Interview with Dave Olson from C.P.I. and we visit The Paranormal Chicago Convention

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How we all doing tonight? It is another week
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here with the not ghost host podcast and I am
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your ghost host Mike and Today we are going to
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be talking with Dave Olson from Chicago paranormal
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investigators. We have a little interview with
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them There is video of it. So if you can find
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us on YouTube under edzilla Or you can look under
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Mike witty Through my RSS, but there's really
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not much of video. It's just a sound wave I'm
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supposed to be on Spotify and Apple in the video
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form however I don't know how that works and
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if I am or not so because I am you know only
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a few episodes into this so Check that out and
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without further ado we will be going with Dave
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out at the site at Paranormal Chicago Convention
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in Countryside Illinois and we have an outside
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display with MISTI and all of our equipment that
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we use we got it all laid out on tables so people
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can come by and see they can take a walk through
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MISTI and I'll be showing you all that in our
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video and probably just explaining it for the
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people that are unable to watch the video. So
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without with further ado I am going to go with
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To Dave with an interview. All right, we're back
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when I am with Dave Olson from CPI he is the
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founder and boss man and He is the one that accepted
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me into the group. Thank you, Dave very much.
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I'm very lucky to have you. Thank you and Dave
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if I don't If I don't come up with something
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that you, you know, want to say, go ahead and
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just throw it out there. But right now I want
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to know what got you started into the paranormal.
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Okay. Before I start the glare of the sun, I'm
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going to have to put the shades on. I'm sorry.
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I'm getting blinded by the light. Wow. That's
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all. Was it man for man? But anyway, yeah, what
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got me started is Believe and other people believe
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I'm a little bit sensitive. I'm not a medium
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But I was born with some type of ability and
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I had it as a kid would seem to open my eyes
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to this As a child I would hear disembodied voices
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and I remember at times I would get my mom wake
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my mom up and say mom I hear these voices and
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I know what they're trying to say and as I got
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older I still had these experiences and As a
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young adult, I was still here the voices and
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and then I started feeling like energy charges
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like I could feel When something's around it
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seems like so that kept my mind open but as I
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became a police officer I started at 21 I Started
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getting skeptical. I knew there was something
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out there, but you know being the police Become
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skeptical, but I stills I was having these experiences
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and I still at times would hear these disembodied
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voices. And then I started, after I got off probation,
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I started working a side job at a haunted location.
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It was the college, City College, but the grounds
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were the Dunning Institution, Chicago State Hospital.
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And it was so many employees from housekeeping
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engineers, teachers, other security guys that
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talked about experiences. And after working there,
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I started having my own experiences, which led
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me to buying gear. I'm like, there is something
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out there. And then at times I was able to document
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these disembodied voices that I would hear in
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my own ears, and they're on the recording, so
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I know I'm not going nuts. And that's what really
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got me going is working at community college
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that used to be the hospital grounds. There was
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so much activity there. And I caught my very
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first clear EVP there. And they go, what are
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you doing? And then I said, get out. Leave now.
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And so after that, I ended up forming a team
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in 2009. In between 2008, I started investing
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in gear, 2008, and then I exploded in 2009. And
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after that, when I formed the team. Now, would
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you say that being a policeman has helped or
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hindered your belief in the supernatural? At
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first, you know, I was young. I might have hindered
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it. You know, I was trying to and you need to
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you need to be skeptical and you need to come
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up with natural explanations for things. And
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but I was still having them. I was, you know,
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even at work sometimes. You know, if it was an
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abandoned hospital, someone broke into or trespassing
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or building, you know, I would have these unexplained
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feelings and stuff. I just, you know, I just
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couldn't explain and realize as I got older and
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started my own team and investigating these feelings,
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you know, I was having or being able to hear.
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Now I could use it as tools for investigating,
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but yeah, at first as the police, I think it
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made me more skeptical. But then I had a face
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to truth. I'm having these experiences and there's
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some out there. Now, when you started this team,
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what was it that you were looking for in your
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investigators? People I can trust. At first,
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it was other police officers. or people in the
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trust field, you know, I could, if they feel
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or see something, you know, I could trust them.
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But some of them were policemen, some of them
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were detectives and bosses, sergeants, lieutenants.
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And when I first started out, and I also had,
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you know, civilians, you know, but yeah, the
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trust factor, if I can't trust them in my own
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home, how can I trust them? trust me, investigating
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someone else's house, you know, right. That's
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the one is liability of stuff being stolen or
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damaged and stuff like that. So are there any
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particular traits that you look for somebody
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or in somebody or just just go by feel a combination
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of both? I mean, sometimes it seems like I have
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a good judge of character. I could feel sometimes
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the energy off someone negative or positive,
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which helps. And it's just being the policeman.
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for years being interviewing, you know, interviewing
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offenders and stuff. I think it helps me out.
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You know, people that want to join a team, they
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interview them, asking certain type of questions
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and seeing how they react. And also it helps
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with clients, you know, especially being able
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to talk to them. If sometimes it's hard over
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the phone, I'd rather do it in person. If it's
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too far, then maybe Skype or you know one of
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the video chats where I could read them. Now
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when you when you're growing on to these investigations
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and you have a claim of let's say uh things moving
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and you know a lot of noises and sounds when
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you come to the realization that what you're
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hearing is probably based on the house not on
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any supernatural How do you approach somebody
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and tell them, hey, it's really not anything?
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What if these people actually think that they
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have their family members? How do you break that
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news to them? If possible, show them. If they're
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hearing certain noises, this is what's so good
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about having person responders on a team. For
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instance, Ryan and Matt, they're firemen. And
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like Matt. you know, a lot of firm men have side
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jobs. So like Matt was in construction, redoing
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homes and heating and air. So man, he's a key
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tool when it comes to stuff like that. He'll
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go in, you know, floorboards, the venting for
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the air, you know, depending what the claims
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are. And he really digs into that, looking for
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a natural explanation. And if he comes across
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it, or we come across it, If possible, if we
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could recreate it, we'll show the clients. And
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sometimes it's a big relief. It could be a relief,
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but some people, you know, some people really
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want to believe that they have something in their
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home and, you know, maybe they feel that it's
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their brother, sister, or, you know, something
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like that. And I would, I don't have a problem
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telling somebody the truth, but I'm a little
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bit too blunt. Right. And, you know, I don't
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want to come off like, you know, There's nothing
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here. Those people are still with you, however
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you look at it, but they're not doing your haunt,
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right? You know, and that's me. I would just
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say almost like in the field where you gotta
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like if a policeman gets gets into a heated situation
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to get the partner to come and explain that might
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be a little more, you know. Tell it differently.
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Yeah, coming over and talk because I can't do
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this anymore. But yeah, you know what? You can't
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please everyone. You could just tell them if
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they want to believe what they want to believe.
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This is what we believe or through our experience,
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what we think it is. And that's all you can do
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if they want to believe otherwise, you know that
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it's, you know. Yeah, that's probably the biggest
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thing is being able to prove what you what you're
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saying. But have you ever followed another team
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and or another team follow you and say completely
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different report of what you have or haven't
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you come across that? A little bit. I think it's
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more of a team that didn't have enough equipment
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to document things correctly. You know, it's
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not that you need everything out there. I mean,
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I'm way overboard with equipment. To me, it's
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very important to cover as much as you can with
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video audio and match everything up when you
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go through it and stuff. But I think sometimes
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teams, not all teams, but some teams that don't
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have the right equipment and just can't cover
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as much. And they might capture something that
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could be, for instance, an outside noise. Like
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sometimes we cover inside and outside. depending
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on where the location is. Well, every location
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we try to cover inside and outside, but you got
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cameras. Like for instance, you could be in a
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house or in a basement. You hear what sounds
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like a scream and you don't have any coverage
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outside. It could be someone on the street going
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by or in a car radio or whatever. So I think
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sometimes I come across something like that with
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maybe with other teams. You know, not that you're
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doing it purposely or anything like that, but
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something like, you know, you know what I mean?
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Yeah. Well, it's like right now we're sitting
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outside. These microphones are not supposed to
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be so sensitive that they pick up everything
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else, but they are picking up everything. And
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I mean, these are these are designed not to do
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that, but yet they're still picking it up. So
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I can see what you're saying with the right equipment
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or, you know, maybe less. quality equipment can
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also hinder their investigation. I'll give you
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an example. We investigated this old Chicago
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police station and I actually captured gunfire,
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gunshots, legit gunshots. I brought it to the
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range guys had them review it and I had that
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place covered inside and out with cameras and
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voice recorders. Now if I don't have enough equipment
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to cover that. I could prove that it wasn't any
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outside noise. The recorder, the audio came from
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that room and only that room. None of the outside
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voice recorders and cameras with audio captured
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it. None of them in the hallways, in the other
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rooms, outside. There wasn't a car backfire.
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I could prove all that stuff. It took a long
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time to go through and imagine everything, but
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I could prove it came from that room and only
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that room. If I didn't have that equipment to
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cover it. You know, it's a question mark, you
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know, how about it was fireworks outside or something
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or a noise that came from outside someone shooting
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a gun outside, but I was lucky enough to have
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the equipment to cover everything needed to prove
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that it came from that room. And that was like,
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uh, Brian and I went out and did a preliminary
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for you, uh, in Chicago. And there was a, the
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house was, it's gotta be at least 80 years old
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if, if it's not older. But I heard a lot of,
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I heard conversations from outside. I knew they
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were from outside the house. So if I play back
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any of that recording, I'm going to know that
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that was where people talking outside the house
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and not only that, but they were in the alley,
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which is two houses away. And I still heard them
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talking. Plus we had, you know, a machine in
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the background. I heard, you know, from doing
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the streets they were working on, you know, but.
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To the untrained year, you know And I mean some
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of these teams are they're not trained in anything,
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right? You know, I mean fortunately you and I
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Ryan and the other first responders on here,
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you know, we're trained to look for things We're
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trained to see things, you know as a fireman
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they have to see where they're going They have
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to see what they're walking into for us We got
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to look around and see, you know, who's going
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to come at us or, you know, is even walking into
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a building, you know, from experience walking,
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you don't know what some of these buildings are,
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you know, how they're constructed, right? Even
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to go through a floor or, you know, whatever.
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Right. You know, so we're we're trained observers
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and that's, you know, that's in our title somewhere.
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But some of these teams, they go out there and
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a lot of the times. None of them are trained
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in anything. A lot of office workers or people
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that are interested and want to do it. It's not
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bad -mouthing at all, but sometimes you need
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that experience like you're talking about. Especially
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if you're making a team and you're going to someone's
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home, it could be vulnerable. They really believe
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or they really need the help or they need answers.
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Sometimes you need that experience. You know,
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I think sometimes before some of these teams
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are formed, they should maybe work with other
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teams or get the experience before forming their
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own team. And, you know, it's just me. I don't
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want to go out there and give a business owner,
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a homeowner, a landowner purposely wrong information
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and make them think it's one thing and it's another.
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But sometimes it takes a little bit. And I know
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stuff's expensive, but do the best you can on
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getting stuff to cover the areas that need to
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be covered. And then you just need the experience
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and you need to know the equipment, what to look
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for for misreads. And I'm so used to for all
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the years going through audio, I just know in
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my own ears already what is and what is. Right.
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That's it through experience. I mean, many years.
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Yeah. And you have to sit through hours of that.
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And I mean, I still struggle and I've been doing
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this since 92 listening to recording because
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that's all I ever had. But, you know, in using,
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I still use cassette tapes because cassette tapes
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to me, they have their magnetic. And what is
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energy? It's magnetic energy. There's electrical
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energy. So I think that those are going to pick
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up just as good as the digital today. But with
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the teams coming up, because it's regaining its
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strength, I can see, just by being at this conference,
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I think. that we have the best of both worlds
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because one we have first responders we are i'm
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i was in construction for 20 20 some years he
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also you know uh so that was and not only that
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but i am a home and a home inspector and a city
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building inspector so it's just I have a little
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bit of life experience. Some of these teams,
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I hope that they're doing it. Hire somebody or
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not hire, but take on a team member that has
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that knowledge. But where do you see this team
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going on in the future? Well, I'd like to keep
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the team small like we have right now. half a
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dozen investigators, you know, maybe some part
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-time research we have, you know, to fill in
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when we're shorthanded. And I like to keep it
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professional, in which I think we all are, you
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know. I love how we take sometimes the first
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responder angle into it, you know, from the start
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to the finish. And yeah, I just like to team
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to grow and push on. You know, maybe one day
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we'll get lucky and have someone pay for our
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travel. But you know, you know, from the very
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beginning, I know when you first start, you know,
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you want to get the home one piece and everything's
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about evidence. But I don't know if it's the
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first responders in us. But what's more important
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to me now? I mean, of course, getting evidence
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is cool and this and that. Uh, so many investigations
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we had that are been very touching, very heartbreaking,
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you know, with homicides and stuff like that
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and, uh, missings and whatever else, no tragedy.
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And, uh, what's more important to me now is helping
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both sides, you know, if it makes sense, the
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client or the person that's calling, you know,
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making them understand or. you know making them
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aware of what's going on and helping whatever
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your beliefs are the other side of the spirits
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that are waiting to go to the next step and just
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don't know how because we get a lot of helpings
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right every investigation it always seems like
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one or two helpings coming through and you know
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and then you know i always keep an open mind
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you know i'm not here to preach But dealing with
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a lot of the mediums we dealt with in some of
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these cases, especially the homicide or tragedy
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cases, that some of these spirits seem to need
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to be guided to whatever the next step is. Like
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I said, I'm not here to preach if it's the light,
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heaven, whatever. to move on from, you know,
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no longer be earthbound. They need help moving
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on to the next step, if that makes sense. Oh,
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it makes complete sense. And that leads me to
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my next question of the mediums that you use.
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Do you think that they're on the level, all of
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them? Or do you, you know, how do you how do
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you look at them? Well, at the very beginning,
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you know, I keep an open mind, but I didn't know
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what I believe when I first started. But I was
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skeptical. But I'm always open to trying somewhere
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at least once. And the two main mediums I deal
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with, they came without having any knowledge
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of the locations. Like some of it was remote
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viewing. I didn't even know until I got there.
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And she's in the room with the blue walls and,
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you know, this type of bed and dresser. I get
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there, I'm like... Holy crap, how the hell she
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know this she never been there before I never
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been here before until now, you know, and so
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what is that? I mean, that's something and There's
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stuff they know and I remember You know there's
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information there's no way like I give them Sometimes
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you the address the very last second where they
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have to put in a GPS to drive I don't want them
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doing research or anything like that or I'll
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give them I'll try to barely give them anything
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other than they get to the you know the location
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and They're just stuff beforehand It could be
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like a homicide case where people are murdered
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and just coming up with all this information
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And there's no way she could know so I mean I
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mean You got to watch out there's different type
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of mediums and people with the ability with different
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type of senses But the ones I deal with seems
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to have All of them from remote viewing seeing
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hearing feeling and you name it and They got
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some type of gift because like I said, there's
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there's stuff that came up with no way in the
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world I made sure what they would know even some
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of the landowners pull me aside. How the hell
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does she know this? You know, they're just their
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mouth is to the ground You know, how else you
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know this, you know because that information
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never been out there And yeah, you know that
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it's funny that you mentioned that because you've
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met my daughter and you know that you know she
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has an ability and I I was skeptical when she
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told me that you know she can hear see and feel
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the spirits but she's proved herself multiple
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times it just in my life alone and I was amazed
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by it so You know, in my feelings, I there must
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be people that can do this. I mean, my my daughter
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gains nothing from doing this. She gains nothing.
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In fact, she doesn't even like the fact that
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she has it because to her, she doesn't know how
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to turn it off yet. So that's my that's what
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I'm scared of. I'm scared. Whatever abilities
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I have, I'm afraid. to enhance it and can control
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it. I want to because I want to use it for good
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and help to help people or in help situations.
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But to be honest, I'm a little scared because
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I don't want it by burning my house, my daughter,
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my wife. And so I'm one of these days. I think
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I will. I just I kind of have the time and willing
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to learn correctly how to control things. And
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that's I was trying to guide my daughter into
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seeing there's a. psychic or not a second, but
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I want to say medium in Texas that teaches other
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mediums how to control because she had learned.
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But now that she's learned, she's sharing that
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information. So, you know, it's a lady named
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Sarah. I can't think of her last name, but, you
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know, she's down in Texas and Austin, Texas,
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and she gives lessons over a line. But, you know,
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that would be something I think, you know, if
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you ever did want to follow through with your,
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you know, because I've seen it in action with
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you. And that's what's great about it is I get
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to see this firsthand. I'm not getting it from,
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well, Joe's Joe blowovers. Oh yeah. He saw it
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or felt this. No, I look at you. I can see you.
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I can see it in your arms. I can see, you know,
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I still get floored by, I can't, I still can't,
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I know what's happening and it's true, but, you
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know, in my mind, I still can't get over it.
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I'm like, Oh, you know, I'm just amazed each
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time. Right. And like when you got grabbed in
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Indiana, you know, I wasn't, I didn't. I didn't
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see you get grabbed. But for what, when you came
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out and you see that, you know, you felt something.
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Oh my God. Yeah. I told you, I don't know if
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it was good or bad. It might've been saving me
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from going further down that pit than I should
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be going down. It was dangerous. It was a clamp.
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It was almost like a C clamp. I grabbed my shoulders
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right here and I went like, you know, it stabbed
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me like I hit a wall. Right. And I'm like, what
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the F? You know, I'm thinking I get stuck in
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a hook or a nail. I mean, but I could feel it
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clamping with force gripping me. I forget what
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side it was. It was here. Yeah. But then later
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I got that walked out of there. I got the scratch.
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Yeah. And this is that's what I'm talking about.
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So. If you do develop it, you know, we'll take
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you along on some investigations. So, all right,
00:26:01.589 --> 00:26:04.509
we're coming to an end, but I do want to find
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out what was your most memorable investigation?
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Oh, man, I tell you, I mean, there's some scary
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ones that have come across, but they weren't
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really investigations. I don't know if I'll get
00:26:19.769 --> 00:26:52.390
into that, but that opened my eyes to evil. Demonic
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Investigations like this one was a gangster place,
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:58.680
a young Capone type of gangster place, Rocky
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DeGrasia, all the place, along with some others.
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Almost like watching some channels, strip joints,
00:27:06.180 --> 00:27:12.380
the two bars, strippers and prostitutes, illegal
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gambling and underground tunnels and stuff like
00:27:15.799 --> 00:27:21.460
that. But that place, you know, like... I don't
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know if I mentioned earlier, if it's a business
00:27:23.960 --> 00:27:27.039
or if it's someone's home, let's not just provoke
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and make things worse. But sometimes knowing
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being a first responder, it's a prison, or it's
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a gangster place, knowing they hate the police,
00:27:36.079 --> 00:27:39.140
sometimes a little stir in the pot, or reenacting,
00:27:39.380 --> 00:27:42.700
like bringing a police gear, or if it's a hospital
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fire gear, doctor gear, whatever it was, but
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I brought some police gear, knowing this place
00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:51.269
has been raided. by everybody, you know, county,
00:27:51.650 --> 00:27:54.849
local, the FBI, for all the illegal gambling
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and stuff. So knowing they've been raided several
00:28:00.009 --> 00:28:03.289
times and they'll say all the money is taken
00:28:03.289 --> 00:28:05.750
away and stuff. So I had all my props, I had
00:28:05.750 --> 00:28:11.809
the police tire, handcuffs, either a fake or
00:28:11.809 --> 00:28:16.150
empty gun, and a holster, and you know, just
00:28:16.150 --> 00:28:20.109
police care, police type care. And so it's the
00:28:20.109 --> 00:28:22.309
first time I ever got f -bombs on recordings.
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Telling me to f -off, you're f -ing dead, and
00:28:25.150 --> 00:28:28.789
blah, blah, blah. And I waited for the perfect
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moment, and I had papers in my hand. There was
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a siren outside all night. And I don't know if
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it was a police or fire truck, whatever it was,
00:28:36.190 --> 00:28:39.829
but I said, Rocky! And I pulled out my police
00:28:39.829 --> 00:28:43.369
star hand, and I got the cuffs, and I said...
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search warrant and hit the papers threw it down
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and said we're gonna find your money we're gonna
00:28:49.079 --> 00:28:54.640
take it and it started up it started uh uh said
00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:56.559
you're effing dead you gotta be effing kidding
00:28:56.559 --> 00:29:07.039
me we're effed and um we also got recording some
00:29:07.039 --> 00:29:09.839
of it could be residual that location we got
00:29:09.839 --> 00:29:12.880
ladies and the night the strippers and the prostitutes
00:29:13.240 --> 00:29:16.259
Like, suck your blank. Up and down, that's all
00:29:16.259 --> 00:29:20.380
I do. And then you get voices recorded, do it.
00:29:20.380 --> 00:29:23.500
So that could be residual. There's a difference
00:29:23.500 --> 00:29:26.420
between residual energy and intelligent energy
00:29:26.420 --> 00:29:29.500
out there. And then some of it's just like the
00:29:29.500 --> 00:29:32.140
gunshots. That's just looping over and over again.
00:29:32.259 --> 00:29:35.779
It's not intelligent. No, but that's still gunshots.
00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:38.980
I mean, how are gunshots, you know? I found out
00:29:38.980 --> 00:29:41.339
later through research. I didn't know it, but
00:29:41.339 --> 00:29:43.160
some old -timers that used to work that station,
00:29:43.420 --> 00:29:45.619
in that little station we were at, I had no knowledge.
00:29:46.259 --> 00:29:49.380
It was a gun range. Okay, yeah. A small little
00:29:49.380 --> 00:29:51.539
gun range back in the first open. Well, I think
00:29:51.539 --> 00:29:55.079
a lot of stations back in the day had their own,
00:29:55.339 --> 00:29:58.420
because you had to qualify. Yeah. And you'd go,
00:29:58.539 --> 00:30:01.579
and nowadays you would go to, where to qualify
00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:04.079
downtown somewhere. They got different ranges
00:30:04.079 --> 00:30:07.839
to go to throughout the city or depending on
00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.140
if it's shotgun or if it's an AI or something.
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Yeah, some of the old police stations have only
00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:17.740
a one -two lane. Yeah, just for a qualifying
00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:21.039
person, you know, doing it because, you know,
00:30:22.299 --> 00:30:25.680
I always was in Chicago band and I'm going to
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shoot. Thank you for putting that out there.
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But yeah, my father -in -law, you know, he worked
00:30:32.319 --> 00:30:35.720
in Deuce and I think he was told Eaglewood used
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to have their range there or something. I don't
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know. But, you know, it's being in Chicago, you
00:30:43.579 --> 00:30:46.799
guys have plenty of places. are we have plenty
00:30:46.799 --> 00:30:49.640
of places that we can investigate but i'm looking
00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:52.079
forward to that and i appreciate you taking me
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on and thank you and i'm glad you're doing this
00:30:54.660 --> 00:30:57.640
here podcast for me and uh look forward to working
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with you day senior all right all right thanks
00:31:01.019 --> 00:31:06.859
everybody peace out all right so i'm mike and
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i am doing the uh live at Paranormal Chicago
00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:21.240
conference in Countryside, Illinois and We are
00:31:21.240 --> 00:31:27.920
at the CPI booth and we are doing a little show
00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:32.819
off of what we have as far as Equipment and we're
00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:37.940
also showing misty. So here we got what one of
00:31:37.940 --> 00:31:40.980
our vests look like that we take out on an investigation
00:31:40.980 --> 00:31:46.099
full of all the good toys. There's a trip wire
00:31:46.099 --> 00:31:52.119
and this is an Okta something or another. I don't
00:31:52.119 --> 00:31:59.420
know what the technical name is but yeah it's
00:31:59.420 --> 00:32:03.579
quite elaborate all this technology that we got
00:32:03.579 --> 00:32:09.990
laying out here. Some of our cameras. And here's
00:32:09.990 --> 00:32:14.289
all of our important equipment. We've got a trip
00:32:14.289 --> 00:32:22.569
wire sitting up here. And it's all our EMF meters
00:32:22.569 --> 00:32:27.690
and EMF pumps. We've got tri -field meters. We've
00:32:27.690 --> 00:32:36.029
got the adverse voice recorders. And we've got
00:32:38.880 --> 00:32:45.859
all of the laser beams. Every camera he's got
00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:49.779
is out here. Well, not every, but a good portion
00:32:49.779 --> 00:33:02.500
of them. We have the SLS camera. We got all our
00:33:02.500 --> 00:33:08.380
Sages. Make sure we're safe when we get done
00:33:08.380 --> 00:33:15.400
with the investigations Over here, this is we
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:20.140
got Misty Misty is our command vehicle. It is
00:33:20.140 --> 00:33:26.160
a retired ambulance and We figured hey, you know
00:33:26.160 --> 00:33:28.759
with the name CPI Chicago Paranormals. Yeah,
00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:32.220
we definitely need to have a ambulance and considering
00:33:32.220 --> 00:33:35.910
the fact that Good portion of us are first responders.
00:33:36.369 --> 00:33:39.470
It's fitting. We feel comfortable in it. And
00:33:39.470 --> 00:33:43.589
if you go up inside here, you can definitely
00:33:43.589 --> 00:33:50.130
see where our computers are. And I'll give you
00:33:50.130 --> 00:33:55.349
our equipment. And right now there is a video
00:33:55.349 --> 00:34:02.390
of the church that we did in Norwich, Illinois.
00:34:02.720 --> 00:34:11.199
And it's playing through the DVR. And we have
00:34:11.199 --> 00:34:15.900
more over here. There's actually a video of the
00:34:15.900 --> 00:34:24.420
command vehicle. And that is how people can watch
00:34:24.420 --> 00:34:29.719
us. And this is a pretty nice setup. There's
00:34:29.719 --> 00:34:33.050
the camera up there. show them what's going on
00:34:33.050 --> 00:34:36.289
and we have all our equipment get stored up in
00:34:36.289 --> 00:34:40.750
here and underneath the seat there's the computer
00:34:40.750 --> 00:34:44.230
pretty heavy -duty equipment there and if I take
00:34:44.230 --> 00:34:49.969
you back outside you will see that there's the
00:34:49.969 --> 00:34:54.489
other camera don't want to miss anything and
00:34:54.489 --> 00:34:57.909
you can see inside the cab we still have all
00:34:57.909 --> 00:35:10.239
the radio equipment And sirens and lights. Alright,
00:35:10.300 --> 00:35:12.199
so I'm going to take you to the other side over
00:35:12.199 --> 00:35:17.059
here and just show you that if you open up the
00:35:17.059 --> 00:35:24.179
side panel here. It's a little bit old, but there's
00:35:24.179 --> 00:35:28.050
the backside of the DVR system. so you can get
00:35:28.050 --> 00:35:33.349
power and all of the connections custom built
00:35:33.349 --> 00:35:38.690
so we can uh don't even have to uh run it inside
00:35:38.690 --> 00:35:41.590
the van that way you just have to be inside the
00:35:41.590 --> 00:35:45.750
well the ambulance uh nice and quiet and clean
00:35:45.750 --> 00:35:54.130
and dry and whatever so uh quite interesting
00:35:54.130 --> 00:35:57.289
how much has gone in how much thought has gone
00:35:57.289 --> 00:36:13.630
into this ambulance conversion and really what
00:36:13.630 --> 00:36:18.590
Dave feels is a good thing for ghost hunting
00:36:18.590 --> 00:36:23.369
which is needed so Over here, I'm just going
00:36:23.369 --> 00:36:30.210
to walk you over to one of the Ghostbuster cars,
00:36:30.849 --> 00:36:38.429
show you what that's all about. They've actually
00:36:38.429 --> 00:36:42.170
been out to my house. Look at the license plate.
00:36:42.909 --> 00:36:46.750
It's for advertisement for sure. That's a legitimate
00:36:46.750 --> 00:36:51.920
Illinois license plate. And they have done it
00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.159
all up with lights and sirens. They've been out
00:36:54.159 --> 00:37:00.460
to my house during the hunt and Quite a cool
00:37:00.460 --> 00:37:05.840
team, huh? Yeah, that's awesome They got it fixed
00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:10.699
up really nice. So there you go. There's your
00:37:10.699 --> 00:37:18.030
Facebook advertisement There's Slimer. That's
00:37:18.030 --> 00:37:19.869
who I've been looking for. Let's see if we can
00:37:19.869 --> 00:37:22.750
get a good picture. There's Slimer and me. Let
00:37:22.750 --> 00:37:42.949
me get out of the way. All right, now I'm going
00:37:42.949 --> 00:37:49.000
to take you inside. and see if you have any idea
00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:56.880
what the convention looks like. Here we are.
00:37:57.099 --> 00:38:03.179
We are just doing the entrance booth here. I'm
00:38:03.179 --> 00:38:11.340
sorry, brother. Now we're at the convention.
00:38:12.200 --> 00:38:15.780
And all these tables, they sell all healing and
00:38:15.780 --> 00:38:20.380
protection and books. Everything you can imagine,
00:38:20.559 --> 00:38:23.480
what you want, what you don't need, what you
00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:30.059
do need. Everything. So, as you can see, people
00:38:30.059 --> 00:38:37.860
are... My camera just lose the signal once in
00:38:37.860 --> 00:38:59.800
a while. So, here we are. Alright, there's Dale
00:38:59.800 --> 00:39:03.820
and his group. Alright, we're gonna try this
00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:15.710
again. into the paranormal and around us here.
00:39:15.889 --> 00:39:18.150
Either they're into the paranormal or they're
00:39:18.150 --> 00:39:21.210
into the healing, but they're here. We've got
00:39:21.210 --> 00:39:25.750
all kinds of charms. We've got all kinds of books.
00:39:32.849 --> 00:39:40.349
Candy places and food. All right. Crystal shops.
00:39:42.510 --> 00:39:59.570
General reading. 3D printing. All kinds. Even
00:39:59.570 --> 00:40:52.940
shots. All the pictures. Equipment. Yeah. No,
00:40:54.219 --> 00:41:15.690
I'm out at CPI. Ambulance? Chicago? Yeah. All
00:41:15.690 --> 00:42:41.800
the jewelry. That's what they do. Once again,
00:42:42.000 --> 00:43:06.590
here's the old customer. Really cool looking
00:43:06.590 --> 00:43:11.809
displays here. We got some very artistic old
00:43:11.809 --> 00:43:27.219
school. Look at that. A lot of work to do. All
00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:33.500
right. This is cool. I gotta come back. Definitely
00:43:33.500 --> 00:43:40.519
gotta come back. See a bunch of candles. All
00:43:40.519 --> 00:43:48.219
right, how are you? All the protection candles.
00:43:51.130 --> 00:43:54.650
These are infused with all protectionist spices
00:43:54.650 --> 00:44:10.730
and herbs and crystals. Where you going? Come
00:44:10.730 --> 00:44:17.130
back here. All right, so that was the show. Now
00:44:17.130 --> 00:44:19.070
I'm going to come back through and walk through
00:44:19.070 --> 00:44:24.000
without recording. So See you in a bit. Peace
00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:29.420
out Alright everybody, how we doing we are back
00:44:29.420 --> 00:44:33.860
at Shipwreck Studios in Burbank, Illinois We
00:44:33.860 --> 00:44:39.360
just left the show Chicago paranormal in Countryside
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:44.659
very good show a lot of attendees and Quite a
00:44:44.659 --> 00:44:47.119
few nice vendors out there. I was looking at
00:44:47.119 --> 00:44:52.340
a lot of their products And nothing nothing really
00:44:52.340 --> 00:44:56.980
crazy But I did notice there was a you know tarot
00:44:56.980 --> 00:45:00.980
card readers there were a lot of arts and crafts
00:45:00.980 --> 00:45:05.719
there 3d printing people And of course you know
00:45:05.719 --> 00:45:09.840
they do all the 3d printing of the paranormal
00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.980
stuff and ghosties and what -have -you There
00:45:13.980 --> 00:45:21.480
was seminars going on up on stage There was a
00:45:21.480 --> 00:45:26.760
lot of ghost hunting teams out there, which was
00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:30.159
nice to see different teams and what they do
00:45:30.159 --> 00:45:35.420
different than what we do. We had a nice interview
00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:43.320
with Dave Olson from CPI, my boss man. Know you
00:45:43.320 --> 00:45:46.639
got to give me a little bit of leeway here. It
00:45:46.639 --> 00:45:51.380
was my first time in the field So please bear
00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:58.440
with me. I'm kind of new to these Podcasting
00:45:58.440 --> 00:46:02.980
and trying to video edit And I know a lot of
00:46:02.980 --> 00:46:07.659
this goes out on audio only But you know, I'm
00:46:07.659 --> 00:46:11.590
on YouTube and edzilla And if you look up at
00:46:11.590 --> 00:46:15.909
zilly you can see this video If you have Spotify,
00:46:15.929 --> 00:46:19.949
you can see the video and soon to come Apple
00:46:19.949 --> 00:46:25.690
Podcast will be Doing my videos Don't know exactly
00:46:25.690 --> 00:46:30.969
one on that, but it's coming up soon anyway Back
00:46:30.969 --> 00:46:33.369
to what I was talking about. Yeah, the show was
00:46:33.369 --> 00:46:37.769
very nice. We were able to show off misty our
00:46:37.769 --> 00:46:43.679
command vehicle Which is quite set up nicely
00:46:43.679 --> 00:46:47.940
You know it has all the recording equipment it
00:46:47.940 --> 00:46:50.800
has its own cameras in case something happens
00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:56.019
inside the Van you never know you know what can
00:46:56.019 --> 00:47:00.019
happen anywhere. There's ghosts everywhere and
00:47:00.019 --> 00:47:06.239
you know Why not catch it when you can? There
00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:12.750
was The Ghostbuster cruise out there, you know,
00:47:12.750 --> 00:47:17.510
they had their their cruiser two of them were
00:47:17.510 --> 00:47:21.309
definitely out there I got a laugh every time
00:47:21.309 --> 00:47:25.289
I see the Ghostbuster mini that's a good one
00:47:25.289 --> 00:47:30.469
to see and the other one is a Ford POS what I
00:47:30.469 --> 00:47:36.699
used to drive around at work and It's done a
00:47:36.699 --> 00:47:39.400
really nice and you get a little glimpse of that
00:47:39.400 --> 00:47:43.480
one the mini I didn't get to need to get To go
00:47:43.480 --> 00:47:48.199
near or past because I didn't see it it was somewhere
00:47:48.199 --> 00:47:51.639
else in the parking lot, but it was there and
00:47:51.639 --> 00:47:56.559
There was another Ghostbuster he wasn't associated
00:47:56.559 --> 00:48:00.440
with those guys, but he knows them and he also
00:48:00.440 --> 00:48:04.480
did a mini which I didn't see is I don't think
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:06.380
I actually don't think he brought it but he was
00:48:06.380 --> 00:48:13.579
wearing his costume from the first commercial
00:48:13.579 --> 00:48:18.579
in the very first Ghostbusters where they were
00:48:18.579 --> 00:48:21.019
advertising themselves for the first time so
00:48:21.019 --> 00:48:23.079
it's a little bit different than what their costume
00:48:23.079 --> 00:48:25.519
is throughout the rest of the movie but anyway
00:48:25.519 --> 00:48:28.840
yeah we had a lot of interesting people come
00:48:28.840 --> 00:48:34.480
over by the by our booth Lot of interested I
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:36.739
should say not interesting. I mean they were
00:48:36.739 --> 00:48:40.519
interesting but they were interested in ghost
00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:44.519
hunting and what we did and how we did it and
00:48:44.519 --> 00:48:50.039
I Was able to show off the equipment that I handmade
00:48:50.039 --> 00:48:53.119
and somebody actually went ahead and went home
00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:57.199
and Mimicked it because they found out that they
00:48:57.199 --> 00:49:01.639
were able to make it themselves Really nice that
00:49:01.639 --> 00:49:04.739
that's like, you know to me that's a big huge
00:49:04.739 --> 00:49:13.260
That's props for me that I was able to Inspire
00:49:13.260 --> 00:49:16.219
somebody to you know, don't worry about buying
00:49:16.219 --> 00:49:19.219
all the big equipment Look at what somebody else
00:49:19.219 --> 00:49:22.460
can do or what somebody else has done and mimic
00:49:22.460 --> 00:49:26.920
it. There's nothing wrong with that Like I mentioned
00:49:26.920 --> 00:49:31.900
several times that I belong or I own and run
00:49:31.900 --> 00:49:38.239
a haunted yard. And a lot of our ideas are unique,
00:49:38.500 --> 00:49:41.659
but we get a lot of ideas from other places.
00:49:42.300 --> 00:49:47.639
And if it wasn't for the community sharing and
00:49:47.639 --> 00:49:51.300
allowing to share their knowledge, the haunt
00:49:51.300 --> 00:49:54.599
industry would be nowhere. And I mean that in
00:49:54.599 --> 00:50:00.769
every respect of haunt. Ghost hunting, Haunted
00:50:00.769 --> 00:50:04.150
places they get inspiration from one place that
00:50:04.150 --> 00:50:10.309
you know, they allow Investigators in They take
00:50:10.309 --> 00:50:12.449
the lead and go, you know, well we can do that
00:50:12.449 --> 00:50:15.590
here, too They make a little bit of money the
00:50:15.590 --> 00:50:18.349
investigators have a little bit of fun outside
00:50:18.349 --> 00:50:23.670
of doing the home Investigations or a business
00:50:23.670 --> 00:50:26.030
investigation all the time, you know, they get
00:50:26.030 --> 00:50:31.250
to go to someplace that truly believed to be
00:50:31.250 --> 00:50:35.969
haunted so you know and that that show was a
00:50:35.969 --> 00:50:42.170
great networking portal and very important in
00:50:42.170 --> 00:50:48.760
fact I ran into an officer that I did not work
00:50:48.760 --> 00:50:51.199
directly with, but I did work. I've seen them
00:50:51.199 --> 00:50:53.920
at work. And, you know, we were two ships passing
00:50:53.920 --> 00:50:57.199
in a night, not knowing each other really. You
00:50:57.199 --> 00:50:58.739
know, I worked for the Cook County Sheriff's
00:50:58.739 --> 00:51:01.539
Department and it's a huge department. You know,
00:51:01.599 --> 00:51:06.880
just we had 3 ,500 officers just in the corrections
00:51:06.880 --> 00:51:09.679
side. That's not including the courts and that's
00:51:09.679 --> 00:51:15.940
not including the sheriff's police. At the time
00:51:15.940 --> 00:51:18.800
when I was on the job I am now retired but when
00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:22.340
I was on the job we were I think we're somewhere
00:51:22.340 --> 00:51:28.380
around 9 ,000 strong That's no small number it's
00:51:28.380 --> 00:51:34.619
not quite as big as Chicago But we were comparable,
00:51:34.619 --> 00:51:36.639
I mean we would be able to stand toe -to -toe
00:51:36.639 --> 00:51:40.340
with them Heel -to -heel whatever whatever they
00:51:40.340 --> 00:51:42.699
needed. We were able to help out, you know officer
00:51:42.699 --> 00:51:47.250
for officer almost Not that that ever came to
00:51:47.250 --> 00:51:49.789
that, but if it did you know what we were able
00:51:49.789 --> 00:51:54.510
to stand with blue and Match them officer for
00:51:54.510 --> 00:51:58.650
officer which is you know something to be said
00:51:58.650 --> 00:52:05.329
for Anyway, I am going to be editing this please
00:52:05.329 --> 00:52:10.409
again Don't slam me too hard on the editing.
00:52:10.409 --> 00:52:14.969
It's my first time doing video editing I have
00:52:14.969 --> 00:52:18.349
been working on it for quite some time already
00:52:18.349 --> 00:52:23.530
and For my first time I think it looks good.
00:52:23.570 --> 00:52:29.510
It is a little jumpy. I also did have a few I
00:52:29.510 --> 00:52:33.230
Don't know quirks While I was doing the interview
00:52:33.230 --> 00:52:39.030
with Dave Olson For some reason and I didn't
00:52:39.030 --> 00:52:44.880
touch it my audio just went different I have
00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:48.139
no idea why it sounds like we're in an echo in
00:52:48.139 --> 00:52:53.280
the Soundboard that I have or the mixer that
00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:57.980
I have doesn't have that option in it so You
00:52:57.980 --> 00:53:01.139
tell me maybe that was something you know supernatural
00:53:01.139 --> 00:53:05.159
right there You can understand it, but it does
00:53:05.159 --> 00:53:07.579
sound a little freaky, so please forgive me for
00:53:07.579 --> 00:53:12.610
that. I don't know I Never tried to correct audio
00:53:12.610 --> 00:53:17.650
and right now just having a hard time doing video
00:53:17.650 --> 00:53:22.210
I'll try messing with the audio on another date
00:53:22.210 --> 00:53:24.269
sometime, you know, maybe to straighten it out,
00:53:24.289 --> 00:53:28.250
but I want to get this out because It's kind
00:53:28.250 --> 00:53:30.369
of important to get these interviews out, you
00:53:30.369 --> 00:53:36.030
know close to when we've done the job and I don't
00:53:36.030 --> 00:53:40.260
want to be you know holding back this Exciting
00:53:40.260 --> 00:53:43.280
time this was actually a you know it was my first
00:53:43.280 --> 00:53:50.000
convention as far as paranormal goes It was fun.
00:53:50.340 --> 00:53:54.579
We had a good time It was a little bit a little
00:53:54.579 --> 00:53:56.380
bit tough setting everything up and then taking
00:53:56.380 --> 00:53:59.360
it down at the end of the day but and Investigations
00:53:59.360 --> 00:54:01.760
you do the same thing and this wasn't as bad
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:04.219
because everything was just laying out on tables
00:54:04.219 --> 00:54:07.840
at the at the investigations, you know, it's
00:54:07.840 --> 00:54:10.400
strung out all over the place. So, we didn't
00:54:10.400 --> 00:54:13.199
have too many cords to wrap up other than a handful.
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:19.420
I got to interview Ryan. I'm going to call him
00:54:19.420 --> 00:54:24.099
second in command. There's supposedly someone
00:54:24.099 --> 00:54:29.340
ahead of him, which I have not met yet. I'm really
00:54:29.340 --> 00:54:32.679
looking forward to it if he's, you know, I believe
00:54:32.679 --> 00:54:34.440
he's got something going on with the family.
00:54:35.579 --> 00:54:39.599
at home and Really can't make the ghost hunting
00:54:39.599 --> 00:54:43.960
any you know as much as he would like to And
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:48.019
I don't know if he's You know I he might not
00:54:48.019 --> 00:54:50.659
have but he you know He might have stepped down
00:54:50.659 --> 00:54:53.559
or stepped to his side for a little bit. I don't
00:54:53.559 --> 00:54:57.739
know but I can't wait to meet him and from what
00:54:57.739 --> 00:55:05.100
I understand that he is a very prolific investigator
00:55:05.100 --> 00:55:12.099
he's a fireman he's a boss fireman and he worked
00:55:12.099 --> 00:55:18.159
with Ryan and that's how Ryan got into CPI so
00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:20.760
yeah again like I said I'm really excited to
00:55:20.760 --> 00:55:25.420
meet him and I was glad to meet all the people
00:55:25.420 --> 00:55:28.480
I did out at the show I saw some familiar faces
00:55:28.480 --> 00:55:33.030
I saw some new faces And it was a good time.
00:55:33.889 --> 00:55:37.829
So, you know, check me out, check, check me out,
00:55:37.909 --> 00:55:41.869
check it out, check them out, check us out. And
00:55:41.869 --> 00:55:45.789
if you will bear with me, like I said, please,
00:55:45.789 --> 00:55:49.389
you know, forgive my video editing skills, which
00:55:49.389 --> 00:55:59.860
are not close to par. But I'm trying and I hope
00:55:59.860 --> 00:56:03.820
that you guys will enjoy it my video near the
00:56:03.820 --> 00:56:12.099
end for whatever reason I have a DJ I It's like
00:56:12.099 --> 00:56:16.360
a selfie stick type of thing that's supposed
00:56:16.360 --> 00:56:23.300
to follow me And It for whatever reason again
00:56:23.300 --> 00:56:28.099
at this show it just decided to lose signal I
00:56:28.099 --> 00:56:31.099
had it sitting here, you know for hours doing
00:56:31.099 --> 00:56:34.800
podcasts and never lost a signal I go to the
00:56:34.800 --> 00:56:36.820
show and it's flopping all over the place. So
00:56:36.820 --> 00:56:40.480
the video is not that great. I Did try it one
00:56:40.480 --> 00:56:43.780
other time and got a little bit better So, please,
00:56:43.780 --> 00:56:48.380
you know again, forgive me for that I Cannot
00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:53.679
control my electronics sounds sad But anyway,
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:58.920
yeah Look forward to that. I'm hoping to drop
00:56:58.920 --> 00:57:03.000
it Right away. So, you know, this should be going
00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:11.059
out real soon And The following one the following
00:57:11.059 --> 00:57:14.059
podcast the following week will be part two if
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I can get that Edited in time if not, I'll take
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a little break and put one of my backlogs in
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and try that out But a little break between them,
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but the others one part one and part two and
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that will be interviews with a new investigator
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Mikey Suzuki and Ryan Waddell Which is what I
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consider like I said the second command at this
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point So yeah, please Like share follow really
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share You know smash that share button smash
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that like button You know smash that follow button.
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Please follow me. It's You know kind of important.
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I'm kind of excited. I'm seeing higher numbers
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throughout the weeks. That's great But yeah,
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please put me out there get me you know some
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views Really appreciate it not getting me any
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money, but I want to make it worth it that I'm
00:58:20.079 --> 00:58:25.460
doing this and The more shares and likes I get
00:58:25.460 --> 00:58:31.500
you know the happier I will be and I know maybe
00:58:31.500 --> 00:58:35.619
I sound a little boring at times or I have a
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monotone voice. There's nothing I can do about
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that I try to put a little spring in my step.
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That's what I'm trying to do today a little high
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contact and but you know I'm always had unfortunately
00:58:50.070 --> 00:58:53.730
this monotone voice and there's nothing I can
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do about it I do try like I said to make it a
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little bit more exciting and with episodes to
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come I hope to do that being new It's a little
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rough and I have no one to feed off of with my
00:59:10.119 --> 00:59:13.199
other podcast I've got Ed and Lou to feed off
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of and I can communicate back and forth, but
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I even noticed there. I'm a little bit monotone
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Human nature, but you know if you stick with
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me, maybe I'll get better and All I can do is
00:59:30.119 --> 00:59:33.289
hope for that correct Well, that's what I'm hoping
00:59:33.289 --> 00:59:36.650
and I hope you enjoy my shows. I hope to bring
00:59:36.650 --> 00:59:45.409
you some live That life I will be recording Future
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investigations I have approval from Dave Olson
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Which is really exciting because I really want
00:59:53.550 --> 00:59:58.130
you guys to see what a live Investigation is
00:59:58.130 --> 01:00:07.780
like not these film edited investigations not
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YouTube edited this will be What you see is what
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we do I'm not gonna be trying to do all that
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other editing just like our other podcast. It's
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What we do it is exactly you know what we say
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how we say it and that's what I want you to see
01:00:26.119 --> 01:00:28.300
real life I don't want to see you know I don't
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want you to see something made up scripted I
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don't like scripted things and When people start
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writing scripts and they start going off the
01:00:38.679 --> 01:00:42.260
chain, then it's a little bit rough So I've been
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doing this already for 16 minutes, and I'm rambling
01:00:45.980 --> 01:00:52.599
on so I am going to unramble and I am going to
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say I was good night peace love and hair grease
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Haha, I said it right this time. Oh, you'll be
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proud of me so yeah Look forward to dropping
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this coming Wednesday and Hopefully you'll like
01:01:13.170 --> 01:01:17.530
it. But again, please like share and subscribe
01:01:17.530 --> 01:01:25.150
like share and Watch I don't know Just keep me
01:01:25.150 --> 01:01:31.699
in mind and keep in the Keep the nut podcast
01:01:31.699 --> 01:01:35.119
with Ed Lou and Mike in mind like share and follow
01:01:35.119 --> 01:01:40.659
that Smash those like buttons, please I was on
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YouTube. I'm getting more views, but I don't
01:01:42.980 --> 01:01:47.039
have any I mean, I've only got a few likes Please
01:01:47.039 --> 01:01:51.019
like and share it. I'm begging begging begging
01:01:51.019 --> 01:01:57.690
you all right, so from The not ghost host podcast.
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I'm your ghost host, Mike, and I am going to
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be signing off. Sayonara.