John Smith
English soldier and explorer
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Aug 27, 2026
Inside Hell House, Part Two | The Grave Talks
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4:48Tony BrueskiHOST
So tell me about the night of Halloween 2010 when you and your whole team had an experience of being attacked in the Hell House.
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5:00John SmithGUEST
So that, that night we were actually, we were starting to try to get on public ac- uh, public access TV.
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5:10John SmithGUEST
We wanna start off with, like, a Halloween episode," 'cause Halloween was coming up.
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5:13John SmithGUEST
I was like, "That's gonna be, like, you know, the first one we'll get, and it'll be awesome." I was like, "So why don't, you know, why don't we do that?" My buddy who is a medium, he was just like, "All right." He's like, "Let's, uh..." He's like, "We should do something to, like, amplify it." And I was like, "No, no, no." I was like, "I don't wanna do that." I was like, "We've already had some craziness going on there.
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5:30John SmithGUEST
Like, I wanna try to keep it, you know, mellow." And he's like, "Let's just do something." I'm going, "No," like I, I don't know, man.
Inside Hell House, Part One | The Grave Talks
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32:24Tony BrueskiHOST
Do you think you unleashed something into that house or around yourself by using the book that night?
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32:34John SmithGUEST
I mean, I, like I said, we didn't think it was gonna work, and when we ended up going back, I wanna say probably by like the third, the third time we went back after that night of reading that book is when we started realizing there's some crazy stuff going on, and it's because I had my first incident there.
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32:57John SmithGUEST
Um, so pretty much we were sitting down on the floor and just trying to talk to whatever's in there.
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33:06John SmithGUEST
Uh, then I started aiming my attention more at what we had tried to summon from the gateway.
Inside Hell House, Part Two | The Grave Talks
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3:15Tony BrueskiHOST
So tell me about the night of Halloween 2010 when you and your whole team [coughs] had an experience of being attacked in the Hell House.
J
3:26John SmithGUEST
So that, that night we were actually, we were starting to try to get on public ac- uh, public access TV.
J
3:36John SmithGUEST
We wanna start off with, like, a Halloween episode," 'cause Halloween was coming up.
J
3:40John SmithGUEST
I was like, "That's gonna be like, you know, the first one we'll get, and it'll be awesome." I was like, "So why don't, you know, why don't we do that?" And my buddy who is a medium, he was like, "All right." He's like, "Let's, uh..." He's like, "We should do something to, like, amplify it." And I was like, "No, no, no." I was like, "I don't wanna do that." I was like, "We've already had some craziness going on there.
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3:56John SmithGUEST
Like, I wanna try to keep it, you know, mellow." And he's like, "Let's just do something." I'm going, "No, like I, I don't know, man." So eventually we, he figures, "All right, fine.
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4:09John SmithGUEST
I'll let you do what you wanna do." So he ends up going back into the place, Hell House, and drawing seals throughout the building, which are supposed to amplify [laughs] the energy in the house.
Inside Hell House, Part One | The Grave Talks
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31:10Tony BrueskiHOST
Do you think you unleashed something into that house or around yourself by using the book that night?
J
31:24John SmithGUEST
And when we ended up going back, I wanna say probably by like the third, the third time we went back after that night of reading that book is when we started realizing there's some crazy stuff going on.
J
31:43John SmithGUEST
Um, so pretty much we were sitting down on the floor, and I'm just trying to talk to whatever's in there.
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31:52John SmithGUEST
Uh, then I start aiming my attention more at what we had tried to summon from the gateway.
Talking a dramatic offseason + Texas vs Georgia in Omaha
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3:51CordHOST
Mm-hmm.
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3:52John SmithGUEST
inexcusable players getting arrested for driving violations absolutely inexcusable um players uh getting arrested at other schools for domestic violence absolutely inexcusable a lot of things that texas tech uh cody campbell specifically but even joey mcguire came out and said that the houston touchdown club today he started talking about their players that do all these things and we still let them play and you know how is this different and i think the what about ism is the is the signal, right? Because they're not saying, um, Brendan Sorsby didn't do anything wrong.
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4:26John SmithGUEST
They're not saying, you know, any, anything that would justify the actual decision.
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4:32John SmithGUEST
They're basically trying to deflect and say, what about these other situations? And at the end of the day, um, the difference is it's very clear to anyone who knows anything who's ever played a sport, who's ever coached a sport, who's ever been around a sport, who's had kids that played sports, um, The thing about sports and college football in particular, but sports in general, is you are lining up and you're playing in a competitive environment to give your best, to execute the best, to beat the other team, to execute plays, to execute strategy, to do your training, your conditioning, everything to beat the team across the field, across the line from you.
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5:19John SmithGUEST
And when you feel like guys aren't showing up and giving their best to beat the team across from them, or when they're doing something that you think is like, oh, maybe they're intentionally throwing a game or intentionally making these decisions, right? It's the integrity of the game.
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5:39John SmithGUEST
And that, you know, a lot of people, when that comes out of people's mouths, I think there are sides who get it and there are sides who are like, oh, that's like, you know, boomer talk or whatever.
8 MINS LATER
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13:34CordHOST
Oh, you're
24 playoffs team? Does Texas have the highest upside? | IT NITE LIVE
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24:11John SmithGUEST
I mean, if you look at Georgia, right? So Georgia has, um, uh, teams like, uh, Louisville.
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24:21John SmithGUEST
Um, uh, I just mentioned the home and home Louisville on, on their schedule over the next, like, few years, right? Um, and I think Texas is, is similar.
6 MINS LATER
221 | Grazing Cattle in Vermont: Can a Southern Breed Thrive Up North?
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4:14John SmithGUEST
It really started with, you know, the, the whole dairy crisis in the '80s and learning about that and understanding, you know, what producers went through and, um, how they all [chuckles] just, their equity just kind of vanished, uh, and the interest rates just crushed them, um, that I always wanted to, to be helpful, helpful to producers.
15 MINS LATER
Inside Hell House, Part Two | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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4:16Tony BruskyHOST
So tell me about the night of Halloween 2010 when you and your whole team [coughs] had an experience of being attacked in the Hell House.
J
4:28John SmithGUEST
So that, that night we were actually, we were starting to try to get on public ac- uh, public access TV.
J
4:36John SmithGUEST
Um, so we were like, all right, we wanna start off with like a Halloween episode, 'cause Halloween was coming up.
J
4:41John SmithGUEST
I was like, that's gonna be like, you know, the first one we'll get, and it'll be awesome.
J
4:46John SmithGUEST
Uh, I was like, "So why don't, you know, why don't we do that?" My buddy who is a medium, he was like, all right, he's like, "Let's, uh..." He's like, "We should do something to like amplify it." And I was like, "No, no, no." I was like, "I don't wanna do that." I was like, "We've already had some craziness going on there.
J
4:57John SmithGUEST
Like, I wanna try to keep it, you know, mellow." And he's like, "Let's just do something." I'm going, "No, like, I, I don't know, man." So eventually we, he figures, "All right, fine.
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5:11John SmithGUEST
I'll let you do what you wanna do." So he ends up going back into the place, Hell House, and drawing seals throughout the building, which are supposed to amplify [laughs] the energy in the house, and we pretty much let the place sit for a good, I wanna say three weeks.
7 MINS LATER
Inside Hell House, Part One | Grave Talks CLASSIC
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28:15John SmithGUEST
And pretty much that he worked like right hand in hand with, you know, Beelzebub.
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28:21John SmithGUEST
So that was, that was [laughs] one of the ones that had actually given us a problem.
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28:29John SmithGUEST
Um, and that is when I started really getting interested in demonology more and kinda how to protect myself from certain things, mainly because before the really big incident happened, we had already started having crazy, like all the pictures I showed you, things happening.
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28:51John SmithGUEST
And I took all those to a professor of photography with the camera, with the pictures on the camera.
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28:59John SmithGUEST
And he's looking at those going like, "I don't understand how, you know, that's possible." He's like, "Light just doesn't-- Light doesn't do that.
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29:09John SmithGUEST
Light doesn't work in that type of way." Like, and I said, "Good, that's what I wanted to hear." Because if you told me that, oh, this is this and that and the other thing, I'd be like, okay, that's debunked, that's nothing.
