55. Wine & Spirits: Oops, I did it again...

We swear we were just trying to take a little pleasure trip. Just a casual getaway to New Orleans—eat some beignets, drink some cocktails, maybe talk to a few ghosts if they asked nicely. But surprise! High strangeness had other plans. In true "us" fashion, we accidentally booked a haunted location (because of course we did), and things got... weird.

In this Wine & Spirits episode, we're pouring a drink and recapping the whole New Orleans adventure,. We're sharing what happened, what we felt,

Transcript

SPEAKER_04 0:02

Welcome to the Real Ghosts of Podcast, where we explore haunted locations in and around Austin, Texas. We're your hosts, Nicole Ricardo and Damian Shelacey.

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Listen along as we couple in-depth historical research and paranormal investigative techniques with a sixth sense of the unknown.

SPEAKER_04 0:31

Oh god. I still feel dead from yesterday.

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Yeah, I think we both do. It was a wild day.

SPEAKER_04 0:37

Yeah. So yesterday we were at the San Antonio Psychic and Spirit Fest. If you want to hear all of our uh thoughts, if you are not easily offended, um you can go listen to Parapeculier. We we talked about it.

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We talk about it.

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But I will say, regardless of that, shout out to Curious Twins, Paranormal. They're based in San Antonio. They that event ran like a fucking well-oiled machine. They killed it.

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And it you know, it's worth noting, we had um met them virtually, obviously. They knew who we were. We knew who they were. Yesterday was our first time meeting them in person. And I just have to say, I think beautiful, wonderful people.

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They just both seemed so fucking happy. I just wanted to give them both a hug and a little kiss on the forehead.

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Yeah, like you did Annabelle.

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I yeah, I did give Annabelle a little kiss.

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Yeah. So thanks to them for putting on a great event. Um, all of our friends were there. It was amazing, great time. It was 105,000 degrees outside.

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Oh my god. Yeah, but we survived. Hence why we are dead today. So shout out to everybody who came and said hi, and to all of our bruvs that came to help us. Y'all are the fucking MVPs.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Yeah. Speaking of dead, um, we know we always have to start these episodes off now with my absolute favorite part, uh, which is you know, reading.

SPEAKER_04 1:57

Well, how about I'll read I'm gonna read a good one today.

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Yeah, it's okay. Look, it honestly, these this really is my favorite uh part of the podcast because it lets me dive into uh an exercise of self uh self-deprecation.

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So Well, I'm gonna read a good one today.

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We just that the one you want me to read today? We're not gonna silence the the bros that listen.

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Well, I just I only want to read one per episode.

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We don't want to do that one because it's a happy ending.

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Okay. Um so this one is from um Chrissy Cardwell. It says Hi, Chrissy. Uh it says, I've binged the podcast and I'm almost caught up. I enjoyed listening when it was Nicole and Taylor. I can appreciate discussing the investigations and don't mind extra chatter, but I feel some could be edited out. Uh, which I will say, yeah, you're definitely right there. We both have a tendency of repeating ourselves. But I'm gonna be real with you. I don't like going back and listening back to my voice for two hours and editing things.

SPEAKER_02 2:56

Well, surprisingly enough, uh, the people that really do like what we do, that's what they really enjoy about it, is it's just us.

SPEAKER_04 3:02

It is no scripted Well, I mean it it it's very much, yeah. If you ever hang out with us in person, this is just it is what it is. That's what you get. So that's that's what you're getting. But anyway, um Nicole is great at explaining, but honestly, I fast forward through a lot of what Damien says because it kind of feels like he's trying too hard. Even during the Estes method, his questions are forced and chaotic sounding. That's also just Damien. Um bruv, take a breath, release it, and bring a peaceful presence when trying to contact the spirits. Damien has no chill. You do sometimes. You're pretty chill right now. Um, I realize if I don't like it, I can move on, but I want to support the podcast. Uh, but I'm starting to feel anxious instead of excited during the investigations. Please listen to your audience. We want your podcast to succeed. Edit. Yes, I'm aware of both of them being neurodivergent, but I wanted to give an honest review. It's just constructive feedback. Think about this stuff, especially when you're wanting to grow your fan base and Patreon memberships. Nicole has a great gift and can do great things with this podcast. Another edit. Okay, fine. Damien is growing on me.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

So there's the happy ending. Uh we appreciate the the time taken to leave that review for sure. Uh, the only the only thing I'll comment on it is um one thing I do not do is try hard to do anything but be me. I am uniquely me. If you ever meet me in person, um you'll see.

SPEAKER_04 4:16

Well, that's why we always say, you know, this is we just want it to be like, you know, you're sitting down with us and fucking hanging out. And yeah.

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Yeah.

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Um I'm sorry. We're ca we're chaotic. We are chaotic. Um well, Damien, you du you know, Damienisms. But but in the investigations, I will say, you know, that is very uniquely you and why we call it Damienisms, because you you get a little you get a little wild. But you just get you just get very excited. You're just very excited about the about the bruvs.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

Our Estes sessions are and some of these sessions we do um is a a pinnacle sort of like a piece of us that we do very well at. And the thing is, I think sometimes, yeah, maybe hearing some of our Estes sessions, it's not a a a sugar-coated scripted investigation uh content show.

SPEAKER_04 5:05

And I well, I will say also just to note, because after investigating for a long time with like the questions specifically, it is hard to come up with questions to ask, you know, and that's um well, yes, of course. I mean, you can't really script any of that stuff out, you know, and it is hard. And um even since when I first started investigating, you know, like my job is, you know, I'm the fucking medium, right? Um so even with the investigations, you know, that's really that's all you. Yeah. Um I am not the the lead investigator, you know, that's really like we're relying on Well, we're relying on, you know, you to come up with those fucking and it is hard. Well, I will say it's I wouldn't I wouldn't say hard.

SPEAKER_02 5:47

I think one piece of context that I do want people to know when they listen to our investigations is one thing that we try to do with these sessions, we don't want to do sort of the same like questions like how did you die, where are you, like the same canned thing. So if you hear anything that sounds uh in any way, it could just be because those are in the moment. Like we're having a um an interaction and I'm trying to keep that interaction rolling, which we do a good job of.

SPEAKER_04 6:14

Well, I I think that's that is what makes it hard though, because you know, the the times that I've been on the asking end, um, you know, you hear the shit that everybody says on TV, like, can you tell us your name? How did you die?

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I'm gonna start doing that. Maybe I'll get better reviews.

SPEAKER_04 6:32

Do you know you're dead? You know, I and I mean those are like sure we'll ask them sometimes, but yeah, I mean, ideally we're trying to think of some deeper things to ask. And I mean, at least for me, I'm like, oh God, like I hate c oh god. I hate coming up with the questions. I mean, it is, it's it's tough, especially when you're not really getting a lot back. So I do appreciate you taking the lead on those things. Yes, the last one. I prefer not to.

SPEAKER_02 6:59

The piece on those sessions that people maybe don't hear is we the most editing that we do is we'll put out clips of our sessions. I think maybe if you were to hear the entirety of the session raw in its sort of state, then that might sound a little bit better.

SPEAKER_04 7:13

Well, yeah, and I made the it's I well, we have put some of the just the full versions in here, and yeah, like you said, the progression, you know, but sometimes, yeah, dude, I'm not gonna make you sit through a fucking 60-minute Estus session where the majority of it is like nothing, or you know, saying like blue in response to what's your name? You know, so yeah, oftentimes you are hearing the parts where it's like, oh my god, they're saying something, you know. So it's a little we're a little more excitable.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

But it is worth noting that we are very proud of um what we do with our sessions. Um, and we're very proud of the fact that people do. They come to us when they need those kind of sessions done um to get that kind of response. Because for whatever reason, maybe it's because of the fact that we are fucking lunatics.

SPEAKER_04 7:57

Well, we're here to make the weird weirder. Yeah. Maybe maybe y'all will get this because I feel like when I said it yesterday on stage, I guess there just weren't many Chapel Roan fans in the crowd because like nobody laughed, and I personally was a little offended. Yeah. Well, what did you say yesterday? I yeah, I said, We're your favorite paranormal podcast, favorite paranormal podcast.

SPEAKER_02 8:16

And then of course I said, Well, I'm your favorite paranormal podcast, least favorite podcast.

SPEAKER_04 8:22

Yes. Yeah. You are. Um Fuck me. Fuck me. Yeah. But thanks for the review.

SPEAKER_02 8:27

We we appreciate it. We really do.

SPEAKER_04 8:29

Um, but yeah, we are here to make the weird weirder, and yeah, I also just hate editing things. Yeah, and I'll be really honest.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

And I guess it actually works for me because ever since I was a kid, I've always wanted to be my dream job was to be a bad guy wrestler's hype man that would like help him cheat, you know, and he's like yelling at the crowd, like mouth mouth of the South Jimmy Hart, you know. Um so I will be that for you, Nicole. Um, so for all you listeners, lay it on me.

SPEAKER_04 8:55

You're the bad guy. I can take it. You're the bad guy. Yeah, please only say nice things about me. I'll cry.

SPEAKER_02 9:00

Actually, Damien cries more than I do. It's funny, I I don't think people I'm a human being, and I um I do this is something this is our life in in a way. Well, not in a way it is, but we take it very serious and it's what we do, and yeah, you know, sometimes it makes me a little sad if people think I'm just a idiot, but I guess I am just an idiot.

SPEAKER_04 9:20

Well, nobody's saying you're an idiot.

SPEAKER_02 9:22

We just talk too much.

SPEAKER_04 9:23

Yeah, well, that's and we interrupt each other. Correct. And you know, it's not a perfectly polished thing, which I mean, again, I'm I'll just reiterate. I mean, I know I said it at the beginning of the season, but just reminder, Millie, get the fuck out of here.

SPEAKER_02 9:37

Oh, she's coming in, isn't she? Shit.

SPEAKER_04 9:40

She's waltzing on in. Anyway, I'm bad, my cat's bad. Everyone's bad. Um, yeah, you're both bad. Yeah. You bad bros. Bad bro. Um, but anyway, yeah, I mean, obviously, like those of y'all have been listening since the beginning, you've noticed. Um, yeah, there's a progression in these. And I I did in the beginning, you know, try to make it a bit more polished and, you know, have the storyline and the scripting and all that jazz. But it's just, I mean, for both of us and separately, even before we met each other, it's always been a lot easier for me to just talk, you know, just do things off the cuff. And so it just feels more true to I think like who we are, to just, you know, think of it less as each episode is a nice little story wrapped in a bow, versus the podcast overall is a progression of us just literally bringing you along the journey of our lives with us. And we are um insane and chaotic and delusional and uh but also like to put love out into the world. And so on that note, thank you so much to all of you who are listening.

SPEAKER_02 10:51

Even the ones when they are bad, I I I will say I love destructive criticism. Yeah, but I uh what I really love is people um uh saying their opinions. And you know, it is a difficult thing. Like when you put yourself out there like we do, um, yeah, you're gonna get people that don't like it, and that's fine. But I love that they can contribute and listen and give their opinion because I don't believe in censorship of any kind, so if I've got a stupid mouth or I, you know, whatever, feel free to say it, and I do appreciate it. I mean that with all sincerity.

SPEAKER_04 11:22

Uh uh.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

What the fuck are we recording right now?

SPEAKER_04 11:26

Get get to the fucking point, bruv. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:28

Oh Hurricanes Corral and Millie.

SPEAKER_04 11:31

Yeah. Tell her to get out, Hurricane.

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If you hear that, look at his tail.

SPEAKER_04 11:34

Oh, yeah.

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We should give him some of that whatever the brand is, C B D.

SPEAKER_04 11:39

Oh, the paw. I think it's like paws P-A-W-S-E. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 11:44

They should actually sponsor the show.

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They should. We'll talk about it more. He sponsor the parapup.

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Yeah, he is the team out.

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If somebody works with them. Anyway.

SPEAKER_02 11:53

Speaking of the parap, real quick, I have to say, I feel bad bad for him because yesterday we brought him to the uh event with us where we were speaking and you know, Annabelle was there. We wanted him to meet Annabelle. But the truth is, it was so dreadfully hot that we thought it would be like animal abuse to have him out there. We're like, no, I'm not gonna do it too. So we literally got a little Airbnb just for the day so he could be parked there.

SPEAKER_04 12:14

Yeah, Hurricane had an Airbnb.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

He has no fucking house, dude. And I'm we're out there dying. And the dog has a house. All right.

SPEAKER_04 12:21

Well, he's a very good boy.

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He's a good boy.

SPEAKER_04 12:23

Um, so yeah, I'm sorry because I know some of y'all were excited to to meet him. I got a few messages and he was there um in spirit. He was in San Antonio, but he was in the AC. We didn't want him to die out there.

SPEAKER_02 12:36

You could hear that snap that just over the thing. That was Nicole snapping at her again. Well, he is chasing Millie around, isn't she?

SPEAKER_04 12:41

Well, Millie's antagonizing him.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Well, she's a cat. Um, so yeah, today we are we're diving down a little bit of um interesting rabbit hole, and we're kind of titling this was Oops, you did it again.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

Oops, I did it again.

SPEAKER_02 12:52

Yeah, it's Nicole, bitch. Uh pray tell, darling, what did you do again?

SPEAKER_04 12:57

Uh, well.

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Oh God. Buck.

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Millie.

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You've got a Damienism.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

Okay, well, hold on. Let me just move her out because she's about to claw that ancient Marie Laveau picture there.

SPEAKER_02 13:09

Um yeah. All right, so crisis averted. Uh the cat has been corraled out of the museum.

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God.

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That was funny to see.

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Fucking animals.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Anyway, um, yes, we we took a little trip to New Orleans.

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In an attempt to be normal people, I might add.

SPEAKER_04 13:33

Yeah, we tried to be normal because we wanted to surprise Eric. It was his 40th birthday, and he's never been to New Orleans. Wayne has never been to New Orleans. So Mrs. Hare, Mr. and Mrs. Talking Hare, Mrs. Hare had the idea of, you know, hey, why don't we s see if we can find a weekend, surprise him, just do a quick trip to New Orleans. He's really been wanting to go. So we we made the magic happen. And um for the Airbnb. So we booked this little Airbnb, and you know, we're crazy people. We literally, everybody gets off work Friday, we fucking meet at the pair house, we go uh hop in the caravan and drive to New Orleans. We have Saturday there, and then Sunday we got some po-boys and drove back. But the Airbnb that we stayed in, you know, I'm I'm lurking Airbnb, just scratching around, you know, trying to find something that fits the bill. And I pr I prefer to stay in mid-city. So I happened to see one. I'm like, oh yeah, this one looks cute, all right, great. Uh so we book this one. And um uh tur turns out.

SPEAKER_02 14:42

Yeah, it's fucking haunted. So all right. Well, and it might just be us. So here's the thing. So we get there, and and like you'd said, every they'd gotten off work and um met us, so it would have been around, I don't know, six p.m., something to that effect. And we all load up and like wild people, yeah, we just head out to New Orleans, and it's an eight-hour drive, I believe, from us. Um so we get there at about 4 a.m., right? And you and Shelby and Wayne, you know, you're all really normal people in the grand scheme of things compared to me and Eric. And Eric and I are just like, you know what, man, there's no way we're going to bed right now. We just got off the road. He'd never been there. We wanted to be outside, kind of in the New Orleans air, as it were, and have a beer. So we're sitting on the porch of the house and we're just talking and catching up, and we both see uh it looked like a person in the in the living room in the house walking around. So Eric's like, oh, are they up? Are they are they scratching around? We open the door, no, nobody. Yeah, we open doors, nobody. And we're like, look, and we kind of look at each other and we're like, dude, we do this shit too much. This is not anything. We didn't just see a shadow person. Um I think at one point I said, Eric, we're gonna get this out of our minds. We're here for your birthday. We're taking a road trip that has nothing to do with ghosts um or anything.

SPEAKER_04 16:03

Surprise. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

And uh so we sit there, we keep talking, and we see it again more prominently. And both of us at this point are like, all right, man, this is a bit wild. And as we're saying that, we hear like a like a bang, like a boom, and we're like, what the fuck is that? And we knew one of y'all just had to be in the living room. We open the door, and a painting that had been on the wall had just fallen off. All right. So we that's how it started. We see this shadow things walking around, and the painting goes flying off the wall, whatever. Um, we finally make it to bed, and what, two hours later, wake up?

SPEAKER_04 16:36

Yeah, and then we were wandering around the city all day. Um, which you know, of course, is amazing and wonderful because New Orleans is just magical.

SPEAKER_02 16:45

Well, shout out you actually as well, because you took on the role of tour guide extraordinaire, and uh you know how much I love your presenter voice, your tour guide voice.

SPEAKER_04 16:55

We had a little uh Nicole Drunk History tour through the French quarter.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Your itineraries are not to be fucked with, and they are wildly put together, but we were trying to um get all this stuff in for Eric uh in this one day.

SPEAKER_04 17:10

Yeah, in one day. In one day. And you know, I'm like, listen, I could plan a fucking trip to New Orleans in my sleep. Yeah. I should just open a travel agency business, like planning trips to New Orleans for people.

SPEAKER_02 17:22

It is funny. We've been talking about like, oh, where's our next move? And maybe it's there and we just uh to make extra money away from anything else we do, um, just be a little tour guide.

SPEAKER_04 17:32

Drunk history tours through the French Quarter.

SPEAKER_02 17:34

You maybe you'll be the only like drunk medium there. We can be on the street and go, oh, I'll tell you, I'll read you like a book. Give me a shot of gin, you know. Um, that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_04 17:44

I thought I did that on my birthday a few years ago.

SPEAKER_02 17:46

You know, it's about readings. The whole day was great. And it ended with an entire restaurant singing happy birthday to Eric, which was one of our It was really special. Great moments. It was awesome. That that uh that the the waiter, the lady that had uh come up and set it up, she was so clever.

SPEAKER_04 18:06

Yeah, to get Eric's name because he didn't want to say his name because he knew.

SPEAKER_02 18:10

And she just goes, Um hi, my name, I can't remember her name. She says, My name is I think it was Chelsea. My name's Chelsea. What's yours? She's like, Eric, and he Eric immediately goes, Fuck. And she goes, Gotcha, and she just walks away. Yes. Yeah, and the next thing you know, they come out with the birthday thing. Happy birthday. And everybody in that restaurant said, Happy birthday to Eric. So happy birthday, brother. We love you so much.

SPEAKER_04 18:29

Um we go home. And then we went home and I did I did give them the option, you know, I was like, hey, but we were out pretty much all day. We crammed a lot in. Um we were in the French quarter, you know, most the afternoon. And so I did say On two hours of sleep, by the way. Yeah. And so I did say, you know, hey, if y'all wanna have a, you know, New Orleans experience, go see some jazz, something like that, we can absolutely do that. But if you want to get weird, we brought some gear. We can go back to the house. I mean, it's New Orleans, you know.

SPEAKER_02 19:00

And then after we had told you the story of what we saw that that night when we arrived, uh it was kind of like, okay, well, maybe we'll just check it out.

SPEAKER_04 19:08

It was it was getting my my bacon was in the pan and it was starting to sizzle, you know.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

Yeah. So we did. We're just like, you know what? Like, yeah, we saw shadow people with this painting fall off the wall. Let's go back and and use some of this. And that it's worth noting, we typically will have um at least one or some of our devices on us at all times.

SPEAKER_04 19:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 19:26

Um, so if you ever see us in the wild and you're like, bruvs, let's do a sesh, we're like, we got you. So we go back to the house and we do, we start up the session, and we um we got some wildly interesting stuff. But the most interesting part about it, the best part about it, is we go upstairs and we're in the room that you and I were staying at.

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

You're laying on the bed doing um, I guess kind of like an Esther session.

SPEAKER_04 19:52

You had the radio, I can't remember, but you were Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't the spirit box. I think I had we had we're using the frequency thing. So I had headphones on with the chakra frequencies, which I don't think we've talked about that yet. Do you want to explain what that device is?

SPEAKER_02 20:07

Yeah, yeah. It's it's actually great. Um well first I just have to say that the best part about it was as you're doing this, and I'll describe the machine. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:14

I fell asleep.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

You fall asleep. Like nobody but nobody but nobody, okay, is making contact with, I don't know, whatever the fuck it is we're making contact with, and then just out. And I heard the little snores start, and I'm like, oh boy. And I think I said on the recorder, like, just noting that's Nicole, not an EVP. Um so no, we've been loving this device, and I want to give a shout out actually to oh I hate giving away some of this stuff because I don't want it to be oversaturated, but gatekeep it.

SPEAKER_04 20:42

I'm gonna get so much hate for saying that.

SPEAKER_02 20:45

Um, you shouldn't. Alright, no, I'm gonna give a shout-out to our good bruv from Resonance N C E ResonanceCircuits.com. Now, this guy does not make paranormal gear.

SPEAKER_04 20:57

No, he makes music.

SPEAKER_02 20:58

It's well, it's synths uh uh circuit boards, basically. So he'll have wild things that that make interesting sounds. Well, I first um started messing with this guy when I saw that he was making these detuned radio devices, and we use those all the time. Like it's a big part of our deal. So I talked to him and I said, I love your device. I said, I'm sorry, I'm gonna tell you what I use it for, is this kind of investigation. And he was like, That mate, that's amazing. He's a British dude, right? And bruv. Yeah, from there, he's definitely a bruv. No, but from there, we'd kept talking, and I'd asked him, I said, uh, hey, I'd like you to make me a custom rotavay diode, and he didn't know what that was, and he looked up schematics and he actually custom made us one. And we are the I think right now the only people that are using a rotevade diode that is true to the original schematics. Yeah, so we love that. But he he had made this device um that is based off of just frequency tones audio, and it's a little circuit board and it has knobs for each chakra frequency. I was wildly interested in. Using this because of that third eye chakra uh chakra chakra chakra frequency. You're Nicole in it. Yeah, which I'm kind of interested in and the idea of it sort of like fondling the pineal gland.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:12

Okay. So, but this little device is cool as well because it also has a switch and a volume control for white or pink noise. So we've actually been used using that uh in our Esther sessions instead of a spirit box.

SPEAKER_04 22:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:26

And we got some interesting results, haven't we?

SPEAKER_04 22:28

Yeah, I do like it a lot. I think it's really cool, and I think it's a really interesting idea. But yeah, so we were at the house and we're we're using that. We had that going, and then we had Echo Vox going, which was cool because um Shelby and I, Mrs. Hair, uh, we were kind of listening to the Echo Vox, and you know, at one point, like you're out at the back door, Wayne's somewhere else, whatever. Um, and both of us were hearing, you know, like we're saying at the same time what we're hearing coming through. And now Echo Vox, this is another, um, this is an app, one of only two apps that we use. Um, but we like it because it's not pre-programmed with a word bank of any sort. Uh, it only has the little uh snippets of human speech, you know, like the ah e ah, you know?

SPEAKER_02 23:17

It's not just like that. And I actually don't even like calling it like a paranormal app because it's not doing something like trying to put words again to anything or do anything kind of ghostly, even though it is used for that, but it is. It's just speech fragments and you can control how fast they go, you know, things like that. So it's really great because we have a lot of success with it.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

Yeah, we've been really liking it, and especially with our ideas, you know, that this has more to do with whatever this is manipulating the actual device itself, you know. Um, it's just interesting because you will hear, you know, full words come through this, and that's knowing that it is not programmed with a word bank or anything. So anyway, yeah, we're using that, and Shelby and I are uh calling out what we hear, and you know, often we're hearing the exact same thing, calling out the same thing, same time. So it was just really interesting. But yeah, we did go upstairs because the room that we were staying in also had this little um kind of crawl space attic area with a fucking sign that said keep out. Yeah, which of of course I of course I opened the door. I'm so sorry.

SPEAKER_02 24:23

Um Shelby's brave, she went in there.

SPEAKER_04 24:25

Yeah, it was pretty cool. It was given like Harry Potter vibes, you know, under the stairs. Um it wasn't under stairs.

SPEAKER_02 24:32

Does that mean that the shadow people we saw were dementors?

unknown 24:35

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02 24:36

You love a dementor, don't you?

SPEAKER_04 24:38

Well, I don't know if I love them. They literally suck your soul out of your body.

SPEAKER_02 24:41

Prison guards, basically.

SPEAKER_04 24:42

They are for us caban.

SPEAKER_02 24:44

Yeah, that's a cool name.

SPEAKER_04 24:45

But they will suck your soul out.

SPEAKER_02 24:46

Will they? Yes.

unknown 24:48

That's okay.

SPEAKER_04 24:48

And all happiness out of your life.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Uh anyway, so yeah, you're doing that, you fall asleep. And look, this isn't like a bunch of wild activity, but the stuff that we were all hearing was pretty relevant. You fall asleep, and we kind of keep going, and we got this whatever we were connected with to do a really intelligent response. I had heard this, and I'm not gonna do it because her came with this tap uh that had come from downstairs. Sound like a n like if I were to take my knuckles and knock on the kitchen table, that's what it sounded like. So I heard it and I said, Wayne, I don't know if you heard that, but come out here by the stairs and I'm gonna go in there, I'm gonna try to get this to do it. And I asked it to do it, and it did. Which is really cool.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

We love an intelligent response.

SPEAKER_02 25:28

We do, we love that. Um, all in all, we we wrap that up and we go downstairs, the three of us. Shelby goes to sleep, you're already asleep, and we sit down at the table, and I'm just recording the.

SPEAKER_04 25:40

Yeah, I think this is the most interesting part of it.

SPEAKER_02 25:42

Well it is, and we're just recording um their experiences. And I I actually still have to go back and listen to those recordings to see if we even picked up anything weird we might have. But as we start talking about it, uh the lights in the house, you do they flicker, which is interesting because that did not happen before or after.

SPEAKER_04 26:01

Yeah, and these are things like this I do want to point out because you know it's very easy to write stuff like this off, or even like Knox or whatever is like, oh, it's a house settling, or oh, like, you know, it's New Orleans, it's an old house, maybe it's just a wiring, whatever. However, at this point, we had been in the house a long enough amount of time that if those things were happening, we it would have already happened by then. You know what I'm saying? Or like the knocking, tapping, things like that. Like you would have already heard these things.

SPEAKER_02 26:34

But I believe, I could be wrong, I believe that Wayne uh maybe reached out to the owner of the house.

SPEAKER_04 26:41

Have it pulled up right here. There we go. That's exactly what I pulled up.

SPEAKER_02 26:44

Let's take a look.

SPEAKER_04 26:45

Um, yeah, so we did end up reaching out to the owners, and um Wayne had asked, he said, I have to ask, and it wasn't a problem at all to us. And the only people I'd ever so it's polite. And the only people I'd ever mention it to would want to stay there, regardless as well. But do you ever get mentions of paranormal activity there? Have you experienced any? And uh she said it's a common thought in old New Orleans houses, but nothing that's ever actually happened to us. Did y'all have a funny experience? And so Wayne said we heard a few knocks on the kitchen table and believe we saw a figure peeking from the stairway. Nothing scary or harmful.

SPEAKER_02 27:25

Oh, he did see that. I'm forgetting that actually. We didn't mention that.

SPEAKER_04 27:28

Oh, we that was when we were downstairs during the session. Wayne and Eric, I think, were seeing it walk kind of back and forth by the stairs there.

SPEAKER_02 27:36

Correct. Yeah, that's right. That's right.

SPEAKER_04 27:37

He fucking forgot about that, which is the call back to that very first night when you and Eric were outside and seeing a figure.

SPEAKER_03 27:43

That's right.

SPEAKER_04 27:44

So yeah, that happened. Um, but yeah, he said, we'll definitely go back to see again and just experience. And she, uh, the owner replied and said, That's the craziest one we've heard. We mostly have just had people talk about shaking furniture, but that just like how do you nonchalantly?

SPEAKER_01 28:01

But we mainly just hear about our fucking couch vibrating.

SPEAKER_04 28:05

Um, but she said that does happen across the city when trucks drive by because we're built on mud instead of bedrock.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

Yeah, when we didn't experience any shaking in the furniture.

SPEAKER_04 28:14

No, we didn't have anything shake, so I don't know. It's interesting.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

Well, and and the reason this whole thing is interesting and why we call it oopsie did it again is this has been a recurring theme. And look, I think the whole thing that zero intent to take away from this is we do sometimes desperately, desperately try to just do normal shit that normal people do. Which in this instance was going out on a trip that was supposed to not be any kind of paranormal bullshit. It was all about a birthday party. We were normal people, even though we did it in a very non-normal way. I mean, nobody fucking leaves at 6 p.m., drives to New Orleans, and then gets two hours of sleep, it spends all day and then drives back next week.

SPEAKER_04 28:54

Listen, I'm ready to do it again next weekend.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

I know you are. Are we going where are we going next weekend?

SPEAKER_04 28:58

New Orleans.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Are we?

SPEAKER_04 29:00

We are now.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Where are we actually going? Okay. We've been on the road so much, it's uh I'm losing track of anything. It's wild. Um, so this is interesting because even when we try to just be normal, this is hap- it happens.

SPEAKER_04 29:16

So what do you think is gonna happen when we go to Disney for our birthday?

SPEAKER_02 29:21

Well, there's I don't know, maybe the ghost of Walt shows up or something. Actually, probably nothing, because I will say this if it's like a family, a family affair, um we we don't really have any uh things happen. I think it's because Well, I don't know why.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

Well, no, things bro, if things have fucking happened, my her my mom has heard the whistle in her goddamn house. Which by the way, I forgot to mention this last night when I took hurricane out to go potty. I heard the whistle in the yard. Oh, come on. How do you so much shit happens, I forget to fucking talk about it.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

That's the thing. We live such a peculiar life, uh surrounded by the phenomena, that we often forget some wild shit.

SPEAKER_04 30:01

Yes, and we even have a literal like logbook that we're supposed to write the shit down in so that way we can fucking remember what happens, but it's just like it happens so often.

SPEAKER_02 30:12

Correct. Even when we're not recording, we never see that. We just forget. It's wild. So we wanted to be normal, but that didn't happen. And we ended up having a good time doing that. And I'm actually happy for that because one of the ways that we had framed this surprise for Eric was Eric, man, you know, hey, last minute, we need you to come help us uh in Mississippi on our investigation, you know, whatever. And I knew in that moment, I knew it in my head, I was like, you know what? Fuck, what's gonna happen is we're gonna tell him surprise, we're just doing this for your birthday. He was gonna be let down because that he, if anyone loves getting weird with us, it's that bruv, right? And so I remember when we told him, we bring him over to the house, all right, surprise us what we're doing for your birthday. And I saw it immediately, but then he was like, Oh, that's amazing. He's very thankful, you know, dude. Um, and I said, Be honest, you're a little disappointed. He's like, A little bit. I'm like, all right. So it's good that that happened because he got both of it. He got the birthday and he got the weird.

SPEAKER_04 31:04

Yeah. Yeah, which is the next um the next episode investigation episode series that y'all will get is when we went to Mississippi and bro's shit gets fucking weird. And so that's that's why Mississippi's wild. I'm that's why it was like a good cover, you know, because we're like, yeah, bro, we gotta we gotta go back, you know. And he's like, All right, let's go.

SPEAKER_02 31:25

I can't wait for the listeners to hear that one.

SPEAKER_04 31:27

Dude, that one's fucking weird. And I'm gonna be really real. Like the way that that all ends, if if somebody else was telling me this story, I would be like, You're so fucking full of shit.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

Well, I was telling some of the some of the the bruvs at the uh event yesterday. Uh some of our some of our friends were there, and I'm talking to them, catching up, and I was telling them about Mississippi and specifically a certain thing in the woods that you'll hear all about it on the episode. And they were just like, What the fuck? Like that's a wild experience. And I we've talked about this, and it seems like uh this podcast f sort of format and what we're doing is almost evolving to the weird is kind of telling us where to go, and we just go.

SPEAKER_04 32:13

Yeah, which I mean that is you know, sometimes things just fall into your lap, right? Um and we're just we're here for it. We're going with it.

SPEAKER_02 32:26

We've lost our minds full stop, so that's what it is. But we are so excited for the Mississippi episode. I actually, today after we record this, we should just get to putting that together because I'm so excited to hear it.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

Yeah, I still have to go through all that audio and get it put together. We gotta record all of that before we leave for our fucking, you know, we're gone for half a June.

SPEAKER_02 32:44

Jesus Christ. Um, so yeah, that that was that. That was our time in New Orleans, and it was just funny that even when we tried again, because where was the first time this happened? Kate Shepherd House, where you had just booked it, you didn't know anything about being haunted. And I can't even believe I Google found this. I think me being me, even though I knew we were going on this trip for family purposes and you were doing your performance at the circus, um, you were doing your clown act, and um yeah, that's it. I just looked and I I found this video interview of the previous owner of the Kate Shepherd house. I know we've talked about this, but it's still interesting that I was able to find this.

SPEAKER_04 33:20

It's almost like a random news interview.

SPEAKER_02 33:23

Yes, it's like the universe was like, hey, bruv, check this out. And it was her talking about the water apportation. And in my mind, I mean that started cooking my bacon real good because a water apportation is wild shit and it's really rare.

SPEAKER_04 33:34

Well, especially what happened there. It's like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 33:37

Right. And I remember getting so excited, and then I reached out and I'm like, hey, Nicole, I think I can't remember where you're at, but I like text you. I was like, bruv.

SPEAKER_04 33:44

Yeah, you're like, do not look anything up.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

Yeah. This place, and we love that place. Um, we we we we wanted to gatekeep it, but we let the cat out of the bag yesterday during our talk.

SPEAKER_04 33:53

Well, we also obviously told them on the you know the episodes.

SPEAKER_02 33:56

Oh, yeah, that's already a see. This is just me being stupid.

SPEAKER_04 33:59

This is the last the down the rabbit hole of Kate Shepherd will air tomorrow.

SPEAKER_02 34:03

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 34:04

Well, not when for you listeners, whenever you're hearing this, no, this is my brains are scrambled in like a week.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Yeah, my brains have been scrambled since yesterday.

SPEAKER_04 34:12

Um our brains literally got cooked yesterday. I'm still like it's amazing to me still that we were even able to formulate virtual sentences for our talk. Like, oh, I was about to go up there and be like, look, I don't know anything that's about to come out of our mouths, and it might not be coherent.

SPEAKER_02 34:32

No, we did so good, and it was a really big uh event, so there was a lot of people there, and we Nicole and I both we it's interesting, so many things um about you and I are so alike, even down to each having a very rare um I don't know what you call it. I was about to say disability. Medical condition. Mine is malignant hypothermia. Yours is, I don't know the name.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

It's hypertrophy cardiomyopathy.

SPEAKER_02 34:55

Something, something. I don't know why they have to make these things so fucking awesome.

SPEAKER_04 34:57

Yeah, everybody knows our medical history.

SPEAKER_02 35:00

But both of us, um, if we overheat, it can become very problematic with me. It can just, I can just die.

SPEAKER_04 35:05

Yeah, I can just drop dead at any moment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:07

So we're out there in the heat, and thank God for our good friends that you know we we love them so much, they they made us basically like go take some time to sit in the AC, like, dude, you guys look bad. Yeah. And we did, we look bad. We were worried that we weren't gonna be able to speak very well.

SPEAKER_04 35:22

Yeah. I mean, I think our brains literally were cooking.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

But we got up there, we killed it. I there's a whole video of it. Uh, Kat, uh, our good friend recorded the whole thing, and I hope she got us before we go on stage. We're like on the side of the stage. We're just like dancing around singing.

SPEAKER_04 35:36

Yeah, Darius Rucker wagon wheel was playing. I was like, all right, we've got to harmonize.

SPEAKER_02 35:40

Yeah, and of course you like the Darius Rucker version um over the OG version, but it is what it is, still a great song. It's very catchy. So we killed it, we did a good job. Um, saw Annabelle.

SPEAKER_04 35:51

We did see Annabelle. Um, we're not talking about that. This is this is wine and spirits, not Hanutush puppy. So if y'all want to hear us go off the rails, go listen to Bear Peculiar. Yeah. Um, but yeah, I don't know. The New Orleans trip, it was just it was a really fun time. It was a really cool experience. I'm glad that we got to wander around. I mean, you know, I will take literally any opportunity to go there.

SPEAKER_02 36:15

So let's let's talk about New Orleans. You know, something that um people people do talk about a lot is that it is inherently, you know, one of the more haunted cities uh in the country. And I think a lot of people, and it certainly is, and I think a lot of people attribute that to just the overall um history of the place. And me uh philosophically, I've always kind of not liked that idea because I feel like it's just sort of ignoring a lot of history in other places, which every place here has. Not everywhere has history. But but what we do have from New Orleans is a city that has also been through a lot of shit. That's a really stupid way to say it, right?

SPEAKER_04 36:59

I mean it has, but also there are also a lot of other cities that have been through a lot of shit, you know. I think for me personally, sure there's all of these things, great, but my opinion, my personal thinking on it is like, okay, first of all, like land-wise, it's below sea level. It's literally like, you know, in a little like being held in a little cup by the river. It's like a bowl, in it. Right? Yeah. Yeah, so it's surrounded by water, you know, it's just uh below sea level again, it's just water, which we know is conductor, right? But then also it is a very spiritual place.

SPEAKER_02 37:40

Yeah, we mentioned this that you as you're walking through the city, if you can pay attention to the city itself versus some of the more touristy sites that you're there to look at, you'll notice, and I love this about it. Uh, on these brick walls in the back alleys and places, you'll see the cross somewhere, like a sign of the cross. It's very folk Catholic there almost.

SPEAKER_04 38:00

Yes, and so a lot of I would I would venture to say, you know, probably a predominant portion of the city, they are spiritual in whatever manner that is to them, whether they are, you know, practitioners, whether they are going to church every Sunday, whatever, you know, their flavor is of that.

SPEAKER_02 38:18

Whether they just worship the saints.

SPEAKER_04 38:20

It is very, very prevalent there. And I think that that belief, that intention, that energy, I also do really think adds so much to it. But even on top of the side of the side of the side. That's a fair point. That's a fair point. On top of that, you know, we have that, that's kind of our baseline, but then also the belief in the paranormal there too, right? It is just one of those places where uh, you know, and when we went there last time together, we stayed at Bywater Wonderland, and the guy who is living, you know, in that area, he's like, you know, this like this house is not mine, like we don't live here, you know. The spirits actually reside here. I'm just here to take care of it. And I think that that is very exemplary, I think, of most people in New Orleans and how they view it.

SPEAKER_02 39:07

And I think bringing him up too brings up another good point about New Orleans. This is an undeniable fact. It is full of, uh, and always has been, of creative, yes, artistic thinking people, uh oftentimes very eccentric. But I think it's just my thinking here, is that energy itself, even, um, it goes a long way uh in regards to that.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

Well, sure. And I mean, even if you look at the scientific aspect of that creativity, you're literally in a different brainwave state.

SPEAKER_02 39:37

Totally. But I I think though, going back to the the fact that the city's gone through a lot, yeah, other places have as well. However, not on the scale. I mean, Katrina, when it hit, yes, that was one of the wildest things we've ever seen. Correct. And it's also got a lot of the um it's got one of the most senses of sense of self that you ever have in a city. Yes. So I think all that combined.

SPEAKER_04 40:04

New Orleans is New Orleans.

SPEAKER_02 40:05

All of it combined. And there was this great quote. I can't remember where I had read it, but it was something to the effect of, you know, I'd rather live in poverty in New Orleans than live in.

SPEAKER_04 40:18

Oh, it was on Tremay. John Goodman said it on Tremay. He was like, yeah, talking about that.

SPEAKER_02 40:24

Which we've been watching that show, haven't we? Yeah. And it's a good show.

SPEAKER_04 40:27

Yeah, after we got back. I love that show. I just also love that they featured, you know, the actual like musicians of the city.

SPEAKER_02 40:33

It's funny, like our both both our favorite uh musicians from the city are on there. Yours is Trombone Shorty, mine's Kermit. Yeah. And they're both on there. And what I love about that show, not to derail and talk about this show, but yeah, it's great because so much of it is just scenes of actual New Orleans musicians doing these things, and it is able to tell the story of the show through the music of these actual musicians from New Orleans. So I think that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 41:00

It's just a beautiful city.

SPEAKER_02 41:02

It really is. It it really is, and there is that haunted element to it. Why that really is, we we we can't really say those are our kind of theories and ideas on it, but it is there and it is very prevalent there. It definitely lives there. What was your favorite thing about this trip? Besides the fact that we show up and there's fucking shadow people hanging out.

SPEAKER_04 41:22

I mean, honestly, I really loved Sunday morning before we left when we went and stopped at Parkway, Parkway Bakery and Tavern, Parkway Powboys. Oh, yeah. Um, and we were all, you know, we all got our Po Boys and we're sitting on the table outside, and the weather was just beautiful, which by the way, it was supposed to rain the entire fucking weekend.

SPEAKER_02 41:42

Actually, that fucking is crazy because last time that we had this um oops, I did it again moment where you when you got Cape Shepherd House, it was supposed to be a horrible rain. And it didn't happen once.

SPEAKER_04 41:54

It was also beautiful weather.

SPEAKER_02 41:55

New Orleans didn't. It was supposed to be bad, and we were we get it. It was awful. I was fucking ponchos.

SPEAKER_04 41:59

I was prepping everybody. I was like, I have ponchos, everybody bring your fucking like rain boos.

SPEAKER_02 42:06

Where he's getting ready, and it's like, darn the music is he's like putting his knives in his vest and everything.

SPEAKER_04 42:12

Yeah, because I'm like, dude, we have one day there. Like, I don't care if it's fucking the worst rainstorm they've seen this year. Like, we're walking around the French quarter, okay? But also it's New Orleans. Like, it pretty much every time I've ever gone there, I get caught in a rainstorm walking around the quarter. It's just part, it's part of it.

SPEAKER_02 42:30

No, I mean, this is uh hopefully a new trend for us. Like when we show up, the rain will fall. Beautiful weather. Yeah, beautiful weather for beautiful people. Um God, that sounded like Donald Trump, didn't it? Beautiful weather for beautiful people. There's beautiful people. Uh that's what it sounded like. That's wild. No, so uh that was great. We didn't get any rain, and um, that was your favorite part?

SPEAKER_04 42:50

The yeah, I think the po boys, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:52

The po boys. I do love that place. It was my first time there.

SPEAKER_04 42:55

Parkway. That is typically, I will say, I I know this is a very hot debate in New Orleans. Parkway's probably my favorite. I I do like from Domeleese, specifically the Oyster Poys.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

Um that's where we usually go, right?

SPEAKER_04 43:08

Uh for the fried oyster ones, yeah. That's where we went the past couple times.

SPEAKER_02 43:12

And they're good, but this one was great. And what I loved about it is when you're there, you cannot make heads or tails of what the guy's saying over the intercom when he's calling on names. Until it's your name.

unknown 43:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 43:22

And then it's just like very relevant. You know, you can hear it, you're like, Jesus Christ. Like it's interesting. And I love that. And I love the whole atmosphere of it, and they have all these old signs there and stuff, and the food is phenomenal. It's it was probably the best, and they actually call it poor boy. They spell it out that way, which I've actually not seen.

SPEAKER_04 43:39

Yeah, the original form of it. Yep.

unknown 43:41

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 43:42

And they do sh uh serve the original one too, which was just the like French fries with the debris gravy on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 43:48

The debris gravy. Yeah, I think my favorite in New Orleans was when we were walking around City Park, which I don't even know how many acres it is. I think it's like three hundred something. It's huge. It's huge.

SPEAKER_04 43:58

I have no idea.

SPEAKER_02 43:58

It's huge, and that. I'm gonna look that up. I feel like 300 sounds excessive. No, it's huge. And actually, the people, if you talk to people that live there, they don't talk about, you know, the places that a lot of the tourists will go. They talk about their favorite part of the city is City Park.

SPEAKER_04 44:13

That's not even close. I thought 300 sounded excessive. It's 1,300 acres.

SPEAKER_02 44:18

That's right. That's why that's why I remembered when we stayed at Bywater, uh, Marcella walked to City Park from there. So it's all encompassing. It's a beautiful place. It's a beautiful place to go. And when when we were there, we had we woke up and made two stops immediately to get two different things.

SPEAKER_04 44:34

Well, because listen, it's their first time there. Yeah, gotta do it. And I'm like, you gotta get the stupid Cafe Dumont ones because it's, you know, everybody gets them. But I wanted to take take them to my personal favorite is I love the morning call beignets, which is what originally was in City Park until, you know, Cafe Dumont fucking sniped it.

SPEAKER_02 44:52

And you went and you graffitied their wall, didn't you?

SPEAKER_04 44:55

Well, there was a fucking Ghost Adventures sticker on there, and I popped one of the RGO stickers right on top of it.

SPEAKER_02 45:02

We got you covered, Holly Madison, don't you worry. Yeah, that was probably my favorite moment because we are walking around eating beignets in the park in Eric's field. But really, the the most amazing part of this, we were driving home on Sunday, and I was uh behind the wheel. I'm driving, and there was this bridge. What what is the bridge? I don't know. It's one of these big bridges that you're going over when you're coming home. And Eric kind of doesn't look like bridges or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 45:32

And as we're we'd stopped at this gas station right before the bridge and we're about to drive over it, and Shelby looks up a fucking statistic that says this bridge specifically has all these Yeah, like rated very low, like a D or something because it's like structurally not sound and you know might fall down at any fucking moment. We're like, God damn it.

SPEAKER_02 45:51

We're in the parking lot, and Shelby had shown me that. And Eric comes out and I go, Shelby, what were you just showing me? Show Eric and she's like, No, and he's like, No, show me. So she's like, fuck. And she starts showing him, right? And he's kind of like, What the hell? And this bird, like a crow, comes down the parking lot, and Eric goes, Look what you did, look what's here, because you're doing this. It was just amazing.

SPEAKER_04 46:11

Uh but now that the bridge when we drove over it, I am noting I did roll the windows down a little bit just in case.

SPEAKER_02 46:17

Just in case, yeah, that is a 60-foot drop and the car wouldn't have hurt us, but we would have drowned. Well, listen, we'd be dead anyways.

SPEAKER_04 46:23

Because you gotta, if you if the windows are all up and your car like falls into a body of water, the it's with the something with the pressure or something, you can't roll the windows down.

SPEAKER_02 46:33

The impact of you being in the car and it drops, let's say, 60 feet into the water, you're probably gonna get fucking fucked up and not be able to swim out if you're even conscious.

SPEAKER_04 46:41

Listen, I'm delusional news all away. And I like to think that it'd be fine, and we just would have to make sure the windows are down so we can get out of the car.

SPEAKER_02 46:51

Yeah. Well, that was the trip though to New Orleans. I mean, the shadow people at the house doing the investigation, it was actually really fun, going around the city, doing all the stuff, getting the tour from Nicole. Um yeah, and just kind of thinking about what makes New Orleans such a haunted city. The best city on such a haunted city, you know. Um, I think for me as well, going to the the church.

SPEAKER_04 47:16

Yeah, the St. Louis Cathedral.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

That we went to and it's just beautiful.

SPEAKER_04 47:21

It is.

SPEAKER_02 47:22

It's really beautiful, and then that bookstore in the alleyway behind it. Yeah, Faulkner House. What was that book that you got? You got you're all excited, and you're talking to the lady that yeah, Faulkner.

SPEAKER_04 47:31

So uh for my fellow book nerds out there, I love like special edition books and Penguin. Go Google this, okay? It's cute as fuck. Penguin a special edition book series. It's called the Drop Caps series, and it's goes A to Z, okay. They picked one classic essentially for each letter. And the books, when they're all lined up together, it creates a rainbow gradient of color. And it's beautiful when you have the full set. And so I started this years, years, years ago because in Faulkner House Books, they have they always have the complete set there. On when you walk right in, there's a table in the middle, it's there, and it's displayed, and it's just so beautiful. And so the very first time I ever went into Faulkner House Books, I was like, oh my god, this is amazing. Like I'm I'm just gonna do this. And so I bought A, right? And so every time I go to New Orleans, I go to Faulkner House Books and I buy a new book for the series, assuming they're open, there have been a couple times when they were closed. But anyway, um, yeah, so every time I go there, I buy a new book for the series. But this time, something that I had been wanting to do, but kept forgetting, is each time I get a book, um, write the date in it and you know, and like what I was there for. So this time I finally did remember to do it, and I wrote the date and what we were there for and had everybody sign it. So um I think it'll be a nice little, you know, memory when I have the full series, get to go back and see, like, oh wow, this is when I was there for this.

SPEAKER_02 48:58

Well, we will be oh Jesus, we will be back uh in that area soon because one of the last investigations that you heard here on the podcast, which was of course, well, you haven't heard it yet, but you're gonna hear it, uh, Mississippi.

SPEAKER_04 49:11

Yeah, the next series that they'll hear.

SPEAKER_02 49:13

Yeah, you'll hear about why, but it is calling us then back to do can I just say it, the Myrtles. Yeah. Yeah. So look out for that.

SPEAKER_04 49:23

Which is an infamous, you know, place. Yes, but we weren't gonna do an actual, you know, Investit because it's like one of the big places and everybody knows about it, whatever.

SPEAKER_02 49:32

Wait till you hear why.

SPEAKER_04 49:33

Yeah, wild synchronicities.

SPEAKER_02 49:34

That'll be in the Mississippi episode.

SPEAKER_04 49:36

Yeah, that'll that's gonna be how we end the fucking episode.

SPEAKER_02 49:38

Yeah, I hope this episode was not just like a letdown for the listeners. I mean, I we talked briefly about a little paranormal experience, but uh mainly just wanted to touch on that trip, I guess, and that we can't apparently go do anything normal.

SPEAKER_04 49:50

So I did it again.

SPEAKER_02 49:51

Oops, you did it again.

SPEAKER_04 49:52

And just for everybody who made it to the end, um, you know, to ungatekeep one other thing for you. Oh uh, because you did tell them about the bruv that makes our stuff. So uh that's the best the best part of this episode is they're getting some of our goods. So just to ungatekeep where we stayed in New Orleans, it's on Airbnb. It's called the Okra Inn.

SPEAKER_02 50:10

Oh, is that on Ivorville? Yeah, go stay there. And if you have experiences, let us know for sure. Yeah. Uh, because we want to know that it's not just us.

SPEAKER_04 50:17

Yeah. Super cute.

SPEAKER_02 50:18

Super cute. Super cute episode.

SPEAKER_04 50:21

Super cute episode. Very cutesy, very demure.

SPEAKER_02 50:24

Hopefully.

SPEAKER_04 50:25

Uh there's and you don't get that reference at all because it's from TikTok.

SPEAKER_02 50:28

Yeah, I don't get it. I don't get any of the Tic Tac references at all. Um, all right, I guess is that our wine and spirits?

SPEAKER_04 50:35

Yeah, I don't know. Let's go sit on the fucking couch.

SPEAKER_02 50:39

Yeah. All right. Goodbye.

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Okay, bye.

SPEAKER_00 50:45

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SPEAKER_04 50:56

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