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The Devil’s Lake Monster Bob and “The Old Man” explore the legend of Oregon’s Devil’s Lake Monster, a unique “hairy octopus” creature. After a competitive trivia segment, the conversation shifts to personal paranormal experiences, including high-speed aerial orbs and eerie encounters with shadow people.The duo delves into a philosophical discussion on faith, imagination, and the supernatural. They conclude that modern technology often distracts from the mysteries of the universe, sharing stories of ghostly cigarette smoke and childhood sightings to emphasize that the world is far more mysterious than it appears. The Old Man Podcast https://youtube.com/live/DNZ8dzI53Fo Transcript (AI transcription) How come they call you the old man? Because look at me. I’m the old man. Oh, my gosh. Mondo Freako. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Mondo Freako. And I’m so glad that we have an elder with us tonight, the old man. I’m so glad to be here with you, Bob. Or should I call you Mondo? Mondo, right. Yeah, exactly. Call me Mondo. Mondo. But it’s better than Freako, I think. Yeah. And it’s fitting because it’s Cinco de Mayo week. Well, there you go. See, look at that. We’re fitting right in. Yeah. We’re fitting right in. You know, real quick, you asked about, you know, me being called the old man. When I was doing the podcast with my son, he calls me up and says, hey, I need a co-host. I can’t keep a co-host. They come and they leave. And I’m without a co-host. Will you co-host with me? For a couple of shows. I go, sure. And he goes, all right. He goes, so I go, but I don’t want you to call me. I want you to call me. He goes, what do you want me to call you? I go, well, I don’t want you to call me dad and I don’t want you to call me Jim. I want you to call me the old man. Call me the old man. And I was golfing at the time and I see my golf buddies call me the fat man. Oh, well, yeah. And I mean, that’s for you. That’s all good too. You know? And so he says, really the old man, you want me to call you the old man? I go, yeah. He goes, all right. So he introduced his show as dread, not dread, not nine to eight with big rich and the old man. And it’s been the old man ever since. Yeah. Well, it’s better than if they called you a ball washer. I’ve been called that too. Uh, and then, and then, uh, um, Within a year, the girl I had as a co-host at the time, she just started calling me Tom. I go, why are you calling me Tom? She goes, the old man, T-O-M, Tom. So then that’s how Tom came about. Gotcha. People were too lazy to say the old man. Well, you got to abbreviate everything. Yeah, everything’s an abbreviation. That’s the nature of living in the United States. Everything has to be abbreviated, right? So we’re not the United States of America or USA, right? Acronyms, man. I tell you, I hate them because I never know what they’re talking about. You’re not versed, you know. Also, it keeps out the riffraff. Oh. I even have a book of acronyms. If someone writes something, I got to look it up and see if it’s in the book. And now the book’s outdated. I don’t have the acronyms. Is it a handwritten book? Is that the idea? No, this is a regular. Oh, it’s a real book. Oh, okay. Oh, hey, he’s prepared. Let’s see. Is that a first edition? Holy schmoly. The great big book of acronyms. Oh, there you go. Texting dictionary of acronyms go figure yeah i mean that looks like a good stocking suffer i mean, it is loaded. It is. Look at that well omg so they can find you at the old man podcast.com. I want to get this out of, you know, get this. plug right in here. So then that way we don’t, we can just go on and move on to the the other stuff. Yeah. That’s our web. That’s uh that’s my web page the old man.com that’s my that’s beyond x or Twitter. You can find yeah whatever you want to call it. And there i am on Facebook. Yeah. Just, uh, and you can listen on all podcast platforms, all, but all, but, um, I’ll bet Spotify. I’m not on Spotify. No, no. Well, let me change that. Hold on a second. I, I, I got mad at Spotify and said, screw you. Ain’t going to use you. Well, there you go. They kept, they kept, they kept kicking all. Yeah. Except Spotify. Yeah. But you can hear me on Spotify because I’m the co-host of Savage Unfiltered with Michael Jordan. Oh, there you go. Okay. Well, now I got to change that again. Change it back. Yeah, Jesus. Except for Spotify Savage Unfiltered. So I’ve got a question for you, old man. So here on Mondo Freako, we talk about weird things. And I always give everybody a quiz. Now, the question is, I always give the guest a choice. Do you want to take the quiz before I tell you what the question is? tell you more about the weird thing, or do you want to wait and hear about the weird thing, and then we’ll take the quiz? Give me the quiz, man. Let’s go. Hey, that’s what I like to hear. Yeah, quiz. Quiz. That’s a sport right there. That is a man after my own heart. Can you see that? I’m going to read it out to you so you don’t have to be able to read it, but… Small for me but it’s well yeah well get the cheaters out. I got them on that’s all right. I’ll read it out to you uh so i’m we’re going to talk tonight i’ll tell you what we’re going to talk about. It’s called the devil’s lake Monster. The Devil’s Lake Monster. Ah, and the quiz is about that. So, I got seven questions, and uh hopefully you know, we’ll see how you do. Yeah, this doesn’t even help. My eyes are that bad. Okay, go ahead. I’m ready. Here we go. Which indigenous people’s oral traditions are the only source of the Devil Lake monster legend? Is it A, the Chinook and Klatsop peoples, B, the Silets and Tillamook peoples, C, the Kowakawak and the Haida peoples, or two guys named Silets and Tillamook who had a bad fishing trip? Hmm. If you want, I have a hint. If you want a hint, I’ll give you one. Okay, go ahead. All right, you want the hint? Yeah. Think about the coastal peoples of the Oregon-Washington region who relied heavily on the sea. No. The catsup people. The A. A? The Chinook and the clatsup people. Let’s see. Oh. Oh. Oh. It was the slits and the Tillamook people was the correct answer. Oh, the Tillamook. That’s where the legend is rooted. Okay. That’s all right. Out of the gate. It’s okay. I know. The Tillamook’s right. It’s good cheese. It is great. All right. Let’s go to number. Let’s leave that behind us. You still got six more to go. You can still win this. You can still get better than 50%. All right. Where exactly is Devil’s Lake? The monster’s supposed home located. Okay. Is it near Lincoln City, Oregon? Near Salem, Oregon? Somewhere very cold, dark, and tentacle adjacent? Or near Portland, Oregon? I got a hint if you want it. Yeah, give me the hint. It’s a coastal Oregon town known for its outlet stores and proximity to the ocean. Lincoln City. Oh, near Lincoln City. I was very confident. There you go. Yeah, baby. There you got that one. I was gonna say that without the end i was gonna say that without oh well there you see you already knew it. But that’s okay. The hint’s there if you want to use it, so. Okay. Now you’re one and one. Here we go. Number three. What is the most distinctive physical description that sets the devil’s lake monster apart from typical lake monsters? Is it A, an oversized freshwater shark with a forked tail? B, a massive mini-armed beast like a giant octopus, sometimes covered in coarse dark hair. C, a very large and very grumpy catfish with a serious personal space issue. Or D, a giant serpent with glowing red eyes. I have a hint if you’d like it. I’m going to go with D. I’m going with D. You’re going with D? D. No one with a hint. Okay. Oh. Oh. That was a good guess, but it is a hairy octopus. Oh, that would have been my second guess. But the red eyes, the red glowing eyes. Oh, you like the red eye, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, that’s all right. Any kind of devil monster is going to have red glowing eyes. Well, you tried the devil aspect of things. You’re right. Here we go. Let’s go to number four. According to early legends, what was the monster’s primary aggressive behavior? Toward people on the lake. Was it a, it would beach itself and block fishing trails on shore. It would steal fish a B it would steal fish from nets left out overnight. See, it would rise from the depths to capsize canoes and drag people under or D it left terrifying one-star reviews of local fishing spots. All right. Let me go with the hint. Let me go with the hint. All right. The creature wasn’t shy and, It came up to meet visitors in a very unwelcoming way. I’ll say tipping canoes over. Tipping canoes over. Let’s see. That would be a C. It would rise from the depths to capsize canoes and drag people under. All right. Look at that. There you go. I made a little bit bigger for you. Hopefully, let’s see if you can see that better. Oh, dang it. No, I still can’t see it. You still can’t see it? Okay. No. Bob, I’m old, remember? I’m the old man. That looks pretty good right there. Yeah, okay. Well, there you go. We’ll go with that. Now, if I can get… There we go. Let’s go to the next. So you got two and two. You’re doing pretty good, actually. 50%. Number five. When did sightings of the Devil’s Lake monster reportedly peak in more modern accounts? Was it A, the mid-20th century, B, B, every Halloween right after the candy runs out. C, the late 19th century. Or D, the early 20th century. Have a hint if you’d like. Yeah, give me the hint. Think of an era following the Victorian age, a time of rapid industrialization and growing public interest in the strange. 19th century. 19th century? Oh! You were very confident there. Oh, man. Modern times peak in the early 20th century. Following the Victorian age. Well, yeah, I guess so. Oh, man. That was a trick question. Trick question. Well, it’s a devil. It’s a devil lake monster. It’s not like a saint lake monster. Yeah. I think the devil’s got a hold of you with this test, Bob. All right. Here we go. The next one. Number six. So you’re negative right now. I got three wrong, two right. You got to get this one and the next one. All right. You’re really pushing us right to the edge here. Number six. What real animals have some researchers suggested may have influenced the devil’s lake monster legend? A. Large sea turtles or misidentified gray whales. B. B, oversized sturgeon or the occasional wayward giant squid? C, Gary, an unusually large pet goldfish someone flushed in 1903? Or D, oversized eels or escaped zoo animals? And I have a hint. It’s okay to take the hint. Give me a hint. All right. One is a large freshwater estuarian fish. The other is a deep sea cephalopod rarely seen near shore. B. All right. And there you go. Going with the sturgeon and the squid. Yeah. Which I think was a movie. You’re right. Yeah, baby. All right. Researchers suggest the legend may have shaped by sightings of oversized sturgeon or even the occasional wayward giant squid making a coastal appearance. There you go. All right. All right, I think we’re tied up now, three and three, right? I’m a game seven type of guy. Oh, no, it’s right. So now you got to get this one. This is it. You’re definitely game seven. What dual role does the Devil’s Lake Monster Legends serve for the local community today? Is it A, a cultural ghost story and a point of local pride? B, a cautionary tale and an active scientific research subject? C, a reason to avoid swimming and a very convincing excuse to cancel boat trips. Or D, a touristy gimmick in a children’s bedtime story. I have a hint. Let me see. Let me see the question again. What dual role does the Devil’s Lake Monster Legend serve… serve for the local community today see usually the the question gives you a hint to what the answer is yeah a little context so without without going with the hint oh he’s stepping on the edge today i’m gonna say it is a cultural ghost story and a point of local pride let’s see what let’s reveal Oh, he got it. He pulled it through. Boom, boom, boom. Game seven, it was. That’s right. Quiz. Oh, wow. Four out of seven. Correct. That’s fantastic. You did great. All right, buddy. Yeah. So let’s pause and hear a message, and then we’re going to come right back, and I’ll tell you the Devil’s Lake monster story. Nice. I’ve never heard it before. This is Jonathan. And this is Heaven from the OpaGhost podcast. And you’re listening to Mondo Freako. What in the bloody hell is Mondo Freako? And why would I listen to it? I don’t know. That’s a good question. So the Devil’s Lake Monster. Here’s a little short couple paragraphs here. Let’s see if I got this. Yes. The Devil’s Lake Monster, rooted in the oral traditions of the Silets and the Tillamook peoples, is a formidable aquatic entity said to inhabit the deep, cold waters of Devil’s Lake near Lincoln City, Oregon. While often grouped with other lake serpents, the descriptions of this creature are quite uniquely unsettling. It is frequently depicted as a massive, many-armed beast resembling a giant octopus, sometimes covered in a coat of coarse, dark hair. Early legends warn of its aggressive nature, claiming the beast would rise from the depths to capsize the canoes of unsuspecting fishermen, dragging both vessels and passengers into the murky abyss. In more modern accounts, the monster has evolved into a staple of the Pacific Northwest folklore, with sightings peaking in the early 20th century. Witnesses have described seeing massive humps breaking the surface or long serpentine tentacles lashing out of the water. Some research suggests the legend may have been influenced by sightings of oversized sturgeon or even the occasional wayward giant squid, but the local hairy octopus description remains a distinct and peculiar hallmark of the region. Today, the legend persists as both a cultural ghost story and a point of pride for the local community, serving as a reminder of the mysteries hidden beneath the Oregon’s coastal waters. Wow, what do you think of that? I’m really curious. Why did you pick something in the Pacific Northwest? Because I live in The state of Washington? I did, yes. I picked something up close to your neighborhood. In my area. Thanks. That’s good. That’s good programming right there, people. Good programming. And I thought, this one sounds interesting. It’s got a weird story. It’s not like anything that you’ve ever heard of, right? How many other sea monsters or giant squids? It made me remember when I was a little kid. Okay. growing up in arizona and i remember i lived we lived in tucson i remember going to phoenix and going to be with my grandparents and then going on fishing trips to them to some lake there was some lake they went to right in uh in arizona someplace and there was just desert in there there’s nothing in there No, there’s forest and lakes you’d be really okay yeah And so there was always a story at this lake that there was a monster in the lake that would come out of the water at night and come up on the shore. And so that’s why you didn’t go out running around. Once it was time to go to bed, you got in your tent or you got in your trailer and you just didn’t leave because you didn’t want to get caught by that monster. And I remember them telling us that story. It was the Arizona… What do they call those? Sea monkey monster. Maybe old sea monkeys. But you know, it’s those kinds of stories like Loch Ness Monster in Scotland. Those deep water monster stories scare the shit out of me. I don’t know. There’s just something about them. Well, one, I don’t like the water. I mean, I can swim. To prolong my drowning. That’s about as good as I can quit. You’re not a pro swimmer, you’re saying? No, I’m not. I’m not a pro swimmer. But when I get out there, it’s like, give him a minute. He can survive for a little bit before we go out there. He’s all right. What about floating? You float well? Oh, yeah. That’s the first thing I learned as a kid was how to float. My grandpa in Utah taught me how to float. And so, but these… Unknown, and movies are the same way, like the movies with the monsters in the water. Right, yeah, old monster movies. I mean, nothing’s scarier. Like, Jaws scared the bejesus out of me when I saw that movie. And I read the book before I saw the movie, and the book’s scarier. And so, you know, the idea of being on a lake, you don’t know what’s below you. Exactly. And then all of a sudden, something coming up and grabbing you? Oh, no, man. No, I don’t want nothing to be on a… I don’t want to be there. No. This one I thought was so interesting because Champ in Lake Champlain out east in Vermont is just like Nessie. It’s like a plesiosaur. And then there’s the Ogopogo up in Canada is a plesiosaur. So this is a lake monster that is a squid that Some people say it’s a hairy squid, which to me was just like, okay, that’s even scarier. Yeah. Because would you want to have a hairy squid grabbing you? I mean, it would be like a vagina with tentacles. Yeah. And then when he gets out of the water, his hair is all messed up. He’s got to get it out of his eyes. He’s using his tentacles. That’s right. And then he gets mad. Yeah. Yeah. But it was one of the weirdest, as I was kind of doing a little research, it was one of the weirder things in that area. I mean, obviously, Washington, Pacific Northwest, Bigfoot, right? Everybody talks about Bigfoot. Yeah. But I thought we got to have something different and weird. And this is one of the weirder different ones that is in the area. And so I thought this has got to be a good one. Yeah, I had never heard that. That’s a good story. I’ve never heard that. And Bigfoot, as far as I’m concerned, up here in the Pacific Northwest, like the state of Washington, it’s run its course. We’ve heard so many stories. It’s like, hey, I saw Bigfoot. Yeah, yeah, right. Okay, whatever. He has been. Yeah. Yeah, sure you did. So what do you think the likelihood of there actually being a Devil’s Lake monster is? Zero. Zero. Not something that looks like a hairy squid. No, I don’t think so. Now, could it be a big sturgeon? Sturgeon get huge. Sturgeon get big. And it could be a sturgeon. And if I’m not mistaken, a sturgeon is fat. fresh water but i think it’s the fresh water yeah yeah but i think it does go out, it does go out in the salt water a little bit. Not a lot i mean it’ll it’ll go between the two yes kind of like salmon salmon salmon is all right yeah and i think they come to fresh water to spawn, but they live in salt water yeah i think sturgeon are close to being the same thing, but i have seen some Man, Bob, I’ve seen some huge sturgeon. I mean, on the columbia river At the Bonneville Dam, in that area on the Columbia River, just east of Portland, they have a big fish aquarium type thing there. They had sturgeon in there. Oh, yeah. They had a sturgeon in there that was like 18, 19, 20 feet long. Oh, my Lord. Yes. And it was an old sturgeon. And they took care of it. And, you know, the public loved it. They’d go out there and see this thing. And, you know, they had it for a long time. But some teenagers broke in there and killed it what yeah how they how did they kill it? Did they, like, stick a pike in it or something? What did they do? I have no idea that was long that’s weird or they just tap on the glass all night long until he just freaked out? Well, it was in a it was in a tank so that i mean it had an open top. Oh, okay. You can stand there at the guard railing. They spit on him until he couldn’t take it anymore. You’re so degraded. Everybody was so mad that they killed that sturgeon. That’s horrible. Maybe it could be a group of coordinated sturgeons. that act like tentacles whenever you’re in the water and they kind of grab ahold of you from different spots. Teenager. There’s still, there’s a bunch of lecherous sturgeons grabbing teenagers. Let me go back and say, you know, you asked me, you know, what do I think? Is there something possibly, I think there’s something that could be, you know, big, like a big fish and something like that. It’s just like, Bigfoot, you know, I can, I cannot confirm or deny a Bigfoot. I’ve never seen it. I’ve, you know, I don’t know. Yeah. I don’t know. Is there, is it, I don’t know. I don’t know. I I’ve never seen one. I don’t know. And you know, there’s other things, you know, running around. I, I don’t know. So like Nessie, is there really something in Loch Ness monster in the net Loch Ness? People say there is. I don’t know. I can, I can either confirm or deny it, you know, until I actually see it myself. Yeah, well, that’s the hard part, right? There could be something out there floating around, you know. I like to think that this particular story, I would agree with you. I’d probably say that there’s a very, very slim chance this is actually real. Not just because it sounds so outrageous, but if you take it a step further and you kind of analyze a little bit, you’re like, is there any other octopus-looking thing, creature in the world that has fur? And I don’t think there is, right? I think the fur thing is just someone’s imagination. Yeah, it throws it all off. Yeah, I don’t think it has. Maybe it’s molting or something. Yeah, I don’t know. But, you know, there are whales in that area. Yeah. I mean, all along the coast, there’s the big whale watching. Oh, yeah. And there’s orcas out there. I mean, they’ve got some big fish and mammals. That’s true. Out there in the water. So it could be. They’re not hairy, though. They’re not furry octopi. Are they full of, like if it’s a whale or something like that, or maybe a real old sturgeon? Is it full of barnacles? Barnacles that have seaweed, that had seaweed attached to it at one time? I don’t know. It sounds very Scooby-Doo when you say that. It was a seaweed-covered sturgeon. Well, look, I’m thinking about the creature from the Black Lagoon. Right, exactly. Oh, that’s great. And now that stuff down there, you know. I think typically a lot of these cryptid things that the ones that tie closer to something that’s really like we talk about Bigfoot, one that ties a little bit closer to something that existed. Right. So there’s monkeys, there’s, you know, apes and whatnot. Right. Not a huge stretch to go to Bigfoot, right? In the Nessie, there was plesiosaurs. We know they existed and everything. Not a huge stretch to say, well, maybe there’s a small plesiosaur population alive somewhere. You never know. But yeah, whenever you kind of mix and match things a little bit with the hairy octopus, it puts it over a little over there. Although tomorrow the news could say, Devils like monster is real. I don’t know. And so we would be all, we’d all be going, Oh, well, there you go. Yeah, that’s right. Oh my goodness. Who knows what people’s imagination does, you know, especially back if you start talking about back in the indigenous people’s days, you know, back when it’s just a lot of peyote. you know yeah yeah yeah they weren’t all sweet and innocent people you know it’s the devil’s herb monster. Oh my goodness. That’s it. It could have been all kinds of stuff out there but so have you ever seen anything yourself, like you’ve been out you see something you’re like, that’s not right. What is that? Have you ever had any experiences like that? When I was driving home in Prescott, Valley, Arizona, Prescott, from prescott valley into prescott uh through an area uh we called um i don’t know what it was called the devil’s butthole devil’s butthole it was right around ran around granite mountain in that area. I swear, when i was driving, I just, you know, I kind of looked down and then i looked up and i saw something going across the road. And it looked big. It looked big, and it looked kind of lumbersome walking across the road. And it went across the road, hit a ditch, and up and vanished into the woods. And I’m going, was that Bigfoot? I have no idea. I don’t know. Could it have been a bear? Or it was on two legs, you think? It was too upright to be a bear. Yeah, okay. Yeah. I don’t know. And then it was, are my eyes, did my eyes just play a trick on me? I don’t know. Interesting. And then one time when I was living in Chino Valley, I got home from work. It was night. I get home from work. I get out of my car. I open up the trunk to get something out of my trunk. And something catches my eye above me. And I look up and I see this orb jetting across the sky. And then vanishing into the clouds. I mean, this thing was moving too. And I’m going, that was no jet. That wasn’t no airplane. Do you remember what year that was? Just out of curiosity? It had to be mid-70s. Oh, okay. Wow. That’s a while ago then. Yeah. And both those things were mid-70s. How big of an orb would you say it was? Like, if you just had to guess. It had to, in perspective, it was bigger than an Apache helicopter. Okay, so something sizable then. It was not small. Yeah, it was pretty sizable. Was it flying about like where a helicopter would fly? Is that the idea? No, I think it was. It’s hard to tell how high up it was. But it was below the clouds. Right. Below the clouds because it was given off a glow and it was reflecting in the clouds as it’s going. Yeah. And then it just went into the clouds and disappeared. And then disappeared. That as well. You’re going to, this is now, theirs was in the 70s. I saw an orb in 2005. And I actually recorded a show with Miles about this and he said I was crazy. It was in the afternoon. It was like 4 o’clock in the afternoon. And I was outside with my kids when they were little. I was swinging them on a swing set, and I was pointing out airplanes to my son as they were going over. And I look up, and I’m going to say, hey, look, here’s an airplane, buddy. And it was a sphere flying through the sky at approximately the height of planes. And it went from the… uh, Southeast to the Northwest within 20 seconds. Yeah. Like horizon to horizon. Right. Just zipped right across this, uh, over my house. And, and I, I could not believe it. I was, it was, I was dumbstruck because I couldn’t do anything. This is pre a good cell phone camera. I didn’t have a camera on me. Yeah. And it just goes in and, was gone. And to this day, I still can’t explain it. It wasn’t a, we were looking at planes and it wasn’t a plane and it was it was a i saw the front of it. I saw the back of it. It was a ball. It was a sphere. And I saw it go in and out of the clouds. Yeah. I’m like you i mean it was it was an what i saw was an object, you know? And first thing i thought was i just saw a UFO. an unidentified flying object. I don’t know what that was. That wasn’t an airplane. It wasn’t no helicopter. It was something flying in the air, and it was quick. Yeah, very fast. Mine, I would guess, if I had to guess, it was about four times the size of a 747 nose cone. So if you think about the size of a 747, take that times four, and that’s I was assuming because I was watching it from the ground, and we were watching planes, and it looked four times larger than a plane. Wow. How weird. I know. But I think it’s fascinating that you had a similar experience because I have not talked to many people who have seen orbs. People will say, I saw lights, I saw this, I saw that. And people don’t usually say they’ve seen orbs and things. Even for me in 2005, I had a hard time finding, because I went on the internet, right? I went right to the internet. And I looked stuff up, and I couldn’t find a lot of orb talk in 2005. So I imagine in 1970, there was, I mean, there’s no way to look it up easily, but there’s nothing. You didn’t tell me about it. Hey, but I do have- I told Miles right away, as soon as we could record it, I’m like, He’s like, you’re high. Yeah. I do have one more example. Now, this isn’t a UFO. I think this is spiritual or ghostly or something in that realm. Wow, we’re getting everything. We’re getting all quadrants tonight. I’ve got game cameras in my backyard. Okay. Because we like to get at night what’s going on. We like seeing the raccoons and the possums and the rabbits. And all this and that and the birds flying around during the day and the squirrels. Well, I always pull them out after about a week or two. And then I sit here and I go through them, you know. And I got it set up so it shoots a 10-second video. 10-second video. So it catches motion. It runs 10 seconds of video. Yeah. Yeah. It’s a motion detector. So once it picks up a motion, it’ll record for 10 seconds. Yeah. All right. So I’m looking at the videos. It’s at night. I’m looking at the night ones now. And it’s like you’re looking at it through an infrared camera. Right, yeah. Night vision. I’m looking at it. And out of the right-hand corner, this orb comes into vision. And it had to be, I would say, about the size of a little bit bigger than a golf ball. Mm-hmm. mean what it looked like, but it came out and it was, it was like, let me do this, this arm because it’s coming, it come out like this and it’s kind of jet jetting around. Oh, bopping around and it and it you know, just kind of moving in and out of the area, you know, and i’m going, what the hell is that? Because I’ve seen bugs right bugs i i’ve got i’ve got footage of bugs flying around and you know and i’ve seen i know what a bug looks like on an infrared camera. This was not a bug and it was like a solid, uh, luminescent ball kind of shit. Yes. yes and and then it just uh and then it just went it moved around and it just went poof and disappeared. Really? And I still, to this day, I have that footage. Oh, gosh. Because I saved it. I showed Grammy. I go, hey, check this out. And she goes, what is that? I go, I have no idea. I don’t know. I have no idea what that is. Maybe somebody’s visiting us in our yard. But I’ve never seen it again. I’ve never seen anything like it again. That’s wild. I’d love to see that if you feel like sharing it at some point. I’d love to see it. Oh, yeah. I’ll send it to you. Send it to me. That’s cool. I think it’s an MP3 file, if I’m not sure. I’ll email it to you so you can look at it and tell me what you think. Yeah, I’ll take a look at it. This is great. So you’re hitting every corner of the Mondo Freako world here. We got cryptids, we got paranormal, we got UFOs. You know, I believe that stuff, Bob. And I mean, the reason I believe it is because no one’s been able to disprove any of it. True. It happens too often, right? You know, well, do you believe this? Well, I don’t. I do. I don’t not believe it. You know, I mean, you know, it’s like people say, do you believe in ghosts? Well, I, I’ve never, I don’t have a reason not to believe in ghosts. Right. You believe in aliens. Well, I think the probability with as, with as vast as this universe is the mathematical probability is that there are other life forms out there. So yes, I do. Yeah. You know, And me and my next door neighbor, whose name is Bob, we talk about this stuff all the time. And he says, he goes, so we were talking, he goes, so do you think aliens have been here? I go, yeah, I’m sure they’ve been here, but they don’t come anymore. He goes, why don’t you think they come anymore? I go, because we are the trailer park of the universe. They don’t go to the… Don’t go to the blue planet. They will eat you. They will catch you and eat you. Those people eat everything alive. And he’s laughing. He goes, yeah, I believe that they bypass us too. And he goes, because they look down at us and they go, there is no form of intelligent life on that rock. No intelligent life on this rock. He goes, there’s just a bunch of worms. He goes, we’re worms. They consider us worms. They’ll come down and catch them for bait for when they’re shocked. But, no, I mean, and, you know, I have no reason to doubt. I have no reason to doubt this stuff. Yeah. I’m with you. I’m like, until… Just because you haven’t had the experience doesn’t mean that no one’s had the experience. And if somebody’s had the experience, then there’s a possibility, I suppose. Yeah. That, you know, you can’t discount, you know, everybody else just because you haven’t done it. That’s right. So, you know, it’s… I think… At this point, I still think anything’s possible. The hubris of the humans is so great that we think we know everything, when in reality, we really don’t know very much at all. We know very little. Yeah, and this is just examples of things we don’t know, and people like to, you know, like to put it down. Oh, you know, that’s nothing. Oh, you just saw a lightning bug. Oh, you just saw a jet. Oh, you just saw… Well, the thing with that is I’ve seen lightning bugs. That wasn’t a lightning bug. I’ve seen jets. That wasn’t a jet. And another thing too, Bob, is I’m a Christian. I believe there’s a God. I believe Jesus was the Son of God and all this and that. And so people say, so you believe in heaven and earth? I go, yeah. They go, well, how could you? I go, how can you not? You can’t prove to me one way or the other. Well, I don’t believe in heaven. Well, why? Because nobody said it exists. Nobody said it didn’t exist. Right. Exactly. My concept of eternity is I think that there’s a verse in the Bible somewhere that says all things will be made known when we go into eternity. And I believe that because our brains are too small to handle the stuff that’s going on. And I think that once this life expires and we walk through that threshold into eternity, our eyes will be open to all kinds of things that we can handle then in a spiritual form that we can’t handle now in our physical form. In the physical form. That’s interesting. I think that’s what’s going to happen. And to be honest with you, I’m looking forward to it. I really am. You are an old man, so you’re closer than most. i’m looking forward to that day of walking through that door of eternity. They go, well, how do you know that even exists? Well, see, you gotta, it’s faith. You gotta believe that it exists it’s it’s on faith nobody you know, they go, well, nobody’s ever gone and come back. I go, one man claims to have oh way more than uh well jesus yeah and he sat around and talked to 500 people at one time and then left. And they saw him ascend so i go you know, um, And that’s another topic. But one thing about that that I always say is when Jesus died and they buried him in the tomb and they got the guards there guarding him, you know, the body. And then the morning comes, the doors move, the body’s gone. So did everybody, did the Romans and did the political leaders, did they just go, oh, well? i say, no. Think about it. They put on the biggest massive manhunt known to mankind because they wanted to find that body. They needed to find that body because of the followers he had, because of the, you know, all the teachings and everything. They needed to find that body so they could prove that he he was dead. But they never found the body. Because if they had found the body of jesus Christ, it would have been known historically. There would be a thing saying it. Yeah, they would have put it out there. And there are books out there where people have written about that. It would have been a bigger tour than King Tut. Yes. Exactly. But no, I believe in that stuff, Bob. To me, it just makes life more exciting. I mean, I believe there was a time where us, we as humans, we were more in tune with with spiritual stuff than we are. We’re not in tune to spiritual stuff nowadays at all. But I think we were more in tune with spiritual and, and, and, you know, spiritual stuff and, uh, uh, eternal stuff. I mean, we, I believe the stories where people say they saw their ancestors and all this and that. I believe that because there was a time when they were in tune to that kind of stuff. We’re not, we’re all technology has taken us and made us. actually made us very simple people. We don’t believe in this stuff that’s supernatural. We don’t believe in the supernatural stuff anymore and I think it’s out there. Yeah. The interesting thing is, does it matter? I mean, does it matter to everyone else? So if you, whatever you believe in your last moments of your life, if you firmly believe in them and then you slip away believing them, then it is eternity. You believe. Yeah. It doesn’t matter what happens on the other side. You are basically that last moment is your eternity, whether we know what happens or not, or anybody else knows what happens. It doesn’t matter if anybody knows. Doesn’t matter. No. Exactly. You have to just, you know, I think one of the things that people don’t realize is, you know, you have to live the life the way you want to all the way until the end. Because if you don’t, then when you end, you’re going to end on kind of a sour note, right? If you’re not following your heart and doing what you want. I totally agree with you, Bob. And you know, Bob, I think… Philosophical corner here. Yes, but that’s what makes life fun. If we would get back into being more spiritual beings, life would take a turn for the better, I’m sure of it. Because… You know, we don’t use our imagination near enough as we do. I mean, and we need to use our imagination. Imagination is the root of creation. I mean, not creation, but creating. Imagination is the root of creating. You know, and what did Albert Einstein say? Imagination is the root of knowledge. You know, because without our imagination, we can’t wonder how things are. You can’t find it. Exactly. We don’t do that anymore. When was the last time anybody walked outside on a nice starry full night, looked up and went, wow, what’s beyond what I can see? What’s out there? What is way out there? We need to get back into that. People come and say, hey, you know what? I believe in ghosts. I saw a ghost the other day. I go, what? awesome you know you believe me? Oh, yeah. Why wouldn’t i believe you you know i you know why wouldn’t i believe you? You know? Exactly. But if you never go about this thing about ghost Bob, have you ever been sitting, you know, watching, maybe watching TV, a movie or something, or reading, and you see something move out of your peripheral oh my God. It happens to me constantly. I see that all the time. I’m constantly looking, you know? And I’m, I’m thinking that there’s a part of me that’s in tune to things spiritual, and I think I’m really seeing some stuff. I always say that, well, actually, one of the worst things for me, I travel around a bit, and I traveled more in the past than I do now because of the way things have changed, but I go to hotels all the time, and I have cats, obviously, and And I would always see cats in the hotels out of the corner of my eye. I’d be like, Oh, is there a cat over there? I always think, I always think just because I always see them at home perhaps, but it happens too much. And then, you know, you see other things and I used to this, now you’re going to get, we’re going to get weird here. I used to, there’s a, um, a phenomenon called shadow people and, uh, shadow people are just outlines of people. And, um, I have a whole, we can get in a whole deep dive, but there have been times where I’ll see shadow people in the corner of my eye when I’m, a lot of times when I’m not home, though, when I’m elsewhere. So it’s not like, because whenever you talk about these kinds of, everybody wants to explain away everything. Oh, you got floaters in your eye. Oh, you need to go get your vision checked. Oh, you need, you know, it’s not consistently happening everywhere. You know, it depends on where I’m at. In some places, it happens more. In some places, it happens less. And so a weird thing was an old house of ours had a mailbox that was down a road, right? So your mailbox is not right by your house. We live out in the country. And you had to go down the road to get the mailbox. Right. And I swear to God. Every time I walk out to get the mail, there was all these shadow people around them because it was a mailbox for a bunch of people, right? So it was more than one, like three or four mailboxes for people. Always I would see things when I went out to get the mail, but never at the house. And it would just be like something that would blip out of the corner of your eye and you’d turn and you’d catch the glimpse of something. And it looked like a person. It was like a shadow that just kind of went. Yeah. And so I’m like, God damn, this mailbox has just got things all over it. I don’t know what’s going on out here. But, yeah, that was one of those things, and I’ve had it happen more than just there. But, yeah, you’re right. I think another thing is I think people aren’t in tune with themselves very much. So a lot of folks are so preoccupied with the world around them and the – The things that aren’t important, I’ll put it that way. I agree. Right? It’s all those distractions. Whereas if you’re kind of, you know, this sounds real hippy-dippy here, but you’re real zen and you’re kind of just focused on yourself and everything’s good with the world and you’re feeling good and everything, then I think you open yourself up more to these things. And they then enter, you know, then you can kind of perceive them a little bit better. Whereas if you’re so tied up in your phone and you know what you’re doing and you got to do this and you got to do that, you’re not going to, you’re blinded by your own kind of selfish nature. And it’s just like the wonder you’re talking about walking out and look at the stars. You have to open yourself up to the world. And when you do, things will reveal themselves to you. Exactly. And to people that are listening to this show, If you’ve got people that you’re like that, you see things and this and that. And if somebody comes up to you and says, well, I don’t believe you. Fine. Don’t believe me. Prove me wrong. You can’t prove them one way or the other. I mean, unless you see something, you can say, oh, well, I saw something. I know what you’re talking about. But if you’ve never seen it, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You know, you can’t prove, you cannot prove it. I mean, you know, you can’t say, well, that doesn’t exist. How do you know? Right. You know, it’s just like looking up into the sky and seeing this, seeing the sky and seeing the universe. You know, if you just look straight up and you see this and you tell them how, try to explain to them how big the universe, you know, we’re just a little tiny speck in a, in a, in a gal, in a solar system, in a galaxy and, in a universe, and it’s like, well, I don’t believe that. It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter the way it is. It doesn’t matter if you don’t believe it, you know and uh yeah i i just uh this stuff is exciting to me. It really is. A real quick story. Do you have time for a quick story? Oh, yeah, go right in my grandson, when he was a little boy, like five, four or five years old, him and his dad are sitting there. His dad’s watching the nba playoffs and the young man and the young young man. Yeah, and he’s sitting there and he’s playing in toys and all that. And he stands up. He stands up. His dad’s on a sofa. He stands up here and he’s looking up at this corner of the living room. And the tv’s over here and he’s looking up there. He’s just there looking and and and eric and eric looks and goes, what the hell? And then dominic turns around and goes, hey dad look Look. And he’s pointing up into the corner of the roof. Like if I was pointing up into that. Look. Look. And he goes, what do you see, Dominic? He goes, look. Look. And it’s like, I go, well, what did you do, Eric? He goes, I picked him up and ran the hell out of the house. I go, was there anything there? He goes, not that I saw. He saw. But he saw something. And I wanted to get the hell out of there. You couldn’t take Dominic and say he didn’t see anything. He was very confident that he saw something. I think he did. I think because babies and kids are in tune to spiritual stuff more than adults. They’re open to the world. You talk to a little kid when a little kid says, hey, who are you talking to? My friend. What’s your friend’s name? Fred. Where is he? He’s right here. Okay. Hi, Fred. Play nice, Fred. That’s what I used to do with my kids. I would talk to their imaginary friend and just tell their imaginary friend, he’s in my house and he better be good. When my dad passed away, my sister had his ashes. at the, at her house in Santa Fe. And she calls me up and she says, you know, strangest thing when dad passed away, you know, I’ve got his ashes and I, you know, he kind of buried him out, you know, spread him among the plants and whatever. And she goes, but now my house smells like cigarette smoke all the time. I go, you’re kidding. And she goes, no, I go, well, is, you know, anybody coming in your house smoking? She goes, no, nobody comes in my house and nobody smokes. I go, but you smell cigarette smoke. She goes, yes. I go, well, what do you do? What’d you do about it? She goes, well, I, I finally got fed up and I stood up in the middle of the house and I went, look, Francis, if you want to be here, you can be here all you want, but I don’t want no more cigarette smoke. No smoking inside. Yeah. Basically that’s what she said. I guess. And what happened? She goes, I’ve never smelt it again. That’s wild. That’s a wild story right there, baby. And on that note, let’s roll ourselves out of here, shall we, old man? Thank you for being the guest tonight. Remember, everybody, go to the Old Man’s Podcast and listen to him and Grammy and, you know, have some fun, right? I would love to come back anytime you want me, man. Yes, of course. We’ll have you come back here soon, all right? Yeah, send me an invite, man. I’m here. I’m here for you, buddy. All right, you hold tight for just a minute, and I’m going to play us out of here. Mondo Freako. Mondo. Mondo Freako. Mondo Freako. Mondo Freako. Mondo Freako.

Lady in Red During a lively episode of the podcast Mondo Freako, the host welcomes Canadian guests Todd and Darcy for a deep dive into the paranormal, centered around a trivia quiz about Toronto’s historic Fairmont Royal York Hotel. The discussion highlights the legend of the “Lady in Red,” a residual haunting on the eighth floor known for her crimson evening gown, the scent of old-fashioned perfume, and her habit of walking into non-existent elevators. While the guests jokingly stumble through the quiz, the conversation shifts into personal spectral encounters, including Todd’s eerie story of seeing a “ghostly groom” while his wife saw a “ghostly bride” at the Fairmont Banff Springs. OSHOPOD.com https://youtube.com/live/q52idZ8IH6E Transcript (AI transcription) So I hear ghosts are warmer-blooded in Canada. Is that true, guys? Well, they certainly are not reptilian. No, we don’t have cold-blooded ghosts. Oh, really? They’re red-blooded Canadian ghosts up here. Darcy, do you agree with that assessment? Yeah, okay. Okay. Great riff. Great riff. Mondo Rico. Hey everybody and welcome to Mondo Rico. Today we’ve got a couple of Canadians with us today. How are you guys doing? Fantastico. And just because I said you’re Canadian, you can identify as other than, I mean, maybe, is there differences in being in Canada? Or you can say, no, I’m an Albertan. Oh, okay. Well, yeah. There’s that now. Yes. Okay. That has connotations that we’d rather not hop into at this point. Okay. It’s a little early in the show for that. A Torontonian? Is that the word? Yes. And an Ottawa? Ottawa? An Ottoman? Yeah. An Ottoman. Yeah. Yeah.Okay. You guys don’t identify? I’m an East Coaster originally. Yes. Okay. I’m from Nova Scotia. So you’re like Anna Green’s Gables or what? Not quite. That would be Prince Edward Island. But Nova Scotia, which means New Scottsdale, Arizona. A Scotian? Yes. Yes. See, it’s funny because Darcy is a Torontonian who identifies as an East Coaster, and I am an Ottawa who identifies as a Torontonian. Oh, well… You guys need to have graphics or something whenever you come on to introduce all this. We’re going to have arrows going all across the great white wall. It’s nothing but strings and post-it notes and pictures of East Coast Donair and wings from the Wheat Sheaf. Wheat Sheaf wings. Well, this show is about the mysteries of the world. And I have a mystery, but every time we do a quiz and I give the person who’s participating, the people in this case who are participating, the opportunity to either take the quiz cold about our topic today or get the information and then take the quiz. Depends how daring you are here.Yeah, send me in cold coach. What it’s about here, I can tell you what it’s about. Don’t even care. Bring it. Oh, you just want to go right to the quiz. Hop right in. I’m not looking up nothing. There we go. Let’s do it. Quiz. Quiz. All right. Here you go. I just realized something. If I screw up, if I just screwed myself out of a prize, is… No, yeah, there’s no prize. You guys might not be able to see this totally because it’s probably really small, but this is our quiz here. I’m going to read all the questions and the answers, so don’t worry about it if it’s small on your screen. You’re perfectly fine. All right? Yes. All right, here we go. First question. In which Canadian city is the Fairmont Royal York Hotel located? Is it… A, Ottawa…B, Bikini Bottom, C, Montreal, or D, Toronto. And I do have a hint if you guys want that. Darcy, do you want to take this one? No, no, go ahead. Are you sure? Bikini bottom, obviously. Bikini bottom! For the win. Oh, no! Oh, my goodness. While residents there might see many ghosts of sunken ships, the Fairmont Royal York is strictly a dry land-based establishment in Toronto. Did you know that the Fairmont Royal York is a historic landmark and a prominent fixture of the Toronto skyline? For sure. It’s tucked in. It’s right across the street from Via Rail, from the Union Station in Toronto. In fact… You’ve been? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And in fact, the Fairmont chains, like the Fairmont hotels in Canada, until they moved…the railway stations, they were always across the street from a railway station. People would get off and then go immediately into the hotel. Fairmont Railways. That was their tagline. Fairmont Railways. Alright, next question. Number two. There’s seven questions altogether. They’re supposed to get more difficult as we go along. Who knows, though. What is the most distinctive feature of this spirit’s appearance? According to witnesses at the Fairmont, right? Okay. In Toronto. Okay. A tattered maid’s uniform, a vibrant red evening gown, a shadowy featureless cloak. Right. Or a bright red clown nose. I have a hint if you want it. Yeah, let’s have a hint. Oh, let’s do the hint. Yeah. Her name tells you exactly what color she is wearing. Oh, so it’s obviously a bright red clown nose. Um,No, I am going to say a vibrant red evening gown. Darcy, are you in on that? That’s the sound of money that we’re winning. Darcy, we’re going to get so rich off of this. Much like just about every major chain establishment, you earn points. Which can be spent on our next visit. Right. Or possibly, unless we change our game. Right. So the vibrant red evening guy, you’re right, the spirit is named after her striking crimson dress, often described as a formal gown from a past era. Okay. All right. You’re doing great. You got one for one. One for one. What more could you want? Well, I’m going to say we actually got two, because we’re screwing around on the first one. Technically, if you’re going to hold us to it, then yes. Much like school, when you screw around, you lose. Okay. All right.All right, next question, number three. On which specific floor of the hotel is the lady in red most frequently sighted? Oh, that’s her name. Okay. The rooftop? Mm-hmm. The 13th floor? Right. The basement near the laundry? Mm-hmm. Or the eighth floor? I also have a hint if you’d like. I think we got to take hints. You want a hint? Take that hint, yeah. Yeah, yeah, hint, please. Oh, don’t say, okay, thank you. It is an even-numbered floor in the single digits. It is 13. I just used my math degree. Woo-hoo! No, it’s the eighth. It’s the eighth. We’re screwing around here. We’re not screwing around here. Eighth floor? Yeah. All right! There we go. That’s right. The eighth floor is the most cited location for sightings of the lady walking the hallway. That’s amazing.I think my wife has to stay there next week and I’m going to make sure she’s on the eighth floor. Yeah. I’m going to call her at the end of the hallway. Cause that’s where she probably disappears. I’m guessing. Yeah. All right. Which of the following sensory details is often reported by guests who believe they have just missed an encounter with her. Okay. The smell of wet dog, the smell of burnt toast. Okay. That’s a stroke, right? Okay. The faint sense of old fashioned perfume, which is, male of sulfur, which is what? Okay, well, we’ll see. That’s there all the time. Yeah. That is, that is in the fairmont royal York. Yeah. That is just omnipresent, so it’s something needs to cut through that um also known as petticoat central yes yes darcy i i feel like a hint is necessary. Do you, are you feeling oh is there a hint a hint there’s always a hint oh great yeah that’s always a hintAll right. Think of a subtle fragrance a woman in an evening gown might wear. Yeah, sulfur, just like farts. The scent of old-fashioned perfume. So I guess she walks around all over the place, right? Did I see you and agree? You concur? Yeah, I can see. Are you sure? I knew you were looking at wet dog. Are you sure? Okay. All right, I guess we’re going to see. You haven’t even got to her ghost dog rover. Right, exactly. All right. Pickles, no. The faint scent of old passion perfume. Oh, my gosh, look at this. Wow, wow, wow, wow. I’m saying at this point, you’ve got like 0.3 cents. Okay, all right. Just like coupons, you can turn them in for cash. Still better than PC points at this point. All right, you’re doing good.Three for one. Great. One more. You’re over the top. It’s seven questions. You get more than 50%. I think you’re good to go. Here we go. Question number five. What unusual behavior is the Lady in Red often observed doing before she disappears? Okay. A, ordering a pizza from the front desk. B, aggressively checking her non-existent smartphone. C, arguing with an invisible person. Right. Or D, stepping into an elevator somewhere. that is not there. Okay. So I, I have to, I have to tell you something. Um, the last time i was at the, uh, royal uh, York, um, we, uh, we had just got back from a friend of ours wedding. And when i got back, I have done all of those things. So stepped into a non-existent elevator yeah it was painfulMy wife told me it was our clothes closet, but whatever. Okay, sure. All right. Too bad you weren’t on the eighth floor. I know. She might be collecting insurance money. Darcy, what do you think? You want the hint? Of course we want the hint. Darcy’s place is safe. I’m guessing Darcy’s school record is not very marked up, where Todd’s possibly is In a Filofax. Oh, yeah. Yes. They converted it to microfiche. Yes. Yeah. It involves a common method of hotel transportation. Well, then for sure it’s pizza, right? Like that’s, of course it is. No, no, no, no, no. I don’t want to sully our record. Darcy, it sounds like elevator to me. How about you? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, stepping onto the elevator that’s not even there. Oh, my gosh. Look at that. She thought it was a closet. That’s right. A common report describes her walking into the elevator bank area and stepping into a space where no car is present. You’re over the top on the seven. You’re four out of seven. So we got two more just for fun. Let’s see what happens. Let’s do this.Number six, what temperature change is frequently reported by those who claim to have walked through her? Is it A, an intense sweltering heat? B, a static shock that ruins your hairdo? C, a sudden localized chill? Or D, a comfortable 72 degrees with low humidity? Well, we use Celsius up here. We do. So that would be like… yeah 20c something like that yeah yeah yeah a a d like okay so 72 celsius no uh 72 uh fahrenheit oh 72 yeah but if that was 72 Celsius, that would be 140 for 174. yeah it would be quite hot uh i will take the hint, but i’m pretty sure it’s a localized chill from from the paranormal things. It’s a sensation. Yeah, there you go. Commonly referred to as a cold spot. Yes. Yeah. Sudden localized chill when you walk through a ghost. You guys are thinking C? Mm-hmm. Definitely. Oh, my gosh. You’re on roll. So far, it’s all the cliches. Yes. Well, witnesses often report cold spots of a sudden drop in temperature. Things are cliches for a reason, Darcy. That’s right.That’s right. They’re accurate. She’s nearby. And importantly, she reports in Fahrenheit, not Celsius. Okay. All right. Last question. You got five. I only got one wrong, which, of course, you’re saying is because you were being goofy around. Exactly. The host has zero sense of humor. Okay. All right. The Lady in Red is often considered a residual haunting. What does this mean in paranormal terms? Oh, dear. Okay. She is an intelligent spirit who tries to steal your Wi-Fi password. So far the winner. B, she is just a very dedicated hotel guest who refused to check out. C, she is recording of a past event replaying. Or D, she’s a poltergeist that moves objects. And we have a hint, if you’d like. Yeah. I think we want the hint, but I’m pretty sure I’ve got it. Yeah.Think of a loop of film playing back on a wall. Right. Which, I mean, at this point, no one knows what film is. Picture a DVD skipping. No, okay, that’s even worse. It’s an Instagram reel. Yeah, exactly. It’s an Instagram reel playing on a wall. That’s right. Uh, I guess it’s see a recording of a past event darcy you’re gonna are you agreeing with this? I agree with that yeah here we go. Oh my gosh. Look at that. Oh, if you would have got all seven, I would have given you $700,000. Oh, my God. Oh, damn it. Well, I will tell you this. It’s not the first time and certainly won’t be the last time that my behavior has screwed me out of money. You get a Trump card. Oh, no. No, thank you. No, no.Non lo voglio. No, no, no. Well, let’s finish up with our quiz music and we’ll hear a little message. All right. Quiz. Quiz. Quiz. This is Jonathan. And this is Heaven from the Opa Ghost podcast. And you’re listening to Mondo Frico. Toodles. Mondo Rico. That’s amazing. There you go, Mondo Rico. Now, do you guys want to hear the story of the Lady in Red from the Fairmont Royal York in Toronto? I absolutely would. And Darcy, I don’t know if you have… Is that what you’re trying to say? No, no, no, no, no. I actually have a Fairmont Hotel ghost story as well. Oh, well, this is going to be fantastic. I had no idea. It’s all random, folks. I know you don’t believe it, but it’s all random. Well, let me tell you the story real quick of the lady, and then we’re going to get to that ghost story. How’s that? Okay, definitely. Here we go. Let’s see here.Here we go. Here we go. The Fairmont Royal York in Toronto is home to one of Canada’s most enduring ghost stories, The Legend of the Lady in Red. According to local lore, she is frequently sighted on the eighth floor where she is set to manifest as a woman dressed in a vibrant crimson evening gown. Witnesses often report seeing her glide silently down the hallways before vanishing into the walls or stepping into an elevator that isn’t there. Some accounts suggest that she was a guest who met a tragic end at the hotel during her early years, though her specific identity remains a mystery, adding a layer of eerie elegance to the historic landmark. The presence of the Lady in Red is often accompanied by strange, unexplained phenomena that keep staff and guests at edge. People have reported sudden localized drops in temperature and the faint scent of old-fashioned perfume lingering in the corridors where she was last seen.While the Fairmont Royal York is known for its grand architecture and high-profile guests like Todd, not Darcy, it is these spectral tales that give the hotel its haunted reputation. Whether she is a lonely spirit or residual echo of the hotel’s jazz-age glamour, the Lady in Red remains a central figure in Toronto’s urban mythology. I did that wrong. There we go. That’s good. I see. Now I need to go stay on the eighth floor. Yeah. Yeah. No, but you did, you did a little tease there that you have a, now was it at the one in Toronto? It was not, it was not, uh, this was at the franchise, these ghosts out to all their hotels. Well, Oh, hello. There we go. Yeah. Hello. This is Nacho. Nacho as in Nacho Darcy.Nacho! Here we are. Oh, what a cute ask nacho if if he’s seen a ghost. Have you seen any ghost Nacho? He totally sees ghosts okay yeah i think there’s yeah there’s a there’s a picture hanging in the living room and he always thinks there’s like it’s the door to narnia or something. He’s always trying to get behind it see what i thought you’re gonna say he’s a sketch artist as well Darcy’s fridge is just covered with feline doodle art, you know, just magnets. You have to buy these special tiny crayons. Now, before I spill my story, Darcy, have you ever seen a ghost? Have you ever seen a ghost? I mean, that’s at the hotel. Or just in general. It could have been at the Red Roof. I know you’ve seen three ghosts, but none of them were at a Fairmont Franchise Hotel. This is not the time or place. It’s a sponsor. No, I’ve never seen a ghost. You’ve never seen a ghost? Really? No. How interesting. Bob, you ever seen one? No, I’ve never seen a ghost.So I’m the only one, and I saw mine at a Fairmont, and then you come to us with a Canadian story about the lady in red at the Fairmont Hotel in Toronto. A total guess. A total guess on my part. See, now that is paranormal activity. There you go. That is just like this. So here’s my story. My wife and I were on vacation, and we stayed at the Banff Springs Fairmont. really in Banff and Banff. I’ve always wanted to go to Banff. Is it really nice? It is gorgeous. It is absolutely gorgeous. Um, and so we, we go, uh, we, we check in and everything’s great. And I, uh, the first thing I do much to the chagrin of my wife is, uh, as soon as I get the wifi password, uh, I open up my internet browser on my phone and I type in the name of the hotel we’re staying in. I hit the space bar and then I put the word haunted and then I hit return.and uh and then as soon as the results come back, I go, hey, honey. And she goes, oh, no, you didn’t. And I go, oh, yes, I did. And she goes, no. And I went, oh, yeah, this place is crawling with them. And she’s like, did not need to know that. Did not even so we asked around and sure enough, like they have like a wing dedicated to the paranormal activity that they that they get there. And, um, Chief among the sightings is a glowing orb that shows up in one of the banquet rooms in the ballrooms. And so you can sometimes see this orb kind of floating around. That we did not see. What happened instead happened in the middle of the night in our room. My wife woke up in the middle of the night and at the foot of our bed,was a woman could not see her face through the veil in a wedding dress. Okay. And she was just standing there and my wife was now in sleep paralysis, so she couldn’t move. So the ghost is right there and she can’t move. So she’s trying to wake me up and just going, Todd, Todd, and true to my form, I’m dead asleep nothing’s gonna nothing’s gonna wake me up. Not even the undead will allow me to rise from this and so uh she uh she of course, when we wake up in the morning, she gives me complete hell for not being for for first of all, doing nothing. Right. But, you know, to to her credit, I was not helpful in this situation at all. I was not able to help her. And I said, so what what does the ghost look like? And she told me it was like a bride with a veil on. She couldn’t see her face because it was dark. It was definitely a wedding gown. And I went, huh, that’s interesting.And she says, why? Because I woke up later on or before this. I don’t know when the timing was that I woke up because this all happened, again, while I was sleeping. No idea what was going on. So at some point in the evening, while my wife was still asleep, I woke up and I looked at the foot of the bed and I saw, again, dark-faced, like can’t see the face, can’t make it out, but a gentleman in a full tuxedo and top hat. And I just looked at him and my reaction was, because I’m still sleepy and tired from the travel, whatever. I literally went, Hey, and then I rolled over and went to sleep. Sorry. Occupado. Yeah. I just let, Hey, and then that was it. And when I was like, and you did not wake up, I was like, you know what? It, it didn’t occur to me that it could have been real. So I didn’t even think of it. Right. But now given that she saw the bride, I saw the groom.So, yeah, so that was, we saw a couple, a living couple saw a dead couple. Really? Yes. Had you just renewed your vows or anything? No, nothing. Nothing. She was probably going to leave me that day. Yeah, I was going to say, was there divorce papers? You know, the death of a marriage. Divorce papers in the suitcase. Yeah, that’s it. Here, you know, always find a romantic place to drop form 8A on someone. Yeah. But chances of me finding a new mate here in Van are higher than if I was back home. Well, certainly among the non-living. Well, that’s cool. That’s a cool story. We actually saw a ghost. And Darcy, have you had anything happen that would be considered paranormal, perhaps? I do have a couple of hotel stories, but I’ll let Darcy go if he can… If Jim and Nacho can muster up a sketch, we’ll…I say it was not it was close to Banff. I was in Lake Louise. Okay. And I got altitude sickness. Oh, okay. Which is much as much like seeing a ghost. Really? Yeah. What was altitude sickness like? And how high up is that anyway? I know Lake Louise is fairly high up, but how high? It’s not super high, but… I guess I grew up near the ocean. You grew up at zero feet above sea level. Yeah. How many feet above sea level are we? Five? Five feet. So yeah, headaches and a rash was what I had. Wow. A rash? A rash, yeah. I guess it’s a thing, yeah. Okay. I had no idea. Yeah, I didn’t feel better until I was Yeah, I guess on the plane leaving, which is even higher than where you were before. Right. I just I needed to get in a pressurized cabin. Yes. Do you normally reside in an iron lung? I have one that I’m only like 30 feet off the ground here, but I do have something that equalizes it down to sea level.Oh, really? Okay. That’s interesting. It’s called a bodega. Anyway. Darcy lives in a bathysphere of some sort. That’s interesting. No, I’ve been over 10,000 feet a couple of times, and I’m certainly no one of great physical prowess, and I’ve never had problems. So I don’t know where you have to be at to get Altitude sickness. But so far, I haven’t caught it. Right. You need to get high, man. I mean, geographically, man. Yeah. Well, I was in the Rocky Mountain, kind of the divide of the Rocky Mountains. Right. And I was on the volcano in Hawaii. Oh, okay. And that’s even higher, I think, than the Rocky Mountains, believe it or not. But interesting. Now, back to the ghost things. Yes. Well, I had…Two weird hotel ghost experiences that I could bring to you. But they weren’t seeing a ghost like yours. Yours, Todd, was way more interesting than what I’m going to say. Okay. Because I didn’t see anything. Okay. I’ll go with the mundane one first. Sure. So I have to travel for my work. And as a frequent traveler, I never get rid of my room until I absolutely have to. Mm-hmm. And I’m always the guy that’s like, can I get late checkout? Can I get late checkout? Absolutely. No, you’re not that guy. You are a normal guy. I’m just saying. And so I was in this hotel. I had gathered everything up. I put everything in my suitcase. I had my suitcase on. You know, you get two beds a lot of times. So the bed I did not sleep in, I put my suitcase on, all packed up, ready to go. And I put…I had a bag with some nice shoes. Actually, it had my not nice shoes in it right now because I was wearing my nice shoes. And I had it up on the bed at the end of it. Right. Like where they put the fake quilt. I don’t know if you guys have. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Where it’s like. Who are you fooling with this thin strip of fabric that is barely sewn together to make it look like a quilt? We’ve got too much to make another set of drapes. That’s right. Put it on the bed. Put it on the bed. That’s fine. So it’s on there, you know, secure, safe. Gravity is holding it in place. It’s not going anywhere. I go, I do, you know, work things. I come up, I have to check out my shoes.My suitcase is still on the bed. My shoes are out of the bag on the floor in a Kimbo. Okay. As it were, no one’s been in my room. No other signs of like the maid didn’t come in and go, oh, I’m going to throw this guy’s goddamn shoes on the floor. Right. Nothing like that. Now, I would have thought nothing of that had the other part of the story not happened, which is the night before. Uh, I’m laying down, go to sleep. I happen to be on, uh, the room. It’s kind of at the end of the, uh, the end of the hallway near another hallway. Okay. So I’m on the corner. So there’s a hallway that runs behind the room. And then there’s a hallway that I get to my door for my room. Right. Trying to go to sleep. It’s, you know, relatively late, I guess, 1130, something like that central time. And none of the matters, but, uh,I’m laying there, and it’s as if someone leans over me and lets out a large belch right in my ear. Okay. I mean, full on. Right. Yep. I wake up. I’m looking around. There’s no one in the room. Right. What ghost belches in your ear? That is Slimer from Ghostbusters. That is Slimer from Ghostbusters with a shoe fetish. Yeah. Right. So then I just chalked it up for somebody being in the hallway, but it obviously, I mean, it obviously was not in the hallway. It was literally like if whenever you’re younger and your brother, your older brother holds you down and burps in your face, exactly what it was. Okay. So I, I, I, You know, I had to play, you know, I’m like, how can I sleep here if I keep thinking about this? Oh, it was just somebody in the hallway. Right. Go to sleep, wake up next morning. Now my shoes everywhere. Yeah. That is a common thing with the ghost, the moving of things. Oh, I thought you meant the belching. Oh, the belching, that’s new. And I’m not unconvinced you didn’t just wake yourself up after chilly night.I’m pretty sure it wasn’t me. I’ll be honest. There have been a couple of moments where I go, we may have a ghost where I’m looking for something plainly and I have exhausted everything and I’ve looked like I have looked on the bed. I have been over every place in this bed where I could have dropped something. I go back to my office, go downstairs, and I come back and the keys are dead center of the bed. It’s like I literally looked here and they’re not here now. They are now. So there’s something like that. In my house. In your house? So if we have a ghost, he doesn’t come out often. Right? Is he wearing a groomsman attire? Zero sign of any spiritual clothing at all. Not a naked guy either, just not even seeing him. No tobacco or anything? No, nothing. I don’t get a cold spot when I walk through. Nothing.But that’s common. There’s records of… The comedy store in Los Angeles is haunted. And there are… I don’t think she died there, did she? Doesn’t matter. It’s been a long time there. Well, certainly Pauly Shore’s career is dead. The… it used to be an Italian restaurant that was run by the mob. And so people would come in the front door and then out the back door in a lot of cases. And so in some cases, yeah, like they would dispatch of people at this restaurant. And so because horrible things happen, it is, you know, the psychic energy disperses and goes into it. And so there were stories of like Rob Riggle, who’s like an ex Marine, but a comedian. Yeah. Uh, he was hanging out one night in the doorway to the basement. They have like the, one of those corrugated, um, gates. And, uh, out of nowhere, it started banging from the inside, like just rattle, rattle, rattle, rattle, rattle, rattle. And Rob Riggle, you know, uh, military veteran, Rob Riggle, uh,like he was just like he was just like he was just like shat himself and left like he was just shat himself and left like he was just shat himself and left like he was just gone gone gone it was like no f this place and there it was like no f this place and there it was like no f this place and there was one time where like they had to go was one time where like they had to go was one time where like they had to go get something in the basement for or get something in the basement for or get something in the basement for or something right and no one wanted to go and something right and no one wanted to go and something right and no one wanted to go and said okay so let’s all go together so said okay so let’s all go together so said okay so let’s all go together so i’ll go where’s rob riggle and i’ll go where’s rob riggle and i’ll go where’s rob riggle and i think rob i think rob was in this in think rob i think rob was in this in think rob iAnd they see in the corner a dark figure in the shadows, cannot make him out, but definitely a humanoid figure, right, who then runs at them. Meanwhile, one of the guys that’s down in the basement starts screaming that his hands are burning because this is apparently where they would put people’s hands on stoves. to get them to talk and, you know, get money out of money yeah so he felt that experience. So at this point, between running guy and screaming guy the the party goes, enough! And up the stairs they run. And a piece of cardboard drops on top of them. And the piece of cardboard reads, I think, the name. It’s either the name of of the the ghost downstairs or the name of one of the people in the party.Oh, really? And just kind of scrawled on there. Who’s that? Okay, so when I woke up this morning, I had a package of butter tarts that were on the kitchen table. They were on the floor when I woke up this morning. Oh, is that right? You got a cat. Oh, yeah, right. I have a cat. Never mind. Never mind. Yeah, yeah. And a very clumsy wife, I’d add, too. That’s it. There’s something inside joke on that one, I think. She is not clumsy in the least. She’s one of the most dexterous people that I know. Well, that’s good. So I’m getting this feeling that obviously Todd is all in on the ghost theory. Absolutely. And Darcy is not. Not a believer. So what would it take Darcy for you to believe?Just a ghost showing up with, I’m real. He would have to sit down with me for a while and show me how this is happening. Right, yeah. I’d still be like, yeah, no. I’m just way too high right now, that’s all. Sure, but there’s all kinds of things about the universe and the physical space out there that we could not understand and now do. Like, we used to think that everything revolved around the Earth, and it’s the opposite, right? It is. Oh, Bob, I really hate to break this to you. How does it go around when we’re flat? This is going to blow your mind. How come we don’t just fly off into space? We’re on a turtle. We’re on a flying turtle. So there’s all these things that we couldn’t explain, and now we do. And I think there is something to…Psychic energy being released like something that we don’t see in the same way that there’s like parallel universes or something Sure, there’s like something gets jammed something screws up and something so so egregious something like that just tears the fabric that This one particular image or this one particular thing is kind of trapped in this moment in time Which which makes sense for like the the recurring ghost? yeah, there was a there’s a story of a This woman, she’s a ghost expert in the U.S., and she told a story about this woman who knew that her place was haunted by this elderly gentleman who passed away in this apartment ages ago, and he never caused her any undue harm. He wasn’t creepy with her, but because he’s been dead for quite a while and bored, he would screw around with her. So, like, she’d be looking for a brush, and it wasn’t anywhere, and then suddenly the brush would show up here.Or like, you know, she would go to the makeup cabinet and her makeup’s all like all over the place. And so she’d say, ha, ha, ha, Leonard. But then one day, and she could always like feel him, like feel him around and just like, oh, okay, Leonard’s here, whatever. And she went to work one day. And Leonard had been dead for several, several, several years. And she could feel his presence in the car. So she could feel Leonard in the car with her. he was a car ghost. And a car ghost now and so and so it’s not like ghost the tv show where they have to stick to the property. So he was yeah he was mobile so he was he was like the guy with the arrow through his neck yeah and uh and so she she said to Leonard, let’s call him leonard it’s like um i know you want to join me today. I know you want to come out, but this world is notthe same one that you left. Not for ghosts and and i don’t think you would be very comfortable out here. I think you should go back to the apartment. And then she felt him go away. Really? Yeah. That’s a weird one. That’s a good one. I like, I am all about this all right here’s the only weird thing i got. Okay, so. Okay. You mentioned like dimensions and stuff like that when i was a kid. yeah and I was a kid, I walked like there’s paths through the woods all around my house, right? So I would cross the main main road they’re only highway. Cross the road into a path in the woods. I walked and i walked and i walked and i walked and i walked. And then i came out of the woods on the other side of the road where i had gone in.I kind of looped around like a side scroller and come out the other side. Exactly. A Pac-Man situation. For the longest time, I had convinced myself that I had traveled to a different dimension. Everything’s exactly the same, but I had somehow… That was Edward Island. Mom’s got tentacles now, but that’s cool. That’s cool, though. That’s an interesting story because… I’ve never had anything like that happen. And I think that that would be, Well, I mean, you’re a kid, right? Yeah, chances are I dreamt the whole thing. But still, for years and years, I would explain things like, oh, this is why this happened to me. This is why I’m so unlucky. This is not my real universe. If you would have walked the other way, that was the lucky door, and you walked the unlucky path. I feel like even later on, I actually tried to recreate the trip, and I just got lost. Just to try to get back to where you started.i was waiting for darcy to go. I was walking through the woods and i was convinced that nelson mandela died in prison. I was convinced of it. The Mandela effect. The Mandela effect. We have it because darcy walks through the woods but but that that kind of goes back to my point where you think like like the the berenstein bears i always do them as the berenstein bears yes right that’s how i thought they were. And apparently I’ve been wrong this entire time. That’s not unusual. No, that’s just par for my course, really. No, that’s wild. Yeah, exactly. But I think I’m somewhere in between on the topic because I actually don’t think that they’re necessarily ghosts. Yeah. It could be anything. That’s what we call them. But I think it is a phenomenon that we haven’tFigured out we haven’t figured out what it is. Yeah, probably because here’s the other thing. The reason that you are able to discover these things that kind of change our world scientifically is that you throw research at it and you Find some form of instrumentation that you can correct to gather data on the thing that you’re studying. Mm-hmm, right Yeah, yeah, they they made a sextant they the sundial they like all these things sort of like, oh, this all kind of helps put the picture together and I don’t know, and this is why I’m not a scientist nor a ghostologist. Is that a thing? You just made it up. I just made it up. I’m not a ghostologist. I don’t know sort of like where do you even begin trying to calibrate the paranormal, right? Exactly. So look at the lady in red, right? When are these sightings occurring?What is the period of the visits? What is the… Blood alcohol level, yes. Exactly, yes. You’re right. How many cannabinoids are in that candy bar you bought? Right, exactly, exactly. Yeah, it could be. No, you’re right. I think that part of the big problem with the paranormal is measuring things because people measure things on scales that aren’t real and so then it can be, oh, well, this is a very scary place, so it’s a hundred rad something right you know and and they just kind of make it up as they go along, where, yeah, you need to have somebody who sits there and then just writes down okay ghost came through yeah at 10 30 ghost came through at 7 30. you know. And this is the scoville units of scary.Yeah, exactly. That’s what we need to find, the Scoble units of scary. This is your Carolina Reaper of paranormal activity right here. But again, what are the things, when these things happen, when they occur? Is there a time of day? Is there a temperature? Is there a season? Is it whatever it is? Is it moisture content? Is it too humid? Like what is it? i i still go back to like this this time continuum thing where there’s like the there’s a skip, there’s a scratch in the dvd that makes it repeat itself right so so what what triggers that you know right darcy well it’s all assuming that this is all real and it’s not oh we’re in a computer simulation. Right. These aren’t just like, yeah, these aren’t just weird pixelations. These areSomeone watch the Matrix. Someone watch the Matrix. Possibly while high. Possibly while high. You mean to tell me we could all be in a computer somewhere. Yeah. Yeah. We’re all just, this is just one giant game of Grand Theft Auto with a pimply faced 13 year old. Yeah. Who’s really boring and he’s not out screwing hookers and driving cars into things. He’s having us talk. Right. we are all inside the snow globe. Yes, we’re all inside the snow globe of an autistic child saying elsewhere yeah exactly well here let’s uh let’s hear from one more person here, and then uh we’re gonna wrap this up. All right. Maybe. This is ryan frank from the baggage Podcast, and you’re listening to mondo frico mondo frico mondo frico mondo frico all right guys do you want to i i meant to ask you at the beginning.You want to talk about your show, the Oshkosh Pod? Yes. Oshkosh Bagosh. We’re one of the few audio and televisual podcasts out there that tackle children’s clothing. And it’s about time that two middle-aged gentlemen really fucking opened up the door on this one. Nothing creepy at all about this. I’m sorry. Oh, show pod. Oh, show pod. Oh yeah. It’s right there. Look at that. It’s right there. Yeah. Oh, sorry. It’s going to be right here. Yeah. Right there. Exactly. Yeah. So Darcy, you want to take this one? Nope. You got it. So Darcy is my, as he’s the producer of my podcast, we’ve been actually podcasting since 2007. Yeah. Is that right? 2007. Oh my God. That’ll be 20 years. We will have been podcasting next year. Seems like enough time to figure out how to stop. Right? We haven’t. Too much forward momentum on this. It’s like, if we stop, then what happens? Then what do we do? Keep treading water. Okay, I’ll keep treading water. What happens if you stop? You don’t want to know what happens when you stop. Okay, alright. So for 23 seasons, we did Comedy Above the Pub, and we did that in person.uh, we did it as part of a live show, uh, at a, uh, at a, a pub in Toronto and it was above a pub. And that was the name of my comedy show that we did then, uh, comedy about the pub. And so we just branded the show with it. And so we will get comedians, typically comedians on, and then they would do a set that night, you know, at the comedy show after we’re done talking, talking with them on the podcast. And, uh, we just kept going. We did 23 seasons of it. And, um, because we’re doing it over Zoom, because we live in different cities and uh trust me, I don’t want anyone in this house so i uh uh we said, okay so let’s rebrand. And we were uh trying to figure out sort of like, you know, what what the show was and what we kind of wanted it to be if we’re going to change after 23 seasons and um we had dylan brody on.one of the last guests of Comedy of the Pub. And after we stopped recording on the Zoom, we just started telling each other street jokes. And we’re like, well, this is what comics do. green rooms like in between shows or like when you know the headliners on it’s like okay I’ve seen this guy’s act six times I’m gonna go hang in the car on the road is like, you know, when you’re driving to the gig and after everyone bombs, you know, you’re just like, okay, well, let’s, let’s, let’s forget that nonsense. Hey, here’s what? And so. Darcy and I just kind of looked at each other and went, this is the show. This is what it is. So we have a conversation, just like we did with our previous show. But now we close it with the most uncomfortable thing for any of our guests, which is them coming up with a favorite street joke. And so we actually have, when they don’t have a street joke at the ready, we had a guest on who wrote a book of street jokes called Mom’s Dad Jokes.And Vic Bell is her name. And she just compiled this great tome. So we’ll sometimes use those. Darcy has a, do you have that with you, Darcy? Do you have the jazz book? So he actually has a jazz book that has jazz jokes in it called Jazz Anecdotes. And then we had Bryn Potty, who is a comedian and author who now makes his home in, it’s not Scotia, isn’t it? Yeah, he lives in where the Blue Nose is. Liverpool. Nope, nope, the other one. Nope, nope. Lunenberg. Thank you, Lunenberg. Thunder Bay. Lunenberg, Lunenberg. The Thunder Bay’s in Ontario. I won’t have this, Bob. Jeez. So he actually grabbed his joke out of this book and he sent it to us so that we now use it from the time. It’s called Son of a Meech, The Best of Brian Mulroney Jokes. Edited by Mark Breslin, who is the founder of Yuck Yucks. So never missing a branding moment.opportunity. And who was Brian Mulroney? Brian Mulroney was, according to this, Canada’s worst prime minister. The best jokes about our worst prime minister. I would say to date. I mean, we had a dip in progress for a while, but that ship seems to be righted a little bit, so we’re back on course. Yeah. So yeah, we’ve got those. And by the way, so this was published in, just so you know, this was published in, let me see if I can find a date, 1991. So all of this is just hot off the presses. Fresh. Fresh meat. Brian Mulrooney was using a fax machine one day. What? There’s so many things in that sentence I don’t understand. What’s a day? So yeah, so that’s the show. We have, typically they’re comedians, but we have actors, we have musicians. And they come on. Magicians, yep. We have, yeah, we’ve had a whole ton of folks and then they come on and they tell a street joke. Are you on Bob twice? Yes, that’s right. Yeah.There you go. That shows you the caliber of guests they have on the show. You know you’re one of our favorites, right? That’s why we keep asking you to come back, Bob, because we like having you. We enjoy the pleasure of your company. Oh, yeah. That’s fantastic. I appreciate that. We found each other on that weird Tinder for podcasters website. Yeah. No, the funny thing is, kind of an aside story here, I contacted you. Well, it was still called Comedy Over the Pub or whatever. But you were changing and you put me off. You’re like, wait a minute. We’re changing things up. Hold on a minute here, buddy. Come back to me in about a couple of months because we’re trying to figure stuff out. I couldn’t be on Comedy Under the Pub.right over the club because uh adjacent to the pub because you were you were in turmoil at that point. Yes, we were. Darcy didn’t have his space organized enough yeah the churn of 23 seasons has weighed upon us, and so we were you know, we’ve got letterhead to change, you know, we’ve got yeah domains the business cards yes that’s right. Exactly. Can we use the same phone number? No, burn it. What about the fax machine? Who am I? Brian Mulroney? No. Oddly enough, a weird thing. I was looking there at Darson. He’s like kind of Willy Wonka. He’s got like half of a calendar and a part of an air conditioner. Yep. And he’s cut. He’s cut off at the torso. It’s kind of like Willy Wonka’s office there. Yeah. Anyway.Well, thanks, Guy. I appreciate you guys coming and being on the show. And I really, I had no idea that you would have stayed at the hotel or going to stay at this particular hotel, Fairmont Royal, York. I don’t know what that part’s for. And you stayed at another part of the chain and saw a ghost. And I’m hoping, I hope for your sake, you do get to go to the eighth floor and you do get to see the Lady in Red. I am going to beeline it there. I’ll tell you that much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Darcy, I, you know, I hope you can Pac-Man your way back into your original universe and everything’s right with the world. And there’s no podcasting. And there’s no podcasting.Possibly no Todd Van Allen. That would be paradise for him. Or maybe Todd is just like a used car salesman that gives you free cars or something. Maybe something like that. But thanks, guys, for being on Mondo Frico. We appreciate it. And if you do see Lady in Red, you’ve got to let me know and we’ll talk about that. Oh, I will. Trust me, that will be a Facebook post that never ends. All right, guys. Hold on just a second. And I’m going to play out some music here. Fungo Frico!