Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / Happy Hour #40: Trick or Treat?
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- 0:05Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't good to stuff.
- 0:07Speaker 1: I never told you production of I Heart Radio. It
- 0:18Speaker 1: is time for another happy hour. This is our last
- 0:23Speaker 1: one in October of one. I yesterday thought it was
- 0:30Speaker 1: and I spent all day labeling things. Maybe you just
- 0:37Speaker 1: have a really optimistic view for the rest of this year.
- 0:40Speaker 1: We're gonna survive it wonderfully and be so excited for
- 0:44Speaker 1: the new year. Maybe, or I guess you could be
- 0:46Speaker 1: really pessimistic and be like, why can't we get over
- 0:48Speaker 1: this year? This year? Well, cheers to either one of
- 0:52Speaker 1: those um as. Always drink responsibly if you choose to
- 0:57Speaker 1: do so. And also, anything that we discussed that we
- 1:00Speaker 1: are drinking we are not currently sponsored by, and we
- 1:03Speaker 1: will always let you know if that is not the case.
- 1:06Speaker 1: So Samantha, what are you drinking? Well? Today I decided
- 1:09Speaker 1: I wanted to be a little more fowlish winter ish,
- 1:13Speaker 1: and I bought not too long ago the Sam Adams
- 1:16Speaker 1: Winter Logger, and it's Winter Logger Festive and Smooth is
- 1:22Speaker 1: how it's titled. But yeah, so it's been really good
- 1:25Speaker 1: because this is kind of what I think about for
- 1:27Speaker 1: a fall winter beer where it's cozy because it's very hearty,
- 1:32Speaker 1: I guess, with just a little bit of spice. That
- 1:34Speaker 1: describes it as winter Logger. No matter what or how
- 1:38Speaker 1: you celebrate, the spiced holiday loggers, rich malt notes and
- 1:42Speaker 1: accents of cinnamon, ginger, and orange pill are perfect for
- 1:46Speaker 1: any festivities, perfect for any festivities. Yes, ginger cinnamon right,
- 1:53Speaker 1: And we had thought about doing same atoms as a
- 1:56Speaker 1: happy hour before. But I'm not gonna lie. I've got
- 1:59Speaker 1: a lot of confus usual through looking at the brewery stuff.
- 2:02Speaker 1: I know they've worked to a like Pink Boot Society.
- 2:05Speaker 1: They did have a woman who was the head brewer
- 2:08Speaker 1: named I believe Megan Parissy. I can't find if she's
- 2:13Speaker 1: still there. If she has, someone teld me let me know.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Of course, we want to always celebrate that. But yeah,
- 2:19Speaker 1: so I'm a big fan of Sam Adams. I know
- 2:21Speaker 1: it's not one of the independent beers, so don't get
- 2:24Speaker 1: at me. Oh god, it is. They have the label,
- 2:28Speaker 1: the independent craft label, which was it was a big
- 2:31Speaker 1: deal in the industry because we had a lot of
- 2:33Speaker 1: the bigger production companies who are trying to pretend like
- 2:38Speaker 1: since they bought out the smaller beers that had been
- 2:40Speaker 1: craft beer, so I guess Sam Adams is still craft beer.
- 2:43Speaker 1: I didn't know this. M I'm sorry, Sam Adams. Well,
- 2:49Speaker 1: maybe in a future episode we can look into that further.
- 2:53Speaker 1: I did the very silly touristy thing when I was
- 2:56Speaker 1: in Boston where you can get a Sam Adams and
- 2:59Speaker 1: see Sam Adam was grave essentially of Sam Adams. Yeah,
- 3:04Speaker 1: it's a whole tourist thing I did. I didn't know. Well,
- 3:09Speaker 1: now it's important information. I do have associations with cooler
- 3:13Speaker 1: weather and fall with Sam Adams. I know that's not
- 3:15Speaker 1: always the case. Again, not a sponsor. Yeah, they had
- 3:18Speaker 1: one of the best, better October fests a long time ago.
- 3:21Speaker 1: I was like, this is one of the better ones.
- 3:23Speaker 1: It's not over the top like two and again Samuel
- 3:26Speaker 1: Adams as it's labeled. Uh and this is not about them,
- 3:30Speaker 1: by the way, So I'm just too long. But so
- 3:34Speaker 1: you know Adams. It was one of the first beers
- 3:36Speaker 1: that I liked. A few of my first beers were Newcastle,
- 3:39Speaker 1: which I was like, that does something to your stomach
- 3:42Speaker 1: for some reason, but I loved it. Get Us and
- 3:45Speaker 1: Sam Adams, so they were my beginning and Fat Tire
- 3:48Speaker 1: like those were the beginning beers for me, so I
- 3:51Speaker 1: have a love for them. Abida is also one of
- 3:54Speaker 1: those as well, But yeah, Sam Adams is definitely that
- 3:57Speaker 1: one that I would be like, what are these little
- 3:59Speaker 1: seasonable things those? And I still enjoyed them. Yeah, it's
- 4:04Speaker 1: sunny you mentioned that because I was thinking the other
- 4:07Speaker 1: day I have friends who I introduced to beer, and
- 4:11Speaker 1: now I believe someone that was Sam Adams. But now
- 4:13Speaker 1: I look back and I'm like, wow, that was not
- 4:16Speaker 1: I didn't choose the right alcohols, I think, but they
- 4:18Speaker 1: remember all these stories very well. I think that octro
- 4:22Speaker 1: Fest might have been one of them. But then also
- 4:23Speaker 1: that awkwardness of being at a college party, especially for
- 4:28Speaker 1: me because I really didn't drink that much beer. I
- 4:30Speaker 1: didn't really drink that much at all then and showing
- 4:32Speaker 1: up with what you think is a popular beer, and
- 4:34Speaker 1: then I have more than one memory of overhearing people
- 4:37Speaker 1: saying like she bought that. Judgment your college students, you
- 4:45Speaker 1: can't afford anything. Why are you being judging? Come on,
- 4:49Speaker 1: come on, clearly we have a lot of thoughts on this.
- 4:52Speaker 1: It's funny. I am in an attempt to use up
- 4:57Speaker 1: some of the massive bottle a pumpkin spice syrup. Yes,
- 5:01Speaker 1: that I have due to Holly Fries cocktail that we
- 5:05Speaker 1: had in the last Happy Hour, which was amazing and
- 5:07Speaker 1: I loved I created. It's a little bit of pumpkin
- 5:11Speaker 1: pie syrup, which I'm glad because it's very strong bourbon
- 5:15Speaker 1: and soda water and nutmeg and cinnamon and a little
- 5:21Speaker 1: bit of them and and it's actually really good done.
- 5:24Speaker 1: But it's very good. Oh it sounds kind of like
- 5:27Speaker 1: a hot Toddy without the tea m hmm, but with
- 5:30Speaker 1: pumpkin spice instead and not being warm. Yes a lot. Yes,
- 5:36Speaker 1: it does have that kind of vibe. It's kind of
- 5:39Speaker 1: it reminds me of a cool cider or something a
- 5:42Speaker 1: very fall, very fall drink. I like it. I have
- 5:46Speaker 1: consistently been drinking every morning my pumpkin spice syrup in
- 5:49Speaker 1: my coffee, and then I've made my partner drink it too,
- 5:52Speaker 1: because I'm like, we have to get rid of this
- 5:53Speaker 1: in two weeks because it goes bad. How's it going?
- 5:57Speaker 1: Are you close? Yeah? Yeah, it's almost I think like
- 6:01Speaker 1: maybe three or four days worth could be really overselling.
- 6:06Speaker 1: I'm going to say that's an accomplishment Smith, And I'm
- 6:08Speaker 1: very proud of you. Keep up the good work. Yeah.
- 6:12Speaker 1: So since this is the last Happy Hour in October
- 6:17Speaker 1: and before Halloween, we wanted to close out. I know
- 6:21Speaker 1: we've talked a lot about Halloween and spooky things, so,
- 6:24Speaker 1: you know, a sort of closing of the book. And
- 6:27Speaker 1: I know we've done past episodes on you know, our
- 6:31Speaker 1: favorite things about certain holidays, and I was thinking about it,
- 6:33Speaker 1: and I'm not sure we've ever done anything like that
- 6:35Speaker 1: for Halloween. We kind of talked about it in the
- 6:36Speaker 1: last episode with me in Holly, but you you didn't
- 6:39Speaker 1: really shime in so we can hear from you. Yeah,
- 6:42Speaker 1: But I also I wanted to talk about some of
- 6:46Speaker 1: my favorite traditions um, which I thought could be something
- 6:50Speaker 1: we could share. But most of mine I'm remembering like
- 6:54Speaker 1: being a child and when Halloween was so so exciting, um,
- 6:58Speaker 1: and one thing my dad to do. He did this
- 7:00Speaker 1: for every holiday, he would get as a small gift. UM.
- 7:05Speaker 1: Usually it was a movie, and usually it was a
- 7:09Speaker 1: movie he wanted, but still it was exciting. And when
- 7:14Speaker 1: we had one called boo bags, so on how we
- 7:17Speaker 1: would get these little orange boo bags and it would
- 7:19Speaker 1: usually be one movie in there and then some candy,
- 7:22Speaker 1: pumpkin carving. I am a huge fan of pumpkin carving
- 7:24Speaker 1: to this day. I have my pumpkin. It's huge. It's
- 7:29Speaker 1: going to be a beast to carve. And I always
- 7:32Speaker 1: do one side. I do the sleepy hollow pumpkin face,
- 7:35Speaker 1: and then on the other side, I do the Nightmare
- 7:38Speaker 1: before Christmas Jack Skellington's face. I no wonder it dies
- 7:42Speaker 1: so quickly. Yeah, caring, Yes, Okay, I didn't understand this
- 7:49Speaker 1: last time. We had this conversation that I was like,
- 7:52Speaker 1: and now I'm like, oh, you have two faces that
- 7:54Speaker 1: are very intricate. Okay, that's what. Yeah. Yeah, My pumpkins
- 7:59Speaker 1: always die really quickly. So I carved them the weekend
- 8:02Speaker 1: of Halloween usually, and then I cook the pumpkin seeds
- 8:05Speaker 1: and I do a half savory and half seven sugar. Yea,
- 8:22Speaker 1: so oh god. I feel like when we talk about
- 8:28Speaker 1: childhood traditions, I just talked about trauma. So I'm trying
- 8:32Speaker 1: not to do this. However, I don't remember doing significant
- 8:37Speaker 1: things for Halloween, and I won't say it's because my
- 8:40Speaker 1: mom and dad didn't want to. I lived in the woods,
- 8:46Speaker 1: so going door to door was not a thing. I
- 8:49Speaker 1: always thought it was in the movies, and I have
- 8:51Speaker 1: a feeling I'm not the only one, especially like people
- 8:55Speaker 1: not from the US talking about this, but that seems
- 8:58Speaker 1: so cinematic that it seems unreal that I did not
- 9:01Speaker 1: understand what this was. Now I say this, and there
- 9:05Speaker 1: was a suburb in l J that was in the
- 9:08Speaker 1: town of and they did this, and it was the
- 9:10Speaker 1: rich part of the town that people would go around.
- 9:13Speaker 1: And because my mom had a lot of anxiety and
- 9:16Speaker 1: a lot of self doubt, I feel like we didn't
- 9:19Speaker 1: do this as much. I could be wrong because I
- 9:22Speaker 1: just can't remember it. There are two significant things that
- 9:24Speaker 1: I do remember, going with my grandmother who my grandmother
- 9:28Speaker 1: loved looking at us and thought we were adorable. I
- 9:31Speaker 1: only remember one significant costume, which was being a pumpkin
- 9:35Speaker 1: with a turtleman. Because it was so flipping cold, my
- 9:38Speaker 1: brother and I fought all the time, So it could
- 9:40Speaker 1: have been that it was just a hassle to take
- 9:43Speaker 1: us out anywhere because we try to kill each other.
- 9:46Speaker 1: That could be that too, So I don't have a
- 9:48Speaker 1: lot of memories of that. I do have some memories
- 9:51Speaker 1: of carving pumpkins, but I think it was more like
- 9:54Speaker 1: we watched them carving pumpkins, because knives and children they
- 9:58Speaker 1: don't really mix. I didn't know about baking pumpkin ce's
- 10:02Speaker 1: until I was in college, and I loved it, and
- 10:05Speaker 1: we did a few of the pumpkin carvings in college.
- 10:10Speaker 1: I would get tired after making one eye because it
- 10:13Speaker 1: looked so dumb that I would give it over to
- 10:15Speaker 1: someone and ask them to do it, and I'm like,
- 10:17Speaker 1: I'll go bake the pumpkin c's while you do this,
- 10:21Speaker 1: or I'll roast the pumpkin seas. So never a huge
- 10:24Speaker 1: fan of crafting. I really suck at crafting. I really
- 10:27Speaker 1: wish I could say that I is because like I've
- 10:30Speaker 1: never tried it. I'm just maybe again my attitude in
- 10:33Speaker 1: the whole I'm not the best, that I'm not gonna
- 10:36Speaker 1: do it at all. Attitude comes in too much and
- 10:38Speaker 1: the anxiety of like performing for people like it was
- 10:41Speaker 1: just it's just too much. But all that to say,
- 10:44Speaker 1: I also have that problem with costumes. I feel like
- 10:47Speaker 1: I'm not creative enough. I can't figure out what I
- 10:50Speaker 1: want to do, so it puts me into an anxiety
- 10:54Speaker 1: swirl instead of trying to actually enjoy it. So I
- 10:57Speaker 1: just quit all together and set it out. So again,
- 11:02Speaker 1: a lot of both humbug in this thing. And I
- 11:05Speaker 1: will say, as much as I try to love it,
- 11:07Speaker 1: because this is probably the one holiday I like more
- 11:10Speaker 1: so than any others beginning of my of my birthday,
- 11:13Speaker 1: which is in September, to the end of the year.
- 11:16Speaker 1: I hate the season. I'm such a pessimist, So there's
- 11:23Speaker 1: a lot of weirdness that I have around these things. Again,
- 11:28Speaker 1: my childhood was not because it's not normal or anything,
- 11:32Speaker 1: but those things were not done necessarily in rural Georgia
- 11:37Speaker 1: where you lived in the woods and there was no
- 11:40Speaker 1: one near you. Yeah. I mean it's interesting because I
- 11:43Speaker 1: also lived in a rural Georgia and my mom would
- 11:46Speaker 1: get us in the back of a pickup truck and
- 11:49Speaker 1: we would slowly like go, and you know, most of
- 11:53Speaker 1: the houses it would take keep forever to get to them,
- 11:55Speaker 1: and they might not have candy. One woman gave me
- 11:58Speaker 1: a nickel. I'll never forget that. Um. I will never
- 12:02Speaker 1: get as long as I live, because I was looking
- 12:05Speaker 1: at it. What I'd rather have an apple, give a
- 12:10Speaker 1: toothbrush or something. This nickel. I can't do anything with this, um,
- 12:16Speaker 1: not even a quarter. It is funny how like entitled
- 12:21Speaker 1: do you feel as a child that you better get candy?
- 12:23Speaker 1: But there was I would go to one friend's house
- 12:26Speaker 1: and she her neighborhood was close, like all the houses
- 12:30Speaker 1: were close, and they had good candy. They had the
- 12:32Speaker 1: good stuff always that neighborhood. I know you need to
- 12:36Speaker 1: but that's part of the thing too, is i would
- 12:38Speaker 1: get so excited once I got older, and I'm like,
- 12:40Speaker 1: we gotta have all this candy for all the kids
- 12:42Speaker 1: who are gonna come by, and no one would come
- 12:44Speaker 1: because rural Georgia to get dark. Of course now because
- 12:51Speaker 1: of that in itself, and then also because churches they
- 12:55Speaker 1: have the whole chunk or treat, Yeah, is it a
- 12:58Speaker 1: trick or treat because it was out of their trunk
- 13:01Speaker 1: and it was religious based. I did go my dad,
- 13:05Speaker 1: as I said, he was a professor, and they would
- 13:07Speaker 1: do like a family. You could take your family and
- 13:10Speaker 1: they would have games and they would have like trick
- 13:12Speaker 1: or treat down the door malls. And I did that
- 13:14Speaker 1: twice and I loved it. I think the one thing
- 13:16Speaker 1: that I'm thinking about when I think of costumes is
- 13:19Speaker 1: because our school would do things. But after a little
- 13:23Speaker 1: while because people complain about Halloween being too devilish, right,
- 13:27Speaker 1: they made it a book week so you could dressed
- 13:30Speaker 1: up every day of the week as your favorite book characters.
- 13:34Speaker 1: I remember, though, that's fun, very bitter about losing to
- 13:41Speaker 1: the girl who dressed up and who was my best
- 13:43Speaker 1: friend by the way, as Dorothy when I had my
- 13:47Speaker 1: Korean handbock on and I was like, really, really really
- 13:51Speaker 1: Dorothy beat me. Whatever. I'm still better about this, I
- 13:54Speaker 1: can see. I can see I've had a fast costume
- 13:56Speaker 1: contests from like you just would because your costumes funny
- 14:00Speaker 1: just because you're a pretty ground haired girl and I'm
- 14:03Speaker 1: Korean over here. Fine, yes, no, definitely not. That is
- 14:10Speaker 1: one of my favorite aspects of like costuming though, as
- 14:13Speaker 1: I do love kind of the funny pictures you get
- 14:17Speaker 1: where it's like I have there's one picture I have
- 14:19Speaker 1: of me and my siblings where like my little brother
- 14:21Speaker 1: was SpongeBob, I was Sorceress, and my older brother was
- 14:26Speaker 1: a Ninja turtle, and it just brings me joy, it
- 14:29Speaker 1: makes me laugh. It's very silly. Yeah. I mean that's
- 14:35Speaker 1: another thing too, is you had to get creative cost
- 14:39Speaker 1: wise with costumes sometimes, so my sorceress outfit was like
- 14:42Speaker 1: a sheet that I cut it amazing. I thought it
- 14:47Speaker 1: looked cool. That's amazing. I love it. Yes, yes, Well,
- 14:51Speaker 1: something else we've been talking about a lot is horror movies,
- 14:54Speaker 1: and I'm just curious, how do you remember how you
- 14:57Speaker 1: got into horror movies? So as a teenager, I would
- 15:01Speaker 1: go over to my best friend's house and we would
- 15:03Speaker 1: watch all of the c D listed movies. And I
- 15:08Speaker 1: don't think it was my first, but one of the
- 15:10Speaker 1: ones that I have seared in my memory is the
- 15:13Speaker 1: House of Wax eighties edition, not even the original, but
- 15:16Speaker 1: the eighties edition with a dude from Grimlin's interesting the
- 15:25Speaker 1: whole thing because it was like sexual enough without having
- 15:31Speaker 1: too many like sex scenes that it seared like I
- 15:34Speaker 1: was probably twelve thirteen when we watched this, because again,
- 15:38Speaker 1: like I was born in the eighties, but twelve thirteen
- 15:40Speaker 1: would have been in the nineties, so it's probably mid
- 15:42Speaker 1: to late eighties that this came out. And I just
- 15:45Speaker 1: remember because the dude, Vincent Price, was in it as well,
- 15:49Speaker 1: so his his face is very much seared into my brain.
- 15:53Speaker 1: But like, that was one of those movies, but it
- 15:55Speaker 1: was all of those awful movies that I watched, and
- 15:57Speaker 1: which is also why I have a pair of clowns,
- 15:59Speaker 1: and also of fear of inanimate objects that are life
- 16:02Speaker 1: size and I'm sure it's come to life and kill me. Wow,
- 16:06Speaker 1: it really impacted your horror movies really messed with your head,
- 16:14Speaker 1: I see, I am certainly. Yeah, the first ones you
- 16:18Speaker 1: watch and you get exposed to, you can definitely influence
- 16:22Speaker 1: things that you fear. I didn't know that's why you
- 16:25Speaker 1: inanimate objects got you? Huh, all right, it's not the
- 16:28Speaker 1: only one that's true. It's true. And then when you
- 16:32Speaker 1: brought out the VR game with Freddie's House of Horrors,
- 16:36Speaker 1: that's like that was my nightmare, Like, how dare you
- 16:39Speaker 1: Freddie's House of Horrors? It's called five Nights at Freddie's
- 16:42Speaker 1: and it's excellent. But yeah, she was not happy. I
- 16:46Speaker 1: looked around and I went nope, and through the thing
- 16:48Speaker 1: there was the menu screen and she was like, which
- 16:52Speaker 1: is fair, it's scary, and I believe there's a video
- 16:55Speaker 1: of me playing it or the most on our social
- 17:01Speaker 1: This was very concerned for me. Yeah, I mean that's
- 17:04Speaker 1: also interesting what what scares different people? And having that
- 17:09Speaker 1: conversation of like that doesn't scary at all, it being
- 17:12Speaker 1: something that terrifies the other person. Something I used to
- 17:16Speaker 1: do me and my old roommate in college is during October.
- 17:20Speaker 1: It was the nerdiest thing, but I loved it. We
- 17:22Speaker 1: would at night, we would light up our small pumpkins
- 17:25Speaker 1: and we would take turns reading scary stories to each
- 17:28Speaker 1: other drinking tea. And this was before I knew I
- 17:30Speaker 1: had my issue with tea. And then we would watch
- 17:33Speaker 1: a scary movie and the like candle light and it
- 17:35Speaker 1: was just such a like kind of wholesome and nerdy thing.
- 17:38Speaker 1: But I loved them because I would try to do
- 17:43Speaker 1: that by myself, of like reading by candle I going,
- 17:46Speaker 1: how the hell did they read by candle I? Because
- 17:48Speaker 1: I can't scare these words? Yes, yes, yeah, it was
- 17:53Speaker 1: just a delight. I love finding as I think we've
- 17:56Speaker 1: discussed several times on this podcast, but I love when
- 17:58Speaker 1: you find those like little traditions with friends. And I
- 18:01Speaker 1: don't do it anymore, but I just remember it so fondly,
- 18:04Speaker 1: of reading scary stories to each other on cool nights.
- 18:08Speaker 1: That's so cute. Yeah. Um, well, cheers, everyone cheers to you,
- 18:14Speaker 1: seas us clink whether you celebrate Halloween or not, whether
- 18:20Speaker 1: you enjoy it or not, I hope you have a
- 18:22Speaker 1: lovely weekend. Yes, yeah, lovely, safe weekend. And if you
- 18:26Speaker 1: do have any traditions around Halloween you would like to share,
- 18:30Speaker 1: we would love to hear about them. You can email
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- 18:39Speaker 1: Thanks it's always to our super producer Christina. Happy Halloween again,
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