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GraveYard Tales

238: The Big Thicket

GraveYard Tales

Adam Zero

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Science, History

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

This episode we take a look at The Big Thicket in South East Texas! Between the geography, flora, fauna, and the legends this place is super creepy! What do you think resides in The Big Thicket? 


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Alright, so Matt for the last few months, maybe six months or whatever, Ashley has been buying plants on a regular basis.

0:08.0

She buys them and then she kills them and then she'll buy another one and then she kills it and I was like,

0:15.0

if you're killing them, why do you keep buying them? And she looks at me and goes,

0:22.0

just to let you know what I'm capable of.

0:24.0

She's a serial plant killer.

0:44.0

Good evening everybody and welcome to the graveyard.

0:48.0

Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is Adam and my name's Matt.

0:53.0

Now pull up a tombstone or settle into your casket and get comfortable because this is graveyard tails.

1:07.0

Alright everybody here we are again Matt. How you doing tonight brother?

1:12.0

Man I'm doing alright. Good deal. Good deal.

1:15.0

So I kind of told you before we started but I'll tell everybody else I just I don't care about this episode.

1:21.0

Now I'm just kidding. He's phoning it in.

1:26.0

I'm phoning it in man from from vacation already. Now we're recording early because Matt had a vacation

1:36.0

and then I've got a vacation coming up. So we got to get episodes in the bank so that y'all don't see any lack of episodes on those weeks.

1:45.0

Well when we're recording this there's only a few days left before we go down to the beach.

1:52.0

And I told Matt my brain already went to Florida.

1:57.0

My body's still here but my brain is in Florida and I'm trying to get it back.

2:02.0

So let's hope I remember everything I need to talk about in this episode.

2:07.0

Yeah that's good. That's good.

2:11.0

That you're at least aware. So I'm not going.

2:16.0

God dang man. He's out the light.

2:19.0

What happened to Adam?

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