October 18, 2025 • 20 mins
From pumpkin carving, costuming, and horror movies, Anney and Samantha discuss Halloween memories and traditions while sipping on some seasonal drinks in this classic episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha and welcome to stuff.
I never told you a production of iHeartRadio and today
we are continuing with our creepy content. This was an episode,
It's a happy Hour that we did and it was
(00:26):
just around what around Halloween, and it's like what we
like about it, don't like about it? And I have
to say we were discussing before we started recording. You know,
time feels so strange right now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I keep thinking Halloween.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is so close and it is getting closer, but I
haven't I haven't got my pumpkin yet. I haven't even
really started my horror movie routines yet. So behind, I'm
really behind. I just feel like a lot is going
on this October. I'm going to do the things. I
don't know if I'll be able to fit in all
my movies, but I'm excited for the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And the leaves to change. I am really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And to the food I was discussed in a recent
episode well as always listeners, if you have I love
hearing other people's traditions and what they do, Please write
in and let us know. But in the meantime, enjoy
this classic episode. Hey, this is Sanny hand, Samantha, I'm
(01:31):
no good to Steffane never told you protection of iHeartRadio.
It is time for another happy hour. This is our
last one in October of twenty twenty one. I yesterday
(01:53):
thought it was twenty twenty two, and I spent all
day labeling things twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one show over.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Maybe you just have a really optimistic view for the
rest of this year. Maybe we're going to survive it
wonderfully and be so excited for the new year. Maybe,
Or I guess you could be really pessimistic and be like,
why can't we get over this year?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
This year?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, cheers die either one of those as always drink
responsibly if you choose to do so. And also anything
that we discussed that we are drinking, we are not
currently sponsored by, and we will always let you know
if that is not the case. So, Samantha, what are
you drinking?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well today I decided I wanted to be a little
more foolish winter ish, and I bought not too long
ago the Sam Adams Winter Logger, and it's Winter Logger
Festive and Smooth is how it is titled. But yeah,
so it's been really good because this is kind of
what I think about for a fall winter beer where
(02:54):
it's cozy because it's very hearty, I guess with just
a little bit of spice. That describes it as winter Logger.
No matter what or how you celebrate the spiced holiday,
laggers rich notes and accents of cinnamon, ginger, and orange
pill are perfect for any festivities.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Perfect for any festivities.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, a cinnamon right, And we had thought about doing
Same Adams as a happy hour before. But I'm not
gonna lie. I've got a lot of confusion through looking
at their brewery stuff. I know they've worked to like
Pink Boot Society. They did have a woman who was
the head brewer named I believe Megan PARISSI. I can't
(03:37):
find if she's still there. If she and someone told
me let me know because we want to always celebrate that.
But yeah, so I'm a big fan of Sam Adams.
I know it's not one of the independent beers, so
don't get me. They have the label, the independent craft label,
which was it was a big deal in the industry
(03:57):
because we had a lot of the bigger production companies
who are trying to pretend like since they bought out
the smaller beers that had been Kraft beer. I guess
sam Adams was still craft beer. I didn't know this. Hmmm,
I'm sorry, Sam Adams.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well maybe in a future episode we can look into
that further. I did the very silly touristy thing when
I was in Boston where you can get a Sam
Adams and see Sam Adams grave, essentially Sam Adams in
front of Sam Adams.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it's a whole tourist thing.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, now you do some important information. I do have
associations with cooler weather and fall with Sam Adams. I
know that's not always the case. Again, not a sponsor.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, they had one of the best, better October fests
a long time ago. I was like, this is one
of the better ones. It's not over the top like
too and again Samuel Adams as it's labeled, and this
is not about them, by the way, So I'm just
too long. But Samuel Adams was one of the beers
that I liked. A few of my first beers were Newcastle,
(05:04):
which I was like, that does something to your stomach
for some reason, but I loved it, get Us and
Sam Adams, so they were my beginning and Fat Tire
like those were the beginning beers for me, so I
have a love for them. Abita is also one of
those as well. But yeah, Sam Adams is definitely that
one that I'll be like, what are these little seasonal things?
(05:24):
Let me knows, and I still enjoyed them.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, it's anny.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You mentioned that because I was thinking the other day
I have friends who I introduced to beer, and now
I believe some of it was Sam Adams. But now
I look back and I'm like, wow, that was not
I didn't choose the right out calls, I think, But
they remember all these stories very well. I think the
Octoberfest might have been one of them. But then also
that awkwardness of being at a college party, especially for
(05:52):
me because I really didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Drink that much beer. I didn't really drink that much
at all then.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And showing up with what you think is a poplar beer,
and then I have more than one memory of overhearing
people saying like she bought that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I call this judgment.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I didn't know your college students, you can't afford anything.
Why are you being judging?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Come on, come on, clearly we have a lot of
thoughts on this it's funny. I am in an attempt
to use up some of the massive bottle of pumpkin
spicy syrup, yes, that I have due to Holly Fry's
cocktail that we had on the last happy Hour, which
was amazing and I loved I created. It's a little
(06:35):
bit of pumpkin pie syrup, which I'm glad because it's
very strong bourbon and soda water and nutmeg and cinnamon
and a little bit of themen and it's actually really good.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's one done, but it's very good.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, it sounds kind of like a hot toddy without
the tea mm hmm, but with pumpkin spice instead and
not being warm.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, a lot of but yes, it does have that
kind of vibe. It's kind of it reminds me of
a cool sighter or something, a very fall, very fall drink.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I have consistently been drinking every morning my Pumpkins spice
syrup and my coffee, and then I've made my partner
drink it too, because I'm like, we have to get
rid of this in two weeks because it goes bad.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
How's it going, are you close?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think it was like maybe three or four days worth.
I could be really over selling it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm going to say that's an accomplishments of it that
I'm very proud of. You. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So, since this is the last Happy Hour in October
and before Halloween, we wanted to close out. I know
we've talked a lot about Halloween and spooky things, so
you know, it's sort of closing up the book. And
I know we've done past episodes on you know, our
favorite things about certain holidays, and I was thinking about
(07:57):
it and I'm not sure we've ever done anything like
that for Halloween. And we kind of talked about it
in the last episode with me and Holly, but you
you didn't really shime in so we can hear from you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But I also I wanted to talk about some of
my favorite traditions, which I thought could be something we
could share.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But most of.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Mine I'm remembering like being a child and when Halloween
was so so exciting, and one thing my dad used
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He did this for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He would get us a small gift. Usually it was
a movie, and usually it was a movie he wanted.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But still it was exciting. And well, we had one
called Boo Bags, So on Halloween we would get these
little orange Boo bags and it would usually be one
movie in there and then some candy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Pumpkin carving. I am a huge fan of pumpkin carving
to this day. I have my pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's huge. It's going to be a beast to carve.
And I always do one side.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I do the sleepy hollow pumpkin face, and then on
the other side, I do the Nightmare before Christmas Jack
Skellington face.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh no, wonder it dies so quickly. Yes, okay, I
didn't understand this last time. We had this conversation that
I was like, and now I'm like, oh, you have
two faces that are very intricate. Okay, that's why.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah. Yeah, My pumpkins always die really quickly. So I
carved them the weekend of Halloween usually, and then I
cook the.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Pumpkin seeds and I do half savory and half cinmon sugar.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. So, oh god. I feel like when we talk
about childhood traditions, I just talk about trauma. So I'm
(09:55):
trying not to do this. However, I don't I remember
doing significant things for Halloween. And I won't say it's
because my mom and dad didn't want to. I lived
in the woods, so going door to door was not
a thing. I always thought it was in the movies.
And I have a feeling I'm not the only one,
(10:17):
especially like people not from the US talking about this,
But that seems so cinematic that it seemed unreal that
I did not understand what this was. Now I say this,
and there was a suburb in LJ that was in
the town of and they did this, and it was
the rich part of the town that people would go around.
(10:37):
And because my mom had a lot of anxiety and
a lot of self doubt, I feel like we didn't
do this as much. I could be wrong because I
just can't remember it. There are two significant things that
I do remember, going with my grandmother, who my grandmother
loved looking at us and thought we were adorable. I
only remember one significant costume, which was being a pumpkin
(11:00):
the turtlement because it was so flipp and cold. My
brother and I fought all the time, So it could
have been that it was just a hassle to take
us out anywhere because we try to kill each other,
right that could be that too, so I don't have
a lot of memories of that. I do have some
memories of carving pumpkins, but I think it was more
like we watched them carving pumpkins, because knives and children
(11:22):
they don't really mix. I don't know about baking pumpkin
seas until I was in college, and I loved it,
and we did a few of the pumpkin carvings in college.
I would get tired after making one eye because it
looked so dumb that I would give it over to
someone and ask them to do it, and I'm like,
I'll go bake the pumpkin seas while you do this,
(11:45):
or I'll roast the pumpkin seas. So never a huge
fan of crafting. I really suck at crafting. I really
wish I could say that. I's because like I've never
tried it. I'm just maybe again my attitude in the whole,
I'm not the best. I'm not going to do it
at all. Attitude comes in too much and the anxiety
of like performing for people like it was just it's
(12:06):
just too much. But all that to say, I also
have that problem with costumes. I feel like I'm not
creative enough, I can't figure out what I want to do,
so it puts me into an anxiety swirl instead of
trying to actually enjoy it. So I just quit all
together and set it out. So again, a lot of
(12:27):
ba humbug in this thing. And I will say as
much as I try to love it, because this is
probably the one holiday I like more so than any others.
Beginning of my birthday, which is in September, to the
end of the year, I hate the season. I'm such
a pessimist, so there's a lot of weirdness that I
(12:49):
have around these things. Again, my childhood was not because
it's not normal or anything, but those things were not
done necessarily rural Georgia, where you lived in the woods
and there was no one near you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean it's interesting because I also lived in rural
Georgia and my mom would get us in the back
of a pickup truck and we would slowly like go,
and you know, most of the houses it would take
you forever to get to them, and they might not
have candy. One woman gave me a nickel. I'll never
forget that. I will never ever get as long as
(13:27):
I live, because I was looking at it. What I'd
rather have an apple.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Give me a toothbrush or something.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So this nickel, I can't do anything with this, not
even a corner.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It is funny how like entitled you feel as a
child that you better get candy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But right there was I would go to one friend's
house and she her neighborhood was close, like all the
houses were close, and they had good candy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They had the good stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Right always the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I know you the but that's part of the thing too,
is I would get so excited once I got older,
and I'm like, we gotta have all this candy for
all the kids who are gonna come by, and no
one would come because rural Georgia, it would take forever
to get the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Dark of course now because of that in itself, and
then also because churches they have the whole trunk retreat, yeah,
instead of trick or treat, because it was out of
their trunk and it was religious based.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I did go my dad, as I've said, he was
a professor, and they would do like a family.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You could take your family and they would have games
and they.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Would have like trick or treat down the door malls
and I did that twice and I loved it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think the one thing that I'm thinking about when
I think of costumes is because our school would do things.
But after a little while, because people complained about Halloween
being too devilish, right, they made it a book week,
so you could dress up every day of the week
as your favorite book characters.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I remember, though, Oh that's fun. I school didn't do
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm very bitter about losing to the girl who dressed
up and who was my best friend by the way,
as Dorothy when I had my Korean hambock on and
I was like, really, really really Dorothy beat me. Whatever.
I'm still better about this.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I can see.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I can see I've had fast costume contest from like
you just went because your costume's funny just.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Because you're a pretty ground haired girl and I'm a
Korean over here.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fine ah, yes, no, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is one of my favorite aspects of like costuming, though, is.
I do love kind of the funny pictures you get
where it's like I have there's one picture I have
of me and my siblings where like my little brother
was SpongeBob, I was a sorceress and my older brother
was a ninja turtle, and it just brings me joy.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It makes me laugh. It's very silly. I love that. Yeah.
I mean that's another thing too, is you had to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Get creative cost wise with costumes sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So my sourcerer's outfit was like a sheet that I cut.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I thought it looked cool.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's amazing. I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, yes, Well, something else we've been talking about a
lot is horror movies, and I'm just curious, how do
you remember how you got into horror movies?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So as a teenager, I would go over to my
best friend's house and we would watch all of the
CD listed movies. I don't think it was my first,
but one of the ones that I have seared in
my memory is the House of Wax eighties edition, not
even the original, but the eighties edition with a jew
from Grimlins.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Interesting, Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Can't fair that one thing because it was like sexual
enough without having too many like sex scenes that it
seared like. I was probably twelve thirteen when we watched this,
because again, like I was born in the eighties, but
twelve thirteen would have been in the nineties, so it's
probably mid to late eighties that this came out, and
(17:19):
I just remember because the dude, Vincent Price was in
it as well, so his face is very much seared
into my brain. But like, that was one of those movies.
But it was all of those awful movies that I watched,
which is also why I have a pair of clowns
and also a fear of inanimate objects that are life sized.
And I'm sure it's would come to life and kill me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Wow, it really impacted you.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It did.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Those eighties horror movies.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Those eighties horror movies really messed with your head.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I see, I certainly.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, the first ones you watch and you get exposed
to can definitely influence things.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That you fear. I didn't know. That's why you an
animates got you? Huh, all right, it's not the only
one that's true. It's true.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And then when you brought out that VR game with
Freddy's House of Horrors, that's like that was my nightmare.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I how dare you Freddie's House of Horror?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's called five Nights at Freddy's said it's excellent, but yeah,
she was not happy.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I looked around and I went and through the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It was just the menu scream and she was like, nope,
which is fair, it's scary. I believe there's a video
of me playing it, or there was one time on
our social.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Was very concerned for me. She was, yeah, I mean
that's also interesting. What what scares different people? And having
that conversation of like, huh, that doesn't scare me at all.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It being something that terrifies the other person.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Something I used to do me and my old roommate
in college is during October.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It was the nerdiest thing, but I loved it. We
would at.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Night, we would light up our small pumpkins and we
would take turns reading scary stories to each other, drinking tea.
And this was before I knew I had my issue
with tea. And then we would watch a scary movie
and the like candle light and it was just such
a like kind of wholesome and nerdy thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I just love.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I loved that because I would try to do that
by myself, of like reading by candlelight, going how the
hell did they read by candle I can't see these words?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, yes, yeah, it was just a delight. I love
finding us. I think we've discussed several times on this podcast.
But I love when you find those like little traditions
with friends and that I don't do it anymore, but
I just remember it so fondly, of reading scary stories
to each other.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh cool nights.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah yeah, well cheers everyone cheers to use chears us
think whether you celebrate Halloween or not, whether you enjoy
it or not, I hope you have a lovely weekend. Yes, yeah,
a lovely, safe weekend. And if you do have any
traditions around Halloween you would like to share, we would
(20:05):
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Speaker 1 (20:15):
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Hey, this is Sandy and Samantha and welcome to stuff.
I never told you a production of iHeartRadio and today
we are continuing with our creepy content. This was an episode,
It's a happy Hour that we did and it was
(00:26):
just around what around Halloween, and it's like what we
like about it, don't like about it? And I have
to say we were discussing before we started recording. You know,
time feels so strange right now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I keep thinking Halloween.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Is so close and it is getting closer, but I
haven't I haven't got my pumpkin yet. I haven't even
really started my horror movie routines yet. So behind, I'm
really behind. I just feel like a lot is going
on this October. I'm going to do the things. I
don't know if I'll be able to fit in all
my movies, but I'm excited for the weather.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And the leaves to change. I am really excited about that.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
And to the food I was discussed in a recent
episode well as always listeners, if you have I love
hearing other people's traditions and what they do, Please write
in and let us know. But in the meantime, enjoy
this classic episode. Hey, this is Sanny hand, Samantha, I'm
(01:31):
no good to Steffane never told you protection of iHeartRadio.
It is time for another happy hour. This is our
last one in October of twenty twenty one. I yesterday
(01:53):
thought it was twenty twenty two, and I spent all
day labeling things twenty twenty two, twenty twenty one show over.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Maybe you just have a really optimistic view for the
rest of this year. Maybe we're going to survive it
wonderfully and be so excited for the new year. Maybe,
Or I guess you could be really pessimistic and be like,
why can't we get over this year?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
This year?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, cheers die either one of those as always drink
responsibly if you choose to do so. And also anything
that we discussed that we are drinking, we are not
currently sponsored by, and we will always let you know
if that is not the case. So, Samantha, what are
you drinking?
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well today I decided I wanted to be a little
more foolish winter ish, and I bought not too long
ago the Sam Adams Winter Logger, and it's Winter Logger
Festive and Smooth is how it is titled. But yeah,
so it's been really good because this is kind of
what I think about for a fall winter beer where
(02:54):
it's cozy because it's very hearty, I guess with just
a little bit of spice. That describes it as winter Logger.
No matter what or how you celebrate the spiced holiday,
laggers rich notes and accents of cinnamon, ginger, and orange
pill are perfect for any festivities.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Perfect for any festivities.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yes, a cinnamon right, And we had thought about doing
Same Adams as a happy hour before. But I'm not
gonna lie. I've got a lot of confusion through looking
at their brewery stuff. I know they've worked to like
Pink Boot Society. They did have a woman who was
the head brewer named I believe Megan PARISSI. I can't
(03:37):
find if she's still there. If she and someone told
me let me know because we want to always celebrate that.
But yeah, so I'm a big fan of Sam Adams.
I know it's not one of the independent beers, so
don't get me. They have the label, the independent craft label,
which was it was a big deal in the industry
(03:57):
because we had a lot of the bigger production companies
who are trying to pretend like since they bought out
the smaller beers that had been Kraft beer. I guess
sam Adams was still craft beer. I didn't know this. Hmmm,
I'm sorry, Sam Adams.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well maybe in a future episode we can look into
that further. I did the very silly touristy thing when
I was in Boston where you can get a Sam
Adams and see Sam Adams grave, essentially Sam Adams in
front of Sam Adams.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Yeah, it's a whole tourist thing.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Well, now you do some important information. I do have
associations with cooler weather and fall with Sam Adams. I
know that's not always the case. Again, not a sponsor.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Yeah, they had one of the best, better October fests
a long time ago. I was like, this is one
of the better ones. It's not over the top like
too and again Samuel Adams as it's labeled, and this
is not about them, by the way, So I'm just
too long. But Samuel Adams was one of the beers
that I liked. A few of my first beers were Newcastle,
(05:04):
which I was like, that does something to your stomach
for some reason, but I loved it, get Us and
Sam Adams, so they were my beginning and Fat Tire
like those were the beginning beers for me, so I
have a love for them. Abita is also one of
those as well. But yeah, Sam Adams is definitely that
one that I'll be like, what are these little seasonal things?
(05:24):
Let me knows, and I still enjoyed them.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Yeah, it's anny.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You mentioned that because I was thinking the other day
I have friends who I introduced to beer, and now
I believe some of it was Sam Adams. But now
I look back and I'm like, wow, that was not
I didn't choose the right out calls, I think, But
they remember all these stories very well. I think the
Octoberfest might have been one of them. But then also
that awkwardness of being at a college party, especially for
(05:52):
me because I really didn't.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Drink that much beer. I didn't really drink that much
at all then.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And showing up with what you think is a poplar beer,
and then I have more than one memory of overhearing
people saying like she bought that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I call this judgment.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
I didn't know your college students, you can't afford anything.
Why are you being judging?
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Come on, come on, clearly we have a lot of
thoughts on this it's funny. I am in an attempt
to use up some of the massive bottle of pumpkin
spicy syrup, yes, that I have due to Holly Fry's
cocktail that we had on the last happy Hour, which
was amazing and I loved I created. It's a little
(06:35):
bit of pumpkin pie syrup, which I'm glad because it's
very strong bourbon and soda water and nutmeg and cinnamon
and a little bit of themen and it's actually really good.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
It's one done, but it's very good.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Well, it sounds kind of like a hot toddy without
the tea mm hmm, but with pumpkin spice instead and
not being warm.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yes, a lot of but yes, it does have that
kind of vibe. It's kind of it reminds me of
a cool sighter or something, a very fall, very fall drink.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I like it. I like it.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
I have consistently been drinking every morning my Pumpkins spice
syrup and my coffee, and then I've made my partner
drink it too, because I'm like, we have to get
rid of this in two weeks because it goes bad.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
How's it going, are you close?
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Well, yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
I think it was like maybe three or four days worth.
I could be really over selling it.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I'm going to say that's an accomplishments of it that
I'm very proud of. You. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
So, since this is the last Happy Hour in October
and before Halloween, we wanted to close out. I know
we've talked a lot about Halloween and spooky things, so
you know, it's sort of closing up the book. And
I know we've done past episodes on you know, our
favorite things about certain holidays, and I was thinking about
(07:57):
it and I'm not sure we've ever done anything like
that for Halloween. And we kind of talked about it
in the last episode with me and Holly, but you
you didn't really shime in so we can hear from you.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
But I also I wanted to talk about some of
my favorite traditions, which I thought could be something we
could share.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
But most of.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Mine I'm remembering like being a child and when Halloween
was so so exciting, and one thing my dad used
to do.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
He did this for every holiday.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
He would get us a small gift. Usually it was
a movie, and usually it was a movie he wanted.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
But still it was exciting. And well, we had one
called Boo Bags, So on Halloween we would get these
little orange Boo bags and it would usually be one
movie in there and then some candy.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Pumpkin carving. I am a huge fan of pumpkin carving
to this day. I have my pumpkin.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's huge. It's going to be a beast to carve.
And I always do one side.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I do the sleepy hollow pumpkin face, and then on
the other side, I do the Nightmare before Christmas Jack
Skellington face.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh no, wonder it dies so quickly. Yes, okay, I
didn't understand this last time. We had this conversation that
I was like, and now I'm like, oh, you have
two faces that are very intricate. Okay, that's why.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah. Yeah, My pumpkins always die really quickly. So I
carved them the weekend of Halloween usually, and then I
cook the.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Pumpkin seeds and I do half savory and half cinmon sugar.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah. So, oh god. I feel like when we talk
about childhood traditions, I just talk about trauma. So I'm
(09:55):
trying not to do this. However, I don't I remember
doing significant things for Halloween. And I won't say it's
because my mom and dad didn't want to. I lived
in the woods, so going door to door was not
a thing. I always thought it was in the movies.
And I have a feeling I'm not the only one,
(10:17):
especially like people not from the US talking about this,
But that seems so cinematic that it seemed unreal that
I did not understand what this was. Now I say this,
and there was a suburb in LJ that was in
the town of and they did this, and it was
the rich part of the town that people would go around.
(10:37):
And because my mom had a lot of anxiety and
a lot of self doubt, I feel like we didn't
do this as much. I could be wrong because I
just can't remember it. There are two significant things that
I do remember, going with my grandmother, who my grandmother
loved looking at us and thought we were adorable. I
only remember one significant costume, which was being a pumpkin
(11:00):
the turtlement because it was so flipp and cold. My
brother and I fought all the time, So it could
have been that it was just a hassle to take
us out anywhere because we try to kill each other,
right that could be that too, so I don't have
a lot of memories of that. I do have some
memories of carving pumpkins, but I think it was more
like we watched them carving pumpkins, because knives and children
(11:22):
they don't really mix. I don't know about baking pumpkin
seas until I was in college, and I loved it,
and we did a few of the pumpkin carvings in college.
I would get tired after making one eye because it
looked so dumb that I would give it over to
someone and ask them to do it, and I'm like,
I'll go bake the pumpkin seas while you do this,
(11:45):
or I'll roast the pumpkin seas. So never a huge
fan of crafting. I really suck at crafting. I really
wish I could say that. I's because like I've never
tried it. I'm just maybe again my attitude in the whole,
I'm not the best. I'm not going to do it
at all. Attitude comes in too much and the anxiety
of like performing for people like it was just it's
(12:06):
just too much. But all that to say, I also
have that problem with costumes. I feel like I'm not
creative enough, I can't figure out what I want to do,
so it puts me into an anxiety swirl instead of
trying to actually enjoy it. So I just quit all
together and set it out. So again, a lot of
(12:27):
ba humbug in this thing. And I will say as
much as I try to love it, because this is
probably the one holiday I like more so than any others.
Beginning of my birthday, which is in September, to the
end of the year, I hate the season. I'm such
a pessimist, so there's a lot of weirdness that I
(12:49):
have around these things. Again, my childhood was not because
it's not normal or anything, but those things were not
done necessarily rural Georgia, where you lived in the woods
and there was no one near you.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I mean it's interesting because I also lived in rural
Georgia and my mom would get us in the back
of a pickup truck and we would slowly like go,
and you know, most of the houses it would take
you forever to get to them, and they might not
have candy. One woman gave me a nickel. I'll never
forget that. I will never ever get as long as
(13:27):
I live, because I was looking at it. What I'd
rather have an apple.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Give me a toothbrush or something.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So this nickel, I can't do anything with this, not
even a corner.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
It is funny how like entitled you feel as a
child that you better get candy.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
But right there was I would go to one friend's
house and she her neighborhood was close, like all the
houses were close, and they had good candy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
They had the good stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Right always the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
I know you the but that's part of the thing too,
is I would get so excited once I got older,
and I'm like, we gotta have all this candy for
all the kids who are gonna come by, and no
one would come because rural Georgia, it would take forever
to get the rest.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Dark of course now because of that in itself, and
then also because churches they have the whole trunk retreat, yeah,
instead of trick or treat, because it was out of
their trunk and it was religious based.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
I did go my dad, as I've said, he was
a professor, and they would do like a family.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
You could take your family and they would have games
and they.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Would have like trick or treat down the door malls
and I did that twice and I loved it.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think the one thing that I'm thinking about when
I think of costumes is because our school would do things.
But after a little while, because people complained about Halloween
being too devilish, right, they made it a book week,
so you could dress up every day of the week
as your favorite book characters.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I remember, though, Oh that's fun. I school didn't do
anything like that.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I'm very bitter about losing to the girl who dressed
up and who was my best friend by the way,
as Dorothy when I had my Korean hambock on and
I was like, really, really really Dorothy beat me. Whatever.
I'm still better about this.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
I can see.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
I can see I've had fast costume contest from like
you just went because your costume's funny just.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Because you're a pretty ground haired girl and I'm a
Korean over here.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Fine ah, yes, no, definitely not.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
That is one of my favorite aspects of like costuming, though, is.
I do love kind of the funny pictures you get
where it's like I have there's one picture I have
of me and my siblings where like my little brother
was SpongeBob, I was a sorceress and my older brother
was a ninja turtle, and it just brings me joy.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
It makes me laugh. It's very silly. I love that. Yeah.
I mean that's another thing too, is you had to.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
Get creative cost wise with costumes sometimes.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
So my sourcerer's outfit was like a sheet that I cut.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
It was amazing.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
I thought it looked cool.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
That's amazing. I love it.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, yes, Well, something else we've been talking about a
lot is horror movies, and I'm just curious, how do
you remember how you got into horror movies?
Speaker 3 (16:33):
So as a teenager, I would go over to my
best friend's house and we would watch all of the
CD listed movies. I don't think it was my first,
but one of the ones that I have seared in
my memory is the House of Wax eighties edition, not
even the original, but the eighties edition with a jew
from Grimlins.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Interesting, Okay, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (16:58):
Can't fair that one thing because it was like sexual
enough without having too many like sex scenes that it
seared like. I was probably twelve thirteen when we watched this,
because again, like I was born in the eighties, but
twelve thirteen would have been in the nineties, so it's
probably mid to late eighties that this came out, and
(17:19):
I just remember because the dude, Vincent Price was in
it as well, so his face is very much seared
into my brain. But like, that was one of those movies.
But it was all of those awful movies that I watched,
which is also why I have a pair of clowns
and also a fear of inanimate objects that are life sized.
And I'm sure it's would come to life and kill me.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Wow, it really impacted you.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
It did.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Those eighties horror movies.
Speaker 3 (17:46):
Those eighties horror movies really messed with your head.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I see, I certainly.
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Yeah, the first ones you watch and you get exposed
to can definitely influence things.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
That you fear. I didn't know. That's why you an
animates got you? Huh, all right, it's not the only
one that's true. It's true.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
And then when you brought out that VR game with
Freddy's House of Horrors, that's like that was my nightmare.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I how dare you Freddie's House of Horror?
Speaker 1 (18:15):
It's called five Nights at Freddy's said it's excellent, but yeah,
she was not happy.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
I looked around and I went and through the thing.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
It was just the menu scream and she was like, nope,
which is fair, it's scary. I believe there's a video
of me playing it, or there was one time on
our social.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
Was very concerned for me. She was, yeah, I mean
that's also interesting. What what scares different people? And having
that conversation of like, huh, that doesn't scare me at all.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
It being something that terrifies the other person.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Something I used to do me and my old roommate
in college is during October.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It was the nerdiest thing, but I loved it. We
would at.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Night, we would light up our small pumpkins and we
would take turns reading scary stories to each other, drinking tea.
And this was before I knew I had my issue
with tea. And then we would watch a scary movie
and the like candle light and it was just such
a like kind of wholesome and nerdy thing.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
But I just love.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
I loved that because I would try to do that
by myself, of like reading by candlelight, going how the
hell did they read by candle I can't see these words?
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Yes, yes, yeah, it was just a delight. I love
finding us. I think we've discussed several times on this podcast.
But I love when you find those like little traditions
with friends and that I don't do it anymore, but
I just remember it so fondly, of reading scary stories
to each other.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Oh cool nights.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That's so cute.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
Yeah yeah, well cheers everyone cheers to use chears us
think whether you celebrate Halloween or not, whether you enjoy
it or not, I hope you have a lovely weekend. Yes, yeah,
a lovely, safe weekend. And if you do have any
traditions around Halloween you would like to share, we would
(20:05):
love to hear about them. You can email us a
stuffidia mom Stuff atiheartmedia dot com. You can find us
on Instagram at Stuff I've Never Told You or on
Twitter at mom Stuff Podcast.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Thanks it's always to our super producer Christina.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Happy Halloween again, Happy Halloween again, and thanks to you
for listening.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
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