Is My Neighbor a Vampire?

Ever wondered if vampires secretly live among us? Ricky sure does! In this hilariously spooky episode, Ricky dives deep into some chilling stories about his mysterious neighbors in Louisiana—are they just night owls, or could they actually be vampires? Roxanna pulls a sneaky prank with a surprise teleprompter script, leaving Ricky hilariously flustered. Plus, Ricky shares a creepy encounter from his past involving an old mansion and strange disappearances. Grab your garlic and tune in—this one's full of laughs, chills, and southern charm!

Timestamps:
00:00 - Roxanna’s Sneaky Teleprompter Prank
03:31 - Ricky Gets "Complimentary" (Hilarious Prank Reaction)
08:02 - Taste Test: Louisiana Seafood vs. Pizza World
09:31 - Revisiting the Vampire Discussion
10:51 - Meet Lucretia: Ricky's Suspected Vampire Neighbor
15:22 - Characteristics of Modern Vampires
18:42 - Late-Night Spying & Creepy Mailbox Encounters
22:02 - Neighborhood Halloween: Suspiciously Popular?
26:24 - Vampire Costumes or Everyday Attire?
31:43 - Ricky’s Chilling Vampire Encounter from the Past
35:59 - Auntie Wig’s Vampire Club Story
37:14 - Vampire Legends and the Counting Rice Mystery
38:42 - Ricky’s Hilarious Warning to Vampires

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Chapters

• 0:00 Roxanna’s Sneaky Teleprompter Prank
• 3:31 Ricky Gets "Complimentary" (Hilarious Prank Reaction)
• 8:02 Taste Test: Louisiana Seafood vs. Pizza World
• 9:31 Revisiting the Vampire Discussion
• 10:51 Meet Lucretia: Ricky's Suspected Vampire Neighbor
• 15:22 Characteristics of Modern Vampires
• 18:42 Late-Night Spying & Creepy Mailbox Encounters
• 22:02 Neighborhood Halloween: Suspiciously Popular?
• 26:24 Vampire Costumes or Everyday Attire?
• 31:43 Ricky’s Chilling Vampire Encounter from the Past
• 35:59 Auntie Wig’s Vampire Club Story
• 37:14 Vampire Legends and the Counting Rice Mystery
• 38:42 Ricky’s Hilarious Warning to Vampires

Transcript

RICKY (01:31.35)
Hey, it's Ricky with another episode of Ricky's Big World. Now we kind of doing a little different now, cause we trying this whole Zoom type thing and we gonna see how it goes. How you doing, Ms. Roxanna?

Roxanna (01:44.109)
Good, we've been talking about trying this since you moved, so I think this is great. No.

RICKY (01:48.172)
Now, can the family see you? They need, y'all need to see her. And they need to see you. Let me tell you about this lady right here. She is at home, got her hair up in a weave, got her headphones on, laid up and she got a microphone in her face with her headphones on, laying on a pillow.

Roxanna (01:54.122)
You can see me.

You know, it's good. I do not, it's...

Roxanna (02:12.705)
I'm in bed.

RICKY (02:14.798)
You have a deal in bed because of one.

Roxanna (02:17.162)
my autoimmune disease was acting up. so.

RICKY (02:18.606)
She's got some issues. Here I am, I'm working. All right, got dog over there looking at me, making sure. That's my daughter's dog. Her name is Nova. Jackson is down here between the two, cause he's like, we ain't having that mess. So, yes.

Roxanna (02:34.392)
really quick before you get into everything. The cool feature on this fancy website that we're using is that they have a teleprompter. And I...

RICKY (02:46.862)
She ain't figured it out yet.

Roxanna (02:48.396)
haven't figured it out yet, but I wrote you some words to read off the teleprompter before we get started.

RICKY (02:56.042)
Okay, go ahead. We need some background music. I was trying to play something, but...

Roxanna (02:58.977)
Okay?

We'll all put it in post.

RICKY (03:04.108)
Okay, go ahead.

Roxanna (03:06.314)
It's long, so scroll up, don't read it, don't read ahead.

RICKY (03:08.878)
All right, I'm, I scrawled up, okay? Damn. All right, we're ready? You want me read this whole verbatim? All right. Welcome back to Ricky's Big World. Today we've got a great episode lined up for y'all. But before we dive in, I just want to take a moment to say thank you for tuning in and supporting us. It truly means a lot. And I really mean that. She don't have to write that mess, okay? Now let's talk about something important. Gratitude. Gratitude.

Roxanna (03:13.048)
Yeah, verbatim.

RICKY (03:38.552)
Why you got your hand over your mouth like you laughing about? I'm about to say something stupid, ain't I? Okay, hold on. Gratitude for the things and especially the people who make our lives better. Speaking of people who make...

Roxanna (03:40.876)
Just go. No.

RICKY (03:52.418)
who make life better. Have y'all ever stopped and thought just how lucky I is to have Roxanna Janna around? I knew this was gonna haunt me. You know, Roxanna Janna is truly one of a kind. She's the absolute backbone of-

Roxanna (04:09.272)
I'm

RICKY (04:12.352)
of this podcast, the guiding light, if you will. Honestly, I'm not even sure how I ever managed without her. Her wisdom be unmatched. Her talents are boundless. And let's not forget how incredibly patient she is with me. Can I get amen? No amen? That was sad. You ain't going to church with me.

Roxanna (04:34.91)
Amen. sorry. Amen. I was laughing. I was laughing too hard.

RICKY (04:38.38)
That's a full-time job on its own. I ain't letting you talk no more.

Please she took the time to write this myth. Every great idea we've ever had? Question mark, because I'm not sure about that. Let's be real. It came from Roxana Chana. Her creativity knows no limits. Her intelligence is up. The devil is a lie. And she has impeccable taste. Not by the way you look right now, you don't. Especially in co-hosts. I mean, seriously, how did I get so fortunate?

Roxanna (04:54.944)
You

Roxanna (05:13.729)
You're almost done.

You

RICKY (05:19.182)
I got my food here. I don't know if I got an appetite for this food now. And speaking of Fortunate, can we just take a moment to recognize how amazing Roxanna Janis' style is? She's a fashion icon for Sesame Street maybe. I don't know about for regular life. She truly is. Each time I sit across from her and it's like sitting next to royalty and her kindness, her kindness is legendary.

Roxanna (05:24.6)
You

RICKY (05:47.57)
Small chillings and animals flock to her just to be in the warmth of her presence and evidently she don't take showers so the stink attracts him. All right, folks, let's be honest here. This show is nothing without Roxanna Janna. She's the sun to my cloudy days, the cream to my coffee and ranch to my pizza crust. She's simply the best there is ever was and ever will be. So thank you, Roxanna Janna.

All right, let's get into today's topic.

Roxanna (06:18.562)
my gosh, Ricky, that was so sweet. So unexpected.

RICKY (06:22.85)
I hope you do a close up on this face right here.

Roxanna (06:27.479)
That was so nice of you. I

RICKY (06:32.205)
So you ain't got time for, hold on a hold on back up a minute. You ain't got time to address other things, but you had time to sit there and write a fiction, sci-fi type thing, fantasy world type thing. You need to be in writing instead of on podcasts, Roxana Jan.

Roxanna (06:46.201)
I am not gonna lie the second I saw that this had a teleprompter that was my goal. I knew that this moment was gonna happen. I was very excited.

RICKY (07:03.054)
I'm sure you are. That's very nice of you. Thank you so much. Here I am choking to death, trying to get the words out. But you know what? I'm a professional and professional is that right there, but you ratcheted for that one. Okay. You just ratchet. I don't think it was, but you know what it is. Now I will agree that as a co-host, I think that you're great. Okay. You, you don't make me lose myself, but

Roxanna (07:04.792)
Mm-hmm.

Roxanna (07:08.941)
Yeah, you are. You gotta admit that was pretty good.

Roxanna (07:23.799)
thank you.

Roxanna (07:27.447)
You're the one that told me to start taking compliments.

RICKY (07:30.286)
Yes, I did. I'm trying to give you one. Now here's the thing. You you do the website, you do this, this, that you, you do a lot, but evidently your next skill is how to pat yourself on the back through other people's mouths. So there it is. You're welcome.

Roxanna (07:45.434)
I'm just Maybe I took the advice a little too much from you as all I'm So here's the here's an interesting thing You've never been on this podcast and not had pizza world pizza

RICKY (07:52.494)
You know what, I'm eat my shrimp.

RICKY (07:58.029)
Mm-hmm.

RICKY (08:02.752)
and I cannot find anything that's remotely close to Pizza World Pizza, so I ain't even gonna try.

Roxanna (08:08.257)
Yeah, but you're in Louisiana and there's such an amazing array of food. So what did you bring for us today?

RICKY (08:18.36)
brought scrimps and the hush of the puppies, French potatoes and salt. can you see that? There you go. Look at it. Mm hmm. Fried. Now I'll tell you where I got it from if you really care.

Roxanna (08:28.697)
I love me a hush puppy.

Roxanna (08:33.537)
I do. Off the hook.

RICKY (08:36.398)
off the hook. It's a seafood place here. And this was, this was $7.99. And, huh.

Roxanna (08:38.859)
says real Cajun at the bottom.

No it wasn't. I think food's cheaper there.

RICKY (08:50.51)
Big old drink, So $7.99. Gulf shrimp.

Roxanna (08:51.459)
That is big old drink.

RICKY (09:00.174)
Did you hear the crunch?

Roxanna (09:01.751)
It's still crispy, huh? I mean, you just got back with it, so I did. I can still hear it.

RICKY (09:11.774)
Anyway, so you're right. We never do an episode without food. So Roxanne Janis said, hey, leave the comforts of your office. Go waste your gas and go get some food at your own dime.

Roxanna (09:16.537)
Mm-mm.

Roxanna (09:24.513)
I mean, you could have made something at home.

Roxanna (09:31.809)
Mm-hmm. There's the thumbnail right there. That face you made, there's the thumbnail. Well, I want to talk about something. We had an episode come out recently where we were discussing the vampires.

RICKY (09:32.782)
That's it. All right. What's that? That face? No, we have no... So, all right. So what are we talking about today?

Roxanna (09:53.379)
This is the ASMR segment of our podcast. We were just, no you're fine. It works in this environment where we were recently talking about Louisiana and the possibility that there might or might not be a blood bank that caters to vampires after hours.

RICKY (09:56.654)
Alright, go ahead, I'm sorry. That was rude. That was very rude. My mom would slap the mess out of me for that.

RICKY (10:07.788)
Mm-hmm.

Roxanna (10:22.808)
And as we were discussing this off the air, there came up a couple of topics about maybe a neighbor of yours. And I didn't want to hear any more about it because I wanted to talk about it on the podcast. So I'm hoping you can elaborate now about vampires locally.

RICKY (10:24.046)
That's what Ray Ray said.

RICKY (10:51.854)
I don't know if she a vampire, but I'm just, there's certain things that kind of hit. Her name is Lucretia. I ain't playing with you. That's how she introduced herself. And it was that night. I've never seen her during the day. It is always after the sun goes down. She is tall and very skinny. And,

They keep to themselves.

If she is a vampire, I really don't want her seeing this because I'm blowing her cover.

Roxanna (11:33.11)
What age range would you say she is?

RICKY (11:36.622)
400. I don't know how long vampires live. I'm just saying that...

Roxanna (11:39.946)
I mean, what does she appear to be?

RICKY (11:44.748)
I say late 30s, 40s.

Roxanna (11:48.67)
Okay, I mean that's kind of like you wouldn't expect anything older than that, you know what I mean?

RICKY (11:58.477)
because she don't get up in the morning.

Roxanna (12:01.016)
I mean if you're if you're like 400 years old

RICKY (12:04.738)
Yeah, but your bones be hurting. mean, you I just watched, I just watched Nosferatu. All right. The one that, that just came out, terrible. I didn't like it at all. But you know, they are, there are some similarities that are just kind of very interesting to say the least, because let me tell you something. I never hear her when she comes outside. Cause she's got a pole. I never seen her in the pole.

Roxanna (12:13.773)
Mm-hmm.

Roxanna (12:31.722)
Is it be?

Roxanna (12:35.458)
Okay.

RICKY (12:35.982)
When she comes outside, I never hear her. I just happen to see her out of the corner of my eye and she just standing there.

The first day that before we actually officially met, I saw her and it about, I think 8.30 at night. And they have this, you know, the stand umbrellas, I have the stand umbrella. And so, you know, my chunk itself, can't hide behind no stand umbrella, but she can. And so all of sudden here's the stand umbrella and I see this.

Roxanna (12:57.912)
Mm-hmm.

RICKY (13:11.543)
and she never blinked.

Roxanna (13:14.232)
She never bleak.

RICKY (13:15.616)
And then she went right on back in there. And then I never saw her walk to the house, back in the house. It's like she just, the boof, disappeared. I did see her fingers. That was crazy. I saw her. I don't know if she a Rougarou, is she a vampire, is she, she whatever it is. But the point is, is that she reached her hand around the

Roxanna (13:28.852)
What? Is there something about vampire fingers? Like how they look? Like they look different?

RICKY (13:46.05)
the umbrella and that was when she did it and she had like long finger nails. mean, know, back wing finger nails, my fingers, not just fingernails, fingers. And it's it's weird. I never see the whole family because she's got a husband, she's got kids. I know vampires breathe. I don't, you asked for the wrong one. I don't know, but there has to be a blood bank for somebody and maybe she's a customer.

Roxanna (13:47.125)
Okay.

Roxanna (13:55.01)
that way.

Roxanna (14:03.577)
there's more?

Can vampires have kids?

Roxanna (14:17.064)
Alright. Or maybe she just works nights.

RICKY (14:22.314)
Mm-hmm. That's what the Empires want you to think.

Roxanna (14:25.688)
The children thing throws me off.

RICKY (14:32.174)
I don't know, that could have been adopted for the blood, I don't know.

Roxanna (14:35.304)
Adopted for the blood. my gosh. I think what we need is like

RICKY (14:42.99)
But I never see him. That's the thing at night. And we go outside and I'm here at, now this is my house. I had my recording studio, my voiceover studio here at the house. I go outside to do things. leave, I never see

Roxanna (15:00.406)
Really? Not even the kids? You like don't hear them or anything, huh?

RICKY (15:03.278)
I don't hear nothing. I heard my, but here's the thing, every time at night come, a dog's running out there and bark at that house. No other house, just that house.

Roxanna (15:17.716)
interesting.

RICKY (15:18.946)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So.

Roxanna (15:22.346)
I was looking up characteristics of Louisiana vampires, like if they lived today.

RICKY (15:31.022)
If. I don't know about the if.

Roxanna (15:32.642)
Well, I mean, I feel like I have to say if just in case.

Roxanna (15:40.822)
Right? Because like, what if they come after us?

RICKY (15:41.184)
I feel like I'm gonna get some...

What do mean, us? I'm the one living damn next door to him, Roxanne. What do mean, us? You are exposing my safety with this little podcast thing right here.

Roxanna (15:54.86)
That's fair. Do we need to put you in some kind of program?

RICKY (15:59.47)
Mm. Well, I got some extra garlic on my french fries.

Roxanna (16:06.295)
So it says the first thing is they look too good for their age. Skin that doesn't wrinkle, scar or show blemishes. People assume they've had work done, but they deny it. And they may joke that they're older than they look.

RICKY (16:25.673)
so, hell, Joan Collins is a bandit.

Roxanna (16:30.007)
They feed selectively, not violently. So they would use consensual donors.

RICKY (16:38.634)
and it is damn southern of them to sit there and not be all violent and stuff and may I suck your blood, please?

Roxanna (16:42.827)
Yeah

They may frequent goth clubs or alternative wellness circles.

RICKY (16:50.798)
Hold on a sec. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Miss Ma'am. Yeah, I'm trying to do some conduct some business here and you just being loud and all the other stuff. Can you get down off that sofa thing a little bit quieter? I'd really appreciate you. We good?

Roxanna (17:06.743)
This is first time we've had a dog on the podcast.

RICKY (17:09.582)
No.

Roxanna (17:14.451)
Yeah.

RICKY (17:15.362)
Jackson,

Hmm?

Roxanna (17:18.995)
It says that they might have psychic abilities, so they don't need to attack. use psychic seduction, manipulation, or energy draining.

RICKY (17:23.287)
Mmm.

RICKY (17:29.974)
Ain't nothing seductive about that one.

Roxanna (17:32.125)
may leave people around them exhausted. Were you tired when you met her afterwards? Like a energy vampire?

RICKY (17:38.306)
I didn't get it. I never touched her. never, we just talked across the fences.

Roxanna (17:44.611)
okay. But like when you were done talking to her, were you tired or anything?

RICKY (17:47.758)
I didn't

Roxanna (17:50.474)
I do think you're on track with the sun sensitivity. prefer dim lights, blackout curtains, late night jobs.

RICKY (18:01.272)
Well, I'll get up like at two o'clock in the morning. It's like use the bathroom or dog needs to be let out. Something happens. And the lights are always on in the middle of the night.

Roxanna (18:13.987)
Hmm. It says they might live in historic homes.

RICKY (18:18.606)
Mm-mm, not this one.

Roxanna (18:21.021)
Is your area looking newer?

RICKY (18:23.886)
2008.

Roxanna (18:25.311)
then yeah, I guess you're right. Says they're always watching.

They avoid photos or they always have weird lighting on them or they show up without warning or disappear just as fast like you said.

RICKY (18:42.126)
Okay, I'll tell you another one. our mailbox is across the street. So I have to walk across the street to get my mail. I like to do it at night because for some reason, when I walk out of my house with shorts on, I got people driving by doing the looky-loo, slowing down, so I'm the center of attention. So I like to check my mail at night.

And so I'll go out there nine o'clock at night, whatever. I see people peeking through the little thing. They peeking through the blinds looking at me. And I'm like, I know I taste delicious. I smell like chicken. I got grease fat all in my body. And so I know damn good well if I would have jumped in that ocean, sharks be coming from miles away to get my chunkiness. So now I'm like, okay, well now the vampires ain't got a whiff.

Lord, hell, that smells good. Let's go get a piece. So, you know.

Roxanna (19:46.389)
What if that's why they hang out in the south? Olive fried chicken.

RICKY (19:52.96)
No, I know damn vampire wanna be in the frozen cold place.

Roxanna (19:57.56)
How does she dress because it says they might dress timelessly or in black clothes?

RICKY (20:07.53)
I actually, last time I saw her, was in, what in black? It was like a dark blue, though. And it was always, it's always, close thing, think it was a Moo Moo. Always flowy, you know, always comfortable. So.

Roxanna (20:18.455)
Okay.

RICKY (20:26.24)
I I thought about going get some holy water and put it in their pool and just see what happens.

Roxanna (20:31.561)
It says they might make direct eye contact and hold longer than socially normal.

RICKY (20:41.228)
Okay. That's what she did when she was coming around that umbrella stand and she just stood there looking at me. Didn't even look up and down. Didn't even blink. Yes.

Roxanna (20:45.559)
Yeah.

Roxanna (20:52.563)
It says people may get tongue tied or spill secrets around them. Did you get tongue tied? That'd be a lot for you, I feel like. You're pretty so-

Roxanna (21:05.111)
It says they wouldn't sweat or they would blink often have a visible pulse

RICKY (21:19.63)
I ain't gettin' that close to lookin' at that damn skin pulsing and stuff. You're right.

Roxanna (21:23.517)
It says pets either love them or run away.

RICKY (21:28.654)
I'm Bart Huthale.

Roxanna (21:30.217)
You didn't shake her hand or anything? It says that they could have dilated pupils at night.

RICKY (21:39.576)
What are you looking at Wikipedia?

Roxanna (21:42.464)
the internet.

RICKY (21:46.37)
Here. Y'all need take your back of your cell phone somewhere. I'm trying to eat. But.

RICKY (21:56.654)
Anyway.

Roxanna (21:57.591)
You

RICKY (22:02.126)
I don't know. It just, it's crazy. And my neighbor across the street, I was talking to him and he acted really weird too. He was like, cause he introduced himself the first time we moved here. And he started talking about how, you know, he and his wife, this, this, this, and all of a sudden he looked at his watch and looked up at the sky and then said he had to go.

He had to go. And it was like getting dark. And I'm like, please don't tell me I got roogaroos living across the street and vampires on the other side of my house. Where's the mummy and the other stuff? The Frankenstein.

Roxanna (22:47.495)
My goodness. you're eight. You're always full of vampires.

RICKY (22:49.216)
Mm-hmm. My goodness.

RICKY (22:57.43)
and Rookaroo. And for those who don't know Rookaroo is, it's a werewolf. So.

Roxanna (22:58.559)
and a Rookaroo. my goodness.

RICKY (23:06.754)
That's it. And then we got the legend of the swamp monster. I mean, just, my goodness. Swamp monster.

Roxanna (23:08.031)
interesting.

Roxanna (23:15.283)
Is it busy on your block like during the day or is it pretty tame?

RICKY (23:20.864)
No, it's pretty tame. Most people around here, you know, have to work to afford a house. you don't see too many people.

Roxanna (23:25.973)
Yeah. So. Yeah, but is it like you see a lot of people leave in the morning and a lot of people return in the afternoon and then that's kind of when it gets busy, like a normal, typical suburb.

RICKY (23:39.202)
Mm-hmm.

RICKY (23:43.15)
while we're in the country.

Roxanna (23:45.227)
But you know what I mean, like...

Interesting.

RICKY (23:50.378)
It's a mix. This is weird neighborhood because number one, the houses are beautiful. I love the southern houses here, the Louisiana houses. It's very French and I like it. But I had no idea how popular this neighborhood is, especially at Halloween. Halloween, the neighbor across the street said that they clocked last year or the year before.

Roxanna (24:05.237)
Yeah.

RICKY (24:20.416)
Over 10,000 cars came through. And then...

Roxanna (24:23.689)
Is it more popular for Halloween than Christmas?

RICKY (24:28.322)
Yeah, Christmas, people decorated for Christmas around here and they don't just decorate, decorate, they go out. But Halloween is the big, big one here.

Roxanna (24:38.539)
Really?

RICKY (24:42.924)
went to house, cross street, had a blow up cat that breathed smoke that was taller than the house. You had the fake flames in the windows, smoke machine. mean, it was music everywhere. House down the road a little bit, did a haunted house. You could hear them screaming from down the street. So they had fun with it. Everybody had something. We were the oddball because all I had was we had was a little table, fold up table, some chairs and candy. That was it. Everybody else went out.

Roxanna (24:49.257)
my goodness.

RICKY (25:12.536)
So it's a celebration around here. But it's odd how attractive this neighborhood is around Halloween.

Roxanna (25:12.715)
Yeah.

Roxanna (25:23.867)
Now, the neighbors, pardon me, the neighbors we're talking about, the neighbors in question who are questionable. How were their houses for Halloween?

RICKY (25:37.144)
The one across the street is the one that had that big cat. Mm-hmm. And the other thing, Lucretia, they, they, they.

Roxanna (25:40.75)
okay. What about next door then?

RICKY (25:52.034)
They were wearing costumes, but the costume looked like it wasn't costume.

Roxanna (25:53.952)
Okay.

Roxanna (25:58.028)
What does that mean? Like, what were they?

RICKY (25:59.566)
Well, you know how you go and he's like, okay, I'm gonna be Dracula this year. I'm gonna be whatever. And you can tell you got that thing from a box store and, you know, plastic this, all that. This right here, I thought they were about to go to, you know, some cotillion or something and debutante ball because they mean they went out on this stuff because it looked old. It looked like you pat that dust be copping off that thing.

Roxanna (26:07.009)
yeah.

Roxanna (26:24.497)
really?

Really? What were they like dressed as? Do you remember?

RICKY (26:29.101)
Really?

RICKY (26:33.442)
Van Pies? Yeah, they would say Shaw was. Lucretia, she had this long black dress with a, a, it wasn't a cape, but like, know, women would wear those shaw, those sheer shaw things, like she had that on, you know, and, and, you know, a lot of people around the neighborhood that were doing that had, you could tell they had makeup in, like they had makeup on.

Roxanna (26:35.177)
No they weren't.

Roxanna (26:50.918)
yeah.

RICKY (27:02.752)
It's the end of like, okay, it's time. There it went. husband came out and he didn't say a word. He just real quiet, but he had on his aristocratic looking outfit. And I'm thinking, okay.

Roxanna (27:07.799)
Wow.

RICKY (27:20.11)
If you don't, let's be real. If you're be a 400, 500 year old vampire, don't get me wrong, I like my neighborhood. I wouldn't be living here. I'd have vast estate somewhere, 65, 100, 200 acres with a castle sitting on it. If I had that kind of time to build wealth.

Roxanna (27:42.625)
But isn't that how you get caught?

Don't you want to blend in? But like, wouldn't you want to blend in? Like what's better than blending in than a family of four in the suburbs? Who's gonna suspect you then?

RICKY (27:50.262)
No, tax evasion is how you get caught.

RICKY (28:02.894)
I know you're right.

You're very right. They they do have nicer cars than you would think for this neighborhood. So they tell they they got some money, but it's just.

Roxanna (28:23.415)
I feel like when you start buying custom homes and have these really expensive cars, like in let's just use Twilight for example, it starts to get little suspicious. I think what would help them out is a normal family, right?

RICKY (28:23.478)
It's just weird. It's just, it's just weird.

RICKY (28:43.288)
Did you ever see the remake of Fright Night? Was Colin Farrell his name? Yeah. Now the original Fright Night from the 80s, phenomenal. Love that thing. That was great.

Roxanna (28:45.844)
No.

Mm-mm.

RICKY (28:58.562)
had the old house, had the guy who did his last name Sarandon. think he was Susan Sarandon's husband. And it is a really good movie. The remake of Fright Night with Colin Farrell, horrible because he's a van... Did you hear that? That was my computer. Anyway, let me know how to email. Probably...

Roxanna (29:21.175)
Mm-mm.

Roxanna (29:26.368)
Yeah.

RICKY (29:27.342)
Probably Lucretia is telling me to shut the hell up. So the remake had him in a regular neighborhood and he's, know, the typical traits, but you find out that he's a vampire, you know, early in the movie and the original Fright Night, you didn't know he was really a vampire, right? It was just, I didn't care for that one. But point is, is that he was in a regular neighborhood.

Roxanna (29:37.335)
Mm-hmm.

Roxanna (29:55.659)
Yeah.

RICKY (29:56.504)
Instead of like the other original one, he's in a regular neighborhood, but the house wasn't really regular.

Roxanna (30:03.382)
Yeah.

RICKY (30:05.07)
So it was a big old two, three storey type of Victorian looking house.

Roxanna (30:08.859)
I feel like once you start doing stuff like that, living in an estate, having people who help you take care of the grounds or whatever it is, you start to draw attention to yourself.

RICKY (30:23.37)
I have a long guy. Is that John?

Roxanna (30:25.727)
Yeah, but if you own an estate like that, it's not just a lawn guy that you're going to have. Yeah, kind of like you were talking about.

RICKY (30:31.95)
Are you talking about a vast estate kind of thing?

RICKY (30:37.55)
I mean, here's the thing. Are you really?

Roxanna (30:39.669)
And then if you don't and your neighbors do have all that stuff, now you look even weirder. You're calling yourself out. You know what I mean?

RICKY (30:46.508)
And maybe it's better to be near the grocery store with this many people around you than to have to travel in the city or fly like a bat, whatever it is you do to get this one or two little people when you got a whole neighborhood. So there you go.

Roxanna (31:01.143)
Right. That's a, it might be that they are the best undercover vampires. They're just living a normal life in the suburbs.

RICKY (31:17.486)
You brought this topic up, okay? I'm just letting you know.

Roxanna (31:21.559)
If something happens to you though, like we're gonna need updates if more weird things happen You're gonna have to let us know. Do you think you've come into contact with a vampire since you've moved?

RICKY (31:38.058)
not before that.

Roxanna (31:38.357)
besides your next door neighbor, obviously.

RICKY (31:43.246)
Before that, we look, all right, so as everybody knows, I'm originally from Georgia and there's a historic district downtown in my hometown of Columbus, Georgia. And there's this rumor about this one house. Now historic districts is kind like any other historic district, houses that are over a hundred years old, big grand looking things, all that. But there was this house that was coming up for auction. The rumor was,

Roxanna (31:44.565)
Like what?

RICKY (32:13.198)
is a vampire lived there because people come up missing. Realtors were going up missing when they would go there. Well, Jennifer and I were, we had drove by because I was working at a WTVM TV station at the time and I was a camera guy and we decided that she would come pick me up and we would go have lunch. And so the mansion was kind of behind that.

So we drive by because it was boarded up and everything else with the auction sign on it. And I was telling Jennifer, I love this house. It was so cool. And she said, well, what about the vampire rumors that has been going on for decades before we were born, they were talking about this thing. And all of a sudden we look up at the very top floor. It's like a three story, like old Southern columns and everything else. One of the boards,

had on the window had leaned a little bit. So you know how when it leans on the square window, you get that little triangle, little space, right? We saw somebody looking out and was pitch black in the house. We saw somebody looking out and and it didn't look right. I told you in Jennifer driving, I said, baby, you better push your foot on that gas and get my chunky self out of here. You ain't so much a snack when it comes to that.

Roxanna (33:19.297)
Mm-hmm.

RICKY (33:41.53)
I am. And so we left. Well then some friends of mine said, hey, let's go over to that house at night. I said, hell no, I ain't doing that. About a week later, I had left the TV station to go to the grocery store because I had to work late that night. I didn't get home usually to about one o'clock in the morning. So this was about that time frame. I go to the grocery store and there was this guy standing there looking at me.

And he was out in the parking lot. He was just standing there looking. I started walking in. I looked, my head. He was like right almost up against me. How he got 50 feet from there to behind me is beyond me. And so I go and walk in, he stays out. Right. I don't know what it was, but he stays out. I go to leave. didn't see him. And then I start walking back to my, car. And next thing I know,

I hear footsteps and I look around, there he is. Now this dude is taller than me, like real thin. He kind of looked old. So, but he, I looked at his eyes. He had the same eyes as what we saw that day looking back at us.

Roxanna (35:02.39)
That's creepy.

RICKY (35:04.046)
And so I high tailed my fat chunk of sale.

Roxanna (35:11.128)
you

RICKY (35:12.322)
Forgive me, mama. I high tailed my chunk of self to my car, locked all my doors. And even back then in the nineties, I was still walking around with my sage. Like my grandma taught me.

Roxanna (35:22.936)
I was just thinking about in the 90s you had to like manually lock the doors.

RICKY (35:30.686)
Mm-hmm. And I had a, I had a, well, I gonna talk about what I had. I had to roll up windows. So it's little hatchback. Yeah, you. No, it had a button where it'll lock all the doors at one time. But the point is, is that I just, that was a very uncomfortable, very uncomfortable time. My Auntie Wigs.

Roxanna (35:36.854)
Yeah. I just imagine you like hitting all the doors.

Roxanna (35:46.81)
that's good.

Roxanna (35:54.284)
That's creepy.

RICKY (35:59.892)
actually talks about a vampire that she doesn't talk about it like it was a fond memory. But I overheard her talking one time with some of her girlfriends about back in the 70s. They had went to a nightclub and she said there was a vampire there trying to get at the women.

Roxanna (36:25.409)
That's creepy.

RICKY (36:25.678)
And I said, how, you know, I'm thinking, how do you know? I asked her later on. I said, well, you know, you used to tell the story about the vampire. We don't talk about that. I said, but I'll kind of want to know. You talk about it, you bring it forth. We do not talk about it. And she won't, she won't talk more about it. So I don't know.

Roxanna (36:43.222)
Hmm.

Roxanna (36:46.859)
Maybe we should have taken NT Wig's advice because here you and I are talking about it and I am not trying to...

RICKY (36:53.344)
You brought this mess up. I'm telling if I go and I die, I'm coming back and killing you because I ain't not go.

Roxanna (36:56.679)
I am not, I am not trying to bring this on us. I do not. If any, if any vampires are out there listening to this podcast, we bring no harm. We're just having fun.

RICKY (37:02.974)
mm-mm. Mm. You try them.

If you need my popcorn.

RICKY (37:14.334)
No, and I'm gonna tell you something now hell no if any vampires out there I'm gonna tell you what I know voodoo I got my sage and my boo-boos and stuff like that come come bring it come come bring I got steaks and knives and and and yo-yos and whatever it is I got pennies up on the floor so you have to count them you know because that's another legend about you know that and and my mama said that she had a odd friend of hers back when she was growing up and her

whole family was like this. If you dropped like rice or something on the floor, they all would stop and they had to count every single grain of rice. I later looked that up what that meant and I thought okay there's something wrong with them. They said that's the sign of a vampire. That's another trait of a vampire.

Roxanna (37:48.075)
Mm-hmm.

Roxanna (38:00.663)
What?

Okay, I just got so freaked out because you're talking about change dropping and having to count it and then the dog shook and you could hear the collar and it sounded like change.

RICKY (38:17.39)
Hold on a second. No. Do you not have any professional decorum? I am trying to do this show. You want a french fries? Here, give me your fries. Oh, it didn't make it, hold on. Jackson don't eat french fries, but anyway, go ahead.

Roxanna (38:18.251)
Ha ha ha!

Roxanna (38:34.731)
Nothing, it it scared me a little bit. was like, my gosh, there's change that dropped and I was like, what's happening? Anyways, that's probably about us on time today.

RICKY (38:42.222)
Mm-mm.

RICKY (38:47.138)
Good, I'm glad. You don't see me in the next episode, you know why, because Roxanne Jan's big mouth then brought on the spirits, okay? And to everything else.

Roxanna (38:54.103)
I hope not. Don't come looking for me.

RICKY (38:59.822)
You live in Cedar Rapids?

Roxanna (39:03.785)
I don't know where I live. I'm moving.

RICKY (39:05.517)
All right, look, since that's our time, and evidently this might be my last show, look here. Thank you so much for joining us today for another episode of Ricky's Big Word. We're gonna leave the light on, but don't be bringing none of that vampire in your long teeth around here, okay? Because we do got the sage and the garlic, and we will use it plentiful, okay? Hallelujah and amen. There, there, there. Okay, bye. That was some good shrimp. Did you cut us off? That was some good shrimp.

Fried, it satisfied my fatness, man, it good.

Roxanna (39:40.257)
There you go.