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Halloween Poets on the Halloween Poetry Industry (ft. 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: This week, roses are red, violets are blue, Spooky is sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and how about you. That's right, We've got something a
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  Speaker 1: little different this week.
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  Speaker 2: You may have never heard of a Halloween poet, but
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  Speaker 2: it's in the industry known as one of the finest
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  Speaker 2: jobs you can have. It's a job that takes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guts, a lot of time, a lot of practice,
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot more that happens on Halloween other than
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  Speaker 3: children getting candy and adults going through mazes. Many of
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  Speaker 3: the brightest intellectuals take what's happening, source it through their
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  Speaker 3: creative unconscious, and recreate it in melodic prose that allows
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  Speaker 3: us to understand what Halloween is. And these Halloween poets,
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  Speaker 3: these Halloween poets, do just that.
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  Speaker 4: Let's listen in.
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  Speaker 5: Good borrow, gentlemen, fair evening.
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  Speaker 6: Huh huh, good to see you, wonderful to be here
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  Speaker 6: on this wonderful evening of friends and enemies.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, yeah, are we doing is very good?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, very good?
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  Speaker 7: Great, and that's really great to meet a lot of
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  Speaker 7: you guys in person.
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  Speaker 4: I've read all this in the same room. Are you
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  Speaker 4: kidding me? How exciting? Ah?
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  Speaker 5: Good eve?
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  Speaker 4: Hello? Oh well good borrow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, if you guys don't know, that's listening. CIA
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  Speaker 2: and WM just finally came together and during the strike,
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  Speaker 2: since they can't talk about actors, they decided to release
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  Speaker 2: the top ten Halloween poets. And we're sitting down with
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  Speaker 2: five of them. The other five are just too spooky
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  Speaker 2: to contact, So we've got five here.
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  Speaker 4: These are some of the best. I look up to
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  Speaker 4: all of them.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of them, and I look up to all
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  Speaker 2: the four of you so much for your poetry surrounding Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, gentlemen, may I ask how fared thee when thou
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  Speaker 1: lookest upon the Variety article that said top five Halloween
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  Speaker 1: Poets of twenty twenty three?
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  Speaker 5: How fared you when thou rest their eyes upon that?
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  Speaker 4: Think?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: Please go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was just going to translate, so that means
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  Speaker 2: how did you feel when you looked on the list
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  Speaker 2: of the top five poets? Again, it was a list
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  Speaker 2: of top ten, But as poets like, they like to
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  Speaker 2: shorten stuff. A haiku is five? Why not make everything five?
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  Speaker 2: I personally was stoked. I was absolutely happy to see
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  Speaker 2: my name and all of your names on there.
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  Speaker 7: I you know, right ahead on looking.
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  Speaker 3: I'll dare say when nobody else has anything to say.
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  Speaker 7: I was happy to drop in at number two. I
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  Speaker 7: thought that was an incredible honor and a surprise. You know,
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  Speaker 7: it's a job. It's a job, it's a good paying job,
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  Speaker 7: and it's it's shocking when you see yourself.
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  Speaker 4: A union.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, the unions have been doing great work for us,
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  Speaker 7: and they.
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  Speaker 3: Find so hard for they fought so hard for our breaks.
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  Speaker 3: We get so many breaks now a union ten.
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  Speaker 1: We get a break for three hundred and sixty four
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  Speaker 1: days of the year.
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  Speaker 2: The I will say, the Poet Union is one of
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  Speaker 2: the strongest unions that there is. Uh, we kind of
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  Speaker 2: have seasonal We're in the seasonal contract of the Poet Union.
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  Speaker 2: It's a four oh one five four. That's our union number.
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  Speaker 4: Go four A one five four.
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  Speaker 7: For a one five four. And let me just say,
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  Speaker 7: I mean because I was actually working during the time
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  Speaker 7: pre union, and it was absolutely fucked up the way
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  Speaker 7: they were treating us. They were like, oh, you're a
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  Speaker 7: Halloween poet. Great, can you write us an Easter poem?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 7: The fuck I can't write you an Eastern poem that's not.
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  Speaker 4: In my's not what I do. We were not writing that.
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  Speaker 7: We were I don't know who else was anyone else
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  Speaker 7: writing during the pre union time in here? I was
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  Speaker 7: yeah you, I mean listen, I'm legend you.
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  Speaker 4: Of course number one.
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  Speaker 5: We must go round.
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  Speaker 7: We must go round. Unions really get me really crossed off,
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  Speaker 7: and I just need to take a second.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 7: But please, let's get everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You're picking up your pen already. You're gonna write a
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  Speaker 2: poem about this, aren't you.
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  Speaker 7: I'm gonna write about it later in a Halloween type poem.
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  Speaker 7: I feel kind of like a skeleton right now.
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  Speaker 5: Getting social can't work right now because it's not Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll introduce ourselves and will go over the rules,
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  Speaker 2: over the rules before we introduce ourselves.
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  Speaker 3: Can I dare say?
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  Speaker 5: Dare you?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I dare say. That's usually the only variety I
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  Speaker 3: see is the variety of chocolates that a can people.
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  Speaker 3: But when my partner told me to look at the
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  Speaker 3: magazine for Hollywood in a waiting room, I was surprised
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  Speaker 3: to find my name.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for filling us in.
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  Speaker 8: Round Robin, The tables go round, it goes explain who
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  Speaker 8: you are, rounded.
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  Speaker 7: Up and a beautiful poem to get us kicked me off.
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  Speaker 4: It was a really good poem.
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  Speaker 7: This is what we do.
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  Speaker 3: That was Carl Sandberg.
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  Speaker 2: I believe right was yours was an original poem, and
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  Speaker 2: then theirs was a different poem altogether.
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  Speaker 4: Round right the tables go.
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  Speaker 5: Let's introduce ourselves, round the tables.
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  Speaker 2: That's Carl Sandberg for shorts. Okay, well I am. My
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  Speaker 2: name is a Peak Mossy Tomb and I am I
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  Speaker 2: am a Halloween poet. I write poetry surrounding Halloween.
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  Speaker 4: That is my job. There's a couple different things.
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  Speaker 2: I write for movies, I write for books, I write
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  Speaker 2: for cards, I write for kids, I write for Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: There's a ton of different ways. I think this is
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  Speaker 2: such an important podcast and moment for the Halloween poet
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  Speaker 2: society to finally get some people listening and understand what
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  Speaker 2: we do. You know, so I'm really excited again. My
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  Speaker 2: name was Pete Mussy Tomb.
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  Speaker 1: Fair, Evening, Fairmorrow, Fair, Delicious, delicious Candy.
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  Speaker 5: My name be Senator.
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  Speaker 1: Robert of the Night, and my dear scribes, I myself
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  Speaker 1: am a Halloween poet.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I have worked in the industry for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Our nation's top A list celebrities call upon my visage
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  Speaker 1: during the time by which October thirty, first clock strikes midnight.
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  Speaker 1: That is when I descend on the houses of the
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  Speaker 1: Halloween a listeners for they request me. And what makes
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  Speaker 1: it Hollywood is that they are stars and I am
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  Speaker 1: there as well. So yes, I am a Halloween Hollywood poet.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Senator, I just wanted to clarify because I know,
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  Speaker 2: but it might be nice to describe to the listeners
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  Speaker 2: your first name is senator or you're an actual senator.
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  Speaker 5: I get this a lot. It's a family name.
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  Speaker 2: And you might you might not have seen how it
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  Speaker 2: is spelled.
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  Speaker 3: It's spelled as in the sin of the Flesh, si
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  Speaker 3: n in ato r.
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  Speaker 1: Matter creepy spelling. It's s spelling.
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  Speaker 5: And round the tables we go.
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  Speaker 7: And they censored it on the Variety article because your
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  Speaker 7: name was too scary.
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  Speaker 4: Is censored?
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  Speaker 2: I put a picture of Well, they censored a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things on that article.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they cover They couldn't release of our poems.
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  Speaker 1: So many our poems are quite lude.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, round the tables we go, I am she Edgar,
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  Speaker 9: she Allan, she Poe yes, I'm a girl.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a girl Halloween poet. Whoa, They're round and round,
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  Speaker 5: so glad to be on the list representing the she poets.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, of course you were the one who
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  Speaker 1: wrote quoth the raven. Nevertheless, she persisted, Yes, yes I did,
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  Speaker 1: that was mine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you wrote the monkey's purse right, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: The monkey's purse that she can't put down.
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  Speaker 3: You also, did you not write I want a female
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  Speaker 3: werewolf for President?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a fan of dear Edgar Edgar Allan Poe, and
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  Speaker 8: I am a fan of the female gender, and we.
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  Speaker 7: Loved, I loved. If I could fan out for a second.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't read too much, but I love slender woman.
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  Speaker 3: That was great.
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  Speaker 7: Slender woman, slender woman parentheses slender slender woman.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, thank you for clarifying, or if you will, horny poem.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I'm a horny little girl at the age of
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  Speaker 8: I should say eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank god, thank god, thank god. When you said
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  Speaker 2: little girl, I got really scared. I got really scared.
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  Speaker 2: But yes, you could call me she Edgar.
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  Speaker 4: Edgar or she'edger.
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  Speaker 5: It's not Shedgar, it's not Cheeger. It's she Edgar.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you by my birth name, or you can call
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  Speaker 8: me by my birth name Opal.
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  Speaker 7: I think I'll stick with she Edgar, I've known you,
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  Speaker 7: and she a girl, I'll call you shiego round the
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  Speaker 7: tables we go well. Coming in at number two, I
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  Speaker 7: am Mikey Bamonti. I am basically you may not heard
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  Speaker 7: of me, but I'm just a working Halloween poet. You're
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  Speaker 7: gonna see a lot of the classics, a lot of
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  Speaker 7: kind of the blockbuster of Halloween poems. That's gonna be
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  Speaker 7: the things that I'm working on. The Happy Pumpkin, the
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  Speaker 7: Skeleton Dance at night, things like this that we all
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  Speaker 7: know and see. Frankly, I appreciate all of your work.
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  Speaker 7: To me, it's just a job. This is a great
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  Speaker 7: way to feed my family, feed my kids. Halloween poems
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  Speaker 7: have done a great thing putting food on the table.
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  Speaker 5: And how many kids do you have?
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  Speaker 7: Four kids? I have four children?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Benny, Betty, Alex and Mikey Jr. If you if
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  Speaker 7: you wanted to know, but that's their names.
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  Speaker 2: I did want to know. That was actually fantastic. And
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  Speaker 2: that's what I really resonate with your work is that
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  Speaker 2: you know you are going for this big kind of
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  Speaker 2: commercial market type of poems, and you kind of do
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  Speaker 2: choose the same kind of subjects every time. It just
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  Speaker 2: feels like you're basically doing the same poem over and
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  Speaker 2: over again. But I liked it because it's almost a
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  Speaker 2: different take on the same thing, you know, like a
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  Speaker 2: pop song.
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  Speaker 7: There's structures to these things. You can there's books and
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  Speaker 7: books about the structure of these Halloween poems.
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  Speaker 2: And people so many books, so many many books, so
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  Speaker 2: many books.
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  Speaker 5: And I disagree with all the people calling you a sellout.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's you do.
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  Speaker 8: You do Halloween poems for people who don't indulge in
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  Speaker 8: Halloween poetry.
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  Speaker 5: That's a huge market.
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  Speaker 7: We're not all gonna write spirit Fantastica. We're all not
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  Speaker 7: gonna write that that was a piece of art, and
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  Speaker 7: everyone thinks like, oh, they didn't do that rule in
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  Speaker 7: spirit FANTASTICA. I don't care. You're not gonna I'm sorry
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  Speaker 7: to get mad, but you're not gonna make spirit fantastica.
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  Speaker 3: I think I would say. I would say the only
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  Speaker 3: thing that is a bit frustrating to me is that
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  Speaker 3: you received number two on the list. You do not
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  Speaker 3: claim to be you Halloween poeted for the spirit of home.
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of like the Marvel movies, getting the best,
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  Speaker 2: you know, top one hundred films ever made.
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  Speaker 5: You know, no, I disagree. I disagree.
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  Speaker 8: I think you're like the Joelostine of Christianity. As to
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  Speaker 8: Halloween poets, you speak to the masses.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're the dua Lipa of Halloween poets.
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  Speaker 4: How so.
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  Speaker 5: Mine makes sense. You're study in the way that she.
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  Speaker 1: Is making music for the girls to dance to, for
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  Speaker 1: the maidens to say, uh huh, what fun a Halloween poem.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't heard this before.
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  Speaker 2: Mikey, what is your most famous poem? If you mind
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  Speaker 2: me asking.
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  Speaker 7: My famous poem, the one that I was probably the
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  Speaker 7: biggest block question sex was just a Happy Pumpkin. I wrote.
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  Speaker 7: It was my college thesis and it was immediately picked
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  Speaker 7: up right out of college. And I had some great people,
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  Speaker 7: some great older poets that you know, kind of the
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  Speaker 7: elevator back down brought me up with them.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I think I would say that is one
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  Speaker 3: of the most unknown things about Halloween poets, how much
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  Speaker 3: time the older ones spend with college students. Wept of time.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, we spent a lot of time.
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  Speaker 5: I spent a day at Yale and a day at Harvard.
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  Speaker 2: It's the only work we can do out the talent.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna get into the union rules later. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get into the union rules later.
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  Speaker 3: We all do that.
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  Speaker 5: I spent two days at university, one day at a pumpkin.
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  Speaker 4: Patch, uh and around the table week go.
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  Speaker 5: Round and round park?
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  Speaker 3: 'tis I, Sir Dennis Gravestone, known by many as the
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  Speaker 3: author of the poem before Thriller, as recited by Vincent Price. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I'm the one. It is I. I have written the poem.
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  Speaker 3: We all know that is correct.
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  Speaker 7: I a and congratulates absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: It is an honor to be here on this spookiest
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  Speaker 3: of nights and.
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  Speaker 2: My most famous, yes, the most famous scary Halloween poem
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  Speaker 2: that didn't have anything to do with Halloween. Funnily enough,
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  Speaker 2: you know it was actually Thrither for Michael Jackson, which
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  Speaker 2: I don't think came out around Halloween at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it certainly you can't tell that to a DJ
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  Speaker 3: on Halloween Eve, can you? Because it's playing then it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter when Christ was born. We celebrate Christmas under
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  Speaker 3: sip by twenty fifth. I don't understand what you're going
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  Speaker 3: after me about? And trust me, I'm not going my boy,
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  Speaker 3: if you think you're gonna catch me. I worked with
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  Speaker 3: Michael Jackson and I'm still here, So don't think that
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  Speaker 3: I aren't. I am glad because I know what I'm
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  Speaker 3: up to. You better be up to what you're up to,
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  Speaker 3: because I'll come after you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, what what are you saying?
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  Speaker 7: Because I'm a threat.
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  Speaker 3: I a threat. But also I think it was a poem.
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  Speaker 5: The classic game of Halloween poetry a.
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  Speaker 7: Poem, and this is and this is in a lot
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  Speaker 7: of the books. The best poems have a threatening aura
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  Speaker 7: to them, if not a direct threat in its own.
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  Speaker 3: A little bit about me. I am a member of
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  Speaker 3: the Silent Generation, Joe Biden's era. I was born in
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  Speaker 3: nineteen thirty one.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing silent about that generation, am I?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 6: Wow?
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  Speaker 7: Certainly maybe maybe Mitch mccondall.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's.
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  Speaker 5: Your house forty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I was given my house on a handshake and a
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  Speaker 3: promise that I wouldn't kiss his wife. Listen. I have
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  Speaker 3: had many, many supernatural experiences. At four years old, I
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  Speaker 3: had an experience that caused me to become a Halloween poet.
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  Speaker 3: Right then and there. Back then we weren't going to school.
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  Speaker 3: Halloween poets left in the fifth grade and they went
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  Speaker 3: straight to work. We couldn't afford it. I had to bright, Harry.
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  Speaker 3: This was before the Union. Many, many across my period
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  Speaker 3: of life, I have been given awards left and right.
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  Speaker 3: Many call me Edgar Allan Poe. If Edgar Allen Poe
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  Speaker 3: was Polly, that's my title, and I'm honored. I'm honored
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  Speaker 3: to be here with a she Edgar Allan shepo as well.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't it funny how how the tables have turned?
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  Speaker 5: Well, he is our Meryl Streep.
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  Speaker 6: He certainly is.
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  Speaker 5: Now round the table.
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  Speaker 4: We go, Well, this is an interesting question.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think we have two directions here. We
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  Speaker 2: have two directions here. We can either talk about union
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  Speaker 2: rules or hear everybody's best poem. That's I think the
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  Speaker 2: two directions we got here.
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  Speaker 3: Is there not time for both?
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  Speaker 5: Is there not? Talma? Trick? Or right?
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  Speaker 1: Be young and the cats be black? Don't scare them
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  Speaker 1: now they'll arch their back.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, what I would say, the union rules of the
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  Speaker 3: trick and the poems of the treat.
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  Speaker 7: Let's start with the trick and then go on to
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  Speaker 7: the treat.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like putting a pill in the medicine
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  Speaker 1: of a dog for peanut butter.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, technically you're supposed to get trick or treat,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm fine with anything.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to push it.
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  Speaker 3: Do your listeners stick around.
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  Speaker 7: Except, of course we're standing next to of course, Oh yes, I.
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  Speaker 5: Forgot, because she should have both.
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  Speaker 3: My sister. Dear listeners stick around for the poems, the tricks,
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  Speaker 3: and the treats abound.
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  Speaker 5: How do you all?
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  Speaker 8: How do you all entertain your October? Our busiest month
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  Speaker 8: of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm swamped, swamped left and right. I get so
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  Speaker 5: many messages per day.
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  Speaker 1: A bat brings them to me, and it's it's messages
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  Speaker 1: from famous people from Oh, Leonardo DiCaprio wants a poem
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  Speaker 1: about pumpkins.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, but later in.
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  Speaker 1: The afternoon, Brad Pitt wants a poem about a black
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  Speaker 1: cat hearing.
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  Speaker 2: Do you ever hear what these celebrities are doing with
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  Speaker 2: these poems for you?
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  Speaker 5: Because it seems like what are they gonna do with They.
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  Speaker 1: Won't tell me. They won't tell me. They simply when
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  Speaker 1: I go into their house. There is a strict procedure
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  Speaker 1: when you're working with these A list clients. You enter
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  Speaker 1: their home blindfolded. They direct you into the poetry room
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: where you will recite a Halloween poem to them, and
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: they're wearing robes and you cannot see them. Then you
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: sign a strict NDA and then you are scooted out.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: But sometimes you can hear what's going on, like I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: one time I read a poem about a Snicker's candy
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: to Meryl Streep and I could hear her nibbling on
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a turkey leg the whole time.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Before I was kicked out.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: So you never know what they're up to. But I
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have said that. I should not have said that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Strike from the record.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: I reckon I performed a Halloween poem for Betty Davis
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: that scared her right to death. I killed her.
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: Oh, and this is why. And that's why. I mean,
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: I know that we're talking sort of history here, but
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: that was big reason why we started getting unions of
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: how scary can poems be? We couldn't just let artists
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: be going as scary as they wanted to, because there
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: was really about what it was at nineteen woldn't Benny
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: Davis diets around the time that it would have been Betty.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Davis died, didn't. I believe the eighties.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: I think it was nineteen Betty Davis died that year.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: It was around nineteen Betty Davis' death year. It was
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: a record spike in Halloween poem related death, so you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: there was one one which was more than there had
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: ever been.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Unpressible to go from zero to one. The scale is crazy.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: If your scale is.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: Two, yes, and it was. It was a tragedy.
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: Speaking of poem or threat, I mean young, young Halloween
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: poets were being stopped in school for writing because they
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: thought they were threats, you know, to schools and to
• 20:13
  Speaker 8: just you know, just the well. They thought these kids
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: were demented. But no, they were artists and they were
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: Halloween poets. So that's when the Union stepped in.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Now, and I'd like to make an important distinction that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: the the Union has declared that I think is really good.
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: We are not gothic poets. We are not emo, we
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: are not we are Halloween poets.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: In every year to be scared of us, we don't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: need to be on a watch list.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Every year.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: We have emo, scream o goth kids kind of trying
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: to get into the union with their poetry, and it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: just not gonna work.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, here's the distinction. Spooky isn't sad, Spooky isn't emotional,
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Spooky isn't depressing, Spooky is spooky.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And there's nothing scary about your girlfriend breaking up with you.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say it, there's nothing scary.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: My daughter has been getting into a lot of these,
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: going to like Halloween poem open mic nights, and I go,
• 21:13
  Speaker 7: I support.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, we all had to go. That's where we started.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: You have to pay your dues.
• 21:18
  Speaker 7: You have to pay a dues, you have to buy
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: your spooky pumpkin drinks and oh but oh my god,
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: I'm sitting in the back biting my fucking tongue. And
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: last time I went, I shouted out, not spooky, that's right.
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: Or to the others, my daughter is actually getting great
• 21:35
  Speaker 7: spooky poems. She's been doing a fantastic job. She's actually
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: she's my next poem.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, that's exciting, that's really exciting. It's great.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: She's keeping the environment nice and spooky and foggy. She's
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: getting me water if I need one. It's really great work.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: And she works really hot.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Does she have a Halloween muse.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Yet does she actually kind of chosen her halloey mews
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: that she kind of circles around every year?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: You know, she always talks about Chipou, my daughter. She's
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: got a poster of you up on the wall. Oh,
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: what's the poster look like? It's well, it's a the
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: because you try to get the image that you're sort
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: of vampiric in that way. So it is a blank poster,
• 22:14
  Speaker 7: but it has her name on the bottom.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: That's it. That is it?
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: Oh, that is so kind, because I love that you
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: speak of the differentiation between Gothic poets and Halloween poets.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: And I mean my dear dear mentor or I like
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: to say Mentor. Even though I've never met him, Edgar
• 22:33
  Speaker 8: Allan Poe was Gothic fiction.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: And and did poetry.
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: But but I will say I believe was a part
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: of the early movements of Halloween poetry.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: And he didn't even know it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: He's John Paul start to nihilism, you know, he was
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: not the guy who made it and didn't even want
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: to be part of it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 22:54
  Speaker 7: It's he's sort of the dua.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Lipa to Yeah, he's exactly do the.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: Dua lipa to future pop music. I guess maybe that
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: would work.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: I would like to mention I do believe every Halloween
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: poet in by day, every Halloween poet became one because
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: of a spooky experience that changed them forever. I was
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: wondering if all of you had one that maybe started
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: you on this path. For me, my definitely father left
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: us on Halloween. But he was dressed as our mother,
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: So it was spooky.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: What a spooky misunderstand.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: It was very strange.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Dressed as your mother.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: He drove away, he dressed as our mother, and he
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: left the house, never came back. And we said, mother
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: is gone, And we walked in and mother was there
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: and she said, no, that's father, but she was dressed
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: like Nixon. It was very strange.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It sounds like it was on Halloween. It sounds like
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: this happened on Halloween. They were just stressing.
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: Spooky and more confusing. Why didn't you go into confusing
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: play poetry?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Confusing poetry is so hard to get into it.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So I mean, talk about union hours, talk about a
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: thing with union hours.
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: Guys are mean. Say those guys are mean, and they're
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: so alt.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It's like they look down on you because and you
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: can tell that other people are are are snapping at
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the poem.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: You don't know why.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Every It's also like you go and you watch a
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: confusing poem and they only are happy that the confusing
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: poets in the back of the room like the poem.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: And it's like, hey, dude, there's like eighty of us
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: here to watch you, and you don't even care that
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: we like it. Yes, Halloween poetry is for everybody. You
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: can put it on the back of a candy corn bag.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: It's that accessible.
• 24:42
  Speaker 8: I don't understand why there's so much more money in
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Halloween poetry versus confusing poetry.
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: But that's the way the cookie crumbles.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: That's the mean breaks.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Confusing poetry has a chokehold on the beginning titles of movies.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: You know, before you see a movie, you see it
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: confusing poem that come up that really resonated with the director.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: So that's kind of how they get their money. I
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: was going to say, has anybody's yeah, go ahead, I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: was just good.
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I mean to give some credit to Halloween poems. At
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: the beginning of Top Gun, there was at one point
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: a Halloween poem at the very beginning the directors and
• 25:19
  Speaker 7: that was a big win for us. We almost got
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: in the director's cut. They cut it out.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: But speaking of Halloween, Oh sorry, what was it?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: I so?
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: I actually I have the a cell of it on
• 25:30
  Speaker 7: my wall in my office to just remember, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: all the potential, the height of what Halloween poems can do.
• 25:36
  Speaker 7: And so it was at top com starting, you hear
• 25:38
  Speaker 7: the sound of airplanes, you know, taking off on there
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: and it said Jack o'lanthine, smile skeleton bones, which is
• 25:47
  Speaker 7: are cackling. Nobody knows that Halloween is tonight, and then
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: the movie starts.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they needed to make sense.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: The jets fly so good.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: If they kept it, it would have been great.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, because that's what that you don't know about
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: top Gun with the cut in such a late version
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: as everything takes place over Halloween, Yes.
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: And you don't know that. It's just a little secret.
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: But speaking of a Halloween for the masses, that's you, Mikey,
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: that's you written, Mickey Mikey, that's you written all over it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: So what about you? Do you have a poem that
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: a spooky moment that influenced you.
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: Uh so, I was working really hard. It's one of
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: my many jobs. Yeah, but you know, I was really
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: trying to find my voice. You know, even though there's books.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: I'm reading all the books. I'm going to college courses,
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: I'm taking master classes. There's so many things that I'm
• 26:39
  Speaker 7: doing to kind of just like work in my form.
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: And I'm talking to Francis for Coppola, who did do
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: a small stint in Halloween poems. I don't know if
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: you guys know about this.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: He did. Yes, I got him into it and I
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: got him out of it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: That's good. And and I wish he had stayed.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: I was there.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Oh, he couldn't have stayed. I can tell you why.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: But he couldn't have stayed.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Okay, sometimes you drink the juice too hard and it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: a choke hold on you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Well you let's just say you've seen Heart of Darkness.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: You saw what happened to him in Apocalypse. Now imagine that,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: but in a in a haunted house in rural Vermont.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Imagine that.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I can't. I can't really imagine what that would be like.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: But okay, excited to try. I'm excited to try.
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: Later, you're a poet, use your brain, keep going, Nike, So.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: He locked me into a grave for about four weeks.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Sounds like Frank. Oh, sounds like Frank.
• 27:36
  Speaker 7: Sounds like Frank. He said, do you want to be
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: a real Halloween putt? I will show you, and he
• 27:39
  Speaker 7: locked the door of a giant grave and I stayed
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: there for about four weeks, and in that I wrote
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: some really fantastic poems. Like everything clicked all the He's
• 27:49
  Speaker 7: sort of like a math puzzle. It all kind of
• 27:50
  Speaker 7: clicks together in this beautiful sort of symphony of Halloween poems.
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: And from that point on it was perfect. I mean
• 27:58
  Speaker 7: I was sitting there to several dead bodies and everything
• 28:01
  Speaker 7: kind of fell into place. Very spooky experience that kind
• 28:04
  Speaker 7: of taught me everything that I know. M.
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: That's oh Francis wow.
• 28:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah. And I write him a letter every year thanking
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: him so much for that experience.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So you wrote a lot of your beginning poetry just
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: right on the wood of the tomb right there is
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: that kind of I did?
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: I had that tomb demolished to keep the pieces for myself.
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: I don't know where the bodies went, but I do
• 28:28
  Speaker 7: have the tomb M and I keep it in my
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: office to remember where I've come from.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, you keep the whole tomb in your office.
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: That's I keep sort of the walls of a tomb
• 28:36
  Speaker 7: in my office.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Do you ever just find yourself getting into it?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Ever?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Just you know, if you need any you know, inspiration
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: around this time.
• 28:46
  Speaker 7: No, it's incredibly haunted it. I bleed, and I bleed.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: I bleed.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Oh, if you get near it, you bleed. Got it? Yeah, yeah,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I know, I've I've seen a couple of teams like that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: Well, I got into it a very funny way because
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: you guys know most of my work, I'm a halloween poet.
• 29:02
  Speaker 8: But I make my money, believe it or not, I
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: make my money with Halloween poetry. And I also make
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: my money. Every nail polish brand has me name their
• 29:09
  Speaker 8: black and dark colored nail polish brand.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, And that's kind of.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: How I got into it.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: Because I was young and my friend Samantha put black
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: eye nail polish on her eyes and it was so spooky,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: I said, spooky of the night it crawls, and believe
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: it or not, a brand rep for Sephora happened to
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: be walking by and she goes, oh my god, that
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: is the name of that nail polish.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: If I have ever heard it? And so the.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Word can I just cold on? Can I just clarify?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: So you're on the street, she's putting me a folish
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: on her eyes.
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: We did what young girls did. She was twelve, I
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: was thirteen.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: You were in public.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Why was she putting a nail polish on her eyes?
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: Because it was a season of the young witches. We
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: were girls and we would be spooky because that's what
• 30:01
  Speaker 11: our spirits wanted, right. So we're playing with nail polish
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: as girls do, and she's painting her eyes and I went, Samantha,
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: don't do that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Then she did it. I was so spooked out of
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: my mind. I said, she crawls of the night. It does.
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: And that's when this avora brand wrapped walk by. We
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: connected it, we connected each other, and that spooky interaction
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: started my writing from the from from there on.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: And where's Samantha?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: I was gonna sing, Oh.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: That is so funny. Samantha is a mommy blogger.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: She can see you think she can see.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: She was not the spooky one.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: She was the one. I just didn't think you should
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: put nail polish in your eyes. I was worried about it.
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, No, she's ill and sick.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's ill and sick mommy blogger. I follow her.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I love her journey.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Anytime I need to pick me up or a good giggle,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I based my eyes on sick and ill.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Mommy blogger, Senator, what about you? I was reading Rupee
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Carr in the.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Dark, terrifying, terrified, and I got.
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: Really really scared.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: So I went to the first poetry reading I could
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: think of, which was for me in a in a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: pumpkin patch, as most Halloween poets start out, and it
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: all just sort of fell into place for me. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: I realized, I though I loved Rupee's work, I thought
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: that Rupee's work is so spectacular, it it it didn't
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: touch on the sort of human experiences that I go through.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: The ones related to carving a pumpkin, the ones related
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: to a cold breeze, the ones related to, uh, sort
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of a scary black cat.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Back arched in the night.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: And so I I went home and I and I worked,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: and I studied, and I honed my craft, and here
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: we are. I was It's you know, it happened in
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a similar way. I was just practicing, just shooting the ship,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: just it's just sort of freestyling poetry, as we do
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: in hell. A lot, a lot of Halloween poets like
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: to freestyle. I don't know ye feel about freestyling.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's definitely really like Goblin Goblin goes Goblin.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's sort of.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: It's sort of scatting. It's gobic, Ghosts goes, goes Frankenstein, spooky, spooky,
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: spooky New.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: York and whoa and uh uh what do you know it?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: But Lily Collins was walking by and she wrote my poem.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: She heard your scatting.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: She she heard my scatting, and she said, why sir,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: that is fantastic.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: I would like to give that to my father, Phil Collins.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: Phil Collins started your career as a Halloween poet.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: Yes, by way of his nepo baby.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: And I was passed along through all the greats of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Phil Collins contemporaries, Paul McCartney and the like. And then
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: uh and then what can I say, I'm an establishment
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: on the scene and I'm an old fart.
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is wonderful. I love that Lily Collins got
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: you into that. You just found a different way, you know.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: And I love that both of you got famous for
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: kind of doing scene Halloween s things on the street.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: It's great start on the street.
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: Halloween starts on the streets.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: Ever, were you guys ever Halloween poet? Buskersnica.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: I really we should talk about all of our side hustles.
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: I mean, there's so many ways to use this talent
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: for different things. Busking it, I see so many.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: Who doesn't make money Christmas buskers. They can't make a dime.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: No, they kind of they get they get Hallmark movies
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: written about them, but they don't get any residual spooky.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: We work at night and they during the day. Maybe
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Well, this actually plays into how I got into it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: I my parents were shot outside of a movie theater.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: So I had two choices. I could go Batman or
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: I could go spooky poet, Halloween poet. And I started,
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: you know, I just went, I'm gonna go hole into
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Halloween poet. I can't do Batman. I cannot do this
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: whole Batman thing. So I bust on the street a lot,
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and that's kind of where where I ended up. How
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I ended up here. I'm really happy and really excited,
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: and what.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: A spooky event. Getting your parents getting shot outside a
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: movie theater. That's just incredibly fucking spooky.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Man, that's insane.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: I mean spooky, but almost a little sad. How did
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: you not become sad poet?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: It was a touch and go for a couple of
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: years there, I'll be honest. A lot of my poetry
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: was both spooky and sad.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: And it doesn't.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: It doesn't. It's of hill House. Choose a lane, choose
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: and get something going.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Three punchlines.
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's like it's like any Mike Flanagan thing. Do
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: something in the first episode. Please, Why are you hoping
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: and waiting for us to figure something? Why do you
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: think I'm going to stick around through this?
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: You do?
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: It's a lot of promises in the last five minutes.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: I'm begging you figure out a more interesting way to
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: handle exposition. Mister Flanagan.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: Oh, sir, Gravestone, you are a legend.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Oh please, I'm no legend, ie practically a ghost. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: do feel the ghosts call me every evening to die.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Every dream I see.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Request you to die.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Come please, come on already.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I have these dreams where I go to sleep and
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: all the people that I know that are dead are
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: hanging out, and it's almost like I walk in late
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: and I always miss it inside joke, and they're always
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: go if you were around more, and I would say,
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: I'm alive, and I said, will you know you should die?
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: It's been going on.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: The dreams go on. Well, they've been going on for
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: about eight years. Oh ever since I turned eighty years old,
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: they've been going on. And it's really annoying. Actually, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: show up and they all go, oh, oh, guess who's
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: the gunga or whatever they say, And I say, what
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: does that mean? And they say, oh, you should have
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: been here, would have made up the term. It's really annoying. Actually,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: it's been really annoying to be so annoying. I'm kind
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: of like, if I die, I'm probably not even gonna
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: hang out with you guys. That's kind of how I feel.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Oh do you guys ever get that Halloween poet dream
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: where you're standing on stage and you can't remember what
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: you what you used to describe a jack the lantern.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Here's my here's my Halloween poet dream. I dream that
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: I'm standing on stage, but the candle in my jack
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: lantern has been blown out.
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: Here's my Halloween poet dream nightmare, if you will. I'm
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: I'm standing there and I'm trying to find my and
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: I'm trying to find a Halloween poem and it's Saint
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: Patti's Day.
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Oh that's terrifying, as I would say that the only
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: holiday that has real poems. By the way, anyways, so
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: we don't touch that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: My Halloween nightmare is there's a cat on stage and
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: right when I say and it has the arched back,
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: the back doesn't Arch'll get this one. Yeah, I've seen
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: full careers die with things like that.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, how you've seen just people have that
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: dream over and over again.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: It kind of spooks them out of the not.
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: The dream, know, the real reality. I've seen it before.
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: And if that happens during a showcase, they take you
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: out back to.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: Pasture because everybody in their college showcase wants to bring
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: some sort of extra element. In my opinion, the poem
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: should be enough, but they bring props, they bring all
• 38:16
  Speaker 7: this bullshit, they wear costumes.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: We should also we should talk about if you're trying
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: to go to college for Halloween poetry. The most overused
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Halloween poems that people do to get into college.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: In the recitation section of the audition, because there's the
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: original composition and then the recitation.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Shakespeare, I will say the Shakespeare.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: In the Shakespeare, I will say, I'm just a ghoul
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: who can't say boo, stop singing that song. Oh, stop singing. Stop.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: We've heard it. Everyone's done. I'm just a ghoul who
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: can't say boo. Truly stop it.
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: Please, and you know what you need to stop doing.
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: In the reciting area of the audition, Dear Evan Hansen, zombie.
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: Dear, do you have an answer?
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Zombie is overdone?
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: I hear one more person say, waiting in the window brains.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: I've heard it. So I've heard it translated as graving
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: bua window.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: Now I haven't heard that. I haven't heard that's good.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Well that's a different translation. It's an older translation.
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: But when I say, the Latin text says it's good.
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: Oh sorry, I'm just saying anything by spooky Man Plat
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: is just off the.
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: You don't want to touch it.
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: It's overdone to old old Halloween posts. Move fast, you
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: know what I'm talking about. This is a rapidly changing industry.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: But I think what you said is really important because
• 39:53
  Speaker 8: some a lot of spooky. There's so many Halloween poets
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: trying to get their start, and I think they're dying
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: to make themselves look very unique, like you said, Mikey,
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: And I mean I made mine. I love my career
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: and I love my body of work. But I do
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: regret being so girl power heavy.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: In my early days. I mean, you can't.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: Like I in your early days of you were what
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: fifteen sixteen round?
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, okay, my early days.
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: And it's just I think if I talk to my
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: young Halloween poetself a couple of years ago, if I
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: got to talk to her today, I'd say, just go
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: straight to the pumpkin, Just go straight to the to
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: the moon, go straight to what you find spooky, and
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: you'll find yourself later.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: You can't people think they can walk in here and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: do dead grul cell phone.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: You can't do that yet. No, No, you have to wait.
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: You have to earn your strips.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: M h give us a little lick of dead girl
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: cell phone.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean, I've I'm sure we've all heard it
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a thousand times when we're reading and reviewing students.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: It's by Sarah Grew.
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: Sarah Girl like a spooky food.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yeahs upon a midnight time I knew people who had died. Bleep, bleep,
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: the iPhone rings. Shall I hear my person singing? I
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: could do it in my sleep. It's tired, it's exhausting,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it's tired.
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: My nephew, My nephew applied for a program, and and
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: he auditioned with the tomb where it battened. And it
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: was very, very not good.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: Because it was interesting choice, though, interesting choice, and.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: It wasn't good.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, because it was it was rap,
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: and you shouldn't. You shouldn't wrap your audition truly.
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: Rap rap and Halloween poetry might as well be apples
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: and org.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: And we tried, we tried.
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: It happened one time, one time, one time. Jay Z's
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: verse in Monster by Cot.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: That is Halloween poetry at its finest.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: It was really it blew the whole union's head off.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: When that happened, I'd.
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: Say that whole song is Halloween poetry.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Well, jay Z's part is specifically listening listing gus and
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: goblins and things that happened in halloweens?
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: Would that is the most best verse.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Jay Z's is the only one that's recognized as Halloween poetry.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: And we I was in the union when we tried
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: to get Nikki to agree because everyone only remembers Nicky's
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: verse from Monster, and we said, please, Nikki, this would
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: be big for us, and she said, I don't give it.
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: But that's what the industry does see young female halloween poets,
• 42:42
  Speaker 11: and I hate them.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: Sure, mm hmm.
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: They put her in a corner and they said, boo.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: Boo. Well, let's just meet.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: It's a great booze.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: Great.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: There are good boos and there are bad booze.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: You know when you walk off, When you walk off
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: in a good and everyone's saying boo in a scary way,
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: that feels good.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: That feeling it is like Heroin.
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: It is like everyone, do you go bad quick?
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: I gotta say I watched a lot of the live
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: stuff and people kind of like push for the booze,
• 43:23
  Speaker 7: you know, they're like, I got work.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Today, Yeah no, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a little pandering
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: when you when you go for there's something called the
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: low hanging pumpkin, and that's what you want to avoid
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: when you're doing live stand up, open mic pump like
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: spooky sets.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Like my, My, My, people they call boot plaus. Don't
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: go for bootplause.
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: Don't talk about a bat's wing size being small. You
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: can be more created.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: I think, just for a second, maybe we break down
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: jay Z's lyrics because it was a profound moment. I mean,
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: just these first four lines.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: I'm so glad you said it.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: Mikey Sasquatch, Godzilla, King Kong, Lockness, goblin, ghoul a zombie,
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: zombie with no with no conscience. Question, what do these
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: things all have in common? Everybody knows the things have
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: in common.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: What do all of these common? Your answer is I'm
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: a monster?
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: What a way to say? These are all these spooky things?
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: Just kidding, I'm a monster.
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: And it's a classic.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Once you know the rules, you can then break them right.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: And that's someone who's mastered his craft.
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: It's and these are the things you read books. This
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: is an unreliable narrator we're talking about because he's listening monsters.
• 44:49
  Speaker 7: But then you learn as you're listening that he himself
• 44:52
  Speaker 7: is a monster and can you trust yes?
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: And it's a great idea. It's a great segue into
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: how personal Halloween poetry is. I think a lot of
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: people think Oh, it's about the season. Oh, it's about
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: the holiday. Oh it's about the costumes. No, it's also
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: about the human struggle.
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: Oh, ja Z.
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: This was when jay Z had just gotten better with Beyonce.
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: She I think this is pre Lemonade, and he had
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: he was dealing with being the cock hoult. Yes, and
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: you know exactly I'm a monster.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Yes. I was actually involved in the writing of those verses.
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: I wrote some.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: I knew you had after I was there.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: After I read Sasquatch, Godzilla, King kong lock Ness that
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: scream sir gravestone.
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: They got everybody on that album that.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Yes they did, and there were some secret hidden verses
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: that they didn't use. I had another one, which is
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: very interesting. I said, Cyclops, Harpy, bigfoot, gremlin. Didn't use it.
• 45:48
  Speaker 4: M that was a full verse.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, that was my pitch. I had another one.
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: So it's fast, Yes, quite quickly.
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: And that would have been right after that point when
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: it said about seven common everybody waste four more and then.
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: He's done, add four more, and I said, we're at
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: eight more. And so then I said, and then I said,
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: I said, grim Reaper, a little ghost, big, big pumpkin,
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: and and finally and finally witch.
• 46:30
  Speaker 4: And you wanted him to say all those.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: And finally, which and finally and finally which, Yes.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Reminds me.
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: I've been doing a lot of work with Billie Eilish
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: because she wants to be spooking.
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: I've been doing similar but with Billy Eichner. Yeah, so ahead,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: that's incredible.
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: I've been doing a lot of work with the Hill
• 46:50
  Speaker 5: de Blasio. So I'm dying to know what Billyner is doing.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: I'm dying to know Billie Eilish.
• 46:59
  Speaker 5: Well, you know, Billy Eilish, it's always poetry.
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: I guess that girl.
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: You know, it's like, it's it's very it's spooky, scary
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: with a feminine touch. And that's me, baby, that's me.
• 47:14
  Speaker 8: So she'll bring me in. She'll be talking about her
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: her break up, and then I'll say what about blood
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: blood and then she'll sing it and it sounds gorgeous.
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Mm So, so that's another avenue for poetry.
• 47:26
  Speaker 5: Halloween poetry is well, that was.
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: Sort of I do got to hear a little bit
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: about Billy Aikner. That was sort of the trick, let's
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: get the treat.
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: I didn't know.
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: I didn't know he was working in the Halloween realm.
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: This is I.
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: Saw Bros. And I wasn't spooked out at all.
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I rented out a theater to watch Bros.
• 47:45
  Speaker 5: It was not enough skeletons and Bros.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: And that was the feedback. That was the network feedback.
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Basically after Bros. He watched it, a lot of people
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: watched it said not spooky enough. I gotta call in
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: a specialist here. So I've been working with Billy Akner
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: just to make his overall thing more spooky, just to
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: lean into more wearing black eyeliner when he's kind of
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: revamped Billy on the street, but it's gonna be spooky
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: on the street. And he's just kind of gonna yell
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: at people this time. And well, last time he felt
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: like he was too calm.
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: To help him in his performance of American Crime Story Impeachment.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: His performance was very spooky. Report man, Yes, that was
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: a spooky performance.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: Well, I wanted to make the Dredge Report, which is
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: a kind of spooky part of water, but they didn't
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: lay it in like my direction after pitching it.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: And yeah, they didn't want to work with me.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Well, and now I must simply simply know Senator what
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: you were doing Spooky eyes with Bill Deblasio, God.
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: Trick treat and bedtime Treat, bedtime after politics.
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: Meantime. Uh, he's done with politics.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: He wants to make candy corn pants. We haven't really
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: talked about candy very much, but he wants them. So
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: he's launching candy corn pants and he wants a poem
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: to go along with the pants line. He's getting really
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: into some like modern viral marketing techniques. He wants it
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: to be like, you know, how you open up a
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Snapple can and then there's a different joke on each one.
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: He wants there to be a different Halloween poem in
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: each of the tags of the candy corn pants. Interesting
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: and you can barely call them poems because honestly, uh,
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: he writes them all.
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: And Senator, consulting, Senator, what you are describing is sounds
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: like a manic episode. And I'm wondering if Deblasio has
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: anybody in his life that might be sitting in out
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: and saying, hey, you used to be mayor of New
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: York City, maybe you shouldn't be paying candy corn pants.
• 50:08
  Speaker 4: No problem.
• 50:14
  Speaker 8: That's that's like he needs a Halloween poet and more
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: like he needs a wellness check.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: This is why money is sometimes a curse.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Halloween poet.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I think we can only admit that nobody needs one.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: You just need one. You can want one.
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: I say, I'm sorry, and I'm sorry. Is he paying
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: a union rate for this?
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm being paid.
• 50:35
  Speaker 7: He's paying seventy thousand dollars.
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: Each one.
• 50:40
  Speaker 8: Can I ask readom are the pants and candy corn
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: shaped or are the candy corns on the pants?
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: No, it's candy corns on the pants.
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: I talked him down to that.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Originally he wanted to be each leg was a candy corn.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna be honest. The problem you should have done that, Senator,
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: because that could be made out of cloth. You shouldn't
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: have tucked them away from that. That is makeable these people,
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: you're gonna be selling candy pants, real candy pants.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: Full disclosure.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: I'm also having a manic episode.
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: We go together and we have them together. We sort
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: of wait out the storm, okay, and we've paid a
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: lot of money that way.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I will say. I wanted to bring up I think
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: this is maybe the one of the biggest pitfalls of
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: our industry is we get many jobs and find out
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: that they are in fact part of someone's manic episode. Right.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: We are not a normal industry, so when people find us,
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: sometimes they are not in the greatest mental health. So
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: how do you? And I've had to turn down many
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: jobs to say I'm so sorry. You actually do not
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: need a Halloween pote. You need a wellness check. And
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: I'm wondering other people's jobs. I was hired by Ray
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: Bradberry to write a Halloween poem on every Rose pedal
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: for his daughter's wedding.
• 52:09
  Speaker 4: And he's just sad he had to give her away.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, I said, I think you're dealing with something else,
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: my friend and poetry.
• 52:17
  Speaker 5: Do you think he would write that?
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: But that's what I knew. Ray would do it every
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: Ray would write all sorts of stuff every day. He
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: was very prolific. So when he hired someone else, du do,
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I thought, oh, this is dangerous.
• 52:27
  Speaker 7: No no, no, yeah, Drake wanted me to fire him
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: out of a cannon.
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Okay, which is circus, not necessarily.
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: Did you tell him that's more circus than Halloween?
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: I said, I'm sorry, this is a little bit more
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: circus than Halloween, and I need to have some sort
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: of Halloween tie in good in order to not get
• 52:50
  Speaker 7: in trouble with the union. And so basically he just
• 52:54
  Speaker 7: said pumpkin as he got shot out of the cannon.
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: That's the loophole. You could say pumpkin and it counts.
• 53:01
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm like, listen, I get this. If you
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: get I'll take the check. That's fine. If you could
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: just I can't get in trouble for this. You could
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: just say pumpkin and he fucking didn't do it. I
• 53:12
  Speaker 7: am paying out for it.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: I'm glad I didn't go the demented route when somebody
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: when I tell someone that make me Halloween and they
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: just say, oh, it's demented this. I go, that's not
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: Halloween necessarily, and I hate that.
• 53:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, oh yes I did.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to Yeah.
• 53:29
  Speaker 3: No.
• 53:30
  Speaker 2: Anne Hathaway wanted me to teach your magic. She was
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: very confused about what we do. So it was not good.
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: It was not a good situation.
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: To be fair, I think we all have really bad websites.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: That's the thing I could say about us is that is.
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: That, well, that's a union rule, and it might be
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: time to get into the union.
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: Show me a good Halloween. Poet's website show me, I
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: dare you. We should legally have them.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: We should talk about union rules. This is in the
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: new contract. They are trying to force every hallow poet
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: to get rid of JavaScript on their websites. And I
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: think that is a sin.
• 54:05
  Speaker 7: I think it's a terrible idea.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Java has doesn't work anymore anyway, it went to funked.
• 54:11
  Speaker 4: It's twenty fifteen, but I'm still pissed.
• 54:13
  Speaker 3: I love JavaScript.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: Terrifying, how terrifying.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: It's crazy.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: Java is the scariest of hot beverages.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, all of our websites are mandatory. You have to
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: have one gift type of bat somewhere around the website,
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: at least one. Most of us have seventeen and it
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: can't load all the way.
• 54:31
  Speaker 8: Yes, and in the contract you need to enter. You
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: need to enter the website three times. So you have
• 54:36
  Speaker 8: to give permission. You have to give boo permission, and
• 54:39
  Speaker 8: then you have to give a pumpkin permission and then
• 54:42
  Speaker 8: you get into the website.
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: And then also we have to give camera permission. We're
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: allowed to every one of our websites are allowed to
• 54:47
  Speaker 2: take control of your webcam.
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: Halloo, mike and camera.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: There has to This is non negotiable. There has to
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: be an ad that shows what honey Boo Boo's mom
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: looks like. Now it is absolutely required.
• 55:02
  Speaker 5: And the union has argued this and argued this.
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: I know, Yeah, it's never gonna work.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: Well that's one of those union runs.
• 55:11
  Speaker 5: Yeas exciting things coming up.
• 55:14
  Speaker 3: Well we should discuss the union. We did say that
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: was going to be.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: The union rules.
• 55:18
  Speaker 7: The union is providing a lot of exciting things though.
• 55:21
  Speaker 7: This new contract that just got it honestly huge in
• 55:24
  Speaker 7: many ways.
• 55:25
  Speaker 5: Well, Mickey, you were on the negotiating committee.
• 55:28
  Speaker 4: Were you not.
• 55:28
  Speaker 7: I was on the negotiating committee.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: I'm very proud. Thank you, thank you.
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: Thank you for your service my life.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you.
• 55:35
  Speaker 8: I tipped my hat to you and round the gratitude
• 55:39
  Speaker 8: goes down the hole through the top, and we were.
• 55:43
  Speaker 7: Really round the hole through the top. No, but we
• 55:50
  Speaker 7: got a lot of things. I mean, we extended our
• 55:53
  Speaker 7: break period, so we got up to three hundred and
• 55:55
  Speaker 7: sixty five days.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: As we said, Yes, we don't have to work only
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: on the Leapyer, do we have to work now?
• 56:01
  Speaker 7: Yes, it's when the clock. When the clock strikes midnight,
• 56:04
  Speaker 7: you have to stop working.
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: It is union laws.
• 56:06
  Speaker 7: That's what you have to do.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: Wall if you can hear the clock tolls midnight, that's
• 56:11
  Speaker 3: the distinction. So if you hear the ding ding ding
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding, then
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: you have to stop. But if you're in an area
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: where the clock's not totally well, good.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: Luck, Well, I loved you. I loved your. Yeah, good
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: luck good luck.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Good luck is the scariest phrase, good luck, I loved you.
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: Mickey.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: You really were pushing for a raven quota this year,
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: which I thought, I'm I kind of push back on,
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: but I understood why. I mean, you come from the
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: commercial kind of big money sector and people are asking
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: for Ravens these days.
• 56:52
  Speaker 7: You know, I understand that the finances around Ravens in
• 56:56
  Speaker 7: poems is always something in flux and always very confusing,
• 57:00
  Speaker 7: but there's fundamentalsness that I think every good poem has
• 57:03
  Speaker 7: to have at least one Raven in it. This was
• 57:06
  Speaker 7: something that I do and I know that was coming
• 57:08
  Speaker 7: from the executives, but I do agree with it. I
• 57:10
  Speaker 7: think that there is good in having at least one
• 57:12
  Speaker 7: Raven per poem because raven sell this is what you
• 57:15
  Speaker 7: want to get. So even if it's just a small reference.
• 57:17
  Speaker 7: There's there's art and there's form here, so we have
• 57:19
  Speaker 7: to include the raven. And trust me, they were asking
• 57:22
  Speaker 7: for a lot of crazier shit now they're asking They
• 57:24
  Speaker 7: were asking for you know, oh can we they were
• 57:26
  Speaker 7: asking for something that was even spooky.
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: Oh what were they asking for?
• 57:31
  Speaker 7: Well, so we all know how they like. They want
• 57:33
  Speaker 7: to add like, can we talk about the beach? I
• 57:35
  Speaker 7: said absolutely not. We're not talking about the beach in this.
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: Is always want you to talk about the beach because.
• 57:40
  Speaker 7: The beach is always Oh they like teens love the beach.
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: He's love the beach. Can you include the beach in that?
• 57:45
  Speaker 7: And I say no, there's no fucking way I'm gonna
• 57:47
  Speaker 7: put a beach in my Halloween poem.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: Who suggested that it was that bug Iger of Disney pus.
• 57:54
  Speaker 7: It was bug Eiger of Disney plus, but it was.
• 57:58
  Speaker 7: But it was a lot of them. Actually, scare amount
• 58:01
  Speaker 7: was on the whole thing.
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: Scarel Lambard, Spooky.
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: David's Zazz Spooky.
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: Wait.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: I said, Ted, scarand Dose.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: I appreciate the way you caved on startle fiicial inaligence.
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: No, it was tough to see you guys cave on
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: startleficial intelligence, which is as we all know, it's the intelligence.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: It's a smart computer that kind of registers how people
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: get startled, not scared.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Start It generates startles in your poems without you asking.
• 58:45
  Speaker 8: And this is why it's so good we're having this
• 58:47
  Speaker 8: meeting and we're talking about it because the last, the
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: last thing I want to do is bloody gross scab.
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: You know, bloody gross to.
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: Be a bloody gross scrap scap for sure. Oh I
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: hate that a lot of people with bloody gross scavenger.
• 59:01
  Speaker 7: And I want to say that the scared official intelligence
• 59:07
  Speaker 7: artificial intelligence. Sorry, we've been in the contract changing up
• 59:12
  Speaker 7: what it calls s artificial intelligence. It's this is a framework. Okay, listen,
• 59:15
  Speaker 7: if the writer of the Halloween poem agrees to you
• 59:18
  Speaker 7: start official intelligence, it is okay, that's fine, okay.
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: But all I'm saying building, we're building a frame.
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: Nicky, nicky. Can the studios pressure us to use it?
• 59:28
  Speaker 5: That's what I'm wondering.
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: That's my bigger thing is how on earth do you
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: startle someone in a poem?
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: Do you add a word?
• 59:35
  Speaker 10: Ah?
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: Do you? What do you do here to startle someone
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: in a red thing?
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: This is why I must agree with it. I've seen
• 59:42
  Speaker 3: what they're trying to do. They're changing the font color.
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: They turned the color of certain words red, and I
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: don't like I don't like it.
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: They got that, They got that from other poems. Other
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: poems use red. Fine, that's how the start official intelligence
• 59:55
  Speaker 7: got into.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: My good friend, My good friend, my good friend, Halloween poem,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Eke Eke Cummings. He used to do that all the time.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: Okay, you know what, what about a concrete poem shaped
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 7: like a pumpkin. That's one You could do that and
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 7: a computer could never do that. There's perfect ways to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 7: start off a person all by yourself.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, mickey, mickey, I don't know.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 8: If we're going through this, we might as well talk
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 8: about residualules.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, residuals. Let's talk about residual because we have.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: Not been getting residualles on creaming.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: Nose, preaching the rules, creeping, residuals on creeping.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 8: I wrote a Halloween poem for the Halloween episode of
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 8: Gilmour Girls Back in the Dead. They approached me because
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 8: I was a young girl back in the day, meaning
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 8: I was in fifth grade and I have not seen
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 8: one residualal since.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: And the rule used to be, if you write one
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: poem on Halloween, you get paid twice as much for
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: the same poem of you later, and twice as much
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: as that a year later. So in four years you're
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: getting sixteen times as much because you don't work the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: rest of the year. That's the agreement. And I appreciates
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: a line.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: I just I would rather the union go back to
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: how they negotiated in the past, blood packs and oaths.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: It was kind of a luck of the draw, a
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: lot of mystifying. Oh, if the clock strikes eleven thirty
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 2: and you're in this place, you die, or you get
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: a poem.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: I like that. It kind of plays into it rather
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: than but that.
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 7: Era, that era is not around anymore. Screaming services came around.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 7: It's completely over. You're holding onto a past five.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: That's what it's called, not.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: Creeping screaming, screaming.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 5: Service, streaming services.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 7: It's screaming services.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 8: They're not I didn't change the subject off of Yeah. No,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 8: it's definitely adding so much information.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 5: No, it's true.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: The times are changing, you know, it's and so it's
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: that you've got all these Halloween poets on TikTok, and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: they're making it big and they're getting TV shows right away,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: you know, and sometimes you're not.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: Ready to write a poem for network TV.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: But this is so good, this podcast to sell good
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: because we are telling people kind of the line.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: You become a Halloween poet and you.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: Get a TV show, You get a TV show.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: It's the pipeline.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: You go from Halloween poet and then you get a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: TV show.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: You pay yours well, of course, you do the as
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: we've established Halloween Poet open mic nights. You then get
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: a TV show and then you hang around in colleges
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: until you die.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: You apply for the conservatory, and then.
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: When you die, you fucking bother me in my dreams?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 7: What are the what of the poets do you see
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 7: in your dreams? Are you seeing actual Halloween poets?
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm seeing Edgar. Edgar's coming up all the time.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: Edgar does that too, for flinching kind of thing where
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: you like to stand up. I know he's always, he's
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: always and he put his fingers by his nuts all
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: the time, and he's always looking.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 5: Oh what I would give?
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 7: Listen, I'm sorry I got upset about negotiations.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 4: It's a tough time. It's a tough time.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: I think you had a point that we kept talking
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: over and over.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: I don't remember.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, now that.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 8: I don't remember, you started talking about Edgar Allen Poe's
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 8: balls and I lost my my favorite set of pumpkins.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Well, I think, yeah, now you go ahead, you.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 7: The future is looking very strong though. There's young new poets.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 7: There's lots of new scary things to write poems about,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: and I think that is there's gonna be a brand
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 7: new renaissance of Halloween poems.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 4: I think it's a dread to that.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: A dredge, if you will, because that's the spooky part
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: of water for me. Do you guys have This is
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: what I wanted to ask, because we're all finally in
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: this room together and it feels like we're coming to
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: an end here. I would just love a preview of
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: the new poem.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: That you guys are working on.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: Personally, I know you guys cannot stop working, even though
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: union commands that you can't, so.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 4: Let me know.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: I just want to hear it, if that's all right.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: I will also say I just want to say, before
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: we get into this, Mikey Mickey, I really hope that
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: you do get negotiations covered by this Halloween, because I
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 3: can't go through another entire year of negotiations. I really
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: really yeah. Yeah, because we all know that it's coming
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: by October, you have to go a whole other year
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: to the.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: Next one, and half of the union members become bats.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: It's an old old thing in the union.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 8: No one know why our most successful person on this
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: panel is eighty eight years old.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, what can I say?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: So?
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: If anybody has some poetry, I'd love to hear it.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: I can give you a I can give you half
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: of my new poem Black Cats. Give me quite a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: fright once you shall see on Halloween. And that's it.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: That's all I'll give you.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: That's half. Okay, it's your perspective too. Opinion you have cats.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: I loved it.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: Where you Are you going to release this just personally?
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: Or are you no?
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: I'm giving it to Clooney. He's begging for.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: It inspired.
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 4: P o V opinion feelings of cats.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, he loves po V opinions. I want to hear
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 5: everyone's bulbs.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 7: I am working on a collaboration, so I bit the bullet.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 7: I bought a new house that I'm trying to pay
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 7: that off I am doing.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: I get your tone, now, I get your tone.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: Keep going.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 7: I made a Marvel Halloween poem. I'm colapbing with Marvel.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 7: They're doing a new set of Halloween poems, and frankly,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 7: I think they're gonna be very good. It's using existing
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 7: ip and then having Halloween poems exist with them.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: Oh like the do a Lipa of movies.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 7: Sort of in many ways like the Dua Lipa exactly.
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 7: I don't want to give away too much. I mean,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 7: Disney would be absolutely floored if I gave you anything else.
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 7: But let me say I'm looking it's I have it
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 7: up on my wall right here. The stuff that I'm
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 7: working on. Hulk, Hulk smash iron Man, iron Man Smash Hawkeye,
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 7: Hawkeye smash low Key Lokey smash Spider Man.
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 5: How do you stay in directions?
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 4: Or are they smash your pass? You play that college game,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: smash your paths.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: I'm reading it sort of an artistic poetic way, but
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: it's based on a TikTok where people did a smasher
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 7: pass of Avengers characters.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: Disney.
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 7: Disney bought the rights to this TikTok and they're sort of like,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: can you make it poetic? So what I did is
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 7: I kind of switched the sit in packs a little.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: Bit, and I got took out the word pass and
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: then I got so much Halloween vibes from it too,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: low key spider Man, the word smash. I mean, these
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: are all very Halloween things.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 5: I'll go.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 8: Instead of maybe I'll do something that I'm actually working
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: on right now, round round the suggestions go, I'll do
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: something that I've been working on, which is a new
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: line of Dinavontice is doing a line of spooky uh
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 8: dark colored a nail polish and.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 5: And god thank God, Yes, Okay, here's a couple of them.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: These are just my notes. App broomstick puppy brown or.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 4: Broomstick puppy brown.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: And this is the is the broomstick or the puppy brown?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 4: Or is it what you feel?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: It's a color. It's a shade of brown nail pouch.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: Got it okay?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Where Wolf God, broomstick sorry, broomstick would be describing the
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: puppy and puppy would.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: Be describing you.
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: Take it whatever you want.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 7: This nail polish is brown like a broomstick puppy.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 4: Like exactly I just wanted to by that very.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 5: Like a puppy broomstick.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 8: Okay, my next one is where wolf goblin mummy, mummy, mummy,
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 8: mummy green.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: Okay, let's just give us a second to parsleep out.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 5: Werewolf goblinmy mummy ummy.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Now are the mummies green too, because it's a werewolf
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: goblin shade of green mummy?
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 4: Okay, so that changes it. Yeah, so werewolf green?
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: So werewolf adjective mummy or sorry, werewolf adverb, mummy adjective
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: green noun. So the green is werewolf, mummy or werewolf.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 8: Got well, please keep up, keep up, okay, keep going,
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: and lastly, fangs off white.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: That makes sense to me, very clear, very good.
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 6: That was very good.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, sir Gravestone.
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  Speaker 3: I do have a poem that I hope it's not
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  Speaker 3: my last poem, but it's certainly it might be. Oh no,
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  Speaker 3: I can read it.
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  Speaker 7: Please, we'd be honored your last, your last poem? That's it?
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  Speaker 3: Crazy, I hope not, I hope not. How many halloweens
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  Speaker 3: must I do? Who is that knocking at the door?
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  Speaker 3: I hear a knock, and I wonder whose hand it
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  Speaker 3: belongs to. I look towards the door, and I look
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  Speaker 3: in fear. There's something waiting. What shall be waiting? Is
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  Speaker 3: it waiting to receive a candy, a treat, a sneak,
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  Speaker 3: a snack, a snook? Or is it waiting to gain
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  Speaker 3: something from me? Something in my heart, something in my
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  Speaker 3: brain is looking to take from me? Or am I
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  Speaker 3: looking to give to it? What is it? I open
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  Speaker 3: the door, fear aghast look wonder what is happening? Psycops, Bigfoot,
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  Speaker 3: little girl, Krimlin.
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  Speaker 10: Booo.
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  Speaker 3: It's so nice to be booed like this. A booooo, she.
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  Speaker 4: Boo, she boo.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that was great because it was spooky, But
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  Speaker 2: then I think it turned into kids trigger treating.
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  Speaker 3: Well at the very end. I don't know if you noticed.
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  Speaker 3: I used some of the unused verse from jay Z's Monster.
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  Speaker 5: Oh we noticed, have I ast you tears? Picked up
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  Speaker 5: on jay Z's on use verse from Buster Round and round,
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  Speaker 5: Pete you are the last?
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  Speaker 2: But no, guys, Oh my gosh, this is so embarrassing. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really write anything down. It just kind of
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  Speaker 2: channels out of me. Oh, I forgot to tell I
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  Speaker 2: kind of channel things out of me. It's like kind
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  Speaker 2: of go to this.
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  Speaker 12: In the shadow night, where darkness creeps, when the harvest
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  Speaker 12: moon in the sky leaps, Ghosts and goblins begin to
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  Speaker 12: play on this eerie, enchanting day.
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  Speaker 3: Will you be.
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  Speaker 4: Forgotten or not? Will you make sure you're hung the vot?
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  Speaker 3: I slapham, I slaugh onm.
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  Speaker 4: Kiss your parents, good night, good luck.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, there's so many bats.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, guys, Sorry, What was.
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  Speaker 8: So creepy about that was the way you were holding
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  Speaker 8: your little hair.
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  Speaker 4: That was the creepy part. Good, okay, good.
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  Speaker 3: I cannot believe. I can't believe you didn't tell us
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  Speaker 3: about this until the very end.
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  Speaker 4: I would I always forget to bring it up. I
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  Speaker 4: forgot to bring it up. When my parents died. I
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  Speaker 4: started enchanting things.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why you have like a weird batman or
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  Speaker 2: Halloween poem choice, And that's why I went to Halloween poetry.
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  Speaker 7: That was absolutely fucking terrifying. That was just absolutely like everything,
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  Speaker 7: the whole room turned green. I'm absolutely floored that that happened.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I hope I didn't break you and your rules by
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  Speaker 2: making it too scary that one of you died.
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  Speaker 5: No, it looks like everyone here is good.
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  Speaker 13: We're all I feel okay, wait, I feel okay, red
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  Speaker 13: some before you die.
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  Speaker 5: Let me read your poetry before your slumber. Crow Vampire
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  Speaker 5: read with sparkles.
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  Speaker 3: Read another poem, Read something better.
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  Speaker 14: P uh spider Man, spider Man, beautiful spider Man.
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  Speaker 12: Read some art means classic art.
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  Speaker 4: Haven't any of you written.
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  Speaker 5: The Artians fall across the Fright?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 5: The Paul Halloween?
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  Speaker 4: What you won't? You won't spoil the poem for me?
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 4: I'm dying. You won't.
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  Speaker 10: Sorry, I'm tied up with him?
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  Speaker 4: I have what did? What did? The what did? The
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 4: why was the skeleton? Sad? Going to the movies? Channel something?
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  Speaker 4: Why are you doing? You have no body to go
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  Speaker 4: with you? Sorry? I can't channel on commands. Come on,
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  Speaker 4: I'm dying. This can't be the last I have.
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  Speaker 14: I have one poem, but I've never read it to
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  Speaker 14: anyone in my entire life.
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  Speaker 7: But I can't read that one.
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  Speaker 4: Read it.
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  Speaker 3: Emily Bronte is pulling me by the nape of.
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 4: Emily Bronte is so boring and problematic.
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  Speaker 5: Come on?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 4: Read it.
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  Speaker 14: All Around the hollows nights, people look for a scary fright. Goblins,
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 14: ghouls and kids galore knocking at my chamber door I
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 14: looked to my head left. I looked to my right. Oh,
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  Speaker 14: I'm ready for a spooky fright, which is goblins, ghouls
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 14: and me. Are we such a family trick or treat night?
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  Speaker 14: Candy eight, have a Halloween and make it great.
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  Speaker 7: It's stupid, it's Susan.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, fight the good fight and have a good night.
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  Speaker 7: It didn't work.
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  Speaker 4: That phone suck to die. You get your poem killed him,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 4: your pom killed them.
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  Speaker 7: I've never said that poem that anybody before.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. It was to spooky stelp.
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  Speaker 5: Next time.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like, if you're taking notes, you should add
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  Speaker 8: I'm a motherfucking monster at.
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  Speaker 1: The h Okay, everybody freestyle get us out of here.
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  Speaker 10: Two, three, four Goblets, Pobskeleton, Key Skeleon, in which Newts
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  Speaker 10: and crabs Manton Crabs.
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  Speaker 8: This has been artist on artists on artists on artists,
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  Speaker 8: answering the question. Now, that's why they call it spooky
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  Speaker 8: show business, good night Halloween.
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  Speaker 5: Poets are real.
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• 1:15:38
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• 1:15:43
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• 1:15:47
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• 1:15:55
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  Speaker 4: Good night, Hollywood,