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The Papaya Podcast

The One About Ghosts, Gays and Giggles with Matthew Finlan and Luke Hutchie

The Papaya Podcast

The Papaya Podcast

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In this engaging conversation, Sarah interviews Matthew Finlan and Luke Hutchie, the hosts of the unique paranormal investigation show 'Ghosting.' They discuss the origins of their show, the unexpected virality of their content, and how they make the paranormal approachable and humorous. The hosts share their experiences with celebrity guests and the dynamics of belief in the afterlife, all while maintaining a light-hearted and entertaining tone.



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0:00.0

Hi friends and welcome to the papaya podcast. I'm your hostess, Try and Hermostis, Sarah Nicole,

0:10.2

and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom

0:15.6

or something like that. So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real, because we are all in this digital

0:23.3

space together. This morning, I woke up and I actually wasn't feeling well and I texted a

0:32.4

friend and I was like, I'm not feeling well. And they're like, oh no, what's wrong?

0:35.5

And I was like, I don't think you understand. I have a podcast today with the gay ghost hunters and I will not feeling well. And they're like, oh, no, what's wrong? And I was like, I don't think you understand. I have a podcast today with the gay ghost hunters, and I will not miss this. And then they just responded and was like, that is quite a sentence. And I was like, oh, yeah, I don't think I ever thought I was going to ever say that ever in my life. But I'm obsessed with you both. I'm obsessed with the show. I think this is one of the funniest

0:56.5

things I've seen in so long and so entertaining and I'm just so locked it. It's also so funny

1:03.0

because I'm just like watching it all on my phone. Like I'm just, I'm so gripped. Tell us about

1:09.8

ghosting. Introduce yourselves. Anybody who doesn't know, you're about to go on the wildest ride.

1:16.0

Oh my gosh. Well, first of all, thank you so much. I think you just check something off of a lifelong bucket list to be called a gay ghost hunter. I didn't know that would make it onto my resume, but I'm thrilled that it has.

1:33.6

Hello, a podcast audience. I'm Matthew Finlan. I am just one half of this crazy duo, the host of ghosting. And I'm Luke Hutchie. If you will, I'm the Nicole Richie of the duo.

1:40.6

Yes, and I'm the Paris Hilton. I'll take it. Yes. And ghosting is a celebrity paranormal investigation show that takes us and your favorite

1:50.5

celebrities from any type of horror genre element thing and brings them cross Canada to the most

1:55.6

haunted places in the country to see if they can figure out if it's truly haunted or not.

2:00.7

However, we're just hot and

2:02.4

funny the whole time. Exactly. You can't blame us for being sexy, you know, and scary.

2:07.1

How the heck did you even pitch this and make this happen or was this self-produced? Like,

2:12.4

it's nothing that I've ever thought to see before. There's that one clip that's extremely viral where

2:17.9

the ghost wants a kiss. Right. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Matthew, do you want to talk about that? How did you

2:23.0

feel? Okay, well, the crazy thing is in that moment, I couldn't see the tool that was going off.

2:29.6

So I'm interacting with this spirit and I'm like Luke and our guest, Jordan Connor, we're at Fort Henry, this really haunted, haunted military fort in Kingston.

2:39.6

And I'm thinking they're just like making fun of me and they're like really having me go with it.

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