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93-From Procrastination To Pumpkins: A Halloween Free-For-All

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From a Roomba disaster to a chewed-up pair of headphones, our “no-plan” Halloween episode spirals into pure chaos—in the best way. We kick things off with procrastination quotes, dive into a candy confessional (Reese’s reigns supreme), and battle over the great Tootsie Roll divide. Then it’s rapid-fire trivia: Samhain’s Celtic roots, why turnips came before pumpkins, and the truth about black cats and trick-or-treating.

We chase scares through pop culture—from Thriller to The Strangers—and debunk the poisoned-candy myth. The real chills come with a true story about losing sight of a child on Halloween night and what it reminds us about love and fear.

Hit play for laughs, lore, and horror talk that lingers long after spooky season fades.

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Music by Tim Crowe

SPEAKER_02:

We're gonna start with quotes. We're gonna do it right.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you have any quotes?

SPEAKER_05:

I don't. I just have trivia questions. This is what happens when we don't communicate.

SPEAKER_02:

Um Lord have mercy already. Okay, well, let me let me start with one quote. Procrastination is the thief of time. Charles Dickinson. That's Dickinson. Charles Dickinson. Dickinson. Okay. Oh, hold on. Maybe there's more. I never put off till tomorrow, but I can do the day after. Oscar Wilde. Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis. It is not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein.

SPEAKER_06:

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, okay, and then one more. Sorry. Procrastination is hands down our favorite form of self-sabotage. Alice P. Cornyn Selby. Or also another situation.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes. Welcome to another situation.

SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to another situation. I'm Ingrid.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm Jessica. And I'm your local telemarketer. Thank you.

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Welcome aboard. The friendly skies. You sound. Explain.

SPEAKER_05:

My great pyrenees chewed up my headphones, so I have to use these in the meantime, and I can't use my regular microphone without using headphones because it sounds really bad. So this is better than what it would sound like.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay. Well, my half-Great Pyrenees uh threw up this morning, and I was upstairs getting clothes for my daughter and had turned my Roomba on. Ew! Took on downstairs to find smeared throw-up in my bedroom. Hmm.

SPEAKER_05:

I think I'd rather have smeared throw-up than poop.

SPEAKER_02:

Did I say poop at first? No. Oh, okay. Well, I'd rather have a chewed-up microphone than smeared throw-up.

SPEAKER_05:

It's chewed-up headphones.

SPEAKER_02:

Headphones. Well, moral of the story is Don't get a dog. Okay, also, moral of the story is we have zero plans for this episode.

SPEAKER_05:

I thought we were gonna talk about Halloween. So that's why I have trivia questions.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, well, we were, but I thought we were just gonna talk.

SPEAKER_05:

Who wants to hear us just talk about Halloween?

SPEAKER_02:

My favorite candy is fun-sized Snickers. What's yours? Um Halloween candy. It has to be Halloween candy, not just I mean, isn't all candy Halloween candy? Well, I mean, like, I don't go and buy a fun-size Snickers. I don't like regular size Snickers. Do you want to know why?

SPEAKER_05:

No, but sure. Are you gonna tell me why? No, you said no. Oh, okay. We so my son had a Because it's the perfect blend.

SPEAKER_02:

It's a perfect blend of chocolate to the insides. You get a regular size Snickers, there's too much inside and not enough chocolate. Hmm.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_05:

Another thing my dog did was he ate a full-size three musketeers.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, oh, here's here's a king-size Snickers story. When Jessica was in boot camp, she wanted a Snickers bar. She said that was the thing she wanted so bad. And I bought her a king-size Snickers bar. And I had, I don't know, went to work or did something and came home to find said king-size Snickers bar wrapper underneath my table, neatly torn open, licked clean of any crumb, and my Yorky running around in circles around a different table. So again, moral is dumb.

SPEAKER_05:

Snickers. Do you want to hear my first trivia question?

SPEAKER_02:

Wait, I want to hear your favorite candy.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't know. I a favorite Halloween candy. I don't think I have one.

SPEAKER_02:

So you don't have like when your kids come home, you don't have like when you go through their candy bag, there's not one that you have to steal.

SPEAKER_05:

No, I don't steal my kids' candy.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't either. They give them to me. Do you know actually another candy I love that is very rare?

SPEAKER_05:

What you want to call it? No, those aren't those aren't rare. Do they even make them anymore?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. I've seen them. I don't know when's last time. Within the last year, I've seen it, I think. So Tootsie rolls, but not the little Tootsie Rolls. Not the fat Tootsie rolls, but the long skinny ones. Oh, thank you.

SPEAKER_05:

You can always have all of the Tootsie rolls.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm very size-oriented apparently with my candy.

SPEAKER_05:

I guess I eat their Reese's peanut butter cups. Well, and I take their peanut MMs because I don't like them.

SPEAKER_01:

What's their favorites?

SPEAKER_05:

Uh probably Skittles.

SPEAKER_01:

For both of them?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_05:

My son really likes MMs, regular MMs too.

SPEAKER_02:

My oldest likes almond joy, which nobody likes. And then my middle likes Whoppers. Ugh. And what do you mean? Those are like the two best. I love those too. And then my youngest just like all of them. All the candy.

SPEAKER_05:

Do you want to hear my trivia questions or not? Yes. I've been waiting.

SPEAKER_01:

Is that the first question?

SPEAKER_05:

This is um thanks, Buzzfeed. Why did the ancient Celts light bonfires on Halloween night?

SPEAKER_02:

To keep the evil spirits away?

SPEAKER_05:

To light the way for lost souls looking for the afterlife.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_05:

You might know this one. Which Disney movie is in part an adaptation of Washington Irving's short story, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow?

SPEAKER_02:

I can see it. Is it the legend of Sleepy Hollow?

SPEAKER_05:

It is not. It's the adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.

unknown:

Mr.

SPEAKER_05:

All right, maybe you'll get this one. We're over two. What are the top three most possi popular Halloween costumes for dogs?

SPEAKER_01:

The top how many? Pirate? For dogs? Yeah. Oh no, okay, hold on. A pumpkin? Yes. A bat.

SPEAKER_05:

No. A bee? Bee? Bumblebee? Yes. One more. Okay. A hot dog. Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, that's so good. Wow.

SPEAKER_05:

That's good. Uh, why is the color orange associated with Halloween? The color of the moon. The harvest moon. It symbolizes the autumn harvest. Look at you.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, and you thought I was not smart.

SPEAKER_05:

I think you're just guessing well.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm really good at trivia. I love trivia.

SPEAKER_05:

Where does the world's largest Halloween parade take place?

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Is it in Central America or South America?

SPEAKER_05:

It's actually in the U.S.

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New Orleans?

SPEAKER_05:

That would be a good guess. It's New York.

SPEAKER_02:

Weird.

SPEAKER_05:

I didn't even know they had a Halloween parade, did you?

SPEAKER_02:

I didn't either.

SPEAKER_05:

True or false.

SPEAKER_02:

They should stick with Macy's and Thanksgiving. They need to stop taking everything.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, I agree. True or false. Halloween is the largest commercial holiday in the United States.

SPEAKER_02:

False. I feel like it should be true because we're doing Halloween trivia. But I would say Valentine's Day. It's actually Christmas. Commercial, duh. Like yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, Valentine's Day's commercial.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I know, but I was not thinking Christmas was commercial. Yeah, that's fair.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay, you definitely know this one.

unknown:

Okay.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, the pressure's on.

SPEAKER_05:

What famed horror actor performed the monologue in Michael Jackson's thriller? You almost said it. I can tell by your mouth.

SPEAKER_02:

I almost said Vince Vaughn. Vincent Price.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Um, this is fun. I'm gonna Google Halloween trivia too.

SPEAKER_05:

Who was the first lady to decorate the White House for Halloween? That's a hard one. I don't know how you'd know that.

SPEAKER_02:

Eleanor.

SPEAKER_05:

Mamie Eisenhower. When will the next full moon on Halloween occur?

SPEAKER_01:

2032.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh my gosh, you were so close. 2039. What is the most popular Halloween candy? Kit Kat. Reese's. Oh. Reese's being butter cups. Oh, I know this one. Which theme park chain hosts an annual Halloween event called Halloween Horror Nights?

SPEAKER_01:

Universal Speed.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh man, I miss Halloween Horror Nights.

SPEAKER_01:

That was okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So we went to Halloween Horror Nights one time, you and I. Uh-huh. And do you remember? I think it was like a clown theme. Jessica hate Jessica hates clowns. Very much. So if you want to send some clowns and our socials, that'd be fun. Uh, I will randomly send her memes with clowns in them. Uh and okay. So anyway, there was they hold like uh blowers, I think, but they're supposed to look like or and look and sound like chainsaws, right?

SPEAKER_05:

I think they're chainsaws without the chain.

SPEAKER_02:

Or that. And there's a clown chasing you. I remember that. Yeah. With one of those. And he was freaking out. You were freaking out, Nike. And then my other favorite memory of that is when I don't know if it was like obviously it was like a haunted house. They have just random, in case you've never been, they have random haunted houses throughout the park. And we went through one that was kind of like the old school like fun house, haunted house. And there was a spinny thing, but it I don't think it was really spinning. It was like a tunnel. And then it had the uh like it had the visual effects that made you feel like it really was spinning and you kept falling down and you couldn't get out of it.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, that was so hard. I was hanging on to like the railing for dear life. It was messing with me so bad.

SPEAKER_02:

I was dying because you walk across just like this bridge, you're on solid ground, you're not touching anything, and just it looks like you're okay. Anyway, all right, good.

SPEAKER_05:

According to the theme song, which family is said to be creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky.

unknown:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

I already knew which family when you started.

SPEAKER_05:

Um true or false, National Candy Corn Day is October 30th. False. It's true.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I would have said November 1st when it's all discounted.

SPEAKER_05:

Do you candy corn? I used to. I don't really anymore. Where does the word Halloween come from?

SPEAKER_02:

Hallows Eve.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Yup. What dance was allegedly a graveyard smash that caught on in a flash?

SPEAKER_02:

The monster mash. Monster mash.

SPEAKER_05:

What character was unsurprisingly the most popular Halloween costume of 2023? Yeah, think of what movie came out that year.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay. Um was it Mario?

SPEAKER_05:

Mm-mm. Female girl, little girl.

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Little girl. Annabelle?

SPEAKER_05:

No, it wasn't a little bit.

SPEAKER_02:

No, not Annabelle. Um that's not who I meant anyway. I meant what's that girl? The creepy. It's a movie. I never seen it. I have Megan. Is that her name? I don't know what the movie is and it's a three backwards instead of an E. Oh, I've never seen it. I think we need to watch it. Okay. Um Barbie. I wouldn't have gotten it.

SPEAKER_05:

No, you were going down a weird track.

SPEAKER_02:

I think it's because my kids, my kids and I dressed up as Mario characters that year.

SPEAKER_05:

Uh what are the first names of the Sanderson sisters in Hocus Pocus?

SPEAKER_02:

Winifred. Yes. Oh. Uh hold on. I want I want to say Sarah, but it's Sarah Jessica Parker.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, Sarah?

SPEAKER_02:

There's a Sarah. Oh, and I can never remember the girl with dark hair's name. I don't know. I can't think of her name. Mary. Mary.

SPEAKER_05:

Mary, Mary, quite country.

SPEAKER_02:

Why do people traditionally wear costumes on Halloween?

SPEAKER_05:

To scare away evil spirits. Yeah, that was an easy one.

SPEAKER_02:

In which country did Halloween originate? Germany? No. Ireland's a Celtic festival. Celtic. Celtic. Celtic. Duh. Boston Celtic. I just asked about the Celtic. But I'm thinking Boston. Boston Celtics. Boston. Uh Festival of Sam Haynes. Bastin. Okay. Go ahead. Do you have another one?

SPEAKER_05:

What f yes, I have there's 101 on this Buzzfeed article.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_05:

What famous person died on Halloween? Audrey Hepburn, Harry Houdini, Aretha Franklin, or Edgar Allan Poe.

SPEAKER_02:

Hmm. I feel Poe. Houdini. I know I should have known it was not Poe because you did an episode on Edgar Allan Poe. Did I? Something about cooping is the title of it. Remember when you talked? You don't remember? You did a whole episode on Edgar Allan Poe. No, there's so many.

SPEAKER_05:

So he got punched on the 22nd and he died on the 31st.

SPEAKER_02:

Houdini? Houdini. He got punched?

SPEAKER_05:

He got because he said he could survive hard punches to his abdomen. So a student named J. Gordon Whitehead um punched Houdini very hard several times in the stomach. He then went to Detroit where he developed severe abdominal pain, cold sweats, and a fever of 104 degrees. Although a doctor suspected appendicitis, he took the stage at the Garrick Theater and collapsed immediately after Final Curtain.

SPEAKER_02:

And then he died. Dumb way to die. I know. Okay. How did the tradition of trick or treating start?

SPEAKER_05:

I thought that you were supposed to put out candy to keep people, bad spirits away.

SPEAKER_02:

It started from the medieval practice of souling, where people would go door to door offering prayers for the dead in exchange for food.

SPEAKER_05:

Mmm. Interesting. So I'll pray for you if you give me some food.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Um, what was the writer for the film Child's Play inspired by to create the character Chucky?

SPEAKER_01:

Cabbage patch dolls.

SPEAKER_05:

That's one of them. Are you serious? Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh that's too funny. That's the first thing I thought of. And there's another doll.

SPEAKER_05:

Mm-hmm. Another. My buddy. My buddy. Oh my god. My buddy and me.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that's his name is My Body. It is. Right? Yes. It's not. Uh what's a bear? What was the bear's name? Teddy. Rumple. Nope. Rupskin. Ruppskin. Ruxkin.

SPEAKER_05:

Teddy Rux Ruxin. Ruxpin? Teddy. Teddy Ruxin. Okay. Do you know Okay, the Halloween tradition of bobbing for apples stemmed from a courting ritual? True or false?

SPEAKER_02:

True.

SPEAKER_05:

It is. Girls would put their names on an apple, and potential suitors would bob for the apples. Picking the name of the girl would indicate the possibility of a future relationship.

SPEAKER_02:

Weird. What does the name Dracula mean? Dracula. Mean in Romanian. Bloodsucker? Son of the dragon or son of the devil?

unknown:

Hmm.

SPEAKER_02:

Why are you hearing that big snore?

SPEAKER_05:

Yes, I did. Okay. I was meant to just. Why are black cats associated with Halloween?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh because they steal souls.

SPEAKER_05:

And your breath while you sleep. Yes. Uh or no, they protect you from the trolls that steal your breath while you sleep. In medieval Europe, it was believed that devils and witches could disguise as black cats.

SPEAKER_02:

Let's see. Dumb, easy questions.

SPEAKER_05:

I'm gonna give a shout out to the Wisconsin neighbor. When was the first citywide US or Hollow When was the first citywide Halloween celebration held in the US?

SPEAKER_02:

When? Citywide?

SPEAKER_05:

It was in Anoka, Minnesota. Or is it Anoka? Anoka. Um 1958. 21. 1921. Oh hey. Halloween originated in Ireland, true or false. That just came up.

SPEAKER_02:

True. What mythical monsters said to be repelled by silver bullets. That's an easy one.

SPEAKER_05:

These are um, why did trigger treating gain traction in the 1930s in America?

SPEAKER_03:

We did not know this. The Great Depression.

SPEAKER_05:

Uh it had something to do with it. And it was to stop pranking because pranking became the preferred practice on Halloween among young people in the 20s, but it became dangerous during the Great Depression, devolving into vandalism and violence. So to prevent pranking pranking or worse behavior in the communities, the organized activity of trigger treating was encouraged.

SPEAKER_02:

So they positively reinforce people coming to your door by giving them food and candy. Instead of having a few years, instead of just making people stay at home and mind their own business. What did people originally use to make jack-o'-lanterns before pumpkins became the norm? Turnips. And potatoes. Yes.

SPEAKER_05:

Ooh. Which animal will shelters not allow people to adopt on Halloween?

SPEAKER_02:

Which what now?

SPEAKER_05:

Aww. Which animal will shelters not allow people to spot cats.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, that's because they're afraid people are going to be mean to them.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. A woman adopted a black cat as part of a Halloween costume, and days later the animal is found dead.

SPEAKER_02:

There's usually like an alert that goes out to keep your black cats in to make sure that they don't get used for something.

SPEAKER_05:

So weird. Where can you be fined for using silly string on Halloween?

SPEAKER_03:

Where? Um Missouri.

SPEAKER_02:

Weird. This is weirdo. Okay, so this is a different answer. How did the practice of bobbing for apples become a popular Halloween game? People were hungry. It traces back to a Roman tradition of trying to bite into apples in honor of the goddess Pomona.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05:

Which US questions? Which US state produces the most pumpkins?

SPEAKER_02:

Uh, Idaho. Iowa.

SPEAKER_05:

What does it start with? An eye. It's neither of those two. Indiana. No.

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Illinois.

SPEAKER_05:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Ireland. That's weird. But I went for the eyes. Okay, name this is not a trivia question. Name the Adams family members. Pugsley, Wednesday, Morticia.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh no. Why can't I remember the dad's name? But on the dip of my tongue. Oh no. Who's this? Oh, thing. Obviously.

SPEAKER_02:

Who's the one with the hair? Cousin It. Who's the big lanky looking Frankenstein dude? Lurch. Okay, who's the ball guy? Uncle. Uncle Fester. And you still can't remember dad. I can't. Oh dear.

SPEAKER_05:

What is the dad's name?

SPEAKER_02:

Gomez.

SPEAKER_05:

Gomez, dang.

SPEAKER_02:

Hmm. What's your favorite Halloween movie? Okay, I guess that can't be a Halloween movie. Horror movie.

SPEAKER_05:

Didn't we just talk about this recently?

SPEAKER_02:

We did. What do you think is the scariest one?

SPEAKER_05:

The Strangers, hands down. It still messes with me.

SPEAKER_02:

Same. Yeah. Okay, so what is your what is what do you think is the scariest, like not could be real? Because I feel like the strangers could be real.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah, I think that's why it scares me.

SPEAKER_02:

That's why it scares me.

SPEAKER_05:

Um the Halloween movies. I don't know if it's just the music, but they creep me out.

SPEAKER_02:

I have I think I'm gonna I have to say the uh what is it called? Oh no, I can't think of what the names of them are. It's the one where shoot. The kid like can he when he goes to sleep, he can leave his body and go into the other demand.

SPEAKER_05:

It's oh, it's about the Warrens. The Warrens are in those. Yes. Insidious.

SPEAKER_02:

Insidious, thank you. I was going to say it starts with an eye. You and I words today. Yes. My name is Ingrid. You're so stupid.

SPEAKER_05:

All right, World War II caused sugar rationing, which put a halt to trigger treating for how many years? Oh, that's sad. Five. Yes, you're so lucky.

SPEAKER_02:

What 1999 found footage horror mood film is about three film students who disappear after hiking in the woods? Where did you go?

SPEAKER_05:

Uh just hang on a second. Blair Witch Project.

SPEAKER_02:

You're freaking me out. Are you going to scare me? No. We're putting on a Halloween costume.

SPEAKER_05:

Did I tell you what we're dressing up as for Halloween? You did not.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, that's a shame. Okay, so everyone can hear what you're doing.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, I didn't I didn't do that. Just to do that, I had to take care of something else.

SPEAKER_02:

Was it a booger?

SPEAKER_05:

It's crumbs. Chick-fil-A crumbs from four weeks ago.

SPEAKER_02:

Why are spiders considered lucky on Halloween?

SPEAKER_05:

Because they have eight legs and they can carry more bags of candy.

SPEAKER_02:

Folklore says a spider seen on Halloween means the spirit of a loved one is watching over you.

SPEAKER_05:

Hmm. I haven't seen a lot of yellow butterflies lately. What? I haven't seen a lot of yellow butterflies.

SPEAKER_02:

Do you like zombie movies? No, I think they're stupid. Same.

SPEAKER_05:

The fear of Halloween is known as Sam Hainophobia. True or false?

SPEAKER_02:

The fear of Halloween?

SPEAKER_01:

Fear of Halloween.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I have to prove that. No, false. True. Sam Hain. Well, I know it's Sam Hain. I just thought it sounded too obvious. What does it mean if you see a ghost in your dreams on Halloween night?

SPEAKER_05:

Is it another family member coming to say hi?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. It's believed to mean that a spirit is trying to communicate with you.

SPEAKER_05:

Hmm. Oh, a spirit.

SPEAKER_02:

A spirit.

SPEAKER_05:

They already asked that question.

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What common household item was once used to determine whom you would marry on Halloween?

SPEAKER_05:

An apple?

SPEAKER_02:

A mirror. Ah, that's accurate. If I look into a mirror, all I see is myself.

SPEAKER_05:

That's true. Jack-O'lanterns are literally named after a guy named Jack, true or false? Yes. A seventeen seventeenth century Irish legend, stingy Jack was a cranky old man who tricked the devil into doing a number of things. When Jack died as punishment for his trickery, the devil sent him into the night with only a burning coal, which Jack put into a carved-out turnip to light his path. He's been roaming ever since, and the Irish called the ghost Jack of the Lantern or Jack O'Lantern.

SPEAKER_02:

You did an episode about stingy Jack.

SPEAKER_05:

I think I covered a Halloween episode because that's how I knew the turnips.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh yeah, I'm looking up art. We are so good.

SPEAKER_05:

A pumpkin is a fruit, true or false? True. Yes. What's Taters precious? Teeter.

SPEAKER_02:

Some of these I don't know.

SPEAKER_05:

How long were Adam and Barbara waiting to speak to Juno and Beetlejuice?

SPEAKER_02:

How long were what now?

SPEAKER_05:

Adam and Barbara waiting to speak to Juno and Beetlejuice.

SPEAKER_02:

I don't even remember who Juno is.

SPEAKER_05:

Juno is, I think she's a lady with a slit in her neck that smokes.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that smokes. Yeah. Oh no, she smokes, but smoke comes out her neck.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Uh ten years. No, it's three months. And it I think there was just a comment when they came back about them being gone three months. I wanted to remember that either.

SPEAKER_02:

I haven't seen that movie in ages. I haven't seen the new one either. I've seen the new one. Was it good? It was okay. Stingy Skinny Jack. Origins of Halloween, All Saints, All Souls, and Dia de los Muertes. Los Muertos.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, I didn't tell you what we're dressing up as in this. Alright, I'll ask you this one. Have you watched it recently?

SPEAKER_02:

I think the last time I watched it was last year around Halloween.

SPEAKER_05:

We also watch it every year.

SPEAKER_02:

Easter. Nope.

SPEAKER_05:

Remember they kidnapped the Easter bunny? No, there's a Halloween door. There's a St. Patrick's Day door. There's a Christmas door. That's kind of actually that's a tricky question because it's April Fool's Day is the answer.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that's dumb.

SPEAKER_05:

It is dumb. I mean, there's no Memorial Day door. Anyways, so my son is gonna be Jack, my husband's gonna be the mayor, I'm gonna be Zero, and my daughter's gonna be a cute puppy. Who's Zero? The dog. The the ghost dog, Jack's ghost dog.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh. And then your daughter's just being a dog, another dog.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. So we decided that she's zero when Zero was alive. And I'm Zero's ghost.

SPEAKER_02:

My kids are so they're mostly with her dad this year. And I think was it last year? Last year was the same. So we used to do a big family thing, but they are not. How many bones are in the human skeleton? 106. You should be adult. Oh this is all the same questions. When was the first Halloween celebrated in the United States? 1921. No, that was the first citywide celebrated. I know.

SPEAKER_05:

1899?

SPEAKER_02:

40.

SPEAKER_05:

1840?

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. When the Irish came over. How is Lori Strode related to killer Michael Myers in the movie? Mother? No. It's a trick question. Thought so. The answer depends on the movie. Halloween 2, released in 1981, says that she is Michael's sister. Later sequels followed suit until 2018, a direct sequel to the 1978 original in which no family relation is mentioned. So in the 2018 movie Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends, Lori and Michael are unrelated. I don't know. What movie line does do like scary movies? Yes, that wasn't allowed at all.

SPEAKER_05:

That's because I moved my thing.

SPEAKER_02:

Ooh, in what state is it the norm for trick-or-treaters to receive full-size candy bars? A whole state? Vermont. No, they just get cheese. It's a weird state. I'll give you 10 guesses. Missouri? 49 guesses. No.

SPEAKER_05:

Uh South Dakota.

SPEAKER_02:

No.

SPEAKER_05:

Wyoming?

SPEAKER_02:

No. North Dakota. No. Alaska? Too cold for any candy up there. No.

SPEAKER_05:

Well, that's why they they deserve full candy bars.

SPEAKER_02:

They don't go trick-or-treating. They stay inside. Idaho? No. What a weird state to guess.

SPEAKER_05:

New Mexico. No. Ohio?

SPEAKER_02:

No.

SPEAKER_05:

Pennsylvania. Oh, that's a good guess.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, I'm gonna give you ten more guesses.

SPEAKER_05:

Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas. Ten more. California, Colorado, Washington, Oregon. There you go. Oregon?

unknown:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh. Why did it just sound like something creaks open? Because Bobby's home. Oh, it's creepy. Oregon, right? Isn't that weird?

SPEAKER_05:

That is weird.

SPEAKER_02:

Not as weird as your guesses, except for Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_05:

What is the name of the large green ghost Ray? First encounters and Ghostbusters.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, okay. Oh. Name the haunted San Jose, California home that grew from eight rooms to 160 rooms while owned by an eccentric rifle heiress. Cornado? Winchester Mystery House. From 1886 until her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester, which makes sense. Widow of William Wirt Rin Winchester continuously added on to her California home. What was the original name for candy corn? Triangled sugar. Chicken bean. I can't imagine why that wouldn't go over well.

SPEAKER_05:

What I don't know, there's that mix called dog food or puppy chow. Not dog food. What celeb was born on Halloween? Vanilla ice? Born on October 31st, 1967.

SPEAKER_02:

If we're going with the original dun dun dun dun dun dun dun. I know Freddie Mercury.

SPEAKER_05:

I know. I was hoping that you knew.

SPEAKER_02:

But you weren't going to crack me if I didn't.

SPEAKER_05:

No, I actually thought you would guess at one.

SPEAKER_02:

Ew. Can you guess how many calories are in the average trick or treat Halloween bag? Ooh.

SPEAKER_05:

10,000?

SPEAKER_02:

You actually went over 3,500 to 7,000.

SPEAKER_05:

See, my Trivia question says, What was candy corn more popular than when it was first invented? What was candy corn? That question doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_01:

It doesn't.

SPEAKER_05:

No. Candy corn was originally made by hand. True or false?

SPEAKER_01:

True.

SPEAKER_05:

It is true.

SPEAKER_02:

Speaking of candy corn, how many pounds of candy corn are produced every single year? Oh a million?

SPEAKER_05:

Did I go too high?

SPEAKER_03:

What? 10 million? 35 million pounds. Pounds of candy corn? Candy corn.

SPEAKER_02:

Who eats it all? Nine billion pieces of candy. Goodness, that's crazy. Oh, there's Tootsie Rolls. What is this picture? Oh, I gave the answer away. What candy was handed out to soldiers during the Korean War? Candy corn? Launched way back in 1907. Tootsie rolls were accidentally airdropped to American troops in battle in the Korean War. The troops went on to praise the candies for keeping them nourished and even plugging bullet holes, oh my god, in vehicles and equipment, which would seal as the candies froze in the frigid temperatures. How do you accidentally drop Tootsie Rolls? Where were they supposed to be dropped at? Or what else was supposed to be dropped that somebody accidentally put in Tootsie Rolls? I need to know more about this. Why is this? What is the only mammal that can fly?

unknown:

Oh.

SPEAKER_02:

A squirrel? We're talking about Halloween. But it's a flying squirrel. Batty baddie baddie baddie baddie baddie bad. Wow. It's a flying mouse. Kind of more or less. What country holds a record for the largest pumpkin ever? England. No. Italia. Grown in 2021. The pumpkin weighed in at a whopping 1,226 kilograms.

SPEAKER_05:

Which is 3,956 pounds.

SPEAKER_02:

No. I'm just kidding. I doubt that. 2,702 pounds. It was 11 feet and 8 inches in diameter. You could sit in there and have tea.

SPEAKER_05:

Why a spoon, cousin? Um, why did Alfred Hitchcock shoot Psycho in black and white?

SPEAKER_02:

Because it's all they did back then.

SPEAKER_05:

So the death scene, death shower scheme, shower death scene wouldn't look so gory.

SPEAKER_02:

That's weird. And then, you know, now we have like Saw in hostile. I've never watched. Which of the following is not a term for a scarecrow? Hodmod. Mermid? This is my favorite question. We have to pay attention because okay. Okay, so which of the following is not a term for a scarecrow? Hodmodod. Mermid. Doodle sack. Heyman. Heyman. Gally bagger. Taddyboggle. Momets, mockin, and woobook. Mermot. Doodle sack.

SPEAKER_00:

Doodle sack? That's actually a word.

SPEAKER_02:

An English word for a bagpipe. My favorite is a hodmad.

SPEAKER_05:

Hodmadad. Hodmadard.

SPEAKER_02:

Ooh, here's a what is the highest grossing horror film to date? Ooh. Psycho. I don't know if this really constitutes us a horror movie. What is it? Sixth Sense. It's kind of, it's more like to me, it's more psychological thriller. I guess it's kind of scary. The ghost is a thing. This is a psych thriller.

unknown:

I see.

SPEAKER_02:

And then Jaws. Uh oh. Jaws in the second and third spot. Wait, answer. Oh, it I didn't read that right. It comes in at top. I was like, oh, the sixth sense. It comes in at the top without adjusting for inflation. And then the sixth sense and jaws have the second and third spots. I didn't like it. So it's it? It. Yeah. Did you watch that movie? It? Not the not the one that we watched when we were kids.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, the new one? Uh no, I wanted to, but I haven't.

SPEAKER_02:

I did. I don't think it's that scary. It's different, too. It's not the same story.

SPEAKER_05:

Is it like supposed to be a sequel or a prequel?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I think it's supposed to be. Like a remake? Uh-huh. There's there's what is it called? Something about dairy. There's like a prequel series, I think, on some show. Some some TV. Something I don't own. HBO or something.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't know. Why does candy corn have its corn shape? Because nature-inspired candy was all the rage in the 1880s.

SPEAKER_02:

Seriously?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Alright, that's the end of my trivia.

SPEAKER_02:

What else? What other kind of candies did they have that were nature-inspired?

SPEAKER_05:

In the 1880s, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

You don't remember. Let me think back. Uh red hops?

SPEAKER_05:

Lemon drops. A bunch of lemon drops because they were shipped like lemons.

SPEAKER_02:

Where did Frankenstein originate? Mary Shelley. How did you know that?

SPEAKER_05:

Because she wrote Frankenstein.

SPEAKER_02:

I didn't know she wrote that.

SPEAKER_05:

You didn't know Mary Shelley wrote that?

SPEAKER_02:

Nope. Oh, good grief. Oh, here's an easy one. It's in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Who does Linus mistake for the Great Pumpkin? Santa Claus? Seriously? I just said it was easy. I didn't even look at the answer because I know it. Snoopy. I don't think I've seen that in a while. What was Rom Stoker's original name for Dracula? Dracula. That's good. Count Wampier. Wompier. Wompier is the German word for vampire.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh. Dracula is much better. Good job, Rom.

SPEAKER_02:

Where's Transylvania located? Pennsylvania. Romania.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_02:

When you sell a house, are you required to disclose if it's haunted? In most states, the answer is no. Only four states mention paranormal activity in their real estate disclosure laws. You're not gonna tell me what the four are. Oh, I was just gonna ask you, Oregon. It has to be Oregon. Massachusetts? Oregon, Massachusetts, Louisiana. And Delaware. Okay, let's see. What are they? I'm dying to know. I'm trying to find it. New York. New Jersey. We had Massachusetts.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, it is Massachusetts. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

In Minnesota.

SPEAKER_05:

Minnesota.

SPEAKER_02:

Are there a lot of haunted things in Minnesota? I don't know.

SPEAKER_05:

I only have a haunted Wisconsin book.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm trying to think of a joke here, and it's not working about the Vikings somehow being dead. Yes. Their dreams are dead for the Super Bowl.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, I can share that joke I heard. Oh, yeah. In Missouri. Yes. Did you hear that um the Minnesota Vikings are changing their name? They are. Yeah, they're changing them to the possums.

SPEAKER_03:

What?

SPEAKER_05:

That doesn't make sense. Because they get killed on the road and they play dead when they're home.

SPEAKER_00:

I think I messed that up. Speaking of games, did you stay up all night to watch a game last night? I did.

SPEAKER_05:

It was good. I was nervous still. Because it came within eight points, and I was like, man, they have Aaron Rodgers. Like, I remember feeling confident being in that circumstance.

SPEAKER_02:

So I will say at one point during the game, when Aaron Rodgers turned his head with that god-awful uniform on the rest of his body and the weird black, foamy things that he had, he looked like a cartoon.

SPEAKER_03:

I like I had to blink. I'm like, what?

SPEAKER_02:

I did not eat something you okay. I did not consume anything, either eating wise or drinking wise, to think that he looked like a cartoon. And I kept like, he looks so weird.

SPEAKER_05:

He looks I didn't know he was married. I saw his wedding ring.

SPEAKER_02:

Who's he married to himself?

SPEAKER_05:

I have no idea whoever he saw in the mirror at Halloween. In ayahuasca. Himself in ayahuasca. I kept getting a kick that he kept uh having to breathe the smelling salts like almost before in the huddle. They showed him sniffing the smelling salts like twice.

SPEAKER_02:

Why? I don't know. Stink in Pittsburgh.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't, I mean, it's a manufacturing city.

SPEAKER_02:

That is really weird. What is that about? I don't know. Maybe he was tired. He's playing a football game.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't know. I've never seen anyone smell smelling salts in the huddle before.

SPEAKER_02:

Is he concussed?

SPEAKER_05:

It was the very beginning of the game. I think it was their first drive.

SPEAKER_02:

I totally miss that. That is really strange. It is. Okay. I was going to ask a few more questions, but you decided to do trivia. How many colors of MMs are there in a normal bag? Four.

unknown:

No.

SPEAKER_02:

Five. Count them.

SPEAKER_05:

Brown, red, yellow, blue. That's a half snort.

SPEAKER_02:

And green. Five. What did you no? Did you say yellow? I did. Did you say orange? I didn't. What is the name of a group of witches? Oh, that one's easy.

SPEAKER_05:

A gaggle. What is the where did that come from? What's a gaggle?

SPEAKER_02:

Isn't that like a group of hens?

SPEAKER_05:

Maybe a hens? A coven? Is it is a coven? What's a group of crows called?

SPEAKER_02:

What's the first what was the first wrapped penny candy in America? Peppermint. Tootsie roll.

SPEAKER_05:

No one likes Tootsie Rolls. I do. That's what I just said. No one likes Tootsie Rolls.

SPEAKER_02:

What do you sprinkle on your doorstep if you want to keep evil spirits out of your house on Halloween night? Salt. Butter. Jessica will never come in through the door if there's butter outside.

SPEAKER_05:

Tootsie rolls. Angered will never come inside.

SPEAKER_02:

No, it's funny. It is salt. I'm out of question. This said for the dogs, pumpkin, then a hot dog, then a superhero, cat, and then a bumblebee. What was the first movie to feature a toilet on screen? That's a random question.

SPEAKER_05:

Psycho. Oh, is it really? Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

Uh where holds where holds the record for having the most jack-o'-lanterns lit up? Ireland. It's in the US. Oh. New York? I mean, because they had everything else. They have a freaking parade, for God's sake. A freaking parade. Keene, New Hampshire. Hampshire. Ooh, this one's fun. In what state is it illegal to dress up as a nun or a priest on Halloween?

SPEAKER_05:

What state? Do we have like a Catholic state?

SPEAKER_02:

And this is to section 13A-14-4. Fraudulently pretending to be a clergyman, whoever being in a public place, fraudulently pretends by garb or outward array to be a minister of any religion or a nun, priest, rabbi, or other member of the clergy is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine not exceeding$500, or confinement in the county jail for not more than one year. Orby both such fine and imprisonment. Louisiana. Uh Alabama. Okay, we're almost done because this is dragging. What is a most prolific children's horror book series? R.

SPEAKER_05:

Alstein?

SPEAKER_02:

Who yeah, what is it? That's not it.

SPEAKER_05:

I don't remember.

SPEAKER_02:

Goosebumps.

SPEAKER_05:

Ah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

What ghost did British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reportedly see in the White House? Washington? President Washington? Ibrahim Lincoln. Yeah. He was done taking a bath. This is very descriptive. When he was a guest staying at the White House, Churchill was done with a long bath and walking back to his adjoining room naked with only his cigar. When he's I don't know why that is in there.

SPEAKER_05:

To give you the visual of Winston Churchill.

SPEAKER_02:

Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill naked.

SPEAKER_05:

Those Brits.

SPEAKER_02:

Naked with only a cigar when he saw Lincoln sitting by the fireplace. Churchill said, Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage. To which Mr. Lincoln apparently only smiled and disappeared.

SPEAKER_05:

Interesting.

SPEAKER_02:

Funny. How many children have been harmed or injured by or by poison? What? How many children have been harmed or injured by poisoned or manipulated candy given to them by strangers on Halloween? Zero. Correct.

SPEAKER_05:

Ed Gane.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, and Psycho. I don't want to give up Psycho. Yeah, we've got the best. Best of the best.

SPEAKER_05:

Did you ever drive by Ed Geane's house?

SPEAKER_03:

County P. I didn't.

SPEAKER_05:

You probably did, and you probably didn't know it. It was between two cemeteries.

SPEAKER_02:

I remember in high school going into a place called Grandpa Groesome's.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

I was with uh two boys who shall remain unnamed, and I'll say Melissa Johnson was with me. And we pulled up, and I think the boys went into the house, or they were going to go into the house. And I think Melissa and I did not. We got out of the car, and I think we were too freaked out. So then we got back into the car. And I think I was driving. I don't remember. It was either me or Melissa driving because I think the other two were too too young to drive. We backed up and then like went to go forward, and there was an old farmer standing with a pitchfork pointed at us. Oh my gosh. Yes. It was that night. It was grandpa Christmas. What's the scariest thing that's happened to you in real life?

SPEAKER_05:

I thought I lost my son at the Texas State Fair last weekend.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, I was gonna say that just happened. What now? I don't know about this.

SPEAKER_05:

Oh, we were waiting in line, and I turned away for a second, and I looked around and I could not find him anywhere. We were waiting in line for a ride, and I started freaking out and screaming his name. And this other um, these other adults were helping me, and they asked me what he was wearing, and I told them. And then he just comes walking around the ride, and he's like, I can't find the opening to get into the ride when we were standing right by the door. Oh my gosh. I started crying, it was terrifying.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, that is awful. Hmm. It made me think of something, and then I forgot it already. I mean, I think I thought I lost my kid at Disney.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

We were there. I remember secondborns.

SPEAKER_03:

That's what they do.

SPEAKER_02:

Ooh, how is the mystery flavor of dum dumb lollipops made? Ooh.

SPEAKER_05:

Mixing everything together?

SPEAKER_02:

Rather than clean the machines out between flavor batches, the company will tell, will take the leftovers of flavor A and the leftovers of flavor B and combine them to make the mystery flavor. They then use a wrapper with question marks designed to signify its mysterious flavor provo. And what is a record for the fastest time to carve a pumpkin? Two minutes and 57 seconds.47 seconds.

SPEAKER_05:

Whoa! That's impressive. He must have had really sharp tools. Must have. We're carving pumpkins tonight. I just I gutted them this morning.

SPEAKER_02:

I bought black plastic pumpkins and glow in the dark paint, and I said, yeah, do this instead.

SPEAKER_05:

Aww. That's cute too, though.

SPEAKER_02:

And obviously that one has a purple bow. Okay. We droned on for an hour.

SPEAKER_05:

We did. One thing I do find very funny if for our visual watchers that uh nope. For people that can see the video is the difference in backgrounds between me and you.

SPEAKER_00:

Chaos and organization. I mean, and very fitting.

SPEAKER_05:

I knocked my coffee over. Was it empty? It was. I'm just gonna sit here, put my hands on the desk, and not move.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, well, um hopefully you enjoy. I don't know if anybody's listening anymore. Yeah. Happy Halloween. Happy Halloween, and we'll see you in November. Mm-hmm. Be ghoul. Stay in school. Oh shush. No. Oh, bees. That's right.

SPEAKER_05:

Sounds very patronizing. Oh, but that's right. Good chop, Jessica. Good chop.

SPEAKER_02:

It means it's sound patronizing. I actually forgot. Oh shoot, I have to edit this. We need to wrap this up because this goes up. Done. Really? You did be ghoul?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah. Beheaded. Don't be a mummy. I'm so dumb right now. I don't know. I'm done. That's it.

SPEAKER_02:

Don't be a nightmare on my street. I just keep I had that song's in my head. Uh-uh. Okay. Fresh prints. Okay. Uh, we'll see you in two weeks. Hopefully, we actually organize ourselves and come up with a plan.

SPEAKER_05:

If not, lucky you. Yay. Bye. Bye. Love you.

SPEAKER_04:

If you'd like to reach out to us or submit your situation, please contact us at AnotherSituationPodcast at gmail.com or find us on Instagram at AnotherSituation Podcast. We're also on Facebook at AnotherSituation.

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Another Situation is produced and edited by Point Five Panoy. Music is written and performed by Tim Crow.

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