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Episode 35: Black-Eyed Children
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Happy Monday Guys!!
This week we have another short one for you! Lana talks about the lore behind the black-eyed children... where did this lore come from? Do you know? Tune in and learn about these terrifying children!
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Introduction to 'Scared But Curious'
00:00:04
Speaker
Hey guys, I'm Lana. And I'm Ellie. And welcome to Scared But Curious. Happy Monday. Happy Monday. How are you doing today? I'm doing pretty good. Yeah. I got a new car.
00:00:25
Speaker
So, yay. I am cardigan. I am free to roam. I'm cardigan. You're a cardigan? Oh, okay. I'm a cardigan. I am a nice, I feel like out of any piece of clothing, I would be a cardigan. Just a nice fluffy, I'm so sorry if you can hear my dog. The one that you can wrap around yourself, like you fold it over yourself twice and hold like a little tea overlooking the ocean.
00:00:56
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eat, pray, loving it, you know, Airbnb that we saw. Oh my God. Oh my God. All right. Well, should we just get into it? Yeah. Yeah.
Unveiling the Black Eyed Children
00:01:11
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Because what you're going to tell me is going to be disturbing because I've only heard the three word title.
00:01:20
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Mm-hmm. Today is a little bit different. I'm kind of glad that we're switching it up a little bit with what kind of stories we're doing. Last week, we did more of a history side with Doctor Still. And then this story, I decided to do more of a... I just decided to do a different format for it.
00:01:46
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But today we are talking about the Black Eyed Children. Do you know a lot about the Black Eyed Children?
00:01:56
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don't know a lot of it but i do know that it really it makes me think that it's the children of the black eyed peas um but i don't think that that's it no that's exactly what it is i don't need to tell you the story anymore that's literally what it is nailed it i'm gonna go get a lottery ticket
00:02:19
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That's exactly what it is. It's the Black Eyed Children, you know, they're Will.i.am's and Fergie's, you know, kids. I can't remember the other guy. But it's their kids and they just started another band. And yeah, that's exactly what it is. Nope. Podcast over. Episode over. You knew it. Good job. Podcast. I was like, damn, the whole damn thing. Okay. The whole podcast is over. Yeah, that was it. That was the kiss to resistance was
00:02:48
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that was at the end of the podcast. Okay, I'm doing a new format. So let just let us know on Instagram, what you guys think of the new of least of like this new format or if you and if you liked like the history one last week where it was more like history centered. Um, but yeah, because we always want feedback to
00:03:13
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Yes, since this new year started, I'd say post hiatus, we shifted where our hosting is. We've made some changes recently to how we do things. So do let us know what you guys think about it for sure. Yeah.
00:03:35
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All right, are you comfortable? Are you ready for the Black Eyed Peas? Kids. It's just me reading out Black Eyed Pea lyrics. Yeah. Oh, god damn it. That's funny. Are you comfortable? Are you ready? I am. I'm situated. I'm prepared for this to probably give me nightmares.
00:04:05
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All right. So picture this.
An Encounter with Black Eyed Children
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You're sitting in your living room watching TV. The nine o'clock news just came on. You're slowly dozing off. Suddenly you hear a soft knock. You jolt awake. You weren't expecting anyone, especially at this time of night. You get up off the couch and make your way to the door. You look at the people to see who could be at your door at this hour. And that's when you see
00:04:35
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Two boys, about 12 years old, standing on your porch. They're standing very still. With their heads slightly looking down, something immediately seems off. You also notice that they are unnaturally pale. Like their skin is almost translucent. You open the door and greet the kids. You notice their clothes. They're old, not like dirty or torn, but like the clothes haven't been in style for like 20 plus years.
00:05:02
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And you aren't very hip with the kids, but you know the kids' fashion of today, and you can tell that it's not in style. It's almost like they time-traveled? No, that can't be. Don't be stupid, you tell yourself. Still standing, very rigid, the one on the right speaks first. May we come in and use your phone? He sounds monotone and more mature than you were expecting. Now more than before, something doesn't feel right.
00:05:32
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Something in your brain starts going off. You don't know what's wrong. They're just kids. Why do you feel scared? But everything in your body is screaming at you to run. You feel like prey. Like you're a deer being stalked.
00:05:45
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You ask them what's wrong and if they're hurt or in trouble. The one on the left now talks and says, please, may we come in and use your phone? This kid sounds the exact same, monotone and also robotic. He lifts his head ever so slightly and then you see it, his eyes. They are completely black, no irises or pupils, just the entire eyeball is black.
00:06:13
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Thanks. I hate it. I hate it so much. No, like that's a diamond and they can't enter your house unless you invite them. So they're asking to be invited. Hell no. Close the door, slam it in that little kid's face. Fuck you. Done.
00:06:34
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You then notice the kid on the left and his eyes are the same. You tell them, sorry, I can't help you, I'm sorry, and slam the door. You look out to make sure they leave and you watch them just stand there. They are still both standing there, unnaturally still. You see the one on the right, put his arm up and knock on the door again. May we come in and use your phone? He keeps knocking.
00:07:00
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and keeps asking with more urgency. As you look at them through the people, he looks back right at you, almost like he can see you through the people. The knocking gets louder, harder, and more impatient as he stares at you with those dark black eyes. That's when you realize that your back door is unlocked. With the loud banging on the front door, you run through the kitchen as quietly as possible and flip the latch.
00:07:27
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The pounding stops abruptly. You quickly run to the front door without making a peep and look out the peephole again. They're gone. They just vanished. It's been maybe a minute. That sounds like a big glass of fuck that. No. No.
00:07:51
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Is that the lady of she ever? Has something ever happened? Swings open the door and that's a big glass of fuck that slams the door. No, I wouldn't even swing the door open. They're gone. Good. Good. Bye. Now my door's locked. I will go check every single fucking thing in this house to make sure it's locked. Because fuck you guys. Some bullshit. You diamonds.
00:08:18
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Out of instinct, you swing the door open. There is no side of them. You run down your driveway and look down the well-lit street. No one. You do a quick search around your yard. No one. You go back in the house. So confused.
00:08:33
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It's impossible. Was the door still open? Did you just leave the door open and run down the street? Bitch. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm stressed out right now. This is so stupid. Okay. So confused. It's impossible that in less than a minute they could leave and not be seen. You make sure every window and door is locked. You sleep on the couch that night with the TV on and a back close by. You are in and out of sleep all night.
00:09:03
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dreaming of those black eyed children. I hate myself, but I literally was like, oh, those black eyed peas run in, run in, lose control of body and soul. Shit, this is stressing me out. I'm sorry. I need to stop making jokes. Okay. We need that on a t-shirt. This is stressing me out. I need to stop making jokes.
00:09:32
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Yeah, that needs to, I'm gonna write that shit down, hold up. Oh my God.
Lore and Theories
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So the lore surrounding Black Eyed Children, Black Eyed Kids, or BEK for short, is said to have become mainstream in about 1996, when Brian Bethel, a reporter from Texas, wrote about the experience he had with the Black Eyed Children in Abilene, Texas,
00:09:57
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Later on, he also wrote about a person who had an unrelated experience with Black Eyed Children in Portland, Oregon, which is way too close for fucking comfort, if you ask me. You can't see Ellie, but she said, fuck that. And according to media and the lore surrounding BEK,
00:10:27
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They always look the same. The kids are usually anywhere from six to 16 years old, pale with completely black eyes, no white anything at all. They appear at people's homes or vehicles or I've even heard stories of like just standing on the street hitchhiking before and hate that.
00:10:56
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they will knock on the door, depending on what it is, house or vehicle, whatever, they'll knock on the door and then insist upon getting inside.
00:11:06
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Well, yeah, because if it's a demon, like I said, or a vampire or whatever the frickity frack the bad shit is, it's like, hey, I can't enter your house because there's rules, right? So I can't come into your house unless you invite me. So I'm going to figure out how you can. We're going to play on human compassion. I am a child with no white in my eyes. Send help.
00:11:32
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Can I use your phone? No, I'm gonna bring my phone out to you. You stay right there. And anyone who has encountered them will almost immediately feel an overwhelming sense of dread. That's like the common thing with them and I hate it. And some people have even said that they have seen the Black Eyed Children standing in the corner of their rooms and having sleep, like when having sleep paralysis,
00:12:01
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And, or, or they're not having sleep paralysis. They just wake up in the middle of the night completely normal and see black eyed children standing in their rooms. I hate it. Thanks. I fucking hate it. And no one really knows like where these creatures, like where the lore comes from. Some people believe that black eyed children are aliens.
00:12:29
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trying to do research on Earth and trying to get some sort of reaction or something like that. But other people, like Ellie here, think that they're some sort of demon. You can't tell me that aliens can't enter a house if they're not a demon. It's like well known.
00:12:55
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like it's like documented lore right like vampires and demons and things like that cannot enter a household or pass over a threshold without an invitation so that's like an old-ass thing unless from the get-go all of this has just been aliens then maybe who fucking knows I don't know true who knows vampires are aliens just
00:13:20
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Maybe, I don't fucking know. Who knows why they sparkled? I don't fucking know. So some people think that there are some sort of demons, and they actually point to the story of Lilith. And for those of you who are unfamiliar with the story of Lilith, in Jewish lore, God
00:13:49
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made Adam. You know, in the Bible, God made Adam. But in Jewish mythology, in Jewish lore, before Eve, there was Lilith. And instead of being made from Adam's rib bone, Lilith was just made from the same clay as Adam. And Lilith was outspoken. She did not want to be subservient to Adam.
00:14:17
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she was like, no, we are equals. We are not, I am not second. I am also just as equal as you. And in some sources, she's, they say that she actually slept with Satan or the archangel Samuel, which a lot of people say that those are the two, like that was Satan's name before he was Satan. But
00:14:44
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Because, you know, in the lore, she is said to have slept with Satan. That's why if you look her up and in a lot of like motifs and stuff, she's actually surrounded by snakes and depicted with snakes because, yeah. But either way. So she leaves the Garden of Eden and now is kind of depicted as a female demon or even like Satan's wife.
00:15:11
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So she is a very high up, high level demon. And so after Lilith, they realize, ah shit, wow, that ended kind of fucking horribly. So how about the next one we make is out of your rib, Adam, because then she's part of you and...
00:15:30
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That way she's more subservient. And considered less than you, right? Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It works a lot better for the narrative they're trying to push if a woman is less than, right? Exactly. You're less than a man because you wouldn't exist unless you took it from a man's rib, right? Oof. Dang, you started. There's a reason why there's this thing that circulates that say, be a Lilith, not an Eve. Yep, exactly. That's kind of...
00:16:00
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Lilith is. So after Lilith left Eden and God and all that shit, she had been cursed by God so that she couldn't have any children.
00:16:16
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And so it said that Satan and Lilith had demonic children and that they were kind of a warped version of what children should be, I guess. And in the Hebrew text, they're actually described to be shadow-like. They're twin-faced demons of the angelic hosts.
00:16:42
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So they look like kind of how they should, but they're not right. They're just like twisted. Um, and they have black eyes. So yeah, that's a little, it's a little weird.
00:16:59
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off-putting to say the least. Yeah. And there are actually so many stories and firsthand accounts of the Black Eyed kids, but there's only one story that I found of someone actually inviting them in.
A Terrifying Story of Intrusion
00:17:14
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a lot of the other stories are like, oh, I'm glad I didn't invite them in and stuff like that. There's only one that I know of. And so I'm getting this from tbsnews.com where apparently they got this story from like firsthand stuff. So according to tbsnews.com, in the snowy town within the middle of nowhere of Vermont, an elderly couple heard the sound of three loud knocks
00:17:44
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They opened the door and saw two children, a boy and a girl. They said, parents will be here soon. May we come in? The children did not make eye contact and just stood there in the doorway. The elderly couple were hesitant, but after a while they let the boy and girl inside.
00:18:04
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The kid settled on the couch while the wife made some hot cocoa and the husband asked them questions that went unanswered. The wife returned and noticed that her cat was scared and angry with the children. May we please use the restroom?
00:18:19
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The wife looked at the kids and she finally saw them. The children's eyes were as black as a starless universe. She directed them to the bathroom and returned to her husband who was covering his face with his hand. Did you see their eyes? She said. Her husband then showed her his handful of blood from a nosebleed. The power suddenly went off and the house turned as dark as the kids eyes.
00:18:47
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The wife headed down to the restroom and was confronted by the voice of the kids at the end of the hall. Uttering, our parents are here. The kids then exited the house, leaving the door wide open. The wife then noticed that there were two men at the end of the driveway. The men were very tall and slender. The wife waved, but did not receive the same friendly gesture. The two men and children then drove off together. The power then came back on a little while after the kids left.
00:19:16
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Throughout the next week, weird things happened in the house and the husband continued to have nosebleeds. When he finally went to the doctor, he was finally diagnosed with an aggressive skin cancer. And there was another part that I took out of this, but apparently they found three out of the four cats deceased after this whole thing. But yeah. Why is that the most upsetting part of this entire story so far? I know, right? I know, right? Like, I'm so upset right now.
00:19:46
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Not the babies. Not the little baby. And honestly, that's all I could find about this story. That's all the lore that there is, is just these creepy fucking kids who bleh, bleh, I hate it. Yeah. So what do you guys think? Do you believe in the BEK? Let us know. What do you think? That this is some bullshit.
00:20:17
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um why why why why are they so mean okay like
00:20:28
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I don't know, man, I really am not a fan of these black eyes. Like if you just saw like, especially like if you're just chilling on your couch, just like nodding off, because like we've all done that. You're nodding off and you hear like a knock on your front door. And it's like 9pm. Like bitch, no, nobody should be coming to my door at 9pm at night. No, thank you.
00:20:48
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No. No. See, and I don't have a peephole. And then you see that? So I'd be like, what do I... No, I got a ring camera. I'd literally be like, the fuck you want? Who are you? Oh, yeah. Because my whole door is windows. Then I record their asses. True. Mine is not. Yeah, my whole door is windows. The very top does, but I'm too short. Yeah.
00:21:13
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I want to be able to feel bad in my soul. I feel like I can't see anything. My husband, our back door is that same look and my husband, he can see through it. He's tall enough to see through it.
00:21:28
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So sometimes he'll be out there and he'll like look in and he'll like say my name or something and I like go to the door and he'll like watch me and he's like, you're so short. Like you couldn't even see, like I can't even see that he was there because I don't look up because I can't see out of there. So like, yeah.
00:21:43
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First of all the disrespect As I'm taller than you But I could I I literally use
00:22:04
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Use a lawn as an armrest sometimes. Oh yeah. Perfect height. I'm just, I'm just, it's fine. Tiny small. It's fine. You're a bit of a small tiny. Do I have to buy short pants? Yes. And are they still too long? Also yes. Also yes. The worst, the worst is when I just bought pants and they're supposed to be like ankle height.
00:22:30
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They were completely normal on me. I was like, God damn it. Yeah. Those Capri leggings are actually normal length on you. Meanwhile, they'd be like long shorts on me. Yeah.
00:22:48
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I'm just all leg and she has no leg. I have no leg. I am full torso. So like my arm reaches down past my knees. Wait, do they hold on? Stand up real quick. What? That's what I am. I never realized it until just now. Holy shit. That comparison was dramatic. Like my fear is like twice the size of yours.
00:23:14
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i'm gonna die like i'm gonna die under some mysterious circumstances and be like oh this is a child this is a child it is a 15 year old child i guarantee it this is a 15 year old child
00:23:35
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but yeah so i i don't know i've always had that thought that like black-eyed children are some sort of like aliens because wow stella has everything to say about it i know i just had to tell her to shut the hell up man we're doing a thing okay i had to tell her to be quiet we were on air
00:23:59
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But yeah, I've always heard that, like, in the lore that I've heard, it has always been like, they don't have, quote unquote, normal clothing.
Fashion of the Black Eyed Children
00:24:11
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Like it's very like in the story said like it's like 20, 20 plus years.
00:24:18
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old, you know, I'm thinking like 20 place so like so oh My god, they dress like they dress like they're from the 90s. Could you imagine black-eyed kids pulling up in some parachute pants? And then this does a Pink and blue and purple. Oh my god. Oh my god, that'd be so fucking funny cuz yeah from what I've heard it's more like
00:24:48
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Victorian like if you go there it no no no no no opposite like if you go um if you go Google people like if you if you look at them they're like normal kids it's almost like someone pretending to be like it's almost like like they they looked at pictures but they have dated information oh not just no but a hell to the fucking no
00:25:15
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whoa no hell no you know be gone that's a diamond look at that fuck no I hate this okay great um no why are their eyes so black that's so fucked up no
00:25:41
Speaker
You know that there's people that get their eyes tattooed to continue looking like they tried to make their eyes like look all black. I can't tell you I can't promise that I'm not gonna punch you in the face if I see you with all black eyes in front of me. Imagine it's like dark. You just see that walking down the street.
00:26:00
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I would cry. It would just look like there's holes in their face. I'm crying. Yeah, I hate it. Are you okay? No, you don't have eyes. Also, there's even times where if you put the phone down on the floor and Stella goes over it, you can't see her eyes. Her eyes just look full black. Even that freaks me out sometimes. I'm like, ugh, I don't like that. I hate that. There's supposed to be some color there.
00:26:27
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Yeah, and so that was actual peep- no. No, dude, I can't promise if there was a child that looked like that at my front door, I would like, this is Sparta their ass off my deck. Like, bitch be gone. This is Sparta their ass.
00:26:57
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I really would say yeet too as my foot hits the middle of their chest and they go flying back. I mean, I don't disagree.
00:27:11
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I'm here. Um, but yeah, it's still very dark where I live. And I also butt up to trees and like a trail. Yeah. So no, thank you. No, no, thank you drugs. No, no, no, thank you. No, no, thank you. Who invited you drugs? Um, I don't, I don't know how I would handle that situation. I, cause like, you know, part of me is like, Oh, there's children. Why the fuck are they at my door at this time? I'd want to like help.
00:27:40
Speaker
but also look me in the damn eyes who who are you yeah look up don't you don't you avoid eye contact i need to see the white in your eyes it's like it's like what george washington said to their troops remember he said don't shoot until you see the white of their eyes yep it's the opposite if you don't see the white in their eyes shoot yeah shoot i don't like that
00:28:09
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I feel like a lot of it is, uh, those people that believe in like the, uh, not, I didn't mean to say alien, the amphibian people, like their eyes would be all one color, right? Unless it's, I guess it depends on what type of amphibian really, huh? Yeah.
Conspiracy Tangents
00:28:25
Speaker
We should go into that because that's also a very antisemitic conspiracy theory when you look harder. Yeah. Jews are lizard people. So that's great. For why?
00:28:39
Speaker
I don't know. What have you done? I don't know. I also apparently have space lasers too, so I just have all of it. Oh no, I remember. I heard about those ones. I did hear about the space lasers. The fact that we're hiding the fact that we have all of these great things because we're trying to take over the world.
00:28:57
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but also like- Oh, that makes sense. If that's real, can I get in on it? Like, I need money. Also, if that's real, I feel like you guys should have whipped that shit out a while ago, okay? You're telling me. I'm not trying to say that, like, history has not been kind. If you guys had space lasers, that shit would have happened a fat minute ago. The 40s would have been obliterated, let me tell you.
00:29:26
Speaker
Here's free stuff for everyone. Right. Such a bad Jew. I'm going to give everyone universal health care. Oh my God. That reminds me of the story that I'm going to be writing about soon. Oh. It's a hospital to give you guys hints. And if you can think of social health care at a hospital in America, what comes to mind? And if you know, nope.
00:29:56
Speaker
I just see the commercials for them all the time. Yeah. Nope. That's not socialist at all. Um, it was a, it was a, um, a very large and very old hospital that was closed down due to Katrina. And the story behind that is a banana bonkers. Let me tell you, it's also really sad because I feel like we need more of those, not less of them.
00:30:23
Speaker
Um, of the like socialist healthcare as in like the, just letting people get help. Yeah. I think that is what St. Jude is. St. Jude is like specifically for kids though, where it's like, it doesn't matter. Yeah. But yeah, I cannot wait. I can be treated. But yeah, so that's pretty much, it was a really short and sweet one.
00:30:52
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But yeah, well, I wouldn't say that, but it was definitely a short one. That's going to make me really make sure I can see a child's eyes. I guess there's only really one more thing to say. Yeah. All right.
Closing and Social Media Call
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00:31:18
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