ADR - Episode 520: A Curious Mind is a Terrible Curse

[00:00:00] Oh, hello and welcome to Al Dente Rigamortis. I'm Review Cultist.

[00:00:21] I'm Mikey, the East End's Fever.

[00:00:24] And I'm the Gamer in Yellow. And we're here to discuss those internet stories, most creepy

[00:00:28] and most pasta and be critically silly doing it.

[00:00:32] And tonight we have a curious mind is a terrible curse.

[00:00:37] So a little bit of a little bit of backdrop here. We were originally going to cover a story

[00:00:43] called Gurgles and Bugman.

[00:00:45] Because how could you not?

[00:00:47] Yeah, it was it was on that that ice. It was on that that definitive creepy pasta iceberg

[00:00:53] from a couple weeks ago that we mentioned.

[00:00:56] And I was like, yeah, no, we got to do this. Like it's called Gurgles and Bugman. I've never

[00:01:00] heard of it and it sounds like it's on that list. So it's like, I want to check it out.

[00:01:05] And then I discovered like right before I was about to like send this to the guys, like

[00:01:10] the first sentence is like of Gurgles and Bugman is like after my last experience.

[00:01:15] And though my last experience part is a hyperlink to the to a part one on Reddit

[00:01:22] No sleep.

[00:01:24] For from the author won't think straight.

[00:01:27] And apparently this is just a heat.

[00:01:30] They've done a series of stories based on like past experiences with weird shit

[00:01:39] with weird and spooky shit that they've experienced.

[00:01:41] And then now they're posting it on Reddit.

[00:01:43] So I figured like, I mean, we can't just start on the second part.

[00:01:48] We've done that before. We've made that mistake before.

[00:01:52] So I was able to course correct

[00:01:56] and and and have us do the part one of of won't think straights

[00:02:02] series of stories that they've posted on the Reddit No sleep.

[00:02:05] So that is why we are covering a curious mind as a terrible curse.

[00:02:10] And like I just said, like three times,

[00:02:13] it's written by won't think straight on Reddit No sleep,

[00:02:17] which is where you can find it.

[00:02:18] I believe you may be able to also find it or at least Gurgles and Bugman.

[00:02:22] And so that on Crepasta wiki.

[00:02:25] So but without further ado,

[00:02:29] let's go into the initial recommendations.

[00:02:32] I'm going to recommend this one, actually.

[00:02:35] I am also going to recommend this one.

[00:02:39] Ditto. I'll also recommend.

[00:02:42] Wow. Interesting.

[00:02:44] I wasn't sure what you got, how you guys were going to react to this one.

[00:02:49] I never do it's just like it's like

[00:02:51] because like stuff that I like you guys don't care for.

[00:02:53] And then like stuff that I really get invested in, you guys like.

[00:02:57] So it's like it's really hard for me to tell sometimes.

[00:02:59] Yeah, for well, now that we've gone on to recommendations,

[00:03:02] let's continue on with the rundown featuring Nair.

[00:03:08] Our favorite because yeah, Nair ator

[00:03:12] because we never get a name.

[00:03:15] So Nair is posting this as they are looking for help,

[00:03:19] figuring out what exactly they've encountered.

[00:03:22] You see, for their whole life,

[00:03:25] they have been terribly curious,

[00:03:28] wanting to believe and see something actually supernatural.

[00:03:32] But every time something has come up,

[00:03:35] they have been able, they have been able to

[00:03:38] eventually rationalize it.

[00:03:42] In a way that is mundane in a word,

[00:03:45] taking our jerbs like before the story even starts taking.

[00:03:50] Yeah, pretty much by mundanifying all their all their stories and such.

[00:03:55] You often do. Yes.

[00:03:57] However, that has changed recently

[00:04:00] when they went on a vacation to hike around and camp in Vietnam with friends.

[00:04:07] I'll address that more in as the show goes on.

[00:04:11] I get yeah, I guess they had campmates.

[00:04:15] At least two. At least two on this trip.

[00:04:20] So while they're at a stopoff along a coastal hiking trail one night,

[00:04:24] nature calls and Nair goes to the campsites outdoor bathroom stalls.

[00:04:31] But not before seeing a strange old man constantly looking away from him,

[00:04:36] no matter where directionally he was to Nair.

[00:04:40] That wasn't the strangest thing about this old man, though.

[00:04:44] Nair realized that the man had no shadow

[00:04:47] as he stood in the spotlight of the singular lamp post by the stalls.

[00:04:55] As Nair is figuring out what's going on,

[00:04:58] the strange man appears right in front of the stall door

[00:05:02] where Nair is currently doing his business

[00:05:06] and is confirmed to absolutely have no shadow.

[00:05:13] Freaking out a little bit worried,

[00:05:15] like freaking out what the heck this is all about

[00:05:17] and why this person is right at their door and such.

[00:05:19] Nair decides to kick open the door

[00:05:21] only to find that the man has teleported behind him in the stall at this point.

[00:05:27] Nair freaks out at that and runs back to the sleeping area

[00:05:32] but does not sleep at all that night.

[00:05:37] His friends, whom he's been on this trip with,

[00:05:41] are concerned but Nair strikes it off

[00:05:44] till the last day of the trip when he can't help himself

[00:05:49] and decides to ask the guide about the encounter.

[00:05:53] He just has to know what the heck that was all about.

[00:05:57] The guide becomes quite serious and asks if Nair saw the man's face.

[00:06:02] For if he did, he will likely die shortly after.

[00:06:07] Apparently it's like a folk tale or superstitious kind of thing in in those parts.

[00:06:14] Nair can't recall if he actually saw the face of the man

[00:06:17] and now is fearful something bad is going to happen to him

[00:06:22] all because he was too damn curious.

[00:06:25] As he says, a curious mind is a terrible curse.

[00:06:29] Fid.

[00:06:30] So yeah, that was a curious mind is a terrible curse in a nutshell

[00:06:35] and I suppose we'll move on to everyone.

[00:06:39] Tolerance of Grandma andquisitions at this point.

[00:06:43] I've got a number of them, so I'll start with this one here.

[00:06:50] The childhood wonder and possibilities dissolves quickly

[00:06:53] into the reality of serious jobs and mortgages.

[00:06:58] I feel like it should be the childhood wonder and possibilities dissolve.

[00:07:05] Yeah, not dissolves because the the possibilities is already like plural,

[00:07:09] so you don't need that.

[00:07:11] The the S at the end of dissolve.

[00:07:16] And my next one here.

[00:07:19] It was without question, the oldest house in the street.

[00:07:23] Which was how we could afford to live it.

[00:07:26] I think here it actually should be it was without question that the old

[00:07:31] it was without question, the oldest house on the street.

[00:07:34] Because generally when you're talking about like a house or like,

[00:07:37] oh yeah, it's that the third house on the block,

[00:07:39] like on the on the street or on the block kind of thing,

[00:07:43] not in the street, in the street would be like it's in.

[00:07:45] It's it's it's actually like in the middle of the street is usually

[00:07:49] when you actually hit with your car driving down exactly.

[00:07:52] Yeah, it's like, oh no, those kids are in the street.

[00:07:55] Yeah, the kids on the street.

[00:07:57] That's that also sounds like they're on the street.

[00:08:01] Yes, yes.

[00:08:02] But it also when you say like the kids are on the street or the kids on the street,

[00:08:05] that also could not that could also refer to them being like kids of the street

[00:08:11] like on the sidewalk. Yeah, like there. Yeah.

[00:08:14] It's it's amazing the difference between like in and on sometimes.

[00:08:22] But my next one here.

[00:08:25] There was some constant the scratching noises above my bedroom,

[00:08:30] above my bedroom at night, but it turned out to be just pigeons roosting in the ceiling.

[00:08:36] So I feel like removing the between constant and scratching.

[00:08:40] So it's like there was some constant scratching noises above my bedroom at night.

[00:08:45] I also would actually clean up this, this sentence a little bit more

[00:08:48] and like we kind of reconfigured a bit to be like this.

[00:08:52] There had been a constant scratching noise above my bedroom.

[00:08:59] I mean, yeah, either works.

[00:09:01] Yeah, just like as I was like, I guess maybe this might be better,

[00:09:05] but like also giving the simpler action or just like removing that the.

[00:09:13] The next thing I have here.

[00:09:16] As I seem to always survive each attack, though,

[00:09:19] I though I was just going crazy.

[00:09:23] So I think it's like I thought I was just going crazy.

[00:09:26] They're just missing that though is just missing a T to make it thought.

[00:09:31] So the next one I have.

[00:09:37] But I can found no explanation for what's happening

[00:09:41] or what's happened to me recently.

[00:09:44] It's got to be but I can find no explanation.

[00:09:50] But it's past tense, so it should be passed.

[00:09:53] No, but he's talking now in the present tense about a past event.

[00:09:57] It actually works.

[00:09:58] It's yeah, I know.

[00:09:59] Give me a hard time, Mr.

[00:10:01] Mr. Tense talk.

[00:10:02] Yeah. Mr. Tense talkman.

[00:10:09] I'll move on to the next one I have.

[00:10:12] He was there that dreaded white haired and bony body

[00:10:16] standing where I was mere seconds ago.

[00:10:20] So I feel like it should actually have like old man in there.

[00:10:24] So it's like he was there that dreaded white haired

[00:10:27] and bony bodied old man standing there.

[00:10:31] In what sort of be I know, but just like the way

[00:10:34] the way it says like that dreaded white haired and bony body

[00:10:37] is like bony body, bony body.

[00:10:41] What I guess I guess it does make sense.

[00:10:43] It's just like it was weird that like I was expecting it to

[00:10:46] like those to be descriptions and then get the subject of those descriptions

[00:10:50] still in the sentence and then it just didn't give me that.

[00:10:54] It is though.

[00:10:54] He starts with he was there that dreaded

[00:10:57] I heard bony body standing there.

[00:11:00] Yeah, and I guess like reading it aloud,

[00:11:03] like I did kind of get that, but I still think that it should have like old man.

[00:11:09] Old man.

[00:11:11] It might actually feel better if the last commas in ellipses

[00:11:14] because it'd be like that dreaded white bot that dreaded white haired

[00:11:19] white haired bony body than ellipses standing where I was a second.

[00:11:23] Few seconds ago, just because it gives more of a pause to it.

[00:11:26] Yeah, which might also work better.

[00:11:29] And maybe.

[00:11:34] But I'll move on to the next thing I have.

[00:11:36] Actually, this is the second last one I have.

[00:11:41] When morning finally broke, my camp mates lazily woke

[00:11:45] and wondering why I looked like death itself.

[00:11:49] So campmates should probably be a compound word.

[00:11:52] So like the two words are combined.

[00:11:56] Also, campmates really should bring them up a little bit sooner than now,

[00:12:00] because like there's a whole I got to think of my actual thoughts

[00:12:03] that I'm going to probably reference where it's like.

[00:12:05] It's like this is like the first time we actually find out that like

[00:12:08] because he mentions that we were on a vacation,

[00:12:11] but like at no point does he describe.

[00:12:14] Yes, then like who's with him also?

[00:12:17] Like so it could have been like a friend, like a girlfriend, a boyfriend,

[00:12:21] like whatever, like cousin or whatever.

[00:12:23] But it wasn't until like this part, the end of the story

[00:12:26] that we find out that he has campmates that are concerned about him.

[00:12:30] I mean, granted, they didn't have any connection to the story at all.

[00:12:36] No, but we didn't have to know about them.

[00:12:38] I we don't.

[00:12:40] But we also do because at the beginning he starts talking

[00:12:43] a wee like on the trip and stuff like who the fuck is we?

[00:12:45] Are you doing like the royal wee or do you have a friend that you just

[00:12:50] haven't mentioned at all?

[00:12:51] Yeah, I'm not fighting you on this because I like

[00:12:54] we have a note saying the same thing where it's like.

[00:12:58] We don't have a clear visual of him like exploring

[00:13:03] like Vietnam and stuff because all we know is him, him and someone else.

[00:13:08] One, two, three, 40.

[00:13:10] I don't know. Yeah, we have no idea.

[00:13:11] Exactly. Like and like we don't even get it just like I'm not looking for a lot.

[00:13:15] I just want like some sentences that kind of like clarify that like

[00:13:18] because then then he references that there was a tour guide.

[00:13:22] I was like, OK, we didn't get any information about this trip.

[00:13:26] Yeah, as soon as he dropped the first wee,

[00:13:29] I imagined it would be at least a tour guide.

[00:13:33] Exactly. Yeah.

[00:13:34] Like at least him and the tour guide going through.

[00:13:36] But yeah, there might be more sounds, but there is.

[00:13:40] Yeah. So yeah, that's all I'm that's all I was kind of saying about that.

[00:13:44] It's like this is so like like adding adding some like extra bits

[00:13:47] at the beginning a little sooner might help with the clarity about like when suddenly

[00:13:51] like suddenly there's camp mates and all that explains why he was talking

[00:13:55] with the royal wee earlier.

[00:13:56] It wasn't actually the royal wee.

[00:13:57] It was him and some friends.

[00:13:59] Yeah. And the camp mates is that like the end of the story?

[00:14:02] Exactly. Yeah.

[00:14:03] The entire entire life of the story to actually get somewhat of a visual

[00:14:07] like better late than never, I guess. But yeah.

[00:14:10] Yeah. And also with regards to the story,

[00:14:15] the sentence that I quoted,

[00:14:17] lazily woke up and were wondering why I looked like death itself.

[00:14:21] Because early because in the actual story, it says lazily woke

[00:14:24] and wondering why I looked like death itself.

[00:14:31] So I just need I feel like it need that that were in between and and wondering.

[00:14:36] Mm hmm.

[00:14:38] And then my last quote and comment for grammar acquisition.

[00:14:44] When I finished my story, he when I finished my story,

[00:14:47] he only looked gravely at me gravely and asked just one question.

[00:14:54] They mostly come at night mostly.

[00:14:56] It's actually for me.

[00:14:58] Yeah, yeah, it says he only looked gravely at me gravely and asked.

[00:15:02] So like I was I spent a while like trying to look like look at the sentence.

[00:15:06] I was like, how do I fix this?

[00:15:07] It's like like he only looked at me gravely or he only looked gravely at me.

[00:15:12] And I was like thinking like dot dot dot gravely and asked.

[00:15:15] But I was like, no, just get rid of that gravely. You don't need that.

[00:15:17] Yeah. So it's like, yeah, it should only be he he looked.

[00:15:21] He looked gravely at me and asked. That's all you need.

[00:15:25] He did that.

[00:15:28] Don't want to get it for no reason.

[00:15:30] Yeah, exactly.

[00:15:32] But that is my grammar acquisition.

[00:15:34] So Mikey, these stands for evil.

[00:15:38] All right, let's see here.

[00:15:41] I have

[00:15:44] a conjunction junction.

[00:15:48] And next stop, conjunction junction.

[00:15:52] The next question.

[00:15:57] It was without question the oldest house in the street.

[00:16:01] Which was how we could afford to live in it.

[00:16:05] But it was always uneventful.

[00:16:09] It was then I noticed the window above the bed was slightly open.

[00:16:15] It was nothing more than the wind whispering through the cracks.

[00:16:21] But when it happened again and again, night after night, I started to panic.

[00:16:28] So everything paranormal that I've ever experienced was ultimately very rational.

[00:16:36] But I can found no explanation for what's happened to me recently.

[00:16:45] It was miles and miles of mostly untouched wilderness broken by the occasional village

[00:16:53] and some of the best pristine beaches in the world.

[00:16:58] It was in one particular stretch that we spent a full day soaking in the sun and surf

[00:17:05] the worries of the world a thousand miles away.

[00:17:10] It was to this glorious view of the heavens that I woke around three a.m.

[00:17:17] feeling the less glorious call of nature urging me to the nearest toilet.

[00:17:23] It was a humid night with the sound of insects chirping their nightly symphony.

[00:17:31] It was in a clearing with male toilets lined along one side of a 30 foot wide crude concrete floor

[00:17:42] facing another row of female toilets.

[00:17:46] It was definitely odd but certainly far from threatening.

[00:17:54] It was then I made the fatal mistake of looking at the stall I had just escaped from.

[00:18:02] It's been almost two months since that fateful encounter.

[00:18:07] It's a blur that still haunts me and I'm not sure I want to know.

[00:18:15] Finn. Wow.

[00:18:18] So it was pretty much a rundown, a paraphrasing of the story.

[00:18:26] But also the way I make it critically silly for me.

[00:18:32] I like to think that everything that he experienced, including the vast jungles and beaches

[00:18:38] and so it was all still in the house from the beginning.

[00:18:42] Because then no mentioned it.

[00:18:44] Suddenly we transition to suddenly he's hiking in the beaches and stuff like that.

[00:18:48] And he has to go to the washroom.

[00:18:50] So the washrooms of this house, it's very liminal space.

[00:18:53] It's very dream core.

[00:18:56] So he goes into the house and then he needs to use the bathroom.

[00:18:58] And then he has to trek through miles and miles of jungle to find the bathroom.

[00:19:05] But it's just toilet stalls out in a wilderness in quotes within the house.

[00:19:12] So we're to make it even more mundane.

[00:19:16] The start of the word is just describing his his bedroom and like the window

[00:19:21] that keeps getting blown open by the the wind every night and it's driving him insane.

[00:19:25] That's literally just where he's staying in the jungle.

[00:19:28] Yeah, that's also that you can find.

[00:19:30] We had to get out of the house to go to the bathroom outside.

[00:19:35] Yeah, it's like an RV.

[00:19:38] Or it's like a cottage or like when you're like when you're vacationing

[00:19:41] and stuff like that.

[00:19:41] And like, yeah, like it's like some of those like cabins that own that have

[00:19:44] like an outhouse outside.

[00:19:47] And then like the truly horrible thing was just experiencing that form

[00:19:50] of using the bathroom.

[00:19:52] Oh, God, what terrified him the entire time?

[00:19:55] Yeah. Yeah.

[00:19:56] Well, and his fatal mistake was looking at the stall that he had just escaped from.

[00:20:02] So he left one large two by.

[00:20:12] And it's been almost two months since that people encounter

[00:20:15] it's a blur.

[00:20:16] They're still haunts me.

[00:20:18] Yeah, it was it was a amorphous form in the bath in the toilet.

[00:20:24] Yeah.

[00:20:26] God.

[00:20:28] He was too close to the bathroom or too close to the toilet.

[00:20:35] No, that didn't happen.

[00:20:37] That was happens in our silly story that happens when

[00:20:40] Mikey grabs all the sentences throughout the story that start words

[00:20:43] that they probably shouldn't like it sends her butts because there's always

[00:20:45] better words to use.

[00:20:47] Indeed. All right.

[00:20:51] Gamer, do we have a grammar in yellow?

[00:20:52] Yeah, I got one left.

[00:20:55] My heart suddenly froze when I could distinctly hear the sound of snoring

[00:21:00] coming from my bed.

[00:21:01] I could hear the sound growing louder and louder.

[00:21:03] I stared at my bed but saw nothing more.

[00:21:06] Mustering what little courage I had.

[00:21:08] Mustering what little courage I had.

[00:21:10] I yelled out, hello, who is there?

[00:21:16] Welcome.

[00:21:19] So it says yelled, but like he obviously didn't yell it.

[00:21:24] No, yeah.

[00:21:26] Sorry if I jump scared anyone out there.

[00:21:28] Sorry, not sorry.

[00:21:29] But no, so yeah, he didn't yell it.

[00:21:31] He called it out really realistically.

[00:21:34] Yeah.

[00:21:35] I mean, if he wants to yell and wake up his whole house,

[00:21:38] that's fine, but there should be an exclamation point there.

[00:21:40] Yeah, yeah, I think I think call out would be better because that was like,

[00:21:43] hello, what's going on?

[00:21:45] Like you're not like shouting it like you did.

[00:21:51] But yeah, that's all I got left.

[00:21:53] OK, well, let's move on to actual thoughts then.

[00:21:57] I'm going to start with this one here.

[00:22:00] As day made way to twilight, we feasted on some amazing seafood

[00:22:05] we had caught earlier.

[00:22:07] We do you have a sparkly cold vampire hanging out with you that you don't want to name

[00:22:13] because, you know, it's a twilight in there in the quote.

[00:22:18] And you're really stretching to get the

[00:22:20] twilight reference I was.

[00:22:22] Yes.

[00:22:23] But how is he getting vampires out of this?

[00:22:27] But but seriously, though, like back back to what I said earlier is like,

[00:22:31] yeah, there definitely needs to be some like mention of like his camp mates

[00:22:34] and maybe the tour guide early on like can't stress that enough for me like that

[00:22:40] because it was really bugging me through the story.

[00:22:42] Yeah, it bugged me the entire time, too.

[00:22:45] Honestly, like that is one of the few reasons that I was like considering

[00:22:50] going to a partial, but I'm like, yeah, liked it though.

[00:22:53] So it's fine. Yeah.

[00:22:54] That honestly the same.

[00:22:55] Why are we on the same?

[00:22:56] We're on the same wavelength somehow again.

[00:23:00] It only took five years, but we're slowly getting secreticity.

[00:23:07] Might have been eight years.

[00:23:07] I don't know how long I don't know how long you've been on the show.

[00:23:10] I don't know.

[00:23:15] So the next thing I have here.

[00:23:17] He didn't seem to notice me.

[00:23:19] So I let him be and made my way to the nearest male stall.

[00:23:24] As I closed the door, I could still see him in my line of sight,

[00:23:28] though I was now 90 degrees from where I first saw him.

[00:23:32] He still had his back to me again.

[00:23:34] So for me, this is like, well, that's a red flag

[00:23:38] as I was reading the story.

[00:23:39] But I mean, like the old man could just be like trying to like awkwardly

[00:23:45] and politely like mind his own business.

[00:23:46] So just like he's actually just like moving just so that he doesn't

[00:23:50] like maybe because he's really shy or something like that.

[00:23:52] Like it could be a mundane explanation for this old man at this point.

[00:23:58] That said,

[00:24:01] I still like this this this this sort of setup

[00:24:05] for like a creepy encounter in a horror story just because like it is it is weird.

[00:24:11] Yeah, but it's definitely something that could be that's grounded in reality.

[00:24:14] That's like, but still also kind of like a creepy situation

[00:24:18] or just like a weird like the primer for a weird situation.

[00:24:23] But then we get this part, though,

[00:24:25] the old man was standing near a bright light.

[00:24:28] He didn't cast a shadow.

[00:24:30] I mean, that sometimes happens, right?

[00:24:34] Like if you're directly under a bright street light,

[00:24:37] you you won't cast a really like the shadow will be extremely like negligible.

[00:24:43] Though I suppose if there's positively no shadow under him,

[00:24:49] then perhaps that's ghostly activity.

[00:24:53] And then we get this.

[00:24:56] I mean, I'm going to let you finish.

[00:24:59] But he says like because he mentions that there's no shadow

[00:25:02] and he noticed that in the second that he saw him.

[00:25:06] Yeah, I'm assuming the light wasn't directly over top of him.

[00:25:10] That was to the side.

[00:25:11] So it would it would give a noticeable shadow if there was one.

[00:25:16] Unfortunately, Nair's graphic settings were set too low.

[00:25:20] So we turned shadows off to improve his FPS.

[00:25:23] Ah, yes. Yeah.

[00:25:23] That's that's the mundane.

[00:25:26] Yeah, he's actually in a VR game.

[00:25:29] Yeah. Tours of Vietnam.

[00:25:33] I was a VR game. Please continue.

[00:25:35] Probably. Yeah.

[00:25:37] But yeah, so yeah.

[00:25:38] And then we get like full on confirmation because like the possibility

[00:25:42] it could have been an optical illusion vanished when I suddenly saw

[00:25:45] the shadowless feet inches away through the gaps under the toilet door.

[00:25:50] OK, yeah. No, definitely supernatural there.

[00:25:52] Like there's if there's no shadow at all, regardless of direction.

[00:25:58] Like. Yeah, especially since with the feet

[00:26:02] with him being right inside the door,

[00:26:05] yeah, it would be an even steeper angle on the shadow.

[00:26:09] So we'd be like casting it basically to the edge of the door

[00:26:12] or it would be like the shadow would be coming through the gaps.

[00:26:15] Like like to basically like, yeah, it would be going into the shadows

[00:26:19] of the stall with with Nair.

[00:26:21] So yeah.

[00:26:24] Also, I really like how Nair attempts to rationalize every strange

[00:26:28] encounter or every strange instance.

[00:26:30] Like it helps keep this this grounded sense of level headedness

[00:26:34] that that Nair has throughout the story and like.

[00:26:38] Continues it on from like when he was a kid,

[00:26:40] like he was able to rationalize all the weird shit he'd experienced

[00:26:43] when he was a kid, like with the house and and like the the the window

[00:26:47] and all that kind of stuff.

[00:26:48] Or and by doing this, it makes the the stranger occurrences

[00:26:53] stand out when the explanation falls flat.

[00:26:56] Like no, this this rationalization doesn't work.

[00:26:59] Like I tried rationalizing this

[00:27:01] and then I was just given like straight up proof

[00:27:03] like of like something really weird and supernatural

[00:27:05] that I can't explain and it just like I can't explain this.

[00:27:12] But I'll move on to the next thing I have here.

[00:27:16] I was almost thankful I was squatting with my pants down

[00:27:20] since I emptied my bow simultaneously with my lungs emptying

[00:27:24] a scream through the other door through the other end.

[00:27:27] So Nair didn't need to bring the brown pants tonight.

[00:27:34] But I'll move on to the next thing.

[00:27:39] I realized I didn't have much of a choice but to escape this stall.

[00:27:44] This flimsy door would provide no protection for me.

[00:27:47] And there was certainly nothing left of my dignity.

[00:27:50] If I was to die, I decided it wouldn't be in this literal shithole.

[00:27:57] I mean, honestly, I'm not 100 percent sure

[00:28:01] on the customs with dealing with ghosts in Vietnam.

[00:28:05] But if this is a malevolent spirit or the like,

[00:28:08] I've I've heard in some places in Asia

[00:28:11] it is said it's said to scream.

[00:28:15] It said that screaming and shouting out profanities

[00:28:18] and appearing brazen and angry when in the presence of the supernatural

[00:28:23] is actually like really is a way to like kind of like protect yourself

[00:28:27] from them or like to keep them at bay.

[00:28:29] So so I guess it's like the same equivalent of like

[00:28:31] isn't the same way of like you deal with a bear?

[00:28:35] Kind of.

[00:28:36] Now think about it.

[00:28:37] I do not.

[00:28:38] I'm not at these sort of

[00:28:41] an auto on bear protection.

[00:28:42] But yeah, I think so.

[00:28:44] Yeah, well, when you're when you're doing when you when you're

[00:28:46] present with a bear, you want to appear as big and like angry as possible

[00:28:50] so that like they basically intimidation factor.

[00:28:52] And I've seen a lot of like Asian ghost hunters.

[00:28:58] I think primarily in Japan or China, it might be in like other other parts

[00:29:01] of Asia where they're exploring like haunted locations

[00:29:05] like office buildings or houses and stuff of that.

[00:29:07] And when they start seeing like weird shit or like they start hearing weird shit,

[00:29:12] they will just start like shouting out profanities at the ghosts.

[00:29:17] And like that's apparently like a custom.

[00:29:19] Yeah.

[00:29:20] It's like anybody out there who wants to like.

[00:29:24] Chime in about that.

[00:29:25] Like I'd be very curious because like I

[00:29:28] is that a thing that's that like you're supposed to do

[00:29:32] when you're when you're faced with like ghosts or hauntings in Asia?

[00:29:38] Um, but yeah.

[00:29:39] So like, yeah, so his his reaction here is like it actually

[00:29:43] you might it seems it seems to fit the the locale.

[00:29:47] Although he wasn't doing that on that for that reason.

[00:29:50] He was doing it because he was terrified.

[00:29:52] I mean, yeah, but he was inadvertently doing the thing

[00:29:55] that you were sometimes supposed to do.

[00:29:57] Yeah.

[00:30:00] But I'll move on to the next thing I have.

[00:30:02] Actually, this is the last thing I have.

[00:30:05] He explained that in Vietnam lonely ghosts often haunt sites

[00:30:09] where travelers can be found.

[00:30:12] Those who see their face are doomed to a grisly gruesome death

[00:30:16] in the near future.

[00:30:17] It's been almost two months since that faithful encounter.

[00:30:21] To this day, I still don't know if I really saw its face.

[00:30:25] It's a blur that still haunts me

[00:30:27] and I'm not sure I want to know.

[00:30:31] So Nair was pretty well spared,

[00:30:34] but potentially spared a gruesome, grisly death

[00:30:38] by his crippling case of really short term memory.

[00:30:43] Oh, yeah.

[00:30:45] It's like, it's like, I mean, maybe I saw it.

[00:30:49] I mean, I don't know.

[00:30:50] Like it's like something like because he had the memory

[00:30:53] of a goldfish in this one instance, it spared him.

[00:30:58] Or he literally didn't see it because yeah,

[00:31:00] visually when I saw the teleportation stuff happen,

[00:31:03] like the feet were there, he rushed out.

[00:31:06] And then when he looked behind him, it was in the toilet,

[00:31:09] but it was still like facing the toilet.

[00:31:11] Oh my God, I just realized this old ghost can't open doors.

[00:31:18] Oh, he just really had to go to the bathroom.

[00:31:21] That's the only reason he, yeah, like that.

[00:31:26] I just, yeah, like that's this is actually like,

[00:31:29] Nair's getting terrified of this ghost for no reason.

[00:31:32] This is completely like a,

[00:31:34] like the ghost was not malevolent or like terrified at all

[00:31:39] or terrifying at all.

[00:31:41] He just needed to do his own spectral business,

[00:31:43] but he can't open doors.

[00:31:46] Or maybe he died in one of those booths

[00:31:48] and is now like a ghost that's trapped

[00:31:52] to just wait outside the booth until a door opens

[00:31:55] to let him in.

[00:31:56] Yeah.

[00:31:57] God, you died on the shitter.

[00:31:58] That sucks.

[00:32:01] Also I'm guessing because like he probably just

[00:32:04] had really had to pee because that's how he'd be like,

[00:32:06] that's why he would be like,

[00:32:09] like he'd be facing the toilet

[00:32:11] rather than facing outward from the toilet.

[00:32:13] Yes.

[00:32:14] Yeah.

[00:32:16] But yeah, just realized that's like, wow.

[00:32:19] No, like this is all like a misunderstanding.

[00:32:21] The ghost actually probably like quietly like as Nair's

[00:32:24] running away, just like, thank you.

[00:32:28] Thank you.

[00:32:29] I really had to go home.

[00:32:32] Wow.

[00:32:33] I've been waiting in a tourney.

[00:32:37] Yeah, sorry.

[00:32:38] Yeah, I just realized that.

[00:32:39] Yeah, it's like, wow.

[00:32:40] Yeah.

[00:32:41] Also like, I just really do like this like little

[00:32:45] like creepy ghost story that the tour guide gives Nair

[00:32:49] at the end.

[00:32:50] Cause it's just such a, it's just such a like a,

[00:32:53] I say fun, but it's just a fun like local ghost story

[00:32:58] that like you'd expect to hear in like a rural place.

[00:33:02] Yeah, it seems on brand.

[00:33:04] Yeah.

[00:33:06] But yeah, that's my actual thoughts.

[00:33:09] So Mikey East is for evil.

[00:33:13] Hi, let's see here.

[00:33:15] So I sort of liked that he mundaneifies

[00:33:19] the stuff at the beginning.

[00:33:21] You can hurt her.

[00:33:23] Yeah.

[00:33:23] You're gonna have to run.

[00:33:26] Well, and I'm happy that it brings up sleep paralysis.

[00:33:29] So we don't have to.

[00:33:30] Yeah.

[00:33:31] Right?

[00:33:32] Aren't you gonna fight it though and say aliens?

[00:33:38] Well, it isn't Vietnam.

[00:33:39] They got aliens over there, right?

[00:33:41] They got aliens are pretty sure a global phenomena.

[00:33:46] Yeah.

[00:33:46] Probably.

[00:33:47] I think I'm just targeting the ghost of America.

[00:33:49] I'm pretty sure beings from another plant

[00:33:51] from outer space are a planetary thing.

[00:33:55] Yeah.

[00:33:56] Yeah.

[00:34:02] So the, and then I like that we get sort of a ghostly figure

[00:34:09] at the end of the campsite.

[00:34:14] Now I, there is the problem that there's not enough detail

[00:34:20] as we've established.

[00:34:22] Like we don't find out that he has camp mates

[00:34:25] until pretty much after all these stuff has happened.

[00:34:30] Yeah, when the story's over.

[00:34:31] Yeah.

[00:34:32] Then we find, oh yeah, by the way I was hanging,

[00:34:33] I was like with the, like I feel like,

[00:34:35] I feel like really it's an instance of just like

[00:34:37] the author when they were writing it,

[00:34:39] just forgot to add, like they had meant to add it.

[00:34:41] Like add like something at the beginning

[00:34:43] that like they were out vacationing in Vietnam

[00:34:45] with their friends.

[00:34:46] Or something like that.

[00:34:47] And they just forgot to get a bunch of Rando's.

[00:34:50] It could also be that, but I just,

[00:34:51] it feels like they just forgot to add in like

[00:34:54] just like a couple of like words to like say

[00:34:56] that like they were camping and or hiking in the Vietnam

[00:34:59] with friends or with camp mates.

[00:35:01] Yeah.

[00:35:02] Yeah.

[00:35:03] Or with a tour guy or with a tour group even.

[00:35:05] Yeah.

[00:35:06] That's exactly what it felt like after knowing

[00:35:07] the context at the end of this story.

[00:35:09] Yeah.

[00:35:10] Also, I just need to cut you off for a second there,

[00:35:12] Mikey, because so I'm just going to go

[00:35:14] for a second there, Mikey.

[00:35:16] Cause something you said it's like how you liked the,

[00:35:19] how this character is just like,

[00:35:20] there's like this like campfire, like ghost story kind of

[00:35:23] like this ghost and this campfire thing.

[00:35:26] It's like,

[00:35:26] and it just immediately brought to mind

[00:35:28] Captain Barbosa from Pirates of the Caribbean.

[00:35:30] It's like, you best start believing

[00:35:32] in campfire ghost stories.

[00:35:34] You're in one.

[00:35:37] Cause yeah, like the narrator has been

[00:35:40] like walked into a campfire ghost story basically.

[00:35:44] Yeah.

[00:35:45] Yeah.

[00:35:49] And then for me, it would be nice to have more detail

[00:35:53] about the campsite.

[00:35:56] Yeah.

[00:35:57] And the fact that they're like,

[00:36:00] bring up that there is a toilet before he goes to bed.

[00:36:05] Yeah.

[00:36:06] Well, we do get like,

[00:36:07] we do get a pretty decent description

[00:36:08] of how the toilet stalls,

[00:36:10] like what the toilet stall situation is for this,

[00:36:13] yeah, this camp route.

[00:36:14] Like I actually really appreciated that.

[00:36:15] But yeah, saying, just saying that it's like

[00:36:17] the jungles of Vietnam,

[00:36:19] like that invokes an image in my head,

[00:36:21] but like I'd like a little bit more detail

[00:36:23] about the setup or about the location.

[00:36:25] Yeah.

[00:36:27] And then like,

[00:36:30] I looked up

[00:36:33] at one point,

[00:36:35] basically

[00:36:38] if you can camp

[00:36:40] in Vietnam for free.

[00:36:44] And the answer is no, you have to go to a campsite.

[00:36:48] So to me that's like, okay,

[00:36:50] so that confirms that he's at a campsite in Vietnam.

[00:36:54] Yeah.

[00:36:54] These are just these rough campsites.

[00:36:56] Yeah, he's at a designated campsite,

[00:36:58] which makes sense.

[00:36:59] Like again, like with the bathroom stalls

[00:37:00] being there and such.

[00:37:02] Yeah.

[00:37:02] Yeah.

[00:37:03] Exactly.

[00:37:04] But the thing is it,

[00:37:07] when we initially get the whole,

[00:37:12] like that he's camping,

[00:37:16] I don't think he mentions camp until after,

[00:37:18] or-

[00:37:19] I think they're just saying that they over at a camping.

[00:37:21] Otherwise they're just hiking down like trails

[00:37:23] in Vietnam.

[00:37:24] Yeah.

[00:37:25] So yeah, that's my only real gripe was with that,

[00:37:30] but it's a non-issue because we get,

[00:37:34] it all sorted itself out in my head

[00:37:37] after thinking we had all out.

[00:37:40] So that's my actual thoughts.

[00:37:45] Okay.

[00:37:47] Gamer.

[00:37:48] Okay, let's see what I got.

[00:37:51] That's the way it's always been for me.

[00:37:53] Some of my earliest memories are secretly listening

[00:37:56] to my dad swapping ghost stories with his buddies

[00:37:59] while I sat wrapped on in the room next door.

[00:38:02] So for me, I've always heard the like in raptured,

[00:38:06] but and I do like the sound of in raptured more

[00:38:10] compared to wrapped because it's like,

[00:38:14] if you're in raptured enough about something,

[00:38:16] you'd bother putting in a couple more syllables to like,

[00:38:19] you say.

[00:38:21] Yeah.

[00:38:22] Oh, I also heard like in wrapped attention.

[00:38:25] I have heard that one before.

[00:38:27] Yeah.

[00:38:29] Like this isn't technically a grammar thing at all

[00:38:32] because I don't mind it either way.

[00:38:33] I just haven't heard the short form wrapped being used before.

[00:38:37] Okay.

[00:38:38] Except for like wrapping on a door,

[00:38:41] which is like a sound effect.

[00:38:42] Yeah.

[00:38:43] Of like knocking on it basically.

[00:38:45] A wrap tap tapping.

[00:38:46] Yeah.

[00:38:47] And also warframe, yeah.

[00:38:48] Sorry.

[00:38:54] There you go.

[00:38:56] That's better.

[00:38:57] And then my next note here is basically,

[00:39:02] there's like a hell of a lot of setup

[00:39:04] before the story even starts properly in this.

[00:39:07] And normally I wouldn't really mind

[00:39:09] because like it gives us time to get to know the characters

[00:39:12] and stuff like that.

[00:39:13] But in this one,

[00:39:14] it just kind of feels like it drags on a bit.

[00:39:17] Like if there was one more mention of him saying

[00:39:21] like another creepy thing that happened that he

[00:39:24] he identified, I'd be like, okay, look.

[00:39:26] Yeah.

[00:39:27] Yeah.

[00:39:29] It's like it's just repeating the same part of the intro

[00:39:33] because it's basically I want to believe

[00:39:35] and then the spooky thing happened.

[00:39:37] But I want to believe

[00:39:38] and then another spooky thing happened.

[00:39:40] I do want to believe though.

[00:39:41] Like that's basically what the intro is.

[00:39:44] Yeah.

[00:39:44] The spooky yet rationalizing thing happened,

[00:39:47] but I want to believe.

[00:39:49] Yeah.

[00:39:52] Yeah.

[00:39:52] Like I think we had, it was like,

[00:39:55] I'm glad he stopped when he did.

[00:39:58] Yeah.

[00:39:59] Because even I was like, okay,

[00:40:00] we're getting a lot of like,

[00:40:03] how you were like a lot of examples

[00:40:04] of like your thesis statement here.

[00:40:08] But like what's the actual problem?

[00:40:12] Like why are you actually,

[00:40:13] what's the event that you're actually like posting

[00:40:16] on Reddit right now for?

[00:40:18] Yes.

[00:40:19] And to that you could theoretically start the story

[00:40:23] with the part where it's like,

[00:40:24] I had decided to take a break

[00:40:26] and spend a few weeks backpacking in Vietnam.

[00:40:29] That's technically the start of the story.

[00:40:32] Yeah, technically the start of the,

[00:40:34] yeah, I know you're right.

[00:40:36] Like I don't want to say everything else is fluff

[00:40:38] because it is interesting

[00:40:40] and it gives you insight into the character

[00:40:42] and that he has experienced creepy stuff.

[00:40:45] But-

[00:40:45] And that he has been able to rationalize it.

[00:40:47] Well, and that he has been able to rationalize it.

[00:40:49] And the reason he's posting this story,

[00:40:52] like the story about Vietnam and some of that

[00:40:53] is because this one has stumped him.

[00:40:55] Yes.

[00:40:56] Like that stuff isn't fluff,

[00:40:59] it does give you context as to like the person

[00:41:02] that we are reading about.

[00:41:05] It does for sure.

[00:41:07] It's just, it's toe in the line.

[00:41:09] That's like really close to being too much.

[00:41:12] Yeah.

[00:41:14] And then my last note is basically

[00:41:17] just after the story is over,

[00:41:19] thinking back to the title with the title as it is

[00:41:23] kind of assumed that this story would be

[00:41:25] a curiosity killed the cat kind of deal,

[00:41:28] which is what three quarters of the creepypasta

[00:41:30] we read are honestly.

[00:41:31] But oddly enough, this one isn't.

[00:41:34] Like Nara didn't explore somewhere he shouldn't

[00:41:37] or open up some creepy book he shouldn't.

[00:41:39] This just happened because-

[00:41:42] So I think I understand why the author chose

[00:41:46] this as the title because at the very end

[00:41:51] like he could have gone that entire,

[00:41:53] like after encountering the ghost,

[00:41:55] the old man at the shitter,

[00:41:59] he could have just gone home

[00:42:00] and like been completely ignorant

[00:42:02] of what the hell he had experienced.

[00:42:03] And that would've been fine.

[00:42:04] But he wanted to know from the tour guide

[00:42:07] if there was something about,

[00:42:09] something to do with that.

[00:42:12] And then he found out the horrible truth that like,

[00:42:14] oh, like shit, like if you've seen,

[00:42:16] did you see his face?

[00:42:17] If you do, you're gonna die.

[00:42:19] It's like, I think that's where

[00:42:20] the whole terrible curiosity comes from

[00:42:22] is that he was too curious that he wanted to know

[00:42:25] if there's any more about what he just experienced.

[00:42:28] Yeah, but that didn't affect him negatively really

[00:42:32] aside from slight paranoia for a minute

[00:42:35] until his goldfish brains like not.

[00:42:37] I didn't remember.

[00:42:38] Well again, he doesn't know.

[00:42:40] Like that's just it though.

[00:42:41] Like he doesn't know if he saw the face or not

[00:42:45] because apparently he has a goldfish brain

[00:42:46] or like he just had like really selective short-term memory.

[00:42:50] But maybe like, maybe he did see it.

[00:42:52] Like subconsciously or something like that.

[00:42:54] So like now he's just worried.

[00:42:55] Like now he's got some psychological,

[00:42:56] like now he's suffering from some,

[00:42:59] like you said paranoia from Matt.

[00:43:02] Like it wasn't like, he wasn't in physical harm

[00:43:05] but he's like in, he's now like in duress

[00:43:07] that he might die because he may have seen this person.

[00:43:12] This was this ghost's face.

[00:43:14] Well I'll say this, in these stories that follow,

[00:43:17] if he is paranoid that he might be dying

[00:43:19] at some point soon, then yes, 100%.

[00:43:22] I'm fine with that.

[00:43:23] But if this isn't referenced again,

[00:43:26] his like worry that he might just die gruesomely

[00:43:28] for some reason because of this event

[00:43:30] that happened in the past, then nah.

[00:43:34] Yeah, I suppose like another,

[00:43:35] an alternative name that would have been better was

[00:43:39] my Vietnam trip.

[00:43:42] No, this is a Reddit No Sleep story.

[00:43:44] Oh yeah, sorry.

[00:43:45] So hang on, where's that sentence that you said

[00:43:48] that starts from?

[00:43:49] I had decided to take a break.

[00:43:51] I spent a few weeks backpacking Vietnam starting with-

[00:43:54] Well that's it right there, yeah no,

[00:43:55] like that sentence right there.

[00:43:56] I decided to take a break

[00:43:58] and spend a few weeks backpacking in Vietnam, period.

[00:44:00] That's it, that's the title.

[00:44:02] It has to be a stupidly long title

[00:44:04] for it to be a Reddit No Sleep story.

[00:44:06] Yeah, exactly.

[00:44:07] Joking aside, it does not have to

[00:44:10] but those that are unaware

[00:44:11] that we just make fun of the long ass titles

[00:44:13] all the time.

[00:44:14] Yeah, you could also have his like

[00:44:16] my backpacking trip in Vietnam.

[00:44:19] That could also be a, sorry.

[00:44:21] Yeah, I do kind of get the title as it is

[00:44:24] but like I also get what you're coming from.

[00:44:25] It's like, it works and it doesn't.

[00:44:30] It works out, it's maybe a little too subtle.

[00:44:35] It's specifically referencing his worry at the end.

[00:44:40] Well yeah, his worry at the end

[00:44:41] but I think also like the fact that

[00:44:43] he's always had a curious mind

[00:44:45] and like he wants to know, he wants to,

[00:44:48] that's what's gotten the better of him is his curious mind.

[00:44:51] But yeah.

[00:44:54] But it's not like a spooky thing happened

[00:44:56] and he went back to try to recreate it

[00:44:57] and then a worse thing happened, you know?

[00:44:59] No, he just, he experienced the spooky thing

[00:45:03] and then held off till like the last minute of the trip

[00:45:06] and then finally asked the tour guide about the thing

[00:45:09] and then wished he hadn't basically ignorance.

[00:45:11] He wished he had been ignorant of it.

[00:45:14] Yeah, pretty much.

[00:45:15] Yeah.

[00:45:16] But that's the end of minutes.

[00:45:19] All right.

[00:45:20] Then I suppose we'll move on to final thoughts.

[00:45:23] So there are a number of spelling and grammar issues

[00:45:27] to be sure but overall it's a short, sweet

[00:45:30] and pretty grounded ghost story.

[00:45:33] There's a charm to it with that

[00:45:36] and the Vietnam backdrop while not fully fleshed out

[00:45:40] like we get a little bit,

[00:45:41] we get bits and pieces of light that help us like paint

[00:45:45] a picture of the locale and like the situation

[00:45:48] that he's in and stuff of that night.

[00:45:52] I could use some more about the Vietnam backdrop setting

[00:45:56] but otherwise like it's a cool backdrop.

[00:45:59] So that's one of the reasons I'm gonna recommend this

[00:46:02] is like it was a short, sweet

[00:46:04] and pretty grounded ghost story

[00:46:08] and I just think that's really cool.

[00:46:09] Oh, I think I thought it was really cool.

[00:46:11] Mikey, these stands for evil.

[00:46:13] Well, I like that it sets up a character

[00:46:17] that wants spooky thing to happen

[00:46:20] but we get examples of spooky things not happening

[00:46:25] and Modena fied and were like, okay, yeah,

[00:46:28] that's how life goes most of the time

[00:46:34] and then we end up in going on a trip

[00:46:37] and then seeing the spooky thing

[00:46:40] and that sort of makes you a,

[00:46:46] well, how do you explain that?

[00:46:48] And you can't explain it other than ghost.

[00:46:54] So, and the fact that the locals knew

[00:46:58] of the quote unquote monster

[00:47:02] and just like as long as you didn't see it's face

[00:47:05] you're good type thing.

[00:47:08] So I was like, oh, okay.

[00:47:12] So that makes the story interesting

[00:47:18] and so I will still give this recommendation.

[00:47:23] Okay.

[00:47:25] And gamer.

[00:47:28] Yeah, the read was pretty fun.

[00:47:30] I liked the creepiness of the ghost.

[00:47:33] He's not described super well

[00:47:35] like in regards to like if he was facing him

[00:47:38] when he was in the toilet or not

[00:47:40] because if he was facing him

[00:47:41] then there would be even more concern

[00:47:43] like did I actually see his face?

[00:47:45] I can't tell.

[00:47:46] The intro is on the edge of being long winded

[00:47:50] but I still appreciate it for what it is

[00:47:52] because hell, I complain when stories just jump in

[00:47:56] like media res and you have to learn the shit

[00:47:57] in your own.

[00:48:00] I would be a hypocrite if I said

[00:48:01] I didn't appreciate a little bit of backstory

[00:48:04] and learning about the character beforehand.

[00:48:07] So all in all, I did like that.

[00:48:12] Grammar, whatever there's always grammar issues

[00:48:14] nothing is who is phone.

[00:48:17] But yeah, it was creepy to the point.

[00:48:23] The title is like I said before

[00:48:25] I'm him and the hawn whether the title

[00:48:28] is truly accurate for this

[00:48:31] but it works enough I suppose

[00:48:34] with your explanation of him being curious

[00:48:36] is him asking the tour guide

[00:48:38] and him being cursed by that is him worrying

[00:48:43] if he's gonna be literally cursed to die soon.

[00:48:47] Yeah, exactly yeah.

[00:48:49] If that apparent curse shows up

[00:48:51] in some of the following stories

[00:48:54] I would appreciate that if it doesn't then so be it

[00:48:57] but overall I will still recommend this

[00:48:59] because I enjoyed it

[00:49:01] and it was actually creepy

[00:49:03] which is what some creepypuzzles just don't do.

[00:49:06] Unfortunately.

[00:49:08] So yeah, I guess full recommendations today.

[00:49:15] And this was a pretty decent one

[00:49:18] and well let's see next week when we do,

[00:49:23] was it Gurgles and...

[00:49:26] Yeah, was it Gurgles and Bugman?

[00:49:31] I'm looking at some of the other stories actually

[00:49:32] right now like at the bottom of this page

[00:49:35] on Reddit No Sleep and so like number,

[00:49:37] part two is Gurgles and Bugman.

[00:49:39] Part three is reality is creepier than fiction.

[00:49:42] Four is pranks, five is notes.

[00:49:45] This goes up, oh wow we have 11 stories, okay.

[00:49:49] Much of a rival love we made here.

[00:49:52] Well, yeah it looks like we got like

[00:49:53] another Intorment series or like

[00:49:59] Wicker Saga.

[00:50:00] Yeah, basically, I'll grab.

[00:50:03] Yeah, this is like 11,

[00:50:03] there's like 11 stories here that we are gonna be probably,

[00:50:06] we'll be covering over like,

[00:50:08] we'll maybe not do all of them at once,

[00:50:09] but we'll like cover,

[00:50:11] we'll get to them throughout.

[00:50:15] But like yeah, next up is gonna be Gurgles and Bugman

[00:50:18] and then we'll see where everything else falls.

[00:50:21] Yes.

[00:50:23] Wow.

[00:50:27] Also I really liked the last story,

[00:50:30] story 11's title, No Sleep for the Innocent.

[00:50:34] I was like, God damn that is a movie,

[00:50:36] that's like a movie title.

[00:50:39] Yeah, it really is.

[00:50:41] Like Reddit No Sleep for the Innocent.

[00:50:46] But yeah, that has been this week's episode.

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