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Happy Hour #244: SMNTY Gets into the Spirit of Halloween · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 3: And welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 3: of iHeartRadio. And today, welcome to another edition, a spooky edition,
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  Speaker 3: of Happy Hour. As always, if you're choosing to drink
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  Speaker 3: or whatever you're doing, please do so responsibly.
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  Speaker 1: Samantha, are you sipping on anything?
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  Speaker 2: I got my trusty bubble water.
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  Speaker 1: What about you? Got my trusty red wine.
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  Speaker 2: Yay.
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  Speaker 3: So here at Spinty, we have had to move things
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  Speaker 3: around once again. Our schedule has been shifting a lot.
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  Speaker 3: So this was kind of a last minute idea that
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  Speaker 3: you had, Samantha, where we would talk about Halloween and
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  Speaker 3: you would ask me some questions about Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought it'd be fun. Because, yes, we are
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  Speaker 2: rearranging some things because some of the things that we
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  Speaker 2: thought would be happy hour ended up being full-fledged discussions
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  Speaker 2: that lasted a very, very, very, very long time. Such
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  Speaker 2: great discussions. But because of that, I was like, we
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  Speaker 2: could just do a quick get-to-know Annie and her love
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  Speaker 2: for Halloween. You know, I often do this where I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: let's have questions with get-to-know Annie or what's going on
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  Speaker 2: with Annie type of thing. So kind of fun. And
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  Speaker 2: then I thought this would also be an interesting... Not
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  Speaker 2: exactly a project test, a litmus test maybe of sorts
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  Speaker 2: of like your background in Halloween. Because Halloween is a
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  Speaker 2: big deal in your life. Like for you, horror and
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  Speaker 2: action and costumes and such. Like it's, yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 2: diehard love for you, right?
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  Speaker 3: As I'm staring at your costume closet. Yes, and my
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  Speaker 3: Halloween sweater that I put on specifically for this occasion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Halloween's my favorite holiday. It's always been my favorite holiday.
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  Speaker 3: I think even when I was young and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Christmas would be most people's when they're a kid because
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  Speaker 3: you get the gifts. But Halloween was my favorite. I've
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  Speaker 3: always loved horror. I'm not sure why or where that
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  Speaker 3: came from. But when it's like this time of year, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I love it when all of the like, excuses I
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  Speaker 3: could have like horror and I love the like leaves
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  Speaker 3: changing and the colors of it I really love the
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  Speaker 3: bright orange of pumpkins and stuff like that I love
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  Speaker 3: the decor of it so yeah it is something that
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  Speaker 3: every year I'm like ooh Halloween the sad thing I'll
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  Speaker 3: say though is you always know elections are coming right
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  Speaker 3: after it so it does have that kind of like
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  Speaker 3: last hurrah before who knows what will.
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  Speaker 2: Happen As we're seeing around the country or the world, rather,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, some of the world stuff has been great. Brazil,
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  Speaker 2: go ahead. But with that, so let's jump into it.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like this is going to be one of
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  Speaker 2: those things that you're going to be like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I forgot about this moment and or really be like,
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  Speaker 2: that's a ridiculous question. I can't answer this because I
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  Speaker 2: can't narrow it down, which is your favorite thing to do.
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  Speaker 2: I did give you a chance to look over some
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  Speaker 2: of the questions. I thought about that later. I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't have. Because I feel like a rapid fire,
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  Speaker 2: unexpected questions are better with you.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these did. I was like, oof, that's a
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  Speaker 1: tough one.
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  Speaker 2: If I get you too long of times, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to get a list. I know what this is. I
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  Speaker 2: know what happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's a research. Like, oh, actually, look at this list.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, don't do that.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So let's do this. Let's talk about your love for
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  Speaker 2: Halloween for this Halloween edition. So tell me, because this
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  Speaker 2: is one of the first I thought about, because I
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  Speaker 2: don't think we've talked about childhood. What was your childhood
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  Speaker 2: Halloween traditions?
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  Speaker 3: I think they were probably what most American children's Halloween
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  Speaker 3: traditions are. But because I grew up in a small town,
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  Speaker 3: there was something kind of specific about that. So every Halloween,
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  Speaker 3: we would go Usually I'd go to Party City, but
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking about this. And I always got generic costumes,
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  Speaker 3: which I find interesting now. But maybe they were more
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  Speaker 3: expensive if it was licensed. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But I usually went as like a witch or something. Like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of a basic costume. But I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: I loved picking out the costumes. So that was part
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  Speaker 3: of the tradition. And going to Party City was a trick.
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  Speaker 3: It was like 30, 40 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then we would go. There's kind of a famous
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  Speaker 3: pumpkin farm near where I grew up. And it's one
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  Speaker 3: of those places that, like, it comes up on tourist destination.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, is it Burt's Pumpkin Farm?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Even I know about it. Even though technically, yes, it's
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  Speaker 2: 45 minutes away from me. And I'm from your neck
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  Speaker 2: of the woods. Like, we were probably an hour away
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  Speaker 2: from each other. But I knew about Burt's Pumpkin Farm.
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  Speaker 2: I never went.
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  Speaker 3: It's very, I find these days, it's very Instagrammable. Like,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people will make the trip to go.
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  Speaker 3: Because there's a bunch of, it's just a huge field
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  Speaker 3: of pumpkins.
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  Speaker 1: And they had, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Apple cider and the apple donuts. And I think there
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  Speaker 3: was a hayride.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember the hayride being a thing. Maybe I
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  Speaker 2: did go. I can't remember. It's also like the fall
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  Speaker 2: in your area, in my area, people would come specifically
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  Speaker 2: to go look at the fall leaves, which once upon
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  Speaker 2: a time used to be longer and earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't happen until like November now.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 2: And it only lasts for like two days. But once
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  Speaker 2: upon a time, it was.
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  Speaker 1: Once upon a time, it was beautiful. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: still is. It's just the window is smaller. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But then we would carve the pumpkin outside. My mom
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  Speaker 3: had a cassette tape of Halloween music, and I loved it.
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  Speaker 3: It was so fun. We would bake up the pumpkin seeds.
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  Speaker 3: And when Halloween actually came, this is where I think
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of interesting being from a small town. Our
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  Speaker 3: neighborhood was so spaced out. That you couldn't walk. You
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  Speaker 3: couldn't walk in the dark. So my dad had a
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  Speaker 3: pickup truck and we would get like a blanket and
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  Speaker 3: pillows and stuff and drive to each house. When we
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  Speaker 3: got older, that's when we were like the big candy
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  Speaker 3: bars are in the fancy neighborhood. So we started going
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  Speaker 3: to that neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, which is so funny because even then I didn't
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  Speaker 3: like candy, but I would trade for stuff with it
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  Speaker 3: because other people wanted it. Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I wouldn't eat it.
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  Speaker 3: And then when I got older than that, our town square.
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  Speaker 1: Had a Halloween kind of thing I would do, and then.
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  Speaker 3: The college had a Halloween thing that I would do.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I think what I remember best most is
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  Speaker 3: getting in the back of that truck at night.
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  Speaker 1: That's a memory for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Do you remember your first Halloween costume? What was
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  Speaker 2: the first Halloween costume you remember, if we can say
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  Speaker 2: it that way?
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  Speaker 3: The first one I remember was a purple sorceress's outfit
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  Speaker 3: with the triangle... wizard cap and it had uh gold
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  Speaker 3: stars on it and i had a star.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing amazing star wand yeah oh i love it i was.
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  Speaker 3: So thrilled it was literally just like a purple pillowcase
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  Speaker 3: but i thought it was the best thing i.
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  Speaker 2: Need pictures i need pictures of this oh i love
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  Speaker 2: childhood annie dressing up in a purple pillowcase.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I was thrilled by it.
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  Speaker 2: With a wand. I need pictures immediately. Okay, well, do you,
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  Speaker 2: because I feel like this probably was, I know you
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  Speaker 2: had your love for X-Files, but, and I would like
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  Speaker 2: veer towards Halloween-y X-Files, but do you remember your first
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  Speaker 2: horror movie that you watched?
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  Speaker 1: I do.
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  Speaker 2: What was it?
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  Speaker 1: It was Nightmare on Elm Street, and I was six
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  Speaker 1: years old.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, dang! That would be nightmares for me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the interesting thing about it, One of the reasons
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  Speaker 1: it stands out so much to me is my older
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  Speaker 1: brother got in so much trouble for showing it to me. Oh, no,
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  Speaker 1: he was too young, too.
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  Speaker 3: But anyway, he got in this big trouble for it,
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  Speaker 3: and I couldn't understand it at the time because it
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  Speaker 3: didn't scare me. And I think this is an interesting
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  Speaker 3: thing about kids is I was terrified of Beauty and
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  Speaker 3: the Beast at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Horrible. But I saw Nightmare on Elm Street, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: what's the big deal? I don't understand.
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  Speaker 2: Dude with sharp claws. What?
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  Speaker 1: He's goofy. I don't get it. With his face. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But I think there's like an age, at least for
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  Speaker 3: some kids, because I have some friends who shared this
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  Speaker 3: experience before where horror movies don't scare you. And then
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  Speaker 3: I think around eight is when they started to scare me.
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  Speaker 3: But before that, I was like, oh, really? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What is this goofy movie? Okay. Okay. Well, then with that,
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  Speaker 2: what was the horror movie that made you fall in
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  Speaker 2: love with horror movies?
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  Speaker 3: I know I've told this story before. I can't pinpoint
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  Speaker 3: why I wanted to see horror, but I think there
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  Speaker 3: was something about that I wasn't supposed to. You had
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  Speaker 3: to be a certain age to do it. And I
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  Speaker 3: was not by any means the child that broke rules
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  Speaker 3: or anything like that. But there was something about it
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  Speaker 3: that I wasn't supposed to see these movies. And we
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  Speaker 3: used to go as a family to this place called
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  Speaker 3: Media Play.
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  Speaker 1: It was an hour away. And it was just so fun.
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  Speaker 2: To do.
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  Speaker 3: When I was nine years old, I went down the
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  Speaker 3: horror movie aisle and I bought six horror movies, which.
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  Speaker 1: They did not.
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  Speaker 3: And I was, yeah, I was nine and they didn't
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  Speaker 3: stop me. But my mom, when I came out, she
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  Speaker 3: was like, wait, what did you buy? And she made
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  Speaker 3: me show her all the horror movies. And she said,
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  Speaker 3: you can keep three. And I kept Scream. That's right.
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  Speaker 3: And Sleepy Hollow. And I can't remember the other one.
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  Speaker 3: But I would say Scream and Sleepy Hollow. Because of that, I.
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  Speaker 3: I loved both of them, and I had a great... Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that was probably it. But I don't... I think the
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  Speaker 3: covers intrigued me, too. I just really picked based on
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  Speaker 3: the covers.
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  Speaker 2: Sleepy Hollow is one of those movies that I don't
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  Speaker 2: think of at all, and I know people love it. Like,
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  Speaker 2: old host of the show, Caroline, it's one of her
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  Speaker 2: favorite movies, and I'm like, huh? Like, I'm thoroughly confused.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just my... I've never loved Johnny Depp
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  Speaker 2: at anything. And I think that might have been the beginning. Like,
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  Speaker 2: not the beginning, but one of the reasons I was like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't... I don't care about any of this. But
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  Speaker 2: I can see, like, it is spooky.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Walken is fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Atmospheric.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting.
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  Speaker 2: So with that, because we've talked about horror tropes, but
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  Speaker 2: I've never asked you, do you have a favorite horror trope?
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  Speaker 2: Even though it could be kitschy, it could be funny,
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  Speaker 2: but like something like, yes, I love this.
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  Speaker 3: This is one of the ones that I was like, well,
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  Speaker 3: this could be a very long answer. Because based on
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  Speaker 3: the genre, that depends. I really love in a good slasher,
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  Speaker 3: I love if they do it well when you literally
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  Speaker 3: suspect almost everybody at one point. And I love when
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  Speaker 3: you're trying to guess how someone's going to die.
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  Speaker 1: Which is really dark. But they do that on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, oh, is it going to be this? Is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be this?
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  Speaker 3: So for slashers, I like that. I really love a
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  Speaker 3: good twist. If they can pull it off. Like, I
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  Speaker 3: love when you get to the end and that's not
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  Speaker 3: what I was expecting at all. Because I've said before,
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  Speaker 3: I really enjoy good mystery. And a lot of horror
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  Speaker 3: has some element of mystery. So I like when I'm
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  Speaker 3: trying to piece something together. I also really enjoy If
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  Speaker 3: it's done well.
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  Speaker 1: Meta. I love the meta commentary of horror.
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  Speaker 3: So that's one of the reasons I do love something
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  Speaker 3: like Scream is because it's coming from a place of
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  Speaker 3: we all know these tropes. So it's like an anti-trope.
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  Speaker 3: It's like a trope that knows about all the tropes.
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  Speaker 3: So I really enjoy that.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we need to come back and talk
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: about Widow's Bay in a bit with you saying that
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  Speaker 2: because I love that show so much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. So then moving on, what's the one horror villain
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  Speaker 2: that you would actually, you are the most scared of
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  Speaker 2: or would be the most scared to meet?
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  Speaker 1: I think it would be the Xenomorph alien.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Just because that's the mother specifically. I'm dead. Um, It
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  Speaker 1: might lay its eggs in me. I think that's horrible.
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  Speaker 2: And she was super smart.
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  Speaker 1: Super smart. Impossible to kill. Acid for blood.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a friend who would say, because we've
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  Speaker 3: had this argument before, alien isn't a villain because alien
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  Speaker 3: is just a creature trying to survive.
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  Speaker 1: Fair enough. Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I like that now you're just bringing up conflicts with
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  Speaker 2: your friends.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: If you're listening, I still remember this argument. Not forgotten.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 2: They're not wrong. We're moving on. So what's the horror
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  Speaker 2: villain you think you could actually take? Yeah, I could
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  Speaker 2: take this one on.
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  Speaker 1: Like in a fight?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In a movie, you're going to come out on top
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  Speaker 2: and you know you could.
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  Speaker 1: Oof.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in theory, if I knew how to survive
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  Speaker 3: the ring, then I would survive the ring. But it
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  Speaker 3: would mean I'd have to know how to survive it.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Which is to make the tape copy. The joke is
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  Speaker 3: also that Michael Myers is so slow. If you see him.
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  Speaker 1: Just keep going. Just keep going. But if you don't
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  Speaker 1: see him, I've got no chance at that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very... I was looking over right before we started because.
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  Speaker 1: What I think is going to happen at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this episode is I'm going to have a million...
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  Speaker 1: I should have said that.
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  Speaker 3: And so I was looking over best horror movie villains
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  Speaker 3: and stuff. And I just, I'm not happy about my
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  Speaker 3: chances with any of them is what I'm going to say.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they're like the best horror movie villains.
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  Speaker 2: Or, you know, they're not necessarily the best, but they
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  Speaker 2: just keep coming back. Yeah, because I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, well, I could dropkick Annabelle because it's a doll,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also a demon that can ruin your life.
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  Speaker 2: Dropkick Annabelle. I just had that picture in my head.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to know this.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, well, it's just a doll. But then
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  Speaker 1: I was like, no, she'll come back.
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  Speaker 2: If there is a listener who has skills in art,
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  Speaker 2: please do a sketch of Annie dropkicking Annabelle for me.
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  Speaker 2: I just, I need it. I need it now. I
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  Speaker 2: need it now. Oh, I love it. Okay, so with
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  Speaker 2: all of that, what is, and this is a hard one,
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  Speaker 2: one of your favorite Halloween, your favorite Halloween memory in
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  Speaker 2: your past 30-something years of life?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so I'm going to do kind of a cheat
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  Speaker 1: on this one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, see, I knew it was coming.
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  Speaker 3: Well, just in general, I'm going to generalize. I don't
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  Speaker 3: have one specific Halloween memory, but I think that I
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  Speaker 3: just remember so fondly the excitement of carving the jack-o'-lantern outside.
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  Speaker 3: The leaves were all around, and the weather was kind
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  Speaker 3: of nicely cool, and we were listening to these Halloween songs.
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  Speaker 3: And knowing that we'd get the pumpkin scenes after, there
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  Speaker 3: was just something about that that.
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  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed and looked forward to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's really sweet.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I get that. That's sweet.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So with that, what is your all-time favorite haunted house?
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  Speaker 1: I think you know the answer to this one.
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  Speaker 2: I think I do, too.
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  Speaker 1: It was when we did The Last of Us at Universal.
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  Speaker 1: That was my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: Was it because I was terrified and yelled every few seconds?
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  Speaker 1: That did enhance it. That did enhance it. I do it, too, though.
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  Speaker 1: You heard me.
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  Speaker 2: You're so giddy and laughing, and I'm in panic and despair,
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  Speaker 2: which I need to bring those pictures back. I will,
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  Speaker 2: like I was doing the before and after, because I
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  Speaker 2: think I was just like, huh.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I did.
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  Speaker 1: I was just like so happy and thrilled. And then
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  Speaker 1: I asked you, oh, was I supposed to do something
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  Speaker 1: really different? You're like, no.
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  Speaker 2: This was exactly the reaction I assumed. Oh, OK. Well,
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: so what is your favorite memory from this haunted from
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: the haunted houses? Oh, gosh.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: The thrill of it. I love the thrill of it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: I love when you get that like jump and then
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: the spike of dopamine or whatever that. that's going on
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: in your brain that I happen to like that some
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: people don't, at least in the case of Haunted House.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: For that specific Haunted House, it was being with you,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: but also it was, I love The Last of Us,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: and the design was really cool. So it was cool.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: And I went to both because there was one in
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Florida and one in California. And it was cool to
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: see how they differently interpreted it and did it.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: So there was a lot more, there were a lot
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: of different effects there. In the houses. So that was cool.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I did want to bring this up because I'd forgotten
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: about this. I was in Japan for one Halloween. And
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: I went to their Universal Studio of Fright Nights.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I thought that was scarier.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. It was so cool. Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: They had an area you had to walk through that
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: was just woods. And people would chase you and you
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: would run.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: It was, I loved it. I loved it. It was
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: also kind of cool being there.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: First of all, Japan has that eerie feeling anyway.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: And there was fog and stuff.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: But it was cool to be in Japan over Halloween
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: because they really leaned into it. But it also felt like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: look at this strange thing Americans do.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: The haunted house specifically?
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: Haunted houses and just the whole costume and being spooky
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: and stuff like that.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: They are spooky. Yeah.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's true.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, so what is a favorite fun fact about Halloween
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: or Hallow's Eve that people may not know about?
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Oof.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: So my immediate response when I read this was go
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: check out our episodes we've done on the history of
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: like Samhain. And kind of where some of those traditions
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: come from, the traditions we have today.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I think that probably a.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Good amount of you know, but maybe not all of
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: you know, that America's Halloween started as a way to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: keep kids off the streets. They were worried about delinquent
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: children playing pranks. So it started as really you would
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: go to a church or something like that.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: And....
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: You know capitalism got hold of it and then it
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: became what it is today but in the beginning it
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: was meant to keep people like children from causing trouble
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: which i find fascinating because as much as i love
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: halloween it is a wild holiday i find it is
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: and you told me about I'd never heard of it, trunk-or-treating.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, I think about that often.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: Trunk-or-treating, which is where it's a truck and it's parked
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: at a church or something, right? It is their attempt
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: to keep kids off of going to strangers' house. And also, yeah,
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: also maybe... Get them to dress up as less evil.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: And so Saber actually has an episode about this. If
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: you want to learn more, that's a very generalized answer
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: to it. But yeah, it kind of started as a
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: concern around children causing trouble.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Fun fact. All right. With that, what is
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: your favorite tradition for Halloween? I.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: A lot of what I said about loving it as
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: a kid remains. Paul's still my favorite. I love the color.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I still get a pumpkin. Whether or not I carve
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: it depends on how depressed I am because of the
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: elections coming up.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: If you want to talk about how Halloween has changed
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: for me as an adult, that's one of the biggest ones.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I love watching.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: Halloween movies and horror movies, because I love Hocus Pocus,
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: and that's not scary. I also have a tradition where
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I eat mac and cheese on Halloween, which is funny,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: because I also have a tradition of eating mac and
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: cheese on New Year's. Yeah.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: But I love it.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: I love getting, like, I'll get the candles out, I'll
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: get mac and cheese, and watch my horror movie of choice,
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: and it's the best.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I love that that's your treat. Mac and cheese is
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: your treat.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Mac and cheese? Do you know this story? I think
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: I've told it. I had swine flu when I was
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in college and I couldn't eat anything. I was so sick.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: And Halloween that year was the first day I felt
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: like I could maybe eat something. And I ate mac
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: and cheese and watched Hocus Pocus. So ever since then,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: it's mac and cheese.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: That's been your tradition. I love that. It's such a
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: random tradition. Well, thank you for sharing. I feel like
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: we got to know your love a little more of Halloween.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: I hope your mac and cheese this week is delicious
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: and everything you had hoped for with your Hocus Pocus viewing.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I'm excited.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It's on a Saturday, too.
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: It's so funny because I used to go out and
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: go to all these parties, and now I'm like, wait,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I can just stay in and eat mac and cheese.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Right, right.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Sometimes I read a scary book, too, or
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a scary story. That's fun.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's a good tradition, too. You also go to Netherland
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: a lot during this time.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I do not go to Netherland. I go to Netherworld.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, sorry. Is there a Netherland as well? No, in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Peter Pan. Okay. Oh, yeah.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Netherworld. I always go every year, and
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: that's so fun. They're very.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: special effects heavy haunted house, so it feels like you're
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: going into the coolest special effects museum with a jump
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: scare every four seconds.
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's so fun.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: No, thank you.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I might go again this year. I've already been. No,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: thank you.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you once again for sharing. I'm excited to
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: hear the updates.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Thank you for asking me these difficult questions,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and I promise I won't Send a bunch of revisions later, like, oh,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: should have said.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You're not allowed.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: You might have to get my text messages, though, my
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: personal text messages.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll give you that. I'll let you have that.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Okay, thank you. Thank you.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: They'll be given with a lot of thumbs up.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: I didn't consider Hannibal Lecter. So, yes, listeners, we would
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: love to hear from you, your Halloween traditions, Halloween memories
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: around the world.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: What does Halloween look like? And if you celebrate, happy Halloween.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Happy Halloween.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 24:04
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• 24:08
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• 24:20
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• 24:21
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• 24:25
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• 24:26
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