Latest / Stuff Mom Never Told You / SMNTY Classics: Twisted

Transcript

SMNTY Classics: Twisted · Stuff Mom Never Told You

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Smitha.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: I'm welcome to Steffan Never told you prodectuly of iHeartRadio.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: And we are currently in October.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: We are in the height of.
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: Spooky seasons, people are calling it, and that means that
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: I've got a lot. I've been watching a lot of
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: horror movies. I've been reading a lot of horror things.
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: And also I was thinking about this because recently on
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: my other podcast, Saver, which is all about food, we
• 0:43
  Speaker 2: did an episode on Twizzlers and if you'll remember, the
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: first episode of Sminty Fiction we did was about Twizzlers.
• 0:55
  Speaker 3: One that only acting gig.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: Yes, you were in it. You did a whole thing.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: You were in that.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: I love that story. It was such it was so
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: fun to do with you. It was fun with Christina
• 1:09
  Speaker 2: to hear the final products. But in there I was
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: making a joke about I used to love these candies
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: called Twist and Pills, which were discontinued, and in doing
• 1:20
  Speaker 2: this research for Saver, they've really tried to obliterate any
• 1:24
  Speaker 2: information about them. I even found a whole reddit about like,
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: does anyone remember twist and Pills?
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: So it is a conspiracy. Either there was something very
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: terrible in them that we shouldn't have been eating, and
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: or they were very hard to make, because it turns
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: out making a twistler is not easy.
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: Requires a lot of like AI AI.
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they use AI to get the correct amount of
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: twist in it.
• 1:50
  Speaker 3: They do make good weapons, Yeah, they do.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: They make good weapons. They're very divisive. I also learned.
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, the Twizzler and Vine debate.
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: Yes, vine is disgusting. How dare you? Oh so you're
• 2:04
  Speaker 1: twizzling all day?
• 2:05
  Speaker 3: That was the whole Parks and rec episode.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: I felt so seen too, really disappointed by Leslie.
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: She's a vines person.
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: Oh jeez, Mine's is liquorish. That's true.
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: Even though twizzlers are like categorized as licorice candy, they're
• 2:22
  Speaker 2: not licorice.
• 2:22
  Speaker 1: They don't you. I love this. I'm glad to bun
• 2:27
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 2:28
  Speaker 4: Well.
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: If you want more information about them, you can go
• 2:31
  Speaker 2: hear the Savor episode. In the meantime, please enjoy. It's
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: really fun in my opinion. Sminty fiction classic. Hey, this
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stuff I've Never
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: told you production of iHeart Radio. Samantha, do you have
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: a favorite can I do actually, I have a couple
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: of favorite candies.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Let's hear them.
• 3:05
  Speaker 4: One is wor there's chewy Caramels. I've talked about those
• 3:09
  Speaker 4: on a different podcast, and I know it's old people candy,
• 3:12
  Speaker 4: but I love them. Look, I love them and usually
• 3:15
  Speaker 4: will have them on hand. I also like Twizzlers, but
• 3:19
  Speaker 4: I like the Twizzlers. My favorite type of Twizzlers is
• 3:22
  Speaker 4: actually the Halloween version of the Twizzlers. So they're individual
• 3:27
  Speaker 4: packaged and they're the chewy ones, but they're smaller and
• 3:30
  Speaker 4: because I don't know if it's because they're smaller or what,
• 3:33
  Speaker 4: and the way they are made is a lot more
• 3:36
  Speaker 4: I don't know if it's.
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: Pliable, Whereas like the regular Twizzlers.
• 3:39
  Speaker 4: You could actually hurt somebody with right, you know, if
• 3:42
  Speaker 4: you smack them with it, but this one you can't.
• 3:45
  Speaker 4: And it's so it's chewier and a little bit lighter.
• 3:48
  Speaker 4: So those are my favorite versions of Twizzlers. But those
• 3:51
  Speaker 4: two are probably my favorite. Yeah, okay, what about you?
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I have five different candies. I'm actually not
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: a big candy person, and I know I have to
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: the story before, when I was a kid, I would
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: just get all the candy for Halloween and then sell
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: it nice.
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: But because of that, it is a.
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: Very like strong message you get that you should want
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: candy as a child. And so now I have a
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: tradition around Halloween. I try to find, not buy a Reese's,
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: a kit kat, a butterfinger, an almond joy and what's
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: the other one? I don't know something in that way.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: Why are you trying to em and peanuts?
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: So those are my favorites. That's my Halloween tradition.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: But you said you try to find them but not
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: buy them. What's the point of just finding them?
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: It's the Halloween spirit.
• 4:46
  Speaker 2: I don't go trig or treating, but I used to
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: be able back when we went to the office. Our
• 4:50
  Speaker 2: office does have a rather large candy bowl, and that
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: was my Usually I would find success.
• 4:59
  Speaker 4: Enough actually would dig out the twizzlers, and yes.
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: I love I love how people have these, like little
• 5:06
  Speaker 2: like Samantha must have been here.
• 5:07
  Speaker 1: All the twizzlers are gone.
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: They're just so good m and I will actually eat them.
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a great segue into what we're doing today.
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: And I do want to revisit.
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: It in a second, because as we're recording this and
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: as it comes out Halloween is upon us, so we
• 5:25
  Speaker 2: thought we would try something new.
• 5:27
  Speaker 1: And read some fiction. Finally, yes, yes, yes, finally.
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: So we are planning on having some recurring fiction readings,
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: maybe like once a month or so. But don't worry,
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: nothing much is changing. We'll still have the same contents,
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: just some fiction every now and then. Because we thought
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: it could be fun. It was fun for us to do,
• 5:47
  Speaker 2: and we both like fiction and doing some real greade
• 5:51
  Speaker 2: a acting no, of course, oh so good.
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: I'm so great at it.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: It's like if podcast have an Oscar category.
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: This is we should have wandered.
• 6:03
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, oh absolutely, So some disclaimers before we get into this.
• 6:09
  Speaker 2: This is something that I wrote with the idea was
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: in part inspired by a friend, and I'll get into
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: that after the fiction because.
• 6:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want to spoil it too much. It's short
• 6:22
  Speaker 1: to short form. It's not really scary. It's very very silly,
• 6:26
  Speaker 1: and yeah, I didn't really if at the.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: End of this, and I can hear Eves's voice in
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: my head saying like, stop, you're disclaiming it too much.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: If at the end of this, you're like, this doesn't
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: really make that much sense. I condensed a lot into
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: one thing. And then I didn't want to spend too
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: much time on that part of it.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: We will get into that after it'll it will make
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: sense once you hear it, I think.
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: But all right, without further ado, we're going to get
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: into this story called Twisted. Do you like candy? No,
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: me either, too sweet for me. Can't stop myself from
• 7:25
  Speaker 2: accepting it, though old habits and all, they really teach
• 7:28
  Speaker 2: you to covet that stuff.
• 7:29
  Speaker 1: As a kid.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: My best friend she loved candy, though there was one
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: candy I liked.
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: Loved. They were called twist. Did you ever have twist?
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: No, most people haven't. They were delicious, red chewy licorice
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: vines with a green jel filling. The flavor was watermelon,
• 7:52
  Speaker 2: but to me, they just tasted like red. You know
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: what I mean, that fruity, sweet, artificial red flavor. My
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: friend and I bow love them. We've packed bags full
• 8:01
  Speaker 2: of them and sneaked them into movie theaters and chomp
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: away at them.
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: But they were discontinued.
• 8:07
  Speaker 2: We looks everywhere for them, every store, the most random
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: corners of the internet. We even reached out to the manufacturer,
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: but they were gone, unattainable.
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: We went as far as to call the company that
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: made them.
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: I know that sounds extreme, but have you ever truly
• 8:23
  Speaker 2: loved something and been so heartbroken, so desperate? It seemed
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: impossible that something could just be gone. The answer, invariably
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: delivered with an air of boredom and annoyance, was that
• 8:36
  Speaker 2: Twist were discontinued indefinitely. If you take one thing away
• 8:45
  Speaker 2: from this story, I want it to be this Taran
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: Twirls are not the same. Years past, and we still
• 8:54
  Speaker 2: occasionally checked the candy aisles at pharmacies searching for Twist.
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: We visited candy stores as if they had them in
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: the back, our hopes inevitably squashed. We encountered a lot
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: of adversity. People told us maybe twists never existed, that
• 9:09
  Speaker 2: we were misremembering that the candy we'd been searching for
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: had been tear and.
• 9:13
  Speaker 1: Toils all along.
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: Even my therapists urged me to let it go, that
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: I was clearly clinging to a nostalgic childhood memory, an
• 9:21
  Speaker 2: unhealthy distraction from reality, that not having them in my
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: life was good for me. They tried to make us
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: doubt ourselves, but we both knew the truth. We were
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: unwavering in our conviction. It was a conspiracy. We joke,
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: the tear and toils conspiracy. If only we'd known. I
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: was sitting at home, searching candy history forms for any clues,
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: any sign of twist when my phone buzzed. My best
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: friend was calling odd We were typically text only communicators.
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: When I answered, I could only hear her panicked breathing
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: for boating settled over me, heavy and suffocating.
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: I found them, she said, I.
• 10:06
  Speaker 5: Found the twist, but I found something else. They keep
• 10:10
  Speaker 5: calling me. It's an unknown number. They never say anything.
• 10:14
  Speaker 5: I think I turned something up. They're coming for me.
• 10:18
  Speaker 5: They're probably coming for you.
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: Then she gasped, followed by a jarring sound of a
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: phone being dropped, a connection being cut. I called her back,
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: and all I got was a robotic message that the
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: number I was trying to reach had been disconnected.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: The number you have called has been disconnected.
• 10:33
  Speaker 2: Fear caught at my stomach, constricted my lungs. I drove
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: to her house, my thoughts racing. No lights were on.
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: When I arrived.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: It was silent, but her car was still there. I
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: knocked on her door, no answer. I stared at her door,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: willing it to open, terrified, of what would happen if
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: it did. But then a strange light in the night
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: sky caught my attention, a ball of energetic white darting
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: dancing almostus. I was riveted by it. It was beautiful.
• 11:04
  Speaker 2: I stared at it on moving for hours, uncaring of
• 11:07
  Speaker 2: the cool, damp air. I remember thinking it was the
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: anniversary of my dad's death. I wondered if it was him,
• 11:14
  Speaker 2: Strange thoughts that come to you. I watched it until
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: my legs were covered in bug bites, my neck ached
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: from looking up, my eyes burned with exhaustion. The sun
• 11:24
  Speaker 2: rose and the mysterious light disappeared. I blinked, an unexpected
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: bloss roaring to life inside of me. Still no sign
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: of my friend. I wandered around her house, so looking
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: for some clue of where she was what had happened.
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: I found footprints, clearly the result of running, leading into
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: the woods behind her house. I followed them, but right
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: before the tree line they disappeared. I spun around, searching.
• 11:49
  Speaker 2: A crisp, crinkling sound tore through the oppressive silence. I froze.
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: My heart pounded in my chest as I slowly looked
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: down to the sources of the noise. Something peeked out
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: from under the sole of my shoe, mouth dry, I
• 12:05
  Speaker 2: reached for it, refusing to acknowledge the possibility, the miracle
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: that it would be. I recognized the packaging immediately, bright
• 12:15
  Speaker 2: red lettering outlined with white spelled out the item I'd
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: coveted for so long. Twist, frantic hope crashed over me. Reverently,
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: I took the package in my hand, as one would
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: a treasured family heirloom. So many memories came back to
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: me as I gazed upon its beauty. Of family outings
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: at movie theaters, giggling at the loud cracking of the
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: illegal snuck in candy, during quiet moments, munching away, as
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: me and my best friend dug through our Halloween candy halls,
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: my dad making sure to pick me up any of
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: the rare packages he saw, just to see the way
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: My eyes lit up, rashing out those precious, precious ropes
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: of red. There were tears in my eyes. Finally, I
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: tore my gaze away. I looked up, and my breath
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: frozen my lungs. A dark, shadowy silhouette stood in front
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: of me, A black hole and the periwinkle of post
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: dawn light. I had not heard anyone approach. I couldn't
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: be sure if the voice spoke a louder in my head,
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: high and cold and dead.
• 13:15
  Speaker 4: You should have let it go. Now your friend has
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: paid the price, and so will you. It said, where's
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: my friends? What did you do to her? My voice shook.
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: We convinced her to comply as we will with you.
• 13:29
  Speaker 4: To not do so will result in erasure.
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: Who are you?
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: I paused, then amended, what are you? His presence with
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: sinister overwhelming.
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: We are the shadow, the silent puppet master, your saviors.
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: We just wanted twists, I said, clutching the package to
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: my chest, proof that they had existed. There was a
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: moment of silence. My body seemed frozen in place. Then
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: the voice said, you.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: Should have accepted the tear and twirls.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: Anger came to my aid.
• 14:02
  Speaker 2: Then I shouted at the void, tear and twirls aren't
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: the same.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: They don't have the filling.
• 14:10
  Speaker 4: That filling was called green Fruit Flavoring twenty three combined
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: with red forty two. It interfered with our mind control frequencies.
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: The nostalgia and love for the flavor combination of this
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: candy allow for resistance. It could not be tolerated. We
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: discontinued it, erased it, or so we thought. It seems
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: we underestimated your devotion to a candy that only served
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: to rot your teeth and degrade your body.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: The derision was palpable.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Let go, it said, we can offer you more peace
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: with our mind control than any manufactured sugary food product.
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: We can take away the burden of agency of choice.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: I thought of Twist, the chewy sweet outside and the
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: burst of tanky sour green within. I thought of my
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: friend and I sharing stories and secrets and laughs and
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: memories over Twist. I thought of my dad, dead a
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: year ago today, buying me Twist because I loved them
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and he loved me. I thought of the mysterious light
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: dancing joyous in the night sky, unexplained but beautiful. There
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: was a shrill ringing in my head, disconcordant tearing, forcing
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: me to squeeze my eyes shut. I threw my hands
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: up to cover my ears. The package twinkled against my cheek,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: and I realized it wasn't empty. My heart pounded against
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: my chest as I collapsed my knees. I could sense
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: the presence getting closer, cold tendrils wrapping around me. With
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: fumbling fingers, I reached inside the package, finding one small
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: segment of the sticky Revere candy, and just as all
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: was lost, I popped it in my mouth, chewing frantically,
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: the pop of sweet and tangy, the texture chewy and gooey.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: At once.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: An explosion went off in my brain, the warmth of
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: so many memories forcing away the cold, cutting off the
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: scream of fury. As I opened my eyes, the dark
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: silhouette stumbled back, and in one horrifying moment, I saw
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: its face, gnarled skin, pointed, bared teeth, and red filmed eyes,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: before it vanished in one disconcerting blink, as if it
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: had never been there in the first place. I ran,
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I ran, and ran, and ran. I have been on
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the run ever since. Looking over my shoulder, the omnipresent
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: weight of being watched crushing. Now, I hide, waiting for
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: the shadows to come for me. I managed to track
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: down a bag of twists. It could be the last
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: bag in existence. There is no way of knowing, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: no one will believe me when I say they must
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: be brought back. The flavor combination is illegal. Now the
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: question is are you a twist person or would you
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: prefer the tearan twirls? And that's the end, the end
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: of yes, Yes, I feel like you should have done
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: it in your creepy alien voice.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: He was so good, perfect, perfect.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I hope that you enjoyed it. I did want to
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: talk about some of the things in there. One which
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Samantha immediately picked up on when we did this, I
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: did it is about Twizzlers. What a candy that used
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to be called twist and peels and they were still good.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: They were these little like sections of Twizzler, I think
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: kind of what you're talking about with the Halloween ones,
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Like they were just smaller and inside was this like watermelon,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: gooey candy stuff. And normally I'm not a big fruity
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: candy type of person, and I'll just like go out
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: of my way to not have it in my life.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: But for some reason, I loved these. I loved them.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And me and my some of this is autobiographical, Me
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: and my friend Katie, who's part of the impetus of
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: this idea, would sneak them into movie.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Theaters and we would just eat them by the handful.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: But the tear and twirls in this story are based
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: on pool and peels.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Yep, which is a different type of Twizzler. But you
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: picked up on that because.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: I like the pulling bills, and also, you know, there
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: isn't a new form of Twizzlers that has gel like
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: the canie.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know. There's three different flavors.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Apparently like that.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: There's a variety pack for it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I saw them the other day and I was say, huh,
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: they got a type of it.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: I think it's called Twizzler straws, though, or something.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I'm not like already.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: It's so funny how these opinions get solidified and are
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: so intense because I'm already like, no, it's not the same,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: even though it very well could.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Be the thing.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just rejecting this very idea. And you know, there's
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: probably a very good reason they were discontinues, as I've
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: tried to touch on this story.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, you did, in a different manner.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: In a different manner.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So, the original idea for Twisted was supposed to be
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: a ten part series that was a real send up
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of true crime, and so it was going to be
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: me and my friend Katie trying to get to the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: bottom of what happened to twistin pills, which I think
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I called on twisted polls earlier and that it is
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: incorrect they were called twisted pills, and in the process
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: kind of bumbling into this conspiracy theory that involves like
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: we call the FDA, we call the FBI, and all
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: these people, and then one of us ends up in
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: jail and then aliens are involved.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So it was supposed to be like a ten part thing.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: No one would go for us. I don't know why,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: but just to shout out Katie for for spending a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: good like two or three hours with me and brainstorming
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: this and then apologies to literally everyone who's ever been
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: at a work event with me when I've had some alcohol,
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: for just telling them all about this idea and then
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: being like, stop talking about this discontinued candy.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Even better.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: But I do think when I have had those conversations,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: almost everybody had a similar item or candy from their
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: life that they were like, I loved this when I
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: was a kid, and now I can't find it anywhere,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: and I've searched and searched and searched, and I have
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I have looked on eBay, And you know what, I
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: probably haven't.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: If I had a twist.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: And fill right now, I bet I wouldn't even like it, But.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: The nostalta would be so powerful though.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I think that's one of the big things about candy.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: I was saying, when you're looking back as a kid
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: and a lot of those big holiday events or fun
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: events are associated with candy, that it does just become
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: like this, I'm not sure why I want it, but
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: I do want it right alsotimes.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: It's also just like, again the ways described for you,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: this is the true thing that you had, but when
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: you think of things like the Lion, the witch, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: the wardrobe. I never had Turkish delight, but the way
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: it was described to me, I was like, oh damn, yeah.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I want some of that. And then now knowing what
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: it is, I was like, no, I wouldn't. I don't
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: want that. I don't want that. That's what Turkish to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: light was what.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Right, of course, there's a lot of metaform like this
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: could be talking about cocaine and I was like, oh what,
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: But that's a whole different conversation, right, But there is
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: that level of how well it is like descriptor what
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you have in your head again, kind of like you
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: probably wouldn't like it today, but in your head at
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: that point in time, it was the most amazing dot
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: dot dot whatever it was. I feel like it's the
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: same thing with like bit Oh honey, I used to
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: love that. I'm like, why, no, wonder I'd lost all.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Of my teeth so quickly. Oh no, that stuff is trouble.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot of candy is trouble.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: You were with me when I was writing this, actually
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: I was, yes, you were. It was when about a
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: year ago we were at the beach and this is
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: one of my like fifteen ideas I had for a
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: podcast Thirteen Days of Halloween, and this was what I
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: thought was the top runner, but they did not go
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: for it. That was good for us, Yes, But I
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: think it's clear because I hadn't really touched it in
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: over a year, and when I went back, I was like, Oh,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: this is the stage I was in of grief, because
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: there's so many elements of like the father being dead
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: and having these memories come back, and then seeing like
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: making connections where they probably weren't connections, but you're thinking like, oh,
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: maybe that's some kind of sign or you know, trying
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: to see those things all over the place, which is
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: an idea I'm really dorkily fascinated in. Is that human
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: sea patterns where patterns don't exist a lot? Oh yeah,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: And so when I was kind of stumbling through the
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: strange disclaimer of like, it doesn't really make sense.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I hate it when creators say this, But that was
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: kind of a purpose.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: So it was supposed to be like is this connected
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: or is it not connected? I don't really need to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: go too deep into this silly horror story I read
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: I wrote, but that was kind of like the idea was,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: you know, you're going through this experience, you're having this grief,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: and you're seeing these things and you're trying to make
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: sense of them when perhaps there's no sense to be
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: made right of them. But the memory of that candy
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: and the memory of those all those things you created together,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: and my dad did buy me twist and fills, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: he would let me sneak them into the theater, even
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: though he was a big proponent of if you.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Get caught, I'm not going to help me.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: And just having those kind of moments based on this candy, right, yeah,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: And I do think food is a really powerful memory
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: in that way, and it can, you know, connect you
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to people that you've lost or even people you just
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: don't see anymore. There are certain foods I'll eat I'll
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: just be like transported back to college. Yeah, I remember
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: being in my dorm and watching scary movies and eating
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: this with my roommate or whatever it is. And I
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: do have a lot of foods like that based around
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Halloween and the fall and you know winter at large.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I just think it's a really powerful. It
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: can be a really powerful connection between you and other people.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: As much as we talked about how unhealthy relationships with
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: food can be, this is one area where I can
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: form connections with other people right as well. And I
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: do think a part of this is also about the
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: traditions we have and we make with other people.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: And you know, they can be very.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Silly, like the five candies that I have to get.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: It's really ridiculous why I feel that way, or having
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you know your friend that you always I have some
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: groups of friends that will always bring a certain type
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: of candy and so that candy gets associated with them, right,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: And it makes me happy when I have it, and
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: I think of them and all the times we have
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: had it in the past, and I think for me
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: as a kid, that was what Halloween was kind of about,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: like you would get the candy.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I wasn't really about the candy.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: For me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: That fun of hanging out with people and making those
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: connections with people and making those trades like oh, she
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: wants twizzlers and I want those, right, These kind of silly,
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: smaller interactions that you really do are really important and
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you do miss when that person is gone, right. But yeah,
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: that's all of that from this very very silly but
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I hope fun.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was a fun, very fun yeah story.
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: Thank you so much, so happen for I enjoyed it,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: for your excellent acting, Christina's excellent editing, soundscaping, and thanks
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: to you listeners for coming along on this journey.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: We hope that you're having happy fall times, whatever they
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: may be. And if you have any ideas for any
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: other ideas we could try or like fiction, we could
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: read SB in the public domain, but you know, please
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: send them our way. We can do that at our
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: email which is steffid mom stuff at iHeartMedia dot com.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: You can find us on Instagram a Stuff Whenever Told
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: You or on Twitter at mom Stuff Podcast. Thanks It's
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: always to our super producer, Christina, Thank you, and thanks
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: to you for listening Stuff I've Never Told You to
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: productive i Heart Radio.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: For more podcast on
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: My heart Radio, visit the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: or regular listen to your favor shows