They Were Very Much Splashing the Fake Blood (Fall Media Traditions)

Air? Chilling. Leaves? Changing. Pumpkin spice? Everywhere. What else has your bones screaming that fall has arrived? On this episode, Nicole, Killian, and Drew discuss their favorite fall traditions, both in their lives and in their must-watch media, and some of their favorite ways to celebrate the season.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
- (Nicole) Hey there!
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- (Nicole) Hey everybody!
On today's episode of "TheDistracted Librarians",
we are going to be talkingabout our fall media traditions.
What on earth does that mean?
Well, wait, first off, Ishould say my name's Nicole.

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- (Killian) I'm Killian.- (Drew) I'm Drew.
- (Nicole) All right.
- (Drew) What does that mean?
- (Nicole) Well, fall,
- (Nicole and Killian) I love fall.
- (Drew) I exist in fall.
- (Nicole) Really?
- (Drew) I don't hatefall. It's just there.
- (Nicole) Okay, well,what's your favorite season?
- (Drew) Not winter.
- (Nicole) Okay, just any other time.
- (Killian) That's fair.
- (Nicole) Okay. Fair enough.

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- (Drew) I'm very, the Michiganjoke that there are two
seasons, winter and construction,and I choose construction.
- (Nicole) Okay.(group laughs)
- (Killian) An unfortunate choice.
- (Nicole) Yeah, thatsounds like depressing.
- (Drew) But I really don'tdifferentiate the seasons.
- (Killian) Okay, that's fair.
They're becoming harder to differentiate.
- (Nicole) Yeah. Man, I love the fall.

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Fall is my favorite.
I think Michigan is abeautiful place in the fall.
We get the color changeand the leaves falling
and it smells good andeverything's crispy and crunchy
as you walk through it.
It's pretty fantastic.
- (Killian) I mean, I firmlystand by October being the best

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month, and not just becausemy birthday's in October.
- (Nicole) Oh, you're lucky.- (Killian) It's generally,
it's the part of fall that's colorful.
It hasn't gotten like super dreary yet,
but usually, knock on wood,
it's not like super way too warm.
- (Nicole) Mm-hmm. Yeah, usually it's not.

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- (Killian) The way September can be.
- (Nicole) Right.
- (Drew) Lately by Halloween it's snowing.
- (Nicole) Yeah. And thathas happened a couple times.
Or it's drizzling, which is more normal.
And sometimes it's 70degrees and my kids are like,
why am I wearing this,you know, on Halloween
and we're all dressed up andwearing a jacket or whatever.
- (Drew) And you're like,"Because you told mommy

(02:31):
that you wanted to wear thison Halloween since August."
- (Nicole) We should thinkabout our costumes before we
you know, we have to plan for the weather.
(Drew laughs)
My goodness.
All right, so we all knowthat Halloween starts a lot,
or well, Halloween, fall and Halloween,
start a little bit earlierin the year than they should,

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especially when you go to the store.
- (Killian) I disagree,
but that's just because Idon't particularly like summer.
It's eh.- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Killian) I have no use for summer
ever since I stoppedhaving a summer vacation
that got me out of mostof my responsibilities.
- (Drew) Right.
- (Killian) So, I don'tknow, social media this year,

(03:14):
everything was like,okay, 4th of July is over.
It's Halloween season now.
And I'm just like, "You know what? Okay."
I'm cool with it.
- (Nicole) I would be okay with it
if it wasn't just stillso bloody hot, generally.
I feel like September, thekids are back to school.
That's officially fall forme, even though it's not
until technically the 20thor 21st, but that's fall.

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- (Killian) I started doingmarching band stuff in May
so fall is whenever.
Fall is a state of mind andI'm okay with it starting now.
- (Nicole) Oh my goodness.
All right, when do you guys start
kind of moving towards yourfall favorite things to do?
It would be, you're during May?
- (Killian) Summer is still summer,

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and with summer reading things at work
I have to get through that.
But I'll call August thetoo hot part of fall.
I will embrace thecoffee shops bringing out
their pumpkin and apple flavors in August
because I like those
and I'm okay with thembeing around longer.

(04:17):
- (Nicole) Yeah, I like those too.
- (Drew) So for me it is likealmost exclusively temperature
based. So if I need to be running the AC
at any point in the day it's summer.
- (Nicole) Yeah. Okay.
- (Drew) And if I can havethe windows open at 3:00 PM
it's fall.
- (Nicole) That's so nice.- (Killian) That's fair.
I can't open windows because of the cats.
- (Drew) I know.
- (Killian) So I simply runthe AC until I can turn it off

(04:42):
(Drew laughs)
and hope it's gonna be okay, but yeah.
- (Nicole) So technicallymy house is pretty much
what some people would consider decorated
for Halloween all year round.
But I do bring out somedecorations in October
that are specifically for that time.
And so, you know, then I'll bring out

(05:03):
my little pumpkin things andthe spookier stuff comes out
right around then.
- (Killian) I also have decor
that could be consideredHalloween decor out year round.
Some skull decor and-
- (Nicole) Oh yeah, I haveskulls all over the place.
- (Killian) Ravens and thingslike that. So that's the vibe.
- (Drew) And I don't have any of that.

(05:25):
- (Nicole) No? Oh my goodness.
I'm buying you a skull.
- (Drew) I also don't have likea front door in that sense.
It's an apartment building, so.
- (Nicole) Okay, gotcha.
You just like creep everybodyout with your Weird door.
- (Drew) And there are a coupleof people in my apartment
complex who have like a wreathfor every month of the year.

(05:45):
- (Nicole) Mm-hmm. I know those people.
- (Drew) And will likechange the door aesthetic.
One of the neighbors moved out,
but for like two years thatI was living in this place,
there were two neighbors in 103 and 104,
right across the hall from each other,
that like full on"Christmas with the Kranks"
like fought each other.

(06:06):
- (Nicole) Oh my goodness.
- (Drew) Over like howbulky they could make their
decorations. And it wascute and it was interesting.
But I also had to walk through this area
and go and access those stairsto go to the laundry room
and it was a lot.
- (Nicole) Yeah, that seems like a lot.
I don't know, like I tend to decorate more
for Halloween than Idecorate for Christmas,

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so I'm that person.
And when I see people thatgo crazy for Christmas,
I'm just like, "You'redoing the wrong thing."
- (Killian) I would loveto simply decorate more for
holidays. But I am in marching band season
and there's a joke in themarching band world about like,
October is all marching band all the time
because it's build up tostate championship stuff.

(06:51):
So that is a crazy busy time.
And I work and I coachcolor guard and I sleep.
And then in the winter forlike Christmas and stuff,
I am doing winter guard things
and try to plan the nextmarching band season
and things like that.
So I simply don't decorateas much as I would like to.

(07:14):
I also have to be careful with decorations
because I used to have older cats
that wouldn't cause chaos with decor.
But now I have 2-year-old orange cats
who will simply be all of thechaos that they can manage.
- (Nicole) So you can'tput up a tree or anything?
- (Killian) No.
- (Nicole) I would actually like to see
what two orange cats could do with a tree.

(07:36):
- (Killian) It would fall down constantly.
They climb everything.
They would try to climbit and they are not small,
so they would simply pull it over.
- (Nicole) Yeah.- (Killian) Repeatedly.
- (Nicole) Oh my goodness.
All right, so what are someof the books, movies, shows,
games, things that we like to do
when it gets a little chillier outside?

(07:59):
- (Killian) I have verydistinct fall vibes
in basically all of my everything.
As I look at my listof things I wrote down,
and it is witchy and cozy.
And the witchy can getinto some horror things
and things like that.
But it is witchy and it is cozy.
Part of that is, I thinkpart of it is Halloween

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and part of it is just the cozy is so nice
when it's getting cooler
and you can then like cozyblankets and candles and,
you know, fireplace and whatever.
There's all of the cozy stereotypes
are things that bring me a lot of joy
and I will simply embrace them.
- (Nicole) Hoodies.- (Killian) Hoodies.
(Drew laughs)

(08:42):
- (Nicole) There's almost always-
- (Drew) The wistful tone.
- (Nicole) There's almostalways a time of year when I'm
like, "Okay, I am finished with this
and I really just wannaput my hoodie back on."
- (Killian) I would love tobe able to live in hoodies
or cozy sweaters all year round.
That is my dream climate, andI don't know that it exists.

(09:02):
- (Nicole) I think youhave to go north somewhere.
- (Killian) I think it would get too cold.
- (Nicole) Well, I don't know.
Yeah, it would definitely get too cold
for some periods of time, right?
- (Drew)And I do tend to existin hoodies through the winter
Whether that is a good lifedecision on a given day or not.
- (Nicole) I would die, butI need that like in between,
like the 50 degrees, 55-ish,

(09:24):
- (Killian) I have a deephatred of winter coats as well,
so it's all very complicated,I have temperature issues.
There's a 20 degreerange that is acceptable.
- (Drew) That feels like a large range.
Like a too large range for you.
- (Killian) No. 'cause I cango down to 50 and up to 70.
- (Drew) Yeah. I guess that's true.

(09:44):
- (Killian) It's abeautiful temperature range.
- (Nicole) That works.
- (Killian)Unfortunately, mostof the world exists outside
of that most of the year.
- (Nicole) So I usually have to go get,
we have to go get our pumpkins.
That's a big thing.
And then I always buy a cinnamon broom
and I put it right by my doorso when you walk in the house,
it smells like cinnamon and it is glorious

(10:05):
and I love it so much.
- (Killian) That's lovely.- (Nicole) Yeah.
My kids, they like walk in the door
and then they give abig sniff and I'm like,
yes, that's what I do this for.
This is for you. You'llremember this forever.
- (Drew) Do the kids have movies
that they like watching every Halloween
or is that not a thing yet?- (Nicole) They do.
No, it is totally a thing.
And it has changed over time
because like, we had Halloween movies

(10:28):
that they watched when they were little,
like "Spookley The Square Pumpkin,"
I don't know if you guys know about this.
- (Drew) I haven't been introduced.
- (Nicole) It's pretty weird.
(Killian and Drew laugh)
No, like, remember when we didthe creepy animation episode?
Well, this is a little bit of that.
It's like the way it's animated
is really just kind of disturbing.

(10:49):
The story is very sweet. It'sabout a pumpkin who's square.
Everybody makes fun ofhim because he's square.
But like, because he'ssquare, he's special
so he does something that saves everybody.
Yeah. That's the story.
- (Killian) So it's Rudolphthe Red Nose Reindeer,
but it's a square pumpkininstead of a bright shiny nose.
- (Nicole) So, you know,my kids have outgrown that
and that is totally fine.- (Drew) Yes.

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- (Nicole) We have moved on to "Gremlins,"
which is kind of technicallya Christmas movie.
I don't know, isn't it?
- (Killian) I think that couldfall in the realm of both.
- (Nicole) I think it's like"Nightmare before Christmas,"
it could be either or.
- (Drew) I haven't seenGremlins in 25 years, but I will
tell you, "Gremlins" was onthe list of Halloween movies
that I looked up in preparation for this.
So you are well within bounds.

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- (Nicole) Yay. All right.
And then, you know,they love "Hocus Pocus,"
so we watch that,
and there's a Disney moviecalled "Under Wraps,"
which is about, do you know this one?
- (Drew) I haven't thoughtabout that movie in a decade.
- (Nicole) I didn't evenknow it was that old.
But like my kids love it.
And there's an "Under Wraps2" that came out recently.

(11:53):
So, get it, Drew.
- (Drew) There's also, nowthat we're on this track.
- (Killian) The classicDisney Halloween movie?
- (Drew) "Don't Look Under the Bed."
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Killian) There's so many.
- (Nicole) I think thatone sounds familiar to me.
- (Drew) Don't Look Underthe Bed" is terrifying.
- (Nicole) Okay. I'm writing this down.
(Killian laughs)
- (Drew) Like, it haunts me.

(12:14):
- (Killian) And see that'sfully not where I was going
and Drew knows it.
- (Drew) You are going"Halloweentown" and we'll get there.
(Killian laughs)
- (Nicole) Oh my gosh.
- (Drew) Several minutes of this podcast
will be dedicated to"Halloweentown," I accept this.
- (Killian) As it should be.
- (Drew) But "Don't LookUnder the Bed" is like
the monster that gets you in your sleep.
- Okay.
- And it's like, there are two creatures.

(12:36):
There's your imaginary friend
and there's the like torturerthat lives under the bed.
And this girl's brothergets sucked under the bed
and she has to team up withher old imaginary friend
to go and get him.- (Nicole) Okay.

(12:57):
- (Killian) I feel like Disneyhas so much explaining to do
on its choices for kids movies.
- (Drew) This was like 1998.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Drew) Like, haunts me.
- (Nicole) All right.- (Drew) I love it so much.
- (Nicole) Which alsoexplains why I did not see it.
Because I was graduating from high school.
(group laughs)

(13:18):
Cool. All right, well let'sroll into "Halloweentown," or.
- (Drew) Oh, "Halloweentown."
- (Killian) Drew and I havethis list of Halloween movies
that is a very similarlist of Halloween movies
that we try to watch every year.
And it's something that we both did,
like before we lived together.
And then like, it just was like, oh hey,

(13:40):
we really are this similar, great.
(Drew laughs)- (Nicole) Wow.
- (Killian) I have a deep,deep love of "Halloweentown."
That one of the most nostalgicHalloween things for me
because I remember being a kid
and it would play several times

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in the month of Octoberon the Disney Channel
and I would try to watchit every single time.
- (Nicole) Is thisrecommended for my children?
- (Drew) Very much so.- (Killian) Yes.
- (Nicole) Okay, cool. I will do that.
- (Drew) No, it's a girl in middle school,
'cause she's turning 13,I think is the premise.
And she finds out through her grandmother,

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who's always lived so far away
and can only visit on Halloween
that she was born a witch
and that her mother tookher to the human world
to raise them there
and that if she doesn't startaccessing her powers by 13,
she'll lose them.
- (Nicole) Okay.

(14:44):
- (Killian) And she's very into
like Halloween and the witchy things
and her mother hasalways tried to keep her
from engaging with any of it.
- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Killian) And it's just so good.
- (Drew) The grandmotheris Debbie Reynolds.
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Killian) Yes.
- (Drew) And she is thatperfect like Betty White-ish

(15:07):
character of just likethis wholesome woman
who has the backbone to support it.
- (Nicole) Nice. Cool.
- (Killian) But it's also a little goofy.
- (Nicole) Well, that's always good too.
- (Killian) Yeah.- (Nicole) Nice.
- (Drew) There's a pointwhere they have to collect
ingredients for a spell andone of them is hair of a

(15:27):
werewolf. And the werewolfcharacter is a barber
and like really, reallyqueer, essentially. (laughs)
But like this bigger than life personality
and the kids have to like break in
and shave a piece of him off.

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- (Nicole) Oh my goodness.- (Drew) It's so silly.
- (Killian) Yeah, thereare stakes to this movie,
but it's also so goofy.
And I think that's what I loveabout it is it's so Disney
in like every good way.
- (Drew) Yep.- (Nicole) Nice.
- (Killian) And then they did a sequel

(16:11):
and some other sequelsthat we don't talk about.
But the second one was also fairly good.
- (Nicole) Nice.
Yay, we may have a new thingto watch for Halloween.
- (Drew) Yes.- (Nicole) I like it.
- (Drew) Here, I willrun down my full list
of media that I will make a point to watch

(16:32):
sometime in the month of October.
And that is "Halloweentown 1 and 2."
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Drew) "Practical Magic."
- (Killian) Second that one.
- (Nicole) Yeah, that one's really good.
- (Drew) You said "HocusPocus" and "Nightmare Before
Christmas", which are both on the list.
"Cabin in the Woods."
- (Nicole) Okay.
- "Coco."
- (Nicole) Okay.- (Killian) Okay.
- (Nicole) I don't even thinkabout Coco for Halloween?
- (Killian) Yeah, I didn'tthink about that one but it is.

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- (Drew) "Over the Garden Wall."
- (Nicole) Okay. Yeah.Which is really cute.
- (Drew) Really, really cute,
and all of the HalloweenHeists in "Brooklyn 99."
(Killian chuckles)
- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Killian) I also watchThe Craft every Halloween.
- (Drew) So good.
- (Nicole) Yeah. That's really good.
- (Killian) But yeah, "PracticalMagic," also on my list,
"Hocus Pocus," "NightmareBefore Christmas."

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I also really like "Corpse Bride."
- (Nicole) Yeah, that's a good one.
- (Killian) That was a good one.
- (Nicole) Nice.
- (Drew) Yeah, that's verymuch my Halloween vibe
is that cozy like for kids
or that you could watch with kids.
And, you know, Cabin inthe Woods is the only one
that I really do that goesinto the horror aspect

(17:38):
and even that is a dark comedy horror.
- (Nicole) Mm-hmm. Yeah.
I like to watch classic horror films
during the month of October.
So generally we'll tryto like find whatever
has popped up on Hulu becausesometimes Hulu will have
like a curated Halloweenlist that they have

(18:00):
so we almost alwayswatch like "The Shining."
Also the Redford Theater is a great place
to go see some of these kindof classic horror films too.
And if we have an opportunity,
I try to go and see thatlike on the big screen
in an old theater, 'cause Ithink that just adds to it.

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- (Drew) So what are some ofyour favorite classic horrors?
- (Nicole) Okay, so "TheShining," definitely.
"The Exorcist" is also areally good one that I like.
That one is, it's kind of funnyand gross and weird to me.
- (Drew) That's the likeLinda Blair head spin.
- (Nicole) Yes. Yes.- (Drew) Pea Soup.

(18:44):
- (Nicole) Yeah.
(Drew laughs)
Oh, and then, goodness,I'm trying to think.
"Evil Dead" is another onethat we try to watch too,
which is also ridiculous.
- (Drew) Yes it is.- (Nicole) But Michigan actor,
Michigan director, producer,all of that stuff, so.
- (Drew) Have you seen the stage musical?
- (Nicole) I have not.- (Drew) That is also a time.

(19:05):
- (Nicole)Okay.
- (Drew) That is a showwith a splash zone.
- (Nicole) Oh really? Well I love that.
That's fantastic.
- (Drew) I saw it,
there's a tiny little theater venue
in the upstairs of theHockey Town restaurant.
- (Nicole) Okay. Downtown.- (Drew) Downtown.
- (Nicole) Yeah. Okay.
- (Drew) And they setthat up for a season.

(19:28):
This would've been, God, four years ago.
I did not sit in the splash zone.
- (Nicole) No.
- (Drew) Because I love myself.
- (Nicole) Yeah, but.
Did you have to wear a white t-shirt
and you have to like bear it.
You have to carry it with you
so that everyone sees that you were in it
- (Drew) Because they're verymuch splashing the fake blood.
- (Nicole) Yes.- (Drew) Everywhere.
- (Nicole) Yes.
So this is kind of offtopic just a tiny bit,

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but the band Gwar would alwaysplay on Halloween in Detroit.
- (Drew) Oh yeah?
- (Nicole) For many, many, many years.
And I used to go see them an awful lot.
Also a splash zone.
Pretty much like atleast half of the venue,
depending on which venueit is in, is a splash zone.

(20:12):
So you have to hide
if you plan on trying toget out of that splash zone.
And the walls are alwayscovered with like trash bags
and it is all Dextered out
because these venues don'twanna get ruined by this band,
but like, they spray stuff everywhere.
Everywhere. It is like highoctane liquids coming at you.

(20:35):
It's pretty fantastic.
- (Drew) That's a sentence. (laughs)
- (Nicole) Yes.- (Killian) Yeah.
Yeah, it is.
- (Drew) I feel like I was there now.
- (Nicole) Good. I'm so glad.
Love it.
Okay.
I also wanna talk about music.
Like, do you guys listento Halloween music at all?
- (Drew) No.- (Killian) No.

(20:56):
- (Nicole) Man, I'm a dork.
(Killian laughs)
- (Drew) So define Halloween music.
- (Nicole) Well just, okay, forexample, because of my kids,
we typically will playlike a Halloween playlist
around Halloween time
and we'll use like Appleplaylists or whatever.
But they almost alwayshave "Thriller" on it.
- (Drew) "Monster Mash."
- (Nicole) Yeah, "Monster Mash."

(21:17):
"Spooky Scary Skeletons" andlike other songs like that.
Anyway, we love doing that
and pretty much I havesilly songs stuck in my head
all the time during this time of year.
- Drew) See, I love gettingthat vibe when I'm at Meijer.
- (Nicole) Okay.
You're like, "Yes, please,play the seasonal music."

(21:37):
So I can enjoy this experience better.
- (Drew) Yep, like I always like
when that's like a partof outside experiences.
But I never bring it intomy home, I don't think to.
- (Nicole) Oh, okay.
Man, I've got some weird crap playing.
(Drew laughs)
- (Killian) Well 'cause youand I have done Glenlore Trails
Halloween and so you'llget some of that along that

(22:00):
and that's when I get my fill,
'cause I don't go toMeijer anymore. (laughs)
- (Nicole) The Detroit Zooalso will have like a Halloween
thing and they play all the music too.
So it's nice.
When I was in high school,
our marching band show was the"Nightmare Before Christmas."

(22:21):
So like I know the music incredibly well.
Probably more than a45-year-old woman should.
And so I will sing alongthe whole nine, but yeah.
- (Killian) Okay, my marching band
drum corps nerd moment is now,
(Nicole laughs)
but I have to look up the year

(22:42):
because I don't rememberwhich year it was.
I do, it was 2016 'cause Iwas there, I saw it live.
2016, "The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps,
which is out of I believe Arizona,
did a show that was the Drum Corps,
because it's spelled C-O-R-P-S Bride.
And it was basically thestory of the "Corpse Bride,"

(23:06):
but there is a percussion feature
where they were wearing xylophones
and played it like therewere skeletons playing ribs.
- (Drew) Oh my God.- (Killian) That whole show,
even if you are not a drumcorps person is worth watching.
- (Nicole) That's really cool.- (Killian) It is a vibe.
And I definitely have merchshirts from that show somewhere

(23:28):
in my T-shirt bins.
But yeah, that definitelyworth taking a look at that,
especially in that time of year.
- (Nicole) Nice.
Do you guys read spooky stuff
when we get around to fall time?
- (Drew) Not exclusively.- (Nicole) Okay.

(23:49):
- (Drew) There willalways be two, maybe three
that I'll catch the marketing for
in the lead up to theseason that I'll be like,
oh I do want to read this.
- (Nicole) Okay.
- (Drew) And I'll try and make a point
to fit it in during the time.
But in general I end up beingtoo much of a mood reader.

(24:11):
And end up with too long of a TBR
that it doesn't affect things that much.
- (Nicole) Sure, gotcha.
- (Killian) I'm very mucha mood reader as well.
So I will read what soundsinteresting to me at the time
or not at all depending on the mood,
but a lot of times thatbecomes cozy things
or witchy things.

(24:31):
And like the witchy thingsspectrum is so broad.
There's things that are super, super cozy
and then there's things that are like,
oh my gosh, what the heck?
In terms of horror or just,
there are books that I've read
in the witchy realm of thingsthat are still to this day
do not have a rating on mygood reads and are just,

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what did I just read?
- (Nicole) Okay. Which weneed to do a podcast about.
- (Drew) Yeah.- (Killian) Yeah. Absolutely.
So it's the whole gamut.
And then I also will get into
like sometimes thevampire stuff or whatever,
it's whatever's coming out and sounds good
or whatever has been sitting there
waiting for me for foreverand I'm suddenly like,

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yes, now is the time.
It's not intentional, it'sjust kind of is what happens.
But there's always some throughline of magic and things.
- (Drew) The monsters one,
I'll end up reading likea vampire book in March
because I read enough fantasy things
that it doesn't register asneeding a specific timeframe.

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So there are spooky, cozythings that I'll read year round
that often people will save
for fall or the Halloween season.
- (Nicole) Yeah, that'stotally the same for me.
- (Killian) Those vibes are year round.
- (Nicole) I think Ijust like lean into it
a little bit harder inOctober where I'm like,
oh, I am gonna be reading
all sorts of horrible things this month.

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- (Killian) I always intend toread more witchy, cozy horror
things in the fall than I do.
Which honestly, I always intend
to read more things than I do
because in my brain I haveall of the time to do it
and I simply don't.
But yeah, it's generally the intention is
we're gonna lean into thingsand sometimes it happens

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and sometimes it doesn't.
- (Nicole) Yeah, totally.
(Drew chuckles)
All right, well if you are interested
in joining in our conversation,
please email us and let us know
if you have any special traditions
that you do during Halloween
or during the fall, thingsthat you like to watch or read,
let us know.
- (Drew) Please add things to my list.
- (Nicole) Yeah, absolutely.- (Killian) Absolutely.

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- (Nicole) We could usesuggestions, so let us know.
And that is all for now.We'll see you next time.
Thank you for joining us for this episode
of "Distracted Librarians."
- (Drew) Many thanks to BCTVfor their support in recording,
editing, and releasing this podcast.
And to the friends of the library
for sponsoring closedcaptioning on every episode.

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- (Killian) If you have anyquestions or suggestions,
feel free to reach out tous at [e-mail].
- (Amanda) Until then,keep those pages turning
and those screens lighting up.
We'll catch you in the next episode.
- (Emily) The views and opinions expressed
in the "Distracted Librarians" podcast
do not necessarily reflectthose of Bloomfield Township,

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Bloomfield Township Public Library,
Bloomfield Community Television,
the Birmingham Area Cable Board,
or its producers or production staff.