The Haunted House Owner Who Sued Hulu (+ Other Halloween Lawsuits)

0:06 Welcome to Brief Recess. I'm Michael Foote.

0:08 I'm Melissa Malbranche.

0:09 Today we're going to talk about sexy Mr. Rogers Halloween costume. We're going to talk about all the crazy veneers and plastic surgery we could find. We're going to talk about smoking on planes, the French protests, and crazy Halloween, super wild Halloween episode lawsuits. So stick around.

0:27 Ah! Ah!

0:39 You guys.

0:41 Carrie.

0:42 No. Who are you? I'm the flight attendant Selma Blair bit. I got a bite mark.

0:51 Oh, I didn't see the bite mark.

0:58 Don't I wear a wig well?

0:59 You do wear a wig well.

1:01 Pull it off. And I styled it myself. I haven't styled hair in a few years. It's been like 12 years. What are you doing?

1:09 All right. So here's what happened to me, friends.

1:12 Where's your costume? This is our Halloween episode.

1:16 I made a costume. I made it myself.

1:19 Really?

1:19 I did. I made it myself.

1:21 How do women navigate life with getting hair in their mouth all the time?

1:25 You just get used to it.

1:26 You just get used to it. You're just always munching on hair.

1:28 You just like cough it up hairballs like cats.

1:30 Sorry. I digress. I interrupted you. Thank you.

1:33 Yeah. I made a costume. And it was cute. So cute and clever. I was going to be raining cats and dogs.

1:46 That's really smart.

1:48 And I had a big queer umbrella. And last night, I was hot gluing ceramic cats and dogs to a clear umbrella. I was hanging them on fish wire. I got a yellow raincoat, hat, and boots.

2:09 This is a Martha Stewart special.

2:12 And I... I completely misjudged the time that we were going to do this. I'm wearing the same outfit. Like, none of this is planned. I'm going to take a picture and I'm going to give it to CJ. And we're going to throw up a picture of me looking clever and fucking adorable.

2:31 Yeah, that's a really smart costume. And it's very crafty, too, because it's like.

2:35 I'm crafty.

2:36 Yeah, you're very crafty.

2:37 I'm not very crafty.

2:38 But, like, I wouldn't have thought of that.

2:40 So now this is a facsimile.

2:44 Bitch, your mic is over here. Move closer.

2:46 This is a facsimile.

2:47 Looking away from the mic.

2:48 Of what my costume was supposed to be like. But picture it. cute me being cute i just can't i'm just clever and not like this i can do better than this.

3:01 Just imagining the email that iheart got about urgently printing out cats and getting us an umbrella like i know that there's someone at iheart right now who's like these fucking the exactly right team is always sending us the weirdest requests i'm sorry i did come prepared he did And shout out to the Halloween store on Broadway and 12th.

3:20 That's been there forever. You know the one I'm talking about?

3:22 Yeah.

3:22 Right by Strand. They're the best. They said, honey.

3:26 Oh, that big giant place?

3:27 They were going to close during COVID. They never closed. Honey, I'm keeping them in business.

3:31 Yeah.

3:31 Buying Sabrina wigs. It's really hard. It's really itchy. Anyway, welcome to Brief Recess. I'm Michael Futt. I'm lame.

3:39 I'm lame.

3:43 Today we're going to talk about all sorts of fun stuff. It's our Halloween episode. I feel like we didn't do a Halloween episode last year because we had just started.

3:52 Yeah, we had just started.

3:53 And people would be like... Who cares?

3:54 I mean, maybe they don't care.

3:56 They're still like, who cares?

3:58 I'm imagining the comments under this episode. What the hell happened to Melissa? Why has she got the same outfit on?

4:06 Have you ever had a crazy Halloween experience in your years of life? Have you ever gone through it on Halloween?

4:13 No.

4:14 There's never like.

4:15 Like what?

4:16 I know. Halloween's always really fun, but I don't have like a Mike Myers kind of Halloween story. No.

4:22 Why would you?

4:22 And I don't have like any... Even like the crazy things that I've, you know, done parties we go to. There's still crazier things that happen throughout the year. It's just we're all in costume.

4:31 Yeah. Yeah. I mean, do you and Brad get dressed up all the time?

4:34 Yeah, we do. Every year we have to do it. Because we have friends and everyone wants to go do like a Halloween thing. There's a difference between... really gay halloween parties where it's underwear plus accessory we're not going to.

4:48 That okay we're dressed like this right um.

4:52 This party we're going to this gay halloween so what.

4:54 Was the name of that movie with tina fey and the girl who's a redhead and we on wednesdays we wear pink mean girls mean girls.

5:04 The girl who's a redhead i said kathy griffin I don't know. Lindsay Lohan.

5:10 Lindsay Lohan. Sorry. That for every costume, Halloween costume, there's always like a sexy version. Right. So there's like regular Snow White, slutty Snow White.

5:26 Yeah.

5:26 So I was looking at. Somebody sent me something.

5:31 I sent it to you.

5:32 The sexy Mr. Rogers?

5:33 Yes.

5:34 Yes, it was Michael.

5:36 There's this company in China that's making sexy American thing costumes. And one is Mr. Rogers.

5:44 A sexy Mr. Rogers is a sexy Hulk?

5:48 But they're all like, they're not public domain. Look at that. They're not.

5:52 Oh, we can't show them?

5:53 No, we can show them.

5:54 Oh, okay.

5:54 But they're calling it Neighborhood Friend.

5:57 Yes, Neighborhood Friend. Sexy Neighborhood Friend. Yeah, it's not actually Mr.

6:00 Rogers.

6:01 Right, but it is Mr. Rogers, yeah.

6:02 Yeah, I think that's the first time I'm showing the tattoos on the pod. I don't think I've done this before. Oh. Yeah.

6:08 I don't know. I've seen them, so I guess I'm not.

6:10 I've never seen them in the studio lighting.

6:12 I guess not. Yeah. You're going to get more?

6:14 I think so. I love a good tattoo.

6:16 No, I know. I'm actually going to get a tattoo removed.

6:18 Really?

6:19 Yeah, it's stupid. That's why.

6:22 Let's get into a sidebar about regret.

6:25 Regret. Regrets, I've had a few. I was 19 and I got this really stupid tattoo on my chest and it's dumb.

6:33 You don't want it.

6:33 No, I just don't want it. I just don't want it.

6:35 What have you learned through researching laser removal processes?

6:38 That as a black person, you have to be careful about where you do it because you can get hyperpigmentation. Oh. And then it'll just be like a- Whiteout. No, hyperpigmentation. So it'll be a really dark- Oh, okay. Like a burn.

6:53 Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Be careful.

6:54 So, yeah, be careful.

6:55 Don't do like the Groupon laser removal. No, I'm not.

6:57 You know what, though? It's so funny. I was going to, and a friend of mine was just like, could you not cheap out on the laser tattoo removal?

7:04 Didi and Bev's tattoo removal. We got all your removal needs. Dial 555. Remove it.

7:12 Yeah. It's like people who did like plastic surgery. Don't cheap out.

7:16 People who are injecting cement into their ass, the liquid cement, or the guy who is gluing chiclets onto people's teeth. saying they were veneers. Did I tell you that? We can get into a real algorithm show about this. Please. He was charging people to train them how to do teeth. He was like a tooth doctor, but he didn't know what he was doing.

7:39 Wait, a tooth doctor? Like a dentist?

7:42 He was like, I know how to do veneers. Melissa, give me $ 5, 000. I'll train you how to do veneers.

7:47 Okay, like you were teaching health?

7:48 Right, exactly.

7:49 Okay.

7:50 And so you would come and I would teach you how to do veneers.

7:53 Yeah.

7:53 But it was like gluing Tic Tacs to people's... It was just gluing teeth on top of people's teeth. And so now there was this whole network. It's like when a guy donates sperm at a sperm bank. Like all of them.

8:09 All the lesbians and broken.

8:11 Women are the same. They're all siblings. Yeah. This guy trained this large group of people how to do veneers wrong.

8:20 Where is this taking place?

8:22 Out of all 50 states, guess which one?

8:24 Oh, it was in the United States.

8:26 Guess which state?

8:27 Sweet Home Alabama.

8:28 Melissa, it's happening in Florida.

8:30 Oh, well, sorry.

8:31 Where all things happen.

8:32 Yeah.

8:32 Where all things that shouldn't happen, happen.

8:34 Is anything good happening in Florida?

8:36 Yeah, that's a wrap. That's a wrap. That's it. Let us know in the comments if something good happened to you in Florida.

8:44 I'm sure there is something good happening in Florida.

8:46 Because I'm still at a loss. I know people like to go to, what is it, Boca? Miami? Miami Beach?

8:52 Our good friend Alyssa loves a good Miami trip.

8:54 Should we call Alyssa? Where is she? What's happening in Miami Halloween?

8:59 I don't know.

9:00 Check her location.

9:00 I'm going to see where her location is.

9:02 Yeah, because she was supposed to come to a Trader's Ring party and she didn't.

9:05 Oh, really?

9:06 Yeah, she didn't. Of course not, though. I expected that. Oh, yeah. You got anything crazy coming up on your feed?

9:12 Not really.

9:13 Besides raining cats and dogs? Not really. The midterms are next week. You got nothing. I'm sorry.

9:18 I'm very upset that I forgot my costume today. She's on Broadway someplace.

9:23 Alyssa's on Broadway?

9:24 Yeah.

9:25 Oh, she's mad at me, actually.

9:27 She's in Midtown.

9:29 Nothing good happens in Midtown.

9:30 Nothing good happens in Midtown.

9:33 The cast of And Juliet reached out and they were like, do you want to come see the show? And I was like, yeah, I would love to. And they were like, great. And then the date that I can go, Alyssa can't go. And she really loves Aunt Juliet. And she's mad at me that she won't get to meet the cast on the date that she can't go to. Okay. A thing that's completely out of my control and not at all my fault.

9:52 So now she's mad at you.

9:53 Yeah, of course. Because it is, yeah.

9:55 Have you seen it yet, in Juliet?

9:56 No. You haven't? I have.

9:59 It's really good. Andre took me to go see it. It was so much fun.

10:02 What is it?

10:03 So it's what happens to Juliet if she doesn't actually die and the things that she discovers about herself and about Romeo. I love that.

10:13 Oh, because he's dead.

10:15 Well, he ends up not being dead, I think. But then they figure out all these things, like how lame Romeo is. Really, really good.

10:23 Okay, love that.

10:24 And it's all contemporary music. So it's like Britney Spears and like NSYNC. It's really, it's very, very good.

10:31 This sounds like a couple drinks before you go. Yeah. Where would you place it on the paranormal activity to end Juliet scale? It's a sliding scale.

10:40 I've never seen Paranormal Activity, but based on what you've said.

10:43 If I had two broken ankles, which show should I go see?

10:46 And Juliet.

10:47 If I wanted to bring my dog to the theater, what would I see?

10:49 Paranormal Activity. I'm dead.

10:55 I'm dead. Are you following the protests and riots in Paris?

10:58 I saw that.

10:59 In France?

10:59 Isn't that insane?

11:01 Because you'd spent a lot of time in France.

11:02 No.

11:03 Didn't you go to summer camp there?

11:04 Yeah, but not in Paris.

11:06 I'm sorry. The wig is digging into my brain. This is for a woman's head. I'm going to have a crazy line.

11:11 What's the difference between a man's head and a woman's head?

11:13 I think one is significantly smaller.

11:15 I think it depends on the woman. It depends on the man. Okay.

11:18 Well, I have a huge head and I'm a man. Okay.

11:20 So take the wig off.

11:20 No, look at the line.

11:23 Are you allergic to the wig?

11:24 Is it really red?

11:25 Yeah.

11:27 I'm going to keep it on.

11:28 And what just fell out of it? What just fell out of the wig?

11:34 I will say it was $ 39. 99. So, like, this isn't a human hair bundle. This isn't the bust down.

11:40 Not you talking about the bust down.

11:45 The bust down.

11:47 Yeah. So, what ended up being riots in Paris.

11:52 Insane. Well, I was talking to my friend. I think it was you. I was like, they will change the, like, what are they rioting over?

12:04 I think initially the problem is that there have been some cuts to what's going on in terms of the high schools, I think. Let me just make sure.

12:14 Because they're always, I remember a couple of years ago, they changed the retirement age by like half a year and people took to the streets.

12:21 I mean, I don't know if people are aware, but that is a huge part of the culture in France is like they protest. Yeah. They take to the streets all the time. And I feel like, you know, barring the violence, I feel like maybe we should take a lesson. There's not enough of that.

12:36 If they change the retirement age in America, it wouldn't even make the headlines. We'd be like, when did that happen? We find out when we retire.

12:44 You know what I feel like happens here? I feel like things happen and there's like no reactions.

12:50 Yeah.

12:51 Or not enough of a reaction.

12:53 I also think like, I mean, I'm not French and I know very little about French politics, but I can imagine that the things that are happening here probably aren't happening in France. So we have a higher threshold for pain than French people maybe? Like they're not constant, like they don't have a reflecting pool.

13:10 No, they don't have that problem. But they do have, Marie Le Pen is a very conservative and she's running for president. And there is, you know, We should really look into why there is this huge right-wing movement that's happening across the world. It's not just here. It's in France. It's in Italy. It's in Germany. It's in– I was reading someplace that was really– I was like, oh, in the Philippines.

13:38 And they're having like a surge of conservatism in there, yeah. Right.

13:42 I wonder what that is really about. I mean, people can say, oh, it's economical or whatever. But is it just that? I don't know. I have no idea.

13:51 I always felt like it was scarcity of resources and then people swing really far right because they're like, protect my country first. My, my, my, my, my. Yeah, I need my money protected. I need lower tax rates. It's just this squirreling things away, get off my lawn kind of mentality that spreads when resources are running scarce. Yeah.

14:13 I feel like with climate change, it's just going to keep kind of happening. Sure. And then everyone realizes- Gas price. It's $ 7 a gallon for gas right now. Where? I filled up the, my car's diesel, but I filled it up $ 7. 50 a gallon.

14:30 Oh yeah. Okay. I got gas the other day and was shocked because I almost hardly ever drive my car because I don't really need it that much. It was almost $ 5 a gallon, which is a lot of money.

14:41 Yeah.

14:42 I remember when I was in high school.

14:43 I remember I was going to say, go. Go. When you were in high school.

14:48 When I was in high school.

14:48 You can't be ringing the bell. You forgot your costume. I'm here in a bust down wig. How dare you? My edges are fried and you didn't even bring a costume.

14:57 I meant to. I made a costume.

14:59 You see how they did? Yeah. I did. Give me that bell.

15:02 No. So when I was in high school, I had a telemarketing job and I was selling appointments for somebody to come and look at your oil, right? To change oil companies, right? Okay. When I was in high school, a gallon of gas. No. Are you ready? I'm ready. $ 1. 99.

15:24 Wow. That's how much it was. I feel like it was like that when I was, no.

15:29 A little boy. Yeah. If I was in high school, you were a little boy.

15:32 Yeah. Wow. I was just thinking when you said $ 5 a gallon, I was like, that's how much a Beanie Baby cost. Is that how much they cost?

15:41 $ 5.

15:41 When I was a kid, they were $ 5.

15:43 How many Beanie Babies did you have?

15:45 Hundreds.

15:45 Yeah.

15:46 I was that kid.

15:46 It was a big investment.

15:48 Huge. I'm still waiting. I don't have a 401k. I've got an attic full of Beanie Babies. Pokemon cards.

15:54 Pokemon cards, garbage pill kits.

15:57 The Pokemon cards, I think, actually do hold value now. I threw all my Charizard's up. We never reviewed CJ's costume. I never looked to the corner.

16:03 Do you know what he is?

16:04 He's Mia Stanley Tucci, he said. I'm Stanley Tucci as you. Yes.

16:10 That's what it is.

16:11 I'm a dude disguised as a dude playing another dude. Did we get a photo? Did we get a shot of Tucci?

16:16 No. I'm trying to see how much gas was.

16:21 Tucci takes all the gay roles. Stanley Tucci takes all those gay roles. My foot will forever remain on his neck.

16:27 What year were you born, Michael?

16:28 88.

16:29 Oh, you were a year old. Okay. So the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the United States in 1989, which is when I was, I think I was a freshman, was $ 1.

16:43 02 to $ 1. 06.

16:44 I remember it was $ 1.

16:45 99.

16:45 At some point, I remember telling people- Gas is $ 1. 99. No, no, no, no. It was $ 1. 09.

16:57 Oh, that's crazy.

16:58 Yeah.

16:58 Because I remember being $ 1. 99 at some point when I was filling up.

17:02 I remember when it was $ 2. Yes. And I was like, what the hell is this?

17:07 Cigarettes were.

17:10 Cigarettes were so cheap. I don't remember.

17:12 I think it was like $ 5 to $ 7 when I was buying cigarettes.

17:15 I remember my dad used to send me to the store to get cigarettes from him.

17:19 No. No.

17:20 Everybody did.

17:21 Everybody did.

17:22 Everybody did. My dad was smoking Marlboro Reds hard pack.

17:28 Were people socially talking about how cigarettes were bad for you at the time?

17:32 Yeah, but it wasn't, you know, now it's almost taboo, right? Like, I will say that now when I see somebody smoking who's a young person, I'm kind of surprised. I am more likely to, I wouldn't, I'm not surprised if I see them smoking pot.

17:48 No.

17:49 But if you're smoking a cigarette?

17:50 Yeah. Or vaping now. Yeah. The kids vape in these days.

17:54 Yeah, they vape.

17:55 I feel like that's socially acceptable in the way cigarettes were when.

18:00 Well, when I was in high school, it wasn't like I was allowed to smoke. The girls were sneaking to smoke. Nobody was smoking in front of their parents.

18:09 But when I'm watching Sex and the City now, they're smoking everywhere. In bars. I remember when I was in college, you could still smoke in bars.

18:16 Oh, really?

18:16 There was like a couple bars you could go to and still smoke. And that was really fun for us.

18:20 I remember when you can smoke on airplanes in the smoking section.

18:24 That's crazy.

18:26 My mom had a friend who was a TWA flight attendant. And she– I mean, she eventually– she died. And it was a whole bunch of them. She got lung cancer. She was not a smoker.

18:41 She was a smoker. And locked in a flying coffin, soaring through the air.

18:46 Yep. Shed emphysema, shed all kinds of things. With all the smokers.

18:50 Yeah.

18:50 And what I think is really funny, though, is that restaurants used to have the smoking section as if the smoke knew. The smoke knew that it could only be here. But we accepted it. Do you know what I'm saying? We all accepted it. Like, oh, okay.

19:07 Sorry, my wig's in my mouth.

19:08 I see that.

19:08 I just know there's one guy watching this who just is like, into it you know what i mean of course there's a couple guys yeah yeah i'm gonna get a dm after this.

19:17 Whatever the thing is there's somebody who's really.

19:20 Into it yeah i'm gonna get a dm from like that accountant that finance guy it's like you got that wig still i like that wig on you what are you doing later.

19:31 But i think the protesters were not just students and teachers there were other people who are talking about the lack of resources in general in France. And what the French do that I think they do really well that I can't imagine the United States ever doing is the whole country gets on lockdown to go on strike.

19:54 And that's the tea is that like, if you're governing that nation and you know your people, they will in a second shut it down, go on strike, set everything on fire. Yeah. It's not like here where they fuck around and rarely find out. We're not going on strike. We're not even walking out of work.

20:13 I wonder sometimes, you know, the great Montgomery boycott, right?

20:18 Yes.

20:19 I don't know that we would be able to do that today. Do people have it in them to do things like that? I mean, because during COVID, right, there was a virus outside that was literally killing people and we didn't want to stay inside.

20:33 And it took them a long time to be like, you should actually stay inside.

20:37 You need to stay inside.

20:38 Long until after they knew it was important.

20:40 And that is with the threat of like a terrible death.

20:45 Death.

20:46 So if you're not going to be willing to stay inside because you could die outside, then are you willing to stay inside or protest? You know what I mean? Stop working to send a message about your rights, your civil rights.

21:01 People were sneaking out to get their hair done.

21:04 I had a friend of mine who used to go and get her nails done. The nail tech would open the shop for her and they would sit there in the dark.

21:14 That is so crazy.

21:16 Now, you could look at it a couple of ways, right? So this person who, no, no, no, but this person who that's how they make their living.

21:24 Sure.

21:25 And unlike people who can work from home, they couldn't and they still needed to make the money.

21:30 Yeah.

21:31 We knew somebody who was getting haircuts.

21:34 Oh, I know who you're talking about. There was somebody who was sneaking out and getting haircuts.

21:37 And doing weird things to their eyebrows.

21:39 Well, I know exactly who you're talking about. And now I know exactly who you're talking about. Exactly.

21:43 So, I mean, I think that we are, a lot of us, myself included, can sometimes be very selfish.

21:54 Yeah.

21:54 And just think about how whatever this one thing is going to impact us.

21:59 Yeah.

22:01 I wonder what it is about certain cultures where they're like, you know what? We are going to make them change the constitution. We are going to, you know what? We are so disgusted with our government that we're going to create a situation where the person, the current sitting prime minister, president, whatever, has to go. And there won't be anything that they could do about it. Trudeau bounced.

22:26 Bounced. Yeah. Out of here. Out of here. And I think about if the, Protests are started about schools.

22:33 Yeah.

22:34 In America, people would be like, well, I don't have kids. A lot of people would be like, I don't have kids, so I'm not going to get involved.

22:40 Right.

22:40 But there, it's like everybody's watching out for everybody's rights. At least from our perspective. From our perspective. That's what we're hearing about in the headlines.

22:48 We would need to talk to somebody who's French and really understands what's going on. But my understanding is, please correct me if I'm wrong, that France leans more socialist.

22:59 Yes. Right. That's true. Okay.

23:01 So I think that there's something about being a socialist where the collective cares more about what's happening to all the students, even if you don't have a kid. I think there is an understanding also that if the education is poor, the... The progress of your country.

23:23 The workforce.

23:23 Is not going to be where it needs to be.

23:25 And it's like that adage about like first they came for me, first they came for them, and then they came for me and I was alone.

23:31 There was nobody. Yeah, there was nobody. It's like they.

23:33 Come for that, and then who's going to back you up when you need retirement benefits?

23:37 Americans love their guns more than they love their kids.

23:40 Yes.

23:40 It's crazy.

23:41 It's crazy. Do you want to do Under Oath and get into some Halloween lawsuits that we pulled together? Some Halloween-themed lawsuits?

23:53 Hey, friends. What do I always say while Michael is not... Sorry.

23:57 This is not Tales from the DMs.

23:59 Oh, my bad.

24:02 Okay. So this lawsuit, there was a Reese's Pumpkins that didn't have faces, and consumers sued Hershey. So the Reese's Pumpkin candies didn't have the Jack-o'-lantern faces pictured on the packaging. And they alleged that they paid a premium for the decorative design, so they sued Hershey. Listen, this isn't France.

24:23 This is the land of the free and the home of the lawsuit, Melissa. You have to get on board. The federal judge dismissed the lawsuit wrongfully, in my opinion. Finding disappointment alone wasn't enough to establish financial injury. This month, Hershey's packaging was reported to include a new disclaimer. The disclaimer says, carving not on actual product.

24:48 I'm going to say it again. We're running out of shit. Just running out of things to do ourselves, to care about. That is, you know what?

24:58 Never. Next. Next lawsuit.

25:01 You don't even have anything to say.

25:03 Well, the consumer protection law, I will say that they're different. When you buy a product, it's called an implied warranty of merchantability. But this definitely doesn't hit that. Basically, that just means that the product you're buying does what it says it's supposed to do, even if they're not explicitly saying it.

25:23 Okay.

25:23 So this doesn't reach that because it's a design, and like the judge said, disappointment isn't enough to establish financial loss.

25:32 And were the peanut butter cups pumpkin-shaped?

25:35 Yeah.

25:36 So they were pumpkin-shaped, but they were not carved out.

25:39 Also, you're getting more product if they're not carved out. They're just less designed. If they're carved out, it's missing that. So you actually got more.

25:47 Well, I don't know.

25:48 I actually think you owe Hershey money. That's what I would argue.

25:52 Did the person sewing imagine that they should be carved or there was going to be a face of a pumpkin on it? Do you know what I'm saying?

26:00 Yeah, I think the packaging pictured faces and it was a premium decorative design.

26:05 I really don't like people very much.

26:07 I feel like this is one of those like Proud Boy lobbyists that like file lawsuits for fun. Like, you know what I'm talking about? It was like, yeah.

26:14 Okay.

26:15 Do you want to read the haunted house one?

26:17 Haunted house actor allegedly chases teen into a $ 1. 5 million lawsuit. A Tennessee family sued the operations of the slaughter. First of all, I'm not going to anything called the slaughterhouse.

26:30 You don't want to, you wouldn't do a haunted house.

26:32 I don't like, I don't like being scared.

26:34 I do.

26:35 You do.

26:35 Of course you do.

26:36 You're sick.

26:36 I do. I'm sick. I love it.

26:38 The slaughterhouse haunted attraction after alleging that a costumed actor chased a 16-year-old girl outside the attraction. She reportedly fell from an unmarked curb and suffered serious injuries requiring surgery. And the family is seeking up to $ 1. 5 million in damages.

26:59 Ooh.

27:03 Wow. So there's a haunted house that's in Queens.

27:11 Yeah.

27:12 And it's pretty popular. But there's a disclaimer.

27:17 That's the next one.

27:19 Oh, is it?

27:19 It's like Watcher Show.

27:20 Oh, in Hollis. Yeah.

27:22 Outside of the attraction.

27:24 Why?

27:25 That's what the lawsuit's going to hinge upon. Right. It's like this actor was hired by the Whatever company is putting on the haunted house, the actor chased her off the premises and then she was injured.

27:37 Right.

27:37 So now they're holding the company liable because he was acting within his capacity as an employee and went rogue.

27:44 Right. He was until he chased her off the premises.

27:47 Right. So if she went down, if she went, you know, she fell. Right. Outside.

27:53 Yeah.

27:53 If she did it on the premises, maybe that disclaimer would have covered it. But when you go into a haunted house, you don't expect them to chase you down the road.

27:59 Not down the road.

28:00 Yeah.

28:01 Because this next one, because I went to the website.

28:06 It's called Satan Slope. You went to satanslope.com.

28:10 And I can't remember. I think that's the name of the website.

28:14 What was his late night search history? Pull it up.

28:17 Yeah. My late night search history is crazy. But they have a disclaimer. And maybe the disclaimer came as a result of this lawsuit. Maybe, yeah. Because they're very clear. Be like, if you have a heart condition, if you're pregnant, please don't wear high heels. Please don't wear loose clothing. And by coming in here, you are really releasing us of everything.

28:45 I'm sorry. What? I'm just imagining.

28:48 The pregnant lady just giving birth?

28:51 She's like, I didn't know what to expect going into a haunted house in high heels. I can't believe it.

28:55 First of all.

28:56 I can't believe it.

28:57 But you know what, though? There's bound to be somebody who's like, I'm going to be cute today.

29:01 I'm going to wear my Louboutins.

29:02 Yeah, I'm going to wear my Louboutins. I'm going to be a sexy kitten. And I'm going to go flying. Yeah, and I'm going to wear my high heels.

29:08 Yeah. Oh, my God. Wow. Okay, well, this Queen's Haunted House... Multiple lawsuits alleging serious injuries. Yeah.

29:15 I don't know.

29:15 Be careful. Oh, my God.

29:16 One customer said he suffered a spinal injury.

29:20 That's bad.

29:21 After riding a two-story slide named Satan's Slope and hitting a wall.

29:26 Isn't that funny? Oh, my God. It really hurt. But he hit a wall?

29:29 He hit a wall.

29:30 That's like Action Park.

29:31 It is very Action Park coded. It's like one of those things where there isn't like an engineer. There's just... like a kid who's just like, we should stick a slide here.

29:43 Their website does say killer clowns will relentlessly chase you throughout this entire place.

29:49 Extreme haunted house owners who sued Hulu for $ 8. 4 million- The owner of the notorious McKamey Manor attraction sued Hulu and others over the documentary Monster Inside America's Most Extreme Haunted House. The case involved allegations of privacy violations and unauthorized access to private emails. I know all about this case.

30:08 You do?

30:09 Yes.

30:09 This documentary is insane. This guy, you have to sign up. His name is Russ McAmee. And you have to sign up. There's like years long waiting lists. And he comes in like, if he picks you, he picks like 15 people a season.

30:21 To traumatize them. Yes.

30:23 And he kidnaps you from your regular life. So like right now, if I had signed up like a year ago, he would just come in here with masked men, kidnap me, take me in a van. And then you're like in his experience for 12 hours and you have to tell him all of your deepest and darkest like fears.

30:39 A year ago.

30:40 And he has set up an experience specifically for you. And there's no safe word. You don't get out. And like it's like he brings people on the verge of death.

30:50 And he films all of it. It's on his website.

30:52 There's all a video on his website and they showed it in Hulu.

30:56 CJ's so excited.

30:57 It's crazy.

30:57 Let me ask you this, CJ. Am I paying for the pleasure of this?

31:02 You don't pay for it.

31:03 You don't pay for it.

31:04 It's free.

31:04 It's for his pleasure. Oh, it's free. It's free trauma. He is a psycho. I'm dead. He's crazy.

31:09 Have people gotten hurt?

31:10 Allegedly. He's allegedly a psycho. Allegedly.

31:12 Have people gotten hurt?

31:13 Oh, yeah. He's had to like resuscitate people.

31:16 Oh, my God. Yes.

31:17 This is like it's Jigsaw. It's the Saw movie. He films it all. He films it all. And so now Hulu made a documentary about him. Out of his footage. But they used his footage. So now they're in trouble. Okay, now I got to watch this. It's crazy. It's a good haunted Halloween movie.

31:34 Is the documentary scary?

31:36 No, but it's disturbing because you're like, holy shit, this guy is actually not stopping when they are legitimately asking him to stop. While he's filling up a container that your head is stuck in full of water. And he's like, you're going underwater. Their fear is getting waterboarded.

31:54 This is crazy. It's legit like sauce in here. People are running out of shit to do. People are walking around sticking their fingers in the sockets. They got nothing else going on. Wow. Okay. You know what? Volunteer. Be a poll worker. If you have that kind of time, right? You got that kind of time, go to a protest.

32:11 If you're not going to a protest, but you're getting the fishbowl filled up with water with your head in it.

32:15 Well, especially, I wonder if people, I wonder if he's going to have more people who want to do it now because of this documentary or less. More.

32:23 Definitely. People are sick.

32:26 I hate it here. Okay. Hey, friends. We don't know what happened to Michael. So this is CJ standing in for him. This has been Brief Resize. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for being on this ride with us today. It was wild. CJ says bye.

32:47 This has been an Exactly Right production recorded at iHeart Studios, hosted by me, Michael Foote.

32:52 And me, Melissa Malbranch. Our producer is CJ Ferroni.

32:55 This episode is edited by Mark Schroeder.

32:57 Our associate producer is Christina Chamberlain, and our guest booker is Patrick Kottner.

33:02 Our theme song was composed by Tom Breifogel with artwork from Charlotte Delarue and Vanessa Lilac, with photography by Brad Obono.

33:08 Brief Recess is executive produced by Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark, and Danielle Kramer.

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