted my stepmom to feel involved and reached out several times to help plan the shower, which Celeste finally agreed to. It was like pulling teeth. She really just didn't like me or didn't want to celebrate me. I tried to warn Susan of what kind of person she could be, but Susan wanted to make sure she felt a part of the celebrating. The more, the merrier, Susan always said. Susan did not reveal this until later, but Celeste did not participate in anything for the shower, but sending a Venmo to Susan to help pay. She wasn't interested in sharing photos of me for any of the games, picking out any of the decor or anything. My dad did all of that part. Celeste just doesn't want to be a stepmom.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

No. At all. It's sad about what her mother passed and whatnot and whatnot. And like you hope that whoever's gonna eventually, I felt like most of the time you end up remarrying. Hopefully, nothing happens to me and you do that.

SPEAKER_02 8:42

I hope not.

SPEAKER_00 8:43

You can instantly you're gonna not vilify the stepmom. But if the stepmom's doing things that vilify themselves, you're even gonna think of them worse.

SPEAKER_01 8:54

Yeah. It's like, I guess we'll see how it plays.

SPEAKER_00 8:57

Yeah, yeah. Well, clearly it's not gonna be good.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Yeah. The shower rolled around and my stepmom and dad flew out. They were staying at our home so we could spend extra time with them, but last minute Celeste booked a hotel stating she needed her private space for meditation. My dad kept laughing that she was into cleansing herself lately and had ordered all kinds of books and such to help her on her new journey. My dad wasn't really interested in any of that and gave her her space and spent most of the weekend hanging out with us while Celeste excused herself four different times to head to the hotel to meditate. Yikes. Now I can't say the next three things happened because of Celeste, but let's just say that weekend I fractured my ankle, got a flat tire, and the heel of my shoe broke off. And while the wedding shower was happening, my dad gave a speech about how much my mom would have loved to be here for this moment, seeing me so grown and happy, and how proud she would be of me. Celeste got up, stormed to the bathroom during the speech, making quite a scene, later stating that the chicken salad must have been bad because she had to go to the bathroom to throw up.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

Good.

SPEAKER_01 10:02

I'm like, she sucks. It was after the shower while driving back to the house that I hit a pothole, got out of got out to inspect the tire, tripped in a hole, breaking my shoe and fracturing my ankle. Coincidence? I think not. Clearly, my dad and husband flew to my rescue, getting the car fixed and getting me to the hospital. And all Celeste had to say is some people attract bad energy. She's a witch. With a B. The wedding was one and a half months away, and now we were working on very intimate details. I was chatting with my dad on FaceTime one night, telling him that I was reserving a spot for mom in the front row, right next to him and Celeste. And you could hear Celeste asking in the background why it was necessary that I would have a seat dedicated for my mom. My dad could tell how flustered I got and asked her to stop. She stormed out of the room. Wedding week rolls around, and my dad and Celeste were coming up on Monday to help with things all week. This time they decided to stay at Susan's house because our house had all of our wedding party members staying at it. Susan would not have them staying at a hotel. Susan had given them the full bedroom on the main floor and reminded them to keep the door shut because their dog, Chief, love that, loved to snoop around and would take things. Not sure if my dad or Celeste didn't shut the door, but everyone headed over to our house one night to help build centerpieces, and Susan was back prepping food for rehearsal dinner. She said she caught Chief chewing on a bag and he started whining. She came over and she saw he had a pin stuck in his lip. The dog. She thought maybe he got into the bag with a sewing kit, and that's when she saw it. He had a doll in his mouth, a voodoo doll. She was very confused. She pulled the pin out of Chief's lip and picked up the doll off the ground. She said she screamed when she turned it over because there was my face taped to it.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 11:56

I just like imagine this nice woman like her dog's crying and she thinks it's like a dog toy, and she flips it over and it's a voodoo doll. I've never seen a real voodoo doll.

SPEAKER_00 12:05

No, I never have either. I've had seen, shout out a podcast to listen to part of my take. They made a dog toy out of one of their producers, Hank. And it's just like his face plastered onto it. Like they just always make a so it's like a good running joke if it's not a voodoo doll, but it's a voodoo doll.

SPEAKER_01 12:25

I'm like, I'm sure there's like a a certain there's a certain doll that's like a voodoo doll. Like, I don't know where you get these things.

SPEAKER_00 12:32

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

I have no idea. Okay. She turned it over and her face is taped to it. Weird to scary. And there are 10 pins in the right leg of this doll. Remember the broken ankle and the broken shoe? It was my right leg. She put the doll back in the bag, which she said also had some candles in it, and a bunch of crumpled papers that said things like, doesn't deserve this. Ungrateful. Make her weak. She was freaked out to say the least. She put the bag on top of the counter on the kitchen island to see who would grab the bag when everyone returned from making centerpieces. I would have been like taking pictures of this, like, what is it? W T Fose is this?

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_01 13:15

When they returned back from the house, Celeste saw the bag and started screaming at Susan, asking, why is this bag out on the counter? Susan tried to explain that the dog had grabbed the bag, and Celeste started spiraling, saying that this was her private stuff. She felt extremely violated, and that Susan, why did Susan go in their room and go through their things? She told my dad to grab his things and that they were leaving immediately. Susan stopped them and said, Why do you have a voodoo doll of Ella? Her face turned white, and she repeated herself, and Celeste did not respond. There was no response, so my dad looked very confused and asked Celeste what she was talking about. Susan said, I saw it. Have you been using that? And Celeste tried to claim it was something that I set up and that I was trying to make Celeste look bad in front of everyone. I had no idea that she even had a voodoo doll of me, and I wasn't even at Susan's house. My dad forced her in front of Susan to open the bag, and my dad saw the voodoo doll with his own eyes and asked Celeste to leave immediately.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

Yeah, you can't ask the dad to leave as well. Also, shout out the dog for having the go chief finding that doll. Like that, that is different source of energy coming through to Chief to get the doll. I didn't think of that.

SPEAKER_01 14:41

Like you're right, dogs can like sense spirit more than people. So maybe he sensed that out and was like, I'm gonna get it out. Yeah, I don't know. This would be crazy. Like, if someone I know had a voodoo doll of me, I'd be like, What? Yeah, you are a psycho. You're crazy. I wasn't there for the next part, but I guess as my dad was grabbing Celeste things to get her out, he took the bag and asked her why she would have this. And she spewed some BS story about me when I was a child, making her feel left out from the family and never accepting her as my new mom. It must have struck a chord with my dad because she was not at my wedding that week, nor was she ever in my life ever again. My dad never showed me the doll, but he locked it away and kept it in his house. He said he didn't believe in any of that stuff, but would make sure that doll stayed safe and far away from Celeste. They got a divorce pretty quickly, and my my dad ended up moving out towards me and Adam two years after our wedding. Celeste is not doing well. I'm not gonna air her dirty laundry out in the story, but let's just say she was caught drinking and driving and now spends her days behind bars. Locked up where she should be, based on this behavior. My dad has begun talking about my mom again, and it reminds me of life before Celeste entered the picture. I'm currently six months pregnant due to have a little girl who I plan to name after my mother, keeping that surprise for the day she is born. I hope she's born. The whole thing makes me wonder if Celeste had a spell on my dad or something, because he seems lighter now and happier, not like how he was when he was married to Celeste. Through it all, my dad has been my rock. Love him forever.

SPEAKER_00 16:21

The end. The end. Yeah. If Celeste has a voodoo doll for a wedding, she probably has something on her dad too. She's a meditator, like she liked everything that surrounds her was spiritual.

SPEAKER_01 16:32

She's crazy. Or I'm like, maybe, I don't know. Because she says, like, maybe Celeste had a spell on him forever, which I'm like, maybe, I don't know. Like he she could have, or maybe she is a witch. I don't know. I don't know. But the fact that the dad like loved her, that's what's crazy. It's like he loved her and was like with her, and it wasn't until he like saw the voodoo doll.

SPEAKER_00 16:53

Yeah. Well, it's like the what is that? The lady in Game of Thrones. What like she's the one that brought Jon Snow back to life, but she was with Stanisporathean and like made him kill that lady, the his like daughter or the other guy's daughter. Yeah. What is her name? I don't know. But like that. Like she could just like dropped a spell to have like Stannis Baratheon lover. Maybe she's like 200 years old. Who knows? I'm glad Celeste is locked up. Locked up, though. She might be there for 200 years longer.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

I just like the whole story when I read it, it does seem like a little crazy because I'm like, I can't tell if the stories are real or not that come through.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

Like a mother passing and then someone else taking that moment. She probably did say something growing up along the lines of, you'll never be like my mother, which she will never be. Right. But Celeste took that statement and rocked it for years on end.

SPEAKER_01 17:49

Yeah. And it seemed like Celeste mainly just wanted to be with the dad and had no interest of really being a mom. And so when Celeste was gone, or when um Ella, I think was her name in the story, when Ella was gone at college, it was probably like enjoyable for the two of them because she wasn't in the picture really. But when the mom got brought up because of the wedding, it's like Celeste just went off the hay.

SPEAKER_00 18:11

You need to have the mom included in a light for the wedding, having a seat in the front row, and you're gonna get upset about that and throw up. I'm glad she threw up.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

Yeah. Also the dad having no interest in what Celeste was doing. Like he probably was like, Yeah, she's into yoga now. Like he wasn't looking through her things to be like, why is she meditating all the time? She was probably casting spells. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

I don't know. I I believe I believe I believe in witches and stuff. So I'm like, this could be true.

SPEAKER_00 18:40

Like, I'm impartial. It's either sometimes, yes. Yeah. Like sometimes I'll see something online about aliens or things supernatural. I'm like, I think this might be you can't believe everything on the internet.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Right.

SPEAKER_00 18:56

There have been moments in my life that I've experienced some supernatural things and being like, oh.

SPEAKER_01 19:02

They're out there. Maybe. I thought that story was a good one though. Our next segment is absolutely not. And these are spooky things that you should or should not be doing. And I'm gonna be asking Garrett to get his opinion.

SPEAKER_02 19:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 19:15

Using a Ouija board at a bachelor or a bachelorette party.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

I I will never I think Ouija boards are D-U-M-B.

SPEAKER_01 19:25

I don't believe in them. I'm scared of them. Like I hear I listen to a lot of true crime. I'm like, they like open portals and stuff. Like I'm not messing with a Ouija board.

SPEAKER_00 19:34

I I've I felt like I did an Ouija board when I was maybe in middle school or early high school, high school. That's not don't do that. No, no, okay. Bunch of weirdos if you're doing that now and you're in the mid-30s. Sorry, just want to throw it out there.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

Splitting up in a haunted house.

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Splitting up in a haunted house. First off, you can't split up in a haunted house.

SPEAKER_02 19:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:58

But if you're in a horror movie in the moment that they split up, unless it's like Fred trying to go with Daphne, like we know what he's trying to do. But if you're splitting up in a movie, one of the groups, if not both of the groups, are eventually gonna die.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

Yeah, they aren't making it out.

SPEAKER_00 20:14

You're not making it out. Like, okay, here we go. About 20 minutes from now, someone's dead.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yeah. Okay. Trusting a child who says they have an imaginary friend.

SPEAKER_00 20:24

No, see, that creeps me out. That's like the certain not it hasn't happened with our kids yet.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

We had one instance though. When? I can't remember what Tyson called it. Remember when he was scared of the bath and he kept saying the thing that lived in the tub, and he would like not take a bath? It was like the sound of the tub going out.

SPEAKER_02 20:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:43

But he had like made it into a monster in his mind. Yeah. And he would talk about X. He called it X. And I was like, please don't bring it up. Like if you look at the bottom of the thing, it's I learned, but for like a minute, I was like, this is freaking me out. He was like, X is from the bathtub. I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Like if a kid brings up something imaginary, it that might be real and it's spooky. Like, oh, uh oh. Like there was the um, it might have been on like a random, not like Discovery or the History Channel, but it's kind of like the save a lot Aldi brand of a discovery or history channel. And it was like my my kid is has like a spirit within them.

SPEAKER_01 21:29

I don't forget the name of the ghost within my child or something like that.

SPEAKER_00 21:33

Something like that. Not that it was there were some that were spooky, but then there was one kid in particular that comes to my mind that he had the spirit of the person that was the architect of the Titanic.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

I remember that episode.

SPEAKER_00 21:47

It's like he knew everything. He like went to the Titanic Museum and had everything down pat. Like I can believe that.

SPEAKER_01 21:55

It was like about reincarnation, I think.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

It's like and I just feel like some of the skills. Things because just like we said, pets can maybe sense spirits. It's like young children, like the veil is thinner, and it's like I remember when my grandpa died, like right after Bennett was born, and randomly, like nine. Let's say she went to bed at nine o'clock, she's like down, she's like sleeping in front of me. My dad calls me and is like, Hey, Gramps is dead. And I'm like, Oh, okay. Like a little upset taking a moment. And then Bennett woke up and was like kicking and like being very active out after being so asleep. And then she just went right back to sleep. And I'm like, I wonder if my grandpa came and like threw and was like saying his goodbyes, because I was like, that was weird.

SPEAKER_00 22:42

Yeah. A weird, like sometimes not when I like not that in particular, but it makes me go back and think when it comes to like life when it comes when it comes back to life after death. I'm gonna get deep here for a second, but there's a part of me that does believe that you might like leave your body and then when you pass, you go into another body, and then but you have no memory of your previous life, but maybe sometimes some facts slip through, creak through, and then reincarnation.

SPEAKER_01 23:14

Yeah, that's pretty normal. Like I I would believe in that. Yeah, you never know. I feel like if maybe if you had like a good soul journey on earth that maybe you go on, but you had a redo.

SPEAKER_00 23:25

If I was in a previous body before this body, that I wasn't like a dictator, yeah, I don't think I was, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:35

You're a good person, so I feel like you were probably a good person before this.

SPEAKER_00 23:39

Yeah, maybe who knows? Like, maybe I was George Washington. You don't know.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

Maybe you don't know. You never know. Okay. Going on an adventure late at night where the location is off the grid.

SPEAKER_00 23:52

See, that's something again, like you do at a young age with your friends, like, let's go to this cemetery and spook ourselves out. And then you think every car that gets behind you when you leave that location is following you. Now I'm not really gonna do it anymore.

SPEAKER_01 24:10

But there's so much about this that's an absolutely not for me. Like going where I can't have my maps working.

SPEAKER_00 24:17

Nope. Even whenever we were doing the event that had no service and we had to walk from the location, like down, down, down the driveway over the creek to the vehicle. Not that it I was thinking something supernatural was gonna happen, but more so I thought we're in like bear territory. Yeah, there can be animal a bear coming and attacking me.

SPEAKER_01 24:42

I mean, I like spooky stuff, but I get like scared very easily. You know that about me. I can't even barely talk about ghosts.

SPEAKER_00 24:49

You can't even put on any like no zebra. I don't think I've watched a horror movie in how 15 years.

SPEAKER_01 24:56

Probably because I don't like them. I can't. Like, and if I watch something scary, then I immediately have to put on like something that's gonna make me laugh, and like the volume's gotta be up.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

Yeah, anything gory, you're like, I'm out.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

Except for Game of Thrones. That's my one exception that I watched that, but I still covered my eyes for a lot of the parts. Okay, moving into a house where the previous tenant died in the house, and you know about it.

SPEAKER_00 25:17

Yeah, I would probably not do it because it depends on how long they've been dead in there. If they were somebody that was dead for a long time in there, and then they have the cut, oh, I don't even know, like want to get in the details, but they have to like cut into the floor because they yeah, no.

SPEAKER_01 25:34

Like your grandma passed away in your house, in your parents' house.

SPEAKER_00 25:39

And my pat.

SPEAKER_01 25:40

But I don't feel any bad spirits there when I go there. I don't ever, I'm never like, oh. And we lived there for a short amount of time when we moved back. But for me, if I was house hunting and they tell me like someone died here, I'd be like, Yeah, I'm gonna look it somewhere else. Cause I just have this irrational fear that there's gonna be a spirit attached to the house.

SPEAKER_00 25:58

If it's a net like not a natural, if it's a natural death, but if I find out that like a murder, yeah, there was like a home near my high school where there was a murder that happened, and like that house has been for sale multiple times. Like there has to be bad spirits. Yeah, spooky spirits up in there. Not good. Maybe good spirits, but probably bad.

SPEAKER_01 26:21

Okay, next one hiring an Etsy witch.

SPEAKER_00 26:24

You mention an Etsy witch a lot. I don't even know what that means. So I'm gonna just kind of say absolutely not, but I know that you're indifferent because you buy it for like positive outcomes, right? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

I I'm for an Etsy witch. I just had this conversation with someone the other day. They were asking. So on Etsy, you can hire witches to like it's like a person? Yeah, like a like somebody that I mean, I don't know if they're real witches or not, but I can say I have had good luck with my witches, where they can cast a good luck spell or like a creativity spell. For me, I use them the most for weather for my clients. If they have like an outdoor wedding, okay. You can you can purchase them and they manifest a little bit for you. And it could be like a placebo effect where like you're like, oh.

SPEAKER_00 27:12

Yeah, you like manifest it going in a positive direction.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

Yeah, and then you like make this actionable thing of like, hey, I purchased this, like it's gonna happen, and then it happens, but I'm not against it.

SPEAKER_00 27:22

Yeah, sometimes I'll get on like a if I'm scrolling through TikTok and there's somebody trying, they it might be a tarot card reader, or it's just somebody that figured out their an algorithm that people attract to their viewership, like something positive is gonna happen if you listen through the next three minutes. I typically get about a minute in and wrap it up next. Wrap it up next.

SPEAKER_01 27:48

Okay, sleeping with your feet or arms hanging off the bed.

SPEAKER_00 27:52

Naturally, I feel like it depends on where our dogs are positioned that I have my feet hanging over. There was one time in particular in our home. Oh, I just thought of that. That I I didn't know. I thought it was you. I thought it could have been the dogs, but it felt like a hand grabbed my leg, not in an aggressive way, but in a very in what kind of way? It just like grabbed it, a sexual way, very sexual, but lower leg, lower leg. It didn't like work its way up, but it happened in the middle of the night, and I look around, you're fast asleep. Sometimes uh, you know, you would think it might be the dogs, because the dogs sometimes like to come up and down the bed. No dogs were on the bed. Oh spooky, but yeah, I probably naturally I'm gonna have my feet over the bed, depending on position. But if I can get myself under the blanket, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 28:52

I have like a weird feeling about it if I ever have like my feet or hand off the bed because I think there's like I'm like somebody that thinks that way, like, oh my god, something's gonna grab my feet or grab my hands, and I'm 34 and I still think that way. That's how freaked out I get. Okay. Picking up a hitchhiker.

SPEAKER_00 29:11

No, no. I'm sorry. Like I joke, and like if it's if I'm going with our neighbor to a restaurant, I'll fake hitchhike. Um I know if I know the person, yeah, I'll I'll pick them up. I'm just like But I'm not picking up someone random. It wasn't yeah, normal.

SPEAKER_01 29:27

It was like a normal means to get from place to place would be like hitchhiking through, and that's crazy.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

You look on any like TV series, movie, documentary movie. It's like every any hitchhiker is someone trying to do something bad.

SPEAKER_01 29:41

Yeah, even people that pick up the hitchhikers or the hitchhikers themselves.

SPEAKER_00 29:45

It's like you can't trust them. Can't trust them. Don't do it.

SPEAKER_01 29:48

Okay. Whispering bloody Mary in front of a mirror for fun. I wouldn't do this.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

I don't think I ever I haven't done again. This is more of like a high school, middle school thing when you first heard about it.

SPEAKER_01 30:01

What's supposed to happen?

SPEAKER_00 30:03

Is like a scary thing supposed to come? Yeah, I'm pretty sure like they appear behind you. I feel like I did it one time and then nothing happened. Maybe it did. Maybe. No, but not yeah. Just to not have it happen, I would say absolutely not. I want to take my chances.

SPEAKER_01 30:19

Ignoring a dog barking at absolutely nothing.

SPEAKER_00 30:24

I'm not like I would just tell my dogs, like, enough, check your work.

SPEAKER_01 30:28

Yeah, that's what we say, check your work.

SPEAKER_00 30:31

Yeah, like they just hear a little thud and they start to lose it a little bit. Now, if it's barking and it's not an old dog that might be like blind or something, might be a little sick.

SPEAKER_01 30:41

I feel like if they're like growling at something, then that would freak me out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:45

It's like down the hallway in our house. Not the dogs were barking, but our son would always talk about like the T. The T, but then he made it into like a figure. Then it started to freak me out.

SPEAKER_01 30:58

And then like Bo would come down the hallway and be like, oh yeah. And we're like, it's just the dog. Yeah, he like freaked himself out. I think Tyson gets that from me. Okay. Um, last one reading comments on a true crime TikTok at midnight or later.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Absolutely. Yes, you look at the comments because if I'm looking at a video and I know it's gonna freak me out, I go to the comments and then the first comment is I'm here, like I'm also here for the comments too. Like they're all everyone's freaked out of what's going on in the video. Like if I'm doom scrolling at night and I'm just not able to go to sleep, or I'm just kept swiping up, then it's like horror TikTok pops up. What, like where scary things are like it's just nonstop, scary things, non-stop, and I can't get can't get out of it. And then I eventually I freak myself enough to go to the comments.

SPEAKER_01 31:54

Sometimes I'll go in the comments and it's like, bring me back when it's daylight, read into the story when it's night, and I'm like, yeah, I feel that. I scroll past them because you know me, I will freak myself.

SPEAKER_00 32:04

Yeah, I don't I feel it doesn't show up on my TikTok if it's during the day. It's only at night that it appears. Like if I go, I'm going to bed and I do my last second scroll, all of a sudden it's horror TikTok popping up. And I don't like it.

unknown 32:18

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 32:19

Like, so even like documentaries, like a Netflix document documentary. It was the um well, most anyone that deals with like a serial killer, those ones always freaked me out. But their images, they would there was the one guy in particular, I forget who it is now, but he would just invade into homes. It got to the point so much that I bought one of those like sliding door barriers. We already had one. And then there was other, yeah, you were like, Yeah, you know that you just push this down and this does that too. It's like I have to, it was right after the Idaho murders. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, yeah, I can't have that happen here.

SPEAKER_01 32:59

So yeah, we already had it. We already had it.

SPEAKER_00 33:01

But no, things like that freak me out, and then it makes me be like, Do I have enough safety to make sure that my home's secure?

SPEAKER_01 33:10

Like that's like part of the reason that I put the dog gate up at night, is because if somebody broke into our house through the front, it we would hear the door, and then we'd also hear that dog gate, and some people don't know how to move it. If you ever notice that the dog gate's closed, it's because of that. I would hear it, the dogs would hear it.

SPEAKER_00 33:26

Yeah, it's not quite double prepared, but dog like we have three dogs, so the dogs would alert. Yes. And then I'd be fighting them in my boxers, ready to go. Super dad.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

All right, the next segment is Ask Us Anything, where people have written in on our social media pages asking us questions either that are wedding related or personal. So the first one made me laugh, so I'm asking it. If you had to give a 30-minute presentation on a topic with no preparation, what topic are you gonna talk about?

SPEAKER_00 34:01

All right, I would give it would be either or, it depends on the season. Okay, or time. Survivor, TV show, not like surviving something.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:13

But I've watched it since what, season one? Since always. Since always. Well, I did take a gap. I've had gap times. Like I watched it every season until I went to college, then I didn't really watch it that much.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

And then you introduced it to me.

SPEAKER_00 34:28

Then I introduced it to you, and then I went back to watch seasons that I didn't watch in college. Most of the times, if I didn't watch it in college, when I would go home for breaks, I would go to my grandma's house and we'd watch it. Um, but then after I tried to I've auditioned multiple times. So Survivor, if you're listening, Jesse Tannebaum. They got done with the season 40, and then they cut the days back to just like 26 because it was COVID, so they I feel like they did it to save money, yada yada, yada, yada, and it just weren't as good. And then it got like there are certain seasons within they're not saying every season has been bad since then, but they just weren't the same as what it was growing up. But then they just had season 50 that came out, and I was like, we gotta watch this again.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

That was pretty good. I like season 50.

SPEAKER_00 35:19

People were a little knocking whoever who won, Aubrey. Spoiler alert. But I thought she played a good game. Sometimes you have to like not every everyone's thought on who's gonna win Survivor isn't gonna be the like your pick.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Everybody has a different perspective.

SPEAKER_00 35:37

Like sometimes people that I think's gonna win, most of the time they don't win. They get out like sixth, seventh into the game. Like when they're in the jury. They played the best game, but they're out because they played the best game. Like Rick Devons, they were gonna be a good one. I thought he played hit Rick Devons and Sari played the best game for her in this past season, and they didn't win because they played good games. And the people that were still in knew that they couldn't win if they were at the last three with them. So that's just how it is. But if it comes to other things I can talk about, it's like football. Football.

SPEAKER_01 36:12

Yeah, football. You're like my dad. You guys can just like chat about players and all the other things. And I'm like, you guys are speaking another language, I don't even know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 36:20

Yeah, during like during football season, it's easy to talk about what's had happened and what's going to happen or what you think's gonna happen. Like right now, everyone's knocking the Steelers because we brought back Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. What do you what do you mean? What's going on? You like Aaron Rodgers. I like Aaron Rodgers because I don't think I don't believe in Will Howard like everyone else does. He's a sixth-round pick for a reason. And they drafted Drew Aller, who also I don't really believe in yet. But you know who I do believe in? Aaron Rodgers. There you go. So I'll take him for another year. I'll take him for another two years. Unless we get Arch Manning next year. I don't know why. I just would like a Manning. But then Peyton Manning's son, Marshall Manning, he's in seventh grade. So in seven years, seven years, actually longer. It might be longer than that. I'm like the ASTR college too. I'm saving, yeah. Steelers will be good once we draft Marshall Manning when he comes out of college in 10 years. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_01 37:18

I would say my topics would be Disney or weddings.

SPEAKER_00 37:21

Easy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Easy. Okay. You talk about Disney to me every day. We finish the trip and we have another one going because you're doing a Disney wedding and like you're already.

SPEAKER_01 37:35

I know, but like you're like, oh, we're never gonna trip there again for a break. I'm like, I just love it. I don't know what it is. I just it's very nostalgic to me. And it might I love seeing it with the kids. Okay. What is a skill you have that might surprise people?

SPEAKER_00 37:49

I don't know. Maybe people that don't know me outside of knowing me that listen in. I do like to carry a nice little tune.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

I was just about to say you're a really talented singer.

SPEAKER_00 38:01

Yeah. Give me on a karaoke machine. I'm going. He ain't stopping. Yeah. I was Lumiere. I was Papa Gay in Once on This Island. And typically when I have a few adult beverages, I think I'm the next country music star.

SPEAKER_01 38:15

Rhett Edwards.

SPEAKER_00 38:16

Rhett Edwards. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:17

That's his country. Country music.

SPEAKER_00 38:19

If I ever become a country music star, my stage name would be Rhett Edwards. I feel like that hits Gare Rhett. And then I have two middle names. One of them is Edwards. So I'll just add an S to it. Rhett Edwards.

SPEAKER_01 38:31

I think that's creative.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

My other middle name is Rhett. It's not Rhett. My other middle name is James. I feel like if I was Rhett James, that's too close to Rick James. But actually, it's not bad. I'm Rhett James, bitch.

SPEAKER_01 38:44

I think Rhett Edwards is definitely though your country stage name.

SPEAKER_00 38:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:49

Maybe in a couple years you guys will see that name in lights. Yeah. Who knows?

SPEAKER_00 38:52

Acker, sure.

unknown 38:55

All right.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

Well, what skill do you have?

SPEAKER_01 38:57

I have lots of skills. I would say a skill that a lot of people don't know about me. I have many skills.

SPEAKER_00 39:03

I do.

SPEAKER_01 39:03

I have the best skills. I have a lot of hidden talents. One of my hidden talents my kids recently learned about me is I could shake my eyes.

SPEAKER_00 39:10

Oh, yeah. Don't do that here. Actually, look at the camera and do it. No, it's too far away.

SPEAKER_01 39:16

And then another thing that I can do is I can write right-handed and left-handed upside down and backwards at the same time. What does that even mean? That's a special skill that would surprise people. Like I could write my name like this.

SPEAKER_00 39:32

But what about like upside down and like I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 39:34

I just learned to do it. I don't know what I was doing in school that that's what I was practicing. Shaking my eyes and writing in cursive upside down at the same time.

SPEAKER_00 39:42

Shaking your eyes, huh?

SPEAKER_01 39:44

Those would be my my so my special skills.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

Wedding related. I was like, okay. Wedding related. If giving 2,000 dollars to add to the budget, what category are you putting it into?

SPEAKER_01 40:02

I think for me personally, it would be like an entertainment enhancement, like something interactive for the guests at this point in my life. That's what I would do. I don't know exactly what it would be, but it could be like a really cool food element that people could like, I don't know. Yeah. Something like that. Or I would say enhancing the dinner menu would probably be the other thing that I would do.

SPEAKER_00 40:25

Like adding maybe like a pizza station at the end of the night. Like a late night bite. Late night bites.

SPEAKER_01 40:31

I think that's what I would spend it on.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

Okay. The other question I have is do you have a wedding pet peeve? I have a lot of wedding pet peeves.

SPEAKER_01 40:41

I'd say my two biggest wedding pet peeves are a talkative DJ. So somebody that just doesn't shut up on the mic, like can't read the room. And when the linens are supposed to be floor length, but they're not touching the ground because either the person that laid them didn't lay them properly, or they have shrunk up and they don't touch the floor and there's like two inches. Like it's just such a personal thing. Like most people wouldn't notice it, but I notice it every time. I'm like, ugh, hate it.

SPEAKER_00 41:08

Or if they're like too long, like extra long.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

But then you can too long if they're tucked properly. Yeah. Fine. But if they're just like thrown on there, it's a tripping hazard. So I could see where that could be annoying.

SPEAKER_00 41:18

On a low top, I feel like it's not really a tripping hazard. High top could be a tripping hazard.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

And the other thing that is like a wedding pet peeve is when um people don't listen to directions. So like if you've been asked to move locations, like they're like cocktail hours over, we're headed to reception. And then there's just like a group of five people that won't move. Yeah. And you're waiting on them to like do the next thing. That is so annoying to me.

SPEAKER_00 41:42

All right. This next segment is brought to you by Betting on the Wedding, an interactive activity that might be one of the most fun things that you can add to your wedding day. It's an app where your guests can make predictions throughout your wedding, like who is going to cry first, how long the speeches will go, who's hitting the dance floor with the craziest move, but here's where it gets even better. You can keep it super light and just play for bragging rights, or if your crowd is a little competitive, you can actually have guests make a real bet. At the end of the night, the winner takes all, or they can choose to split the pot with the couple. It's very easy to set up. You just create your event, share a QR code, and the guests are in. This is the kind of things your guests will be talking about long after your wedding. All right, VIP table. I am Keith Urban. These are things that you wish upon people that have wronged you.

SPEAKER_01 42:36

I'm Paula Dean.

SPEAKER_00 42:37

Paula.

unknown 42:38

Paula Dean.

SPEAKER_00 42:42

Yeah, if you're watching live, I can see it with this wig. Paula Dean. All right, again. Uh VIP table. And also I cannot see out of this. Again, I feel like the wigs are just wacky. What did what did uh Saxploy Billy say? He's like, I'm getting spicy with this wig. Spicy this wig. VIP table. These are things that you wish upon people that have wronged you. Not murder. We're not murdering anybody here, okay? No murder. Take it off your list. I don't have it on my list. Okay. Four top four things for each of us. You went first last episode, so I will go first this one. Okay. My uh first thing that I would have wish upon someone that has wronged me is I wish that they would chart in public. Just leaving out a juicy one. Oh my god. Like, oopsie, oopsie. This might have happened to our son. Someone might he might have wronged somebody. We came back from Disney and we're on the plane and he's we're trying to get off and he's complaining that it's taking so long. And lo and behold, he was like, I sharted.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

I love that he just said it out loud, but he was like, I gotta get out of here. I sharded.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

Like, oh yeah. There ain't nothing worse than having a little bit of brown in your underpants in public. Because then you know it's gonna smell around everybody. Like who farted? No, who sharded? It was me, the person that wronged.

SPEAKER_01 44:14

That was that was such a good one. I did not have that on my list, but that was so good. All right. So my first pick would be someone that's wronged me every single day within the first hour of their day, they're stubbing their toe, like hard, like a bad stub every day. Like you can't get away from it. They're trying to avoid stubbing their toe, but they're gonna stub it on something.

SPEAKER_00 44:37

That hurts. It hurts. It's like stubbing your toe or like getting like is it stubbing or like you stow your finger? I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 44:46

I feel like that sounds right.

SPEAKER_00 44:47

That also hurts too. Like either or, like with any of your fingers, toes, anything like that.

SPEAKER_01 44:52

Okay, my next one I guess could align with sharding. Every time this person goes to use a public restroom, they go to wipe and there's no toilet paper. And they have to like reach under or be like, hey, does anyone have toilet paper?

SPEAKER_00 45:07

Yeah, you can't really like call someone in at a public spot. Yeah. Like you have to call a stranger in. Yeah. Unless you know someone in there. But at the same time.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

Or if you have like wipes, like I would always be safe because I have baby wipes almost in all of every bag everywhere I go. But like if the kids aren't with us and I go in, I might be like, hey, my hand's under here. Can you pass me some toilet paper?

SPEAKER_00 45:30

Okay, good pick. Good pick. All right. Uh my next pick is they meant to send uh nude to their spouse, but they sent it in a family group text. We'll see. Didn't mean to send that. And I would just like it, send it to your parents. Like it's just gonna leave for some awkward times.

SPEAKER_01 45:54

There's no returning, there's no returning after that. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Like, I feel like again, things that I wish to people have wronged me. I hope that happens to them. All right. My next one is I I wish upon them that they always would say you too after a server brings them food and says enjoy your meal.

SPEAKER_01 46:18

Like at the wrong time.

SPEAKER_00 46:19

This is like an awkward statement in any scenario, but mainly that one.

SPEAKER_01 46:23

I'm sorry for your loss. You too. It just has to come out that way. Ooh, good one. Okay. Um, every time you go to charge your phone, it only charges when it's in this really awkward position. Like it has to be like flipped over, twisted, and like at an angle you recently went through.

SPEAKER_00 46:44

Yeah, it's the worst. Like I had to get a new phone specifically because of like the charging situation going on with me.

SPEAKER_01 46:50

Okay. And then my last pick would be that every time they go to go to self-checkout at like a restaurant or at a grocery store, the card machine is down and it's like cash only. That'd be terrible for me because I don't carry cash. Yeah. I'd be like, well, guess I'm not checking out.

SPEAKER_00 47:09

That won't be my like another pick I had was they get stuck beside they get stuck behind someone in a checkout line, and every time they're in a normal checkout line, that that person's paying via check.

SPEAKER_01 47:23

No, it has to like run through the machine. Yeah. It sucks. It sucks.

SPEAKER_00 47:29

All right. My last pick is gonna be um never-ending hiccups. Oh yeah. Like I if I get hiccups, I feel like I'm there's someone that I feel like it was on the news maybe years ago, but they had hiccups for years. Like they couldn't get rid of them. That would be just terrible. Two minutes having hiccups, and I'm doing whatever it is possible. I'm looking, I'm thinking of every trick of the trade to lose my hiccups. I I hold my breath and I'll count as well. Force yourself to breathe. Yeah, and then it like still comes out. I'm like, oh my gosh, am I not? I'm I swear I'm not breathing. Like I feel like I'm losing air and I'm still hiccuping. I hope that they, no matter what they do, they just always have hiccups.

SPEAKER_01 48:14

All right, did you have any good honorable mentions?

SPEAKER_00 48:17

Uh yes, besides uh the one I mentioned get stuck behind someone paying via check. Uh having the airline lose their luggage heading to a vacation that's out of the country. Oh like you don't ever destination wedding and then you don't have any clothes. You only have what you came with that's in your maybe your carry-on and what you have on your body.

SPEAKER_02 48:40

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_00 48:41

Terrible. Um, accidentally liking a photo that I posted from 2014 on Instagram. Like, oh, you're still looking back on things. Still looking. And then I have your phone accidentally connecting to Bluetooth and there's porn on at a kid's birthday party.

SPEAKER_01 49:00

Oopsie. Oopsie Daisy.

SPEAKER_00 49:02

That's never happened.

SPEAKER_01 49:04

Jesus. Okay. Um, I only had two other ones on my honorable mention. And one is every time that person puts white on within the first few minutes, they spill food or drink down the front.

SPEAKER_00 49:16

Yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 49:17

And then every time you go to reheat food, it's just half steaming hot, and then the other half's still cold and frozen.

SPEAKER_00 49:24

That's like some of the dishes that you might like reheat and it gets to that middle part.

SPEAKER_01 49:29

And then if you reheat it, then it's like dried out.

SPEAKER_00 49:33

Yeah. I feel like I like I made a solid list. I could have just kept going on and on. Like this. That first one was too good. Oh my god. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

Well, thank you for listening. And again, if you have a funny, juicy, dramatic, crazy story, doesn't have to be wedding related, email it into info at weddingprocast.com. Title it Story Submission. We've been getting a lot of really good ones in. So thank you. Cool.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

All right. We will see you all next week.