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SMNTY Fiction: Twisted · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff
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Speaker 1: I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. Samantha,
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Speaker 1: do you have a favorite candy? I do, Actually, I
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Speaker 1: have a couple of favorite candies. One is where there's
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Speaker 1: chewy camels. I've talked about those on a different podcast
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Speaker 1: and and knows old people candy, but I love them. Look,
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Speaker 1: I love them and usually will have them on hand.
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Speaker 1: I also like Twizzlers, but I like the Twizzlers. My
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Speaker 1: favorite type of Twizzlers is actually the Halloween version of
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Speaker 1: the Twizzlers. So they're individual package and they're the chewy ones,
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Speaker 1: but they're smaller and because I don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: because they're smaller or what, and the way they are made,
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Speaker 1: it's a lot more um, I don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: a pliable, Whereas the regular twiz you could actually hurt
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Speaker 1: somebody with, right, you know, if you smack them with it,
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Speaker 1: But this one you can't, and it's so it's chillier
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Speaker 1: and a little bit lighter. Those favorite versions of Twizzlers,
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Speaker 1: but those two are probably my face. Okay, what about you? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I have five different candies. I'm actually not a
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Speaker 1: big candy person. And I know I've told the story before.
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I would just get all
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Speaker 1: the candy for Halloween and then sell it. But because
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Speaker 1: of that, it is a very like strong message you
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Speaker 1: get that you should want candy as a child. And
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Speaker 1: so now I have a tradition around Halloween. I try
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Speaker 1: to find not by Reese's a kick cat, a butter finger,
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Speaker 1: an almond joy and what's the other one. I don't
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Speaker 1: know something, and that that why you trying peanuts. So
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Speaker 1: those are my favorites. That's my Halloween tradition. But you
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Speaker 1: said you try to find them, but not by them.
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Speaker 1: What's the point of just finding them? It's the Halloween spirit.
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Speaker 1: I don't go trick or treating, but I used to
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Speaker 1: be able back when we went to the office. Our
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Speaker 1: office does have a rather large candy bowl, and that
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Speaker 1: was my usually I would find success. Actually would dig
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Speaker 1: out the twizzlers. And yes, I love I love how
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Speaker 1: people have these, like little like Samantham must have been here.
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Speaker 1: All the twizzlers are just so good, m M. And
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Speaker 1: I will actually eat them. Yeah, that is a great
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Speaker 1: segue into what we're doing today. And I do want
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Speaker 1: to revisit it in a second, because as we're recording
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Speaker 1: this and as it comes out, Halloween is upon us.
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Speaker 1: So we thought we would try something new and read
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Speaker 1: some fiction. Finally, Yes, yes, yes, finally. So we are
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Speaker 1: planning on having some recurring fiction readings, maybe like once
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Speaker 1: a month or so. But don't worry, nothing much is changing. Um,
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Speaker 1: We'll still have the same contents, just some fiction every
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Speaker 1: now and then. Because we thought it could be fun.
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Speaker 1: It was fun for us to do, and we both
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Speaker 1: like fiction and doing some real grade a acting of course,
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Speaker 1: oh so good at it. It's like if podcast have
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Speaker 1: an oscar category. This is absolutely oh absolutely so. Some
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Speaker 1: disclaimers before we get into this. This is something that
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Speaker 1: I wrote with the idea was in part inspired by
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Speaker 1: a friend, and I'll get into that after the fiction
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Speaker 1: because I don't want to spoil it, uh too much.
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Speaker 1: It's short the short form. It's not really scary. It's
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Speaker 1: very very silly, and yeah, I didn't really if at
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Speaker 1: the end of this, and I can hear Eaves's voice
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Speaker 1: in my head saying like, stop, you're disclaiming it too much.
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Speaker 1: Um if at the end of this year, like this
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Speaker 1: doesn't really make that much sense. It's I condensed a
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Speaker 1: lot into one thing, and then I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: spend too much time on that part of it. We
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Speaker 1: will get into that after it'll it'll make sense once
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Speaker 1: you hear it, I think. But all right, without further ado,
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Speaker 1: we're going to get into this story called Twisted. Do
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Speaker 1: you like candy? No, me either. Too sweet for me.
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Speaker 1: I can't stop myself from accepting it, though old habits
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Speaker 1: and all, they really teach you to covet that stuff.
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Speaker 1: As a kid, my best friend she loved candy, though
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Speaker 1: there was one candy I liked. Loved. They were called Twist.
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Speaker 1: Did you ever have twist? No, most people haven't. They
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Speaker 1: were delicious, red chewy licorice vines with a green gel filling.
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Speaker 1: The flavor was watermelon, but to me, they just tasted
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Speaker 1: like red. Do you know what I mean? That fruity, sweet,
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Speaker 1: artificial red flavor? My friend and I both loved them.
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Speaker 1: We've packed bags full of them and sneak them into
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Speaker 1: movie theaters and chomp away at them. But they were discontinued.
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Speaker 1: We look everywhere for them, every store, the most random
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Speaker 1: corners of the internet. We even reached out to the manufacturer,
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Speaker 1: but they were gone. Unattainable. We went as far as
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Speaker 1: to call the company that made them. I know that
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Speaker 1: sounds extreme, but have you ever truly loved something and
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Speaker 1: been so heartbroken, so desperate? It seemed impossible that something
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Speaker 1: could just be gone. The answer, invariably delivered with an
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Speaker 1: air of boredom and annoyance, was that Twist were discontinued indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: Any kind of fear productor if you take one thing
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Speaker 1: away from this story I wanted to be this, Tear
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Speaker 1: and Twirls are not the same. Years passed, and we
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Speaker 1: still occasionally checked the candy aisles at pharmacies searching for Twist.
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Speaker 1: We visited candy stores, asked if they had them in
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Speaker 1: the back, our hopes inevitably squashed. We encountered a lot
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Speaker 1: of adversity. People told us maybe Twist never existed, that
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Speaker 1: we were misremembering that the candy we've been searching for
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Speaker 1: had been Tear and Twirls all along. Even my therapist
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Speaker 1: urged me to let it go, that I was clearly
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Speaker 1: clinging to a nostalgic childhood memory, an unhealthy distraction from reality,
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Speaker 1: that not having them in my life was good for me.
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Speaker 1: They tried to make us doubt ourselves, but we both
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Speaker 1: knew the truth. We were unwavering in our conviction. It
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Speaker 1: was a conspiracy. We joke the tear and twirls conspiracy.
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Speaker 1: If only we'd known. I was sitting at home, searching
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Speaker 1: candy history forms for any clues, any sign of twist
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Speaker 1: when my phone buzzed. My best friend was calling odd
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Speaker 1: We were typically text only communicators. When I answered, I
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Speaker 1: could only hear her panicked breathing for voting settled over me,
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Speaker 1: heavy and suffocating. I found them, she said, I found
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Speaker 1: the twist, but I found something else. They keep calling me.
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Speaker 1: It's an unknown number. They never say anything. I think
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Speaker 1: I turned something up. They're coming from me. They're probably
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Speaker 1: coming for you. Then she gasped, followed by a jarring
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Speaker 1: sound of a phone being dropped, a connection being cut.
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Speaker 1: I called her back, and all I got was a
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Speaker 1: robotic message that the number I was trying to reach
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Speaker 1: had been disconnected. Disconnected. Fear caught at my stomach, constricted
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Speaker 1: my lungs. I drove to her house, my thoughts racing.
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Speaker 1: No lights were on. When I arrived. It was silent,
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Speaker 1: but her car was still there. I knocked on her door,
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Speaker 1: no answer. I stared at her door, willing it to open,
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Speaker 1: terrified of what would happen if it did. But then
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Speaker 1: a strange light in the night sky caught my attention,
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Speaker 1: a ball of energetic white darting, dancing, almost joyous. I
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Speaker 1: was riveted by it. It was beautiful. I stared at
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Speaker 1: it on moving for hours, uncaring of the cool, damp air.
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Speaker 1: I remember thinking it was the anniversary of my dad's death.
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Speaker 1: I wondered if it was him, Strange thoughts that come
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Speaker 1: to you. I watched it until my legs were covered
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Speaker 1: in bug bites, my neck ached from looking up, my
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Speaker 1: eyes burned with exhaustion. The sun rose and mysterious light disappeared.
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Speaker 1: I blinked, an unexpected bloss rowing to life inside of me.
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Speaker 1: Still no sign of my friend. I wandered around her house,
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Speaker 1: so looking for some clue of where she was what
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Speaker 1: had happened. I found footprints, clearly the result of running,
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Speaker 1: leading into the woods behind her house. I followed them,
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Speaker 1: but right before the tree line they disappeared. I spun around, searching.
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Speaker 1: A crisp, crinkling sound tore through the oppressive silence. I froze.
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Speaker 1: MY heart pounded in my chest as I slowly looked
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Speaker 1: down to the sources of the noise. Something peeked out
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Speaker 1: from under the sole of my shoe, mouth dry, I
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Speaker 1: reached for it, refusing to acknowledge the possibility, the miracle
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Speaker 1: that it would be. I recognized the packaging immediately, bright
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Speaker 1: red lettering outlined with white spelled out the item I'd
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Speaker 1: coveted for so long. Twist, frantic hope crashed over me. Reverently,
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Speaker 1: I took the package in my hand, as one would
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Speaker 1: a treasured family heirloom. So many memories came back to
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Speaker 1: me as I gazed upon its beauty, of family outings
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Speaker 1: at movie theaters, giggling at the loud cracking of the
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Speaker 1: illegal snuck in candy during quiet moments, munching a as
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Speaker 1: me and my best friend Doug through our Halloween candy halls,
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Speaker 1: my dad making sure to pick me up any of
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Speaker 1: the rare packages he saw, just to see the way
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Speaker 1: my eyes lit up, rashing out those precious, precious robes
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Speaker 1: of red. There were tears in my eyes. Finally, I
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Speaker 1: tore my gaze away. I looked up in my breath,
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Speaker 1: frozen my lungs. A dark, shadowy silhouette stood in front
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Speaker 1: of me, a black hole in the periwinkle of Poston light.
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Speaker 1: I had not heard anyone approach. I couldn't be sure
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Speaker 1: if the voice spoke a louder in my head, high
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Speaker 1: and cold and dead. You should have let it go.
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Speaker 1: Now your friend has paid the price, and so will you.
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Speaker 1: It said, where's my friends? What did you do to her?
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Speaker 1: My voice shook. We convinced her to comply as we
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Speaker 1: will with you. To not do so will result in erasure.
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Speaker 1: Who are you? I paused, then amended, what are you?
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Speaker 1: His presence was sinn as stir, overwhelming. We are the shadow,
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Speaker 1: the silent puppet master, your saviors. We just wanted twists,
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Speaker 1: I said, culching the package to my chest, proof that
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Speaker 1: they had existed. There was a moment of silence. My
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Speaker 1: body seemed frozen in place. Then the voice said, you
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Speaker 1: should have accepted the tear and twirls. Anger came to
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Speaker 1: my aid. Then I shouted at the void, tear and
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Speaker 1: twirls aren't the same. They don't have the filling. That
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Speaker 1: feeling was called green fruit flavoring twenty three. Combined with
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Speaker 1: red forty two. It interfered with our mind control frequencies,
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Speaker 1: the nostalgia and love for the flavor combination of this
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Speaker 1: candy allowed for resistance. It could not be tolerated. We
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Speaker 1: discontinued it, erased it, or so we thought. It seems
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Speaker 1: we underestimated your devotion to a candy that only served
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Speaker 1: to rot your teeth and degrade your body. The derision
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Speaker 1: was palpable. Let go, it said. We can offer you
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Speaker 1: more peace with our mind control than any manufactured sugary
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Speaker 1: food product. We can take away the burden of agency
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Speaker 1: of choice. I thought of Twist, the chewy sweet outside
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Speaker 1: and the burst of tanky sour green within. I thought
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Speaker 1: of my friend and I sharing stories and secrets and
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Speaker 1: laughs and memories over Twist. I thought of my dad,
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Speaker 1: dad a year ago today, buying me Twist because I
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Speaker 1: loved them and he loved me. I thought of the
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Speaker 1: mysterious light, dancing joyous in the night sky, unexplained but beautiful.
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Speaker 1: There was a shrill ringing in my head, disconcordant tearing,
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Speaker 1: forcing me to squeeze my eyes shut. I threw my
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Speaker 1: hands up to cover my ears. The package twinkled against
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Speaker 1: my cheek, and I realized it wasn't empty. My heart
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Speaker 1: pounded against my chest as I collapsed my knees. I
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Speaker 1: could sense the presents getting closer, cold tendrils wrapping around me.
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Speaker 1: With fumbling fingers, I reached inside the package, finding why
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Speaker 1: small segment of the sticky, rubbery candy, and just as
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Speaker 1: all was lost, I popped it in my mouth, chewing frantically,
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Speaker 1: the pop of sweet and tangy, the texture chewy and gooey.
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Speaker 1: At once. An explosion went off in my brain, the
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Speaker 1: warmth of so many memories forcing away the cold, cutting
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Speaker 1: off the scream of fury. As I opened my eyes,
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Speaker 1: the dark silhouette stumbled back, and in one horrifying moment,
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Speaker 1: I saw its face, gnarled skin, pointed, bared teeth, and
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Speaker 1: red filmed eyes, before it vanished in one disconcerting blink,
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Speaker 1: as if it had never been there in the first place.
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Speaker 1: I ran, I ran, and ran, and ran. I have
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Speaker 1: been on the run ever since. Looking over my shoulder,
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Speaker 1: the omnipresent weight of being watched crushing now, I hid,
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Speaker 1: waiting for the shadows to come for me. I managed
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Speaker 1: to track down a bag of twists. It could be
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Speaker 1: the last bag in existence. There is no way of knowing,
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Speaker 1: and no and will believe me when I say they
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Speaker 1: must be brought back. The flavor combination is illegal. Now
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Speaker 1: the question is are you a twist person or would
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Speaker 1: you prefer the tarrantworlds? And that's the end of yes. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I feel like you should have done it and you're
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Speaker 1: a creepy alien voice, so good, perfect, perfect. I hope
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Speaker 1: that you enjoyed it. I did want to talk about
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Speaker 1: some of the things in there. Um One which Samantha
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Speaker 1: immediately picked up on when we did this, it is
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Speaker 1: about Twizzlers. What a candy that used to be called
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Speaker 1: twist and peels and they were so they were these
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Speaker 1: little like sections of Twizzler, I think kind of what
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Speaker 1: you're talking about with the Halloween ones, Like they were
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Speaker 1: just smaller and inside was this like watermelon, gooey candy stuff.
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Speaker 1: And normally I'm not a big fruity candy type of person,
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Speaker 1: and I will just go out of my way to
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Speaker 1: not have it in my life. But for some reason,
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Speaker 1: I loved these. I loved them and me and my
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Speaker 1: some of this is autobiographical, Me and my friend Katie,
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Speaker 1: who was part of the impetus of this idea, would
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Speaker 1: sneak them into movie theaters and we would just eat
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Speaker 1: them by the handful. But the tear and twirls in
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Speaker 1: this story are based on pool and peels, which is
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Speaker 1: a different type of Twizzler. But you picked up on
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Speaker 1: that because I like the pool and bills. And also,
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Speaker 1: you know, there isn't a new form of Twizzlers that
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Speaker 1: has gel like the candy. I don't know, there's three
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Speaker 1: different flavors. Apparently like that. There's a variety pack for it.
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Speaker 1: I saw the other day, and I'll say, huh, they
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Speaker 1: got a type of it thing. It's called Twistler straws. Though,
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Speaker 1: like already, it's so funny how these opinions get solidified
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Speaker 1: and are so intense because I'm already like, no, it's
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Speaker 1: not the same, even though it very well could be.
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Speaker 1: I'm just rejecting this very idea. And you know, there's
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Speaker 1: probably a very good reason they were discontinuous as I
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Speaker 1: tried to touch on story. Yes, you did in a
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Speaker 1: different manner, in a different manner. So the original idea
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Speaker 1: for Twisted was supposed to be a ten part series
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Speaker 1: that was a real send up of true crime, and
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Speaker 1: so it was going to be me and my friend
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Speaker 1: Katie trying to get to the bottom of what happened
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Speaker 1: to twist and fills, which I think I called on
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Speaker 1: twist and polls earlier and that it's incorrect they were
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Speaker 1: called twist and fills, and in the process kind of
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Speaker 1: bumbling into this conspiracy theory that involves like we call
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Speaker 1: the FDA, we call the FBI, and all these people
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Speaker 1: and then we and one of us ends up in jail,
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Speaker 1: and then aliens are involved. So it was supposed to
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Speaker 1: be like a ten part thing. No one would go
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Speaker 1: for us. I don't know why, but just to shout
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Speaker 1: out Katie for for spending a good like two or
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Speaker 1: three hours with me and brainstorming this and then apologies
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Speaker 1: to literally everyone who's ever been at a work event
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Speaker 1: with me when I've had some alcohol, for just telling
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Speaker 1: them all about this idea and then being like, stop
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Speaker 1: talking about this discontinued candy. He was better. But I
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Speaker 1: do think when I have had those conversations, almost everybody
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Speaker 1: had a similar item or candy from their life that
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Speaker 1: they were like, I loved this when I was a kid,
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Speaker 1: and now I can't find it anywhere, and I searched
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Speaker 1: and searched and searched, and I have I have looked
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Speaker 1: on eBay and all you know what, I probably haven't.
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Speaker 1: If I had a twist and fill right now, I
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Speaker 1: bet I wouldn't even like it, but it would be
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Speaker 1: so powerful though. Yeah, yeah, for sure. I think. I
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Speaker 1: think that's one of the big things about candy. As
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Speaker 1: I was saying, when you're looking back as a kid,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of those big holiday events are fun
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Speaker 1: events are associated with candy, that it does just become
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Speaker 1: like this, I'm not sure why I want it, but
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Speaker 1: I do want it right. Sometimes it's also just like
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Speaker 1: again the ways described for you, this is a true
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Speaker 1: thing that you had, but when you think of things
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Speaker 1: like uh, the lion in the Witch and the wardrobe,
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Speaker 1: I had Turkish delight, but the way it like it
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Speaker 1: was described to me, I was like, oh damn, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I want some of that. And then now knowing what
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Speaker 1: it is, I was like, no, I wouldn't. I don't
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Speaker 1: want that. I don't want that. That's what the light
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Speaker 1: was what Right, of course, there's a lot of metaphor
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Speaker 1: like this could be talking about cocaine and I was like,
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Speaker 1: oh what, But that's a whole different conversation. But there
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Speaker 1: is that level of how well it is like the
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Speaker 1: scriptor what you have in your head again, kind of
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Speaker 1: like you probably wouldn't like it today, but in your
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Speaker 1: head at that point in time, it was the most
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Speaker 1: amazing dot dot dot whatever it was. I feel like
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Speaker 1: the same thing with oh honey, I used to love those.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, why, no, wonder I lost all of my
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Speaker 1: teeth so quickly. Oh no, that stuff is trouble. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of candy is trouble. You were
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Speaker 1: with me when I was writing this, actually I was, Yes,
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Speaker 1: you were. It was when about a year ago we
19:40
Speaker 1: were at the beach and this is one of my
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Speaker 1: like fifteen ideas I had for a podcast Thirteen Days
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Speaker 1: of Halloween, um, and this was what I thought was
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Speaker 1: the top runner, but they did not go for it.
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Speaker 1: Oh that was good for us. Yes, But I think
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Speaker 1: it's clear because I hadn't really touched it in a
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Speaker 1: for a year, and when I went back, I was like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is the stage I was in of grief, um,
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Speaker 1: because there's so many elements of like the father being
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Speaker 1: dead and having these memories come back, and then seeing
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Speaker 1: like making connections where they probably weren't connections, but you're
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Speaker 1: thinking like, oh, maybe that's some kind of sign or
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to see those things all over the place,
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Speaker 1: which is an idea I'm really dorkally fascinated in, is
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Speaker 1: that humans sea patterns where patterns don't exist a lot.
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Speaker 1: And so when I was kind of stumbling through the
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Speaker 1: strange disclaimer of like, it doesn't really make sense. I
20:36
Speaker 1: hate it when creators say this, but that was kind
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Speaker 1: of a purpose. So it was supposed to be like
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Speaker 1: is this connected or is it not connected? I don't
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Speaker 1: really need to go too deep into this silly horror
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Speaker 1: story I read, but that was kind of like the
20:50
Speaker 1: idea was, you know, you're going through this experience, you're
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Speaker 1: having this grief, and you're seeing these things and you're
20:55
Speaker 1: trying to make sense of them when perhaps there's no
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Speaker 1: sense to be made of them. But the memory of
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Speaker 1: that candy, in the memory of those all those things
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Speaker 1: you created together, and my dad did buy me twist
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Speaker 1: and fills, and he would let me sneak them into
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Speaker 1: the theater, even though he was a big proponent if
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Speaker 1: if you get caught, I'm not gonna help here, and
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Speaker 1: just having those kind of moments based on this candy, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And I do think food is a really powerful memory
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Speaker 1: in that way. And it can, you know, connect you
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Speaker 1: to people that you've lost or even people you just
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Speaker 1: don't see anymore. There there are certain foods I'll eat.
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Speaker 1: I'll just be like transported back to college. Yeah, remember
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Speaker 1: being in my dorm and watching scary movies and eating
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Speaker 1: this with my roommate or whatever it is. And I
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Speaker 1: do have a lot of foods like that based around
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Speaker 1: Halloween and the fall and you know winter at large.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I just think it's a really powerful it
21:59
Speaker 1: can be really powerful connection between you and other people.
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Speaker 1: As much as we talked about how unhealthy relationships with
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Speaker 1: food can be, this is one area where I can
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Speaker 1: form connections with other people as well. And I do
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Speaker 1: think a part of this is also about the traditions
22:21
Speaker 1: we have and we make with other people. And you know,
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Speaker 1: they can be very silly, little like the five candies
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Speaker 1: that I have to get. It's really ridiculous why I
22:33
Speaker 1: feel that way. Um or having you know your friend
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Speaker 1: that you always I have some groups of friends that
22:40
Speaker 1: will always bring a certain type of candy, and so
22:41
Speaker 1: that candy gets associated with them, right, and it makes
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Speaker 1: me happy when I have it and I think of
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Speaker 1: them and all the times we have had it in
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Speaker 1: the past, and I think for me um as a kid,
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Speaker 1: that was what Halloween was kind of about, like you
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Speaker 1: would get the candy. Like I said, I wasn't really
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Speaker 1: about the candy. For me. It's kind of like that
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Speaker 1: fun of hanging out with people and making those connections
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Speaker 1: with people and making those trades like oh, she wants
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Speaker 1: twizzlers and I want those. Right, It's kind of silly.
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Speaker 1: Smaller interactions that you really do are really important and
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Speaker 1: you do miss when that person is gone. Right. But yeah,
23:23
Speaker 1: that's all of that from this very very silly, but
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Speaker 1: I hope fun. I think it was a very fun.
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Speaker 1: enjoyed it, for your excellent acting, Christina's excellent editing, soundscaping,
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