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Ep. 65 J-Root Beer, J-Skeletons, and J-Ghostly Japanese Lore: The Co-Ghosts
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Ever wondered what makes a forest so eerie that it becomes synonymous with spirits and shadows? Get ready to uncover the chilling mysteries of Aokigahara, Japan's infamous "suicide forest," known for its ghostly lore and haunting reputation. We share startling stories, from unsettling apparitions to mysterious wailing sounds, all while reflecting on the cultural nuances of Japanese ghost stories and how they differ from Western tales. It's a thrill lined with goosebumps as we navigate the forest's spine-tingling narratives and explore the preventive measures in place to deter its sinister allure.
Join us for a spooktacular journey where root beer anecdotes and Halloween hijinks pave the way for tales of haunted pasts and peculiar folklore. We dive into the world of Japanese urban legends like Yamamba and Kuchisaki Onna, mixing cultural curiosity with humor as we attempt to pronounce names and unravel the creepy essence of these stories. Our playful banter about Halloween decorations, and a chat with Harley (who owns a skeleton!), adds a whimsical touch of the bizarre as we gear up to tackle all things ghostly and mysterious.
We've also got a special treat for fans of the bizarre and funny: our "We're Not a Couple" t-shirt, inspired by one of our catch phrases as well as a shirt that was made from the laughs we've shared with John Olsen. Stay connected with us on social media, and don't forget to revisit past episodes as we continue to explore the weird and wonderful world of the paranormal. Whether you’re intrigued by Japanese hauntings or curious about the curious Okiku doll, this episode promises a rollercoaster of emotions, thrills, and a few chuckles along the way.
Do you like stories about haunted locations, or maybe tales of cryptids and spooky folklore from around the world? If so, why not tune in to Haunted Escapes with Chris and Diane, where all this and more will be discussed? New episodes drop every Sunday, the visual versions the following Friday on YouTube. So why not come join us on our haunted escapes YouTube? So why not come join us on?
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Speaker 3:What's going on? This is Scalarius, I am John Olson and with me, as always, is DW, the dishonorable Wasabi Serene.
Speaker 4:There. Sorry, that's the best I could do.
Speaker 3:That was really lame. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:Here. Hold on, it's not a the best I could do.
Speaker 3:That was really lame.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I know, here hold on, it's not a can like I normally have. There you go. So for the record, it is a bottle and this is not your father's root beer. Good stuff. It's all right. Good, which is, yeah, it's all right. Honestly, I I prefer just regular root beer.
Speaker 3:But this is pretty good. It's pretty good. I would prefer a root beer that gets me drunk, so I like that one honestly actually, um, I had, uh, some good root beer.
Speaker 4:Uh, last weekend, not last weekend. When was this? Yeah, yeah, last weekend at uh shout out to saint paul brewery. They have their own in-house root beer. That's really good. So whenever I go there, I like to have a root beer, because that's some good stuff.
Speaker 4:Alcoholicy root beer nope, it's non-alcoholic, but it's um. What's? What's unique about it is it's not as like sweet as other root beer. So if you don't like how barks or a and w is just like too syrupy and sweet and stuff like that, this is a way better root beer for you then.
Speaker 3:I would like my root beer to be more beer, less root, but you know I don't know that's you.
Speaker 4:You like your root beer to be more hallucinogenic, less root.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's true, I don't even have that. Today I had a drink drinking the lemon lime. Uh, thc soda today. Good stuff, figured hell, why not? Might as well keep this shit rolling. You know what I mean I've been. I think I've been high for 56 hours straight now, to be honest, hours, I thought it'd be okay. Well, I mean yeah so what else is going on? Dubs, how's things?
Speaker 4:um, things are good. I finally, so I finally took down the uh halloween decorations in the yard, and the only reason it took so long is the ground was frozen and it was really hard to get because everything's staked in the ground in some form. So last weekend I finally had the time and the ground was warm, and so I was able to get everything out of there and took took quite a while, and then what was fun was, uh, the inflatable stuff that I have was still kind of damp, so I inflated it downstairs.
Speaker 4:So then my basement was filled with all these gigantic snowmen and stuff like that, and it was kind of weird to see these gigantic things in a small room as opposed to outside, where there's tons of room. It was kind of fun, but anyway.
Speaker 3:I was going to say your yard looked like the place Halloween and Christmas went to die.
Speaker 4:Well, and especially when they're not inflated. Right Well and especially when they're not inflated, yeah, it looks Well, and especially when. So I find it funny, when I first turn them on and they're getting filled with air, it looks like me in the morning, just like gosh, you know. And then when you turn them off, it just they just slowly sink into the ground and I don't know, know, I find it hilarious.
Speaker 3:So anyway, so when you turn it on, it's like you. When you turn it off, it's like me, just slowly sinking into it, I guess, yeah, all right, uh. So if you guys are tuning in right now, you know that well, maybe that last week we kind of mentioned what we were doing this week, last week when we had Harley on, which was a fantastic episode. She is interesting as hell. She has some stuff I mean that's cool. I've never I mean mean not yet that was the first uh did an interview with somebody who had a corpse, you know, just hanging out right yeah, so, um, I mean, not a real.
Speaker 3:There's a skeleton, not a. I mean, okay, can you consider it a corpse? Yeah, no, no, it's remains its remains. I guess so because still have like skin or things on it maybe. Yeah, I don't know it's actually a corpse, I don't know. Well, whatever, it doesn't matter. Either way, it doesn't matter at this juncture.
Speaker 4:We don't need to dwell on it that much.
Speaker 3:No, we don't, yeah. So we talked about what we were going to do this week and basically, for those tuning in, you know that us here at Scalarius, you know we are turning Japanese. Oh yeah, we're turning Japanese. I really think so. Oh, scalarius turning Japanese, scalarius turning Japanese. We really think so, oh oh.
Speaker 4:I was wondering how long it'd be before you did something offensive that was right.
Speaker 3:How's that offensive? That's a song, by the way, a song that is completely and utterly not what they think it's about. Most people are like, oh, it's about masturbation, it's not. It's about like somebody's like descent into emotional distress or something like that.
Speaker 4:I don't know, but yeah, okay, I I think uh doing a japanese accent might be a little offensive.
Speaker 5:I didn't do a japanese accent okay, well, I didn't, I just said all right all right, japanese, we're turning japanese.
Speaker 3:We really think so. Oh, scolari's turning japanese, clarity so anyway okay, all right, okay, okay.
Speaker 3:And we're doing this because, you know, obviously we have some really cool new listeners over there in the wonderful land of the rising sun, japan, and you know it got me thinking. You know they're listening to our American ghost stories and I'm sure they're probably very interested. So it made me very interested in the Japanese paranormal stories. So I started doing some digging and we're going to get to that here in just a little bit, but there's some business that we need to attend to first. First of all, if, again, people were listening to the end of last week's episode, it happened again, didn't it?
Speaker 4:one of my uh favorite moments. Yes, uh came again. Um, yes, I, I it. I don't know what I think. The first time it happened it was just so unexpected, and so that's what made it so funny. Second time, though, still good.
Speaker 3:Because you've been waiting for it. You've been waiting for it for a while. You've been waiting for it since the first one happened.
Speaker 3:Well, because every time since then that's been a question I've asked, waiting for it to happen again and we're talking about John asked, waiting for it to happen again, and we're talking about, uh, john olsen or whoever right, it's one of our this or that questions john olsen or zach baggins, john olsen or jeffrey dahmer, john olsen or ted kaczynski, john olsen or whatever? Um, some horrible human being in me, and you get to choose which one you like want to hang out with, driving a car with I don't know, have some THC with I don't know, whatever it is, but that's what they choose. And lo and behold, the question was asked again and the answer was I have no idea who either one of them are I think it was.
Speaker 4:I have no idea who john olsen is, so they end up picking the other person because they don't know who john olsen is.
Speaker 3:So either way, either way, either way. And I said at that moment man, this is gonna be a t-shirt, and it is, and you can get that t-shirt at crowdmadecom forward slash collections, forward slash scolarius pod.
Speaker 4:And you can get it in a t-shirt or a hoodie. Yep, you can also get.
Speaker 3:We are not a couple oh, that's a new one too. Yeah, in a t-shirt or a hoodie.
Speaker 4:Um, apparently I say here's the thing a lot, and so you can get that on a t-shirt or a hoodie. You can get beanies with a little fuzzy, you can get coffee cups, hats, mugs and, of course, hellhound uh leashes and collars. And wait a second, and don't we have and water dish yep, and the pet bowl absolutely.
Speaker 3:or, if you want to, if you have like, say, you're drinking a THC drink like me, or you're drinking a hard root beer like DW, and you have to put that thing down. When you put it down, you don't want to put it down on your table, right, you don't want to do that because it's going to cause a ring. You know, your mom or your grandma, they've been saying that for years. Like, don't put it on the table, it's going to cause a ring. So you have to get coasters. Well, we don't sell coasters.
Speaker 4:We sell coasters.
Speaker 3:Oh nice, yeah, Scalerius coasters, that's right. You can get that also at crowdmadecom forward slash collections, forward slash Scalerius pod. Go there, Get anything you want, but you should. You should get our t-shirts, especially the we're Not a Couple one. I think that one's probably the best one. That's my favorite, but I could see everybody getting that. I have no idea who John Olsen one is too. So I mean, either way, we'd be happy if we go there and get that stuff. Don't you think We'd be happy? People wearing Scalarius stuff, and then people are like what's Scalarius? And then people have to explain what Scalarius is, and then we get more listens and all things like that. You know that's what we want right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, absolutely. And say that you're just hanging out one night and you're listening to Scalarius and you're like, you know, I wonder what DW is doing and I wonder what DW is doing and I wonder what John's doing. Well, you can find out and all you have to do is just go to DW Serene Comedian on Facebook. Go to John Olson, comedian 2.0, on Facebook. You can find us both together on Facebook. You can find us both together on Facebook, but we're not a couple.
Speaker 3:We're not a couple. No, that's at the Scalarius page. Also, hit us up, scalarius on Instagram. Send us an email ScalariusPod at gmailcom. And if you want, I mean if you're already listening to ScaleriusPod at gmailcom, and if you want, I mean if you're already listening to Scalerius. That's one thing, but if you want, you can go back to listen to every single episode we have. That's at buzzsproutscaleriuspodcom, or it's actually scaleriuspodbuzzsproutcom. See, you know what? I second guessed myself, and I should know, because I had it right the first time. Either way, go there, hit us up, you know. Uh, I would insert dusty roads impersonation today, but I feel there are people that are still angry about the last few episodes so I'm just gonna let it go all
Speaker 3:right today, all right. So I figure we might as well get going on this, because, you know, we I mean I don't know people probably want to know, like, what are some really cool japanese paranormal stories? Well, all I can find is like japanese paranormal legends, which are pretty cool, and we're gonna touch on some other things, like maybe a forest that people kill themselves in, and probably some movies that all of you have heard about. Um, that may, may or may not, have inspired movies over here in america. So I guess everybody should just buckle up because, uh, again, dw, get your ticket baby. Alright.
Speaker 3:Cause we're going to Japan. Alright, let's go, alright, alright. So A lot of stories, a lot of really cool stories, and I don't know If they talk about them as much over there. I'm completely and utterly Unfamiliar, so this is just as much over there. I'm completely and utterly unfamiliar. So this is just as much a learning episode as it is a storytelling episode. So if people could, especially our listeners in Japan, could, let us know, like, what's the dealio over there? Do you guys talk about it? Is it talked about a lot? I mean, these stories, are they, you know, like they are over here, like told around the campfire?
Speaker 3:you know all that good stuff. Are there legends that you know your, your, your parents that tell you like, hey, don't go? Are there legends that you know your, your, your parents that tell you like, hey, don't go over there because this might happen, don't go here because that might happen? You know, we want to know and you know how you can tell us? That is, just reach out, go into the episode and it says hey, you know, send your co-ghosts an email, whatever, click there and just let us know what's going on. Yeah, so that's you. That's you guys over there in the land of the rising sun Talking to you specifically. All right, dw, so what do you want to hear about?
Speaker 4:first, Well, we were talking about. I know you wanted to do this later, but one of the things we talked about was the forest that is has been come to be known as suicide forest, yep, um, but also called and um. My japanese is not the best, but but Aokigahara.
Speaker 3:Aokigahara, which is on the west face of Mount Fuji. If I believe right, Is that what it said?
Speaker 4:Northwest.
Speaker 3:Northwest.
Speaker 4:Okay, and in terms of suicides, it's debated how many nowadays.
Speaker 4:So part of it is they've stopped reporting how many because they don't want it to be known for that, because they don't want it to be known for that, and they feel that's making it worse, saying hey, we're the most popular place to kill yourself, type of thing, but we're talking like 50 to 100 a year yeah, roughly yeah. A year, yeah, roughly yeah, and it's hard to say if that's gone down or anything again because they're not reporting it, but it's been. It's a lot and I can't imagine so. One of the things they say is that every year they do a search for bodies by the police, volunteers, journalists, such and such. I can't imagine doing that, knowing there's a good chance you're gonna find dozens yeah you know or?
Speaker 4:hundreds or I would assume. I mean, I'm guessing this is the yearly search. They probably find some throughout the year, but knowing there's a good chance you're going to find something, that would be I don't know.
Speaker 3:I don't know if I could do that did you happen to see what the main cause of death was?
Speaker 4:um, uh, uh. Where does it say it?
Speaker 3:um, I believe it's hanging and drug overdoses. So I mean, obviously they're not saying they don't stab themselves, but that's happened in there too and I didn't see a whole lot. I mean we kind of dug a little bit into it. I didn't see a whole lot about firearms, but I mean, maybe it's a different land over there and I'm not saying they don't have guns because they do, but maybe their rights to have them are not like ours.
Speaker 4:That's my assumption, I just think. I think we not like it's impossible to get them, but I just feel like the us has a different view right towards guns, and hence why police in other countries don't always carry firearms. Ours do, because they have to, because they're probably going up against someone who has a gun. In a lot of other countries, though they don't have, they don't carry around weapons like that.
Speaker 3:So bring a knife to a gunfight, exactly. So this forest is really nice, very pretty. Yeah, it's a place where people obviously can bike and walk and all that stuff, and so this stuff is happening in there because it's really dense, and I think it's because of the the lack of well, because it is so dense, you can't really see everything that that's obviously going on. Ah, but on the trails they started putting up uh signs saying hey, if you're coming in here, like don't, don't do this.
Speaker 4:Turn around. If you're coming in here like don't, don't do this, turn around, go back, think of your family, stuff like that. And I think I thought I read somewhere that like I don't know if they have oh, and to contact a suicide prevention organization so it's safe to say that the numbers went down, but I don't think they went down incredibly yeah and I think that is that's part of why they have to do these searches, because forest there's so much greenery, that your body falls over and it's hidden from the leaves until someone is specifically looking for it, and because all the suicides.
Speaker 3:The forest is supposedly extremely haunted um yeah a lot of tales in there, like you know, crying, wailing, uh, people seeing, uh apparitions, uh, you know things like that and I don't know man, I I hate to say this, but it's going to sound but they do ghost differently over there. They freak me the hell out. It's not like I don't know if it's um more realistic. Uh, people have seen horror movies that are produced in japan and you know how they're all like twitchy and shit like that and whatever. Like, I mean, I've seen apparitions and they do kind of look like that, but not quite like it's. Uh, I don't know. Yeah, it's, it's a. It's a different type of creepy, for sure. So people in America might know this forest for a different reason, and it's probably because of our friend Logan Paul Yep.
Speaker 4:Was it back in? Was it 2017? Yep, um well, so, uh, actually, he uploaded it january 2018, january 1st okay.
Speaker 3:So obviously this is what almost got him completely and utterly just done. Um, because he uploaded a video of a person swinging from a tree, essentially, um, well, uh, well, he was that video.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, um it.
Speaker 3:It got him in a lot of trouble, obviously. Obviously, he has nothing to worry about now. He's probably right on top, one of the biggest podcasters. I mean, it's Rogan and Paul up there. There's a few others in between, but whatever he's up there and obviously I mean, if you want to look at you know, whatever, he's a WWE superstar too, so he's doing pretty good for himself.
Speaker 3:I feel he kind of put the Suicide Force behind him, but at the time, yeah, got a lot of heat for that. Yeah, got a lot of heat for that. Yeah, because obviously the police were basically taking this person down and he's recording it and putting it on YouTube for the world to see. And obviously I think it was blurred to a point, but still, family wasn't even notified yet. You know things like that, and I believe, um, the police department there was, uh, quite upset about it too. I think he got himself in a whole lot of trouble. Um, I know that he had sponsors like pull out and things like that during that time. Uh, like I said, he's doing really well now. So I mean you could do some messed up shit and still come out of it, okay, apparently, uh, we're not gonna try that. Here are we.
Speaker 4:I'm not no, you speak for yourself, but I'm not going to that's.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we're not gonna do that here, all right, we're just gonna do the stuff and try to entertain as as best as we possibly can baby um. So yeah, that that's. I mean I don't know how far we want to go in, how far we want to go into the forest, um, but I mean that's, it is a a big deal over there. It's that one. There's like one in romania. I know it has nothing to do with japan, it's that one and there's like one in Romania. I know it has nothing to do with Japan right now, but I believe there's another like kind of suicide forest or whatever in in Romania that that's similar to or has similar stories or whatever to. Um, how do you, how do you say it again? Oh, ye, wait, hang on Romania. Oh, you got Hara. Yeah, how do you say it again? Ogi, wait, hang on Romania. Ogi, gahara, yeah, something like that.
Speaker 4:I'm looking up. So this came about. I'm looking at a site of suicide locations site of suicide locations, and I came across that by looking up, um the golden gate bridge, because I knew that was up there. I I couldn't remember if it was the most or second most and again, not knowing how many people uh die each year in the um sea of trees, it's hard to say which one is. Uh, um, I, you, you might be thinking of a different country, because romania isn't pulling up anything oh okay, well, fair enough.
Speaker 3:If I'm wrong, I'm sure somebody will call me out on it, and that's absolutely fine.
Speaker 4:I'm cool with that you said it was a forest or yeah, yeah, pretty sure.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I know the, the queen consort knows where it is, not because she's been there or wants to go, but because she's. You know she's into this stuff just like I am, and I know we we discussed it. I'm pretty sure it's in romania, um, or a country adjacent to it. Now I don't know because you know borders change, you know things happen I'm seeing what, uh uh, oh, uh but forest.
Speaker 4:Yeah, sometimes called the Bermuda Triangle of Transylvania oh, there it is.
Speaker 3:It's in Romania, right? I mean that's Transylvania, yeah yeah, all right, so anyways in the West City, transylvania.
Speaker 4:Yeah, okay, all right. So Anyways In the West City near opener section of Transylvania, forces counter recreation biking. What does it say about? It doesn't say, geez. What the heck. Doesn't say anything here about um? It has been featured on ghost adventures, though uh see, you know good old zach going over there doing his thing uh
Speaker 3:you know, maybe it's not haunted, maybe Maybe Zack just went over there and just over-dramatized everything. The tree, the tree moved, and oh Aaron, look out the tree. I don't do a good Zack Baggins impersonation. So I mean, who would have thought, yeah, all right, let's move on? Hey, we can go back to the Su suicide forest if we circle back around and whatever.
Speaker 3:But I just wanted to get a couple other things. You know a couple of these stories that I found, I wrote down and yeah. So I guess there's the story of Yamamba, yamamba, yamamba. Okay, so basically, this Buddhist was out wandering the woods and got caught in a storm and this nice old woman kind of said hey, why don't you come in and warm up? So this Buddhist a monk, I believe, uh, it was a priest, buddhist priest, so buddhist monk, is it the same buddhist monk, buddhist priest, I don't know name, different. Okay, whatever, they went in and they were chilling out and uh, basically, he's like hey, thank you for letting me in, yada, yada. The old lady's like okay, not a problem, here's your food, stay warm. Just do me a favor, no matter what, do not look in the back room. And just like everyone else, when somebody says don't look. What do you want to do?
Speaker 3:yeah curiosity always kills the cat. Um well, basically, the the priest was extremely curious and, um, he, just, he didn't care, he didn't, uh, he didn't care what the old lady said, and he went to take a peek in the back room and, uh, so he discovered a room full of half eaten corpses hmm, and it this priest realized oh my god, this is Yamamba, and Yamamba basically, um, they lure, apparently. It lures, uh, unsuspected travelers into their lair and then it eats them. Okay.
Speaker 3:The priest got away. If the priest didn't get away, wouldn't be hearing this story. But the priest got away, um, he didn't, and apparently never looked back. So, uh, that's, that's one. That that is yamamba. So if anybody else has any stories about yamamba, any of their own personal stories about Yamamba, hit us up, let us know. But that is, yeah, some priest basically was like hey, buddhist priest, buddhist monk, see, I'd like to know Same or different.
Speaker 4:Priest and monk? I'm not sure. I think they're different. I don't think they have priests. I think they have monks. I don't think they have priests. I think they have monks. I don't think they have priests in that denomination. I'm not sure.
Speaker 3:The question is is like, okay, if it's like, I mean, is it like a higher rank, like um, like I don't know, do they call them like the exalted one or you know, whatever? You know what I'm saying. I know that there's. You remember back watching Ace Ventura when nature calls, and he was in the Buddhist temple. So obviously there was a higher up like a main Buddha. I'm not a Buddhist and I apologize Sincerely, people, if you know, let us know.
Speaker 4:It's like some higher up ranking, right, but I don't think I don't, I don't know, but I don't think the term is priest, but I'm not sure don't know.
Speaker 3:Either way, the priest got away from the yamamba and he was able to tell the tale, so that's how I was able to read it. Because of that priest or monk, or whatever, um another, these are. Some of these are really hard to pronounce. I'm not gonna lie, I'm not. I'm not great with english in general, but then have to learn something in japanese. It's even worse. This one's called, well, basically a story of OIWA. Oiwa, o-i-w-a. Oiwa O-I-W-A OIWA OIWA. Anyway, you're taking Japanese.
Speaker 4:So Doesn't mean I'm, I'm trying yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay. So let's just say you're right. And it's Uiwa. Okay, uiwa was a stunning, beautiful woman and she was married to a samurai, but he was really petty, very petty. He basically only loved her because she was hot. Okay, really petty, very petty. He basically only loved her because she was hot, okay, um. And then there was another woman, uh, uime, okay, she was madly in love with the samurai, madly in love, and basically this uime uh was jealous of uiwa, anyway, and then gave her this cream that had poison in it which fucked up her face Like an eye popped out, she lost her hair. She looked like Gollum, okay, like, imagine, like my precious.
Speaker 3:You know, like that, like she looked horrible, and obviously the petty-ass samurai decided, hey, I don't want to have anything to do with this anymore. If I'm going to hit anything, I'm not hitting that. And then he's like you're outtie. And then he ends up hooking up with the other chick, the Uyime. So basically I don't know, uh, he, he got rid of her, hooked up with what we made or whatever else. And then this, this samurai hires his friend to rape the uh okay and um okay and um, and then basically rapers. So he would have grounds for divorce. Because therefore, you know, adultery means, you know, whatever, even if it's forced, even if it's forced, it's still adultery, I guess, in their mind.
Speaker 4:I don't know.
Speaker 3:I'm just saying I would think so.
Speaker 4:Well, yeah, Because I mean yeah, Adultery is having sex with someone who is not your spouse. Yep.
Speaker 3:All right. So this friend was going to do it, but he was so shocked by the way she looked he couldn't. He couldn't do it. But basically, this guy showed Oiwa her own face in the mirror and when he showed her face to her. She took his sword and killed herself.
Speaker 3:And when she did that, in her dying breath she cursed the samurai's name. Okay, so on the night of the samurai's remarriage to that oima right, the ghost of the disfigured oiwa, oiwa, oiwa, anyway, appeared before him. He was terrified and he quickly fled. But no matter how far he ran, ran, he couldn't escape her hauntings. So she just followed him, kind of like the movie it follows, but it was her um yeah.
Speaker 3:So after that night, no matter where lemon looked, even in the very lanterns, he used the lightest path he would see her face staring back at him. He was cursed forever Looking at her. Crazy huh. Yeah yep.
Speaker 3:And then there's the woman of the snow, yuki Anna. Yuki Onna, y-u-k-i-o-n-n-a. Yuki ono ono, I think it's better to let you struggle that I really you think that is that more entertaining than just knowing it yeah, yeah, yeah of course it is for you for me, I mean I'm sure a few listeners agree uh, I'm sure they do.
Speaker 3:Um, anyways, this guy was like going through the snow, whatever else, and he was. He was freezing. He was freezing to death and since there wasn't any tauntauns to rip open and keep himself warm um and throw that in there, didn, didn't you? I did. Why not Gotta throw a Star Wars reference in somewhere? I haven't had one for a long time. We haven't had a Star Wars reference for a while. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Might as well. Do it now. Why not? To be fair, Star Wars was inspired by Buck Rogers serials and samurai movies, so in a way it kind of fits In a way.
Speaker 4:In a way.
Speaker 3:Alright. So this guy was going through and he nearly froze to death, but then he saw a woman appear and she was like all frost, like frozen and basically like I don't know the thing, like took pity on him and it took it to a warm cabin saving his life. But in exchange for the rescue, she made a promise never to tell anyone of their meeting. For the rescue, she made a promise never to tell anyone of their meeting. Well, obviously, right, if we're hearing it, then somebody you know didn't. Uh, yeah, anyway, years later the guy married a charming young girl named yuki and they lived happily together for many years. But one day the young man told his wife about how he was once saved by the mysterious yuki ona breaking his promise. As he reveals this tale to his wife, her face grew pale and the frost began to change her body. His wife's true identity was the yuki ona. The promise broken, she vanished back into winter's night and he dead.
Speaker 3:I don't know if he really died or not, but I just figured it would be really fun to say that he had died. So here's one that I think is really cool and it kind of leads into different things. It's called the Black Hair. So here's one that I think is really cool and it kind of leads into different, you know different things. Um, it's called the black hair, okay, and once upon a time an impoverished samurai was living in kyoto kyoto, I think he actually got that one kyoto kyoto okay, with his wife, a wealthy lord from one kyoto.
Speaker 3:Kyoto okay, with his wife. A wealthy lord from a distant land invited the samurai to be his vassal. I don't know what the hell that is. Anyway, because he was such an honor, but it was such an honorable opportunity, he had no choice but to accept leaving his wife to wait in poverty at home until he returned. As you can tell, that's probably not a good idea. Just throw it out there.
Speaker 3:Years later, having, uh, dutifully served his lord, the samurai finally returned home to kyoto. Although his house was in disrepair, his wife was still there to happily welcome him home. Finally reunited, the two spent the entire night talking and laughing together before drifting off to sleep. When the samurai awoke, the warmth he had felt just the night before from having his arms wrapped around his loving wife was no longer there. Instead, he opened his eyes to see what he was holding a half cold, a cold skeleton, shrouded in long black hair. The samurai learned his wife passed away from sadness the summer before, but her skeleton had remained in the house for all the while, waiting faithfully for his return. Hmm.
Speaker 3:Kind of weird. Yeah. That's a weird one, but the long black hair reminded me of something you remember the movie the Ring.
Speaker 4:I remember it, I never saw it, you never seen.
Speaker 3:The Ring Dude. Well, anyway, the Ring was basically the American version of the Japanese movie Ringu. And yeah, it's badass, Renew. And yeah, it's badass. It's about a girl who just basically curses a videotape, you know, and then you watch it and seven days later you die.
Speaker 4:I mean, I remember the premise, I just never saw it. In fact, I I wasn't part of their marketing to like leave uh videotapes just randomly in places yeah, yep, it was.
Speaker 3:So, yeah, it was. Uh, I don't know, it's pretty badass, but anyway, the, the girl with the long black hair there, kind of, you know, made me, uh, think of the ringu movie, so to speak. Um, yeah, what do you think of the stuff so far? Dw?
Speaker 4:I mean they're, they're very interesting stories. They are, you know, you kind of treat. I kind of treat them the same way as a lot of the other ghost stories we hear where it's like, well hard to back that up, but um, obviously the legends and the the uh um folklore, whatever you want to call it is, is interesting.
Speaker 3:So it is uh, and it goes like forever. There's so many, so many, and most of these I don't know if you notice the the theme here and maybe it's the theme in all of that that's paranormal. A lot of this is women. They're sad women, they're lonely women or they're women who've been scorned. You see the theme there. Yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, same thing with over here, right? Usually, nine times out of ten, like you know, somebody in a hotel dies. What is it? It's a woman who is just in despair because her lover never came to see her, or you, you know what I'm saying. I'm not saying there aren't male ghosts. We know this. We know that there are male ghosts. But, right, you hear these tales like, for instance, for instance, you know the Hispanic tale of La Llorona, right? The Wailing Woman. So there's a lot of them, and it's just the theme continues on. Because here's one, the Slit Mouth Woman, which this one's hard for me to pronounce, and again you want to's hard for me to pronounce. And again, you want to take the entertainment value in this. Hear me trying to pronounce Japanese without doing the Pat Morita impersonation I do, which I'm not going to do. This episode, maybe next week We'll see. But anyway, slip Mouth Woman is Kuchisaki Onna, kuchisaki Onna, kuchisaki Onna, and I'll spell it for you and you tell me if that's exactly what it is Kuchisaki Onna, k-u-c-h-i-s-a-k-e-o-n-n-a. No.
Speaker 3:It's not.
Speaker 4:I'll just leave it at that. You got it wrong.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 4:Is that the same car, by the way?
Speaker 3:It is the same car, but everybody's hearing the car alarm in the back. There were shots fired earlier, but no big deal, but the car alarm is going off now.
Speaker 4:Really, the car alarm is what you have a problem with. The shots fired wasn't a big deal, but the car alarm shut that off.
Speaker 3:We don't have shots fired wasn't a big deal, but the car alarm shut that off. We don't have shots fired. I'm rich, dw, I live in a rich area. I don't have the shots fired over here. What do you think this is? Yeah, that's basically White Bear Lake. Baby, this isn't North Minneapolis. Anyways, what? Just saying, just throwing it out there. Just saying, just turn out there. Anybody needs to know. I do not think North Minneapolis is any worse than anyplace else. I am just going by statistics and statistics say nine times out of ten you're gonna hear a gunshot in North Minneapolis.
Speaker 4:just run it out there right and that that's on you, I'm I don't know, is that one alone?
Speaker 3:okay?
Speaker 3:yeah anyway, uh, the the name that I obviously just absolutely butchered, according to dw is a woman with a surgical mask and a grotesque slit mouth and she terrorizes unsuspecting individuals. And basically what she does is she'll say am I pretty? And then you answer yes, right. Then she takes off her mask and she says how about now? And if you say no, you're fucked, but if you say yes, well, you're still not very good in the law, run. But that's basically how it goes. It's similar to like, well, not similar to, but same premise wise. It's like bloody mary, right, bloody mary yeah, you know I mean same thing, only she's in charge.
Speaker 3:She's asking you hey, am I pretty? You're like hell yeah. And then she lowers her mask and she has the.
Speaker 3:Glasgow scars. We're talking like Heath Ledger and Joan. She's probably like am I pretty now? Similar to that. That's probably like like what she's doing anyways? Um, yeah, that has also turned into like a movie. You could actually see it on netflix if you want to amazon. Um, but there's so many variations of the legend. Uh, she offers candy to uh potential victims, which is funny in its own right. You know, like, don't get into the van, but here's candy to tell me I'm pretty, which is kind of kind of hilarious. Um, and those who refuse basically just meet a grisly fate and and that could be jesus anything uh, she ripped off a kid's hand, supposedly for not doing it. Um, yeah, so, uh, we already talked about the, the yuki onna. I'd say I did it right. That time you go. Um, there's, I don't. There's so much that Oiwa, we talked about her. See, I'm starting to think that maybe these stories are just it's all folklore you know what I mean.
Speaker 3:Like, see, we have Bloody Mary In Japan, they have Honoko-san, and basically I would assume you say Honoko-san three times into the mirror and she appears. Yeah, there's quite a bit of that stuff. Let me see what else we got. Who's the winner of the day so far? What do you think the story that you would think would be the one that scares you the most? Dw?
Speaker 3:I don't know the the scary face is are you talking about the one I just talked about? Are you know there's I mean there's a few more we could obviously hit on. I'm not, I don't know. I don't find any of them that that creepy Again. Like tales from over here, they seem like they are meant to teach you another lesson.
Speaker 4:Yeah well, and I feel like they're as creepy as the stories we tell over here. It's just a matter of whether or not you believe it. Like the whole Bloody Mary thing is creepy if it's real, but it's a story that you tell late at night around the campfire to try and scare people. But it's not necessarily real. Which in in that regard? Like oh, I'm trying to scare you, you know, I'm just making up stuff, so it sounds creepy, but it's. How creepy is it really? If you don't believe it, I don't know I don't know.
Speaker 3:You want to hear about the ghost, the ghost of okiku, okay, okay, okiku was a servant who lived in hamiji castle. Okay, and one of her, okay, and one of her servants. I mean one of her servants. One of her tasks was to care for her master's collection of 10 valuable plates. Okay, one day, while washing the plates, one was missing. She realized like, oh no, no matter how many times she counted, one came up short. Her master was so enraged that she lost the plate that he threw her down a well. So I'm assuming it was not a short well, it killed her. My assumption, that's my assumption. I her. Okay, my assumption, that's my assumption. I don't know, I don't know, I don't know, that's my assumption. But oh, anyway, here we go, just murder by brutality.
Speaker 3:Ukiku's soul could not rest. Every night her ghost crawled out of the well. Again ring, okay, it continued counting the master's plates. She would count to nine. Then, upon realizing the tenth plate was gone, she would let out an ear-piercing shriek. Okay, ukiku's screams kept everyone in the castle up all night for weeks on end, until a Buddhist priest finally appeased her.
Speaker 3:It's the second time we talked about a buddhist priest today, I feel there are yeah, there must be all right so again, uh, I know you haven't seen the ring, but obviously there's similarities to you know the story because, uh, samara, who is the I guess ghost or whatever in the ring, crawls out of a well after you. Well, you know, after you watch the tape. There's also, like the Peony Lante. I know what peonies are. I guess some people might call them peonies I don't know the exact way to say it, but I always say peony and since I always say it, I'm going to assume that I'm right.
Speaker 3:Okay, so this samurai his name was, oh, okay, o-g-i-w-a-r-a. Okay, see, I love it how you're schooling me. He's judging me as I'm doing this. It's funny, I can see his face. Nobody else can. I can see his face when I'm doing this, and he's funny, I can see his face. Nobody else can. I can see his face when I'm doing this and he's like I can tell when I'm right. Let's just say that Because he's like okay, yep, you got it. But anyway, he spotted Ohari. Okay, she was carrying a peony lantern wandering through the streets of Idu. Is that correct? Do you know what edu is? Do you know where edu is? Where is?
Speaker 3:that I have no idea. It's obviously in japan, right okay I, I don't know. Um, anyway, for okihara it was love at first sight. Uh, he invited the, invited the hottie, you know, back to the house. Whatever they talked, they laughed, they enjoyed watching each other's company. I'm assuming they bumped uglies, I'm assuming I, I can't, you can't, you don't know, you don't know. It is it's date, it's date number one.
Speaker 3:It's a possibility, though, just throwing it out there all right if they hit it off, okay it, I'm just, I'm throwing this. I I didn't go too far ahead, but I'm sure it wasn't like you know. Like they talked, they laughed, he walked her to the door, they kissed. Date number two was even greater. It doesn't say any of that I'm just assuming, okay, uh, anyway.
Speaker 3:That night ogiwara's neighbor okay, uh, hearing eerie laughter coming from ogiwara's garden peeked over the wall. He saw ogiwara holding not a woman but a laughing skeleton. Okay, okay, you are going here. What's's happening? Maybe, huh, okay. Ogibara's neighbor revealed to him the next morning that he had seen Horrified Ogibara went seeking advice from the priest at the nearby temple, another Buddhist priest baby. To his shock, ogibara found Otsuyu's grave at the temple. He realized that the woman he had fallen in love with the night before had died long before they had even met. Now that Ogiwara knew the truth, otsuyu's ghost no longer appeared before him.
Speaker 3:But, even after discovering the truth. Ogiwara missed Otsuyu desperately. This is where it gets good longer appeared before him. But even after discovering the truth, oh, you are missed, let's so you desperately. This is where it gets good. At some time, he could no longer bear his sadness and return to the temple where it's you lay buried at the temple gates. Oh so you appeared before him once more, reaching out her hand. She askedgiwara to accompany her home. Without hesitation, ogiwara took her hand, walking with her into the darkness. After this final visit to the temple, ogiwara vanished.
Speaker 3:The priest concerned opened Otsuyu's grave. Inside the coffin lay two bodies Ogiwara and Otsuyu together forever. Yeah, ogubara and Otsuyu together forever. Yeah, see, I knew it. I knew it. It didn't take long. I couldn't be without her. I knew right then. And there he's digging that body up. That's what I was thinking. He was digging that body up and he was going to do some funky shit to that body. That was my thought at first. What I read didn't help the scenario any, because that's kind of what I feel happened. They just left out details. Yeah.
Speaker 3:No, you don't think so.
Speaker 4:Again, it's one of those stories that sounds creepy, but who knows it? It's hard to prove one way or the other are you creeped up by that story? No, I mean it like I say, it just feels. Feels like those stories that you tell to little kids late at night to make them scared.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so they don't get up in the middle of the night, wander around, get a snack, all that shit. Essentially, For whatever reason yeah, I can see that. I can see that. So I mean those. You know, those are pretty much the stories that came out of it. Like I said, I think more of the real hauntings is what I'm really interested in and I'm having a hard time finding actual paranormal events that are happening in Japan.
Speaker 3:Now, I know they happen, I just don't know how it's talked about, discussed it. You know, in all that stuff I would assume that they have paranormal groups over there. But, like I said, you think yeah like I said, I'm having a really hard time, uh, as I was digging, trying to find actual paranormal events with whatever, with the exception of the suicide forest, which has a lot of events that have occurred yeah not.
Speaker 3:I mean um, besides the actual um, you know things that, uh, that have happened, meaning um. Well, you know things that, uh, that have happened, meaning um, well, you know the deaths themselves, um, if there is someone in Japan that's part of a paranormal group.
Speaker 4:Um, if you're listening to this and and we'd be willing to I mean we have our usual time that we record we'd be willing to. I mean we have our usual time that we record I'd be willing to. You know, stay up till one in the morning to make a, because it's you know, it's 11 am over there, so if there's you know a time that works out better for them, we can work it into our schedule, no problem absolutely, I get, I can figure that stuff out.
Speaker 3:I most definitely would.
Speaker 4:Uh, I yeah because we, we, we had. There was one time was it uh, australia, or who was it that?
Speaker 3:like australia we had. She was um she was up to like in the wee hours of the morning. Yeah, and I think. Well is. It is hawaii six hours earlier than us, or are they late? No, yeah they're earlier yeah wait, yeah, they're earlier.
Speaker 3:So when we were recording with um, with ray, it was like one in the afternoon there yeah yeah, so I know we were kind of like into things, but there's a japanese you know japanese urban legends, so I figured we'd go into that too. And and you can have a little fun with the way that I pronounce these How's that sound, okay, aki? Oh shit, I already messed that up. I did, I knew it right. Right, because it's A-K-A, not A-K-I. Akamanto means red cloak. Basically it's Akamanto is a male spirit who dons a red cloak and mask and is said to haunt school and public restrooms, with a particular fondness for the last stall in the women's bathroom.
Speaker 4:What a weirdly specific thing.
Speaker 3:I know Once you're seated in the stall, you will hear a male voice. Ask if you want red or blue paper. Okay. Use your words carefully. If you say red paper, you will meet a bloody end. If you say blue paper, you will be suffocated to death until you are blue. If you try to confuse the spirit by asking for a different color paper, you will be dragged into hell. To avoid a brutal end at Akimoto's hand, simply refuse his offer and run. That was oddly specific.
Speaker 4:Right, like the last stall, yep. So I wonder if kind of like the whole number 13 thing, like how people have a fear of that, for no, there's actually no substantial reason for it if people avoid the last stall in the bathroom just because, of that you know.
Speaker 4:Akamanto and it's like, like you don't necessarily believe in it, but it's like either way, I don't want to risk it kind of kind of like there are some things that are unlucky for a reason and like suppose so I'll give you an example from what I hear is unlucky to whistle on a theatrical stage because back in the day, um, they would use sailors to uh, lift and raise and lower curtains and the sets and stuff like that, and they would communicate through whistling. And so if you whistled on stage, you might accidentally give a signal to lower a curtain and it lowers on top of you or something like that. And so because of that, it is unlucky to whistle on stage. Now, you're not going to run into a lot of people who still communicate via whistling, but you're going to hear the superstition to not whistle on stage, that it's unlucky to whistle on stage.
Speaker 3:So I'm assuming Axl Rose was never in the stage play.
Speaker 4:He was in Midsummer Night's Dream.
Speaker 3:If he was, he would never be able to get through all of Patience Just throwing it out there.
Speaker 4:He was Deuteronomy in Cats. I just picked a character I don't know. I just picked a character I don't know.
Speaker 3:He was. What's his name? Damn it Sweeney Todd. He was Sweeney.
Speaker 4:Todd, that'd be a good one.
Speaker 3:In the Scranton public playground. Who was that? It was Andy. It's that it was Andy, that's fine. It was the Scranton community players or something like that. Yeah, boo Boo, when did?
Speaker 4:the cast list go up Like a month ago. Which part am I playing? I love this all right. I like, by the way, it's so subtle, but I like the joke. Uh, what time does it start? 7, 30. How long is it? Hour and a half. I can't make it like that is what did, like he would have been able to make it if it were an hour, 15.
Speaker 3:Anyway, Was that Creed?
Speaker 4:Who did the report? Yeah, the only terrifying part of this play is the vocal performances. God.
Speaker 3:If you want to know what Creed's thinking, go to wwwcreedthoughtscreedblogspotcom or something like that yeah anyways, all right. So we're gonna move on. We're gonna go move to oh my god, I know for a fact I am not gonna get this. See, I think it's Tiki Tiki, but that sounds ridiculous. So I think it's T-E-K-E, t-e-k-e, t-e-k-e, t-e-k-e Am I right?
Speaker 4:I think it would be Tiki Tiki actually.
Speaker 3:Really I think so. Again, I'm not, not positive. Am I overtaking this stuff like someone?
Speaker 4:please, uh, send us a message and correct us, because I'm I would do it in Japanese trying to work on my Japanese, please it's here's a quick sidebar, by the way.
Speaker 4:Um. So I took I took German a long time ago and whatever I took french in high school barely got a c. I took uh in college for my foreign language. I actually took sign language. That went well and I haven't kept up with it. So I've forgotten a lot. But I that one, um, being a visual learner, that one really made sense. Um, I had an opportunity recently to uh uh learn through um duolingo. I knew I didn't.
Speaker 4:I knew I didn't want to do french, I spanish, I just just didn't interest me and I was like I kind of want to do something a little different and I thought japanese would be really fun. And I actually had a couple of friends in college that took japanese and said oh, it's not hard, they are liars. It is really hard. It's like one of the most difficult languages to learn.
Speaker 4:Um, and part of what makes it hard is it's not like the letters of the english alphabet, it's symbols. And once you learn those symbols like these two symbols together is a different symbol. And the symbol is like, it's not like a k with a line over the top, it's a thing that you like. It's two squares with a line on the side and then two squares, the line on the side and a line over the top. It's a thing that you like. It's two squares with a line on the side and then two squares, the line on the side and a line here and then two lines. This way, and the thing it looks like nothing else you've ever seen before and that you know is the word for shinbun. You know stuff like that.
Speaker 4:So it's tricky, um, and now and so here's to make it even worse. After about a year I was like this is really tricky, but I've been doing it for a year, so now I got to keep going. So I'm invested now and I'm just going to keep learning as much as I can. Someday I'll be able to go to Japan and order rice, and then that'll be it. I'll have to get back on the plane and leave, because that's all I remember.
Speaker 3:So sushi man sushi.
Speaker 4:Yeah, that one's easy, it's sushi yeah, sushi California roll well, and that's the other thing, like I might be able to say stuff, but to be able to write it down right, that's the thing, gosh that's a good question.
Speaker 3:In japan is the california roll a california roll. California roll, a California roll? Mmm, yeah, see. Or do they even have them in Japan? Because that's made like, if I remember right, california roll is it's imitation crab meat with cucumber and cream cheese.
Speaker 4:They would. I wonder, if a California roll is something we came up here in California, most likely Because you would feel like in Japan. Why would you use imitation crab when you're that close to the ocean?
Speaker 3:Yeah, they have the real thing over there, like they'll just right grab a tuna and fuck sushi, that shit up right away. Boom, like let throw it from, like somebody on the beach like tossing fish, and then they just fill that shit up, all right. So we, we got off on completely the wrong right but it's okay because I was starting to say okay, so you, you think it's tiki tiki, I think so okay, well, actually it is maybe this will explain it.
Speaker 3:Okay, tiki tiki is said to be the ghost of a woman or a school girl, school girl who fell on the railroad line and was cut in half by an oncoming train. Yeah, I'm assuming.
Speaker 4:Crossways not not bifurcated if you're cut in half.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you're bifurcated anyway if you're cut in half but not the would be horizontal. It'd be horizontal bifurcation, not vertical bifurcation. There we go, anyways. The vengeful spirit outraged by her untimely death now haunts the urban areas and train stations at night. Since she no longer has legs, she drags herself on her hands and elbows, which produces a chilling tiki tiki sound. So my assumption is the rock, the gravel moving would sound like like that right now. It would be tiki tiki it would be Tiki, tiki.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:Possibly, should you encounter Tiki, tiki, run. If the malicious spirit catches you, she will slice you in half with a scythe. Jeez, although she lacks legs, she's extremely fast. Yeah, you know why? Because she's twitching. She's twitching around on the ground like they do over they do over there, and has been known to keep up with cars. Jesus, in summer editions of the story, she will ask you where her legs are, in which you must reply oh geez, my Shin Expressway.
Speaker 3:In order to survive in less hopeful alliterations, your only chance of survival is to outrun her, which is completely impossible, wow. So if she ever sees you and says where's your leg, where's my legs, you have to say the michan expressway. That sounds funny, like that hadn't been added in the like wait, hold on. We can't have this thing end in complete bifurcation every single time. We must find a way out. How do we do this? Where are we? Oh, we're in the mission express, that's it. That's the word we will say to make it go away. All right. So here's another one, because this is just getting funny as we go. I'm going to try to pronounce it in Japanese, but I can most definitely tell you what it means in English, because it follows it. So, tore, no, hanoko-san.
Speaker 4:That sounds good, sounds about right.
Speaker 3:And it's Hanoka-san of the toilet, all right, so one of those and I'm assuming it's Toray, toray, no, toray, no, no means of I'm assuming. So Toray must mean Toilet. So the next time you have to use the bathroom you can look at Mrs Serene and go Torre, and then she'd know what you're saying. Okay, okay, so anyway, we're gonna go Back to the bathroom with this legend that you could compare to bloody mary.
Speaker 3:Hanoko is the spirit of a young school girl again, school girl who met her end in an elementary school. Okay, that got bad real quick, not that kind of school girl. Um, I'm gonna go back and remove the and also say that I was not picturing a elementary school school girl. I digress anyways in the bathroom and she, basically she met her end in the bathroom, uh, as a result to the suicide due to bullying, her or world war ii bombings, it's, it's now said. It's weird, I don't know, I have no idea why that said that she died due to bullying or the world war ii bombings wow, can't figure out what killed her that's a big jump, don't you think?
Speaker 4:right, it's like a game of clue.
Speaker 3:We don't even know which room, what weapon there's the toilet but never mind, you totally missed it anyways, many children test their wits by summoning the child spirit. In order to summon her, you must go to the third floor this is very specific, again, very specific Third floor bathroom and knock on the third stall three times, after which you say are you there, hanako-san? And if you hear even the faintest reply, make a hasty exit. If you're too slow or choose to enter the stall, honoka will drag you into the toilet and you'll never be seen again. That's fucking wild. That's a wild story. Dragged into a toilet.
Speaker 3:It's the worst swirly ever you do yeah, I know, swirlies, creepers um oh my god all right, come on, man, we have stuff to do here, jesus and can we please stop with your? Crappy impressions. Uh, I have been told by numerous people that they love my impressions on this show of me what okay?
Speaker 4:all right, there we go. Thank you I personally love yours. That's the one you know, it takes more than one person for comedy to exist that's not true.
Speaker 3:That is I. There are several people that would disagree with that wholeheartedly. One of them is andy kaufman okay.
Speaker 4:So if you get up on stage tell a joke and and it doesn't get a laugh, you still think that's funny.
Speaker 3:Me. Yeah, I will use a joke to the freaking dying end. I would. I would make sure it gets a laugh.
Speaker 4:Strangely enough, John's available for weddings and bar mitzvahs.
Speaker 3:I've never done a bar mitzvah. That'd be fun I haven't yet. Have you done a wedding before? I have done a wedding.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I've done a wedding, which was good because everyone's already in a happy mood, They've already got food and beverages and stuff like that. And the thing is, the material that went over the best was the material about the couple. Like, I had met with the couple beforehand, asked him a few questions and I wrote some jokes about him and of course that's what you know was was those jokes?
Speaker 3:So that's fucking awesome. I think more weddings need comedy shows. Not gonna lie, they're very.
Speaker 4:I mean mean they're very conducive to comedy. Yeah, you've already. If you've got the dj, you've already got a sound system, you've got an audience who is already happy and beverages are usually provided and stuff like that so unless you've got a a cheap doing an open bar.
Speaker 4:But, um, also, I did. I was asked to do a funeral, um, but I had to turn it down only for scheduling reasons. But I thought it was cool that they wanted to have a comedian at a funeral. Wow, not a comedian had died, mind you. If a comedian dies, um, you need to have a light, because other comedians will take that opportunity. They see a microphone, they get excited, you know, um, but this was not that situation. They wanted to bring in a comedian to lighten the mood and and make some jokes, and I would have done it if it fit into my schedule.
Speaker 3:So that's crazy. Yeah, I've never been asked. I've never done that I I would, I, I don't know have you done a birthday party I, I have, I was. I even did a gig at a church. That was uncomfortable is how you heard my stuff Like I'm not.
Speaker 4:For you, that would be bad. I've done plenty of churches.
Speaker 3:I am not. I'm not dirty, by any means.
Speaker 4:But you're not church appropriate.
Speaker 3:But I'm not church appropriate, no, and I'm not little kid appropriate, like if you have little kids around. I'm like crap. I don't want to offend people. I don't care if I do, but I don't want to offend people. I don't care if I do, but I don't want to. You know what I mean. That's not my purpose in life.
Speaker 4:And I have also done a preschool event, but it was for a preschool with the teachers and with some kids there, but no bar mitzvah yet. So I'm waiting to cross that off my list.
Speaker 3:I'm assuming my first two jokes in my set would go over really well. Oh, my gosh Okay. So we're going to get going. We might end on this story. Let's end on this one, and then we're going to Okay, anyway, anyway, we'll get to this all right, so we might as well end on the. The thing I hate the worst or the most, it's the a doll. It's a haunted doll and it's called the okiku doll. It's okay, I k u o kiku. Yeah o kiku. Okay, cool maybe okay, maybe okay, the legend.
Speaker 3:I'm gonna say okaiku, because it sounds more japanesey. Anyways, the legend of the okaiku doll differs from our previous stories of. The doll physically exists and resides in Manan G Temple in. Oh jeez, hokkaido, hokkaido, I don't know.
Speaker 3:The tale goes back to 1918 when a boy purchased a doll for his younger sister. They both had bob haircuts. The little girl was infatuated with the doll and they were inseparable. Tragically, a short time later, the girl passed away from an illness I'm guessing 1918 flu just throwing it out there. Her family displayed the doll named okaiku on an altar in remembrance of their daughter and noticed that the doll's hair was growing. They concluded that the daughter's restless spirit was inhabiting the doll and eventually provided it to the mananjai temple, where it remains today and is viewable to guests. Okaiku's hair continues to grow to this day, despite haircuts from the temple's priests. So they give it a haircut. That's crazy.
Speaker 3:If you are in hokkaido, why not stop and observe the eerie phenomenon yourself? Hokkaido is not the only place in japan with terrifying real life legends. Hidden amongst tokyo's advanced skyscrapers and quaint temples are some truly horrifying spots. Tokyo supposedly has some of the most haunted locations in japan, but ironically enough, I can't find them. I can find our awesome legends that we did today. You know, I kind of wanted us to go into a more paranormal route, but that was kind of fun, don't you think?
Speaker 4:yeah it wasn't bad and it's it's kind of like you say it it comes to paranormal stuff.
Speaker 3:And maybe it's honor of their family, maybe I don't know, maybe it's just not. I don't know. I don't know what Buddhists believe with paranormal. You know what I'm saying. So we mostly know that if you're a Catholic and it's a ghost, it's a demon, right? We kind of figure that If you're a skeptic, ghosts don't exist at all. If you're, if you, you know, like there are different um in different religions, different areas of the religion, there are, um, I guess, different ways to look at it, but mostly, nine times out of ten, if you're a catholic, it's a demon, that's what I've learned, I don't know.
Speaker 3:Uh, the uh, betrothed, seems to think so sometimes oh my god I called her betrothed again. Oh, like bringing back memories, oh, that's cute got it wrong, it's okay. I I get a lot of things wrong, especially on this show.
Speaker 4:Anyways hey, so hey, let's. When do you have any plans for when she's going to be moved from queen consort? To what ancient term are you going to use then, after you're actually?
Speaker 3:Probably wife or my queen.
Speaker 4:So when's that? Do you have any idea?
Speaker 3:We don't know the date, but we're kind of narrowing it down as to possible location. Okay. Yeah, it won't be around here, alright, yeah, maybe, maybe, I don't know, we'll see. Yeah. Yeah, all right. Yeah, another thing, one more thing, and then we should do, we should do a fund this or that.
Speaker 4:Right.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but anyway. So one more thing. I wanted to bring up something for you to possibly make fun of me about DW. I got life insurance recently yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:Now you just need a life, so there it is.
Speaker 3:I don't know if it works here, but there we go all right. Um, uh, you know, yeah, I got. So, uh, I'm basically recording this now telling you this because that way, you know, I have life insurance. So if I happen to mysteriously disappear at any point, it's documented that I know what's happening. I, I know their plan.
Speaker 4:Yeah, just saying so we'll know that if something happens, we've got to look for a paycheck coming. Not for me, I'm not getting anything.
Speaker 3:No, you're not Damn right, you're not Alright, alright, so DW. Yeah. I think we've come to about that time, and that time is the this or that time. I don't know, dw. I don't know if you know what this or that is, but basically we're going to ask you Don't waste time with the explanation.
Speaker 4:We know what it is are you sure? Yeah, all right. So do you want me to go, or are? You gonna go or that? Then I'm ready. Are you just gonna do? You want me to do a few and you do a few, or how are we doing this?
Speaker 3:let's, let's do the. What do you call it? Roundsy twosy? No, that's not how it goes. The back forth thing, I don't know.
Speaker 4:Alright you going first no, go ahead okay, would you rather read the book or watch the movie?
Speaker 3:oh, depends on which one sincerely depends on which, like, like, if it was Stephen King's it, I'd rather read the book. Okay, because they take too much out. Like, if it was Stephen King's it, I'd rather read the book. Okay, because they take too much out. Um, but if it's Lord of the Rings, probably the movie, because I don't want to waste that much time on all those books. I'd much rather just get it all all done.
Speaker 4:Lord of the Rings is one of the few examples where I think the movie actually does take as long as it would take to read the book. Maybe.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's possible.
Speaker 4:They're long. That's the point I'm trying to make. Alright, go.
Speaker 3:Alright, DW. Bananas or apples. Bananas or apples.
Speaker 4:Bananas All right Beach or pool.
Speaker 3:Beach Most definitely the beach, all right Church or Costco.
Speaker 4:Usually every week after church, you can find me at Costco. Jeez. I'll go with church.
Speaker 3:Okay, wow, look at that. You're taking the safe way. You just scared somebody in your congregation or whatever is going to this right, right, all right um time travel to 1825 or 22, 25 1825 because I think my attitude I would fuck shit up back then like I would be, like sincerely I feel I could, I would be bigger than jesse james yeah yeah, all right. What? By bigger I mean fatter, not name wise all right, all right. Glasses or contact lessons glasses I, I'm not, I'm not asking. We know you wear glasses yeah I'm talking about preference.
Speaker 3:If, like, if you preferred contacts, but you're wearing glasses because of a certain thing, like you can't wear, like, see me, I'm supposed to wear glasses. I don't, but I would like to wear contacts, but I can't.
Speaker 4:You see what I'm saying I just I cannot wrap my head around the concept of putting a lens onto my eyeball. I don't know like. I don't think I would be ever ever be able to do that. So I I'm one of those people. I was talking with someone recently who was like oh, I've been wearing uh glasses for 30 years. I've had enough. I'm getting lasik, you know, or whatever. I've been wearing glasses too for quite a while. They just don't bother me to the point that I am seeking alternatives. I'm fine with them.
Speaker 3:You're going to go with glasses.
Speaker 4:Alright, would you rather Ghost Hunt with the Ghostbusters, or Scooby-Doo and the gang?
Speaker 3:Oh why? Why See, now this one has. This is messed up because, okay, you have obviously with Scooby and Shaggy, you know what we'd be doing, um, but I feel, I feel Venkman would probably light up some shit too. I'm going to go with Scooby-Doo, unfortunately. I mean, that was a toss-up, it was a tough one because I want to hang out with both of them equally. So I'm going to go with Scooby-Doo on that one. All right. Gw John Olsen or Swamp Thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, well, what context are we saying? Just like a road trip, or, you know, am I opening for swamp thing, or uh yes, you're opening for swamp thing yeah, it's swamp thing that that'd be. That'd be a cool uh thing. Yeah, it's swamp thing that that'd be. That'd be a cool uh. That'd be a great show like uh.
Speaker 3:I'd like to thank uh swamp thing for uh warming up the crowd uh, yeah that'd be a good show it would be a way better resume than worked with john. Also, I guarantee you that I feel. Yeah, all right for the last one, last one, last one.
Speaker 4:If we're grilling, do you want a burger or a brat?
Speaker 3:a brat. Okay, yeah, a brat. Um, I don't know. I like burgers, but when you're grilling it's it's never like that special burger. You know it's always a burger like cheese, and then you do yeah stuff on it, but a brat just throw some mustard on there.
Speaker 4:Uh, yeah, I think uh for for me depends on the brat, because we we've got a, got a meat place like literally blocks away from us. Ok, that has some awesome brats like flavors, awesome, awesome flavors and you can just you know those you just grill them, put some ketchup on them and they're delicious. You don't have to worry about fixing them up with anything. I mean I. You can have some really good brats.
Speaker 3:Question with that, since you brought it up have you ever had a gummy bear brat?
Speaker 4:Yes, they're good.
Speaker 3:It's not bad, right? It's good, it's sweet and savory, just like you would like whatever.
Speaker 4:Have you ever had a Kool-Aid brat? No. Grape Kool-aid brat. No grape kool-aid it's surprisingly good, yeah, yeah. So I'm assuming either soaked in it or they use the sugar whatever on it. I think they use the sugar thing, I'm not sure, but it tastes. You wouldn't think like, how is this brock gonna taste like kool-aid? It tastes like kool-aid.
Speaker 3:That's crazy that is nuts man, all right. Well, I don't know, um dw, like we should probably get out of here, but we should. I just you know, what'd you think of our, of our little japanese episode today?
Speaker 4:I don't know. I really I, I I keep saying it, but I really really want someone from Japan to contact us, tell me how far off we were on our pronunciations, tell us about ghost stories in Japan and tell us how in the world you came to listen to Scolarius Because we're awesome. That's why I really, really want to know.
Speaker 3:I also really want to know if our listeners in Japan want to hear my Mr Miyagi impersonation on the next episode.
Speaker 4:I can field that question for them. No, they do not want to hear it, are you sure? Yes, we should have you reach out and let us know If there's anyone out there who wants to hear that impression, I will pay you $10 because there is something wrong with you. Please contact us and seek help, because we do not need to hear that.
Speaker 3:So I don't know, they can just think can reach out, baby reach out, oh gosh I wish I could mute you, but I can only mute myself anyway, all right, man well, I'm glad you had a pretty decent time. What was your favorite story, do you think?
Speaker 4:I don't know the uh the, the. I I know it's dark, but I think, because it's true, the story of the uh the, the suicide forest yeah, you know not that I like it, not that it's good to talk about that, but uh, um, it is.
Speaker 3:It's interesting you know, I'm sorry, that's the only like all I heard from haunting things or whatever is I mean it has, though you know runs again. It has like, uh, you know evps and then you know like shadow people and figures and screaming and wailing and things like that. But the stories are so very small and that's exactly. I mean. What I'm telling you is basically in the story. It just goes through that it doesn't give like any details whatsoever on like how it was or anything like that. Like DW said, like I've been saying throughout this whole thing, if you know and you have stories and you're over there in Japan, let us know. We want to hear it. Yeah.
Speaker 3:And we would definitely have you on, just because it would be a whole lot of fun, all right, well, I guess you know what that means, dw, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah, what does that mean? You have to do it, I do. I'll have to do the thing. You know, you guys have been amazing. We'll see you next time.