So, Hey my friends it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible hour

podcast and a couple weeks ago I was traveling with my family and we had an

Uber driver and I could not quite place

her accent but it seemed really familiar and I don't know if you're supposed to ask I

think it's friendly to ask I like to know where people are from so I always ask and I

asked where you're from and she was delighted to tell me that she is from

Transylenia it's like oh that's the coolest thing ever no wonder I recognize

your accent it's like Saturday morning cartoons and stuff that makes perfect sense.

We had a big laugh and it was super fun and I think I read the room right.

It's possible that I did not but it seemed like we had a nice time and so I started asking her questions about Romania and

Transylvania what are the mountains like there is spooky in the fall what's the

deal how do locals think of Vlad Dracul vlad the impaler, what's their opinion of him?

She told me the whole story and all of that stuff and I asked her if she'd ever read Bram Stokers

Dracula because it's a book that I love and she's like oh yeah yeah that we got a lot of

tourist money because of that book and we laughed some

more and she was just great but it got me thinking more the last couple weeks

about how much I love that book Bramstokers Dracula have you ever

read that it's the first kind of spooky book that I ever read for myself. I think it is a literary classic, I think it's brilliant.

And it's also, in addition to being the first hair raising thing I ever read, it's the first found footage book I ever read.

Like the Blair Witch Project is found footage or Clover Field, is that the name of the movie that came out later?

It's found footage. It's not just a

single camera that goes around and knows all and sees all. It's like cell phone footage and

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