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Happy Hour #142: This is Halloween! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha, and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I never told you, reprection of iHeartRadio, and welcome to
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  Speaker 1: another edition of Happy Hour. As always, if you were
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  Speaker 1: choosing to drink or whatever you're choosing to do, please
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  Speaker 1: do so responsibly. Samantha, are you sipping on anything?
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  Speaker 2: I am And this is not a sponsor just f YI.
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  Speaker 3: But I decided because I couldn't find my usual diet
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  Speaker 3: sodas that I do have some diet sodas that I
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  Speaker 3: drink every now and again, that I found the seven
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  Speaker 3: up Charley Temple.
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  Speaker 2: Who one.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so they just recently came out with this, and
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  Speaker 3: so I was like, I'm gonna taste.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try it out. And I think maybe it's because.
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  Speaker 3: It's the Zero Shore one that I got, that maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's not as good as I hope, but I think
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  Speaker 3: I just what I discovered is I like tart drinks,
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  Speaker 3: so fruity they drinks, and this is a little sweeter
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  Speaker 3: for being a Zero Show one, but like you know,
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  Speaker 3: because it has that vanilla kind of ish flavoring. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: so yeah, that's what I'm so being on. What about
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  Speaker 3: you throwing it back all school? The Shirley Temples.
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  Speaker 1: That is interesting. I am drinking some red wine. But
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  Speaker 1: I have to say for this episode, I was going
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  Speaker 1: to try to make a cocktail for a very specific reason,
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  Speaker 1: and that is because our a good friend of the show,
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  Speaker 1: good friend in real life, Holly Fry, has a new
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  Speaker 1: book called Killer Cocktails Dangerous Drinks, inspired by History's most
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  Speaker 1: Nefarious Criminals, also by her co host Maria, and we
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  Speaker 1: went to a little book signing that they did and
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  Speaker 1: it was really really fun. A passage was read and
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  Speaker 1: cocktail was made and then just good times we had.
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  Speaker 1: But I was flipping through this because I thought, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we've had Holly on before as a guest around Halloween
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  Speaker 1: about cocktails, and we made a cocktail that time, and
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  Speaker 1: we are trying to get her and her co host
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  Speaker 1: from Criminalia to come on and talk about the book.
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  Speaker 1: So I was flipping through and I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: decide what cocktail I would make. There are a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cocktails in this book. Yeah, it is so many cocktails,
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  Speaker 1: so many amazing stories. The artwork is great. So I
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  Speaker 1: just highly recommend they don't know we're doing this. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is this is also not this is
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  Speaker 1: just a genuine ye like review, and there is so
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  Speaker 1: many things I do want to try that are in here.
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  Speaker 1: But I didn't have to get things together because I
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  Speaker 1: know you're probably tired of hearing about it now, but
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  Speaker 1: we've been running around.
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  Speaker 2: Well no, but it also like you have to prep
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  Speaker 2: like we the last time.
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  Speaker 3: Holly was on, which was a long time ago, a
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  Speaker 3: lot longer than I had originally thought, because we actually
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  Speaker 3: had this conversation during the book reading and I was like, oh, really,
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  Speaker 3: hasn't been that long. We were talking about the fact
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  Speaker 3: that we needed because for her cocktail that she served
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  Speaker 3: for the reading, needed pumpkin spice simple syrup and I
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  Speaker 3: could not find it because that she needed that for
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  Speaker 3: our show. So we were like, oh no, So we
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  Speaker 3: were like scurrying about and I could not find it,
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  Speaker 3: so I had to make my own, which I did successfully.
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  Speaker 3: But like getting these ingredients kids is it is an endeavor.
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  Speaker 3: You have to be very thoughtful, and I try to
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  Speaker 3: pick out specific ingredients because they do what she does,
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  Speaker 3: because the cocktail, she does, these the creations, and she
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  Speaker 3: does a great job in making really diverse different types
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  Speaker 3: of drinks, and some of them are very like niche
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  Speaker 3: ingredients for cocktails because she's really like she has her
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  Speaker 3: own cantina in her house, very fancy that is fully stocked,
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  Speaker 3: and whenever we go to menu, it has a menu
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  Speaker 3: has a theme.
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  Speaker 2: And when we go.
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  Speaker 3: To see her, she goes all out in her cocktailing
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  Speaker 3: like abilities, Like she is.
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  Speaker 2: Gifted in this, in this craft.
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  Speaker 3: So it is not that not all of them, not
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  Speaker 3: all the recipes are like that, because she does reuse
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the same things and like, but like
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  Speaker 3: sometimes it's just like, Okay, we have to get this,
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  Speaker 3: this and this for those who are not gifted.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm in the cocktail making endeavors.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and I there are plenty of like all
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  Speaker 1: types of cocktails in here. So there's some that are
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  Speaker 1: like two ingredient, three ingredient, really easy. There's also mocktails,
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  Speaker 1: yeah for them. But Holly does create these. And I guess,
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  Speaker 1: even though I knew it was a premise of the
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  Speaker 1: show that in their episodes they have a cocktail or
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  Speaker 1: a mocktail both, I didn't realize like how many things
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  Speaker 1: she's had to come up with for that. I was
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  Speaker 1: just so blown away that I had so many options
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  Speaker 1: to choose from. Ye, but yeah, it is out now.
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  Speaker 1: You can get it wherever you get your books. It's
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  Speaker 1: great for Halloween, which, by the way, happy Halloween. If
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  Speaker 1: you're listening to this and it comes out, it comes
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  Speaker 1: out on Halloween, which Holly and I both love. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about that last time she was here, and it's
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  Speaker 1: got just so many great historical notes, many of them
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  Speaker 1: of interest of Vin diagram of people who like this
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  Speaker 1: would like that because it's about like women who poisoned people.
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  Speaker 2: Or women, Yes, the.
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  Speaker 3: Woman pilot who was the last or maybe the first
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  Speaker 3: pirate to be hung, woman to be hung. We actually
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  Speaker 3: did an episode two.
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  Speaker 1: What was like.
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  Speaker 2: It was really excited.
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  Speaker 3: I love when we have crossovers because of course we
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  Speaker 3: you know, we talked about some bad women, so did
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  Speaker 3: they So we were like, yeah, so it was even
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  Speaker 3: more fitting because we kind of knew the tales.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was cool. It was really cool. But yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We went out to the reading and we saw some
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  Speaker 1: people we hadn't seen for a while and hung out
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  Speaker 1: and it was just it was really nice. And I
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  Speaker 1: have she signed. They signed our books and she signed
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  Speaker 1: mine of course with the Star Wars.
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  Speaker 2: Yes note, which I really appreciate as is appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: Of course what else, But yeah, I did want to
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  Speaker 1: do I was I kept running around about what I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about for this Happy Hour because it's
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of stuff going on and I've been
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  Speaker 1: struggling with sadness. But I wanted to do something happy
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  Speaker 1: because I think a lot of us are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: that right now, and it is Halloween, and Halloween is
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  Speaker 1: my favorite holiday. So I just want to do a
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  Speaker 1: quick light being about some of the other reasons I
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  Speaker 1: love Halloween that we didn't talk about in that episode
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  Speaker 1: with Holly, because we did Holly and I really went
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  Speaker 1: into why we like Halloween. But it also, speaking of crossover,
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  Speaker 1: does relate to your It was a Samantha inspired episode
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  Speaker 1: on soup. It does relate because one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I do love about Halloween is, as I've said, follows
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  Speaker 1: my favorite time. It's my favorite like the weather. I
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  Speaker 1: love the leaves, I love like a good like chilly wind,
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  Speaker 1: and because that, I do love soups. Soups always, but
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  Speaker 1: it's nice when it's like cold outside. But I also
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  Speaker 1: love sweaters, and Samantha's kind of ds me before this
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  Speaker 1: because I've been wearing Halloween sweaters really bad Halloween sweaters.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, so I was more confused. It's like, who is
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  Speaker 3: gifting you Halloween sweaters? Because like this is we don't
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  Speaker 3: see each other often when we're getting busy, but of
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  Speaker 3: course we have to see each other at least twice,
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  Speaker 3: not three times, sometimes a week on but via skype.
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  Speaker 2: But this is a second one. I was like, it's
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  Speaker 2: a different sweater, like wait, how many? And me too?
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  Speaker 2: We usually don't change clothes that often.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so when I was like, wait, this is a
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  Speaker 3: different sweater, it's like, oh, lovely Halloween sweaters.
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  Speaker 1: She changed just sweater. Yes. So I purchased these myself,
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  Speaker 1: which is anolf because I do love sweaters and I
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  Speaker 1: just really wanted like the Halloween equivalent of the ugly
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  Speaker 1: Christmas weater, and so I purchased too. So you've seen
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  Speaker 1: them both. But amazing it hasn't We talked about this
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  Speaker 1: in the Soup episode. It got cold for a minute,
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  Speaker 1: and it hasn't really really been that cold, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: a cold natured person and I just haven't had the
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  Speaker 1: excuse to wear these sweaters. So I'm wearing them when
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  Speaker 1: I can, and they do make me feel I like them.
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  Speaker 1: They'd bring me joy. They're goofy and I like sweaters.
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  Speaker 1: They looked it on you, but yeah, it's it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been cool enough to wear them since I've gotten them,
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  Speaker 1: so but I like that. I like sweater weather. I
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  Speaker 1: guess also, I think I was thinking about this. I
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  Speaker 1: feel that Halloween has seasonal food that for me I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't eat at another time. I feel like a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other holidays or just times of year, whether I
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  Speaker 1: should or not, if it's in season or not, I
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  Speaker 1: will eat whatever. But Halloween has a very specific vibe
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  Speaker 1: for me of like, I only get this at Halloween,
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  Speaker 1: that is it. I don't have it the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the year, and it makes it feel really special. It
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  Speaker 1: makes it feel really nice. And given the like the weather,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the the lights of like jack o' lanterns,
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  Speaker 1: and I just love the whole thing, it all comes
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  Speaker 1: together for me for a very specific feeling of this
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  Speaker 1: is Halloween, Christmas food I can get whenever, Like, I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like it's to me a very specific fig feeling.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that's not true for everyone, because some
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  Speaker 1: people will eat a pumpkin all year around or will
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  Speaker 1: do whatever, and that's cool, But for me, it is
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  Speaker 1: very specific to Halloween. Also, there are just things you
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  Speaker 1: can't do, like haunted houses, although they are starting to
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  Speaker 1: expand there's a Valentine's Day haunted house I know of,
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  Speaker 1: and I know of. Yes, oh it's usually haunted. It's
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  Speaker 1: Halloween haunted houses that are now doing also, which makes
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  Speaker 1: sense to me. But I did want to say, because
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  Speaker 1: we didn't do the whole thing this year, but I
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  Speaker 1: think Universal, the Halloween Haunted Knights in Universal Orlando did
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  Speaker 1: an all women Monsters Haunted Houses year and I heard
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  Speaker 1: it was really good. But they were talking about what
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  Speaker 1: we talked about in the issues of women in haunted
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  Speaker 1: houses and representation, but also and the people who are
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  Speaker 1: running them and the people who are going so it
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  Speaker 1: was really interesting. But yeah, it sounded it sounded cool
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  Speaker 1: if anyone went, yeah, these let us know. But also,
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  Speaker 1: like when you're thinking about if you're a listener, there's
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  Speaker 1: just so many things that Halloween like checks my boxes.
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  Speaker 1: Horror movies obviously, and I do want to come back
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  Speaker 1: because I've seen a lot of new ones I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen before, and of course I've got thoughts about them.
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  Speaker 1: But I was doing kind of a run through of
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  Speaker 1: some of my classics, and I feel a lot of
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  Speaker 1: my classics are about sisterhood, whether you're related or not.
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  Speaker 1: It's like sisterhood and friendship between women or competition between women,
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  Speaker 1: but like usually it's some kind of women coming together elements.
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  Speaker 1: And we've talked about which is so much and like
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  Speaker 1: the history of that and what it represents. But I
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  Speaker 1: did notice that when I was watching a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them in a row, I was like, oh, sisters, Yeah, sisters, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: which I do. I do, really really love. Yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to come back and talk about some of the
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  Speaker 1: new things I've seen. Yeah, Costumes obviously another box to
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  Speaker 1: check off for me. I love wearing costumes, and when
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  Speaker 1: I was growing up, I felt like this was probably
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  Speaker 1: the only time of year where everyone did it and
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  Speaker 1: it was cool. And when you get older and they're
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  Speaker 1: not always Halloween parties you want to go to because
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  Speaker 1: they can be a little like fraternity feeling or I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, like college feeling, and that's not what I want.
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  Speaker 1: But like, uh, that's why. One of the reasons I
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  Speaker 1: love conventions like Dragon Con is I get to wear customs,
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like that makes sense that I would
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  Speaker 1: really love that, and I love seeing all the different
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  Speaker 1: costumes people make. I love seeing the creative stuff kids make.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes it doesn't make any sense, and I love it
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  Speaker 1: when they explain it to me and I'm like, it's
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  Speaker 1: so creative and I don't get it, but I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And like I said, I do really like like the
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  Speaker 1: lights of it. I'm a big light person. I know
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  Speaker 1: that sounds weird, but I love like Christmas lights. I
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  Speaker 1: love jack Later and light. I just love those kind
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  Speaker 1: of something. My brain likes that. But also it feels
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  Speaker 1: it does feel very specific because the leaves are changing.
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  Speaker 1: You get your pumpin, get your apples, you get your
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  Speaker 1: goofy food, you listen to silly songs and there aren't
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  Speaker 1: that many Halloween songs. I like how it feels old
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  Speaker 1: and weird, like it feels bizarre so many parts of it,
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  Speaker 1: And when you know the history of it, it's strange
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  Speaker 1: that we still like bob rapples or knock on people's
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  Speaker 1: doors and costumes. And as for candy, like it's just
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the history of how that goes back to
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  Speaker 1: like BCE, and we're still doing it. And yes, we've
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  Speaker 1: made it really modern and made it very commercialized, but
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  Speaker 1: it's just really interesting to me, like when I'm carving
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  Speaker 1: out my pumpkin and making a scary face in it,
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  Speaker 1: like this is feels pretty metal, Like its strange, but
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  Speaker 1: I like it. It's also it feels to me it's
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  Speaker 1: like the last holiday in a string of holidays that
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  Speaker 1: I've mostly made my own, like Thanksgiving is a mess,
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  Speaker 1: and Christmas is so intense. New Year's we've talked about before,
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  Speaker 1: and then Valentine's Day, Oh my goodness. But Halloween it
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  Speaker 1: feels kind of like a funnier, darker, weirder Christmas. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have the same weight. If I don't do anything,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine, Like I'll watch my horror movies and have
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  Speaker 1: my lights, even if I don't carve my pumpkin, which
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  Speaker 1: I might not because I got a lot going on,
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  Speaker 1: but I have a pumpkin. I don't know if I'll
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  Speaker 1: carve it, but I have pumpkin lights. Nonetheless, it just
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  Speaker 1: feels like something more malleene, I guess. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: feel as it doesn't feel like I'm more obligated to
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  Speaker 1: anyone else to do something for it, although I mean,
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  Speaker 1: people know I love it so and I say this
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  Speaker 1: with love. I do get invited to a lot of things,
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  Speaker 1: so you know, there is that, but it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: the like high stakes of Christmas to me. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just I really enjoy it. I really really really
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  Speaker 1: like it. It does. It feels like the last breath
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  Speaker 1: before all of this other stuff at right, and I
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  Speaker 1: get to do a bunch of things that I personally
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  Speaker 1: really like. But it's a shifting, it's a shifting of seasons.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of the reason why Halloween exists. So I
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  Speaker 1: hope everyone listening, whether you celebrate Halloween or not, you're
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  Speaker 1: doing well because it is a stressful time, and if
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  Speaker 1: you have any traditions you would like to share any recipes.
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  Speaker 1: I do love like a good goofy Halloween recipe, or
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  Speaker 1: any horror movie always always, always, or books because again
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  Speaker 1: you can check out Killer Cocktails. The Criminalia book really good.
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  Speaker 1: And it's also been interesting because I feel like you
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  Speaker 1: and I are the opposite sides of a spectrum in
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  Speaker 1: terms of holidays where you're always trying to like make
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  Speaker 1: these traditions and I'm always like tracked in my traditions.
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  Speaker 1: So this year I've been pretty good about you know what,
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  Speaker 1: that movie doesn't do it for me anymore. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have to watch it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be my tradition and now don't need to.
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  Speaker 1: So I feel like I I've made some good steps.
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  Speaker 2: I like it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah yeah, declutorating your traditions.
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  Speaker 1: I do need to declutter my traditions.
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  Speaker 2: Like you're doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I still keep the ones that I really like.
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  Speaker 1: So uh yeah. I would love to hear from you listeners.
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