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Ep. 72-Hellfire in Birmingham: The Ghosts of Sloss Furnaces

• Pearl & Holly • Season 1 • Episode 72

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Smoke, steel, and a voice that won’t let go—this one starts in the heat of Birmingham’s iron age and refuses to cool. We walk the catwalks of Sloss Furnaces, where the Magic City was forged out of ore and ambition, and where long shifts, toxic air, and thin pay wrote a ledger of human cost. Then comes the legend: James “Slag” Wormwood, a foreman as feared in life as he is in the stories that say he never left. Was his fall into molten iron a tragic misstep—or a reckoning in the dark?

We pull apart the history and the haunt: day tours that teach the mechanics of blast furnaces and the strange nighttime reports of footsteps, cold spots, and a voice barking “get back to work.” Paranormal teams claim captures; guards and visitors tell their own tense moments. We don’t just chase chills—we ask what these stories carry about labor, dignity, and the price people paid to turn Birmingham into an industrial heartbeat. The site is a national historic landmark now, and every October the grounds transform into a top-tier haunted attraction that uses real industry as its stage. It’s fun and frightening, but it also hits different when you remember what happened there.

Along the way we trade haunted house war stories, plan a road trip, and invite you to be part of a special project: send us your scariest true encounters and we’ll read them—raw and cozy—on a pajama-party YouTube video and drop the audio on the feed. Ready to test your courage and your conscience at the same time? Press play, share this episode with a friend who loves history with their horror, and leave a quick review so more curious minds can find the show.

SPEAKER_00:

Today we're diving deep into the true history and the ghostly legends of one of America's most haunted industrial sites in America. Birmingham's sloss furnaces. This is Hold My Sweet Teeth.

SPEAKER_01:

And we have a little update. Oh yeah? Yeah. Episode fifty-seven rolled in a tarp. Oh yeah. Mr. Prada. The therapist and Mr. Prada. So it's been just over a year since the body of mental health therapist Dr. William Abram was found on the side of the road. Yeah. And then the the famous TikToker, Mr. Prada, she said, was arrested and charged with first degree murder. Now they are setting a sanity hearing. Really? A sanity hearing? Yeah. So he was set for court on the 8th of October. Like we said, we've a bunch of things that have October dates, like Morgan Bauer, that Caitlin Gobel that we're waiting on. Uh Tara Baker. Yep. Waiting on the like so there's there's just a bunch of little tidbites coming out. And so he went to court on the 8th. And now they've set a sanity hearing for January 28th of 2026. Okay. So we are to be continued some more.

SPEAKER_00:

And we try to bring you updates on these. And I'm acting surprised, but I'm the one that sent it to you. Yes. I was like, ooh, Holly saw it first and was like, oh, looky.

SPEAKER_01:

And so I literally went and made sure that any of our other ones, like, I went and looked and made sure nobody else had an update. Yeah. After you sent me that. I was like, oh, let me check these two real quick just to be sure. Because I wasn't sure exactly what dates everybody has has court, right?

SPEAKER_00:

So and then um what's her name that's getting um the death penalty? Yeah. Yeah. There was a post on her, and there was a ton of misinformation in the comments. Oh my god, tons. So much. Facebook is deadly. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So you guys it's people's opinions. Yeah, be careful what you read on Facebook and then try to spread to somewhere else because there was so much stuff. Oh, yeah. That was wrong. And I'm like, go listen to our podcast because you guys don't know what you're talking about. That's me.

SPEAKER_00:

I will I will shamelessly plug our podcast on everything. When Ed Gean's monster came out on Netflix, I'm like, yeah, you can go listen to the whole story on our podcast, homysweet tea.com. I was like, true story. Please go listen to us, follow us, do all the things.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. So, and I think after uh that we actually gained a follower. We did.

SPEAKER_00:

And on YouTube, yeah, we gained some uh YouTube.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, we're at 81.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm so excited. So and that's like a lot of things. It's growing slow.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, it is. But when in the grand scheme of things, you know, you look at how many followers are on so many other people's pages, and you're like, oh 81 ain't crap. But 81 is still a lot of people.

SPEAKER_00:

Still a lot of people, yeah, that are like watching our stuff.

SPEAKER_01:

Is there 81 people who don't know us?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, who have subscribed.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, maybe some of them know us. We probably have like five that actually know us, literally, like our friends, whatever. But I was just like, I say our friends because and then some of your family. Mine are horrible. Yeah, my mama listens all the time. My family's like all on it. Your family's all on it. My uh my kids used to listen, don't. I'll go, do you listen to my podcast? No, my brother listens.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

Just my son. I'll be like, Did you listen to my episode? I'm not really into podcasts. I'm like, oh my god, support your mother until five minutes later, and he is.

SPEAKER_01:

Right. But my dad, I'm like, did you guys subscribe to my podcast? Because they like watch YouTube TV all the time and stuff. And I'm like, you're like right there. Did you? You can just listen. I was like, my mother, who can't hardly talk, listens to mine all the time. Get with it, dad. Shaming my dad. Right. Rooster Voldemort.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Spawn point.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, there we go.

SPEAKER_01:

That's what Aiden used to call me. Like in his phone, he had me saved a spawn point. Spawn point. And then I just put him in my phone as spawn.

SPEAKER_00:

Spawn number one. So I apologize today if I sound like Sid the sloth, because we're doing the slossed furnaces today.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that's a tough one to say over and over again.

SPEAKER_00:

I can sell, I can say gloss. Like that's easy, but when you put an S in front of it, slosh.

SPEAKER_01:

So that's what happened.

SPEAKER_00:

Sid might be making an appearance today.

SPEAKER_01:

And y'all are just gonna roll with it.

SPEAKER_00:

That's right.

SPEAKER_01:

Because we're not cutting it. Nope. We're keeping it. Keeping it.

SPEAKER_00:

You better like this podcast. Right.

SPEAKER_01:

Enjoy the slash. The schnarks.

SPEAKER_00:

So I'm gonna I'm gonna set up a little scene for you because you know, we need to we need to get into this place and know what it is. It's creepy. So picture this. I'm gonna go dramatic. It's the dead of night in Birmingham, Alabama. The year 1906. The air is thick with smoke and fire as men labor inside a massive iron furnace. Okay, I'll cut the voice now. I was trying to be dramatic. But temperatures climb past hundred 100 degrees, even in the middle of winter, molten metal, like that you've seen, I'm sure everybody's seen like metal being poured and stuff, like any superhero movie, there's the molten lava metal. It's like red and orange, and it's like going into the molds, and I even put in here it looks like. And they're sweating even though it's snowing outside. Exactly. And it's going through these molds, and it looks like the veins of hell itself, you know, and it's like very crazy looking. And then over the roar of like the blasting furnace, you hear a scream. A foreman named James Wormwood, and they called him Slag. That was his nickname. So we'll probably just like roll with Slag, Slag and Sloth in here. So slag, he slips, or maybe he was pushed. Nobody knows. But his body hits the molten iron, and in an instant, he's gone. No trace left, just steam, just silence. And yet they say he never really left sloth furnaces. So to understand why sloth furnaces is such a terrifying place, we gotta start with its history. So it was built in 1881 by Colonel James Withers Sloth. Oh, it's his last name. Yes. Wow. Withers. It became the beating heart of Birmingham, Alabama, also known as the Magic City. Why magic? Well, let me tell you. This is gonna be like a crazy spooky one, but also funny. Because this little town, founded after the Civil War, grew almost overnight thanks to the iron industry. Sloths burned Birmingham into the steel capital of the South. And I really never knew that. Yeah. Because you think of like steel, you think of up north the steelers, you know, all of that. But in the south, they they actually had a steel plant, and that kind of grew Birmingham into what it is. But with progress came pain. Working in the furnaces was like literally signing up for a death sentence.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I can't imagine, especially in the the heat that is the south. And working in working in there. Where like obviously they're doing their best to control that temperature, but that's I mean, doors open, windows open, but it's that's gonna be hard as heck. It is. I'd cry. I at lunch, I'd be like, I can't go back in.

SPEAKER_00:

Me, I walk outside in the summer, I'm like, nope. I go right back inside. Especially down here. It's a water. People are just so much tougher. Right. They were thick skinned. But like hundreds of men, mostly poor immigrants and African Americans, worked grueling shifts in deadly heat. Imagine working 12 hours a day surrounded by fire and breathing toxic gases.

SPEAKER_01:

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't want to imagine it. At any moment, one misstep could lead you to falling into that molten metal or poisoning your lungs with fumes. And I'm pretty sure everybody there had some kind of like lung issue. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_01:

Cancer emphysema. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Officials say official records say over 60 men died on the job at sloth. But locals whisper the true number was much higher. Like I'm sure there were some that died and they were undocumented immigrants. And just yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Just like just didn't didn't show up anymore.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm like, how does that like when a body, you know, you think of like I'm I'm thinking of Terminator, you know, he's like going down in the street. Right, right, right. But how does that like when a body like hits that and it just like totally like it's gone, it mixes with that metal? Like if you think about metal, is there DNA in there? Right. Does that does that to like compromise the strength of the the metal?

SPEAKER_01:

Right. With human or or does the body pop back up and it's like because it was cooler than the stuff it fell into, it pops back up and it's like metal. That's where the terminator came from. Yeah. Like you have to we laugh, but that that's a horror that's gotta be like a horrible death for one. But two, I'm like, right, what does really happen? Like now I'm gonna be on YouTube. What happens when a body falls into right?

SPEAKER_00:

What happened like the the stages of burn? Because I mean it's an instant death, of course. Like I'm pretty sure you don't even feel the pain because you're gone instantly. You hit that, that's it's over. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, we'll have to we'll have to deep dive into what happens to the body.

SPEAKER_01:

I feel it's a bit. I end up with like homework assignments after we podcast because I go, I have questions. I need to know.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. So around the turn of the century, one name struck fear into the men of Sloss furnaces. James Wormwood, which I said they called him Slag. He was a graveyard shift foreman known for his cruelty. He drove his workers harder, faster, deeper into the most dangerous areas of the furnace. Men collapsed from heat, gas, and exhaustion. But Slag didn't care. He wanted results.

SPEAKER_01:

So Slag was an asshole. So this is why we're like, maybe he got pushed.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Yeah. Right. He would like yell, move it faster, get back to work, like just screaming at people. So in 1906, Slag's reign came to a fiery end. So during that night shift, he somehow lost his footing and plummeted into a vat of molten iron. His body was instantly consumed. Um, officially it was ruled an accident, but workers, like some workers were like whispering, saying stuff about people might have pushed him. Um the furnace itself. It was hell swallowing back the devil it had birthed. Wow. Right? I'm like, they really hated him.

SPEAKER_01:

I was about to say there was some serious disdain for you, sir.

SPEAKER_00:

But apparently Slag didn't stay gone. Almost immediately. Men reported strange encounters, hearing Slag's voice ordering them back to work, feeling unseen hands shoving them toward dangerous ledges. His ghosts became as feared as his living self.

SPEAKER_01:

Wow. Yeah. Sounds like he had a lot of unfinished business. He's like, this cycle wasn't done.

SPEAKER_00:

It wasn't done. So fast forward to the 20th century, even after sloths like shut down in 1971, the hauntings didn't stop. Night watchmen, visitors, even police officers reported strange things. One guard in the 1970s swore he saw a man on fire wandering the grounds. That would be really cool to see. Cool and creepy.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh my gosh, I'm I'm probably not sleeping.

SPEAKER_00:

Be sitting out there watching. Right. And then a lot of uh paranormal investigators have flocked to the furnaces for decades. Shows like Ghost Adventures, Ghost Hunters, call it one of the most haunted places in America. They recorded disembodied voices, footsteps, sudden blast of cold air, which is like crazy. They're not running anymore, but still, I'm like, you get blast of cold air, shadowy, shadowy figures lurking in the catwalks up top. Um, some investigators claim they've even been shoved or scratched. Ooh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

I wonder what else is there.

SPEAKER_00:

I don't know. Because I mean, he's not the only person that died there. So there's gotta be a lot of disembodied voices and things going on. So but they say like the scratchy thing always makes me go, what else is there? Like what what kind of it must be like Slag himself. But visitors also describe the same thing, the stern voice barking, get back to work. Like they'll hear it. Um but like here's the thing we can't forget that behind the ghost stories are real people. Men died here in horrible ways for pennies a day, like they didn't get paid much at all for doing that. And I think that translates into today, we still make pennies a day compared to what they make, and we do a lot of work, right?

SPEAKER_01:

No, I I don't know. I mean, I don't know very many people who are fairly paid for for what they do, and then I don't know very many people who actually earn what they do make, sadly enough, because they're like, you know what? I don't make that much money, I ain't doing crap, and then the rest of the world is left to pick up your slack while you're getting paid. Well, you know what? Let's take your check away and just give it to the other person. Right. Then maybe it'll seem a little more fair, right?

SPEAKER_00:

You have two jobs to do and you didn't get a raise.

SPEAKER_01:

I mean, I I kind of have that problem.

SPEAKER_00:

We have multiple jobs, but you know, like I said, it could be like the collective like unrest of all those workers trapped in this place that they never got to escape. And in the South, we have a tradition of treating haunted places as more than just curiosities, they're warnings, they're reminders of what happens when greed outweighs humanity. Um, this place is like now pretty much just like a graveyard of industry. Like what happened in Birmingham?

SPEAKER_01:

I've I feel like it's one of those things like everybody wants to keep going and seeing and checking out, but like how dangerous is it for people now? Because it's gotta be falling apart something serious.

SPEAKER_00:

I'm glad you asked that because today Sloth Furnaces is a natural a national historic landmark. Yeah. Yep. You can tour it in the daylight, learn about the iron industry and see furnaces up close, but at night, especially around Halloween, it transforms. Every October, I was like, we might need to drive to Birmingham. Sloth runs one of the scariest haunted house attractions in the country. That's cool, using the real factory as the backdrop. Thousands of people come to be terrified, sometimes by actors, sometimes by real ghosts. That's fun. I was like, we might need to take a trip to Birmingham. It's not that far.

SPEAKER_01:

It really isn't.

SPEAKER_00:

And go to the haunted house. I was like, that would be so cool. That's like a day.

SPEAKER_01:

We go there, yeah, eat some dinner, go to the haunted house, drive home, throw up our dinner, and then come back.

SPEAKER_00:

I was like, that would be that would be a good idea, I think.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, that would be cool. And I know my uh my daughter wants to go to our local haunted house, but I'm like, hmm, maybe we should just go to Birmingham.

SPEAKER_00:

Right. How far is Lambert's from there? Oh, we could go get some throwed rolls. We could. Look, we're over here talking about food and haunted houses. It's the best thing ever.

SPEAKER_01:

So we like to eat and get scared.

SPEAKER_00:

Do you think that James, you know, wormwood slag really cursed is really like cursed to walk the furnaces forever? Why not if he was that big of a G C. And then are the voices and shadows just echoes of the suffering that happened there? Either way, like it remains one of the South's most chilling reminders that sometimes the past doesn't stay buried or burned. So, yeah. If you ever find yourself in Birmingham, take a walk through the furnaces at night. But don't be surprised if you hear someone behind you growl, get back to work.

SPEAKER_01:

And you should. Get back to work. Well, that's good to know that they're taking care of the place then.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes. Cool. And I was saving the haunted house part for last. I was like, ooh, ooh, ooh, because I know you were gonna be like, yes. Yeah But I mean, they use it as the backdrop, so you're not actually in there. Yeah. But it's like right out there on the ground area. But that's gotta make it extra creepy. Yeah. And I'll, you know, when I do the video and everything, I'll put pictures. It's really, it's a really cool looking place. And they they do keep it up because it is a you know, a landmark and everything, a national historic landmark. Uh, and you can tour it by the day, so it'd be cool to go tour during the day. During the day and then do eat. Then go to the haunted house and then throw up. I have zero plans to throw up. Same. We'll we'll just we'll just take some anti nausea. There we go. But yeah, it would be really neat. Yeah. Little Because I mean, you think of all the scare actors and stuff, they're gonna be like industrial workers, like that would be a different type of haunted house.

SPEAKER_01:

I am the worst person to send through a haunted house. Why is that? Because it's harder to like the jump scare stuff scares the crap out of me. But otherwise, it's really hard to scare me. Like, really hard to scare me. Um, the jump jump scare stuff is it catches me every once in a while. But like if it's very noticeable that that wall's gonna drop, yeah, it doesn't work for me.

SPEAKER_00:

It's very like something's gonna be around that corner, so you're like, Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

So I pretend to be scared for the people around me. Yeah. You're like, but you know, but I'm really not. Uh but I remember my one experience at the 13th gate where I ruined it for everyone that was around me. Uh, somebody got scared. They had like a whole section and it was Anubis. And so the wall was covered in like sand. So the wall is basically like freaking sandpaper. And somebody ran from the the stuff right before that and bumped into me and pushed me into the wall, and my arm slid on the sandpaper. So I had this monstrous scrape. Oh no, that was bleeding. And so I wave an Anubis who's on stilts. Right. It's it was cool. It was cool, it was like really, really cool. They did a good job. To the next scare girl who was right outside the door, dressed as like some Egyptian ghost evil chick, whatever. And I'm like, I am so sorry, but I have to stop you. I am bleeding everywhere. Do you guys have a first aid kid? This is a real horror. Yes. And she's like, Oh my gosh. Yeah. And took me back behind the little wall. You might want to sand the sandpaper wall down. Yeah. I was like, there's blood on the sandpaper wall.

SPEAKER_00:

Right, there's real blood on that wall.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So yeah. If if you're ever in Louisiana Baton Rouge, go to the 13th gate. Yeah, it's it's awesome. It's so worth it.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, like it's worth the money you pay you pay. Now, the line is long as I'll get out. So if you don't want to, I mean, I'm gonna tell you you can pay to get in faster, but even that line is long.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. And it's it's literally if you go on anything where they're like, oh, the scariest haunted houses in America, it's always on that list.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00:

It's been number one a lot of times, but like it's on that list and it is so good. And they've added to it. I don't know how they are closed by the time the sun comes up, to be honest.

SPEAKER_01:

Like there's so many people. The line just like wraps around the it's ridiculous. Yeah. But no, she did a really good job, gave me all the things I needed to clean myself up and bandage it because there's like I don't know that they do it now, but they did use they used to have you crawl through like a hearse. You go crawl through the door. I remember having to do it. Um and I was like, I can't crawl through a hearse like this for sure, because I'm I'm like bleeding everywhere. Right. There's gotta be a uh an escape door here somewhere. Yeah, and I was like, I don't want to leave. I'm like paid money. I want to finish. But so luckily, she they had everything I needed to clean up. And and she was like, Do you need Tylenol? And I'm like, no, it's fine. Uh not worried about it hurting. I just need to stop bleeding, yeah. I just need to clean the sand out, wrap this sucker up so we can keep going.

SPEAKER_00:

I think the the only thing that really scared me in the 13th gate, like really hardcore, was the train. Yeah. The train coming at me. That was scary. And it it's an experience. They've added new stuff, they've added like the vampire stuff, they've added the whole like New Orleans graveyard.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I was gonna say the graveyard thing's really cool.

SPEAKER_00:

And like lots of stuff, and their scare actors are like top-notch.

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, yeah, and I'm I'm sure those people come like they they get people who stay.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, yeah.

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And then, you know, there's the mortuary here in New Orleans. That one's terrifying as well. And it is an actual old mortuary. I want to go to that thing that's like the part, like, what is it?

SPEAKER_01:

I saw it. They just you can go through it. It's part escape room, part haunted house, part one. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Part, what is that dinner theater type stuff? Yeah. It's like all of that. All of that in one mixed into one thing.

SPEAKER_00:

I was like, oh. And then they have the haunted house in City Park too. That one's that one's more family friendly, but it's still a little scary. I've been to that one. And uh, I don't do I don't think they do House of Shock anymore, do they? Um, not sure. Yeah, I haven't seen anything advertised for them. But that one was started by um Phil Anselmo and uh Rob Zombie. They did that one, and it was always scary because they did the freak show on the outside with like the people being pierced and hung from their piercings, and they had you know bands and stuff playing, and then you go through the thing, and it was like, oh my god, 10,000 years ago. I went through that one, it was scary, and they touch you.

SPEAKER_01:

The last time I heard anything about it was before COVID. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And I think they've just shut it down heard anything scary. I think there was a lot of liabilities because they do touch you in that one, and it's it's scary. And yeah, like I said, it's been like a million years ago, but I went like a long, long time ago, and it was it was very scary. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah. I mean, if you ever find yourself in Birmingham, especially during October, go for the haunted house. But anytime, go go see the sloss furnaces and take the tour. Want some history. I can only imagine it's probably like Alcatraz, you know. Yeah, it's gonna be scary.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, and I'll I mean, I know just that whole place has got to make a lot of noise. Oh, yeah. Like creepy, cranky noises. Yeah.

unknown:

Yep.

SPEAKER_00:

Absolutely. So we're gonna adds to the effect. We're gonna put that on our our bucket list trip, our podcast bucket list trip. Yeah. One day when our podcast takes off and we start monetizing from it, and we can like put our vacation bucket list money aside, we'll go.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. Yeah. Right now I'm spending all my bucks. Right. Getting this out. Yep. But yeah, it's cool. And you know what else is cool? Patty sells at it. She is. She made our really cool theme music. Yes, absolutely. And uh, you know, we want messages. We always want we're beggars for messages.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes, so weird. And if you have a haunted house in your state or country, because we've got more, we have somebody in Emirates. Like, I'm like, is it Abu Dhabi? Is it Dubai? Where where are you at? Tell us. Yeah, I want to know. Or, you know, one of those.

SPEAKER_01:

I can't ever read that without everybody in there. Emma right. Emma right?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah. Emirates, Emma right. United Arab Emirates. So I was like, I was like, ooh, who is it? But if you have a haunted house in your area, or like you come from an area where they don't do haunted houses, and you're like, bro, why? Yeah. Like, let us know. Tell us about. Tell us about your haunted house in your area. We want to know. For sure. Because we've got like a couple messages on our Facebook, and I'm like, oh yay, people like send us some little messages. My friend Kemi, she, you know, commented on a on a meme I posted about over being overstimulated and gonna have to go watch some, you know, serial killer and relax. Calm down to calm down. She's like literally me right now.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah. And our our uh listener that used to be in Algiers now lives in Lake Charles. Yep. So relocated. Yeah. So she let us know that once uh once we talked about her last time. So see, we we tell everybody if you tell if you talk to us.

unknown:

Right.

SPEAKER_00:

We're gonna tell about you. Like write us an email, and if you want us to use your name, we can. And also, since it is spooky month and spooky season, send us your spooky stories. We'll we'll literally read them on air, uh like on a podcast. If you write it really well, like I mean, write it like like you're telling me a story. Tell us something that's happened to you that was creative. We will read it word for word. Yeah. And credit you. Yeah, and let us know if you want us to use your name or you want us to use a fake name. Whatever you want. Whatever.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, because we'll do a compilation of scary stories to tell in the dark type stuff. A non-campfire without the campfire and s'mores. Around the battery operated candle. Yes.

SPEAKER_00:

There we go. We gotta have safety in here. Safety. Yeah, that would be so cool. Like somebody write those in. And and even if it comes in like toward the end of October, we'll move it into November because it's always spooky.

SPEAKER_01:

Here's the thing I'll make a deal. If we can get some people to send us some spooky stories to read. Yes. We will do it as a YouTube video.

SPEAKER_00:

Yes.

SPEAKER_01:

We'll use your couch, Holly. We'll kick we'll kick Dylan and tell him to be quiet.

SPEAKER_00:

Oh yeah, he will. We might got you might get my cats in there, but it's fine. It's fine. It's fine. And Lily. And Lily, my dog.

SPEAKER_01:

But the pets are welcome. Yes. But yeah, we could do we could do that. Yep. We'll pajama it. Yep. We'll have a pajama party. We'll use a battery operate again. Yes. I have some. It's fine. Or you can go ones where you're, you know, whatever. But like we'll YouTube video it and then you'll just have to excuse us if we mess up. Yep. Because I'm not gonna edit that. I'm sorry. You're just gonna get some raw video. Raw video of us. And then the audio from that is gonna get put on the on the podcast platforms. And so be it. That's right. So if you send us stories, we will do that. There we go. That's my agreement.

SPEAKER_00:

Send us a story.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep. Because we're spooky. Yeah, we are.

SPEAKER_00:

Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

And where would they send that to? So send your stuff to steeped at holemysweet tea.com.

SPEAKER_00:

S-T-E-E-P-E-D-D. I was like steeped. Yes. Like steep in a teabag. That's right. Yep. And as always, Holmysweet Tea is a drunken bee production. You guys stay safe out there. And like you said, if you go into any haunted houses, tell us your experiences. Write us something. Do something. Do something. We beg you. And remember, just because we're dipping doesn't mean you can't keep sipping. Bye. You better send it.