1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,400 A logical first question is, has success changed the Ghost Hunters? 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:06,400 I don't think so. 3 00:00:06,400 --> 00:00:09,720 I think we're still the same people we were before we started this show. 4 00:00:09,720 --> 00:00:13,240 There are necessary changes, but I think we would make the same decisions now that we 5 00:00:13,240 --> 00:00:14,240 would have before the show. 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,280 I mean, we're just the same guys. 7 00:00:16,280 --> 00:00:20,560 You know, since we sat down a year ago, it seems like things just keep getting bigger 8 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:22,120 and bigger for the Ghost Hunters. 9 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:26,760 Your ratings are way up, public awareness about the show seems way up. 10 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:29,720 And you know, how do you handle that when you go out in the world? 11 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,960 When I go out to dinner, people ask me about you guys. 12 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:32,960 I'm sorry. 13 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:35,880 Well, you know, of course it's a surprise. 14 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:40,440 You really want to be able to go out with the family and just have that family time. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,800 And it's always strange when you're out with your little children and here comes somebody 16 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,320 hauling up to you, you know, because it's kind of startling or when you're out to dinner 17 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:52,240 with the wife and you know, people, you know, the waitress is a big fan, so she wants you 18 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:53,240 to sign something. 19 00:00:53,240 --> 00:00:56,000 Steve, you seem very comfortable with it. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:57,720 I'm a pretty reserved guy. 21 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:02,520 So when people come up to me, you know, it's very flattering, very nice to them and you 22 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,920 know, say hi and all that stuff, but it's more embarrassing for me. 23 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:06,320 Like, I feel funny. 24 00:01:06,320 --> 00:01:07,880 Other people are looking, wondering what's going on. 25 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,360 And I just inside feel like, this isn't right. 26 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:14,840 I don't have any special, you know, talent or skill where people want to know me and 27 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:16,000 have me sign stuff. 28 00:01:16,000 --> 00:01:18,600 But it's very flattering, very fun. 29 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,520 And when I'm home in New Jersey, like I'll be at a grocery store and some guy will come 30 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:25,600 up to me and say, hey, Tango, how's it going, man? 31 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:26,600 Like, hey, you. 32 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:27,600 Hey, how's it going? 33 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,240 And I'm thinking, is he from high school? 34 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:30,240 Is he from this? 35 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,920 And it's an, and a conversation for like 30 minutes and oh, you don't know me. 36 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:35,400 I'm like, oh, all right. 37 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:36,400 You know what I mean? 38 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,400 So it's just, that's weird. 39 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:39,880 It's just like, they know you, you don't know them. 40 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:40,880 That's the thing that gets me. 41 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:44,840 Yeah, it's a little crazy because I mean, it is flattering, but it's awkward all the 42 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:45,840 same. 43 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:49,640 There was a time in the beginning of the show where it was people come up and say, you know, 44 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,440 I like the show and they talk to you and you know, that was your interaction for the 45 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:54,440 week. 46 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,880 And now it's everywhere you go and it's, it's, it's crazy. 47 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:00,680 I mean, I went hiking with my kids going through the woods and I passed one on the trail. 48 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:01,680 A bear came up. 49 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,800 A bear came up and said, I love your show. 50 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:04,800 It's incredible. 51 00:02:04,800 --> 00:02:05,800 It's incredible how popular it is. 52 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:11,640 No, but seriously, someone on a trail in the woods, I mean, it's, it's, it's kind of bittersweet. 53 00:02:11,640 --> 00:02:15,840 It's, I, I realize that this is a sacrifice we have to make in order to get the feel the 54 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,360 recognition it deserves. 55 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,720 Jason and I, we have a relationship where, you know, he, I don't think he's ever been 56 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:24,720 angry at me, ever. 57 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:26,920 We've never had an exchange of words that were negative. 58 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,640 And one time there was a mechanical robot in one of the cases. 59 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:34,120 So I went up and I manipulated its fingers. 60 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,960 I knew it was chicken wire, you know, that was bendable, but Jay didn't know. 61 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:41,880 And it was a thing that looked similar to this, you know, so he would go like this, the robot 62 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:46,560 and, and Jay had seen it and just pointed like that. 63 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:49,880 And we got outside and he was like, you ever bring him like, Jay, no, I didn't. 64 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,400 He thought I took it, snapped the finger and messed it, but I wouldn't do that. 65 00:02:53,440 --> 00:02:54,440 I went back and fixed it. 66 00:02:54,920 --> 00:02:58,920 But I think that's the only time I ever saw red eyes from you come and pointed at me. 67 00:02:58,920 --> 00:02:59,520 I think that was. 68 00:02:59,520 --> 00:02:59,760 Yeah. 69 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:02,320 Cause a client had just got done telling us how expensive that thing. 70 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:10,560 In the past on the show, it's several times we've seen you use some of your 71 00:03:10,560 --> 00:03:13,920 investigators as bait and putting them alone in a room. 72 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:19,240 I'm sure that's not a play out of the TAPS official handbook, but is that an effective 73 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:21,280 technique to kind of use a human bait? 74 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:27,600 Sometimes we don't, we don't have a, we have a rule where we don't go anywhere alone. 75 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:31,080 And by that, what we mean is, uh, within earshot or eyes shot. 76 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:34,320 Now there was one episode where Steve went off in the woods apparently alone and we got 77 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,560 a lot of emails saying, you guys broke your own rule, dah, dah, dah, dah. 78 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,360 Well, they didn't realize the very fact that they saw Steve on camera means he's not alone. 79 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:41,360 It was a camman with him. 80 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:47,040 But also sometimes these things, uh, don't seem like they want to make contact with, uh, with a 81 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:52,120 male. And, uh, you know, so we'll take Chris Williams and we'll put her in a room and see if 82 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:54,880 it's more, more willing to make contact with a female. 83 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:56,880 Are you just torturing your female investigators? 84 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,160 No, but I used to think it could be a little of both. 85 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:03,120 Let's take a look at fishing for ghosts with human bait. 86 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,040 Jay and I are doing an experiment with Chris Williams on room 208. 87 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:10,000 You're just going to sit there. 88 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:14,320 It's like something happened to a woman. 89 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:15,360 Let's send in Chris. 90 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:16,360 Not Chris. 91 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,040 A couple of times saw something walk by that doorway right to left. 92 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:22,040 Boom, gone. 93 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:23,000 A woman got hit. 94 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:23,880 Let's send in Chris. 95 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:24,920 All right, we'll see you soon. 96 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:26,880 A woman died in there. 97 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:27,520 Didn't you hear that? 98 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:28,440 Let's send in Chris. 99 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:31,800 If anything happens in there, just make sure you call for help. 100 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:33,240 Hello. 101 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,000 And I heard about the guy who hurt you. 102 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:39,120 I dare you to get as close to me as possible. 103 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:41,040 Oh, jeez. 104 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,720 What the hell was that? 105 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:44,720 Oh. 106 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:45,920 It's cool. 107 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:46,920 I'm up for it. 108 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:48,080 I'm totally up for it. 109 00:04:48,360 --> 00:04:49,080 Get in the bait. 110 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,240 I'm going to get a shirt that says that. 111 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:54,720 You're going to love that girl.