WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:16.480 Veronica Amber had no recollection of her first encounter with the wisps that came as 2 00:00:16.559 --> 00:00:23.160 inconspicuous and unexpected, like flurries of indoored dust that float and fly when bathed 3 00:00:23.239 --> 00:00:28.480 by a sheen of sunlight. At the beginning of their residence at three fifteen 4 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:33.920 Copacitic Lane, just before their street transitioned into the main road in town. 5 00:00:34.600 --> 00:00:38.759 Her home knew a time when it was vacant of the whisps, and the 6 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:43.640 only specters filling the inside of their projections from the old films that her father 7 00:00:43.719 --> 00:00:49.399 would display on dark velvet walls of the house. The walls of their victorian 8 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:55.159 used to hold no haunting tendrils of their existence. The hallways heard no shrills 9 00:00:55.280 --> 00:01:00.240 or cuttle walls from a life silenced by death, and the marble floor of 10 00:01:00.280 --> 00:01:04.359 their historic home at one point had less of a tendency to send shivers up 11 00:01:04.400 --> 00:01:11.159 one's another reagions and into the spine. The whisps were invisible inhabitants of their 12 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:15.280 home, but to the rest of the world they were simply called ghosts. 13 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:23.920 Veronica Amber's acquaintance with them was far from the horror filled nonsense she'd read about 14 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:27.280 in books. And watched in movies. For the more the whists made themselves 15 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:32.560 known to her, the more annoyed she became. It seemed they were always 16 00:01:32.560 --> 00:01:37.519 around, causing mischief, popping out at the most inconvenient times, and filling 17 00:01:37.519 --> 00:01:42.200 her ears with macab groans in the dark in an attempt to inflict fear into 18 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:48.000 her soul when she only wanted to have a good night's sleep. And since 19 00:01:48.040 --> 00:01:53.560 then she had scarcely known a moment's peace. Veronica Amber, or Vam, 20 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:59.239 as she liked to be called, awoke on Halloween morning with an abrupt opening 21 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.439 of her eyes. She lay on her back in her attic room, watching 22 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:07.719 the warmth of the dawning sun changed the color of her slanted ceiling. She 23 00:02:07.800 --> 00:02:10.919 heard a shuffling of feet, moved her eyes to the foot of the bed, 24 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.759 and there stood a lady Wisp looking at her with a cocked head, 25 00:02:16.199 --> 00:02:23.240 her spaghetti strands of hair falling onto a ghostly shoulder where the clavicle and humorous 26 00:02:23.280 --> 00:02:30.719 were exposed underneath decayed and stretched out torn skin. This particular wisp never bothered 27 00:02:30.800 --> 00:02:35.800 Vam like the others did, but the gaze she gave her always made her 28 00:02:35.800 --> 00:02:39.719 feel uncomfortable. Because she knew the apparition was trying to say something through those 29 00:02:39.800 --> 00:02:46.280 glassy, unblinking eyes. Perhaps it was due to the dislocated jaw and missing 30 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:51.479 tongue that kept her from saying what was on her mind, but regardless, 31 00:02:51.919 --> 00:02:55.439 Vam had no time to feel sorry for something that had the same design as 32 00:02:55.479 --> 00:03:01.840 a fart in the wind. It's Halloween today, Peprika, Vam said, 33 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:07.280 lifting her head from the pillow and using her elbows to hold her up as 34 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:12.960 she faced the wisp. A Van named all the wisps after spices, and 35 00:03:13.080 --> 00:03:17.240 Peprika happened to fit this specific one. Not only that, but it's my 36 00:03:17.360 --> 00:03:23.319 last time as host now that I'm eighteen. After this, I'm relieved of 37 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:29.680 all duties. Vam gave a quick stretched and moved her body into a sitting 38 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:34.319 position on the side of her bed. She felt the moist hot fogs around 39 00:03:34.360 --> 00:03:38.039 her feet, and when she looked down, she glanced at the open mouth 40 00:03:38.199 --> 00:03:43.800 of a Reggano, an older wisp who was bodiless and used as old man 41 00:03:43.879 --> 00:03:50.080 head to roll around their home. His gurgly, foaming mouth was stretched wide 42 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:54.560 in an expression that would make any normal humans soil themselves and fright. His 43 00:03:54.719 --> 00:04:01.919 crackly lips clung around Vam's feet, leaving strands of ghostly saliva on her ankles. 44 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:06.199 Vam rolled her eyes and wiggled her toes, visible through the rotted eyelids 45 00:04:06.240 --> 00:04:11.280 of his head, and she kicked him, making him vanish into nothing. 46 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:17.439 You're disgusting, she muttered, moving toward the bathroom. Before she reached the 47 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:23.120 toilet time, a young boy, Whisp, who looked about six or seven, 48 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:28.600 popped up from the floor and shrieked like a band sheh. She gasped 49 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:33.120 more from the suddenness of it than from fright as his face collided into hers, 50 00:04:33.519 --> 00:04:36.839 and before she had a moment to swat him away, he disappeared. 51 00:04:39.000 --> 00:04:43.720 Time was the one who bothered her the most in as many endeavors to frighten 52 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.959 her, and failing to do so, it made him the one she also 53 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:53.480 felt closest to, almost like a little annoying brother, but with maggots crawling 54 00:04:53.480 --> 00:04:57.959 out of his nose and ears. It was in the alone hours of the 55 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.560 morning that Vam felt the most connected to the house. Her parents, who 56 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:08.560 taught night classes at Nick's University, remained asleep for the majority of the day 57 00:05:08.600 --> 00:05:11.720 and It was in their solitude that she learned to speak to the house. 58 00:05:12.680 --> 00:05:15.560 Just one touch to a chimney stone or a beam of wood was enough for 59 00:05:15.639 --> 00:05:19.959 the house to remind and speak to her about how it was before their wisps 60 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:25.920 had occupied the space. She would get images of her mother and father, 61 00:05:26.199 --> 00:05:31.199 and their pale faces contrasted with the black exterior of the home. The oldest 62 00:05:31.240 --> 00:05:38.639 and most abandoned neglected house on Copasetic Lane was the one they had imprinted on. 63 00:05:39.959 --> 00:05:45.680 Could it be genetics? Her father, Professor Victor Ambrose Prior asked one 64 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.519 night during dinner over his stake Flambay, many years ago, when VAM had 65 00:05:49.560 --> 00:05:55.879 confided in him about the wisps. When we adopted you, we knew at 66 00:05:55.879 --> 00:05:59.720 some point your health would become a source of worry for us. He said, 67 00:06:00.759 --> 00:06:02.560 well, that is a possibility, my dear, but we must also 68 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:08.439 not real out the screen time. Her mother, doctor Vivian Amelia Prior, 69 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:14.279 had said, placing a cold paled hand on Vam's forehead, that new iPad 70 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.399 we got you for Christmas has become a bit of an addiction for you, 71 00:06:16.519 --> 00:06:23.800 darling. Are you sure you aren't hallucinating these images? A young Vam had 72 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:28.759 smiled at them, half lovingly and half disappointed. That her parents couldn't see 73 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:32.879 the wisps, she shook her head. No, mother, I'm not imagining 74 00:06:32.959 --> 00:06:38.399 them there as real as you and I father. I can touch them, 75 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.079 I can smell them, but when I try to scream, they disappear. 76 00:06:42.959 --> 00:06:46.879 At this point, being scared isn't an option. I just want them to 77 00:06:46.959 --> 00:06:53.560 leave me alone. Her mother's plumb, lipstick stained mouth formed a sympathetic frown. 78 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.480 I'm so sorry, dearest, I wish there was something we could do 79 00:06:57.560 --> 00:07:01.480 to make it go away. That had been many years ago, and since 80 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:06.680 then numerous whisps had appeared to her, as real and as vexatious as ever, 81 00:07:08.160 --> 00:07:12.399 for better or for worse, but not for long. Come springtime, 82 00:07:12.439 --> 00:07:16.319 when Van was due to graduate, she'd leave her home seething with whisps, 83 00:07:16.360 --> 00:07:21.199 to start a new life and leave the nest, a phrase her father despised 84 00:07:21.240 --> 00:07:28.120 and regarded with contempt pishposh. He always said when that phrase was uttered. 85 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:31.199 We aren't eagles, for goodness sake, So I want no more talk about 86 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.120 leaving nest and whatnot. I am my darling. I couldn't be prouder of 87 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:41.079 the person that you become and the one you are yet to be. And 88 00:07:41.199 --> 00:07:45.600 like any father, I'm disconsolate at the idea of seeing you go, but 89 00:07:45.720 --> 00:07:49.759 exhilarated at the prospects that await you. Not flesh of our flesh, nor 90 00:07:49.839 --> 00:07:54.720 blood of our blood, but once you were handed into our arms, the 91 00:07:54.839 --> 00:07:58.959 darling child with the eyes as dark as coal, who appeared to us as 92 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:05.240 a stranger, suddenly became the most beloved daughter. A most beloved daughter rang 93 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:11.519 in Vam's head, and she dressed herself for the day. In the mirror, 94 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.199 a young girl, Wisp, who Vam had named Coryander manifested herself beside 95 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:20.720 Vam. She opened her mouth and let out a shrill scream that penetrated the 96 00:08:20.759 --> 00:08:26.720 ear drums with a searing intensity, and Vam covered her ears, but ignored 97 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:30.759 her, and quickly placing a clip on her hair, before making her way 98 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:37.000 downstairs to finish the preparation for the night's Halloween party. A most beloved daughter, 99 00:08:37.279 --> 00:08:41.879 she thought to herself again, and a most beloved host. And when 100 00:08:41.960 --> 00:08:46.240 Vam was a young girl, shortly after the priors had adopted her, she 101 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:52.279 was given the responsibility of hosting a Halloween evening in their home. Mommy and 102 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:56.480 Daddy have to sleep, dearest and can only join later in the evening. 103 00:08:56.519 --> 00:09:00.759 Once we awaken, who will be there to entertain our guests. Well, 104 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.600 that is where you come in, said her mother. But I'm only a 105 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.879 child, Van had objected. Well, that works to ir advantage, darling. 106 00:09:09.039 --> 00:09:13.159 Her mother had said, kneeling to her level and pressing her pale forehead 107 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:18.799 to Vam's, they are more likely to trust you, and so they did. 108 00:09:18.559 --> 00:09:24.120 Every Halloween evening, the priors would appoint Van to welcome guests and passing 109 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:28.759 trick or treaders to their home. At the beginning, guests would question her 110 00:09:28.919 --> 00:09:33.000 on the whereabouts of her parents, to which Van would reply, no worries, 111 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.039 they're resting and we'll be with you shortly For dinner. In the kitchen, 112 00:09:37.159 --> 00:09:43.080 Van started the hor d'oeuvres, baked brye made to look like mommy and 113 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.120 She's and cracker platter with bat and jack o lanern cutouts, a bowl of 114 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:52.960 checks mix and candy for a monster munch, and guacamole with vegetables arranged to 115 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.759 look like the face of a witch. It was all coming together, and 116 00:09:56.840 --> 00:10:01.840 it was still hours to go until lunch time. By the time it was 117 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:05.279 sundown, Vam had decorated and set the food in the dining room. A 118 00:10:05.279 --> 00:10:09.759 meat loaf shape to resemble the anatomy of a human body was left cooling on 119 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:15.399 the counter when she went upstairs to change, and she opted for a simple 120 00:10:15.480 --> 00:10:20.480 black dress that hugged her slender frame. And putting on the final touches of 121 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.600 her makeup, she heard a wheezing echoy sound behind the curtain of her shower. 122 00:10:26.080 --> 00:10:31.399 Pushing the curtain back, Time jumped at her, squealing and laughing as 123 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.879 she went through her body and exited out the bathroom door another wisp. A 124 00:10:37.000 --> 00:10:41.360 young looking male around Vam's age stood staring at her underneath shower head. A 125 00:10:41.399 --> 00:10:48.799 harsh cut to the throat revealed a sliced trachea Vam's side and crossed her arms. 126 00:10:48.279 --> 00:10:52.639 Do you think you can keep it down, Nutmeg? Our guests are 127 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:58.320 due to arrive soon, and the wheezing is distracting. Nutmeg said nothing but 128 00:10:58.559 --> 00:11:03.799 nodded, watching Vam rolled her tube of lipstick back in. You're lucky, 129 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.159 you're a handsome one, even more of a looker, before Van turned back 130 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.919 to him, her hand on the light switch of the bathroom, you know. 131 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.039 She used her index finger to swipe under her throat in a slashing manner. 132 00:11:18.919 --> 00:11:22.399 The sound of the doorbell below made Van return to her responsibilities, and 133 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.639 with a clap of her hand, she turned off the light and clambered down 134 00:11:26.720 --> 00:11:31.200 the stairs, remembering the meat loaf and placing it on the table. Before 135 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.840 reaching the entrance, she stopped in the fourrier, where above the grinning candlelit 136 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:41.399 jack O lantern hung pictures of the hosts that came before her, The other 137 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:46.279 priors, her sisters, the sisters she had never met, the sisters who 138 00:11:46.360 --> 00:11:50.519 had left to start a new life at eighteen once the new host was chosen, 139 00:11:52.039 --> 00:11:56.639 just like she would in the springtime, the sisters who had taken the 140 00:11:56.679 --> 00:12:01.200 same vow their parents had taken when they were each adopted into the family. 141 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:05.039 We will take care of you if you will take care of us, they 142 00:12:05.080 --> 00:12:09.440 had said. None of the previous prior daughters had been hosts at three fifteen 143 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:15.840 Copasetic Lane, when their nomadic parents state to claim on the property, Vam 144 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:20.440 had been the first one. With each passing year of Vam's life, she 145 00:12:20.559 --> 00:12:24.080 was slowly coming to terms with the truth about why the wisps were part of 146 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:30.720 their home and why they were visible only to her. Vam doesn't remember her 147 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:35.039 first encounter with a wisp, but she remembers when Pepperica, who in her 148 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:41.759 previous life was called Monica, entered in her fleshly human form as a guest 149 00:12:41.879 --> 00:12:46.200 in their home. And Oreganea, who was once mister Frank's her English teacher 150 00:12:48.159 --> 00:12:52.159 time, used to be Spencer, a classmate she would play with in elementary 151 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:56.320 school, and was the first guest she entertained in her first year as a 152 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:01.919 host. Nutmeg was a package delivery worker who thought Vam looked rather pretty standing 153 00:13:01.919 --> 00:13:05.799 on the porch of her house and her black dress. Last Halloween. He 154 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:11.480 went up the steps to introduce himself and entered, and unbeknownst to him that 155 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:16.919 he would not be coming back out. The whisps were who they were because 156 00:13:18.000 --> 00:13:22.519 they had all made the decision to be guests at three fifteen Copacetic Lane. 157 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:30.279 What bound them together other than death was their decision to trust Vam. Another 158 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:35.720 ring of the doorbell sounded in the fourier coming. Vam called out, straightening 159 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:39.879 her dress. Opening the door, she came face to face with a group 160 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:45.799 of tricker treaters, young and old friend groups and families. No one wanted 161 00:13:45.799 --> 00:13:48.360 to miss out on the opportunity to sneak a peek inside the old, creepy 162 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:54.919 Victorian house that sat like a tempting siren on copacetic Lane. Hello, she 163 00:13:56.080 --> 00:14:01.240 exclaimed, putting on an unnaturally inviting grin as she opened a door. We've 164 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.639 got candy for your buckets, and if you'd like to stay, we have 165 00:14:03.720 --> 00:14:07.879 snacks and food. We hope you can join us for a while this evening. 166 00:14:09.720 --> 00:14:13.159 Stepping aside, she allowed the group of guests to walk into the fourrier, 167 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:18.399 directing them with her arm toward the parlor in the formal dining room. 168 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:24.159 A murmur of excitement washed over the crowd, and they stepped over each other 169 00:14:24.200 --> 00:14:28.559 and pushed bodies away to be the first one to explore the house, and 170 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:31.960 within a few minutes, the parlor was full of guests, socializing with each 171 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:39.000 other, stuffing their faces with VAM snacks and cooked meals, and taking pictures 172 00:14:39.039 --> 00:14:43.159 with their phones of the interior of the house and ooing and eyeing like museum 173 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:48.240 lovers. VAM stood and watched the energy that filled the room, and, 174 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:52.879 with no friends or relatives to invite over the prior house was for the most 175 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:58.240 part empty and deprived of visitors. Halloween night was the only time when people 176 00:14:58.279 --> 00:15:05.399 wilfully lighted themselves over without arousing suspicion. Outsiders who saw the crowd beckoning to 177 00:15:05.440 --> 00:15:09.480 the front door of the prior house didn't have to think twice about coming to 178 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:15.960 a conclusion to explain the number of people entering the abode. It's Halloween, 179 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:20.279 they'd say, with a shrug. Halloween's for friends and strangers to come and 180 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:26.200 knocking a perfect cover up. As many of the moocher played in the room, 181 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:31.320 causing an uproar with people singing along. Vam slinked away from the parlor 182 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.440 and ambled over to a door leading to the basement. Pitch black darkness swallowed 183 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.639 up any traces of the light from the main floor. As she squinted in 184 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:45.720 her eyes to see what was below. Father, mother, she called out 185 00:15:45.879 --> 00:15:50.200 quietly, it's time to wake up. Our guests are here. The early 186 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.519 bat catches the worm. She heard a stirring in the darkness, and then 187 00:15:54.600 --> 00:16:00.679 heard her father speak Hello, darling, as the black tarp laid out in 188 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:04.080 the parlor. Yes, sir, every year I get compliments about the noise 189 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:07.559 that it makes when they walk on top of it, But no grievances from 190 00:16:07.559 --> 00:16:11.559 this group so far. They're a pretty good crowd. Not a drop of 191 00:16:11.600 --> 00:16:18.519 blood will make its way to the marble floors and the doorbell, camera and 192 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:22.440 projector. Have you tested that out? It works like a charm. I 193 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:27.559 tried it earlier in the projection of myself passing the sidewalk and coming up the 194 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:33.039 steps was reversed perfectly to make it look like I came back down. Anyone 195 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:37.960 watching our home, we'll see our guests leave after the evening is over. 196 00:16:38.080 --> 00:16:42.480 Her mother spoke, now, have you prepared the needles and the collection bags? 197 00:16:44.440 --> 00:16:48.120 Yes, mother, they're beside the plastic bends that hold the peroxide and 198 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.000 bleach and enzymes solvents we use for clean up. All the backup freezers have 199 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:56.399 been up and running since this morning. I counted at least forty people who 200 00:16:56.519 --> 00:17:00.840 arrived. Once we break apart like ants, it should be enough to fit 201 00:17:00.919 --> 00:17:07.240 everyone without taking up space in the basement. It's quite a bit of burgers 202 00:17:07.240 --> 00:17:11.920 and steak flambeys ready for us to enjoy for another year. I hope we 203 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:15.519 have more o negatives than we did last Halloween. The flavor, and the 204 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:22.160 sauces we made just wasn't the same without their kick. Her father gave out 205 00:17:22.160 --> 00:17:26.240 a dark chuckle. Should we wear the things I got for us three years 206 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:30.400 ago? My love? He spoke to his wife. Why ever would we 207 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.240 want to do that? She responded. Vam couldn't see her father shrug, 208 00:17:34.279 --> 00:17:38.519 but felt him do so. It's Halloween. If the people want to see 209 00:17:38.559 --> 00:17:44.759 Count Dracula, then who am I to deny them that pleasure? They'll be 210 00:17:44.799 --> 00:17:52.079 busy screaming, Dearest Veronica Amber. Has everyone sipped their refreshments, Vam nodded 211 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:56.920 yes. Mother. In about three minutes, the anesthetic solution will take full 212 00:17:56.920 --> 00:18:00.440 effect. If you and father want to make a show of your entrance, 213 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:03.319 it had better be quick before you lose them. Well, that's a good 214 00:18:03.319 --> 00:18:07.279 girl, and now run along and see that our guests are enjoying. The 215 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.519 party will be there very soon. Vam closed the door and walked to the 216 00:18:11.599 --> 00:18:15.680 kitchen. She opened a drawer that held all the knives she had used in 217 00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:21.319 previous years. She grabbed a hold of a meat cleaver. This baby was 218 00:18:21.359 --> 00:18:26.160 her favorite, made it easier to cut through the skin and bone. She 219 00:18:26.279 --> 00:18:30.839 glanced over her shoulder and saw that the wisps of her home had gathered around 220 00:18:30.880 --> 00:18:33.519 her, all the ones she conjured by the work of her own hands. 221 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:41.000 She gave them a sly smile, ready for some new roomies. Shutting the 222 00:18:41.119 --> 00:18:47.319 drawer with her hip, she walked past the wisps who were protesting. Hiding 223 00:18:47.359 --> 00:18:51.079 the meat cleaver behind her, she clenched it behind the shoulder blades of her 224 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:55.599 back and used her free hand to mute the music. All the eyes of 225 00:18:55.640 --> 00:19:00.079 her guests looked at her, with their ears perked and bodies frozen. I 226 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.640 Am smiled at them and gave her final announcement of the night. I just 227 00:19:03.720 --> 00:19:07.559 wanted to give you all the big thanks and a grand welcome to our humble 228 00:19:07.759 --> 00:19:14.119 little home. My name is Van Pryor, and I'll be your host for 229 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:14.839 the evening.