Going to a comedy club can seem like a great time, but sometimes, you’re not getting the last laugh. A ghost is! On today’s episode, the brothers jump into, The Comedy Store, a popular spot for comics to shine in Los Angeles. And later, stand-up comedian, actor and writer Rodney Perry shares what happened to him one night on stage in Sacramento, CA, his thoughts on The Comedy Store and the energy he’s felt in different places.
Going to a comedy club can seem like a great time, but sometimes, you’re not getting the last laugh. A ghost is! On today’s episode, the brothers jump into, The Comedy Store, a popular spot for comics to shine in Los Angeles. And later, stand-up comedian, actor and writer Rodney Perry shares what happened to him one night on stage in Sacramento, CA, his thoughts on The Comedy Store and the energy he’s felt in different places.
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[THEME IN: Ghost Brothers Asha Theme]
Dalen Spratt: Welcome back, beautiful people! It is another episode of Urban Legends with the Ghost Brothers, and I am the bad boy of paranormal himself, Dalen Spratt.
Marcus Harvey: And I am the one and only the Marcus Harvey.
Juwan Mass: And you know who it is. Last, but certainly not least, it's the paranormal papi, ladies and gentlemen.
Marcus: Why did this voice have to get way deeper than everybody’s? That was unnecessary.
Juwan: That's just like my little interlude. I've been working on my album.
Marcus: Okay, got you. When does it drop?
Dalen: Today's a special day, Juwan.
Man, today is literally the last episode of season 3.
Juwan: That hurt. That really hurt.
Dalen: I almost shed a thug paranormal tear, man.
Juwan: You couldn't see it coming down your eyes.
Dalen: But listen man, I can see it coming down your thighs.
Juwan: This is wild. And I wore shorts today.
Dalen: And they are riding up your thigh.
Marcus: You know how high your shorts are.
Juwan: You can’t say anything else about my thighs no more!
Dalen: I got one more.
Marcus:I got one more then. Let me get mine in!
Dalen: Get yours in!
Marcus: My man came in here with his compression shorts lower than his shorts. That lets you know he wanted the thigh meat out.
Dalen: Yo,man. Man, you know what. Tell me this real quick though.
Marcus: What's up?
Dalen: Tell me some of your favorite moments from this season.
[THEME OUT: Ghost Brothers Asha Theme]
Marcus: I’m gonna go back to when we talked to Van and he thought he heard his dad calling him.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Marcus: When he was hunting. What made me laugh about it was I never looked at Van as no hunter.
Dalen: Okay. That's what stood out in that story?
Marcus: I thought Van was like a vegan.
He always gives me vegan vibes not to kill, but I, I was like, okay, my man out here getting his gun on. You know what I'm saying?
Dalen: What's been your favorite part of the season, J-mass?
Juwan: Massachusetts.
Dalen: I thought you was about to say something else.
Juwan: Oh, man.
Marcus: Massachu-setts.
Juwan: Yeah. That was, uh -
Dalen: I'm glad my, uh, -
Juwan: That was a funny moment, but I think we had some good guests this season, man. Like, I just think overall we just talked to some really cool people.
Dalen: Yeah.
Juwan: Van was dope.
Dalen: Yeah.
Juwan: Mo, was dope.
Who else? Ashley Ray?
Dalen: Mm-hmm.
Juwan: Yeah. That was solid.
Dalen: Yeah. I think one of the coolest moments for me was a story we heard when buddy picked up his friend from the gas station and took him to the cornfield.
Marcus: Oh yeah, the doppelganger? Dylan Park?
Juwan: Yeah.
Dalen: And realized that Buddy was still at the gas station.
Juwan: So he left his friend at the gas station and thought he was riding with him.
Dalen: I think the funniest part about that story is the fact that he literally had this freakishly out of body experience to where he thought his friend was in the car with him, drives back to the gas station, sees his friend and is freaking out, and his friend is just like, you left me!
Marcus: You know what it reminds me of? Y'all remember that on Wolf of Wall Street when he was like, I drove back to the house. I don't know how I got back.
Dalen: Right!
Said he had an interesting trip. Hey y'all, but look man, on today's paranormal story, guess where we're going?
Juwan: Where?
Dalen: We’re going to the west side baby.
Marcus: Yay, yay!
Dalen: We’re headed to Ca-li-for-ni-a!
Juwan: Where are we going in California, buddy?
Dalen: Man, literally down Sunset Boulevard.
Juwan: The strip? What's over there?
Marcus: I think I know!
Dalen: You seem very confident, Marcus.
Marcus: I am.
Dalen: So tell me what you think.
Marcus: Nah, nah. I don't, I don't know.
Juwan: He had no idea.
Dalen: You had no idea.
Marcus: I felt like I knew what it was but -
Dalen: But, no it's actually right up yo lane though, man. We're actually headed to the famous comedy club. It's called The Comedy Store.
Marcus: What? I know The Comedy Store, man!
Dalen: You’ve been there before?
Marcus: Yeah.
Dalen: Have you performed there before?
Marcus: No.
Dalen: Ok.
Marcus: But I should.
Dalen: Well, did you know that they say that The Comedy Store is actually one of the most haunted locations in the country?
Marcus: Yes. That's why I haven't performed there yet.
Juwan: Hmm.
Dalen: You know what? I got a whole bunch of stories about The Comedy Store that I found, man, but we gonna wait a minute and we gonna get into that a little bit later. And we're gonna actually chat with the one and only Rodney Perry.
Marcus: The O.G!
Dalen: No, man. Listen, Rodney Perry is literally a legend in the game. He's a stand-up comedian, an actor, and was co-host of BET's late night talk show and the same show that me and Juwan worked on.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: The Monique show.
Look, he's gonna share his thoughts on this club and his own paranormal experiences that he had on the road.
Marcus: Hey man, Rodney is one of my O.G. homies, man. You know, I was his head writer on this show. I was the only writer. But -
Juwan: So you gave it self-titled?
Marcus: I sure did. I did the work. I wrote all them jokes. Head writer, baby.
Juwan: Man, it's gonna be a great last episode. I think it's actually dope that like Rodney Perry is our guest on the show and he's like the common thread between all three of us.
Marcus: Yeah.
Juwan: You know what I'm saying?
Dalen: Nah, for sure, for sure, for sure. But you know what y'all? Now it's time to get into the nitty gritty of this comedy spot.
You see the Comedy Store opened up in 1972, but before that it was called something else.
Marcus: What was that?
Dalen: Look at you jumping in. You paying attention today, huh?
Marcus: I am, man.
Dalen: No, literally it was called Ciro’s. It was a nightclub though, and it opened up in 1940, and for nearly two decades, this place was bustling with Hollywood's elite.
[SFX: jazz music]
Dalen: I'm talking about everybody from Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis, Jr. James Dean, and guess who else?
Marcus: Who else?
Dalen: And even Marilyn Monroe.
But listen, that's the type of old school glamour energy that ran rampant in Ciro’s, man.
Marcus: Oh man! I guess you partied with all them heavy hitters and had to be the time back then, you know, they was doing some crazy stuff. That was back - Marilyn Monroe and Sammy Davis!
Dalen: Yeah, but you know what? But you know, it's even said that famous gangsters like Mickey Cohen and others just always came up in there. I'm talking about buying tables. Buying bottles.
They had their hands in all kinds of things from money to gambling to even taking care of business.
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: Supposedly.
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: Allegedly.
Marcus: Supposedly.
Dalen: But they say that the basement - this is what they say now. They said that the basement was used as a torture room.
Juwan: Seems like it's always the basement.
Dalen: I mean, cuz you can't do it in the attic.
Marcus: You, you can't do it -
Juwan: Or you can't do it in the front of the house.
Marcus: Oh. Don't worry about that, man. You need a table for two? Got you. Right now.
Dalen: And all you hear upstairs is, I can't breathe! Help me, help me!
Marcus: Please! I got your money! I got your money, Cecil! I got your money!
Yeah. It ain't working like that.
Dalen: You see, Ciro’s closed around 1957 and the mob association with it ended right then and there. New people came in, reopening it as a rock club, but then that closed after a few back and forth business changes. Then the Comedy Store is what opened up in 1972.
I'm talking about all the comedians came through there.
[SFX: comedy club, laughing, clapping]
Dalen: Everybody from Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, and even Richard Pryor took the stage there and it literally to this day, continues to be where newcomers and seasoned professionals perform and to come to catch their big break.
Marcus, I would pay top dollar to see you on the stage of The Comedy Store.
Juwan: What is your top dollar? Let's just start there.
Dalen: Listen, I'm gonna give about $7.
Marcus: Okay. Cause I was going to ask what your top dollar was.
Juwan: Yeah.
Dalen: Give about seven.
Marcus: That's a different budget.
Juwan: He's just trying to hype you, but we would definitely come see you.
Marcus: I'm going do it. We gonna make a trip out to LA and go make this happen. Cuz then we gotta do an investigation too.
You know, that's what's gonna happen, right?
Dalen: Of course we wouldn't go out there for nothing.
Marcus: I thought you just said you wanted to go see me on stage?
Dalen: Oh yeah. I forgot about that.
Marcus: Dang it. Gosh dang it!
Juwan: That's, if we're gonna do an investigation.
Dalen: But think about it fellas. So many famous people have been coming in and outta that place since the 1940s. Like it would definitely make sense to think that, you know, people see, feel, hear, like all type of stuff in that place.
Juwan: Yeah, but what exactly are they talking about?
Dalen: You know what Juwan, I thought that you would never ask, but look, the people that work at The Comedy Store have said that they like hear footsteps,
[SFX: heavy footsteps]
they'll hear doors suddenly being closed,
[SFX: door slamming]
whispers.
[SFX: people whispering]
Marcus: Wait, bruh. You could you imagine. I'm go about to do my set and the door just slam like that?
Nah, dog. Nah, nah, I'm tripping.
Dalen: Think about how many people probably have been deterred from doing comedy before they even started because of the ghosts.
Marcus: So you’re saying the ghost is kinda like a scouting agent? Talent agent?
Dalen: It’s a paranormal talent scout.
Marcus: Okay, gotcha. Paranormal Talent. P.T.S.
Dalen: But listen, famous actor and comedian Joey Gaynor talked about his experience on an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. I know y'all remember that show.
Any story that was told on Unsolved Mysteries
Marcus: Was a horror story. Just cuz the music.
Dalen: Only the music.
Marcus: That music made me feel like somebody was in my closet when I'm watching Unsolved Mysteries.
Dalen: It doesn't matter what the episode was, it felt like you was gonna get kidnapped.
Juwan: Never watch it in the dark, but you had to watch it in the dark.
Marcus: Because that's what time they played it and we didn’t have DVR back then.
Dalen: But you know what? They said during the early days of his career, he was actually a doorman. And one night while closing up the spot, he turned off all the lights. He got ready to lock the doors and saw two candles lit on the table. So he did what anybody else would do. Blew 'em out.
[SFX: Blowing out candles]
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Dalen: So he went back to closing up the place, and when buddy turned around, the candles were lit again.
But at this point he figured maybe he didn't completely put 'em out. You know, like them birthday candles that you blow.
Juwan: The trick candles.
Marcus: You know, and some people ain't got good breath.
Dalen: Yeah, yeah.
Marcus: They ain't got good blowout breath.
Dalen: Sometimes they breath ain't hot enough.
Have you ever met somebody with cold breath?
Marcus: I have.
Dalen: That’s weird, right?
Juwan: They're usually a ghost.
Dalen: So, look, buddy goes back and he blew the candles out again, and he turned around and walked away. But all of a sudden the air got really, really cold, and sure enough, when he turned around, the candles were lit again. So my man was like, all right man.
Stay lit. I'm leaving, man.
Marcus: I'm already off the clock. I'm already off the clock, doc.
Dalen: You got two tries.
Marcus: Hey man, listen, you wanna keep it on obviously for a reason. I'm gonna get out your way.
Dalen: They promoted Tony last week.
Marcus: Yeah. Shit, I ain't doing no extra nothing.
Dalen: I ain’t doing no extra work.
Marcus: For y'all? Heck nah!
Dalen: Look man. Other people have talked about hearing piano keys playing in the distance, seeing apparitions, hearing noises coming from the basement.
And some say they even seen a bouncer named Gus who worked there during the 1940s and he's dressed always in a suit.
Marcus: Maybe that was just a dude bringing his lady to the club.
Juwan: To the club?
Marcus: No, that's Gus, I know that's Gus. That's just a date night.
[Music: Ghost Brothers Ad Break 3]
Dalen: Hey, man. I wonder if Rodney's ever performed at the Comedy Store.
Marcus: Of course, you know that man has.
Dalen: Well, we'll ask him about that and hear his own scary story after the break.
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[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Marcus: All right. All right. My good people. We are back and we are here with my O.G. the Great. He's grey right now, but he's amazing. That shows wisdom. The great Rodney Perry, ladies and gentlemen.
Dalen: Man, we go way back, man.
Marcus: Talk to us about it, y’a’ll.
Juwan: Man. What was it?
Rodney: 2010, 11?
Dalen: Yeah.
Rodney: When y'all was styling me on The Monique Show, man, and that was a great time, man. Y'all had me looking fly.
Dalen: Honestly, man, that was my first time working like behind the scenes in television. Juwan actually got me that job.
Marcus: Word?
Dalen: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He lied to me and didn't tell me I was gonna be driving around somebody.
Juwan: All day, everyday. No, I said somebody needed assistance.
Dalen: Right.
Juwan: I just didn’t tell you what those duties look like.
Dalen: He said, he said, you do got your Class C license still, right?
But, no bro, when I tell you The Monique Show was the best job I probably ever had in my life, bro.
It was just so fun. Like the environment that you, Rodney man and Monique that you guys just created for us. Like it was just fun all day long.
Juwan: Yeah. Like you said, like Rodney and I, we worked together cuz I was responsible for kind of laying out the wardrobe that he had every day.
And like we really built a bond.
Rodney: And you really like, to me a man is a tale of his clothes. Right? And you took, my little haberdashery and made it like some high fashion stuff with the accessories, the stuff you put with it and I really learned a lot about fashion working with you, man.
So thank you man. Thank both of y'all for being great guys.
Juwan: Absolutely. Appreciate you just allowing us to, you know, provide that vision and, and you were confident in us to be able to pull it off. So it was dope, man. Thank you.
Marcus: Well, I mean, that's all fine and well, but I used to be Rodney Perry's head writer on his TV show.
Dalen: Ooh!
Marcus: So, though there was only one writer.
Rodney: Cuz they was like, well, I just spoke with your head writer. I'm like, who is that?
Dalen: He gave himself a title.
Rodney: It's like Marcus. I was like, okay.
Marcus: Sometimes you gotta reach for your goals, baby.
Dalen: We siamese twins.
Marcus: We side by side. Come on.
Rodney: Hey Marcus Harvey made me look good every day.
Dalen: But yo, I'm gonna get right to it, man. Rodney, listen. We want to know, how do you feel about the paranormal? Like, are you the type of person that believes in ghosts and spirits and demons and angels? Like what's your thoughts on it?
Rodney: Man, you know what? You would be a fool to believe we exist on this plain alone. You know? And, there's a few ways I've had brushes with stuff that I couldn't explain. I was at a comedy club in Sacramento, California. And I'm on stage and I feel something brushed by me, right?
I feel something brushed by me. And I mentioned it from the stage. And so after I finished working, the bartender was like, “Bro, were you serious? Did you feel it?”
Dalen: Yeah.
Rodney: And I was like, “Yeah, yeah, I did.” He was like, “They say this place is haunted, man. And the, and the ghost lives on that stage,” and sure enough. It was as plain as me touching my chest right now, but it was behind me. He or it brushed by me. It was like, it was a cool feeling. And I mean, I can crack jokes about this shit, but this shit was real.
Marcus: Word.
Dalen: I feel it.
Juwan: I believe you.
Marcus: Did it stop your set?
Rodney: I just mentioned it. I was like, yeah, who was up here? And, and that made the guy that worked there question me further and he gave me a whole story and everything about somebody that had passed in that building.
Juwan: You said that was out in California, huh?
Rodney: That was in California.
Juwan: So I know you said you were originally from Chicago.
Rodney: Chi-town.
Juwan: Yeah. Chi-town standup. I grew up in the west suburbs and then you got family in what? Louisiana?
Rodney: Monroe, Louisiana.
Juwan: Monroe, Louisiana. So my family's from the Gulf Coast and Mississippi. And so I'm curious, have you, did you grow up hearing any urban legends in Chicago or even in Louisiana about any paranormal?
Rodney: Well, you know, I mean, you know, you hear the Candyman stories.
Juwan: Yeah.
Rodney: And you know, of course Hollywood went on to make a movie about this character. But you really heard about Candyman and you like, I'm not gonna say it no more.
Juwan: Right. You've already said it twice. You've already said it twice.
Rodney: And then you know, urban legends, step on a crack, break your mama back, you know? Growing up in Chicago, you really would be like, hey man, stop playing.
Juwan: Yeah. That's real.
Dalen: So, hold on, lemme ask you this. I wanna go back to that story you said about you being on stage. What was the story that they said about the person that passed away there? Was it a comedian that passed away?
Rodney: No, it was before that place became a comedy club and the gentleman was involved in working there and he had fell from the rafters.
Dalen: Oh wow.
Rodney: And so I think that's why like when it was behind me, it could have been coming down, you know what I mean?
Dalen: Right, like a residual haunting.
Rodney: But he fell from heights of the place and was killed there and the rumors were that he was still there.
Marcus: Hey Rodney. What about the comedy club on Sunset Boulevard?
Rodney: Are you talking about The Comedy Store?
Marcus: Yea.
Rodney: I've been in the Comedy Store, I, I get vibes in the Comedy Store. I haven't seen anything, but I was never in there by myself either.
Dalen: Right, right.
Rodney: But that, that back room behind the main stage in the main room. I spent many, many days in there. It's really -
Dalen: Do you believe that The Comedy Store is haunted?
Rodney: Hell yeah!
Dalen: Yeah. Yeah.
Rodney: Yes! I mean, it just got a funky vibe, like, dude, I mean, I think there are some of us that are more in tune to that stuff than others. And like, I don't like going to Savannah.
Dalen: Yeah
Rodney: Savannah, Georgia was a slave port.
And when I'm in Savannah, I can feel it. I can feel the death.
Dalen: Yep.
Rodney: I can feel it in the air. It's there like even today. Like, you know, and you hear people talk about Savannah. There's tons of research on Savannah and what that was and those people that were murdered in that area. So you can feel it. Even if you go to New Orleans right now, today, like I lived in New Orleans from 90 to 94. I know pre-Katrina, New Orleans. And pre-Katrina, New Orleans was not the way it feels now. So, you know, I think I may be in tune with some of that stuff more than others and certain places I just don't like being, I won't go to Stone Mountain.
Marcus: Have you been that way all your life? Or is this something that you've gotten of age and have had experiences?
Rodney: When you are a younger person, you don't know what to call it. You know, I'm by no means a psychic or have, you know, but then I have friends that say we all have some sort of psychic ability. But I remember like as a young man, right, and I would occasionally visit, like even now I'll pull up a tarot card app and see what's in the cards for me.
I do stuff like that all the time. So I was going to visit this tarot card reader. I was with my son, who's 30 years old now and I was walking up the stairs and I said, “No, I don't need to do this right now.” And my son, pulled me, like, “Go!” And so I really believe my son is kind of in tune with that stuff as well. And he remembers it. And he was just a little boy.
Dalen: Wow. See, I, I've had my run-ins with palm readers man and tarot card readers when I was living in LA Man. I had just moved to LA and I was walking through downtown by myself late one night, and a lady sitting on the side of the building had a sign that said palm reading.
And she tried to get me to stop, and I just wouldn't. And she was like, “The only reason why you don't wanna stop is because your mother always told you that what I do is evil and to never listen to people like me!” I was like, “Wow! Do you know Pastor Spratt?” Like that's exactly why I don't wanna talk to you.
But she told me some things about my life. In a short, short instance that just totally wowed me, bro.
Marcus: So she was able to get you to stop?
Dalen: Cause she, she stopped me by telling me the reason why I didn't wanna stop, because it was spot on. But then she told me some stuff about my life, literally in like a three sentence blurb, bro.
And I lost it. And yeah, I had, I had to listen.
Rodney: This is what I know. There are good folks and there are evil folks.
Dalen: Right.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Rodney: And so I wouldn't demonize tarot across the board or palm readers across the board, but there are some people that are evil people and they're like, I believe I've dealt with like demons.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Marcus: Word.
Rodney: I believe I've crossed paths with demons in this entertainment industry.
Marcus: You talking about TSA or cause -
Rodney: I’m talking about somebody with very bad breath.
Juwan: That's a demonologist.
Marcus: That's definitely a demon.
Dalen: So when you say you operating in the world of entertainment, you feel like you've crossed paths with demons before, are you saying from a perspective of just bad people or you feel like, no, that is someone with something attached to them?
Rodney: Well, well look at it like this. You can't believe in angels without believing in demons.
Dalen: Right.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Rodney: There's a supernatural war that's happening above us and it's just above us. So, you know, you, I mean, we see movies and stuff like that, this subject matter, but that stuff is real, man.
Juwan: Rodney, man, we appreciate you taking the time to come on, talk to us. I know I just saw you a couple weeks ago doing a little comedy joint that was dope.
Rodney: Yeah.
Juwan: But this is even better, man, to kind of have you on our project. Feels like a full circle moment, so man -
Rodney: It is absolutely that man. And again, it's honor and a privilege man.
Juwan: So Rodney, my man, please let our listeners know where they can find you, bro. What’s your social media? What’s your handles?
Rodney: Hey man, I'm easy to find Rodney Perry live on all social media, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and I'm actually even TikTok now. So, we posting comedy every day.
Juwan: Man. Dope, dope.
Marcus: O.G. We truly appreciate you, man. We'll holler at you. Good, sir. Thank you so very much. Rodney Perry. Ladies and gentlemen, Rodney Perry!
[Music in: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Marcus: Man, Rodney Perry. That's why I'm telling y'all. He's my OG man. Rodney Perry is funny, man.
Juwan: He is. He has some very good insight though.
Marcus: Right, bro.
Juwan: And I really, honestly, after working with him so many years, I really didn't know, like he had like, this spiritual past or even like these ghost stories.
Marcus: Deep into those. That's, that Louisiana.
Juwan: Right.
Marcus: You know what I'm saying? And it's crazy just seeing the, like you said, the full circle, us all working together down the road, you know, these years later. So amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing!xThank you Rodney Perry for coming through.
Juwan: Yeah.
Marcus: All right, guys, it's time for our game, you guys. Trivia time! The Spooky Comedy Edition! Y'all know how this goes. I ask a question and you try to answer it.
Are you guys ready?
[Music out: Ghost Brothers Transition 1]
Juwan: Sounds like every game, but keep going.
Marcus: Dalen, are you ready?
Dalen: Dalen, are you ready?
Marcus: Man, shut up.
Dalen: I was asking myself.
Can myself answer?
Marcus: No, you can't answer. You got, come on, baby. You ready?
Dalen: Yes, sir.
Marcus: Okay, cool, cool, cool. Here we go. Question one. This person is a comedian and a filmmaker. Had a hit sketch comedy series on Comedy Central and a box office movie about a family attacked by doppelgangers.
What is his name?
[SFX: countdown clock; game show]
Dalen: That's too easy, bro.
Juwan: Yeah.
Dalen: I feel like you usually come with like, and what Asian Mountain Range did the Galapagos Turtles mate with the -
Juwan: I’m going with Jordan Peele. He's taking too long to answer.
[SFX: correct answer]
Dalen: Okay. Jordan Peele for 500.
Marcus: You don't get 500. Juwan gets the 500.
Juwan: My man was real dramatic!
Marcus: Real dramatic! Matter of fact, now you got the wrong answer.
Juwan’s answer was right. Yours was wrong even though it was the same answer. How about that? Now you're getting smart with me.
Dalen: How are points distributed in this game?
Marcus: By my means.
Alright. Here we go, here we go, here we go, y'all. Question two. Pugsley and Uncle Fester are two characters' names from the 1960s popular TV show that also had another character Wednesday, who's self-titled TV series just premiered last year.
What is the name of this tv show?
[SFX: countdown clock; game show]
Dalen: You know what's crazy? Her name's Wednesday.
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: I know a girl named Leviticus. Leviticus -
Juwan: No, but listen, he's taking too long. The Adams Family.
[SFX: correct answer]
Dalen: What?
Marcus: Thank you, Juwan.
Dalen: So y'all don't care about my homegirl, Leviticus?
Marcus: Oh my gosh, Juwan. Thank you. Thank you. Correct answer.
Juwan: Juwan. Two.
Marcus: Dalen, are you not? What's, what's going on with you right now?
Dalen: I was trying to tell you how Leviticus -
Marcus: I don’t wanna hear about Leviticus.
Marcus: Good job, Juwan. Staying on task. All right, this is the last one. Focus Dalen! Juwan, keep killing. All right. Here we go. This off-Broadway musical turned into movie is about Seymour, a floral shop owner and his demanding giant plant. Feed me Seymour! What is the name of this horror comedy?
[SFX: countdown clock; game show]
Dalen: Ooh, that's the one where Big, right?
Marcus: What?
Dalen: Big.
Marcus: Big, what?
Dalen: The name of the movie is Big.
[SFX: wrong answer]
Marcus: Oh my gosh.
Juwan: If I knew this one, I would interrupt.
Marcus: I was hoping that you guys would.
Juwan: I just didn't know this one.
Marcus: Y'all don't know Little Shop of Horror.
Dalen: Oh. It feeds itself!
Marcus: No. Feed me Seymour!
No, y'all don't remember Little Shop of Horror?
Dalen: Imma be honest with you man. I've never seen that movie.
Marcus: You know, uh, Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell were in there.
Dalen: Were they?
Marcus: Yeah.
Juwan: Nice. That’s dope.
Marcus: Yeah, in the actual movie. And Rick Moranis. You remember Rick Moranis?
Dalen: Nope.
Marcus: Honey. I Shrunk the Kids. You remember Honey, I Shrunk the Kids?
Juwan: Yeah.
Marcus: That's Rick Moranis.
Juwan: Okay.
Marcus: The glasses guy.
Juwan: Yeah.
Marcus: So he was also Seymour.
Dalen: Look at y'all learning stuff on our podcast.
Marcus: Yeah.
Juwan: No, look at you learning stuff on the podcast.
Marcus: That man always -
Juwan: My man tried to set the listeners up like, Hey, you see what we do to y'all? We bring y'all the good.
Marcus: Oh my gosh. All right guys. Well, that's it, man. I hope that you guys have enjoyed this amazing season of great questions and trivia. Juwan, you've done amazing this year.
Dalen: Wow!
Marcus: As I tally the year -
Dalen: There should be a comma there. Juwan, you did amazing this year, as did you Dalen.
Marcus: No. Here it is. Juwan, your point total for the year of all the 10 episodes is, you got 17 answers right. Dalen?
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Dalen: Yes, Sir. How many did I get? Sir?
Marcus: You are at a negative five.
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Dalen: I owe y'all some money.
Marcus: You owe me some answers.
Juwan: He owes us answers.
Marcus: My man owes me some answers, so good job Juwan. Dalen.
Juwan: Oh man.
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Marcus: I don't know what you gotta do. I don't know. If you need to read more, watch more TV or something, do something. But yeah, that's what we had this year, guys. Amazing time. Good job, guys.
That's it for our game now, y'all. Now it's time for our listener submission, and this one comes from Shawna in Oregon.
Dalen: Roll that tape.
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Shawna: Hi guys. My name is Shawna. I'm from a small town in eastern Oregon called Prairie City. Little backstory. I have been a paranormal investigator for well over 30 years now. We've had lots of crazy things happen in our own house.
But I have a rule. I never investigate my own house. I know it's here. I already know it's haunted. The one story that sticks out the most, was my son, he was about 16 and it was getting kinda late.
We were both up watching TV and I told him like, well, you have school tomorrow, you better get up and you better go to bed. So he stood up, started to head upstairs and my son got to the bottom of the stairs and he turned to say something to me. And his face went white. His eyes were huge, and he says, mom. I'm like, yeah. He goes, “Don't move.”
And, again, he says, “No, but seriously, mom, don't move.” I see movement out of the corner of my right eye. And I just kind of glanced as much as I could.
And outta my peripheral. I see the burgundy of our curtain.
So I jumped. I whipped around and I'm looking at my chair just as I see, and it was so fast where the curtain is.
It is right at the back of my chair and It's a face being pushed into the curtain and then the curtain falls like it is snap fast. It is so quick that I started to be like, I started to question did I actually see that.
And I looked at my son. I'm like, “Okay, what did you see?” And he is like, “Mom, there was a face pushed into the curtain.”
And I'm trying to stay calm. And I just looked at my son. I'm like, “Okay. All right. that was not cool. You know what bud? We are just gonna leave everything on. I'm not walking back over there. We're going to bed.”
And he is like, “Okay. All lights on upstairs?” I'm like, “All lights, we're just going to bed. Whole house is gonna be lit up,”I said, “I will mess with the curtain tomorrow and I will see if I can figure out what caused that, but tonight ghosts, have a good night. Leave us the hell alone. We're going to bed. ”
And that was it. And we went to bed.
So that's my story. And I just wanna say, you guys keep up the awesome work, all of it.
The podcast, love it.
Marcus: Shawna!
Juwan: Shout out to Shawna.
Marcus: We appreciate you out in Oregon. Let me ask y'all something real quick.
Juwan: Mm-hmm.
Marcus: She said as a paranormal investigator for over 30 years. Shout out to that.
Dalen: That's amazing.
Marcus: That's amazing. She said she doesn't investigate her own house, right?
Dalen: Yep. I agree. I agree.
Juwan: Wholeheartedly.
Marcus: Have y'all ever investigated your own house?
Dalen: No. I ain't never even cut on a piece of equipment in my house, bro.
Marcus: Why is that?
Dalen: Uh-
Marcus: Give the people of the real reason why you don't do that.
Dalen: I don't want open up that door in my seemingly safe space.
Marcus: Mm-hmm, okay. What about you Juwan?
Juwan: Um, it's just not, I like to have peace in my place and. I feel like that's just stirring something. This doesn't seem peaceful to me. Like if there's a ghost in there and it's making itself known, then we're gonna have to cohabitate. You know what I mean?
Dalen: Mm.
Juwan: You investigate your own house, Marcus?
Marcus: Uh, yes all the time cuz I have crazy kids and I'd be wondering what's getting into them. This has to be another spirit that jumped into Kingsley.
Dalen: Nah, it's funny you said that. I had a, uh, last week, bro. It's.
So I went out on the patio. And, uh, the patio door closes, right?
Marcus: Uh-huh.
Dalen: I can see the Axel, you know what I'm saying? Through the window, right?
Marcus: Yep.
Dalen: Axel comes to the patio door, and, uh, we laughed through the patio door.
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: Listen man. I go to open the door and the door is locked from the inside.
Marcus: How?
Dalen: I don't know, right. So I'm like, Axel can't reach that, the top lock.
Marcus: Mm-hmm.
Dalen: To lock the door.
And so I'm locked out on the patio. I literally just stepped out on the balcony, bro, to like literally look over to see if my car, like I heard the alarm going to see if it was my car, right?
Marcus: To see if you were carless.
Dalen: Listen.
Juwan: That's your business.
Marcus: That's why you went out there.
Dalen: My point is, I was out there for one second. The door closes, it's locked. I'm thinking Axel locked me out, but I'm like, she can't reach that top lock.
Marcus: Can't reach the top lock
Dalen: Bro. I had 1% battery, man.
So I called her grandmother, who stays like in the next neighbourhood over, and I literally had enough time to say, “I'm locked out. Come over.” So she comes over, comes in the house, opens the lock, y'all, I'll tell you, I literally spent the next three days trying to figure out how this door locked. And I started getting really paranoid cause I was like, Axel cannot reach this lock, bro.
It was only me and her and I was like, what if all these stories we've investigated all these houses we've been to in prisons. I was like, what if something has came home and like, that's the start of it. Like it locked me out of the house. And it’s inside with my daughter.
Marcus: That's gonna be the start of it. I don't know where it's going to end.
Dalen: Where does it end?
Man, I don't know. It freaked me out.
Marcus: Did you get anointing oil?
Dalen: Man, listen. We were on the road to do all of that. Like flying my mom in to like pray over the place.
Juwan: Yeah.
Dalen: All of that. And then I literally looked across the room, man, and I saw Axel by the door. Tell me why she hopped up on her tippy toes.
Juwan: She could reach the lock?
Dalen: But, did like a little hook shot and her finger can clip the lock just enough.
Juwan: To turn it.
Dalen: To turn it.
Juwan: That's funny.
Marcus: You was about to get your whole house prayed over. Saged.
Dalen: We was about to provide an exorcism.
Marcus: An exorcism. No, I know! How could she lock it!
Juwan: You gonna exorcism the crib. Now you found out your daughter locked you out.
Dalen: Hey man, listen. She got, she got some athleticism to her guys.
Marcus: Oh, hey. She got a future.
Dalen: She got a future.
Marcus: She got a future. Her parents both are professional sized enough to where she could be a professional somewhere.
Dalen: Or doing something.
Juwan: Or doing something.
Marcus: Yeah. I ain't doing that for my house though, y'all. I can't do it because I feel like it would be me saying, you know - you know, when you just don't want to find out the truth in certain things?
Juwan: Man, thanks Shawna for this submission, cuz we know how hard it can be to be open about like what's going on in your own home.
Dalen: Yeah. Shawna, I appreciate you. I appreciate your commitment to the paranormal community.
Juwan: For 30 years.
Dalen: 30 years is a huge commitment. We've only been in this thing, what?
Juwan: Like 10?
Dalen: Close to 10.
Marcus: Dang!
Dalen: It's almost been 10 years, man.
Juwan: Almost 10.
Dalen: We're veterans.
Marcus: Thank you Shawna once again for your commitment to the paranormal industry and even for submitting your story on GhostBrothersPodcast.com.
Dalen: Cause I'm gonna be completely honest with you, after 30 years this, this is, this has to be the highlight. Being featured on The Ghost Brothers podcast.
Marcus: I would say so.
Dalen: I would think that's probably up there with like meeting the president.
Marcus: Or Regis?
Dalen: Meeting Regis or Kathy Lee?
Marcus: And listen guys.
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Marcus: I'm all right. No, I'm all right.
Juwan: Don’t cry. Don’t cry.
Marcus: No, listen guys. Y'all we're gonna sign off, and that's it.
Juwan: Wipe your eyes.
Marcus: It’s been a great season, y'all. Thank you guys for listening to the Urban Legends with The Ghost Brothers, with your guys, the Marcus Harvey.
Dalen: The bad boy of paranormal himself. Dalen Lorenzo Spriz-att.
Juwan: Yeah. And you know who it is. Last, but certainly not least, it's Juwan. The paranormal papi.
Marcus: We love y'all, man. All the legends.
Dalen: Yeah, just the fact that people just - they just love to hear us rant and just get these thoughts out, y'all. I love it. I love y'all. To all of our - what do you call them?
Marcus: Legends!
Dalen: Can y'all rate our podcast, one. And can y'all please comment anywhere you listen to our podcast, what you would like to be called. We're in a day and age where you can make that decision. Do you like being called a legend or do you like being called an urbanite?
Juwan: Mm.
Dalen: I like urbanites.
Juwan: You like urbanites?
Dalen: Sounds like a stone. What do you think?
Juwan: Do you think they like being called listeners?
Dalen: That's so 2000!
Marcus: Nah, that's - listeners sounds so passe.
Juwan: Ok, ok.
Dalen: Right.
Marcus: And, uh, these guys have been with us for three seasons.
So yeah, all my legends.
Dalen: And urbanites.
Marcus: And legends.
Juwan: I don't like either one of those for the record.
Marcus: We didn't ask you, brother. We didn't ask you.
Dalen: Old man with his thighs out.
Marcus: We love y'all. Do make sure that you tell everybody about us. We love you so much. Thank you so very much.
Juwan: Peace, love, and paranormal.
Dalen: P.L.P. Ooh and as the lights start twinkling.
Juwan: The lights in our studio are starting to flicker, guys. I guess the ghosts don't want us to leave!
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