One practitioner, Mix Master Mike, tells of a night when he was so freaked out by the sounds emanating from his turntables that he believed he was communicating with intergalactic beings.

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When I take my dad for a spin in the Maxivan, he seems rather freaked out.

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Though he did a capable job, he seemed a little freaked out by the sheer absurdity of the Super Bowl experience.

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But should he actually have been freaked out by the incident?

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We were relieved when we finally left (with the books we came to buy), but more than a little freaked out when he said he was going to call us to follow up on the discussion.

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"At first I was a little freaked out, " he said.

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That freaked the bigger dude out, he whispered something, and the two left.

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"The thing that freaked me out was that I had no margin of error, " he says.

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He had never been in charge of selling an approved drug of any kind, a fact that freaked out many investors.

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