Spooked LIVE: Jen Kober x Glynn Washington

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Okay, so

backstage.

At the highlighted halls of LA's haunted Orpheum Theater, over 2,000 spookters have gathered.

waiting on the other side of that curtain.

Preparing to summon the shadow for spooked live, they think they're gonna get one thing, but friends,

y'all are about to get something else entirely.

I am so excited.

A woman who is royalty to this Snap Judgment Enterprise rolled out the red carpet, she's about to step on the spook stage.

No,

I will never be able to predict the next word out of her mouth, but I promise, I guarantee,

you're gonna love the ride.

And dear friend of mine, Snap fan,

Jim Colbert

I just have to say I didn't know who was on this show

and when you show up to a gig

And there's a CNN correspondent there

as I already spooked.

This can't be good.

I don't like spooky things.

I hate to be.

I have been in a dressing room in the bowels of this building

listening to music.

La la la la la la la la.

I don't like to be scared.

Even as a kid, I didn't ever like scary movies.

I'm not really nightmare on Elm Street.

I'm more Ghostbusters.

Though I do watch a lot of Dateline.

Yeah.

Like those slasher kind of movies, that blood and guts, I can't take that.

Uh-uh.

Fictionalized horror terrifies me.

But actual people dying,

I fall asleep to that shit.

That's...

But I've never liked scary movies.

I remember at a slumber party when I was eight years old, Betsy Rodriguez got us all into a circle and she started all that light as a feather stiff as a board bloody merry Ouija voodoo schmedoodle

I don't care for that

it scares me

uh-uh anytime that would start I would just go to sleep

I would often wake up with my hands and bowls of warm water.

If you know, you know.

If not, we'll move on.

I never understood it, though.

Like, fine, make me pee.

It's your sheets.

It was hard to handle those scary movies.

I just couldn't do it.

Side note, I don't like scary movies so much.

That when the movie I Know What You Did Last Summer was popular, I was doing a one-woman show at that time that I I wanted to title, I Know What You Ate Last Summer.

I thought it would be funny.

And then I was going to parody some scene from the movie.

So I sat down to watch the movie.

Five minutes in, I shut that shit off and changed the name of my one-woman show to Indiana Gin and the Temple of Food.

I love Indiana Jones.

It's the ringtone on myself.

So I didn't know what to do, y'all.

How am I going to tell a spooky story when I don't like to be spooked?

So I called Glenn.

I was like, dude, I don't know what to do.

Glenn says, Jen, it doesn't have to be blood and guts kind of scary.

Haven't you ever just been spooked?

I was like, ooh, dude, you mean like the time my dog, who is really my grandmother reincarnated,

sat at the end of my bed telling me about the presence of extraterrestrials in the greater Los Angeles area.

All night long, she just kept being like, I'm telling you, Jennifer, there are space aliens on Wilshire.

Glenn was like, that's not quite it.

I said, ooh, what about the time we held a seance for a dead squirrel in Paducah, Kentucky with a voodoo priestess?

Closer.

I got it.

What about the time me and my buddy Jeff D cleared a haunted Airbnb of a ghost that looked like ZZ Top?

Glenn said, jackpot.

Here's what you got to know about my buddy Jeff D.

Jeff D looks like the brother I never had.

But he's more like the sister I never wanted.

He looks just like me and he is very, very, very gay.

He loves Rock Hudson and Judy Garland and Leslie Jordan.

I often refer to him as the ghost of homosexuals past.

We've known each other since college and he opens for me all over the country.

So we travel together a lot.

So, one weekend, what had happened was

we found ourselves playing at the Stardome Comedy Club in Hoover, Alabama, right outside of Birmingham.

I don't mean to brag, but they have two Walmarts.

One of them has a brand new Arby's inside of it.

So, naturally, we had our shows on the weekend, so we had gotten there on Tuesday.

We were going to spend a few days in an Airbnb

there in Alabama and get our laundry done and catch up on our TV shows.

This is Road Life Glamour.

So we get an Airbnb.

The homeowner meets us at the address.

It's a little bit outside of the city limits,

but it's a big big old house.

We get there, and the owner meets us.

Her name is Celeste.

And I can't tell if Celeste is a hick

or a hippie.

She's wearing a tie-dye t-shirt.

Hippie.

But with overalls.

Hick.

She has long gray hair.

Hippie.

But it's in Willie Nelson braids.

Hick.

She's got her dog with her.

Hick.

But it's a golden doodle named Bailey.

Hippie.

Y'all, it's like Heehaw meets Woodstock.

Or for you, millennials, Miley Cyrus.

I can't tell what's going on with this woman.

But she and the dog start showing us around the place.

She shows us the washer and the dryer.

She's got some environmentally friendly detergent there for us to use.

Thank you, Celeste.

Then she shows us the bedrooms,

and the dog keeps sniffing around a door.

She says, oh, that's the equipment closet.

Equipment?

Uh-huh.

Life vests, oars, rackets, that sort of thing.

for sports.

I don't know what about looking looking at Jeff and I would have made her think to show us the sporting equipment,

but I figured it was just part of the tour.

And then she says,

oh,

and be careful.

There's spirits in the house, but they're mostly friendly.

And she laughs, gets into her Subaru Forester,

and drives away as Jolene blares in the distance.

So there I am left with my laundry.

Jeff goes to his room.

He says he's going to watch a movie.

I'm going to get my first load started.

I'm separating things there.

And

Celeste has installed one of those

air freshener.

The pss,

right?

And it's on top of the refrigerator, which I thought was precarious placement for air freshener, but you know, maybe Celeste likes her smell good at eye level.

I don't know.

I'm not trying to judge anybody, but

and the first couple times it's scared.

It just comes out of

nowhere.

So I keep separating my laundry, and then I remember, y'all, I had put a Yoohoo in the fridge when we first got there.

But I can't find the lights.

She had shown me the light switches.

The lights were on dimmers, right?

Finally, the lights come up.

I get the lights to come up.

And y'all, there's crystals

all over this room.

And there's a crystal ball in the middle of the room.

And at first, I'm like, let's play Pee Wee's big adventure

in the basement.

I'm getting distracted.

I have laundry to do.

So I dim the lights back down.

And I go to the refrigerator to get my Yoohoo out.

And when I open the fridge and the light of of the refrigerator comes on as I grab it and it closes the pss happens and I see the outline of a fella

a tall white fella

so I do want to

I mean I don't know any but I have moves

Though to be honest just doing that I'm a little out of breath

then I start thinking to myself this is ridiculous sending me a male ghost

this is bullshit I am

I am a short-haired woman

If you want to scare me, son, you best bring your A-game.

You know what I'm saying?

I've been chased by murderers on the purge.

I had bloodthirsty demons trying to eat me on American Horror Story, droids shooting at me on the Mandalorian.

You think you're gonna come in here, you tall-skinny Z-Z top, and just scare the hell out of me.

Damn straight, he did.

I was scared shitless.

I didn't,

I just did my

southern thing and acted like it didn't happen.

And

kept folding my laundry,

And a few minutes later, the

and I see him again.

And I felt something near my shoulder.

Like his beard, like just,

y'all, I freaked out.

I go running into Jeff D's room and I tap him on the shoulder and he screams, right?

He loses it.

I was like, oh my God, what were you watching?

He was like, steal magnolias.

Shelby was just drinking her juice when you came in

so I explained to him I said dude every time the thing on top of the refrigerator goes

I see a ghost that looks like ZZ Top

So Jeff gets up out of his bed, goes to the kitchen, grabs the thing off the refrigerator, and smashes it to the floor.

he says there I've solved the ghost problem

I said you didn't solve the ghost problem you moron you just took away the only way I could see it

apparently you gotta shoot particles at the ghost so you can see it

Jeff says this is just like poltergeist girl

we're gonna have to confront this ghost

and usher it out of a portal.

A portal?

Like a door?

Are you saying we gotta get it out the door?

Because earlier I had seen it run out the door, but it didn't run out the door.

It ran through the door.

That's how I knew it was a ghost.

He says, come on, you can do it.

And then he starts dancing.

I said, what the hell are you doing?

He said, I'm ushering.

So the only thing we can do

is arm ourselves

with things from the sporting equipment closet.

I'm not confronting a ghost in majamis.

And gay people love costumes.

We love costumes.

So

we're each wearing a bright orange life vest

and a batting helmet.

Jeff's has the little holders for beer cans and straws hanging off of it.

He has an oar in one hand and a bat in the other.

I'm holding what I later came to find out was a pickleball racket

and my cell phone and Jeff bravely says I'll go outside and check the perimeter of the house

and I'm like we're in Alabama

the hell does perimeter mean

he says I'm gonna check the outside

I said, what if we lose power or something?

He says, don't worry.

Even if we lose power, your cell phone will still work.

If you see anything, call me.

I can't see anything, fool.

You took away the only way I could with the thing at the sea in it.

So I realize I need something if I'm going to see the ghost to spray at it.

And the only thing I have

with me is a can of bacon-flavored spray cheese.

I had meant to buy the American cheese flavor, but somehow bought a bacon-flavored can, so I was not as attached to it as I would normally be.

So I was willing to spray some at the ghost in order to see its outline.

So there I am, pickleball racket in one hand,

bacon spray cheese in the other.

And I see it.

I see the shadow of ZZ Top.

And I call out to him

you have no place here

and I have spray cheese

and I start to spray the cheese at where I think he is

over and over and I can see this the form lunge towards me Which makes me back the hell up.

I'm not

So I back up, but there's there's spray cheese on the floor.

And just then my cell phone rings.

It's Jeff and he says, I don't see dead people.

I was like, I got him right here.

I'm spraying the cheese.

I'm going to usher him to the door.

I spray more cheese.

I lunge again.

And now I'm headed towards him when all of a sudden, the spray cheese gets the best of me.

I flip.

I go up six feet in the air.

I come down.

The crystal ball follows me.

I take down the curtains with me.

I hit the ground and I wake up inside the TV.

I'm kidding.

Look at this guy.

He's like, is she serious right now?

I don't know.

I don't know what happened once I hit my head, but I hit my head.

And I woke up the next day

to Celeste opening the door

to the scene that lay before her,

curtains down,

crystal ball shattered,

spray cheese everywhere,

Jeff and I still wearing life vests.

I am still gripping a pickleball racket for dear life.

And the dog is licking spray cheese off of everything.

And Celeste just looks at me and says, what

happened?

I said, girl,

we seen Zé Zetop.

He was here.

I think he had a message for us.

And that's when the dog said, did he mention the aliens on Wilshire?

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Right now, a special story for spooked live and yours truly.

As a kid,

I love

going to my grandmother's church.

There's singing, there's dancing.

If you're lucky, somebody's going to catch the Holy Ghost.

It's fabulous.

My parents' church,

not a lot of music

no dance and no holy ghost i don't dig it as much

and my granny's church my grandmother

she

wins the unofficial old lady church contest each and every week with the biggest most outrageous hat

on her head that you ever did see.

If you sit behind my grandmother, you ain't gonna see jack

nothing and you better not say nothing neither

she give you one of these here

huh

after church

we go back to my grandmother's place

and usually

there's already a line

Because my grandmother's special.

People come from miles around to seek her advice.

And because I am her second favorite grandchild,

I'm special too.

After Granny gets her relax on,

after she has a glass of lemonade,

after she gives me that look,

I have a job.

My job as a little kid

is to go

out

to the sidewalk

and escort

a grown person

up the porch

in the living room

through the kitchen

back out to the stoop

my grandmother waits

see

if

the doctors run out of options

if your preacher's got no answers, if you have nowhere else left to turn,

the last place people go

is my grandmother.

And

on this day,

the woman,

she says, misses,

misses.

They always call her either missus or man.

Mrs., my man done left me.

Huh.

I know your man.

You should thank your lucky stars.

No, Mrs.

Sometimes he just runs with the wrong crowd.

He is the wrong crowd.

Mrs., I need him back home.

I need him

back with me.

Well,

you bring a picture like I told you?

Yes.

She takes this picture.

out of her billfold.

My grandmother snatches it up.

she takes a match and lights it on fire

she collects the ash in this square of aluminum foil and then she adds a a dash

of

high john the conqueror oil and a pinch of queen elizabeth root boy

What'd I do that for?

The oil for the power,

the root for the heart.

That's my baby grandboy right there.

She ties it off with twine

and hands it back to the woman.

Put that under his pillow.

He'd be back in three days.

But don't blame me for what happened after that.

Thank you, misses.

Thank you, missus.

I go back out, and this time

I get this big fella.

He's in this work suit.

He's got boots on.

I take him back.

Ma'am,

ma'am, my partner

stealing money up the till.

Did you bring a dollar from the register?

Yes.

He hands it over

and she sits it down in front of her.

Boy,

go get me some of those sweet potatoes off the stove.

I put it on the fine china.

I bring it out to her and she sets it on top of the dollar.

She

pours whiskey on top of that

and she pushes it like she's having company for dinner.

She closes her eyes,

listens,

listen.

Your partner,

your partner's going on a long trip.

He won't be back.

Thank you, missus.

Thank you.

I go back out

and I see this

skinny man, tall,

and he's got this blue suit on.

He goes to shake my hand.

I don't want to shake his hand.

I...

Lead him back to the house and he's looking all around.

Take him back to my grandmother, and I know I have to watch him

to watch him close around my granny.

Instead of sitting down,

he's looking everywhere, standing up really, really close next to my grandmother.

And then finally,

he bends down and he whispers in her ear,

she looks up at him.

I'm sorry, I can't help you today.

And it

looks like

he's just been barely holding it together.

And when she says that he can't do it anymore, he goes

boneless.

Please.

Please, ma'am, please.

I'm sorry, please.

I can't do anything for you.

I take him

back out and he's

pale.

He's

eyes blank.

I take this grown man outside of our house.

And when I close the door, he said,

Let me just go talk to her one more time.

Let me just explain something to her.

Granny says she can't help you.

Granny says she can't help you.

He walks

to the sidewalk,

turns around,

spits.

Witch!

They often use that word.

The one she can't help.

and the one she can

she sets me to work later on with a feather duster

dusting that place and um she has these candles that i've seen since i was tiny tiny the apostles matthew mark luke and john each of them their faces turned upwards toward glory

and i'm dusting dusting them,

and I notice for the first time

that there's some other candles behind these ones.

And they've got faces I've never seen before.

And instead of looking up,

they're looking straight ahead.

Some of them are holding weapons, others are holding herbs.

They've got color on their face.

Granny,

Granny, who these

Ha, baby.

Jesus is love,

but you know,

Jesus works for free.

Jesus gives you everything you want, but Jesus takes a sweet time.

These here,

they come quick in a hurry.

But, baby, you got to pay.

Later, I'm at church, the parents' church,

next to pops.

And the preacher's building up a head of steam.

Brethren,

brethren, some of y'all think we're playing games here.

Some of y'all think you're going to have it both ways.

You think you're going to have your Ouija boards and your tarot cards.

And you're going to come into God's church and sit down like you ain't done nothing with the devil.

Well, I got some some news for you.

I got some news for you right now.

Lord, don't appreciate it.

The Lord sees, the Lord knows, and you say, Preacher, Peter, ain't you going too far?

Ain't you saying things that aren't so?

Well, brethren,

I speak for the Lord.

I speak for the Lord because I know the Lord's book and I want you to know it too.

Turn,

if you will,

to Exodus 22, 18.

Pops is quick on the draw.

He knows his Bible.

I will read it real slow so you just can hear it in the back.

Thou

shalt not suffer

a witch

to live.

You hear me?

Pops looks at me like,

I told you so.

I can barely breathe.

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When I next see my grandmother,

I just ask her,

Granny,

are you a witch?

She looks at me a long time.

Ain't no such things as witches.

Well, mama and daddy said, your mama daddy say a lot of things.

But you got to understand something.

For you are far too young to have secrets, but you got to keep some secrets

You see, you can't tell everybody everything you see.

You can't tell everybody everything you know.

You understand me?

Boy, you understand me?

Yes, sir.

When I go to sleep,

folks don't know I hear him argue with my auntie

because he's my boy.

That's why.

I know what they're arguing about

I'm

husking corn with my at granny's got me some more questions

granny

granny

why didn't you help that man

Boy, you saw it plain as I do.

You know good and well why I didn't help that man.

No, I didn't see tell me what you saw.

I didn't say tell me what you saw.

I wasn't posted seeing what I saw.

You better tell me

I saw a monster

following them,

eating them.

And I want her to tell me, No,

you're wrong.

That's not what you saw.

Instead, she nods,

But Granny,

Granny, why couldn't you help him?

And

for the first time ever,

she looks

small,

tired, shrunken.

I don't know what that man did did or who he did it to, baby.

But some things

you can't fix.

It's a

beautiful

summer morning.

And my parents tell me

packing up.

We'll move away to the deep country

200 miles away.

And it makes me sad.

You make me sad, and I tell them,

I say,

You know, um,

I love you,

and

I'm gonna miss you.

Boy,

you coming with us

And

I think,

that don't make no kind of sense.

I don't think Granny gonna want to move to no country 200 miles.

Granny ain't coming.

You is.

And I do.

I move to the middle of nowhere, Michigan.

and

don't get to see Granny much.

Don't get to have the songs, don't get to hear the stories.

One night, I go to bed,

and then right at the foot of my bed,

I see my granny sitting there.

Boy!

How you doing?

I'm good.

You talk to the plants like I told you?

Yes, sir.

Talk to the plants.

Ask them.

They do for you.

Mm-hmm.

She tells me stories about the coyote, about the fox, about the moon.

She tells me that certain things skip a generation.

She tells me that sometimes you got to look deep, deep inside to find out what's out there.

Uh-huh.

I said,

So Randy said, well,

where I got to go now.

Where you going?

Got a couple more stops to make.

All right.

Okay, then.

In the morning,

I sit on the side of the bed,

weeping.

My father comes in

in the dark

and he tells me that he got a call from an auntie.

In the middle of the night,

my grandmother, 200 miles away,

she passed away.

I tell him,

I know.

And

the look, the

shock,

of horror,

when I say it, I know

I've made a big mistake.

She told me a million times, never tell what you know,

what you understand.

And I know what he's thinking.

He's thinking Exodus 22, 18.

I think maybe he's right.

He didn't ask for this.

A kid who

talks to things that couldn't be there.

Chases after

bumps in the night.

There's only one person.

One person I could speak to,

one person I could tell the truth

that

sometimes

I see monsters

and

he's backing away

towards the door,

and I know he's gonna walk out,

but instead, he stops,

he pulls himself up, he walks over to me,

he bends down, eye level.

Boy,

you know the stuff you talk to your granny about.

You could talk to me,

and this is the stupidest thing I've ever heard

in my life,

but

I appreciate it.

I appreciate it because

it feels like

he's bending

a little bit,

like to say,

I

have to walk this way.

I have to walk my path, but I understand.

a little bit

that you're gonna have to walk yours.

I want to thank the LAS team for welcoming Spooked, John Cohn, Rebecca Stume, Kristen Payne, the Orpheum team, what a beautiful theater, Ryan Davis and Sarah Rose Leonard at KQED.

And thank you, Jen Cobber.

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The original live score for this story was by Doug Stewart and Brigine Murphy.

The recording was mixed by Miles Lassie.

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The spooked emerges in the dark of night from the underground crypts at K-3D Studios.

Don't seek to find the way in.

That's the way in seeks to find you.

Spooked is brought to you with a team that uses the Ghostbuster movies as instructional videos, except of course for Mark Rischich.

You can scream at him till you're hoarse.

He's still trying to cross streams.

There's Davey Kim, Zoe Ferigno, Eric Yanez, Elliot Lightfoot, Marissa Dodge, Teo Decat, Miles Lassie, and Doug Stewart.

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The Spook theme song is by Pat McCini Miller.

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And I'm gonna guess that's true.

I'm gonna guess as well

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That they are beautiful, curious, compelling, horrifying, even funny.

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Wherever we are, it is as well.

And as a reminder of this fundamental tenet, one thing I like to tell the kids

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