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Halloween Poets of 2026 (with Jeremy Elder) · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists.
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  Speaker 1: It's Halloween week, and you know what that means.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: We're sitting down with this year's top Halloween poets. Variety
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  Speaker 1: chose 10, and we're sitting down with the five that
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  Speaker 1: we've chosen.
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  Speaker 3: Every single year, this podcast does this. We gather around
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  Speaker 3: five Halloween poets. If you don't know what that is,
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  Speaker 3: there's three other episodes you can go watch to familiarize yourself.
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  Speaker 1: And if you still don't know what that is, it's
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  Speaker 1: poetry about Halloween. Now, let's listen in. And here's a
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  Speaker 1: sneak peek. One of us made a really big choice.
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  Speaker 2: Let's listen in.
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  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited to be here.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot believe we made the list.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a gog.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 6: This is unbelievable to see all these faces here again.
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  Speaker 4: Ripple bones. Hello. The famous Brimble Bones. Oh, stop, stop.
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  Speaker 6: It's just me, Skeleton Brimble Bones, but I'm not here
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  Speaker 6: to take up too much space, of course. We've got
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  Speaker 6: some new faces here that we're very excited about.
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  Speaker 7: Halloween's new faces. It is elite company here, you guys.
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  Speaker 7: It is elite company. I've read so much of your
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  Speaker 7: work individually inspired by each one more than the last.
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  Speaker 7: And I just have to say putting a face to
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  Speaker 7: the art is it's electric.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible. I'm buzzing to be here.
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  Speaker 8: The voice to that.
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  Speaker 4: It's so exciting to see.
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  Speaker 2: It's so crazy to put a face to what you've done, too.
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  Speaker 4: It's just crazy to put the face to it.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just happy to be out in the public sphere,
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  Speaker 7: getting to know my fellow man, hanging.
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  Speaker 2: Out together, you know?
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 7: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 4: Look at this.
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  Speaker 2: It's connection. You're really strong. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know my own strength still. But anyway, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I guess I'm blabbing it all up here. I'll go
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  Speaker 7: ahead and start. Hello, everybody at home watching. I am
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  Speaker 7: Frankenstein's monster. And I topped number one at the list
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  Speaker 7: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Let's give it up for Frankenstein's monster.
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  Speaker 2: Guys, thank you so much. I think they should make
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  Speaker 2: it a tie. I don't like the rankings, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Frankenstein's monster. Come on.
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  Speaker 4: No, I really think that.
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  Speaker 7: You know in the movie Mean Girls when they break
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  Speaker 7: up the crown and hand it out to all the other...
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  Speaker 7: I wish I had some kind of crown to break
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  Speaker 7: up and hand out to everybody.
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  Speaker 2: That's very modest of you. But it's just an article.
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  Speaker 4: It's just an article.
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  Speaker 2: You can't break up an article into tiny pieces and
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  Speaker 2: hand it out to everybody.
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  Speaker 5: You set a record as well because you are the
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  Speaker 5: youngest Halloween poet ever.
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  Speaker 2: You're technically seven days old. Yes, this is true.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we're so excited. I'm so excited to meet you.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're not the type of guy I thought
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  Speaker 1: you would based on your poetry. You're so much more.
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  Speaker 1: lively and spiritual and connected.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I've just, you know, I've gotten so committed to
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  Speaker 7: the form and I like that macabre sort of darkness
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  Speaker 7: to it, to these types of poetry. And I love
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  Speaker 7: some of the, you know, more of the candy, the
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  Speaker 7: trick-or-treating stuff. I think that's fantastic. But what I really
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  Speaker 7: have gravitated towards is that sort of macabre, you know,
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  Speaker 7: we know macabre, like a macabre feeling type of poetry.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: But again, I know I'm new to this space and
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  Speaker 2: I just want to.
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  Speaker 6: Say, I'm so- No, I want to say, can I
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  Speaker 6: say as an old guard, as a member of the
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  Speaker 6: old guard, you know, and I've been number one on
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  Speaker 6: the list several times.
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  Speaker 4: So I got to say, you know.
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  Speaker 6: It's important to have people you can talk to. So
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  Speaker 6: let me know if you have any questions. Let me
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  Speaker 6: know if they're not putting the right stuff in craft service.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I know all the guys at variety who
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  Speaker 6: make the top Halloween poets roundup.
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  Speaker 4: I know all the guys.
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  Speaker 6: So you let me know and I'll let you know
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  Speaker 6: if Ryan is adding the right candy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan, Ryan. That's how
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  Speaker 2: I remember. Me thinks, me thinks I'm sensing chemistry.
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  Speaker 4: No, oh, oh, please, please, please. No, come on, come on, stop.
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  Speaker 2: You think I'm sensing chemistry?
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  Speaker 3: No, but truly, Skeletor, I would love your advice because
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  Speaker 3: even the group text I got added to was a
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  Speaker 3: little overwhelming.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys think so? Absolutely, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh my God, do I introduce myself?
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  Speaker 2: And that's my bad.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sending a lot of those really graphic texts with
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  Speaker 5: the emojis and the sex pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Who's the green text?
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  Speaker 4: Who's the, who's the, that's you?
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  Speaker 1: Sorry. Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Why would you get a freaking iPhone.
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  Speaker 9: You dog?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I'm stuck on my Android like glue. I love the
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  Speaker 1: Android phone. It's right for me.
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  Speaker 2: I just love it.
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  Speaker 8: It's right for you.
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  Speaker 4: But it's true.
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  Speaker 7: I was afraid to ask over text, but Skeleton Brim
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  Speaker 7: and Bones, do you have a piece of advice for,
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  Speaker 7: you know, this start us off?
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  Speaker 6: Hey, you know, I can see now that everybody at
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  Speaker 6: this table is a young gun, right? Nobody's been on
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  Speaker 6: this list before, or unless, you know, I won't speak
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  Speaker 6: for you. But I believe that the key to maintaining
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  Speaker 6: Halloween poetry that lasts is to not burn yourself out, right?
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  Speaker 6: You can't be hitting the pavement every single day.
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  Speaker 4: You've also got to experience Halloween.
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  Speaker 6: You need to experience Halloween in order to have Halloween
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  Speaker 6: to write about.
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  Speaker 2: I'm supposed to go to a book signing on Halloween,
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  Speaker 2: and I think I'm going to say no. I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say no.
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  Speaker 4: You have to draw boundaries.
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  Speaker 10: That's very good. It's very good to be able to
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  Speaker 10: draw these boundaries. Because Halloween, I mean, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 10: Halloween poetry, it is a ride.
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Once you're on the ride, you can't get off.
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  Speaker 7: And I feel like I'm just on the, like, when you're... Like,
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  Speaker 7: you're just, like, going up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I remember that feeling. I remember that feeling.
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  Speaker 4: That part. Like, the beginning of the rollercoaster. I remember
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  Speaker 4: that feeling. Trust me. You know, hold on to it.
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  Speaker 4: Take notes. Journal about it. Take lots of pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Stay strong through the allegations.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on? What's going on? What's going on over there?
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  Speaker 2: We should go around the table.
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  Speaker 9: Let's go around.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I guess I should introduce myself.
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  Speaker 2: Tee hee hee hee hee. They call me Boo-Mwa.
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  Speaker 11: You're Boo-Mwa!
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  Speaker 5: I am a mysterious masked Halloween poet gossip. I know
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  Speaker 5: all the industry secrets. And yes, I write a lot
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  Speaker 5: of anonymous, anonymous reports about things I've seen and heard
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  Speaker 5: in the industry.
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  Speaker 2: And some people consider them poetry.
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  Speaker 6: I remember when you broke the news about Ben Affleck
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  Speaker 6: and J-Lo getting divorced again.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Your Halloween poem about that was, I'm so glad I
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  Speaker 6: found out that way.
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  Speaker 7: And the prose, it's funny, you think you'd hear from
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  Speaker 7: the news, but hearing that type of news in sort
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  Speaker 7: of a Halloween prose I find incredible.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you have it memorized, but I
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  Speaker 2: would love to hear how you wrote it.
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  Speaker 8: I would love to hear some.
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  Speaker 2: Anon, please. Man of Bat. Spotted with woman of ass.
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  Speaker 4: Woman of ass. I missed that.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 2: Man of bat. Ben Affleck played Batman. Spotted with woman
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  Speaker 2: of ass.
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  Speaker 5: Jennifer Lopez has a large ass.
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  Speaker 4: It's weird.
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  Speaker 8: His is his career and hers is her body.
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  Speaker 4: It is weird. It's sitting weird.
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  Speaker 5: Spotted in the graveyard. the graveyard of nuptials, the graveyard
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  Speaker 5: of the Los Angeles courts.
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  Speaker 10: Interesting.
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  Speaker 5: Rest in peace, Bennifer. Resurrection not planned.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I love when like a breakup is announced and like
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  Speaker 3: them getting back together is just like shut down.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what I was saying. It's dead on arrival.
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  Speaker 5: It is six feet under. Those two are not coming
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  Speaker 5: back together.
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  Speaker 4: Spooky. Spooky. Yes.
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  Speaker 5: And I love doing that. And of course, a report
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  Speaker 5: on real celebrities and also. You know, speaking of allegations,
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to bring this up too quickly, but Frankenstein.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. There are reports you killed a woman in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: What are we even talking about?
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying a little girl was in the woods
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  Speaker 5: and you apparently were playing with her and then threw
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  Speaker 5: her across.
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  Speaker 2: And she hit a tree and died. That's all I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: Media training, media training, media training. I am going to
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  Speaker 2: move on from that topic of conversation. Say it three times.
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  Speaker 8: Say it three times and it gets it out.
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  Speaker 2: That's the greatest one.
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  Speaker 6: If I can offer a little tip, you don't say
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  Speaker 6: media training before you do the spin because then.
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  Speaker 4: People know it's sort of a media training spin.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know how to remember to do it otherwise.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's a spell. You like to say it.
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  Speaker 2: It feels sort of like a spell. Media training, media training,
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  Speaker 2: media training. I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 4: It's as simple as that.
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  Speaker 2: Media trading like Beetlejuice. I invoke media trading, much like Beetlejuice.
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  Speaker 2: I plead media trading. He's such a good guy. I
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  Speaker 2: love his work.
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  Speaker 1: His short stories, Beetlejuice has gotten into these beautiful short stories.
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  Speaker 2: He's working so hard. I think he's having a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun when he's writing those. He's the modern Bukowski.
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  Speaker 2: He's the modern Bukowski. And rest in peace, of course.
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  Speaker 2: To Snarls Bukowski, of course. To Snarls Bukowski. Resting in peace,
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  Speaker 2: that's not what I heard. I'm the only one with
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  Speaker 2: a freaking coffee here at 4 p.m. Oh, you have one.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I knew.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a freaking Java addict over here. Let's put
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  Speaker 2: our freaking cups up.
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  Speaker 8: I want to put our freaking cups up.
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  Speaker 4: I have a scary drink.
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  Speaker 1: Liquid death.
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  Speaker 4: Just kidding, of course.
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  Speaker 8: To Bukowski.
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  Speaker 2: To Snarls Bukowski, of course.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead. Let's keep going around.
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  Speaker 8: What's up, guys?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, guys.
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  Speaker 8: My name is Sarah Burellas.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Sarah Burellas.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I have wanted to get this variety's recognition for my
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  Speaker 3: entire career.
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  Speaker 8: And I am so happy. And I can't believe it
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  Speaker 8: happened on a day I have a cold.
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  Speaker 2: That's so hard.
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  Speaker 4: You still came out.
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  Speaker 2: That's what's incredible.
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  Speaker 8: And I still came out. So I want to sing
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  Speaker 8: and I want to. I want to do some of
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  Speaker 8: my work, but I do have a cold.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, such a legend. I'm so sorry to hear
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  Speaker 4: you're not feeling well because your work is so prolific.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, sit down. on the dock of the boo
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  Speaker 4: sitting on the dock.
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  Speaker 7: Of the boo a famous sarah burella's track.
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  Speaker 10: She has a great cover of it i mean i would.
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  Speaker 4: Say for me is the one giving us a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple lines on the dock of the boo Wait, what is,
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  Speaker 1: I don't, Shittin.
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  Speaker 4: On the dock as a boo.
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  Speaker 8: That's Sara Bareilles?
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  Speaker 7: It's Otis Reddening is who actually wrote it.
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  Speaker 4: This is my mistake.
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  Speaker 2: Reddening like blood, of course.
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  Speaker 3: I'll start with just a little, not even a full poem,
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  Speaker 3: just the intro to a poem.
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  Speaker 2: The best part?
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  Speaker 12: Boo, boo, boo, da, da, da, ba, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, boo, boo, boo, ba, da, da, da, da, ah, ah, ah,
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  Speaker 12: head under, And you tell me.
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  Speaker 4: Scary, already scary. Already very scary. I am already frightened.
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  Speaker 4: I have been awoken in the night at the mere
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  Speaker 4: image of a head under a bucket.
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  Speaker 2: That is spooky. This just in, I'm freaked out.
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  Speaker 4: Head under bucket. Could that be scarier?
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  Speaker 2: Head under bucket. A lot of people turn it off
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  Speaker 2: right there.
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  Speaker 4: I've never gotten past this in the song.
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  Speaker 2: It's so scary.
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  Speaker 4: Head under bucket. And you tell me.
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  Speaker 11: To breathe easy for once.
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  Speaker 4: It's the same.
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  Speaker 2: The head is under a bucket.
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  Speaker 11: Breathing gets harder. Even ghosts know that. Make room for me.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a me. And I'm happy in your head.
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  Speaker 2: I actually love that. That's really sweet.
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  Speaker 8: I'll do more later.
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  Speaker 1: It's a nice reveal because you wouldn't think a mummy
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  Speaker 1: was under that bucket.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's crazy to think of a mummy with
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  Speaker 2: a bucket under their head. I've never heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: I've never also heard head under bucket. Head under bucket. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you've probably never been there.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it's also because a mummy is scary on its own.
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  Speaker 4: But imagine a mummy. With a bucket on its head.
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  Speaker 5: Imagine helping some poor bloke and taking off a bucket
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  Speaker 5: because it seems like there's an issue.
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  Speaker 2: Boo, it's a mummy.
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  Speaker 4: Scary.
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  Speaker 3: I think what I love about my poetry is it's
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  Speaker 3: taking Halloween figures and putting them in a spot that
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  Speaker 3: I love to hear about, which is middle school.
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  Speaker 12: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Your first love. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Like mummies, we see them as these retired old figures.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But I want to see a mummy scared to.
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  Speaker 1: Take his head out of a bucket.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Because he's scared. Because he's like a kid.
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  Speaker 10: No, you show the softer side of Halloween. Halloween is
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  Speaker 10: a sentimental time. It doesn't always have to be scary things.
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  Speaker 10: It doesn't always have to be Kit Kats and, excuse me, Frankensteins.
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  Speaker 10: You know, it can be these sort of human experiences.
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  Speaker 10: It can be the sound of a ghost growing up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I love your musical, Weightless, Tris.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Weightless Tress.
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  Speaker 4: Weightless Tress.
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  Speaker 3: It's a deep project of mine. I mean, to write this,
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  Speaker 3: to write, I should just sing it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You should. Oh, please.
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  Speaker 2: When you, the song with all the ingredients of the
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  Speaker 2: scary pie? Is that what you're going to sing?
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  Speaker 8: Sugar, blood. Dead towers.
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  Speaker 4: Dead towers. Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 8: Sugar, blood, dead towers. I'll leave it there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just so evocative.
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  Speaker 4: Can I say, and I was talking to counselors.
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  Speaker 2: Count Dracula, and he, we, we... Name drop, you dropped this.
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  Speaker 7: He is a friend, and we were talking, we get
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  Speaker 7: coffee every, probably every two weeks we get coffee, just
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  Speaker 7: kind of chat, and we were talking about your songs.
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  Speaker 7: We were talking about all of your songs, and yours,
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  Speaker 7: I really mean this, I would not, Sarah, I would
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  Speaker 7: not lie to you about this sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about your songs.
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  Speaker 7: And we were saying that even not having lived a
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  Speaker 7: monstrous experience, you seem to have really tapped into it.
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  Speaker 7: I think you're a profound listener, and I feel heard.
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  Speaker 7: And look at me when I say I really mean that.
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  Speaker 7: And you have a gift.
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  Speaker 1: I love you.
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  Speaker 2: I love you, too.
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  Speaker 8: I really do.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing. God, God, it's just so good to be here.
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  Speaker 1: God.
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  Speaker 2: So beautiful. I love that moment. Don't get too close
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 1: Stop.
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  Speaker 2: That's media training, media training, media training. I love and
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  Speaker 2: respect women.
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  Speaker 4: Let's keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, guys. I'm really excited to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so excited that some of my poems and silly
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  Speaker 1: rhymes have made it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm, of course, Shell Silver Scream. Yes, of course you are.
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: Of course you are. Yes, you are.
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: Scream!
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, I am known for quite a fun poem or
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: short story, if you will. I call them kind of
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: scary boos, is what I call them. I'm very excited.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: I'm kind of, you know, a little bit nomadic. I'm
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: a little bit I keep to myself, and I stay,
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: and I move a lot. But when I'm living, and
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: I'm dying, and I'm learning, and I'm loving.
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: I have to tell you, when I was a little kid,
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: my grandfather read The Sinning Tree to me every single day.
• 15:08
  Speaker 8: Not The Giving Tree? Because The Sinning Tree is pretty.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: For a child, that is rather perverse. I don't know
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: what The Giving Tree is.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I think it's my cold.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it must be your cold. The Sinning Tree was
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: written by Shel Silver-Scream. Yes, yes, yes.
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: The Sinning Tree is written by Shel Silver-Scream.
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: Try saying that ten times fast. You said shitting.
• 15:31
  Speaker 10: Exactly.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Okay. Sarah Bareilles said shit. So that's not gossip.
• 15:36
  Speaker 8: That's not gossip, right?
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Anon, please. Anon, please.
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: Sarah Bareilles said shit. Sarah Bareilles said shit. And it's Bareilles?
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: That's going to do numbers.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: Anon, please. How is that?
• 15:46
  Speaker 8: You can't report that. I'm so sorry.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Anon, please.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: Eat shit you would be shocked at what I can
• 15:51
  Speaker 7: report but I love the sinning tree where the boy
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: goes to get different sins from a tree until of
• 15:56
  Speaker 7: course there are no sins for the tree and it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: just a little stumpy and he's full of sins and
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: then he's brimming with sin.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: And he decides to sit on the sinning tree for
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: one final sin covet thy neighbor.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: He just sat on the tree and got jealous of
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: his neighbor.
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: He sat on the tree and.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: Looked through the window of his neighbor's house and went, I.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Want to fuck that guy. Yeah, that's what covet thy
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: neighbor means, right? That is what covet thy neighbor means.
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: It's just a commandment. That's the best part. Do not,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: do not, do not covet thy neighbor.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: So, it's very exciting you know when he first shows
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: up and he does uh he's in the tree he
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: goes like i'm so energetic the tree goes here take
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: some sloth take some fatigue and he goes oh i'm
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: so i'm so happy and joyous for other people here
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: take some envy oh i don't mind giving money take
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: some greed it's really a.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Life lesson yes yes what.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: The weight of sinning does you know and i loved
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: i loved thank you so much.
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: Thank you and sinning is such a wonderful part of
• 17:05
  Speaker 10: halloween It's so wonderful.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: They're so interconnected.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: It's foundational.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: It's foundational to Halloween.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Instead of trick-or-treat, it should be called sin or seat
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: is what I've been campaigning for years.
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Take a sin or sit down.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: And covet thy neighbor's wife.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Or sit down and covet your neighbor's wife already.
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: Like, knock on the door.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: You're either going to sin or you're going to come
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: inside and you're going to sit.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: Wait, what's everyone's favorite sins they've done recently?
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, wow. Oh, wow.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Media training, media training, media training. Gluttony, I ate a hamburger. Oh,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: you're bad.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: There's no other sins.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: That's my one.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: I had wrath. Well, my plumber. put in all the
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: wrong tiling.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: He came into the bathroom. Well, you shouldn't be having
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: a plumber do tiling.
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: Mistake number one, skeleton. Mistake number one. So the sin
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: is stupidity.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I never say, but I, and I
• 17:59
  Speaker 6: got so angry because, you know, he was doing this.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: I had a specific vision in my mind. I sent
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: him this architectural digest, you know, this whole bathroom. It
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: was going to be great. And he said he could
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: probably figure it out. And he just didn't do it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: It just wasn't the same. It just wasn't the same vibe.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: I wanted this cerulean blue. He wanted this teal tile.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: It just was a mess. And I'm not proud of it.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: I screamed, screamed, screamed, screamed, screamed, screamed, screamed. And that's wrath.
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: You screamed at a plumber. Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: I screamed at a plumber.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I would consider that light wrath, I guess.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: It's a light wrath.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Well, actually, I was wondering, Skeleton Bimblebones, are you still
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: doing the poems for the month?
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: Yes, the calendar.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: The calendar.
• 18:43
  Speaker 11: Oh, the calendar.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: It was such a success last year.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I just wondered, personally, if you're doing that again or
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: if it's a new idea.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Or if you moved on to something else.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Can you talk about your works and what you've done?
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Of course, of course. What have you been up to
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: this year?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: Adultery.
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: Whoa.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Oh, well, that's spicy.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Sarah Buelis cheated on her husband.
• 19:01
  Speaker 8: That's better than said shit.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Anon, please.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: That is a little bit more juicy. Anon, please.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Anon, please.
• 19:09
  Speaker 8: What's new? Tell us everything.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, I am still doing, of course, my
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: yearly roundups of the year in Halloween.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: But there's been a big difference in my life. Whoa.
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: And it's that I found out I have some little
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: bones running around.
• 19:25
  Speaker 10: What?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I have a kid.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: You have a child?
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: I have a kid. Oh, God.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I have a kid. Because I guess with a skeleton,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you don't know if little bones running around might be illness.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I thought you were sick.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank God.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You've had children or you've discovered you have children?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I have discovered I have children.
• 19:43
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: I found out, you know, a woman came to me
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: and she said, hey, skeleton, remember that night? we shared
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: at Outside Lands 15 years ago?
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: This is your kid.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: You skeleton rebel bones.
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, who was headlining that year?
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: 15 years ago.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: 15 years ago, you fucked somebody.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: 15 years ago, it was OK Go.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: OK Go tore the house down at Outside Land, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: I met this girl.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Who was just a fox.
• 20:12
  Speaker 12: Aw.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: You love this, boo.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: I love this.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: You love this, boo.
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: Aw.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: We shared a wild night together and I wrote a
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Halloween poem. I found, you know, I found the Halloween
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: poem from the first night we met.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I had just a quick clarification.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Of course. Is this Outside Lands or Outside in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Appalachians Lands?
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Which one is it?
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: So this is Outside Lands, the music festival.
• 20:34
  Speaker 10: Great.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Outside in the Appalachians Lands is another festival.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: It's just very scary because lots of weird things.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's very scary.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: No, this is... Try my best here.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Go ahead.
• 20:46
  Speaker 6: That would make sense, but I ended up at normal
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: Outside Lands.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Listen, so this woman.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: You met a fox.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: I met a fox.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: Aww!
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I met a fox.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: She rocked my world. And this is a poem.
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: This is a Halloween poem from the night at Outside
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: Lands when we first met.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, baby, what a Friday. I'm about to have a
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: crazy nightie.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Girl walks up, dancing scary, getting me all screechy hairy.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: I think there's something here between us. Scary, scary, scary penis.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Oh, baby, what a Friday.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: Oh, baby, what a Friday.
• 21:48
  Speaker 8: You come back every year.
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: Apparently, nine months later, out popped my kid. And we know,
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I wish I could show you a picture. They're half bones,
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: half skin.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: That sounds like an injury.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: Sounds bad.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: Well, because, you know, she was a healthy human woman.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: I am, of course, a man made of bones. And they,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: you know, it was split right down the middle.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Vertically.
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: Vertically.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: So this kid, I wish you could see this kid.
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: He's so, he's just like me, just like her. He's
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: got her eye, right eye. So the right side is
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: all her, human looking person.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: It's literally her. It's actually her.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: The right side looks like her. And the skeleton side
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: looks like me.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Wow, that's amazing.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: And it's filled my heart up. You know, it's reprioritized
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: everything in life.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Now, here's the big question.
• 22:42
  Speaker 7: Do you want your kid to get into Halloween poetry,
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: or do you think that that's like, you want.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: To put them on a different question?
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, brother.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Are they interested? Do they ask?
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Oh, I mean the other day he rhymed hug with
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: bug and I thought, oh, here we go.
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: That could be Sprig. That could be Sprig poetry.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: He's like 15, right?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: He's 15 and he just rhymed hug with bug.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: He's 15, he just rhymed hug with bug. So the
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: signs are there.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: That's really bad.
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: By the time he gets to college, who knows, he
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: might join a.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Halloween poet troupe.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure. And he only has really half a brain,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I imagine.
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: Skeleton, this also makes me realize kind of something about
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: you because I've noticed some of your work feels like
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: it's going a little bit more towards the Money-grabbing.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: You used to be, and I don't want to be
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: kind of a bitch.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: You are too much. No, no, say it, say it,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: say it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: If there's something you want to say, you can say
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: it to me.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: Kiss, I'm just saying you've been moving into astrology, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: I can tell you've been doing a lot of astrology poems.
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, you can tell I've been moving into astrology.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: I just think your astrology poems are a bit of
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: a cash grab.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Maybe she has to pay the bills. I have an astrologer, okay?
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: I have a Halloween astrologer.
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: And, you know, I've been found that this collaboration has
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: been a really useful collaboration, and a lot of people
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: want to hear it. Look, people have to grow and
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: change in their work.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: What are the Halloween astrology signs? Are they any different
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: than the regular ones?
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: That's such a good point.
• 24:13
  Speaker 7: Do we want to go around and say our signs
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: and see what the current astrology sign is?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see. Our chart?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: Well, I'm a scary sun.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: So they are different, yeah.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: They have to be that.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: You're a scary sun. Your sun sign is scary sun?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: My sun sign is scary sun.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: My moon sign is gem and eyes.
• 24:38
  Speaker 10: Imagine seeing eyes where you don't expect them.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: It's terrifying.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: It's really scary. It's really scary.
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: And of course, I am a, my rising sign.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Rising from the dead sign.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Is a Virgo into the graveyard. Virgo into the graveyard.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Virgo into the graveyard. Virgo into the graveyard, of course.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Virgo into the graveyard.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: You're rising from the graveyard, or rising from the grave
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: sign is Virgo into the graveyard.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: That's amazing.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, beautiful.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: Okay, what's everyone else's signs?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: It's amazing. Okay, my birth sign. Frank Sinise thinks his
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: signs are amazing. That can't be.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: That's not possible. That's not possible.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Anon, please. Anon, please. Anon, please. I'm proud of my birthday.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: I'm proud of my work. So, you know, I'll be honest.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: I love your astrology. I don't have it memorized. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: was born seven days ago, and it's October, of course.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: What does that make?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: What does that make me? We can just look at this.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Let's look at our poems.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Look at your books.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: I don't know this stuff, and I'm fascinated by it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: I think it is so fun. I think it is inspiring,
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: but I don't know anything about it.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: That might make you a badatarius.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Is it a badatarius?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: A badatarius.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Or a ratpricorn. Ratpricorn.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Do you know what time you were born?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I was born at the strike of midnight, I believe.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: No, that means you're a Leigh Brawl ward by a witch.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: Say that again, by the way.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: A Leigh bra worn by a witch.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: A Leigh bra worn by a witch.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: A Leigh bra worn by a witch. It's the scariest bra.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: A Leigh bra worn by a witch.
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: Leigh bra worn by a witch.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that could mean that. Probably your, yeah, that's. You
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: might be a cancer.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Cancer's very scary.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: Scary thing, so true. I guess it could be any
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: of these things.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: And your Scarecury could be in the seventh haunted house.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: In the seventh haunted house.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: That's incredible. That's amazing for you. It means good things.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: If that's true, if it is in the seventh haunted house,
• 26:35
  Speaker 6: then that means your Venus is in Leos.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: I thought it was LeBron.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: No, there's Leo.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: And there's LeBron worn by a witch.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: And then there's Leo.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is Leo.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Leo, of course. LeBron worn by a witch.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: This is all so new to me, and I absolutely
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: am obsessed with it.
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: You'll be Halloween soon. You'll be Halloween soon. Just wait
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: till the emails come in. Can we all go around
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: and read the poem that got us most considered this year?
• 27:07
  Speaker 10: Because I think we all had one that variety. Scariety
• 27:11
  Speaker 10: was very excited about.
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: Can we start on this side so I can get
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: up and get a tissue?
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Go, please. I feel so bad that she's unwell.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: It's actually, in Halloween world, it's good to be sick.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Damn.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm new. I'm here seven days.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: You're new. She's happy right now.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: This is good. This is good. Do you know who
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: else is sick right now? Oh, gosh. Here we go.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Stop.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Stop and walk. Scary Connick Jr. has the same illness.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: You think that Sara Bareilles is hooking up with Scary
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Connick Jr.? I'm just saying. Could be happening.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: So that's a little bit more interesting than Frankenstein thinks
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: You should spread that one out. You haven't even written
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: that down. You're just talking about it. Well, I don't know.
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: I don't want to blow anybody's business. That seems old hat.
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: But Frankenstein... What did I write? I don't know.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: You wrote that I like my birthday. Anon, please. I
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: think my birthday is amazing.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I will go on record. I don't think there's anything
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: not scary about an old hat.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Okay?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Old hats can be scary because who wore them? That's
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: what I always think.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: Who wore them? It's a hat that invites a question.
• 28:19
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll start with a little bit of a poem. Oh, sure.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, so please show us the poem.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Welcome back.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Welcome back. Sorry.
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: Sorry.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: I'm so much better now.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's great.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's so nice.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: But I am grateful to be sick at this time.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Did you just blow your nose?
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Did you take a call or anything? That's okay.
• 28:39
  Speaker 8: I didn't take a call.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: You didn't take a call?
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I blew my nose.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: I just felt like maybe you were talking to somebody.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I heard some.
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: I don't mean to be nosy.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I just heard like a... Maybe talking to a booner.
• 28:50
  Speaker 12: A booner?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: A spooky crooner. Like a spooky crooner, a booner. A boner?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: A spooky crooner, as we know as a booner.
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: A booner?
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, read your poem. Read your poem. It's okay. It
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: sounds like you weren't talking to any sort of spooky crooner.
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: No, I wasn't.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: That's okay.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I have nothing to hide.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Maybe I'm not that spooky of a person. I have
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: nothing to hide.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Okay. I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry for saying something
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: like that. That was very rude of me. We're going
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: to read some poems.
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: I appreciate you.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I appreciate you. This one's called Last Night at the
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Monster Mash.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: In the bathroom, Frankenstein is fucking a werewolf. What?
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: In the living room, Dracula is giving head to a siren.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: In the backyard, a chipmunk is getting his ass exposed.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: ate by a banshee.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: A chipmunk?
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: This feels like more than Dubois usually reveals.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: What's Halloween about a chipmunk?
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: In my bed, my eyes open. I had been sleeping.
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: I had been dreaming. And God, oh God, I hope
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: when I close my eyes, I get a ticket back
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: to that ghastly horror show. Because sometimes mess is so
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: much fun.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: The end was spooky.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: This is so funny and so silly.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: And I think that's great. Were you there? You can't
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: be talking about stuff like that. That was a highly
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: confidential party.
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: You cannot be.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Were you fucking a werewolf in the bathroom? This is
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: highly uncalled for. I didn't read this poem. You should
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: have told me about this. I had to find this.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: This is insane. I didn't know that I knew the truth.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: No, I mean nothing.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I mean media training, media training, media training.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: A nun, please.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Yikes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: No, not a nun. I want you to stand on
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: your word and talk about this. This is not nice. Hey, hey, hey, hey.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Rumors are dangerous, and they're not kind to be spreading
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: about people.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Rumors are spooky. Rumors are fun. Rumors are how we
• 30:49
  Speaker 5: know what's real and what's not.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say rumors are spooky. I think they
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: fall on the spookier side.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: There's something there, the spookiest kind of thing to say
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: to someone.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, listen, I think we're getting really thrown off. I
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: think your energy is so, you're just trying to stir
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: stuff up.
• 31:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Am I?
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: Like, I don't even know what happened. I didn't take
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: a call with a booter.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Scary Connick Jr.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Scary Connick Jr.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: I didn't do anything.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: And nothing's going on with Frankenstein. I think we should
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: just drop our swords. I think you can write poetry
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: and not activate all of us.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: I was literally reading what I wrote. Did you happen
• 31:25
  Speaker 5: to be triggered?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: This is devilish. This is devilish. And in a bad way.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I'll say that. I'm not spreading drama, guys. This is
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: just something I wrote. That was a dream I had.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: If I'm a precog, then so be it.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Okay, now boom-wah is precog.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: Well, Frank can say one about your poem.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, great.
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: Well, I can just read my top poem. It was
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: my first poem, and because I had a name, people
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: were very kind, and it got spread around in a
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: very nice way.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: It was a good poem. It was a good poem.
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: It was my first attempt, and I wish I had
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: more time to be in the clubs and build this up,
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: but I'm happy that people enjoy it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 32:21
  Speaker 7: Frankenstein, Frankenstein, so tall and green. Frankenstein, Frankenstein, not so mean.
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: He's tall as hell. A handshake firm.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Sit at Frankenstein's table. He'll feed you some worms.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: It's great work. It's great work. It's great work. So
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: you wrote a poem about yourself.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: You talked about how tall you were twice.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: You wrote a poem about Frankenstein. I can't write a
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: poem about Frankenstein. It's a great work. It's a great work.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: It's really good.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: It's a lot about how tall you are. They say
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: write what you know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Aren't you made of man? Why do you eat worms?
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: I think it's nice.
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: I like to offer it to other people.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: It's very nice.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: I don't think the Halloween Nepo allegations are true. I
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: think you can't listen to those people. They're saying, oh no,
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: you only got this poem in because he's literally Frankenstein.
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: That is all just noise. That's all noise. Just because
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: your dad.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Frankenstein, invented you, Frankenstein's monster, and also kind of invented
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: the whole category of halloween poetry doesn't mean anything.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: No this isn't about father come on you've.
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Been through your own thing you're made of other body
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: parts like i guessed your nepo but you had a
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: journey you had.
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: A journey i've been through a lot and is your.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: Arm nepo is your leg nepo those are from other people.
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: These people have these people were stupid they had no
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: lives at all yeah and now i've put these pieces
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: together and built something great i.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Think i want to say something uh vulnerable that your
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: publishers reached out to all of us to make an
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: encouragement in the forward.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: And I wrote great work before reading it. And I
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: stand by it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: You do?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: I think I was surprised when it first came out
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: because I went, wow. But I still believe it's great work.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: It's great work.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: And I just, I'm excited to see where you go.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: You're so young.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: You're so young.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: Seven days, I want.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: To get better.
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: Little Birdie told me that that was optioned into a movie.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: It's, Is this, this isn't live, is it? Maybe we'll
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: cut this. We can cut it later if you want.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: We can cut it later. It is being turned into
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: a movie.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: And what is being turned into a movie? And what?
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: How tall you are? My poem, my book of poems.
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Not just that one poem.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: So what does it follow?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: All of the poems collectively sort of tell. Okay, we'll
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: read another one.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. I'll tell the one, I'll say.
• 34:41
  Speaker 7: The one that I brought to the pitch at Warner
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: Brothers that I think really kind of won them over.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Oh, okay. That's great.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Craning my neck as tall as I can. For what
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: is that? The world's tallest man. Franken signs his name,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: and boy is his handshake firm. I wish I could
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: crawl all the way up that tall, tall man to
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: eat his lovely worms.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: So that's what really sold it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: This is so much about Frankenstein that I wasn't thinking
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: about before, which is that he's tall. I think that
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: the main thing people focus on is that he's green,
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: that he's undead.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: But you've leaned into tall.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm writing the narrative.
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: People like to focus on the stereotypical things, but in
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: my lived experience, I am tall.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I also had no idea Frankenstein had such an obsession
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: with worms.
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: You know, a lot of worm repetition.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a lot of worm.
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: I hate to interrupt, but your book, Shell Silver's Group,
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: is disintegrating.
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: On your leg.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: In such a specific way.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: There's sort of spooky dust.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: It's so spooky.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Spooky haunted.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: That's the thing about horror books.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: They decompose.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Well, that's a famous sign of a curse. Have you
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: done anything that's given you warranted to get a curse?
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: You guys caught me red-handed and covered in blood.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm cursed.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Anon.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Congratulations. That's amazing. That's awesome. Thank you.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Don't, Anon, Boumois, do not say what I
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: think you're going to say.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: I want to. I'm jealous.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Thank you. I know I'm sick.
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: I wish I was cursed.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: No, it's a wonderful curse. Every couple of days, my
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: skin turns inside out. And I have to kind of
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: figure that out.
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: How did you get cursed? What happened?
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Tell us the story.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: So I was at a, there was this catamaran that
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I love to vacation on. Uh-huh. And I wandered the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: catamaran into a very kind of spooky, evil inlet. And
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: there on the beach, there was a voice that told
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: me lots of things. It was actually part, I think,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: it was actually part of Outside the Appalachians, which.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Is scary lands.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Outside, outside lands.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Outside, in the Appalachians, you hear voices, lands.
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: Yes, that's why you brought that up.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: So that's why I brought it up. And so I
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: got cursed. It was this whole thing. I said, what?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: What are you going to do to me? I'm Shel
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Silver Screen. I run the silver screen.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: And you brought the silver screen you brought your own
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: last name.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: It's like a tagline I love this it's really catchy
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: it said well you're gonna be cursed forever so now
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: every couple of days skin inside out have to like
• 37:10
  Speaker 9: answer a bunch of riddles to put it back in.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: When was the last time your skin turned inside out
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: oh you.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Know what has it been well what's today It's Halloween,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: of course. Yes, okay, so today's Halloween.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Two days ago?
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Two days ago. Oh, great, okay. Well, and I heard
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: you've been working through it with your poetry and writing.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: I know, read us something, please.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, if you guys insist.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Oh, please, I would love to hear this.
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: Your book is begging to be heard.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this poem is called I Know Where the
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Sidewalk Ends So You Can Jump Off It.
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, spooky. Oh, jump off it.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: I know where the sidewalk ends so you can jump
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: off it. You follow it along the road just until
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you pass the crow, pass the raven, pass the howl,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: pass all the mountains, pass the yell. You follow it,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: follow it, follow it hard until you run across a shard.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: A shard of what?
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: A shard of wheat.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Please, please. Shard of wheat?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Eat, eat, says the shard of wheat. Eat me, eat me,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: quick and fast. Eat me so I may be passed.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: Huh?
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: You say.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, dialogue. Huh?
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: You say, confused as all heck. What the heck?
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: What the heck?
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: He's robbed heck with heck three times.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And used heck in between.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Keep walking, young man. Keep walking, young girl. Because I
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: know where you're going to hurl.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: There's two of them now?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Keep walking, walking until the sidewalk ends that you can
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: jump off. Because nothing is scarier than that. I'm off.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Shell silver screen.
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I love you. I love the way you end poems. Like,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: all right, clocking out.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I better be going.
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Well, that was my set.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Thank you, guys.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Thank you. And I love that that was your expression
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: of this curse.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: So that was the expression of this curse. It helped
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: me get my skin returned and also turned into a
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: very award-winning poem, you know?
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: It's very exciting, the work that I'm doing. I'm very
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: excited to share it. There's going to be a lot
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: more than that.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Absolutely beautiful.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: That's very exciting. Skeleton? Oh, the poem that got me
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: on the map this year. This year, my goodness.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: You know, I have my suspicions about a few poems,
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: but I think the poem that really got the judges'
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: attention over at Variety... I'm talking to you, Ryan, I'm
• 39:31
  Speaker 6: talking to you, James, is the poem, this poem I
• 39:37
  Speaker 6: wrote around Father's Day, and it was about.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: A couple hours after I found out I.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Had a kid.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: You found out on Father's Day.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: I found out on Father's Day.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: A couple hours.
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: It was thematically appropriate.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: I can't wait to hear this.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, my God.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Nothing's scarier than finding out you're a father on Father's Day.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: It is, actually.
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: Surprise.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: That must feel like a curve high up there. It's
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: high up there. Oh, boy, oh, boy. Another day in boon.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: That's June.
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: Of course.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I know your work.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Another day in boon.
• 40:11
  Speaker 10: Just an ordinary scary or de scary day.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: But a call rang through the door. I?
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: A dad? I? A dad?
• 40:30
  Speaker 10: This is not what I thought before. This is the
• 40:35
  Speaker 10: work of a scary, scary thing.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: How do I.
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: How do I.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Eyes.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: Scary eyes, of course.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Eyes.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Scary, really scary.
• 40:51
  Speaker 10: Play....
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Catch! How do I play catch? With a, like, um...
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: We got it.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Catch! This is the text.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: How do I play catch? With a boy... I do
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: not know.
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: How do I play catch?
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: It's okay, it's emotional, it's emotional.
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: I've never seen work this emotional.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Of course, a skeleton would be terrified of playing catch
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: with their son.
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: I mean, if one errant ball hits the body, the
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: whole thing's shattered.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: It's like a skeleton Koopa in Mario.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's a mess. Can I step up to be
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: the bat I want to be? That's dad.
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: Can I step up to be the dad I want
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: to eek?
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: That's a question. For another father's day. And that poem,
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: I think. That's the one you thought was the one.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: That's got to be the one. That's got to be
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: the one. That's got to be the one. Guys, be
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: honest with me. Am I getting grandfathered in?
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: No.
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: This is why you came this year.
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: This father thing is fucking up.
• 42:08
  Speaker 6: Is this a situation where the quality is slipping?
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: No.
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: But they need somebody to be old and hold it down?
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: This is what I'll honestly say. Honestly, that was the
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: most vulnerable you've ever been.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Truly, truly.
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: You, can I be honest? Like, this kid thing's got
• 42:25
  Speaker 6: me fucked up. This kid thing's got me fucked up.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: Well, he just ran hug with bug. I mean, that.
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: He rubbed hog with bug and it's like I got
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: slapped across the face.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: With like, whoa, am I anybody?
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: Can I ask? Because there is a rumor I'm hearing.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Did you get a paternity test?
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: Because I'm hearing that might be makeup. I'm hearing it
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: might be skeleton makeup on the other side of their
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: body and I think they might be stealing your money.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: You need to stop.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: That is not kind, Bumawa.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be kind. I know you guys
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: think I'm unkind because I know gossip, but I'm trying
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: to help you. They might be trying to steal your money.
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: Look, Bumawa, I understand this is your job. So I
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: took a paternity test, and we are waiting on the results.
• 43:18
  Speaker 12: Okay.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: They should be coming in.
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: How much are you paying in child support?
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Poop is scary.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Poop is scary.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Poop is scary. It's a scary thing. Imagine me getting
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: a bunch of poop.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Scary.
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: Scary.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Poop every week. Scary. I am paying about, what's the
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: going rate now? Converting from.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: Going rate.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: Going rate for child support.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: What are you converting from? Well, I'm converting from bones
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: to USD. You paying bones?
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Back to bones.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Back to USD. Back to Canadian dollars. Back to, because
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: he spent, splits his time in Canada. About $ 15, 000 a week.
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: And when did you take this test, by the way?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: I took it this morning. And when did the results
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: come back? I think they should be coming in any minute.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: That's exactly what I wanted you to say.
• 44:04
  Speaker 4: I think they should be coming in any minute.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: Well, I can't wait until they arrive.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: Oh, hey.
• 44:12
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• 44:14
  Speaker 8: Sorry. We were just like in the middle of an episode.
• 44:16
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• 44:16
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• 44:17
  Speaker 8: Just checking on you. You good, girly?
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  Speaker 4: Ooga booga.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: Back to the app.
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's a scary rumor. You know, and the
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: paternity test, I have to insist, it's just a formality.
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: I know this kid is me. He looks like me
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: half the way.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: It's just that it's fucking you up so much. I'm
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: glad you're going to get certainty.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: I respect you guys. I know you guys think I'm
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: some hack, but I really care about you guys.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: No, but why do you care?
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: Your poem is the thing that literally got me through
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: my divorce. Yeah, I got married at 16.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: Whoa. Do another 16-year-old. Their parents were into it.
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: They were into it. They were okay with it.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: They liked it. It's somehow worse. They liked it. They
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: all signed off. This is worse. They liked it. They
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: thought we were set.
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: And then I got divorced at 19 and I was lost.
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: But this Borealis poem saved my life.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: That's really sweet.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: Can you give it to us?
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: I'll sing a little bit of it, yeah.
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: Scream how you want to scream and let the blood
• 45:47
  Speaker 11: fall out. Honestly, I wanna see you in a grave.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's just clean, right?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: That's just like, that's just straight Halloween.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: That's so clean. Scream however you wanna scream. Honestly, I
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: wanna see you in a grave.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: Do you want to address that people think that Katy
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: Scary stole stuff from you? Because her song, Gore, it
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: sounds so much like a grave.
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: It's so familiar.
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm glad we brought it up.
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: I've got the eye of a vampire. I've got the
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: eye of a vampire.
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: I'd say I want to see you in a grave
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: and score.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: What was it?
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: Gore.
• 46:32
  Speaker 8: Very different chord progressions, but I'd say pop is pop.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 46:35
  Speaker 8: And Halloween is Halloween.
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: I heard she stole it from you. I just don't
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: even like her since she took that opposite rocket to hell.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: I've always been such a big fan of pop.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: It was so performative.
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: And she was barely there.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: She was barely in health.
• 46:45
  Speaker 10: Pop.
• 46:45
  Speaker 4: And pop is scary.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: It's pop music.
• 46:47
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 46:47
  Speaker 8: No, I think she's a hack. And she could write
• 46:50
  Speaker 8: a musical.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: She tried.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: Whoa.
• 46:51
  Speaker 10: Wow.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: That's something for you there. Unbelievable. That's pretty spicy. Well, guys,
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: what are your Halloween plans? Can I ask that? Can
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: we get into that? Yes, of course you can ask that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: Am I allowed to ask something like that?
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's so many events. There's so many press
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: things that we have to be doing.
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: This is a crazy time.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: And I've always seen the Halloween poets each year. And
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: I've been like, when I get it, this is what
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: I'm going to do. And you can never prepare yourself.
• 47:17
  Speaker 5: I'm going to be hanging out in disguise at the
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: Bateau Scarmont, waiting to see what.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Goes on over there, having some fun. It's a big
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Halloween party. That's awesome.
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: That's really awesome.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: Josh Boo Hamill ends up kissing his wife, Fergie.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: Ends up kissing his wife.
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: Just Fergie.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: Fergie.
• 47:38
  Speaker 2: Fergie. I am taking time off my book tour, and
• 47:41
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to be seeing some friends and hanging
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: out here.
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: That's so special.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: Werewolf, chipmunk, all the people. I'm just going to be
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: getting together.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Werewolf and chipmunk. And have they said you've changed at all?
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: No.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: They honestly, I think that they, you know, I try
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: to keep the relationship. That's why I get coffee all
• 47:58
  Speaker 7: the time with these people.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: It's good to keep. your original relationships strong.
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes, of course.
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: You have to keep your original family.
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: We still split the bills when we go out.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I want everything to be exactly the same as it was.
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: Do you offer to pay?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: No.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Why would I? Those are my friends, and we need
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: to keep things just as they were when things were good.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: You want to keep your friends.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: And yes, I'm making great money. And I'm not afraid
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: to say that.
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: But I insist on splitting the bill every time. Because
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: that's just the kind of guy I am. That's a
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: wonderful feature.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: That's a wonderful feature.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: You have a poem about everything staying the same, don't you?
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: About change a little bit. About change and staying the same.
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. It's a good seasonal poem. This one's very deep.
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: I like this one.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: It gets me emotional, but, you know, we've all been
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: so vulnerable. I'm more than happy to read this. I'm
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: more than happy to read this. That was you, Skeleton.
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: That's because of you.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: That's because of you.
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: That's because of me? What?
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: You were so vulnerable.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Your father. I was so vulnerable?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: You're literally father. You're literally.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, shoot. wow, I guess this dad thing really
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: is worth it.
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: You're about to see if the rest of your life
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: is fully going to be.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Changed or not. Speaking of change, let me just read
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: my poem really quick.
• 49:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, of course.
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: What if Frankenstein was short? Would be scary, no? Would
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: he even be Frankenstein? Bolts and all?
• 49:14
  Speaker 7: Or does the height make the man? What if Frankenstein
• 49:17
  Speaker 7: were short? Would he still offer you a plate of worms?
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: There's just simply no way of knowing because change is
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: always different than what it is right now.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: Change is always different than what it is right now.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Kind of a dictionary definition of change at the very
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: end there. Well, I did read a dictionary.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: My favorite is kind of like The Russian accent, it
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: feels like that second line takes on as, wouldn't be scary, no?
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't be scary, no?
• 49:41
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's like you're sort of, it's an homage to vampires.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: It's an homage to vampires.
• 49:48
  Speaker 7: You know, that was kind of a borrowed line from
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: my friend the Count. we talk and sometimes I'll be
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: like say the chipmunk what's that was it from town
• 49:56
  Speaker 7: or from chipmunk you know we were all there and
• 49:57
  Speaker 7: you know when you're just riffing and doing bits and stuff.
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: Like that I love riffing oh riffing is fun and
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: I just texted the group chat.
• 50:05
  Speaker 7: And I just said hey guys I was thinking of
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: putting this in a poem like does anyone remember who
• 50:07
  Speaker 7: like said it first and they're like big dog just
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: take it I think it.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Was chipmunk on precog go ahead your precog.
• 50:13
  Speaker 7: Okay well maybe it was chipmunk my bestie glutted boil
• 50:17
  Speaker 7: what glutted boil.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Glutted boil yeah.
• 50:20
  Speaker 8: That happens to us all the time anyway.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, hold on.
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: I'm so sorry.
• 50:24
  Speaker 4: I just have to take this really quickly.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, please, take the call. Oh my gosh, what's happening
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: to your skin?
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: Hello?
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, God.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: You're joking. Such bad timing.
• 50:33
  Speaker 6: Hello, yes, this is, yes, confirming skeleton brimble bones 329 1996.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: What?
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: What?
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: It's not? What the hell? Thank you very much, doctor. Who's, wait.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: And Sara Bareilles is taking a call?
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: Where are you going?
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Okay, I guess Sara was taking a call. What was that?
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: Kind of bad timing.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Guys, he's not my kid.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I am so sorry.
• 51:04
  Speaker 6: He's not my kid. He's a con artist. They call
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: him the face paint bandit. He goes, he dresses himself up.
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: as other creatures, half of it, and then he steals
• 51:16
  Speaker 6: their money.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: It's exactly like you said. Not Anon, please.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let them know. Faceplate Bandit is a scammer.
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: What call did you take? I'm sorry, I'm pissed.
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: That's angering.
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, that pisses me off. I lost like six
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: months of my mojo. Write it, write it.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: You're spraying blood everywhere, by the way. I have to
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: take music. Get his inside out, but write it.
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: You don't gesture so much.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Write it, write it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 4: I'm going to take this to the poem right now.
• 51:40
  Speaker 7: Do it.
• 51:41
  Speaker 4: I'm going to write it live.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: Do it.
• 51:42
  Speaker 6: Man, I'm freaking pissed off. This shit sucks so bad,
• 51:47
  Speaker 6: I was never meant to be a dad. I was
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: meant to be a bat. I was meant to be
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: a blood. I was meant to be a poet of
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: the half moon sun.
• 52:05
  Speaker 10: Scary's moon marries scary.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: Gemini's moon pretty good.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: You know, I'm going to get it back.
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get it back.
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: I'm going to get it back, I think.
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: Nice to know your gang affiliation. It's a cool skeleton
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: to block.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Add that to the wiki.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: We got your birthday and your gang affiliation. This is
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: a big episode.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: I can't believe we got your birthday. Wait, but what
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: was your call?
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: What was your call?
• 52:36
  Speaker 4: It was nothing.
• 52:36
  Speaker 10: It was nothing. Oh, come on.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: What was your call?
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: What was your call? My skin is inside out.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: What was your darn call?
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: Were you talking to Frank Scarenatra?
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: I was talking to Frank Scarenatra.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: A booner.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: A booner.
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: Then I have noose.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Booze?
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: Booze.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: Booze. Or noose like noose.
• 52:59
  Speaker 8: Noose booze. Booze news.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Like booze from a Scarticle? What's your booze news?
• 53:08
  Speaker 8: From the Scarticle. They might be losing funding. They might
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: not be able to bring back Halloween poetry next year.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: What?
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: What?
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: There's rumors that Variety doesn't think there's enough money in
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Halloween poetry.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: But this industry's solid gold. It prints money.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: It prints money.
• 53:26
  Speaker 8: I think we should go out with a bang.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: Poems for Halloween.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Let's just say every poem we got in the book.
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: We'll save Halloween poetry. We have to prove it. We
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: have to save Halloween poetry.
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: We have to.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Save Halloween poetry.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: Everyone, read your best stuff.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll start.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: This is Scarley and the Pumpkin Factory. He was a
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: little boy, twisted and weird. He had no friends because
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: he was weird. Didn't know where to go.
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: There was only one place.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: To the pumpkin factory with a frown on my face.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: And I'll bring my grandpa, who's nary a dead. He'll
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: be bones and all. He'll be well fed. Into the
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: factory with silly, stinky wonka.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: This is from something that I've been working on. It's
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: called The Auditee. Ghosticius walked into a cave. In the
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: cave there was a psych poops.
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: Psych poops. Psych poops. Quick, quick, you're saying that alone.
• 54:37
  Speaker 4: Psych poops is already scary.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: But imagine if the cyclops was covered in poop. Much scarier.
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: It's almost too scary.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: It's almost too scary.
• 54:49
  Speaker 8: Okay, who's next?
• 54:50
  Speaker 4: This one is from the Shrek soundtrack. The Shrek soundtrack.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: Oh, you wrote on the Shrek soundtrack.
• 54:56
  Speaker 10: Hey now, it's Halloween, get your scare on, trick-or-treat. Hey now,
• 55:02
  Speaker 10: it's Halloween, get your scare on, trick-or-treat.
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: All that glitters is bats. Only booing stars make the
• 55:12
  Speaker 6: bats and spiders.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: It's like you've only picked up on two words today,
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: and that is bats.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: 10,000 Frankenstein stacked on top of each other. Will it
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: touch the moon?
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: I assume so. I assume so. Keep going, keep going.
• 55:27
  Speaker 4: Keep going, we can save it. She's a mummy and
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: she's kind.
• 55:31
  Speaker 11: She is lonely and ugly. She is under a bucket
• 55:38
  Speaker 11: most of the time.
• 55:40
  Speaker 7: If Frankenstein reached up and touched the tip of the
• 55:42
  Speaker 7: Empire State Building, could he reach it? If he went
• 55:44
  Speaker 7: on his tippy toes, probably yes. This one is called
• 55:47
  Speaker 7: The Witches. It's just about a boy who gets turned
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: into a mouse by a bunch of witches. Real story,
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: thank you.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: You're reading Roald Dahl over there. That's not even your book.
• 55:56
  Speaker 10: Oops.
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 55:59
  Speaker 4: We have to believe this is enough. You mean Roald Dahl!
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: We have to believe this is enough.
• 56:03
  Speaker 10: Look, James over there is giving us the thumbs up.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: I think it's enough. It's enough. Guys, we gotta go
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: to Boo-Ho House later.
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: We gotta go to Boo-Ho House. Can we all go
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: to Boo-Ho House? I'm meeting a couple friends there.
• 56:18
  Speaker 5: Who?
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: Like, Sabrina Scarpenter.
• 56:22
  Speaker 12: Oh!
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes. Scarpenter!
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 56:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, you have to, I'll bring my friend, Frank E. Grande.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 56:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, my gosh.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Oh, you still hang out with him? Oh, did something happen?
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: No.
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: He's just someone that you're like, oh, I guess he
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: can come.
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: Oh, good. I'll play a little set at the Boohoo house.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: That sounds awesome.
• 56:46
  Speaker 8: I'll sing a little bit.
• 56:47
  Speaker 4: She used to be slime.
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: And in a way, we all were.
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: And in a way, we all were. Anon, please.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: You stole my line.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: This has been Artist on Artist on Artist on Artist.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Answer the question now. That's why we call it.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: Halloween.
• 57:06
  Speaker 10: Love it.
• 57:07
  Speaker 4: Give it up for our guest, Jeremy. Anything you want
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: to plug.
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: You can watch my podcast, The Business Casual Show, on YouTube, Spotify,
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: and anywhere you get your podcasts. Also, you can watch
• 57:20
  Speaker 7: My comedy special that just came out with my sketch group,
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: it's called Cowboys. You can also find that on YouTube,
• 57:25
  Speaker 7: look up Business Casual Cowboys, and you'll probably find some
• 57:28
  Speaker 7: fashion videos, but you will also find a cool comedy special.
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: And how long did the makeup take you this morning?
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: It took about an hour.
• 57:34
  Speaker 4: That's really funny. From the beautiful Dynasty Typewriter! Love you guys.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: See you on the Patreon.
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: Bye.
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists is an improvised
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