October 11, 2025 • 27 mins
Hour 2-We are still doing all things Halloween. We are talking to Darcy Staniforth, Host & Producer of the Mysteries Decoded Podcast, TEDx Speaker, Ghost Host and so much more. PLUS we are covering all things fast food spooky eats. It's all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, it's Nil Savedra.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
You're listening to kfi EM six forty The four Report
on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
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how to condam marro natan, Let me teach you at it.
It's it's a colmar ation. Let me teach you how
to Let me teach you out of Hey bye.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Happy
Happy Saturday during you know the wicked season, Halloween. A
little bit of weather coming, a little bit of wind,
you know how.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is once fall comes.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I am your well fed host, Neil Sevadra, Thanks for
bringing out on the four Report where we celebrate food.
Of course, when we hit the holidays, once we come
out of August, we go straight into a different programming mode,
and that is we talk about food and beverage is
still but we like to add other elements for the
holidays in so we're mixing things up. Don't forget to
(01:21):
check out our buddy Clay Row and his amazing online
radio station dead air dot Co. Dead air dot Co.
Some of the music played today is actually curated by
Claire Clay and dead Air Claire Claire Deadclaire dot coo
dead Air dot co weird combination, but it's somehow it works.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
My buddy Darcy is with us a Darcy standa fourth.
She is a host and producer of the Mysteries Decoded podcast.
She's a ted X speaker, she's a ghost host, a lecturer, writer,
she does music, film, comedy, magic, and we've talked a
little bit of magic, but we haven't gone in depth
because I go way back. I participate in the Ledger domain,
(02:10):
so definitely something we got to get into.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Darcy, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Hi, Neil, It's so great to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, this is cool because we're a little different setup today,
so we're seeing each.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Other but we are over the phone. But you look
at dorbsballs, my dear, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I was all ready but we had the switch formats.
But we're still doing it. We're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and you know that I'm a lover of Houdini
as well. So you said, is let's see your Houdini pen?
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Wow? Right there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, Well well I'm not gonna, you know, lift my
pants up to show you my tattoo.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But it's there.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Ye seen it, You have seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It is my left leg. My calf is Houdini, Harry
Houdini in shackles.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's how I like my men.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Check.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I like to throw a little curveball into things,
keep things fresh.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So this is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is the beginning of your heavy holiday season as well.
What are you doing? Where are you giving lectures? Where
are you giving tours? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Where am I not? Right now? So right I think
for a lot of folks it is the beginning. I
am in like month three of spooky season. Honestly, it
started in August for me this year and every year
it's early and earlier for some people. That's what Christmas
is for me, It's spooky season. So last night I
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did two tours of the Kellogg House back to back.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Explain not the Kellogg House is because it is a
special location here in the Southland.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It is so the Kellogg House is a Queen Anne
Victorian with neo classical elements. Deaned the house whist for
very strict on these things, uh, And it was built
by Hiram Clay kell On for his second wife, Helen Kellogg.
The wedding gifts, and it now resides at the Heritage
(04:13):
Museum of Orange County and it serves as a wedding
and events space by day and a hands on learning
children hands on learning museum for kids. But at night
we give haunted historical tours. And that's where I was
twice for two tours last night, and we need not
giving you the house. I gotta say some things I
(04:34):
couldn't explain.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What, yeah, do you do you hope for that when
you're giving a tour, a haunted tour, do you want
the crap to go down?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, sure, it's great, It definitely makes a good experience,
But I have to continuedly tell people, like, we're not
a rigged attraction, like this is not It's not like
I walk into one part of the house and hit
it and then all of a sudden it's like, oh
now the things are happening.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's not like the magic castle or something in the
Houdina seance room.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And so last night, in the middle of one of
the tours, just a very loud shift in the attic
like somebody had like kind of plunk down on the
ground and so that was something. I was like, oh,
I guess We're like, what was that? And I was like,
I don't know, And you know, it's myself and one
(05:35):
staff and then my tour, so I know where everyone
is and I'm in the house so much. I know
when it sounds like it's settling. And that wasn't it
last night? That wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So had it when that happens.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean today we've had tons of things happening on
the program, our new board op Mario is learning and
God bless him. We all have our first days as well,
and you're going to have things, but we're kind of
we kind of just pushed through it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right, it's live radio. We pushed through it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But when you're doing the when you're doing a tour
about a potentially haunted place, do you stop and then
be quiet to like to emphasize it?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do you look you?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I mean you kind of have to write because the thing,
you know, sometimes if it's a noise or a knock,
that doesn't stop us for very long. But two examples,
I'll give you the first thing Last Halloween, when I
was doing the tour at the house. We were on
the second floor and one of the most amazing things
about the Kellogg is the second floor of that house
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because you can see into the attict. The addict is
what you'd call open concepts. I don't think Hiram calls
is that. But you can see into the attic. That's beautiful.
And we're all up there and I'm talking about the family,
and all of a sudden, just we all heard the
sound of pot steps walking in the attic and everyone
stopped and we looked up, and then everyone looked at
(07:05):
me and went, are those footsteps? And I said, yes,
those are footsteps I don't like. And we all had
to kind of take that in for a moment, right
and see if it happened again. So definitely had to
stomp on that. And then the other time, my mom
was actually on this tour, so she was witnessing this,
but a bunch of other people were too. We were
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in what we call the architecture Room, which is a
room that highlights the work of highrom Quake Kellogg, not
just in the house but throughout southern California, and there's
branding irons that hang on the wall, and one of
those branding irons just started swaying away from the wall
and everyone's like, that is moving, and I'm like, yes,
(07:46):
it is. We all stopped, took a few moments, got
some evidence, things like that, and then after the tour
I borrowed a few guests and asked them to try
and help me debunk it. And I could not debunk it.
And it happened on two tours in a row. Oh
and it's never happened again. So yeah, we got to
stop for things like that. But you know what that
right there worth the press of admission tour guy, I
(08:09):
can't compete with that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You've got to have spook pricing, like surge pricing. When
there's something like that, they have to pay twice as much,
like before they can leave. Now we're gonna charge you more.
All right, stick around. We're talking with my friend Darcy
Stana Fourth. Not only is she host and producer of
the Mysterious Decoded podcasts and a off sought speaker, she's
(08:34):
a host and lecturer and she gives tours in some
of the haunted, most haunted places here in southern California.
She also happens to be the sister of Dean Sharp,
who's heard here every single Saturday and Sunday, so stick around.
Also want to bring you up on and let you
know that we're uh investigating and finding out more information
about the helicopter crash in Huntington Beach. Three hospitals hospitalized
(08:59):
at this point. It was right along Pacific Coast Highway
in Huntington Beach and about thirty some odd minutes ago
or more, maybe just about an hour. So we're finding
out more about that, and if there is a press
conference or something you need to know, of course we
will be breaking in.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So stick around and go no where.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's the Fork Report all Things Food, beverage and beyond.
We are in the spooky season eyeballs deep right now
as we are celebrating Halloween throughout the month, and then
we'll move to Thanksgiving and then to Christmas and the like.
So we change things up a little bit, add to
our food and beverage, talk about events and things that
(09:51):
are going on. A couple of things. First, the news
Huntington Beach. There is an investigation underway a helicopter crash
right there in an intersection. We all know pch and
Huntingdon Street know it very well. It's right. There's some
trees right there in the front of the Hyatt Regency
Hotel that showed I saw the video. Just insane the
(10:15):
way the helicopter just came down in that area. It
seems that the two that were in the two people
that were in the helicopter were pulled out, okay, there
were three people that were on the ground at this point.
It's said that they are in the hospital. With unknown
further details about how they're doing or any of that.
We just know that they've been taken to the hospital.
(10:37):
If there is any more news, of course, Eileen Gonzalez
will jump in. If there is a press conference, we
will go to that as well. But right now it
is cordoned off so it's all wrapped up in that area.
You can't get through it, so keep that in mind,
and of course the hope is that everyone is okay. Also,
(11:00):
you can follow me on Instagram at fok Reporter at
fork Reporter on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And the music you've.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Been hearing has been compliments curated by deadair dot Co.
Deadair dot Co check it out if you love Halloween
music and really obscure, not just like monster Mash played
over and over and over, nothing like that, but really
great fun. They do have a couple of versions of that,
(11:26):
but it's not like that. It's like really cool, fun,
funky music there at deadair dot Co. My guest right
now is Darcy Staniforth, and she she's a renaissance woman,
is what she is. She does all kinds of stuff
and we get along swimmingly because of that. But she's
the host and producer of the Mysteries a Decoded podcast.
(11:49):
She is a speaker, ghost host. She does ghost tours.
Tell people how they can go see one of your tours.
I would imagine they fill up quite quickly this time
the year.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
They do. But if they want to come on a tour,
there are scari tours available and there's always a chance
of adding more tours if we need to. But Haunted
OC dot com Haunted Orange County is who I do
the tours for. I'm also the director of tour operations
for them. So if you go to HAUNTEDOC dot com
and go under ghost walks, you can find all of
(12:23):
our amazing ghost walks and I happen to do two
of them downtown Santa Anna and the Callog House of
the Heritage Museum of Orange.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
County, Santana. All right, Sana, Santana.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So do you do you check these places out and
then do like history checks? Do you go through and
find out the lore versus things that you can actually
confirm or how do you do that before you you
design a walk or a tour?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, so you know, part of my goal as a
ghost host is to make sure. But I'm also a historian,
right so my field as American studies the how and
why of American history and culture. So I always want
the ghost stories to be good, but I want the
history to be correct. And so sometimes you take on
(13:11):
tours like I took on the Downtown antur and went
back and rechecked some of the history, made sure we
added some new stories in as we could. And then
as a researcher, I'm continually trying to dive back into
my tours to make sure the history we're presenting is correct.
And I find that it's not, I'll fix it because
(13:32):
I think it's really important for us to do that.
So because we do haunted historical tours, all of our
tour guides are doing the best best haunted, you know,
tourism out there, I think, but they're also doing really
good history and telling you really engaging stories. So I
want to make sure that people are going away because
(13:52):
I don't get to control the narrative. Once I tell
the story, I don't get to control how that goes
out into the world. So I want to make sure
at least they're getting that history part right, and then
maybe they can make the ghost stories even better.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I don't know, Yeah, because I think that there's enough
like creepiness in American history to begin, I mean, just
all of them. Oh yeah, that you don't need to
make this crap up. It is fascinating on its own,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And one of the things I talk a lot about
on the Keleggh House tour is Victorian Deaf Culture. And
let's talk about people just kind of backing up in
the room from that because they're like, what do you
what do you mean made things out of hair? And
I'm like, uh huh oh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
By the way, on that note, I want to remind
people that Victorian death Culture is playing the Saharis stage
this year Richell.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So looking forward to that Victorians.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, and do you think Clay is playing them on
Dead Air Victorian exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'm sure. I'm sure he is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Indeed, Darcy stand a fourth that is d A R
see why sta n I f O R t H
on Instagram and any other addresses or places where you
want them to check out haunted oc dot com as well.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, the Heritage Museum and the Willela Howe waffle House
Medical Museum. That's a lot to say. But if you
find me at Darcy Stantaforth on Instagram, I miss Darcy
Standaforth on TikTok and pretty much if you google Darcystanaforth,
this shining face comes up in front of my handle.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's awesome. Thanks my dear for taking the time to
come on. It's always nice to see your face and
to get a chance to talk to you. You're fascinating
and your lovely human being, and I count it a
real plus to my life that you are a friend.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So always good to see you, Always good.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
To see you. Neil, I count it the same way.
Thanks so much. Have a great rest of the show.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, my friend, it's the four Report on Neil
Servadra at KFI AIM six forty.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
You're listening to so with the Fork Report with Nil
Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report. I'm Neil Savedra thinks
for hanging out today. It is spooky season, and of
course that's what we're focusing on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Not only are we going to do food as we
always do, but.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm doing things a little different as we go into
the holidays to focus on, uh, you know, some fun,
different things, events that are going on and stuff like that.
So I got a lot of great feedback and I
appreciate that from you, and we're going to continue to
do it through the end of the year with each
different holiday and the like things to do for family
(16:41):
or adults and stuff like that. I would love for
you to join me on social media on Instagram. You
can find me at Fork Reporter at Fork Reporter on Instagram.
That's all the food stuff and fun things or things
hopefully they'll make you laugh, just to keep us connected
on what's going on. If you are into art and
(17:05):
making things, that's a big hobby of mine, three D printing,
laser cutting, fixing things, making things, and all kinds of
art and stuff like that, then you can join me
on my newest Instagram which is sav Co Industries on
(17:25):
there as well, so saa V just like the beginning
of my last name, COO Industries. And that's some of
the stuff that I'm working on for Halloween that I've
been building. Stuff like that. You can find that there.
Sometimes I share them on both, but ones mostly focused
on food and the other is more of the stuff
that I do.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
When I'm not on the air. But I'd love for
you to check that out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And of course check out my buddies online radio station
deadair dot co deadair dot Co for just fantastic Halloween
music year round there all right. So as people get
into the season, just like we're talking about, there's all
kinds of chains, food, fast food chains and the like
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that are getting in on it as well. And some
of those things that are going on all over the
place are at these fast food joints. So McDonald's is
bringing back the boo buckets. If you remember that, it
came back a couple of years ago and people were
thrilled about it. So more and more we started seeing
(18:31):
these pop up. I'm not as crazy about them as
I was the early ones. The early ones I think
had lids and all that they're a little cheaper than
they used to be, but they're still super cute and
fun and if you like that, you can get them
with your your your happy meals. There is when they
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give those out. So the ghosts, the Pumpkin, the gobble,
and the cat, the zombie. They you know, they've had witches,
they've had all kinds of things like that, but you
can still find those going on. It starts on October
twenty first, where you can get those boo buckets the pails.
They have been part of the chain's Halloween promotions since
(19:14):
the eighties and they return with those new ones. The ghost,
the Pumpkin, the Goblin, the cat and zoombe some new faces.
The artwork's a little different this year. They look kind
of fun. We get them for my boy. He's kind
of growing out of them at this point, but they're
fun to get, all right. Burger King has a new
(19:35):
menu now for the holiday as well. They've launched their
Monster menu for October. Chain is calling the promotion do
the Monstermage and say it's run at participating US restaurants,
So get in for that, and that just means they're
especially foods. They kind of just put a twist on
the stuff that they have, right, So the Jack O'Lantern Whopper,
(19:58):
it's their class flame grilled whopper, but it's stacked with
American cheese, bacon, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles, ketchup, and mayo.
But it's on a striking Jack o'lan an orange bun,
topped with black sesame seeds. It's kind of creepy looking,
but it looks neat as well. It's pretty vibrant and
definitely something different when you see it. They're vampire nuggets.
(20:21):
They're crispy chicken nuggets, but they're shaped like vampire fangs
and bats, and they're served in a carton designed as
a coffin so you can dip and share and enjoy
all of these treats as well. I like the coffin box.
Pretty Dope Mummy Mozzarella Fries. That's mozzarella sticks in a
(20:43):
limited addition Mummy themed box. It's served a course with
mar Nara sauce, because that's what you want with your
mozzarella sticks. The Frankin Candy Sunday, so that's your creamy
vanilla soft serf. It's topped with a Frankin mix. I
love marketing a frankin mix of Oreo cookie crumbles, purple
(21:07):
Frnkin candy syrup, and purple and green popping candy. So
this starts in just a couple of days on the thirteenth.
The chain will also sell Halloween buckets in participating restaurants,
and that's always as supplies last, of course. So this
year they say they've dialed up the fun and flavor.
Not only would their monster menu lineup, but with them
(21:30):
menu innovations and all kinds of different packaging and stuff
like that. So enjoy that at your local burger king.
Shake Shack is having some fun with a holiday as well.
Shakeshack is offering delicious scary deals all October. Chain has
confirmed that each week in October is going to feature
a new deal, and this is all going to be
(21:51):
available via its mobile app and in stores. But the
thing is that's one of the ways they want to
connect with you is through these mobile apps. So a
lot of these things often tie into that. The Protion
Apply promotion rather applies only at participating US locations, but
places where you're not going to find them is the
(22:12):
locations in stadiums or arenas or you know, airports, things
like that. Is not going to happen, but the first
offer runs from October first to today. Customers could buy
a smoke shack and get another one free. Customers can
also use the promo code spooky when ordering in the
(22:35):
Shake app or at the Kiosks. So additional meals and
deals and stuff like that will go on. So tomorrow
there'll be a new one that will go through October
twenty second, and they'll keep adding those. If you go
to shakesheck, all right, some more deals and the like
when we come back for the holidays to go.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Nowhere, you're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra
on demand from KFI. AM.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Six guys like looking in a mirror that we look
so like me and your man, Kayla.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I'm sorry, you look like who is it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Like like in the in the guns in the chest area.
Oh yeah, you know, we're about to get a bunch
of food after we leave here, so then maybe it'll
look like you after that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But right now, I don't think that there's that is rough.
I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. Okay, all right, let's get
on with the show. Back to off the mic for you.
That's where I like your best poor best. That's me,
poor bastard KF. I'm six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's the four Report, all things Food, beverage and beyond.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I am your well.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Fed host, Neil Servader. How do you do? Thanks for
hanging out today. We got three hours every Saturday to
celebrate food and we kind of shake off the you know,
all the garbage of the week. You know, there's there's
plenty of news to go around, all kinds of stuff
going around, but this is our place, our little sanctuary.
Did you celebrate food During the holidays, we switch things
(24:03):
up and we bring in other dimensions and levels of
things to do and events going on and stuff like that.
So thanks for hanging out, and we'll be doing this
change slightly changed format throughout the rest of the year
for the holidays, bringing on interesting people, decorating and talk
about decorating your home.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Doing all kinds of stuff like that. So thanks for
hanging out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
All right, back to fast food places and the like
that are enjoying the holidays by making fun things for you.
We talked about shake shacks scary deals for all of October.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A lot of them are rolling them out throughout the
entirety of October.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Some of them are tying them into their apps and
their rewards programs, so keep that in mind. Krispy Kreme
always does this, and Krispy Kreme has, you know, their holiday.
They're very big on their holiday different designs and stuff
like that, and right now is no different. Their donuts
now decorated with designs such as monsters. They've got pumpkins,
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and they have special seasonal icing sprinkles, orange, black, green, purple,
those kinds of things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I like seeing more of that, by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean, I love the standard black and orange, of course,
and that was the colors of KFI that we used forever,
so I've kind of got a big heart for those
as well. But there's something about purple and green too,
the witch and goblin and monster colors that I think
go well with this tummy year. So the Jack Lantern,
the shell donut decorated with orange and green butter cream,
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got that Jack of Lantern face on it. The candy bag,
it's their original glazed donut there that we all know
and love, but it's got chocolate butter cream, sprinkle of
Trick or Treat candy blend, and a caramel swirl. The
spooky sprinkle is their original glazed doughnuts dipped in green
icing and topped with ghostly Halloween sprinkles. Cookies and scream
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God you love you gotta love the puns during the holidays.
So cookies and scream House. It's their shell doughnut dipped
in chocolate ice cing icing and silver chocolate cookie crumbs,
topped with purple icing and spooky haunted mansion pieces. So
a lot going on there that you can get into
(26:22):
if you are so inclined there. I do enjoy some
crispy cream from now and again, So this other one
I didn't expect. I was like, going through them, I go,
that makes sense, that makes sense. But Cold Stone Creamery
they've got a treat menu as well, so they've got
their trigger treat creation. It's the Boo Batter ice cream
(26:43):
kit kat, Halloween Oreo cookies and M and M's Milk
chocolate candies. Then they've got the ice cream Taco, the
boot Batter ice Cream Taco. It's an ice cream wrapped
in an orange waffle taco and coated with chocolate and
spooky sprinkles. The Witch is Boo Shake. It's Boo Batter
ice cream Halloween Oreo cookies and spooky sprinkles on that
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and these are what they've got going on right now.
So check out some of those places if you're with
the kids, I want to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Stick around.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We've got more to come on The Fork Report, our
last hour today as we celebrate all things Halloween and
beyond this SCFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've
been listening to The Fork Report, you can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty two to five
pm on Saturday, and anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
Hey, it's Nil Savedra.
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You're listening to kfi EM six forty The four Report
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Speaker 3 (00:20):
Let me teach you how toy. Let me teach you
how to condam marro natan, Let me teach you at it.
It's it's a colmar ation. Let me teach you how
to Let me teach you out of Hey bye.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Happy
Happy Saturday during you know the wicked season, Halloween. A
little bit of weather coming, a little bit of wind,
you know how.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It is once fall comes.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
I am your well fed host, Neil Sevadra, Thanks for
bringing out on the four Report where we celebrate food.
Of course, when we hit the holidays, once we come
out of August, we go straight into a different programming mode,
and that is we talk about food and beverage is
still but we like to add other elements for the
holidays in so we're mixing things up. Don't forget to
(01:21):
check out our buddy Clay Row and his amazing online
radio station dead air dot Co. Dead air dot Co.
Some of the music played today is actually curated by
Claire Clay and dead Air Claire Claire Deadclaire dot coo
dead Air dot co weird combination, but it's somehow it works.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
All right.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
My buddy Darcy is with us a Darcy standa fourth.
She is a host and producer of the Mysteries Decoded podcast.
She's a ted X speaker, she's a ghost host, a lecturer, writer,
she does music, film, comedy, magic, and we've talked a
little bit of magic, but we haven't gone in depth
because I go way back. I participate in the Ledger domain,
(02:10):
so definitely something we got to get into.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Darcy, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Hi, Neil, It's so great to be here.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, this is cool because we're a little different setup today,
so we're seeing each.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Other but we are over the phone. But you look
at dorbsballs, my dear, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
I was all ready but we had the switch formats.
But we're still doing it. We're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, and you know that I'm a lover of Houdini
as well. So you said, is let's see your Houdini pen?
Is that what it is?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:39):
Wow? Right there?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Yeah, Well well I'm not gonna, you know, lift my
pants up to show you my tattoo.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
But it's there.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I've seen it.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Ye seen it, You have seen it.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
It is my left leg. My calf is Houdini, Harry
Houdini in shackles.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
That's how I like my men.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Check.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
So I like to throw a little curveball into things,
keep things fresh.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
So this is.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
This is the beginning of your heavy holiday season as well.
What are you doing? Where are you giving lectures? Where
are you giving tours? What's going on?
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Where am I not? Right now? So right I think
for a lot of folks it is the beginning. I
am in like month three of spooky season. Honestly, it
started in August for me this year and every year
it's early and earlier for some people. That's what Christmas
is for me, It's spooky season. So last night I
(03:41):
did two tours of the Kellogg House back to back.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Explain not the Kellogg House is because it is a
special location here in the Southland.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
It is so the Kellogg House is a Queen Anne
Victorian with neo classical elements. Deaned the house whist for
very strict on these things, uh, And it was built
by Hiram Clay kell On for his second wife, Helen Kellogg.
The wedding gifts, and it now resides at the Heritage
(04:13):
Museum of Orange County and it serves as a wedding
and events space by day and a hands on learning
children hands on learning museum for kids. But at night
we give haunted historical tours. And that's where I was
twice for two tours last night, and we need not
giving you the house. I gotta say some things I
(04:34):
couldn't explain.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
What, yeah, do you do you hope for that when
you're giving a tour, a haunted tour, do you want
the crap to go down?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I mean, sure, it's great, It definitely makes a good experience,
But I have to continuedly tell people, like, we're not
a rigged attraction, like this is not It's not like
I walk into one part of the house and hit
it and then all of a sudden it's like, oh
now the things are happening.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Yeah, it's not like that.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
It's not like the magic castle or something in the
Houdina seance room.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
And so last night, in the middle of one of
the tours, just a very loud shift in the attic
like somebody had like kind of plunk down on the
ground and so that was something. I was like, oh,
I guess We're like, what was that? And I was like,
I don't know, And you know, it's myself and one
(05:35):
staff and then my tour, so I know where everyone
is and I'm in the house so much. I know
when it sounds like it's settling. And that wasn't it
last night? That wasn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:45):
So had it when that happens.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I mean today we've had tons of things happening on
the program, our new board op Mario is learning and
God bless him. We all have our first days as well,
and you're going to have things, but we're kind of
we kind of just pushed through it.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
Right, it's live radio. We pushed through it.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
But when you're doing the when you're doing a tour
about a potentially haunted place, do you stop and then
be quiet to like to emphasize it?
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do you look you?
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I mean you kind of have to write because the thing,
you know, sometimes if it's a noise or a knock,
that doesn't stop us for very long. But two examples,
I'll give you the first thing Last Halloween, when I
was doing the tour at the house. We were on
the second floor and one of the most amazing things
about the Kellogg is the second floor of that house
(06:43):
because you can see into the attict. The addict is
what you'd call open concepts. I don't think Hiram calls
is that. But you can see into the attic. That's beautiful.
And we're all up there and I'm talking about the family,
and all of a sudden, just we all heard the
sound of pot steps walking in the attic and everyone
stopped and we looked up, and then everyone looked at
(07:05):
me and went, are those footsteps? And I said, yes,
those are footsteps I don't like. And we all had
to kind of take that in for a moment, right
and see if it happened again. So definitely had to
stomp on that. And then the other time, my mom
was actually on this tour, so she was witnessing this,
but a bunch of other people were too. We were
(07:25):
in what we call the architecture Room, which is a
room that highlights the work of highrom Quake Kellogg, not
just in the house but throughout southern California, and there's
branding irons that hang on the wall, and one of
those branding irons just started swaying away from the wall
and everyone's like, that is moving, and I'm like, yes,
(07:46):
it is. We all stopped, took a few moments, got
some evidence, things like that, and then after the tour
I borrowed a few guests and asked them to try
and help me debunk it. And I could not debunk it.
And it happened on two tours in a row. Oh
and it's never happened again. So yeah, we got to
stop for things like that. But you know what that
right there worth the press of admission tour guy, I
(08:09):
can't compete with that.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You've got to have spook pricing, like surge pricing. When
there's something like that, they have to pay twice as much,
like before they can leave. Now we're gonna charge you more.
All right, stick around. We're talking with my friend Darcy
Stana Fourth. Not only is she host and producer of
the Mysterious Decoded podcasts and a off sought speaker, she's
(08:34):
a host and lecturer and she gives tours in some
of the haunted, most haunted places here in southern California.
She also happens to be the sister of Dean Sharp,
who's heard here every single Saturday and Sunday, so stick around.
Also want to bring you up on and let you
know that we're uh investigating and finding out more information
about the helicopter crash in Huntington Beach. Three hospitals hospitalized
(08:59):
at this point. It was right along Pacific Coast Highway
in Huntington Beach and about thirty some odd minutes ago
or more, maybe just about an hour. So we're finding
out more about that, and if there is a press
conference or something you need to know, of course we
will be breaking in.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
So stick around and go no where.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
You're listening to The Fork Report with Nil Savedra on
demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
It's the Fork Report all Things Food, beverage and beyond.
We are in the spooky season eyeballs deep right now
as we are celebrating Halloween throughout the month, and then
we'll move to Thanksgiving and then to Christmas and the like.
So we change things up a little bit, add to
our food and beverage, talk about events and things that
(09:51):
are going on. A couple of things. First, the news
Huntington Beach. There is an investigation underway a helicopter crash
right there in an intersection. We all know pch and
Huntingdon Street know it very well. It's right. There's some
trees right there in the front of the Hyatt Regency
Hotel that showed I saw the video. Just insane the
(10:15):
way the helicopter just came down in that area. It
seems that the two that were in the two people
that were in the helicopter were pulled out, okay, there
were three people that were on the ground at this point.
It's said that they are in the hospital. With unknown
further details about how they're doing or any of that.
We just know that they've been taken to the hospital.
(10:37):
If there is any more news, of course, Eileen Gonzalez
will jump in. If there is a press conference, we
will go to that as well. But right now it
is cordoned off so it's all wrapped up in that area.
You can't get through it, so keep that in mind,
and of course the hope is that everyone is okay. Also,
(11:00):
you can follow me on Instagram at fok Reporter at
fork Reporter on Instagram.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
And the music you've.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Been hearing has been compliments curated by deadair dot Co.
Deadair dot Co check it out if you love Halloween
music and really obscure, not just like monster Mash played
over and over and over, nothing like that, but really
great fun. They do have a couple of versions of that,
(11:26):
but it's not like that. It's like really cool, fun,
funky music there at deadair dot Co. My guest right
now is Darcy Staniforth, and she she's a renaissance woman,
is what she is. She does all kinds of stuff
and we get along swimmingly because of that. But she's
the host and producer of the Mysteries a Decoded podcast.
(11:49):
She is a speaker, ghost host. She does ghost tours.
Tell people how they can go see one of your tours.
I would imagine they fill up quite quickly this time
the year.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
They do. But if they want to come on a tour,
there are scari tours available and there's always a chance
of adding more tours if we need to. But Haunted
OC dot com Haunted Orange County is who I do
the tours for. I'm also the director of tour operations
for them. So if you go to HAUNTEDOC dot com
and go under ghost walks, you can find all of
(12:23):
our amazing ghost walks and I happen to do two
of them downtown Santa Anna and the Callog House of
the Heritage Museum of Orange.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
County, Santana. All right, Sana, Santana.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
So do you do you check these places out and
then do like history checks? Do you go through and
find out the lore versus things that you can actually
confirm or how do you do that before you you
design a walk or a tour?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, so you know, part of my goal as a
ghost host is to make sure. But I'm also a historian,
right so my field as American studies the how and
why of American history and culture. So I always want
the ghost stories to be good, but I want the
history to be correct. And so sometimes you take on
(13:11):
tours like I took on the Downtown antur and went
back and rechecked some of the history, made sure we
added some new stories in as we could. And then
as a researcher, I'm continually trying to dive back into
my tours to make sure the history we're presenting is correct.
And I find that it's not, I'll fix it because
(13:32):
I think it's really important for us to do that.
So because we do haunted historical tours, all of our
tour guides are doing the best best haunted, you know,
tourism out there, I think, but they're also doing really
good history and telling you really engaging stories. So I
want to make sure that people are going away because
(13:52):
I don't get to control the narrative. Once I tell
the story, I don't get to control how that goes
out into the world. So I want to make sure
at least they're getting that history part right, and then
maybe they can make the ghost stories even better.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
I don't know, Yeah, because I think that there's enough
like creepiness in American history to begin, I mean, just
all of them. Oh yeah, that you don't need to
make this crap up. It is fascinating on its own,
I mean.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
And one of the things I talk a lot about
on the Keleggh House tour is Victorian Deaf Culture. And
let's talk about people just kind of backing up in
the room from that because they're like, what do you
what do you mean made things out of hair? And
I'm like, uh huh oh.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
By the way, on that note, I want to remind
people that Victorian death Culture is playing the Saharis stage
this year Richell.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
So looking forward to that Victorians.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, and do you think Clay is playing them on
Dead Air Victorian exactly.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
I'm sure. I'm sure he is.
Speaker 2 (14:55):
Indeed, Darcy stand a fourth that is d A R
see why sta n I f O R t H
on Instagram and any other addresses or places where you
want them to check out haunted oc dot com as well.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Yeah, the Heritage Museum and the Willela Howe waffle House
Medical Museum. That's a lot to say. But if you
find me at Darcy Stantaforth on Instagram, I miss Darcy
Standaforth on TikTok and pretty much if you google Darcystanaforth,
this shining face comes up in front of my handle.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That's awesome. Thanks my dear for taking the time to
come on. It's always nice to see your face and
to get a chance to talk to you. You're fascinating
and your lovely human being, and I count it a
real plus to my life that you are a friend.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
So always good to see you, Always good.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
To see you. Neil, I count it the same way.
Thanks so much. Have a great rest of the show.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
All right, my friend, it's the four Report on Neil
Servadra at KFI AIM six forty.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
You're listening to so with the Fork Report with Nil
Savedra on demand from KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Hey everybody, it's the Fork Report. I'm Neil Savedra thinks
for hanging out today. It is spooky season, and of
course that's what we're focusing on.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Not only are we going to do food as we
always do, but.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
I'm doing things a little different as we go into
the holidays to focus on, uh, you know, some fun,
different things, events that are going on and stuff like that.
So I got a lot of great feedback and I
appreciate that from you, and we're going to continue to
do it through the end of the year with each
different holiday and the like things to do for family
(16:41):
or adults and stuff like that. I would love for
you to join me on social media on Instagram. You
can find me at Fork Reporter at Fork Reporter on Instagram.
That's all the food stuff and fun things or things
hopefully they'll make you laugh, just to keep us connected
on what's going on. If you are into art and
(17:05):
making things, that's a big hobby of mine, three D printing,
laser cutting, fixing things, making things, and all kinds of
art and stuff like that, then you can join me
on my newest Instagram which is sav Co Industries on
(17:25):
there as well, so saa V just like the beginning
of my last name, COO Industries. And that's some of
the stuff that I'm working on for Halloween that I've
been building. Stuff like that. You can find that there.
Sometimes I share them on both, but ones mostly focused
on food and the other is more of the stuff
that I do.
Speaker 1 (17:45):
When I'm not on the air. But I'd love for
you to check that out.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
And of course check out my buddies online radio station
deadair dot co deadair dot Co for just fantastic Halloween
music year round there all right. So as people get
into the season, just like we're talking about, there's all
kinds of chains, food, fast food chains and the like
(18:10):
that are getting in on it as well. And some
of those things that are going on all over the
place are at these fast food joints. So McDonald's is
bringing back the boo buckets. If you remember that, it
came back a couple of years ago and people were
thrilled about it. So more and more we started seeing
(18:31):
these pop up. I'm not as crazy about them as
I was the early ones. The early ones I think
had lids and all that they're a little cheaper than
they used to be, but they're still super cute and
fun and if you like that, you can get them
with your your your happy meals. There is when they
(18:53):
give those out. So the ghosts, the Pumpkin, the gobble,
and the cat, the zombie. They you know, they've had witches,
they've had all kinds of things like that, but you
can still find those going on. It starts on October
twenty first, where you can get those boo buckets the pails.
They have been part of the chain's Halloween promotions since
(19:14):
the eighties and they return with those new ones. The ghost,
the Pumpkin, the Goblin, the cat and zoombe some new faces.
The artwork's a little different this year. They look kind
of fun. We get them for my boy. He's kind
of growing out of them at this point, but they're
fun to get, all right. Burger King has a new
(19:35):
menu now for the holiday as well. They've launched their
Monster menu for October. Chain is calling the promotion do
the Monstermage and say it's run at participating US restaurants,
So get in for that, and that just means they're
especially foods. They kind of just put a twist on
the stuff that they have, right, So the Jack O'Lantern Whopper,
(19:58):
it's their class flame grilled whopper, but it's stacked with
American cheese, bacon, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, pickles, ketchup, and mayo.
But it's on a striking Jack o'lan an orange bun,
topped with black sesame seeds. It's kind of creepy looking,
but it looks neat as well. It's pretty vibrant and
definitely something different when you see it. They're vampire nuggets.
(20:21):
They're crispy chicken nuggets, but they're shaped like vampire fangs
and bats, and they're served in a carton designed as
a coffin so you can dip and share and enjoy
all of these treats as well. I like the coffin box.
Pretty Dope Mummy Mozzarella Fries. That's mozzarella sticks in a
(20:43):
limited addition Mummy themed box. It's served a course with
mar Nara sauce, because that's what you want with your
mozzarella sticks. The Frankin Candy Sunday, so that's your creamy
vanilla soft serf. It's topped with a Frankin mix. I
love marketing a frankin mix of Oreo cookie crumbles, purple
(21:07):
Frnkin candy syrup, and purple and green popping candy. So
this starts in just a couple of days on the thirteenth.
The chain will also sell Halloween buckets in participating restaurants,
and that's always as supplies last, of course. So this
year they say they've dialed up the fun and flavor.
Not only would their monster menu lineup, but with them
(21:30):
menu innovations and all kinds of different packaging and stuff
like that. So enjoy that at your local burger king.
Shake Shack is having some fun with a holiday as well.
Shakeshack is offering delicious scary deals all October. Chain has
confirmed that each week in October is going to feature
a new deal, and this is all going to be
(21:51):
available via its mobile app and in stores. But the
thing is that's one of the ways they want to
connect with you is through these mobile apps. So a
lot of these things often tie into that. The Protion
Apply promotion rather applies only at participating US locations, but
places where you're not going to find them is the
(22:12):
locations in stadiums or arenas or you know, airports, things
like that. Is not going to happen, but the first
offer runs from October first to today. Customers could buy
a smoke shack and get another one free. Customers can
also use the promo code spooky when ordering in the
(22:35):
Shake app or at the Kiosks. So additional meals and
deals and stuff like that will go on. So tomorrow
there'll be a new one that will go through October
twenty second, and they'll keep adding those. If you go
to shakesheck, all right, some more deals and the like
when we come back for the holidays to go.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Nowhere, you're listening to the Fork Report with Nil Savedra
on demand from KFI. AM.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Six guys like looking in a mirror that we look
so like me and your man, Kayla.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I'm sorry, you look like who is it.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
Like like in the in the guns in the chest area.
Oh yeah, you know, we're about to get a bunch
of food after we leave here, so then maybe it'll
look like you after that.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
But right now, I don't think that there's that is rough.
I'm sorry, man, I'm sorry. Okay, all right, let's get
on with the show. Back to off the mic for you.
That's where I like your best poor best. That's me,
poor bastard KF. I'm six forty.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
It's the four Report, all things Food, beverage and beyond.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
I am your well.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Fed host, Neil Servader. How do you do? Thanks for
hanging out today. We got three hours every Saturday to
celebrate food and we kind of shake off the you know,
all the garbage of the week. You know, there's there's
plenty of news to go around, all kinds of stuff
going around, but this is our place, our little sanctuary.
Did you celebrate food During the holidays, we switch things
(24:03):
up and we bring in other dimensions and levels of
things to do and events going on and stuff like that.
So thanks for hanging out, and we'll be doing this
change slightly changed format throughout the rest of the year
for the holidays, bringing on interesting people, decorating and talk
about decorating your home.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Doing all kinds of stuff like that. So thanks for
hanging out.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
All right, back to fast food places and the like
that are enjoying the holidays by making fun things for you.
We talked about shake shacks scary deals for all of October.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
A lot of them are rolling them out throughout the
entirety of October.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Some of them are tying them into their apps and
their rewards programs, so keep that in mind. Krispy Kreme
always does this, and Krispy Kreme has, you know, their holiday.
They're very big on their holiday different designs and stuff
like that, and right now is no different. Their donuts
now decorated with designs such as monsters. They've got pumpkins,
(25:04):
and they have special seasonal icing sprinkles, orange, black, green, purple,
those kinds of things, and.
Speaker 1 (25:10):
I like seeing more of that, by the way.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I mean, I love the standard black and orange, of course,
and that was the colors of KFI that we used forever,
so I've kind of got a big heart for those
as well. But there's something about purple and green too,
the witch and goblin and monster colors that I think
go well with this tummy year. So the Jack Lantern,
the shell donut decorated with orange and green butter cream,
(25:36):
got that Jack of Lantern face on it. The candy bag,
it's their original glazed donut there that we all know
and love, but it's got chocolate butter cream, sprinkle of
Trick or Treat candy blend, and a caramel swirl. The
spooky sprinkle is their original glazed doughnuts dipped in green
icing and topped with ghostly Halloween sprinkles. Cookies and scream
(26:01):
God you love you gotta love the puns during the holidays.
So cookies and scream House. It's their shell doughnut dipped
in chocolate ice cing icing and silver chocolate cookie crumbs,
topped with purple icing and spooky haunted mansion pieces. So
a lot going on there that you can get into
(26:22):
if you are so inclined there. I do enjoy some
crispy cream from now and again, So this other one
I didn't expect. I was like, going through them, I go,
that makes sense, that makes sense. But Cold Stone Creamery
they've got a treat menu as well, so they've got
their trigger treat creation. It's the Boo Batter ice cream
(26:43):
kit kat, Halloween Oreo cookies and M and M's Milk
chocolate candies. Then they've got the ice cream Taco, the
boot Batter ice Cream Taco. It's an ice cream wrapped
in an orange waffle taco and coated with chocolate and
spooky sprinkles. The Witch is Boo Shake. It's Boo Batter
ice cream Halloween Oreo cookies and spooky sprinkles on that
(27:08):
and these are what they've got going on right now.
So check out some of those places if you're with
the kids, I want to have some fun.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
Stick around.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We've got more to come on The Fork Report, our
last hour today as we celebrate all things Halloween and
beyond this SCFI heard everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. You've
been listening to The Fork Report, you can always hear
us live on KFI AM six forty two to five
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Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.