1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 Find other great podcasts like this one at podmoth.network. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Hey there, my name is Bri. 3 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,000 And I'm Suze. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,680 We're the hosts of Crime and Spirits, a true crime and cocktail podcast. 5 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:20,480 Do you love spooky stories and all things true crime? 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,000 How about themed cocktails? 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:23,000 Do you love those too? 8 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,200 Well, that's perfect, because so do we. 9 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:29,900 Yeah, in fact, we love them so much we made an entire podcast all about it. 10 00:00:29,900 --> 00:00:33,840 Every week we bring you a new episode that covers a different case or topic of interest. 11 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,280 But first, we'll need drinks. 12 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,600 Don't you worry, we've got you covered there. 13 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,360 Every week we'll teach you how to make a handcrafted cocktail that ties into the theme 14 00:00:42,360 --> 00:00:43,960 or topic in some way. 15 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:49,440 So you can find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and pretty much every other platform available. 16 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,720 New episodes roll out every Sunday. 17 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:53,200 So buckle up and sip tight. 18 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:55,240 We can't wait to talk some true crime with you. 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:56,240 Bye. 20 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:24,840 Hey, everybody. 21 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:29,600 Welcome back to the long awaited return of the cryptic cocktail party show where we have 22 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:32,720 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive into the unknown. 23 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:38,720 My name is Dave and I am joined once again by the handsome bespectacled, bespectacled 24 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:39,720 quaffed hair. 25 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:41,840 Every time. 26 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:43,280 Take a speech therapy class. 27 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,520 It's not even a big word, bespectacled. 28 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:46,520 It's not a big word, but it is. 29 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:50,000 You just have to imagine you're a British man with a mustache and just say bespectacled. 30 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,760 Oh, I need my bespectacled so I can take a propaganda descript here. 31 00:01:55,760 --> 00:01:56,760 Yeah. 32 00:01:56,760 --> 00:02:00,680 But yeah, welcome back, everyone. 33 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:02,080 I know we were gone for a while. 34 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:07,800 I did Squawka Palooza and then I took a couple of weeks off to go home to New Hampshire slash 35 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,280 Maine so we didn't really get a chance to record anything. 36 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,720 But your patience has been rewarded. 37 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:18,360 Even though he was right down the street. 38 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:19,360 Dude, it was a dude. 39 00:02:19,360 --> 00:02:20,360 All right. 40 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:21,360 So all right. 41 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:23,600 So it wasn't really vacation. 42 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:30,120 I had to go to take care of my mother in law's dog while my wife and her mom went to Greece, 43 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,680 like a Mediterranean cruise. 44 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,360 And within the first week, we had the better time. 45 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,680 No, she actually had a fucking terrible time. 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,920 But the press got luck within within the first week of being there. 47 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:45,520 My dog shit straight blood. 48 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:47,280 And I don't mean just like blood in its poop. 49 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:49,080 I mean, like just like blood clots. 50 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,100 And so that was in the first week of being there. 51 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:54,120 And then my mother in law's credit card that was tied to her Internet account because she's 52 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,640 a recurring billing declined while I was there. 53 00:02:57,640 --> 00:02:59,920 So I didn't have Internet for like a week and a half. 54 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:02,520 And then and then like the hurricane came through. 55 00:03:02,520 --> 00:03:05,120 The power went out and it was all bad. 56 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,600 Dude, the last day I was there, I went out with Craig and Colby, got blackout and then 57 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:14,640 just had like a mental break and just sobbed for like three hours, like ugly cried in front 58 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:16,760 of Colby and Craig. 59 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:18,240 It was not a fun experience. 60 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,360 Man, but I'm glad to be back. 61 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,760 Let's talk about possibly imaginary things. 62 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:26,800 Well, how are you doing, bud? 63 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:28,720 I'm sure the people want to know. 64 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:29,720 I'm good. 65 00:03:29,720 --> 00:03:32,480 I held it down during the hurricane. 66 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,960 I can't believe you even lost power. 67 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:35,600 Well, dude, it's funny. 68 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,760 It wasn't when the hurricane came. 69 00:03:36,760 --> 00:03:38,000 It was like the week before. 70 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,440 It was like the week before when it was like windy and rainy. 71 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:42,440 Oh, yeah. 72 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,080 And like, no, that wind shattered one of my windows. 73 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,600 It was already cracked, but I was just sitting there on the couch and all of a sudden a piece 74 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:53,760 of glass just falls next to me like really, really happy. 75 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,000 I like to sit on the left side of the couch, not the right. 76 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,840 Oh, you're a left sider, too. 77 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:58,840 Oh, left side. 78 00:03:58,840 --> 00:03:59,960 I'm a left sider, too. 79 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,080 So it's whatever's not near the wall. 80 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:07,640 OK, so in my bed, I'm on my right because the left side goes up to the wall. 81 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,840 Oh, see, if a bed's against a wall, I'm a wall sleeper for sure. 82 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:12,920 OK, no, we differ in that. 83 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:14,720 No, the demons can't get you. 84 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:17,480 No, the demons can get you. 85 00:04:17,480 --> 00:04:20,360 They're coming in through the front door, like your bedroom door. 86 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,120 And now I'm closer to the bedroom door. 87 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,760 So you're so you're faster to get eaten. 88 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,200 I can get to my feet, start throwing fucking hands. 89 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:29,200 True. 90 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,120 I also meant personal demons, but you know, whatever. 91 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,040 Well, the personal demons have no. 92 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,880 There's no weaknesses except these bad boys. 93 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:38,880 Yeah. 94 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:39,880 All right, Luke. 95 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,720 I thought that I thought that drink would shake better. 96 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,320 So I'm going to consider this this episode the kickoff to season two. 97 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:50,840 In season two, I think we're going to do things a little bit bigger, probably do more multi 98 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:52,920 partners, I think, because I think the multi partners are good. 99 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:53,920 It's fun. 100 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:57,800 I enjoy doing them because apparently what we learned last time is that it leads to a 101 00:04:57,800 --> 00:04:59,000 lot of surprises. 102 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:04,280 And it's kind of but what is your rule? 103 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:08,920 Always read the full story before writing a script. 104 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,680 I'm fine with cryptids, but if it's conspiracy theory, we need to know ahead of time if we're 105 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:15,560 delving into the alt right territory. 106 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:16,560 Yeah. 107 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,920 If at any point it mentions anything that involves blood libel, I'll be sure to just 108 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,520 cut it off real quick and we won't even talk about it ever again. 109 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:25,520 All right, man. 110 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:32,080 Well, so yeah, so to kick off season two, I wanted to do a big one right out the bat. 111 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:33,920 And Luke, you don't know what we're going to talk about. 112 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:35,240 I do not. 113 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:36,240 OK. 114 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:40,400 Luke, on today's episode, I'm going to take you on a journey to a magical land, one filled 115 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,560 with adventure, wonder and excitement, where the smell of bronzer and stole and red bulls 116 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:49,560 fills the air like the smell of leaves on a cool, crisp bottom day. 117 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:53,920 We're going to the gym and doing laundry isn't so much a chore, but a way of life, a place 118 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,400 where you can buy a cannoli, a gun and cash a check all within a single block. 119 00:05:58,400 --> 00:05:59,400 A land where you don't have to. 120 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:00,400 You see the New Jersey Devil. 121 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,400 Let me finish this. 122 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,400 Hold on. 123 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:12,000 A land where you don't have to pay to get in, but you sure as shit got to pay to leave 124 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:17,840 this whimsical and dare I say beautiful place is known to many as the Garden State, but 125 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:20,360 to the rest of the world, it is known as New Jersey. 126 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:21,360 Dead dog states. 127 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,000 But we're not going to talk about New Jersey. 128 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,000 We're going to talk about the Pine Barrens and Luke. 129 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:29,000 Yeah. 130 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:30,000 All right. 131 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,400 We're going to be talking about the Jersey Devil, baby, but we're not going to talk about 132 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:34,680 the Jersey Devil sightings. 133 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,440 What I wanted to focus on today is more the origin story of the Jersey Devil because I 134 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,000 feel like a lot of people don't know it and I'll get into it in the script. 135 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:45,400 But yeah, we're going to talk about the Pine Barrens. 136 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:48,200 The Pine Barrens are simply the pines. 137 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,720 If you're like on a first name basis or whatever. 138 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:51,720 Yeah. 139 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,760 Real casual at the ends is one of the largest remaining Atlantic coastal pine barrens in 140 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,080 the northeast, along with the Long Island Central Pine Barrens and the Massachusetts 141 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,720 Coastal Pine Barrens. 142 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:05,960 Not going to lie, didn't realize Long Island was big enough to even hold the forest, but 143 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,040 I know nothing of New York. 144 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:13,960 So I just assumed it was all just like, have you ever been to the Pine Barrens in Jersey? 145 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,920 Yeah, I've driven through them. 146 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:16,920 Well, near him. 147 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:18,320 I'm not like I didn't go into them. 148 00:07:18,320 --> 00:07:19,960 Nick goes a lot. 149 00:07:19,960 --> 00:07:20,960 It's fucked. 150 00:07:20,960 --> 00:07:22,800 But so it's on. 151 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,360 I hiked the Appalachian Trail and some of that is through the Pine Barrens. 152 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:27,360 Yeah. 153 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:33,240 When you enter that, it can go from not a cloud in the sky, bright as day to nighttime. 154 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:34,600 I believe it. 155 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:36,840 It is obnoxiously dense. 156 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:39,120 And terrifying. 157 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:40,480 I thought it was metal as shit. 158 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,280 Well, yeah, I was stoked. 159 00:07:43,280 --> 00:07:46,760 So I can see where some lore might pop out of that. 160 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:47,760 Yeah. 161 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,440 So I always wanted to know why it was called the Pine Barrens, because to me, barrens means 162 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:52,880 barren. 163 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,440 So I looked into it and it gets the name Pine Barrens because, well, it can sustain pines, 164 00:07:57,440 --> 00:07:59,000 obviously, in other fauna lakes. 165 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:00,000 It's too dark. 166 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,200 Rare pygmy pitch pines, lady slippers. 167 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:08,360 And it is home to 850 different species of plants with 92 of those being threatened or 168 00:08:08,360 --> 00:08:10,000 endangered. 169 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:12,040 But it can't really grow much of anything else. 170 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,040 It's just like crops. 171 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,640 So when European settlers arrived, they realized they couldn't grow shit there because the 172 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,680 soil I found out is mostly sand and it's super acidic. 173 00:08:21,680 --> 00:08:25,320 So they dubbed it the Barrens because, well, it can grow stuff. 174 00:08:25,320 --> 00:08:27,920 It's not the soil that we would use to do crops. 175 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:29,760 So there's like, fuck it, this land is cursed. 176 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:30,760 It's the Barrens. 177 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,040 That's pretty much what it came down to. 178 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:37,960 But for what I gathered, it's a pretty beautiful area. 179 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:40,320 There are rivers and lakes and camping and trails. 180 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:42,680 Like you said, you hiked through it. 181 00:08:42,680 --> 00:08:45,080 But it's not to say it isn't without its dangers. 182 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,120 You see things lurk in these forests, Luke. 183 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:51,080 I saw the biggest rattlesnake I've ever seen in my life there. 184 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:52,080 Really? 185 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:53,080 Oh my God. 186 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:57,760 I've seen a lot of rattlesnakes and they usually just like, oh shit, okay. 187 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,120 This thing was massive. 188 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:00,840 I didn't know they could get that big. 189 00:09:00,840 --> 00:09:03,800 I didn't know that they were in New Jersey. 190 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,480 Dude, they're hiking their way up to Maine. 191 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:07,480 That's disgusting. 192 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,480 Climate change is fucking shit. 193 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:09,480 I hate that. 194 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:10,480 I don't like that. 195 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:12,280 Oh, we got black widows now too. 196 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:13,280 Cool. 197 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:16,400 Well, yeah, well, we need something to take care of the brown recluses that we have. 198 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,240 So maybe they'll battle it out for supremacy. 199 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:25,440 Oh, but yeah, but there are strange tales that have come out of the Jersey pine barrens 200 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:27,760 in like first centuries. 201 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,840 The ghost of Captain Kidd is said to haunt the barrens as well as the black dog, which 202 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:37,520 is like a demonic hell hound that's unnaturally large with yellow glowing eyes. 203 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,800 There's also something called the blue hole, which I guess has legends surrounding it. 204 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:46,080 It's like a bottomless pool of water that's like blue compared to the brown water that's 205 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:47,080 all around it. 206 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:48,080 I don't know. 207 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:55,360 I know it's fucking stupid, but but there's one thing above all of these that has terrified 208 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,200 locals and outsiders alike for nearly 300 years. 209 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:02,960 A beast said to be a product of hell itself, a nightmarish chimera with the head of a horse, 210 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:06,880 the cloven hooves of a goat, the leathery wings of a bat and the cry so haunting, it'll 211 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,520 send shivers down the spine of even the most hardened mountain men. 212 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:16,080 And as Luke already ruined it, that beast is known as the Jersey Devil. 213 00:10:16,080 --> 00:10:25,680 Now, the Jersey Devil is one of the most recognizable cryptids in the world. 214 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,720 Definitely top five alongside like Nessie, Bigfoot, Chupacabra and the Mothman. 215 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:30,720 You know what I mean? 216 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:32,680 Like he's got a hockey team named after him. 217 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:33,680 Yeah. 218 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:39,640 And there have been hundreds, if not thousands of sightings over the past 300 ish years, 219 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,880 some credible and some not so much. 220 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:47,920 But the situation say you saw it. 221 00:10:47,920 --> 00:10:48,920 Yeah, dude. 222 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:49,920 Everyone says they saw it, dude. 223 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,560 Like it's fucking. 224 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:55,240 Oh, I really wish I didn't make that up. 225 00:10:55,240 --> 00:10:59,440 I guess that would have been that would have been the best episode of Jersey Shore. 226 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,640 Dude, he just goes back to whatever boardwalk t shirt shop. 227 00:11:03,640 --> 00:11:05,520 He's like, God, you never fucking believed. 228 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:09,440 I fucking saw the Jersey Devil. 229 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:11,640 I got a tan from its red glowing eyes, dude. 230 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:12,640 It's like a fucking heat. 231 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:15,240 I can't seem to go though. 232 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,960 I got pink eye now, but that's not from the devil. 233 00:11:19,960 --> 00:11:22,200 That's from eating ass. 234 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:28,200 Well, one fun fact about the Jersey Devil is that it was designated the state's official 235 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:34,600 demon in 1938, which leads me to believe that there are other demons there. 236 00:11:34,600 --> 00:11:36,080 Or am I making that up? 237 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:37,080 I'm not. 238 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:38,720 You're not going to be able to see me for a second. 239 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,840 I'm going to go in the shit out of that. 240 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:48,280 Philadelphia actually had does say that the Jersey Devil is theirs, too. 241 00:11:48,280 --> 00:11:49,280 Really? 242 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,280 Yeah. 243 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:51,280 Shit. 244 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:52,280 I don't like that. 245 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:53,280 All right. 246 00:11:53,280 --> 00:11:56,560 So I know what I'm going to be a real bitch about at the next town hall meeting. 247 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:03,880 Like I said, while many people know the name, not many people know of this like fucked up 248 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:05,400 devil spawns origin story. 249 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:10,720 So I want you to think of this episode as the Jersey Devil version of like solo or X-Men 250 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,280 origins Wolverine, but better not cheers to Frazier. 251 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:16,280 Yes. 252 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,600 But just think of it not as a complete waste of time and energy. 253 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,280 Maybe this episode could suck and you could hate it. 254 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:22,280 I really don't know. 255 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:23,280 We'll see. 256 00:12:23,280 --> 00:12:25,080 But you want to dive into this thing? 257 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:26,360 Oh, fuck yeah, buddy. 258 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:27,360 All right. 259 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,560 So the Jersey Devil's origin story is a bit murky, just like with any folkloric beasts 260 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:36,240 throughout history, with different sources citing similar events, but with a few details 261 00:12:36,240 --> 00:12:40,840 changed and I'm going to do my best to go over all of them with you. 262 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,440 So let's start with probably the most popular version of the story. 263 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:44,840 This is the one I'm most familiar with. 264 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:46,760 I'm sure you're probably familiar with it, too. 265 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:48,940 And I'm sure those listening as well. 266 00:12:48,940 --> 00:12:54,240 And that story goes that in 1735, a resident of the Pine Barrens, a young woman known, 267 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,260 I say young, I don't really know how old she is, but a young woman. 268 00:12:57,260 --> 00:13:00,360 This was she's already. 269 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:01,880 She's old bullshit. 270 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:02,960 She's not old. 271 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:03,960 A lady. 272 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:04,960 Well, this is also 1735. 273 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:06,760 An old lady for the time. 274 00:13:06,760 --> 00:13:07,760 She's twenty seven. 275 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:08,760 She's twenty nine. 276 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:18,000 But this woman is known as Mother Leeds, who by now was already a mother of twelve. 277 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:23,320 She had found out that she was expecting her thirteenth child, which I got to say, that 278 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:27,680 is fucking too many kids. 279 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:31,640 Now it's important to note that Mother Leeds and her family, while being related to some 280 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:37,520 of the earliest settlers of New Jersey, they weren't really living like the lap of luxury. 281 00:13:37,520 --> 00:13:43,280 Her husband was a drunk with a weak work ethic and an even weaker pull out game. 282 00:13:43,280 --> 00:13:46,640 So really quick, I just Googled it. 283 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:51,200 Hopefully she started having kids at a respectable, like good age. 284 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:52,280 Probably not for the time. 285 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:58,000 But if you pumped him out one after another, got pregnant right after the baby came out, 286 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,040 that's nine and a half years to have 13 kids. 287 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,760 That's too many kids in too short amount of time. 288 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:08,560 So I'm hoping she's at least mid thirties. 289 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:13,760 But first of all, that just means that that's like half of those kids are still toddlers. 290 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:14,760 I hate that. 291 00:14:14,760 --> 00:14:17,880 Oh, no, that that that home must be a hellscape. 292 00:14:17,880 --> 00:14:19,840 Oh, it's a nightmare. 293 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:25,120 But so like I said, her husband was a drunk and he didn't do shit for them. 294 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:30,600 So when she found out that she was pregnant again, it's safe to say that she wasn't super 295 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,280 stoked on the idea. 296 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,600 So one source I used, which was weird, New Jersey, dot com said that she was, quote, 297 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:42,560 reaching the point of absolute, absolute exacerbation upon learning about learning upon her 13th 298 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:43,560 child. 299 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:44,800 And like, yeah, dude, I would be too. 300 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:46,160 That is too many fucking kids. 301 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,720 I get to that level when there's a kid screaming in a restaurant. 302 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:53,040 So like, yeah, that's your whole life times 13. 303 00:14:53,040 --> 00:14:57,320 It was it was at this point that she raised her arms and cursed the heaven shouting, let 304 00:14:57,320 --> 00:15:03,360 this one be a devil, essentially cursing her unborn child, her family and inadvertently 305 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:06,480 the Pine Barrens for centuries to come. 306 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:12,320 Now, only a few short months later, on a violently stormy night, Mother Leeds, at this point 307 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,800 completely forgetting that she may or may not have doomed this child with a hex, went 308 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:23,200 into labor, which is which in the early 70s must be fucking terrifying giving birth. 309 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,980 I can't imagine. 310 00:15:24,980 --> 00:15:30,760 You got to roll a nat 20 to get through that like every single time. 311 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,480 So with her husband and small child army hanging out in one room, Mother Leeds was in another 312 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,520 surrounded by some local midwives who were there to help deliver the baby. 313 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:44,720 Now, according to legend, the birth went without a hitch and Mother and Father Leeds were the 314 00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:47,600 proud parents of a bouncing, beautiful baby boy. 315 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:48,600 Were they proud, though? 316 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:49,600 I don't know. 317 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:50,600 I don't. 318 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:55,280 I think they seem more like remorseful parents. 319 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,280 Probably just indifferent. 320 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:58,120 Yeah, just dead inside already. 321 00:15:58,120 --> 00:15:59,120 Yeah. 322 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:00,120 She wasn't stoked to begin with. 323 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,960 She did curse this child. 324 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:02,960 Yeah. 325 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,720 No, I don't know much about giving birth, obviously, or a woman's anatomy, but I got 326 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:08,720 to assume. 327 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:10,120 I'll go ahead and say I'm an expert. 328 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:11,120 I'm a man. 329 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,120 I'm a white man with a microphone. 330 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:14,000 Let's get into it. 331 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,000 I got to assume that by kid 13, they just got to kind of like fall out of you at that 332 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:21,000 point, right? 333 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:25,080 Like you're I can't imagine you're doing much to get this fucking kid out. 334 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:27,280 100% sure it still sucks every time. 335 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:28,280 Oh, sure. 336 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:29,280 It doesn't feel good. 337 00:16:29,280 --> 00:16:31,440 But I mean, like you're you're you're a pro with it. 338 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:36,440 First of all, to have that many kids by that age in that time period, you have to be a 339 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:37,440 pro at it. 340 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:39,040 The midwives have to be a pro at it. 341 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:40,040 I guess. 342 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:41,040 I don't know. 343 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,640 But anyways, but but their joy or lack thereof of becoming a parent for the 13th time was 344 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:51,720 short lived because the forgotten curse mother leads placed upon her child all those months 345 00:16:51,720 --> 00:16:53,680 ago was now taking hold. 346 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:58,480 The once beautiful and healthy child was now transforming into a nightmarish hell spawn. 347 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,520 A demon made real basically. 348 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:06,600 So first the baby started toddler. 349 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:10,200 First the baby started growing at an incredibly rapid rate. 350 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:13,000 Talons ripped through and replaced its fingers. 351 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:14,320 Horn shot out of its head. 352 00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:20,120 Its back split open and leathery bat wings unfurled from within hair and feathers now 353 00:17:20,120 --> 00:17:23,680 covering all over the once human body. 354 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:28,920 And his eyes grew larger and is now terrifying and horrific head and became a began to glow 355 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:30,640 a bright and dreadful red. 356 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:37,640 It was then that the beast turned on its mother, just absolutely fucking shredding her to pieces. 357 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:42,200 And then once it was finished with her, it turns attention to the midwives flying at 358 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,800 them and just ripping them apart limb from limb, all while producing an unearthly and 359 00:17:46,800 --> 00:17:50,040 demonic scream from its gnarled and deformed face. 360 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:55,200 Now after making quick work of a group of terrified old women, it decided to need a 361 00:17:55,200 --> 00:17:59,480 bit of a challenge and it wanted to take on a more formidable opponent. 362 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:06,800 And that came in the form of a drunk and 12 terrified children. 363 00:18:06,800 --> 00:18:12,160 So it bust down the door to the next room where its father and siblings were and just 364 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:15,240 slaughtered as many of them as it could. 365 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:19,800 Those lucky enough to have survived the encounter just kind of watched on in horror as it mauled, 366 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,680 maimed and mutilated the rest of the family. 367 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:28,700 And then once it's lust for blood or whatever was satisfied, the Jersey Devil sprinted across 368 00:18:28,700 --> 00:18:33,660 the room, shot up the chimney like a fucked up Santa Claus, destroying it in the process 369 00:18:33,660 --> 00:18:37,560 and leaving behind just a pile of corpses and rubble. 370 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:42,400 And it escaped into the Pine Barrens, basically claiming the territory for himself. 371 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,560 Obviously, the Jersey Devil is said to still reside in the Pine Barrens to this day, terrorizing 372 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:51,320 anyone who has the misfortune of coming across it. 373 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:56,400 And yeah, and that's that's one of the origin stories of the Jersey Devil, aka the Leeds 374 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:57,940 Devil. 375 00:18:57,940 --> 00:18:58,940 How you feeling, Luke? 376 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:02,080 I mean, at least it's not like an Oedipus complex. 377 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:06,280 Like, yeah, he killed his dad, but at least like he just killed his mom, too. 378 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:07,440 Didn't give her number 14. 379 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:08,440 True. 380 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:09,440 Yeah. 381 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:18,280 That took you a second. 382 00:19:18,280 --> 00:19:21,040 Oh, that bummed me out. 383 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:24,920 Yeah, so I said didn't I know I know. 384 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,240 But then I in my head, I pictured it like a split second and it was all like a weird 385 00:19:29,240 --> 00:19:32,280 fan art, Deviant Art thing in my head going for a second. 386 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:33,280 Like I, I yeah. 387 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,840 So yeah, so is that exists? 388 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:37,360 Is that the story that you're familiar with? 389 00:19:37,360 --> 00:19:39,360 I mean, that's what I was familiar with. 390 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:40,720 Oh, I don't remember. 391 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:46,920 I'm not familiar with him killing the kids, too. 392 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:48,080 Yeah. 393 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:51,080 I've heard the one where he just fucks up his mom and then bails. 394 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,080 Yeah. 395 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:56,080 So like I said, that was that's just one of the origin stories, or at least like the most 396 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:57,840 like metal and awesome version of it. 397 00:19:57,840 --> 00:19:59,800 Like I said, there's a few variations of it. 398 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:05,640 One version is realistically at this point right now, the only credible witnesses are 399 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:06,640 toddlers. 400 00:20:06,640 --> 00:20:07,640 Yeah. 401 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:08,640 Well, I was dead. 402 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,640 Mom's dead. 403 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:10,640 Midwives dead. 404 00:20:10,640 --> 00:20:15,480 Well, I assume that anyone who lived would have been above the age of seven. 405 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,480 I feel like the older kids would have. 406 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:24,840 So technically with my math, about 10 years old is the minimum for a surviving child. 407 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,680 Yeah, it would have to be. 408 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:31,040 Which until you're 18, I don't believe a word that comes out of your mouth. 409 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:33,040 And that's actually a lie. 410 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,640 Twenty four. 411 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:41,160 One version states that instead of it instantly turning and killing its mother once it transformed, 412 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,720 once it was born and transformed, mother leads kept it inside and hidden from the outside 413 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:50,520 world before one day the devil snapped and then killed her before taking off into the 414 00:20:50,520 --> 00:20:52,240 pines. 415 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,760 Another one is pretty much the same. 416 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:58,920 Instead of transforming, she just birthed like a full on Jersey devil, like fully grown 417 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,520 with horns and wings and shit. 418 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,720 Just fucking right out of there. 419 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:07,360 Oh, dad's not getting sloppy toppy for at least a couple of months. 420 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:08,360 Nothing. 421 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:12,480 Just shut down down there, bud. 422 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:17,200 Another road closed for maintenance. 423 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,760 Another version that I couldn't find the full story of claims that mother leads was a witch 424 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:26,320 and that the father of the child was just Satan himself, which is pretty fucking cool. 425 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:31,840 The last variation of the story and arguably the saddest of them is one of the young woman 426 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:35,720 from Leeds Point, New Jersey, who fell in love with a British soldier. 427 00:21:35,720 --> 00:21:39,480 And since this was like right around the time of the Revolutionary War, the townsfolk didn't 428 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,120 really take too kindly to their affair and cursed the girl. 429 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:47,260 And when she got pregnant, she then birthed the soldier's child, which was the Jersey 430 00:21:47,260 --> 00:21:48,720 devil, which is kind of sad. 431 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:55,440 Do you think when they hooked up, it was called the tea bag party? 432 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:58,320 We're full grown men in our thirties. 433 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:02,080 Well, yeah, so so there you have it. 434 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,640 The Jersey Devil's many origin stories. 435 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:05,640 Hope you all enjoyed it. 436 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:09,840 I think what I want to do is next week I want to go over some of the sightings and then 437 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,120 also I want to go into some of the theories about who mother leads is, because there's 438 00:22:13,120 --> 00:22:16,280 a few theories about who she was because no one really knows. 439 00:22:16,280 --> 00:22:19,480 There are some that are pretty credible, and there's the one where she says she's a witch. 440 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:22,780 I don't fucking know about that, but we can do that next week if you want. 441 00:22:22,780 --> 00:22:24,080 You can't be a witch back then. 442 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:25,640 I mean, you could. 443 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,680 Rumors hasn't come out yet. 444 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:28,680 Ah, good. 445 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:33,160 Fleetwood Mac is still centuries away. 446 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:34,160 That's when it starts. 447 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:35,160 Yes. 448 00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:36,160 Yes. 449 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720 Stevie Nicks really brought witchcraft to the forefront of American society. 450 00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,680 Oh, shit. 451 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:42,680 All right, Luke. 452 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,080 Well, Jersey Devil, what do you think? 453 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:47,000 Are you a believer? 454 00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:48,640 You are a believer in the Jersey Devil? 455 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:49,960 Something's got to be fucked up there. 456 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:55,040 After hearing this story, you're going to be like, yeah, no, this tracks. 457 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:56,280 Yeah. 458 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:57,280 Have you seen Childbirth? 459 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,280 It's awful. 460 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:02,280 Like, I can't imagine in all of recorded history one time it just wasn't worse. 461 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,440 I feel like this is just a cautionary tale that got taken, like, way out of hand. 462 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:07,440 What's the cautionary tale? 463 00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,000 Be better at pulling out? 464 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:10,000 Yeah. 465 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:12,240 Or like, I don't know. 466 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:13,240 OK. 467 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:16,840 They had little Dickie doing the Trojan ads a couple of years ago. 468 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:22,280 I guess that's our modern day version. 469 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,240 But no, you've hiked through there. 470 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:29,240 Listen, I don't talk about it a lot, but I saw some weird shit on the Appalachian Trail 471 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:33,400 that I can't explain. 472 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,840 So and most of it was right around there. 473 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:37,840 Really? 474 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:38,840 You want me to tell the story? 475 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:39,840 Kind of, yeah. 476 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:40,840 All right. 477 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,080 So I'm not in New Jersey. 478 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:44,680 I just crossed over the state line. 479 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:48,000 Through New York now? 480 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,000 So yeah, I was in New York right over the New Jersey line. 481 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:52,000 Yeah. 482 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,000 And I'm completely alone. 483 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,960 So set up camp on like the one flat spot that I can find. 484 00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:02,320 And I keep hearing footsteps directly outside my tent. 485 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:05,080 So my tent at that point didn't have the fly on it. 486 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,880 So I can if I get up and look, I can see around. 487 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:09,880 It's just mesh. 488 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,240 Yeah. 489 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:15,280 So I'm like, OK, that's super not chill. 490 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,280 Well, were you were you alone? 491 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:17,880 Because you don't hike it alone, right? 492 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:18,880 You got to be. 493 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:19,880 I'm sure there's a guy party. 494 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,800 No, at this point, I was alone. 495 00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:22,800 OK. 496 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:28,960 Like no one could be seen for as far as I could see. 497 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,800 Yeah. 498 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,400 So this technically wasn't Pine Barren, but I could see the dark spots that still would 499 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,040 have constituted as a Pine Barren. 500 00:24:39,040 --> 00:24:40,040 Yeah. 501 00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:42,480 I keep hearing that all night. 502 00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:44,720 So the sky goes dark. 503 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:49,760 So I end up putting my tent fly on, which I can pretty much do from just right in front 504 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:50,760 of my tent. 505 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:51,760 Yeah. 506 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,760 The way my tent set up and I wasn't too worried about it like really raining. 507 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:56,920 And if it really rained, I'd get out. 508 00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,520 I'd fix it, which is an important detail. 509 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,640 I didn't really walk around my tent to fix it up. 510 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,400 So I I'm up the whole fucking night hearing random sounds. 511 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,320 And at this point, I'm over 1500 miles through the wilderness. 512 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:13,560 Yeah, I know what it sounds like. 513 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:18,120 And I keep hearing stuff that just sounds like it's right next to my tent. 514 00:25:18,120 --> 00:25:24,440 I keep poking my head out and flashing my flashlight around and nothing. 515 00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:28,400 One sleepless night later, the sun comes up. 516 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,840 I get out of my tent and I look and there's footprints that it just looked like they were 517 00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,120 circling my tent. 518 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:35,600 Oh, God, dude. 519 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,600 Over and over. 520 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,760 And I was like, I didn't walk around this site that much. 521 00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:42,200 I put my foot down to where it was. 522 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:43,680 It was bigger than mine. 523 00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:44,680 I don't like that. 524 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:45,680 I don't like that one bit. 525 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:46,680 That was not my feets. 526 00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,680 Dude, I hiked so fast. 527 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,600 Yeah, dude, I would have broken down. 528 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,600 I would have left my shit. 529 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:53,600 I didn't know. 530 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,600 I didn't eat breakfast. 531 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,600 I didn't have anything. 532 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,800 I just fucking shoved my tent in my bag and booked it out. 533 00:25:58,800 --> 00:25:59,800 Yeah, dude. 534 00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:00,800 Fuck that. 535 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:02,200 But it wasn't cloven. 536 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:03,200 So that means it wasn't. 537 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,200 It was not cloven. 538 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,200 So that's good. 539 00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,520 But what if it's like like canthrope rules where? 540 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,560 Oh, maybe. 541 00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:12,600 Nighttime devil. 542 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:17,720 Or what if it was the ghost of what was it? 543 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:18,720 Captain Fast? 544 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,720 Captain Kid or whatever. 545 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:20,720 That dude was the man. 546 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:25,760 Oh, wait, no, the ghost Christmas present was the man. 547 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:27,360 The ghost of Christmas past gave me nightmares. 548 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:30,360 Yeah, he was a terrifying motherfucker. 549 00:26:30,360 --> 00:26:32,160 It was also the future one, wasn't it? 550 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:33,520 The one that was like basically deaf. 551 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,200 No, he's just yeah, whatever Grim Reaper. 552 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,040 And I'm talking about the real Dickens with the Muppets. 553 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:45,680 I thought you were going to say Scrooged with Bill Murray. 554 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:47,560 The second best retelling. 555 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:48,560 That's fair enough. 556 00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:50,000 A Muppets Christmas Carol. 557 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:54,160 And then the ghost of Christmas past, that little redhead chick. 558 00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,800 Yeah, they're terrifying. 559 00:26:58,800 --> 00:27:02,360 And then right after her, you get the biggest bro on earth. 560 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:05,320 The bit is like, let's get drunk and eat food. 561 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,200 And it was like this dude rocks. 562 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:08,200 All right. 563 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,640 So thank you very much for ever listening, everyone. 564 00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,320 Luke, don't ever go camping alone by yourself again, or else you will get eaten by a monster. 565 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:17,320 I know you will. 566 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,320 You'll do it. 567 00:27:18,320 --> 00:27:19,320 What kind of eating? 568 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:20,320 What? 569 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,320 Huh? 570 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,320 I said what kind of eating? 571 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,080 You're going to get eaten. 572 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:25,080 Like from behind? 573 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:26,080 God damn it. 574 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:30,080 I love jokes that take you a second. 575 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,080 All right. 576 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:35,880 Well, before we sign off, I just want to share one quick thing. 577 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:41,240 My buddy, John Manning, AKA Ging, he just had a massive brain bleed. 578 00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:49,360 He had an aneurysm basically, and he's now in the ICU at Mass General. 579 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:54,060 His family set up a GoFundMe to help with some of his medical needs. 580 00:27:54,060 --> 00:27:58,840 So if you want, I'm going to put the episode, the GoFundMe link in the episode description. 581 00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,040 It'll also be in our Instagram, so if you just want to go and donate, they're about 582 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,680 halfway to their goal. 583 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:03,680 The goal is 10,000. 584 00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:04,680 They're at 530. 585 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,680 They're at 5.5300. 586 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,080 Jesus Christ, why can I not talk? 587 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,720 So yeah, it's almost like you set up a podcast about drinking. 588 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:14,720 I know, dude. 589 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:15,720 All right. 590 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:20,240 But yeah, just it's it's been pretty hard for them. 591 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:23,360 So if you want, just head to the link in the episode description. 592 00:28:23,360 --> 00:28:24,840 Also head to the link in our Instagram profile. 593 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,160 And if you want to just donate a buck or two, that'd be really cool. 594 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,080 Like I said, they're about halfway to their goal. 595 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:31,360 So yeah, I'll put that in there. 596 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:37,600 Luke, there's also going to be another link, just kofi.com slash Luke, just to buy me a 597 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,480 I just want like a really good sandwich from this one place. 598 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,040 Yeah, it's it's like forty dollars. 599 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,760 So instead of that one, if you could just put it in to the other one. 600 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:48,760 No, don't do that. 601 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:51,620 I'd be really mad. 602 00:28:51,620 --> 00:28:57,400 All the proceeds from Luke's sandwich fund will also go to helping out gang in his time 603 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:58,920 everything that goes into my sandwich fund. 604 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,720 I will double and go into the other one. 605 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:02,720 All right. 606 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:03,720 Well, thanks. 607 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,720 The link is a four oh four. 608 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:09,320 Thanks for everyone. 609 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:13,360 Make sure you follow us on Instagram and Crypto Cocktail. 610 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:16,320 Follow us on Twitter, X Twitter. 611 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,180 What is it now? 612 00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:19,520 It's always going to be Twitter. 613 00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:24,840 I don't care at all about fucking muskies, little goddamn fetish for X. 614 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:25,840 Yeah. 615 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:30,920 Follow us on Twitter at Crypto Cocktail, Tick Tock, Crypto Cocktail Party. 616 00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:33,240 With that, I don't think I got anything else to plug. 617 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:39,200 You can follow Luke on Instagram at Spring Heeled Luke and I think the wicked folk and 618 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:40,360 the wicked folk. 619 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:41,520 So to go do that. 620 00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,520 And with that, Luke, do you want to say bye to everyone? 621 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:52,920 Sorry.