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Midnight Musings - Halloween Edition
Halloween stirs something primal in us. That magical feeling when October arrives, the crispness in the air, and the permission to indulge in childlike wonder—regardless of our age. This conversation delves into the heart of what makes this season so special, from the seemingly trivial debates about candy hierarchies to the profound joy of experiencing traditions through new eyes.
The great candy debate reveals our passionate opinions about Halloween treats, with Reese's Pumpkins emerging as a universal favorite due to their perfect chocolate-to-peanut butter ratio. Beyond mere preference, we explore the curious phenomenon of why shaped foods—from seasonal pretzels to themed mac and cheese—genuinely seem to taste better than their standard counterparts. We even share a life-changing hot chocolate hack involving melted candy bars that will transform your autumn evenings forever.
There's something beautifully rebellious about defending teenage trick-or-treaters. While some neighborhoods turn away adolescents seeking candy, we stand firmly in opposition to this practice. These young people, teetering between childhood and adulthood, deserve the simple joy of participating in this tradition—provided they honor the ritual by actually saying "trick-or-treat." This seemingly small requirement represents the spirit of reciprocity that makes Halloween special.
Perhaps most touching is the experience of reclaiming Halloween joy as an adult after missing it during childhood. For those raised in households where the holiday wasn't celebrated, witnessing a child's wide-eyed wonder at spooky decorations or their excitement about costumes offers a profound healing experience. The meticulous planning of themed costumes, the willingness to adapt when a child changes their mind seventeen times before October 31st, and the dedication to creating magical moments represents parenting at its most creative and loving.
Join us for this candid, occasionally emotional exploration of Halloween's enduring magic. Whether you're planning elaborate decorations, debating the merits of different candy bars, or simply enjoying the season through a loved one's eyes, there's something universally connecting about this most spooktacular time of year. What Halloween traditions are you creating or continuing this season?
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I can ignore a lot yeah.
Speaker 2:But you give me some unhappy curmudgeon. That's like teenagers, I won't give anything, Get bent Go fuck yourself. I'm sorry, but a 16, 17-year-old knocks on my door and says trick-or-treat, they're getting fucking candy. End of story, Sorry.
Speaker 1:I am that stickler, though. It's just you gotta say trick-or-treat. You're doing the thing. You gotta say trick-or-treat, Like, specifically if you're the teenager too. Like if I see the teenagers and I hear you guys like two houses away and you're laughing, you're joking, you're rowdy, you have the time of your life. Hell yeah, you both motherfuckers say trick or treat. You ain't getting shit, you gotta. You gotta say trick or treat.
Speaker 2:Before we begin today's episode, we would like to share a quick disclaimer. The views, opinions and statements expressed by the hosts and guests on this podcast are their own personal views and are provided in their own capacity. All content is editorial, opinion-based and intended for entertainment purposes only. Listener discretion is advised. Welcome back to the Black Curtain Club. This episode. We have no agenda, we have no script, we have no story. We're just here for another midnight musing.
Speaker 1:And I don't have pants.
Speaker 2:Funny, I don't have pants either. I never record with pants on. That's, that's my ritual Never record with pants on.
Speaker 1:Ritual or superstition.
Speaker 2:This is off to a swimming start, but yeah. So spooky season and I know I'm excited about it, you're excited about it. What's not to love about it? Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, joke's on you, it never does it never ends, right, right.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you this what is your favorite Halloween candy?
Speaker 1:I have accounts of the Halloween candy. Just it's candy year round like okay, okay, your kids are going trick-or-treating, you're commandeering their candy bucket.
Speaker 2:What are you pulling out first?
Speaker 1:what am I hoping they have plenty of in there yeah okay, I'm hoping that that weird dude lives at the end of the street because we go trick-or-treating in the area by my um, my sister-in-law's. Oh, the weird dude at the end of the street. He has those gummy bears that he had, that he laced with lsd, like he did last year. We called him groovy bears oh nice no, that's that's.
Speaker 1:that's just, that's a semi-archer quote. No, no, no, there's not a guy who lives at the end of my sister-in-law street who hands out LSD to kids. It's way too expensive. Who the fuck's just giving it away Anyhow? Oh God, that's tough. The basic bitch answer the Reese's pumpkins. It's got to be the Reese's pumpkins man Reese's pumpkins.
Speaker 2:There's something be the Reese pumpkins. Ma'am Reese pumpkins. There's something special about a Reese pumpkin.
Speaker 1:It's, it's the chocolate to peanut butter ratio. It goes you don't get the egg and then everything else. The pumpkin is the best shape for the Reese cup and then the egg that you get at Easter time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah it's.
Speaker 1:It is not the same as a regular reese's cup no, no, it's because it's because there's more peanut butter and so the different consistencies, the different oils, the different everything else just kind of mixes with it all. So it is still reese's peanut butter and chocolate, but because there's more peanut butter, the actual like stuff mixes everything, but there's all it's. The actual like stuff mixes everything, but there's all. It's all sorts of science stuff, mainly just because I am pretty sure I was misdiagnosed with ADHD and I'm pretty sure I am autistic, you're.
Speaker 1:you're getting way too too into uh yeah, I'm pretty sure I am autistic, but just saying, man, I get the one where I get like crippling hyper focused and have to learn everything about one specific thing forever hey, as long as it's not trains, you're good it ain't trains.
Speaker 2:Different types of trains but I digress, I was gonna say phrasing. As soon as I said the word, I was like oh, that was the wrong word to say.
Speaker 1:Oh shit, here we go but no, it's just, yeah, okay. So, besides that basic bitch answer of the Reese pumpkin, the little bag of pretzels, the Oots pretzels that are shaped like bats and jack-o'-lanterns and shit. I fucking love those. Yeah, bag of pretzels the oots pretzels that are shaped like bats and jack-o'-lanterns and shit. I fucking love those some for some reason. For some reason, I think that I'm gonna start my own conspiracy here for a second. I don't care, where's my fucking hat? Where's my hat?
Speaker 2:tinfoil hat. Where's my hat?
Speaker 1:anyhow, here's my conspiracy that the people who make the shapes of them pretzels are the same people that make the shapes of Kraft Mac and cheese, specifically the SpongeBob ones, because get a bag of, is it Oots? The U-T-Z Oots.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Where's mine?
Speaker 2:I say Oots, oots, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:Get a bag of those pretzels and taste them and they taste mighty delicious because they're a pretzel. And then you get a bag of their Halloween shaped ones and the shaped ones taste so much fucking better. It's the same thing with blue box mac and cheese Craft mac and cheese. You eat regular mac and cheese. It tastes absolutely delicious. It's a goddamn thing. With blue box mac and cheese Craft mac and cheese you eat regular mac and cheese. It tastes absolutely delicious. It's a goddamn delicacy. Have one of the shaped ones Cars, mickey Mouse, paw Patrol, the SpongeBob ones Shaped mac and cheese tastes so much better than regular mac and cheese. I don't know what it is, but they're fucking fantastic. Don't know what it is, but they're fucking fantastic.
Speaker 2:You need to get a scientist involved in this conversation.
Speaker 1:Nope, just get a wildly over-medicated and underestimated or is it? Under-medicated and over-estimated. Under-medicated, over-estimated schmuck from the mitten state. That's all the science you need there, baby. Yeah, how about you are you looking for in that bag?
Speaker 2:If we're going for savory, then I like the cheese balls. They're usually the cheese balls. Yeah, if I'm going for sweet, this is a very basic bitch answer.
Speaker 1:I have two. I said the Reese pumpkin.
Speaker 2:I like a good Milky Way oh, yeah, milky Way and I'm a Three Musketeers fan. I always get excited about Three Musketeers. Yeah, lauren's the same. Yeah, Lauren loves Three Musketeers fan. I always get excited about Three Musketeers. Yeah, lauren's the same, yeah, lauren loves Three Musketeers. Yeah, I get really excited about that, and probably the little packs of Twizzlers.
Speaker 1:I can't stand Twizzlers man. I hate licorice.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't stand, but I do enjoy a Twizzler from time to time. Yeah, I can't stand licorice. Oh I can't stand, but I do enjoy a Twizzler from time to time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I just can't get on board with it. Man Just can't get on board with Twizzlers. Yeah, I'm not so much.
Speaker 2:I don't enjoy Snickers, but fuck me.
Speaker 1:I fucking love Snickers.
Speaker 2:Milky Way is like peak.
Speaker 1:All right, all right, all right. I'm going to give you another little bone whip to have fun with here, ready. Okay, yeah, I'm going to give you your first food. Hear me out, aka, you're going to get turned on by a cup of hot chocolate. Now, do yourself a favor. You got a way to steam up some milk or get some hot milk in your life.
Speaker 2:Uh-huh.
Speaker 1:Okay, not those little baby, little square candy bars. You know, that's the actual fun size where it's like two of those squares put together, like the actual decent size one. It doesn't come in a little gold wrapper like the actual right. You get like two of them fuckers, two, maybe three of those Milky Ways. You put them in a mug, then you put some hot ass steamed milk in there and you stir that shit up and you turn into like a milky way, hot chocolate, fuck me up thing. You give yourself a fucking gallon enema of that shit oh wow, it's delicious.
Speaker 2:I'm gonna have to try that. Try that.
Speaker 1:Oh, it's so good, it's so good. I stole that idea from, is it Lindor? Is that the truffles, the really fucking expensive ball candy?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's delicious, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 1:Lindor right oh.
Speaker 2:Lindor yeah, lindor, yeah, the little truffles.
Speaker 1:They're delicious, don't get me wrong, but it's chocolate. Calm the fuck down. They have an outlet at our outlet mall here. There was one really cute, hallmark-y kind of Christmas shopping day we were doing. We all went as a family me, lauren, her parents, it was before we had kids. We're going around and nothing says Christmas shopping in like a homework movie. So I was like, fuck, you were all supposed to have hot chocolate, right, so they got it. I was like, oh shit, they got hot chocolate, let's go get some. And so I go over to the counter and say, oh, you got hot chocolate.
Speaker 1:She goes like you know what size? I was like, oh, give me a medium. And she was like of our truffles. I was like, excuse me, there's any of our truffles. And then I look over and I see the lady making one and she's just grabbing. She, you know, depending on what size you get, she's just unwrapping them, dropping them in there, topping it with milk, hitting steamer and turning around. I was like, girl, don't tell me, that's what you're about to do. She's like, yeah, yeah, I am. I was like, dude, I don't even care, fuck me up right now. Dude, she's like just any you could pick any up to any like, whichever size comes with, however many you know like the smallest like three, the medium is four and the large is like five. You can have any number, it doesn't have to all be so. You can have three different ones, four different ones, five different ones, doesn't matter I was like dude don't fucking do that to me oh wow, I've never thought it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, wow yep, you just get the milk, get it nice and hot, so it melts the chocolate down, so on and so forth. Yep, so yeah, I did that with uh, I don't know what milky it's. I'm pretty sure it'd be pretty good. I think I've only done it with milky way and, like hershey and a couple of stuff, you can't do it with it with Snickers, because it's got the fucking peanuts in it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But yeah, dude, do it with a Milky Way Hell yeah, yeah, I'm going to the store. Right now, kroger's is still open, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm really thinking hard about that right now. I'm thinking, thinking hard about that right now what's the one? Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 1:No, no, you go ahead. You got a question Go.
Speaker 2:No, I was thinking about what's the one with the hazelnuts, with the cream center, what is that called?
Speaker 1:The Ferrero Rocher.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the hazelnut in the middle with the chocolate in the middle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, because then they're coated in the crushed nuts. The hazelnut kind of gets in there.
Speaker 2:Something that's got to be smooth.
Speaker 1:They can't really have something to it. Something that can Don't get me wrong. Ferrero Rocher is a fucking toad, jesus Christ. They're delicious also. There's very few to it something that can don't get me wrong. Ferrero shares are fucking dude, jesus christ yeah they're delicious.
Speaker 1:Also, there's very few chocolates, I don't you know. There's very few sharks that I don't like, um, but um, yes, that's always, I guess, kind of peddling back, because I'm the same, I'm kind of the same way at the movies, because you have to go. What are you hoping for? This is the bag is like well, like well. Do I want chocolate, do I want fruity or do I want savory?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because it's like that's what I do. So it's the same thing. Like when it comes, when I go to the movies, I got to have popcorn. There's my savory, no questions asked.
Speaker 1:Do you judge people for giving any types of candies? Oh, yeah, oh, absolutely. Like there's a reason why that's like a trope in, like kids movies and things like that. One, like, what fucking family is giving out the fucking who? Who the fuck is you to give out the fucking reasons? Give out the little fucking erasers that don't work, the fucking pencils. Like who the fuck are you? Who the fuck are you? Give me the fucking candy, give me the fucking candy, like first of all. So if you're not giving candy, I'm already judging you. And then, now that we don't really go out trick-or-treating, like you know, like we usually we don't we're not going out, you know, because, like when I was a kid man, we were not trick-or-treating at like five, we were out for like five hours yeah, yeah, yeah, we were out for like a while and we walked all the fuck around town getting candy and then we stopped going trick-or-treating and just stayed home and started handing out candy and so on and so forth.
Speaker 1:I always made sure there's always a couple of bags that I make sure I buy Always, always, always, always. I make sure I buy Always, always, always, always. When it comes to chocolate, I have to get the one they have, the pack that has the Milky Way, the Snickers, the Three Musketeer. It's got Milky Way Snickers, three Musketeer, twix and like dark Milky Way. There's one where there's a dark chocolate in there. I want to say it's dark Milky Way. So I got to get that, at least one bag of that. I got to get the bag that has the Hershey's cookies and cream, the Kit Kat and Rolos. That's in the other bag.
Speaker 2:Oh fucking Rolos, oh my god.
Speaker 1:I bet your Rolos would be good for the hot chocolate thing.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, that's exactly what I was just thinking.
Speaker 1:And the guy who played Rolo in Vikings. He'd be good covered in hot chocolate too.
Speaker 2:But I digress. Yeah, you make a very valid point there.
Speaker 1:I do. Oh, milk Duds, I love um you make a very valid point there. I do, I do. Um, oh, milk duds I love, I do like a milk dud. They're too fucking hard. It's like eating rocks, man, it's like eating pebbles. So, like they see, I liked milk duds and whoppers. I liked in like middle school and high school because they were very, very aerodynamic, so like I didn't eat in that much, but I would take them and I would yeah, I would throw them. I throw them like a motherfucker.
Speaker 2:I was going to say you'd wing them at somebody.
Speaker 1:Oh, absolutely Million percent.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but a milk dud like those are ones like I can. I can just like I'm going to say something and just let it go, okay.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:You can just like Go ahead. You just hold it in your mouth. You just hold it in your mouth and savor it and just suck it and savor it. Milk, duds, yeah, milk duds are like yeah, yeah, milk duds. But you had a question and what was your question?
Speaker 1:Yeah, milk duds, yeah, milk duds are like yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, milk duds, but you had a question, and what was your question?
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh no, that's right Cause this is like kind of a new experience for me. So it's like you still like saw people like trick or treating and doing shit. Right Cause you yourself have never dressed up.
Speaker 2:Right Cause you yourself have never dressed up right Right. So you know I was raised a Jehovah's witness and so as a kid um, you know, there's no, there's no holidays, you know no holidays.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. You know that that could. That's like a whole other fucking episode, um. But so, yeah, like I never got to experience trick-or-treating, handing out candy, you know, I just was totally like oblivious to the, to the whole thing, and and I can remember like as a as a kid, like absolutely loving everything about Halloween, but then, like you'd feel like all this, you know religious guilt, even from a small age, like I shouldn't like that, like I'm not supposed to like this, but I have always, always, been drawn to Halloween and so, you know, fast forward, you know, eventually left the cult I'll just say it as it is, you know.
Speaker 2:And so I got to like live vicariously through my daughter who you know would go trick or treating, and you know, I got to experience, I've experienced like handing out candy and like getting into it. I've I I don't know that like I have, uh, I've put on like a, I think, like a cat onesie, yeah, you know, to hand out and like and had, like you knowie. Yeah, you know, to hand out and like and had, like you know, like my nose and like you know, whiskers painted, I don't you know, to hand out candy.
Speaker 2:I don't necessarily consider that like dressing up for Halloween, yeah no, no, I feel you. So it was, it was it's. It's been really nice like letting her experience that and get to a loop around the neighborhood and like literally come back with a pillowcase full of candy, like yeah you go trick-or-treating in this neighborhood. Like you don't take a bag, you take a pillowcase and trust me, it gets yeah, um, but yeah, yeah, it's, it's.
Speaker 2:I just, I just love Halloween. I love that she has gotten to experience Halloween. But I will say, though, a couple years ago, I, instead of like I had, I had a bowl of candy, and I didn't I didn't not, not you know hand out candy, but I bought like a lot of like. It was like glow rings and but they were like flat.
Speaker 2:you know like you pull the little tab and they flash and like necklaces and headbands and you know, just like a bunch of it. And I gave kids a choice and it was so funny because the older kids always they wanted the light up stuff. I thought that little kids would want the light up stuff.
Speaker 1:How long did the little kids want candy.
Speaker 2:The little kids wanted the candy and the older kids like the teenagers. I absolutely fucking love it. I love it. When a teenager comes to my door trick-or-treating, I will never, never turn anybody away. A fucking adult could come and yeah and ring my doorbell and ask for candy, and I would give it to them yeah but I love.
Speaker 2:I love it when teenagers go trick-or-treating, because to me, like it's, you're not growing up too fast, you're, you're doing a kid stuff because you are still a kid, you know, like yeah there's just something so like pure about that and and I guess I mean like you're talking about getting heated over something I get so heated that like I can ignore politics, I can ignore a lot of religious stuff I can ignore a lot yeah but? But you give me a. You know some unhappy curmudgeon. That's like you know teenagers. You know I won't give anything, get bent go fuck yourself. I'm sorry, but a 16 17 year old knocks on my door and says trick or treat, they're getting fucking candy. End of story, sorry I am.
Speaker 1:I am that, I am that stick, I am that stickler, though that's just. Yeah, you gotta say trick or treat. You're doing the thing, you just you gotta say trick or treat like it's specifically. If you just you gotta say trick or treat like it's specifically. If you're the teenager too, like if I see the teenagers and I hear you guys like two houses away and you're laughing, you're joking, you're right, you have the time of your life. Hell yeah, you both motherfuckers, say trick or treat. You ain't getting shit, you gotta. You gotta say trick or treat.
Speaker 1:If I'm getting fucking dressed up and I'm putting everything into this that I am and I'm remaining in fucking character for you all, goddamn night for all 11 seconds you're in front of me fucking. Say trick or treat, fucking say trick or treat. That's what's fun. That's what's fun. That's what's fun is the? Yeah, it is, it really is. Just because I remember same thing just being the teenager still doing this and just having, just just having that good time still with it and so seeing that still kind of going on. I think, if there's one, one of the one of the small things I think is absolutely fantastic. You're talking about withstanding the test of time, angie. I swear to god all of the gods, the all the gods of old and the new, as the old gods and the new as my witness, all of them as my witness, every single year.
Speaker 1:Since it was a thing in the late 90s, there was always at least one child every year that has the ghost face mask that has the little thing you squeeze and like bleeds.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Every single year there is one kid and it's always like a fucking six year old kid that has that fucking thing on, and I love it so much. I love it. I see it once a year, every single year. There's always one kid, and I love it. I was like you keeping the tradition alive, I love it, but it's um, I'm gonna do my best not to get emotional right now but no promises um oklahoma.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oklahoma, but I'm going to, I'm not gonna, I'm not okay, I'm not oklahoming the fucking screen mask, but it's like we've talked about it before and we're talking about now. We're probably do another episode about it too. I fucking love halloween. I've always loved fucking hollow. I've always fucking loved halloween and, like I said, still to this day. Like I said, you know, it's like I always pick.
Speaker 1:I usually set the theme in like june so I can start planning it out, so I can do like the, the backdrop and other props and what we got to do and if there's costumes I got to work on. However it goes, I always set this around june, so I have more than enough time for me to procrastinate it and start it in october anyway, um, but, uh, you know, we'll do the best that we can, like I said, and I'll I will get into character. I'm not just dressed up like these, these characters. I will do my best to portray the characters, make it that little extra fun, little interactiveness. So, like last year we did Alice in Wonderland. I was the Hatter. Lauren went as the Tweedles because she was pregnant with Juniper at the time, so she was a bit bigger and rounder, like the Tweedles were in the movie.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Which was adorable, and Luna was the rabbit. Oh yeah, it was adorable and um, and you know we went, we did the, we went, we did the. Uh, you know the trick-or-treating, whatnot. And now we're back. You know we go to just like a couple of blocks around my sister-in-law's because, like, the kids aren't going around that far.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And then we go back and we're handing out candy. Now I'm not, I'm not wasting, I'm not wasting this outfit. I'm a fucking psychotic menace to these little shits. You know I'm not terrorizing them and whatnot, but I'm just like talking to myself, I'm talking really fast and I'm quoting it every now and then I'm asking one of them, um, have they? Any idea how a raven is like a writing desk, yeah, and all that kind of fun stuff.
Speaker 1:I'm doing the whole thing with them because, because I based off of the uh, the, uh, the johnny depp hatter, so I'm doing all sorts of bits and I'm messing with the kids and with the parents and that's time in my fucking life.
Speaker 1:It's just that extra fun, that bit to it, and I thought that that was always the fun part. But now, but now like it started last year, um, god, taking luna trick-or-treating is just like that's the best thing in the world, because she's just like, she's just infatuated with all the. There's a couple, there's a couple of houses not too far from uh, from uh, from my sister-in-law, where they do like a real big thing. So, like these guys, they do a theme also, but they but there's always scary. They get like the skeletons and and and the zombies and the monsters and whatever so, and they'll, and they'll dress them up like as whatever that. You know, there's people who do these crazy displays fantastic and, um, luna's just staring at them. She looks like a kid in a candy shop, you know her face is lit up like it's christmas.
Speaker 1:She's seeing all these things and which is funny because she's all she also is scared by some of them too, like most of them, she actually is like scared, so she'll like keep her disc. So she has these big wide eyes and she's like, oh my god, papa, look at that one, papa, look at that one. But then also she's like keep her, just so. She has these big wide eyes and she's like, oh my god, papa, look at that one, papa, look at that one. But then also she's like keeping her eyes on it and like keeping her back to it, like, oh, watch out behind you, that she looks behind she sees another one. So she's just like it's, it's just seeing her interact with all that yeah same thing, just all the movies.
Speaker 1:And she wants you know like we'll watch. She wants to watch something on, uh, on disney or whatever the fuck it is right. So we're scrolling through some trying to find something and there's all the that the halloween specials like year round on there. I can't tell you how many times we've watched this one, like disney halloween special and things and nightmare before christmas. Right now she calls you know jack, she wants to. She's calling that for christmas. She goes to jack, she goes. I want to watch jack. Or I want to be boogie and she'll she'll. We'll watch that movie, like at least once a week. We'll sit down and watch. We sometimes we'll watch it back to back.
Speaker 1:We'll watch it and restart it to watch it again I love it so much so she loves halloween just as much as I do and it's like, like I said, I did my best to get like emotional, but it's like now I get to kind of see what I was like um, because like most of the time it was supported, but then other times it was like all right, just kind of just shut the fuck up, let's go. But it's like she's literally living like her best life that day. So like I kind of get to see, you know, I, I, you know I didn't get to see what I remember. I remember what I felt, but I didn't get to see how I was. But now I get to, I get, I get both sides and I get to see what I was like, cause she's like man, we, we can't go. We can't go to Walmart now with her, because we're there. It's a minimum of like area, right?
Speaker 1:right, I haven't taken her to spirit halloween yet oh my god, oh wow.
Speaker 2:You have to, you have to take her oh yeah yeah, but that's. I think that's like that's. That's one of the great things about being a parent is that you get to see so many things through your child's eyes and, like you, you have this sense of nostalgia because, like you see them like really get into something that you you felt as a kid and you but you're seeing it just from this other vantage point it's, it's, it's such a oh, it's, it's the best thing in the world that it's it's those little moments like that that make all the tough things about being a parent worth it and halloween is definitely one of those
Speaker 1:yeah oh yeah, I, I know that she's probably going to change her mind another four to seventeen times this week alone. It's fucking thursday to uh what she wants to be for halloween. And I I just, yeah, I don't know. Whatever she, whatever she wants to be, I don't give a shit, she's just gonna be what she's gonna be. And then, because everyone's saying it was like what are you gonna do? We start having kids? It was like I'll say jokingly, like well, then they're gonna have to fucking deal with it, they're gonna be whatever the hell we want. But it was like I have no like if we set the theme of you know, pirates, right, so I'm making right pirate shit, to turn my sister-in-law's garage into a pirate ship or whatever the fuck it is, so on and so forth.
Speaker 1:And um, luna wants to be, or any of the you know, any of our, you know, either of our daughters want to be the fucking, I don't give a shit. Dude. A dinosaur, okay, cool, dinosaur pirates. No, I want to be a ballerina pirate. Okay, then you're a ballerina pirate, like, let's go for it because, like she's going back, I was getting really excited because for the longest time, for the longest time, she was saying she wanted to be a cowboy.
Speaker 1:So I was like that's perfect I was like that's perfect because I also want to be a cowboy, so that's the thing that the adults will be doing, mainly because I got a pretty not to pat myself on the back. I got a pretty good cowboy outfit you do, I will be wearing that.
Speaker 1:I'll be wearing that. I've just I've just been looking for a reason, and I told my wife he goes. So so how you feel about like westerns, cowboys, whatever, so on and so forth? She goes. I mean sure, yeah, whatever. I was like listen, if I'm being honest, I'm looking. I'm just looking for an excuse to wear my arthur costume a little bit more, but if I'm being completely honest, I'm just looking for any type of reason to make you look like sadie adler and give me this, please. Thank you, yeah. What makes it even better, though, is, you know, her obsession with dinosaurs, right?
Speaker 2:yes, yes, so at Walmart they have three.
Speaker 1:They have a regular horse, they have like a pink unicorn kind of thing that you ride on, and they have a T-Rex, one of the little like hobby horse. I was like, oh my god, I was like we're doing it.
Speaker 1:It was like she'll be a little cowboy, I'll, I'll run the best, or I yeah, I'll make her the little vest and, honestly, because she because, believe it or not, she's still quote unquote relatively small. She's three years old and she's like four and a half feet tall. Um, yeah, she's so fucking tall. Um, I, I definitely have enough leather to make her like, um, chaps, like I'll make her fucking chaps and everything I'll do, I'll do the whole thing. I don't, I don't care, I'll do the whole fucking thing, but, um, I am, I am so set to do like a western type of this, any other thing anywho um, but then it's like last week she's like I want to be a ballerina.
Speaker 1:I was like a cowboy ballerina. No, I don't want to be a cowboy, I want to be a ballerina. I was like, okay, papa's going to be a cowboy, yeah, papa, be a cowboy, I'm going to be a ballerina. And it was like the day after she said she wanted to be a witch, and so it's like we just got to like, we just got to like wait.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you can. You can. You'll be able to redirect her between now and then to back to cowboy.
Speaker 1:I'm going to be completely honest. I'm going to do my best to do that one, but I'm also just going to make all of the costumes, just to be safe. I'm going to make her a cowboy costume and make her a ballerina costume.
Speaker 1:We'll make sure we have a witch set for I. To make her a cowboy costume. I'm going to make her a ballerina costume. We'll make sure we have a witch set for her. I'll make her. She's never said she wanted to be one. I'm just going to have a robot ready just in case, because, like, she's going to have a sleepover at MMA and Bubba's and Bubba's going to be like, all right, kid, time for you to get a proper education. This is called the Terminator. You know, she's fucking. She's going to be a goddamn robot.
Speaker 2:Just don't let her see aliens, then she's going to be, she's going to want to be, the xenomorph.
Speaker 1:I'm going to. I'm going to wake her up and we're going to watch aliens right now. I would do anything. I would do anything for her to be a fucking xenomorph.
Speaker 2:Could you imagine a three year, a little three-year-old, toddling around in a xenomorph outfit?
Speaker 1:it would be the cutest thing ever be like the greatest day of my life, like it goes in this order the day that she was born, the day she wanted to be a xenomorph, the day she became a xenomorph, I should say yeah, oh god, I want to be a xenomorph you just want to have that fucking extra mouth thing and then that giant killer tail that if anyone pisses you off, you just with that fucking thing, man yeah, yeah, I have a list yeah, the acid blood is pretty cool too yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Which, by the way, great series, the a, the alien series oh yes, still only watch the first episode it's really well done, it's so good, it's a new, like I'm trying to think. So you know like there's a whole timeline, you know like they've carved out this whole timeline, so this definitely fits. I think it's before it's between Between alien and aliens, this series.
Speaker 1:I thought this was even I thought this was even before alien. I thought this was closer to our timeline, like closer to us right now Than alien, I thought.
Speaker 2:I could be completely wrong, maybe. Maybe it's somewhere in that and it's you know. Yeah, it's somewhere in that. Um the xenomorph, you know it may be after like covenant okay because it it does not. It has not evolved to the point of what it looks like in Aliens. It's still very much like the. It's still very much almost like a humanoid xenomorph.
Speaker 1:Okay, so it's a bit more. Is it more upright or is it still like crawling around? Yeah?
Speaker 2:well, it curls around, but it's more upright, it's kind of like it, it's oh it's so badass looking so good gotcha but yeah, there's, and there, like, there's this whole plot with like. So this is like the beginning of the, the, the androids, you know, and it's how they're. They're experimenting with the androids. They're also out, you know, collecting all these alien species and doing experiments on them. It's, it's just it. It's so good I do recommend, like, watching it all together nice, yeah, oh, I I found it all right.
Speaker 1:Yes, you see, you got me on that other episode, I got you in this episode, so the timeline goes. Prometheus alien covenant alien earth. Prometheus Alien Covenant, alien Earth.
Speaker 2:Alien Okay.
Speaker 1:So Alien Earth takes place two years before Alien.
Speaker 2:Okay, and then?
Speaker 1:it goes after Alien. It goes to Alien Romulus, which was fantastic. I love Romulus. That Aliens, alien 3, and then the Fever Dream that doesn't, doesn't exist.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the one that you don't talk about that the movie that shall not be named.
Speaker 1:We have the years, the years. These go on so prometheus 2093. Covenant 2104. Alien earth 2120. Alien 2122. Romulus 2142. Aliens 2179. Alien 3 2179. Fever Dream 2381.
Speaker 2:Oh my god Wow 202 years. Yeah, it must have been Romulus I was thinking of, because I knew there was something between alien and aliens yeah, romulus, which was so good that was really good.
Speaker 1:That one was actually that one was that one was a bit horror, more horror like than sci-fi I feel like every other episode, we talk about the alien movies and the xenomorph specifically it's like every other episode. I don't know why I'm like so obsessed with them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm just so obsessed.
Speaker 1:I know I've said it every single time we talk about it is, and I'll fight two, three with my dying breath in this one the xenomorph is the perfect design of terror and alien.
Speaker 1:Like, if you think of an alien, I think of the xenomorph you know, people will think of the big oval heads and green skin and giant black eyes. People think of that They'll think of. Or the greys they'll think of humanoids with grey skin, black eyes yeah, people think of that they'll think of, you know. Or the grays will think of, they'll think of like humanoids with, like, gray skin. No, I think of alien and like it just in same thing. You can't think of this intergalactic apex predator like you can't beat that fucking thing, yeah you just can't.
Speaker 1:There's no beating them, they always are. They're just. I fucking love them so much. Okay, be honest all right, this last question we gotta wrap this up is the xenomorph.
Speaker 2:A hear me out no, no, I can say that with confidence. No, because? Because actually most xenomorphs are female yeah, female, that is correct yeah, but even if the xenomorph you know was male, no, it's too too visceral, too scary too fucking terrifying yeah, yeah, it's you're a fucking pussy yeah, yeah, you don't stand a chance with a xenomorph.
Speaker 2:I think if you put the xenomorph up against just about, I mean I know they had the predator, you know, take predator out of you know, because we've seen those movies, but like you think of any of the other, like movie monsters, I mean xenomorph wins hands down there there are very few that they don't give the boost to. There's very few but yeah, pyramid wouldn't stand a chance. No, rip pyramid head rip.
Speaker 1:yeah, how do you like it, you fucker?
Speaker 2:Yeah, how do you like being deboned, being dissolved by acid, all right, take us home.
Speaker 1:It's way past my bedtime.
Speaker 2:Okay, yeah, so that's our midnight musing for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. Be sure to like, subscribe. Follow us on social media. We are shit posting there every single day Almost. This is our spooky season. We've got much more planned and, yeah, until next time. Bye, say bye, kyle. Game over man. Game over Game, fucking perfect.
