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Weird Candy From October 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well as well, I got some little something while we weighed.
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  Speaker 1: What do you have? I have here? So my kid
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  Speaker 1: the other day said, I really like candy corn. I
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  Speaker 1: want some candy corn. And I thought, I'll stop at
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  Speaker 1: the store and get candy corn. And on my way
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  Speaker 1: home is the store Sprouts, And I thought, well, Sprouts,
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  Speaker 1: I mean they have you ever go to Sprouts? You
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  Speaker 1: They've got a lot of cans, a million different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of candy.
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  Speaker 2: And is a weird candy?
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  Speaker 1: It's no, Gina, they have all kinds of candy, but it's.
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  Speaker 2: Like off can.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's adjacent to No. No, no, like candy that's colored. God,
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  Speaker 1: would you see? You know, why don't you join those
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  Speaker 1: young Republicans on their Telegraham rand? What huh? You just
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  Speaker 1: have these prejudices that what Sprouts? It must be weird
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  Speaker 1: prejudice a fact?
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  Speaker 3: Can I get a Reese's peanut butter cup at Sprouts?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you can get peanut butter cups?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I said, can I get a Reese's peanut
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  Speaker 3: butter cups?
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  Speaker 1: You can get Peter cut peanut butter cups. That Sprouts?
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  Speaker 1: That are you know? You've ruined my story? Thanks a lot?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you can get a four Musketeers because of the
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  Speaker 3: candy I ended up with was weird, so you've ruined
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  Speaker 3: the story.
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  Speaker 1: You could have waited, waited til but you can get
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  Speaker 1: you can get just perfectly fine regular not maybe not
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  Speaker 1: brand name candy, but oftentimes it's better. The peanut butter
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  Speaker 1: cups are really good, and so at any rate. Candy corn.
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  Speaker 1: You would think surely they would have candy corn, right,
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  Speaker 1: because they got all kinds of They've got Gina, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have all kinds of black licorice and red licorice.
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  Speaker 1: Not twizzlers, but very good, you know, the soft, the
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  Speaker 1: chewy kind.
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  Speaker 2: They have Twazzlers.
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  Speaker 1: They don't they have what they don't. They don't do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of branding of their stuff. They it's all repackaged,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But I look at candy corn. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have any candy corn. Wait a minute, we do.
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  Speaker 1: They have gummy candy corn. That's not candy corn. Well here,
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  Speaker 1: that's gummies. They they look like candy corn kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're pale, and they smell like candy corn,
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  Speaker 1: and they taste like candy. They're see through, but they're gummies,
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  Speaker 1: which I thought I don't think there's any thhd in them. Don't.
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  Speaker 2: That's the cutest little tumperware I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Got that at Sprouts.
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  Speaker 2: Endurable you could get tapper ware Sprouts.
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  Speaker 1: Did you try them? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: They're not candy corn.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they taste they taste sort of like candy corn.
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  Speaker 1: There's their shape like handy corn, and they taste kind
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  Speaker 1: of like candy. This is not what your kid was
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  Speaker 1: looking No, no, and has not eaten them.
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  Speaker 3: Should have gone to a real grocery store if you
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  Speaker 3: want a candy corn.
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  Speaker 1: Again for certain things. Wait a minute, Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I don't don't. Don't distract me. I need to write
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  Speaker 1: that wonderful piece of advice down so I don't forget it.
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  Speaker 2: You go to Sprouts for healthy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: You don't go to Sprouts forget No, you don't go
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  Speaker 1: to Sprouts for healthy stuff. All of that stuff that
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  Speaker 1: they have is they sell more sugary craft than any
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  Speaker 1: store around. They've just got piles of it, licorice and chalk.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me, honestly, when was the last time you ever
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  Speaker 1: set foot in a sprout? Or have you? Have you
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  Speaker 1: ever set foot in the sprouts? Gina? Have you ever
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  Speaker 1: set foot in a Sprout one time, right, I was
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  Speaker 1: with my husband.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't for me, This isn't for me, Texter. The
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  Speaker 2: show is so political. Also, I work at Sprouts. There
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  Speaker 2: is for sure weird candy.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, there's weird candy, and there's really just straight ahead
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  Speaker 1: chocolate covered raisins.
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  Speaker 2: But you, Sprouts is a destination for if you're wanting
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  Speaker 2: healthy food. It is not a destination for the candy
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  Speaker 2: is an afterthought. They're like, well, I'm here.
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  Speaker 1: Getting No, it's not an afterthought. It is in your face.
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  Speaker 1: It's the first thing you see, practically, and it's and
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  Speaker 1: it's there's a just a gigantic department devoted to it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, bulk candy and repackaged candy and little you know,
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  Speaker 1: in plastic, little plastic containers, and it's all right.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a website of the kinds of candies that are
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  Speaker 2: at Sprouts. And there's nothing here that Gina would recognize.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see smart sweets, Yeah, see che chewy.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait a minute, you're right, Gina, that
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  Speaker 1: just proved it to me.
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  Speaker 2: Dandies, gluten free dandies. They do have red vines, but
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  Speaker 2: they're non GMO red vines.
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  Speaker 1: Gina I think call red butneter, non gmou.
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  Speaker 4: Panda licorice, giggles, tig bits, tig bits, bits of children,
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  Speaker 4: candy can fill its better, sour Duo pops, ginger chees.
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  Speaker 2: I want to Reese's peanut butter, Young Earth gummy fruits.
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  Speaker 2: M Yeah, I don't see any traditional candy corn there.
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  Speaker 1: No, Well, I told you they don't have any. I
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  Speaker 1: asked them. You're surprised you asked.
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  Speaker 2: You thought they'd say, yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Right over here where all the brightly colored artificial colored
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  Speaker 1: candies are over here, they have they have all. They
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  Speaker 1: have tons of different kinds of candy. I would have
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  Speaker 1: thought for sure.
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  Speaker 2: They would have colored with beet juice, and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Ed wants to know do they have with sabby flavored
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  Speaker 2: candy corn?
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  Speaker 1: No, they do have with sabby peas and with sabby
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  Speaker 1: green beans.
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  Speaker 2: Who says you go to sprouts for organic castor oil.
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't go. I don't go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: for cast or oroyal.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna stop and get some prongles on the
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  Speaker 2: way home, and a prongles and some crust toothpaste.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's really quite clear that neither of
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  Speaker 1: you go to Sprouts, quite clear.
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  Speaker 2: And a cat caught candy bar.
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  Speaker 1: They really do have good candy there, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: for sure they would have candy corn in bulk. I
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  Speaker 1: assumed it would be in bulk, but.
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  Speaker 2: No, Herman's has smorest candy corn.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, real, that's what I'm talking about, a real grocer.
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  Speaker 2: I love Sprouts. Sprouts is generic Trader Joe's.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's the kind of you know, the Crater
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  Speaker 1: Joe's has good snacks. The Sprouts has the same kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing, more of it, and it's less expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, prongles are real, that's a Guys's. Prongles are a
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  Speaker 2: Walmart brand.
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  Speaker 1: I don't there are people who love those.
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  Speaker 2: I don't go to Walmart, so I don't know longles. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: let's see uh Franklin Ferdinand Abdyssius near Saratoga Springs here.
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  Speaker 2: My wife sends me to Sprouts every month. She swears
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  Speaker 2: their vegan chocolate chip cookies and raisin oat cookies are
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  Speaker 2: better than the real thing. I refuse to try them
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  Speaker 2: out of principle. Bill, you've got a wind coo for
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  Speaker 2: bins of candy corns.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but I was not close to a Windco,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure they would have candy corn.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, prongles are real, Okay, are chips. They're they're they're
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  Speaker 2: like pringles, but they're called prongles.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know that. Now we need a taste test.
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  Speaker 2: Now we need to try prongles.
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  Speaker 1: She Sprouts has milk chocolate covered almonds, Gina, how about that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's okay. Almonds are healthy. They have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff like that. I mean, I'm no apologist for Sprouts,
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  Speaker 1: but Geeves, what you forced me into it.
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  Speaker 2: I was getting the feeling that you were like a shareholder.
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  Speaker 1: You forced me into it.
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  Speaker 2: It's her fault, Okay,