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Halloween, Headlines, And Half-Baked Candy Bowls
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After months in hiding, Teej, Kirgol, and Prof resurface for a Halloween catch-up filled with weddings, meetups, and subscriber stories of candy, chaos, and cross-dressing.
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Introduction and Gratitude
00:00:17
Speaker
Well, welcome back everybody. It's been a while, but we are here. Yes, after many, many weeks, this is your favorite British podcast host in the whole wide world, PureTeach.
00:00:29
Speaker
And I'm grateful to be here together with all of you wonderful Babylon Bee Headline Forum subscribers. If you're joining us for the first time today, it's great to have you here.
00:00:40
Speaker
This podcast we set up quite some time ago. and You can go back in the archives and listen to lots of our previous recordings. The idea is just to kind of peel back the curtain a little bit behind the users and the stories in the headline forum.
00:00:55
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um But so these days, it's it's been few and far between the last year or two, I think. So I'm here today with my two wonderful co-hosts, as always. It's great to have them.
00:01:06
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ah First of all, we've got the one and only Dr. Conservative Prof. How are you doing, Prof? Doing great. Glad to be here with you guys. Great to have you on. And ah then it's also the forum's favorite female podcast co-host and ah is of course, Kurgle.
00:01:25
Speaker
Hello and hello forum. Really fun to be back here and a special hello to any new subscribers who are listening today. Great to have you here. And Prof, I should really say you are the forum's favorite accounting podcast host.
00:01:41
Speaker
Accounting professor who puts people to sleep. favorite I'm that favorite person. Yes. Yeah. And Pyrrhotines, you're for sure the favorite British podcaster. Who lives in Belgium.
00:01:52
Speaker
Yeah. And is married and has a dog and has three kids. I thought you were going to say he's married to a dog. i well Oh, that'd be different. That'd be unusual. Yeah. maybe Maybe we need to get into those life updates.
00:02:05
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Yes, exactly. Yeah.
Podcast Return and Seasonal Change
00:02:08
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Well, that's a good transition, Kergal, because it has been a very long time. ah i checked earlier today and I think it was the fourteenth of ju or July 14th, our last podcast dropped.
00:02:18
Speaker
Holy cow. So yeah, it's ah it's it's been a long time. The summer has been and gone and now ah heading into the dark depths of of winter, certainly over here in mainland Europe. And I imagine for you guys as well, depending on whereabouts you are in the US.
00:02:33
Speaker
Yep, it's getting dark and cold, especially... Sunday, isn't that when we fall back? Yeah, savings. Fall back an hour. Yep. Ah, haven't you fallen back yet?
00:02:44
Speaker
We do this weekend. Yep. Okay. We're slightly ahead of you this time, and I think we we changed ah the previous weekend. We always do it after Halloween. I think it's the the first weekend after Halloween, essentially, for us.
00:02:58
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yeah Okay. I'm real excited for it because as empty nesters, we can go to sleep as soon as it's dark. So starting Sunday, I can go to bed like at five o'clock.
00:03:09
Speaker
Exactly. It's the beautiful part of being an empty nester. I've been living that dream for quite a while. Yeah, absolutely. i'm I'm kind of the opposite. I i and enjoy staying up really el late.
00:03:21
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But probably when you're an empty nester, I guess, because the thing for me is by the time everyone else has ah clocked off and and you've got time for yourself, it's already like 1030 or something like that. So perhaps when you're an empty nester, that changes. So we'll have to see. It does. ah It does change. Yeah.
00:03:39
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But it's ah talking about the the nights getting darker, it is a very fine British institution. and And even over here in Belgium as well, ah I've noticed people do it. I'm not sure if this happens in the US, but it is very common for people to have the same conversation every year.
00:03:55
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the One of the first things you'll see when you meet somebody after the clocks have changed is to say, you can't believe how dark it's getting. It happens here all the time. Yeah. Every year I have the same conversation with my mother-in-law. I can't believe how dark it's getting now. Look, it's dark already. It's like it's this great surprise, but it it happens every year.
00:04:14
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Every year. Yeah. and then every every single spring, we complain about that lack of sleep, that hour we lost. But for fall, it's really great because you gain an hour.
00:04:27
Speaker
Yeah, well, every year I think, ah, finally, I'm going to be able to get up an hour earlier and get get a lot more done and I'll be a lot more effective and efficient. And for some reason, I still end up losing that hour somewhere and getting up at the same time as I did before.
00:04:43
Speaker
I don't know how that happens. but so But yeah, well, let's just dive into some updates then, because like I say, it has been a really long time and we're recording this on Halloween.
00:04:54
Speaker
We'll get into that a bit later. ah Possibly with or without Prof. You're a little crushed for time today, aren't you? am today, yep. So we'll see how we get on with or without you, as you two once famously said. With without you.
00:05:07
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Wonderful, wonderful. And um so, yeah, Prof, why don't you
Personal Updates from Hosts
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go first? What's been going on with you the rest the week? Yeah, so we last met in July, so it's been a few months. So since then, a couple of things.
00:05:19
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um My son finally got married back on August 30th. So that was awesome. And that went really, really well. A great ceremony and everything. So I missed BeLive because of that, because that was the exact same day.
00:05:30
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just a few hundred miles away apart. So couldn't do both, unfortunately. ah But that went really good and great and all was well there. And then um i was in Dallas back in um earlier this month in October, and I had put ah something out there in the forum to say i was gonna be there and and organized a little mini meetup. And I was really fortunate that was able to meet some really cool users. So i was able to meet ah Bobster and Mrs. Bobster.
00:06:00
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ah Vern Hilda and her husband, and then another user named Adel Do It, who's mostly on not the B. I don't think he's really on the Babylon B much. And so it was really nice because...
00:06:12
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Bobster, his wife, and Vern Hilda and her husband, they all came from Dallas, which is not Dallas, Houston to Dallas, which is a four hour drive just to see me. So I was really, really flattered that they did that. That was ah really, really nice that they took the time out of a Sunday to do that and see me. And we hung out for Oh, three or four hours, however long it was. And then i ah i flew out that evening. So that'll do it. Pick me up at the school I was teaching at and then ah took us to the dinner and then he brought dropped me off at the airport. So that was really nice and a lot of fun.
00:06:44
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And um I've mentioned this to you guys, I think, but I just wanted to say that Bobster remarked to me how much he enjoyed. his five million celebration day just how much that was special for him how much he enjoyed that so i just wanted to relay that um that um you know those are really cool days when you get those so i really enjoyed that visit it was a lot of fun and um maybe this summer i'll be back i'm not i don't know what my schedule will be for those uh when they send me away these classes i don't know what my spring or summer is yet if i don't i'm going to uh
00:07:17
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Beautiful Ann Arbor, Michigan in November. So that's real exciting. I'm kind of tongue in cheek joking about that. But Michigan in November, I'm not sure if that's the best place for to be or not. But um I get paid well, so I'll go.
00:07:30
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Yeah, those five million celebrations and all of them are a lot of fun. But yeah, I'm glad, Bobster, that you enjoyed it so much. that's That's the reason we do them. I think I said in the last podcast recording, because since I've had the privilege of being on the writers team, that it in and of itself is very consuming. And I haven't had always the time that I've wanted to keep up with the forum. And yeah, I do see ah do see a lot of celebrations popping up and people celebrating, including you guys. I think you had some ridiculous point celebration or milestone, like 600 billion points or something like that.
00:08:04
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So how about you, Kirgo? What's been going on with you since we were last ah podcasting away together? okay Well, my life has changed tremendously since last time, and it continues to change. um Yeah, I think last time we got together, Gizmo was getting ready to head off to college.
00:08:21
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So we took her in in August. And the the day we dropped her off, it was even harder than I thought it was going to be. And then the following day was like the longest day ever when we we were back home and she wasn't there.
00:08:37
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But it's but one thing that we weren't expecting, though. It's amazing um how adaptable God made us, because as as hard as it was for her to go to college,
00:08:48
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we adjusted and got used to it really, really quick. So, so, so, so that, so yeah, we were surprised by that, but it made it easier. So she, she's doing really well at at school and she's really liking it.
00:09:01
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And now she's engaged. no Awesome. So ring by all overachiever. Yeah. yeah is She, she's always been an overachiever. So yeah, she proved it.
00:09:15
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So that's all. It's still just kind of strange, but, you know, we we knew it was going to happen. So it wasn't a surprise or anything, but we're still adjusting. And yeah, it's just just been been a crazy ride so far.
00:09:29
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Oh, and but I also need to mention, I was able to go to the Bee Meetup. Yes. Yeah. So that that was an awesome, awesome time. It was really cool seeing everybody. And when I got back, I got to brag to my friends because, well, because um I got to ride in a Tesla.
00:09:48
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A little Jedi gave me ride in that. It was really, really cool. I'm never going to get one, but it was really, really cool. and And then um I got to brag that I got to play.
00:09:59
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ticket to ride with a train enthusiast from Australia. that was really, really cool. Mr. Macaroni. Yep. Yep.
00:10:11
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So, so we, we had so much fun and I'm going to everything I can to get to the next one next summer. Yeah. It'd be great if I could get there, but I don't know if that's going to happen.
00:10:25
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We'll have to see. you know, MJ came all the way from Australia. This is true. That's probably further than Belgium, I would dear guess. Yeah.
00:10:35
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Yeah. ah Great. now if Now I look really bad if I say I'm not going to come.
00:10:43
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Pure Teach, you have any any new updates? ah Yeah, quite a few really, but I'll i'll i'll keep it short. um So i I think when we were last recording, I was probably ah lamenting ah an upcoming event.
00:10:55
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ah big final exam that I had for my studies. and If you're new to this podcast, ah probably for the last three years, I've been complaining about so my my studies. I've been training to be a teacher over here in Belgium.
00:11:08
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in the high school system. So I had my very, very final exam in August of this year, and I just scraped through. It was quite a tough one for me, probably ah piece of cake for someone like Little Jedi, but for us ah mortals, it was a bit of a challenge.
00:11:24
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So I can... I completed that and I graduated. um Praise the Lord. it's And it's all done and it's over. And oh, man. um So I'm really happy. I graduated. We had a graduation ceremony earlier in October. So that was nice.
00:11:39
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ah So I'm now officially a qualified ah teacher. I've probably mentioned this before on the podcast, but for various reasons, I can't start teaching till January. um So I actually landed a job at the end of August, actually, with, um it's kind of like, I think you'd call that thrift store, right, in America?
00:11:58
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Like a charity shop, we call them in the UK. Yeah, thrift store. Yeah, okay. So there's quite a large network of thrift stores around Belgium. And um there's five ah stores locally in the region where we live.
00:12:11
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And they were looking for somebody to replace someone else who's ah had an operation and is out of out of work ah out of that position for a few weeks. And yeah, it's a fun job. I basically offer commercial and operational supports to the five different shops in the area. So, you know, every day can be different. I'm traveling around.
00:12:32
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um going to the different stores and helping out. um And yeah, mean I'm enjoying it, but hopefully, um you know, I'll be able to get going as a teacher in January because the contract expires then.
00:12:45
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um But so far, so good. And um so I'm enjoying that. It's nice to be working again after earning some more money after after being a student for three years. So that's a real blessing.
00:12:56
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um Also, ah Prof, that reminds me actually, you mentioned ah user Vernhilde who you met in the summer. I don't know if i mentioned this on the last podcast. i can't remember when she came now, but she came all the way to Belgium. Did I mention that on our last podcast?
00:13:10
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don't know, but I do remember you saying that, but she did' not we didn't talk about that. We should have. Yeah, but talk about that. talk about that We did not talk about you when we met. She was just dazzled by my brilliance. And so she was just in in enthralled with me. So she never thought about you. Sorry.
00:13:25
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Well, she might have gone, unless you sent her to sleep. That was more likely actually. so So that means all three of us have met Vernhilde in person. That's true. yeah how about that?
00:13:38
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That is unique. and hi one One degree of separation from Vernhilde. yeah How cool is that? Yeah, but they yeah they came over to us. I ah can't remember when it is now, but some ah we had a really nice afternoon with them back in the summer.
00:13:56
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And um yeah, we just we we they came to our humble abode. They hung out here. And ah my wife did a tremendous job looking after them and and feeding them.
00:14:07
Speaker
And ah my goodness, they blessed us as well with um some wonderful ah Texas goodies, including... um A really nice whiskey, which I still have in my cupboard or in my closet. what No, not closet. what' do you say in America? What's a cupboard?
00:14:23
Speaker
Cupboard. Cupboard, pantry. Yeah. For keeping your whiskey in any way. Bar? Yeah, no, I don't have a bar. but You make me sound like an alcoholic.
00:14:34
Speaker
Yeah. Well, put the beer down that you're drinking right now. That would help. No, I'm kidding. He's not drinking. He's not drinking. ah So, yeah, they they brought it and they also brought us a huge Bucky ah stuffed toy, which is really cool. Oh, Bucky Beaver.
00:14:50
Speaker
Yeah, so my son was But it it was like a special edition one with the July 4th celebration. Oh, cool. We had like the American hat on and what have you. And yeah, they they brought us some other wonderful things as well and some beef jerky from, I want to say, also from Bucky's.
00:15:06
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Yeah, that could be. but That's since been eaten a long time ago. That was very nice. I really enjoyed that. um But so well we also um we also took them to a local um chocolate shop.
00:15:19
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And they were very excited. They bought a whole load of chocolate from there. Awesome. And the lady, the owner of the shop was, ah I think, for a Belgian, quite quite excited to have for some Americans visiting. So she let them ah into the bank and showed them what was what, which was cool.
00:15:35
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Gave them a little tour. and Yeah, so we we just we hung out and with with the kids and and and all of us outside. a lovely day and we talked so for a long time and we we got to know them and learned about their business and everything they do. It sounds like they have a ah lot of fun and they're really busy and um in ah in their in their setup.
00:15:56
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ah um Yeah, we shared a few life stories and ah then they sailed off into the sunset and were on their way. So, yeah, it was a lovely time to together. Well, we're all dropping names here. I'll point out, I also got to visit with the voice here recently. We saw him.
00:16:13
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ah saw that. Yeah. Yeah. he He took us to a game cafe, which was the the perfect idea. So we we had a lot of fun. Got to teach him a game. Did you hurt your neck looking at him?
00:16:24
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. I had to kind of go see the doctor when I got home. But, you know, it wasn't really all that bad because I'm already used to it for looking up at to Mr. Kirgl. So I think they're about the same height.
00:16:40
Speaker
Are we talking Baron Trump height or a taller or shorter? I don't think so because I saw a headline in the forum not too long ago that Baron is actually a Nephilim.
00:16:51
Speaker
Ah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh. This is possible. We should talk about the Nephilim once on a podcast. study I think Skull Crazes talks about that in some of his Fantastical Truth podcasts.
00:17:02
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Shout out. It's such an interesting topic that we know so little about. Yeah. Ain't that the truth? Well, maybe we can get the voice to tell us all about it. Maybe he is also part of the Nephilim.
00:17:17
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Could be. Or Mr. Kurgle. Who knows? Yeah. If he was, I think I might have, and he he might have let it slip by now, but but who knows? so Yeah. So anyway, that those are kind of my updates. I mean, there's been lots of other stuff going on as well. um My daughter is still very much smitten by her male interest.
00:17:38
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Yeah. oh Things seem to be going really, really well there. And I'm spending obscene amounts of money on gas, driving him... here there and everywhere um but otherwise yeah um it's uh she's really really really happy um ah she had a tough year last year actually and um i don't think i talked about it on the podcast but she had a really tough year and uh it's just amazing to see the transformation so really grateful to the lord for good good and so that's really cool and um
00:18:11
Speaker
Yeah, otherwise just ah continuing to plug away ah writing with the with the with the Babylon Bee, which is, I still pinch myself and I can't believe I'm still there. That's ah such good fun. And ah the yeah, the the team...
00:18:24
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behind the scenes has grown a little bit. um Frank Fleming has returned as a writer. Oh, yes. Awesome. And I did check with him first. I said, hey, do you mind if I name drop you on the podcast? He said that was fine.
00:18:35
Speaker
um I think some some people like to be a little low-key in that regard, but he didn't mind. so But yeah, people might remember Frank from the very early days of the B. So he's back. He's been dropping some funny headlines. And it's been really nice to work side by side with him, together with the other
PureTeach's Career and Babylon Bee
00:18:52
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writers in the forum. So it's a lot of fun.
00:18:54
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ah Very time consuming. It's ah a lot of fun as well. really enjoy that. um And otherwise, yeah, just um getting ready for... It's been a holiday over here this week. I don't know if you guys have had ah any sort of a full break or anything like that.
00:19:09
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Um, Veterans Day is a holiday for us. um not I think it's a federal holiday, but the government's been closed for the last month. So I guess we've had a 30-day federal holiday anyway. So, yeah.
00:19:25
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and Yeah, I wonder how long that's going to go on Yeah, Democrats are going to starve to death over the weekend as SNAP ah benefits expire. Although I saw a little blurb that A judge, of course, a federal judge, who else?
00:19:38
Speaker
Yeah. Ordered the Trump administration to use some reserve money to fund SNAP or something. I'm not sure. I didn't really see the whole article, but. Yeah, I saw something about that too. So, yeah. So the king is told to do things by a judge. I don't know how that works, but apparently that's how that works. So nonetheless. Not a very powerful king. I guess not. if There's judges that can overrule the king. Yeah.
00:19:59
Speaker
Don't recall that in medieval times. Yeah. One of my favorite headlines from the government shut down from the Babylon Bee, which isn't one of mine, unfortunately, but furloughed TSA agents go door to door, offering to people for free. Yeah, that was a good one. and the afterter And having been groped recently by TSA, I was like wishing I had written that one.
00:20:22
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:25
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Yeah, that was actually ah robin Robin's headline. Oh, was it? Was it? Oh, that's great. well She dropped the idea and then one of the other guys gave a slight twist on it. So that's often how we arrive at headlines. Yeah, yeah.
00:20:37
Speaker
So there's a lot of backwards and forwards going on. But some speaking of Robin, I've been, ah ah since we ah interviewed her, I have to confess, when we had her on, I hadn't listened to Beyond Parody that much. but so Oh, it's a great...
00:20:49
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Oh, it's great. Yeah. yeah But yeah i'm really into I'm really into it now. Every time a new episode drops, I'm listening. I've just literally finished one before we we hopped on this call. um And it's a lot of fun.
00:21:00
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and I should give a shout out to something about that. So um every Friday morning at 10 a.m. m Central Time. they debut it live. So on YouTube, if you go to YouTube at 10 a.m. Central and you follow the Beyond Parody podcast on YouTube, um there's a conversation. Dan's almost always there. Robin's almost always there. Travis was there today.
00:21:24
Speaker
um so a lot of the B people are there commenting on stuff. and It's a great, it's a lot of fun, a lot of interaction you can have directly with those folks. So i thankfully it works out for me to do that every Friday at 10. So yeah.
00:21:36
Speaker
And they had to they had Satan on today, the latest episode. They did. They did. Jared Lemaster was on, yeah. Yeah, so just a shout out to Beyond Parody. Do check it out if you haven't done already. It's ah it's a lot of fun.
00:21:55
Speaker
Well, we have a new segment just for Halloween. As we mentioned, we are recording this episode on Halloween, and we asked in a headline. We asked all of you to send us some stories through email of just a favorite Halloween memory or just a unique memory you have from Halloween, and you did not
Listener Halloween Stories
00:22:14
Speaker
disappoint. We received quite a few. We'd like to read a few of those.
00:22:17
Speaker
So I have one from Middle-Aged to Machinist, and Middle-Aged Machinist wrote us to say that being a Minnesota boy, I will always remember the Halloween blizzard of 91. It wasn't so much Halloween night that was memorable, but what waking up the next morning and finding out that school was canceled was about the greatest news in the world.
00:22:37
Speaker
My brother and I immediately went up into the cul-de-sac where the snow plow had piled a mountain of snow and began digging tunnels. Well, I decided the best thing to do was to dig straight down. and did such a good job that I managed to dig a hole that I couldn't get out of.
00:22:50
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Thankfully, my brother and neighbor kid helped me get out. Another funnier memory was when my wife and I first got married, we didn't have any kids yet, but but decided to buy a bunch of candy to hand out to trick-or-treaters.
00:23:01
Speaker
Well, we lived in a townhome where all the external lights were on all the time so that it was impossible for kids to know which units were participating. So after watching a bunch of kids walk by without coming to our door, had to flag kids down and give candy away.
00:23:15
Speaker
After a while, I got tired of doing that, and my wife and I just ate the rest of the candy. Neither of us felt well the next morning. he manages to big This guy chasing a kid down. Here, take my candy. Here, here, here.
00:23:27
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but no, thanks for that story, Middle-Eyed Machinist. I remember that blizzard really, really. I was older than you, um but I remember that blizzard really well. Yeah. We had a blizzard in 93. So just, just behind It takes two years for a blizzard to get from Minnesota to Nebraska, just in case anybody's wondering. That's why it was two years later.
00:23:44
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that This part of the country, things move a lot slower. It's a very, it's a slow pace of life. Including the people. Yes. Yes. Yes.
00:23:56
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Kirk, do you have anything you want to share? um Yeah, I have a pretty good story from Mackenzie Mike. And i would say that I'm glad that this was a few years back and not this year, because if it was this year, I'd be kind of worried about him.
00:24:12
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So he says ah one day when he was in college, he decided to dress up like a girl for Halloween.
00:24:20
Speaker
Are you sure it was just for Halloween, McKenzie, Mike? Or is you know, just using that as your excuse? That's my question. I don't know. Yeah. After reading this, I have a lot more questions. Exactly. Okay. So um he said all the girls in his dorm got together to help him look as as much like a female as possible.
00:24:38
Speaker
And they did everything, even the hair and makeup. And he hadn't cut his hair in a while. So they he said they had a lot of ah a lot of volume to really poof his hair up.
00:24:50
Speaker
Of course, that was when he had hair, because if if you'd see him now, he's completely bald. His head literally looks like a bowling ball. But At that time, he had hair to look like a girl.
00:25:03
Speaker
So then he also borrowed some of their clothes. He wore a skirt and a blouse. He had a light sweater and some jewelry. And he had an undergarment with so appropriate filler.
00:25:14
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um He said he was not dedicated enough to shave his legs, so he wore dark hose to hide it.
00:25:23
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and yeah And then he had some medium height, high heeled shoes and he he practiced. And I'm sure it's hard enough for girls to learn how to to walk in high heel shoes. So I'm sure it took him a long time to get used to that.
00:25:40
Speaker
But he practiced and but but he does include, though, that he has background as a figure skater. So that did help him with with the balance and everything. So he was all fixed up, looked really good. The only thing he couldn't change was his baritone voice.
00:25:58
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so So after they were all done fixing him up, they they went out with for for a test run to see how his costume would work. So he went over to his dorm where the the connect where all the guys were, and they introduced him as Mike's sister who came to visit.
00:26:15
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Some of the guys saw right through it, but others just took it at face value and introduced themselves. And then um the the girls introduced him to his RA.
00:26:26
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So apparently was kind of convincing to his RA and they're talking, introducing each other. But then when Mackenzie Mike spoke with his baritone voice, he said his RA's face turned white as a sheet and he just turned and walked away without saying anything that ain't no woman it's a man man so so again i'm glad that that happened when he was college and it wasn't something in today's environment that he was doing because i would be very concerned um i want to say mckenzie mike pictures or it didn't happen that's what i want to say
00:27:03
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I'm sure. Surely if you can do something like that, you'd have a picture. Exactly. Let's see him, Mike. Post it. That reminds me when I was probably like 10 or 11, my older sister dressed me up as a girl for some- Oh, lucky you. For some magazine competition that she was subscribed to. think it was some stupid thing like, dress up your younger brother like a girl and send us the pictures. Oh, fun. Yeah.
00:27:31
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So some somewhere out there, there may still be an analog, mind you, a photo, probably from 1990 or something, of me dressed like ah like a girl with a dress on and everything.
00:27:45
Speaker
I'm sure you could dig it up. No, it's all right. I think it'll be best left but somewhere else. so but I will say I have never, ever dressed up as a boy. ah You're not missing out on anything.
00:27:58
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I know I'm not. i so ah The funny thing about working in a thrift store is you see how many, i mean, they have some nice stuff in there actually, but how many of the clothes, ah the percentage wise, 90% is without show of a doubt for women's clothes.
00:28:15
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And the men the men's clothes is is like a tiny rack. And enough I've realized this is because men just wear their clothes until they're just so worn. They can't be sold on for other people to wear. We just don't like giving up our clothes.
00:28:31
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This is true. Prof is nodding. So this is true. Yeah. Girls get tired of clothes. Yeah. We just, I always wear this. I've got so many t-shirts. I always wear the same one.
00:28:42
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Yeah. Same here. If I ever dared to look in the back of my closet, I'd probably find a whole new rep wardrobe, but I just don't. I just stick the same few things that are right in front of my face. I've got a story here from Oprah girl.
00:28:55
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Shout out to Oprah Girl. Thanks for getting in touch with us. And so obviously I'd said, hey, if you've got anything traumatic, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, ah send it to us, you know, anything funny that happened to you. And she writes, her trauma for whom?
00:29:09
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This worked out great for me, but my kids still ruminate over their deep, inconsolable sorrow multiple times at this time of year. We had three kids who trick or treated a few years ago, and that meant way too much candy.
00:29:22
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What do we do with all of this? After they went to bed, my husband and I loaded it into multiple large popcorn bowls. Where can we hide these? We're tired. Let's just throw them in the oven and figure it out tomorrow.
00:29:35
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The next morning, I woke up early and thought, m bacon sounds great this time ah great this morning. So I run down, turn the oven on to 400 and then start waking up the kids for mass. So I'm guessing she's Catholic.
00:29:47
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ah But wait a minute. What's that awful smell tinged with chocolate? I raced downstairs, followed by three panicky kids to find melted bowls, liquefying plastic bowls filled with melted candy.
00:30:01
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The howls of rage and torment echoed throughout the neighbourhood as I grabbed them with hot mitts and threw them into the trash can. Only one small bag survived because it wasn't put into the oven.
00:30:12
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And every day on All Saints Day around 8 a.m., one can hear the tormented cries of children traumatized at the loss of their Halloween candy floating back from that fateful morn. For some reason, they don't laugh when I look at their candy on Halloween night and ask, should I put this in the oven?
00:30:30
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you that That's something you have to be really careful of because an oven is a great storage place, especially in the summer when you you don't use it too much because it's so hot.
00:30:41
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Um, yeah, we put like Doritos in there before different things just to store it temporarily. So, um, especially if you're not used to using it and you get into the fall and you kind of forget about it. Yeah.
00:30:57
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Yeah. This can happen. that ah That was a great story though. so Thanks. Opera girl or Oprah girl. would you say? Oprah? Opera? Oh, I thought it's opera. Yeah. It's opera. Opera girl.
00:31:09
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Opera girl. As in opera singer? More.
00:31:15
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So, Prof, you need to leave us soon, but I think we've got time for one more story from you. So why you ahead? So we have one from Skoll who included a really nice picture. So that's really part of why i wanted to mention it. And she can decide if she ever wants to share that picture with the forum, but it's a really nice picture of her. And I really appreciate appreciate the story that she wrote for us.
00:31:36
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um So, scroll here with a Halloween slash Reformation Day story. Prior to homeschooling, we celebrated Halloween in the typical way. But when my family started homeschooling when I was in fifth grade, we created a co-op with some families from church.
00:31:52
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None of the other families had ever celebrated Halloween. Instead, they celebrated the other significant holiday that takes place on October 31, Reformation Day. The University of Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg.
00:32:06
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On Reformation Day, we would get together as families and pass out Halloween slash Reformation Day candy to each other, and the kids would still dress up in costumes. It typically had nothing to do with the Bible characters or church reformation except for the year my best friend's family, all dressed up as theologians. That was scary. Holy cow. All right.
00:32:24
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Maybe they should have dressed up as TV evangelists and asked for money. But anyway, my personal favorite childhood costume was Princess Peach, and that's the picture she's she's in. My brother was Mario, my mom was a mushroom, and my dad was a question mark box.
00:32:39
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And she included a photo of that, which is great. So I really, really appreciate that. Other than costumes candy and the other main parts of our annual Reformation Day celebration included a 15-minute lesson on Martin Luther and the Reformation of the church.
00:32:51
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ah which sometimes included us getting to nail us 35 theses on a random door. Just go to your neighbors and start nailing theses on the door. yes yeah And best of all, the Bible smuggling game. The game was simple. All the kids had to sneak fake Bibles past the Catholic Church played by our dads without getting caught.
00:33:09
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I love it. ah The game ended whenever our dads got tired of chasing us around. In later years, ah the dads delegated the role of the Catholic Church to the older siblings. So that was great. so that's a good story. I like that. And several people have posted something about Reformation today Day today also.
00:33:26
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And just as an aside, we never celebrated Halloween with our kids growing up either. if We just basically just bought them candy and took them out and did something fun instead. so Yeah, we we never have either. So I have no good Halloween stories. Yeah.
00:33:40
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so well i was yeah I was going to ask you, Prof, that's it's a good segue before you leave us. Do you do you have any Halloween-related stories? It doesn't have to be trick-or-treating, obviously, but anything that's ah any funny stories or anything that you're reminded of at this time of year?
00:33:56
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You know, the only one I had was um the one that middle-aged machinists mentioned because I had just moved to where I live now that that year, um earlier that year.
00:34:07
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And I did not have a very nice vehicle. I was still pretty new with ah getting established and my getting my you know just gotten my degree not too long before that and was still kind of… you know building up my wealth and all that kind of stuff and had a not a great car.
00:34:25
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And I remember this blizzard hitting us and trying to get from my job to home was quite the adventure that day on that in 1991. So it took me a while. it Normally a 10 to 15 minute drive at the most, I think, took me around 45 minutes to an hour. and It's not that far. Yeah, it was just that much snow. it was, as the mentioned, it as the news mentions, kind of a classic February blizzard.
00:34:48
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But in October.
00:34:52
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So, yeah, that's probably my main memory is just dealing with that. But otherwise, we just would take the kids somewhere. We'd you know go out to eat. We'd just buy in the candy you know and and do that instead. So we just we left our house. We just got away and got out. and um So we didn't have to deal with trick-or-treaters either, which will which my wife and I as empty nesters, that's what we do now is um we turn all the lights off.
00:35:14
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And we retreat to the master bedroom, which is the other side of the house away from the road. And so we'll just hang out in there tonight. That's what yeah what we've we've always done. We always make sure the porch light is off. Exactly.
00:35:27
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close the curtains and hope we don't have free toilet paper in the morning. Exactly. And the good news, my neighborhood has matured. We've been in our house um since 1999 and ah the neighborhood was sure um younger when we moved there, but everybody's grown up and there's really hardly any kids even in our neighborhood anymore. So it's not like I'm too worried about it. We wouldn't have that much traffic anyway.
00:35:49
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Yeah. Yeah, our new house, our new neighborhood, there is mostly older people too. So yeah, so yeah no no traffic. I guess i was trying to say is that my neighborhood is old also.
00:36:00
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so as
00:36:03
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well There's a few people on the forum that also, ah like a lot of us growing up, didn't celebrate Halloween. And that inspired a headline that I posted about a week ago saying, a family makes plans to shine for Christ this Halloween by turning off floor and hiding behind the couch. yeah
00:36:24
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So someone else commented on my headline, the Siberian tiger. ah You didn't see email, but okay, I'll forgive you. But this is someone else that doesn't, or growing up, didn't celebrate Halloween like many of us.
00:36:37
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And I'm going say, That kind of headline I just read out was and kind of inspired by by this comment. He said, ah because my family doesn't do Halloween, to this day, we turn off the lights in front of the house and hide in the back of the house. so trick yeah One time they egged our van.
00:36:55
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I don't know if this is particularly funny, but hey, I thought I would mention it. Well, that is funny because it it also reminds me of growing up as well back in the UK in the 90s. ah like My parents, I think at the time, you know, Halloween was probably still quite new in the UK.
00:37:10
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I think it originates from the States. So we were starting to get it over over there as well. And A lot of conservative Christian families were quite concerned about this. You know, what is Halloween? And is it is it from the devil? And all this sort of thing. So I think there's a lot of ah anxiety from my parents towards Halloween when they were when we were growing up. And um yeah, I remember my parents used to get quite agitated about it, actually.
00:37:36
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I remember one one evening, the trick-or-treaters knocked on the door and and and my dad was, I can't remember what he said to them, but he said, and you know, I'm sorry, we don't take part in this. We're not goingnna we're not going to give you guys anything.
00:37:48
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And they actually sprayed our car with, ah ah you know, that kind of stringy stuff, Kurgle. Oh, yeah, yeah. sorry Yeah. They completely sprayed our car. I mean, it did no damage to the car, I guess. But, you know, looking back, it's funny. But my my dad was furious.
00:38:05
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it There's much, much, much worse things they could have used. Exactly. Yeah. Oh, is it Silly String? Is that what it's called? Silly String, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen that stuff in years. So they Silly Stringed our car to death. There was a lot of it, I remember. in my My parents, both of them, were just furious with rage about this terrible thing that these evil satanic trick-or-treaters.
00:38:33
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Yeah, we I mean, to this day as well, we don't really celebrate Halloween. we ah as is often the case when we record this podcast it's much later for me and we actually had someone knock on the door earlier we just pretended we weren't in so and then they they went away again but uh it's it's picking up momentum here i mean when we first moved here nobody there was no trick-or-treating locally but uh i think the younger kids that are growing up now are really into it and they're they're getting dressed up and they're going out um And I know a lot of the ah the the members of the Headline Forum do as well. I've seen um seen some pictures going around on Not the Bee as well.
00:39:08
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I guess, ah yeah, whether you celebrate it or not, I hope you had a good time doing whatever you do. But there's some funny Christian alternatives, aren't there? I think the bee has mocked those before. The trunk or treat?
00:39:23
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The trunk or treat. Yeah. Or or what are they called? Like... um Harvest days or fun fall fun nights at the churches.
00:39:36
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Yeah. It's just essentially Halloween. but but yeah Yeah. But we feel good about it because it's in church.
00:39:47
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I'm going to mention one more, and this one is from our good forum friend Clark Kent.
Family Traditions and Community Events
00:39:52
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and He said um for well over 50 years, his family has hosted a community bonfire and a hayride.
00:40:00
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And ah they have like over a hundred people at times um You know, they they have marshmallows and hot dogs that they burn and drop into the fire when they're trying to cook them. So it's a pretty big deal.
00:40:14
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And they have haunted trails in the woods, things like that. So he said a few years before my father died in 1997, he had a long trailer on his tractor and had hauled a bunch of people um about a mile long hayride.
00:40:31
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So when he got back home, he saw that all the kids had gotten off of the trailer, but there were still several adults there. So he got a devilish idea. he put the tractor in high gear and drove across a bunch of old garden rows that had been held up really high.
00:40:46
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And the whole trailer bounced completely off the ground and the people were yelling, but he he was laughing. He says um his father was was a quiet and serious deacon, but with a sense of humor. And I still miss him.
00:41:01
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No. Great story. Yeah. Yeah. We said, I remember doing one of those hay rides back in the UK when I was a child, but you don't see those sorts of things around here or even in the UK much anymore.
00:41:13
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I remember I went ah one time is I don't remember what it, what it was for where at, but I was a kid and I went on hay ride and it bothered my allergy so much. My eyes were just crying and I was all stuffed up afterwards. I've never gone on one again.
00:41:31
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Oh man, that's not very nice, is it? Yeah. And also what may also not appear to be very nice is that unfortunately yach we can't read out every single story that you guys sent us. There were quite a few.
00:41:44
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um We're really, really grateful. What what I'll probably do is is pop some of the highlights in the comments section of the podcast page so do check those out you can read them interact with them i'll tag the the users uh without doxing them because i know the people like their privacy so we'll we'll do that um and then you can enjoy those stories together as well
00:42:19
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So don't be confused, our dear listeners. i We are not Nicholas, but we miss them. They're not around so much these days. They've had a bit of a a break to focus on family and other things that are going on.
00:42:32
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ah So we just wanted to step into their wonderful shoes for this section of the podcast. And ah we thought it might be fun just to read out some of the top headlines from the month of October from the Headline Forum.
Headline Forum Highlights
00:42:45
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ah We're not going to read the featured or published headlines. That's actually handled by the guys over on Beyond Parody. So again, that's another reason to go and check them out. Kirgil, I was going to ask you to read the very first one, but it's actually yours.
00:43:00
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Do you want to read it or shall I read it? Why don't you go ahead and read it because it will sound much better with a British accent. Okay. All right. Well, this one got a laugh reaction from me. Wife moves dead plants inside before frost hits.
00:43:16
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And i'm still laughing. Okay. You know, there there is a story behind that um because ah Mr. Kurgle and I, we usually in the evening, we go for a walk ah at the the park across the street and we were coming back and it it was one of the the really chilly nights and it was actually, there was a frost advisory out that night and we were walking into the house and he said, you better move those dead plants inside before the frost.
00:43:42
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this That's a great headline. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. and So the next one on the list is from ShowQuest. And he's, yeah, he he says l LA declares state of emergency after realizing Karen Bass is mayor.
00:43:56
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So if anything calls for a state of of emergency, that would be it. Yeah, technically, I mean, ShowQuest, hey, he's a writer now. I'm not sure we should be reading his, but his his headlines are great. So I will allow it.
00:44:07
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Okay. And the next one, which this is great. I missed some of these. I'm really sorry. The next one is from G. Fanson. Gary is blessed. What's up, my fellow funny headline pitcher?
00:44:18
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Mike Lindell sweetens self-deportation deal with free mice and Brero. And there's a wonderful photo shot there Mike Lindell looking very stoic with a but the sombrero on.
00:44:31
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So that's fantastic. Yeah, it was a great idea. ah Two plus two is chicken. Trump loses Nobel Peace Prize after 3 a.m. ballot drop. I'm sure that's how it happened.
00:44:44
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That's great headline.
00:44:47
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ah The next one is from Don't Slow the Earth. Democrats warn peace in the Middle East will lead to fewer Jews being killed. oh Yeah, that's one of those headlines, isn't it?
00:44:58
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Yep. Yeah, it's a good one. Okay. So this is one of the, the next one is one of the the fun trends that has been on in the forum lately.
00:45:09
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of That, that picture of Marco Rubio whispering into Trump's ear. We've had so much fun with that. So this one is from the big freeze sinister Rubio informs the president that JD Vance took the last diet Coke.
00:45:25
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And actually, the big freeze hit two trends with this one, because not only is he captioning the picture, he is using the sinister trend that has gone along lately.
00:45:36
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So good job, the big freeze. Good job. And ah there's a hilarious headline here from SDH. I mean, I just couldn't stop laughing at this for for many minutes.
00:45:48
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B Forum News. Antifa endorses Virginia Attorney General candidate Jay Jones. this ah But that's SDH's wonderful weekly post. ah So do check that out if you haven't done already. And I believe there's a link to it over on NotTheBee.
00:46:04
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Yeah, she does a great job with those. are Very, very appreciated. um Here is one from RuthieJ714. Residents of Sodom and Gomorrah wish God had just sent in the National Guard. Hindsight is 20-20.
00:46:19
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Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:22
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Okay, so the next one is from Priel. Weird. Chemtrail-filled skies transformed to clear blue during government shutdown. What a coincidence.
00:46:33
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What a coincidence. yeah i'm I'm looking for a – I haven't reacted to that one. Sorry, Priel. I'm just looking for a suitable reaction. I might go for the starship. Yeah, I'd choose the starship.
00:46:46
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Okay, so moving on to anaphylaxis. Breaking. ICE qualifies for finals in the American Rodeo 2026. There's i said picture a picture of very deranged looking person being detained.
00:47:01
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Yeah. Fantastic. Yeah, so I'm going to – I think we'll do one more each, hey, Kerbill. So this next one is from NJHokey84.
00:47:13
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Good Samaritan lifeguards mistakenly push your sunbathing mom back into the ocean. ah There's a picture of a very yeah large lady. Yes, we we really appreciate the picture being included.
00:47:29
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Just in case it wasn't clear from the headline. Yeah.
00:47:36
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All right, let's see one more. Here is one from We Bid Thee Farewell. Somalia issues travel advisory for Chicago.
00:47:47
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i think that sounds reasonable. Yeah, so that reminds me of a headline which was dropped just before we ah started recording, I think, this evening. in toughest survival challenge yet, Bear Grylls attempts to survive a weekend in Chicago.
00:48:01
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There's a great photo shot there. I'd love to see that episode. That would be very interesting. Yeah. he's ah He's a Christian, you know, that guy?
00:48:12
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's been a long time since I've watched him, but I used to watch his show um quite a bit, but yeah, I've always liked him. Yeah. Yeah, he's done some crazy stuff as well.
00:48:23
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Mm-hmm. Okay, so before we finish with the headlines, we're going to read a few more that are for Halloween. So we're doing a search um in the forum. If you have Halloween in your headline, um we are looking at those and we're going to just see see what you have.
00:48:40
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So I'm going to read um one here that I thought was really, really funny from Iron Secura. And he says, local man plans to hand out Babylon bee dudes at Halloween instead of candy.
00:48:52
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and And he has a bowl. It looks like all the different like reactions that we have. and so like I really like that one. And I've got one here from Hillbilly, which he dropped earlier this evening.
00:49:05
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ABC criticized for over-the-top Halloween horror show. And there's a supporting picture of the presenters of The View. You know, people have posted a lot of pictures in their headlines, some pretty scary ones. I've never seen ah picture that scary.
00:49:27
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Okay. Here's one from FL Max. He says, sad, poor severed head couldn't go to the Halloween party because he had no body to take him. Hey. Dad joke. I think the yeah the original joke I heard back in the day was, why why didn't the skeleton go to the ball?
00:49:47
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I think I've heard it that way. Because he had no body to go with. Yeah. Okay, there's one here from jmoconner9301.
00:49:59
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Scary. Zoran Mandani dresses as an American for Halloween this year. I saw that one earlier. Yeah, that that is a good one. I'll read this one here. It's from Slinky.
00:50:11
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Kid receives five pieces of Halloween candy after dad tax. yeah times Times are tough. Yeah, but movie it it builds character. There's one here from Webbyator.
00:50:24
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Trump arrives at Halloween party in an auto pen costume. That's right. Here's one from funny guy David Johnson. After 30 years of waiting outside every Halloween, man starts to wonder if his parents were lying to him about the great pumpkin.
00:50:40
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And then shout out Odia. Odia was on our very first episode, by the way, all the way back whenever that was, three, four, even four years ago now, I think. And Odia says, so shrinkflation, all that Halloween candy you bought on October 1st has strangely disappeared.
00:50:59
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Oh, here's here's one. I just saw one I thought was pretty, pretty good. um This one is from Don't Slow the Earth. He says, loving dad reminds kids to hide their Halloween candy from him.
00:51:10
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It has to be done. My wife actually hides candy from me now because she knows I'll eat it otherwise.
00:51:18
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Okay. So there's here from Westland 619. ah Liberals confused on Halloween to see people in costumes, not assaulting ice officers.
00:51:30
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Very true. Very true. Can I break the rules in read a second one from somebody? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. Okay. Because this one goes perfect with Don't Slow the Earth's other headline.
00:51:44
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He says, loving wife doesn't remind kids to hide their Halloween candy from dad. That's a good wife. Yeah.
00:51:55
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Well, thanks everybody for the great headlines. As always, you you never fail to entertain us and there are so many laughs and the forum is such a great, great place.
00:52:07
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um So it's always, always something new going on in the forum. um Like I mentioned earlier, we had the last um biggest, greatest trends were the the captions for the Donald Trump and Trump and the Rubio picture.
00:52:23
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And then we had so many um ah sinister headlines. So Zoe, it's always fun to see what's going to be next. so I'm looking forward to the next trend.
00:52:33
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ah We have had a lot of people. um who have done really good with the celebrations. um Some new milestones that are being reached all the time. So I'm going to mention just a few of them.
Community Milestones and Thanksgiving
00:52:46
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um First, our most recent one is um Old Country Rose. He is a new millionaire. So congratulations. Then we have RuthieJ714. She has hit million. at 11 million.
00:53:00
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wow um b barton seven thirteen is at eleven million The Wonderful Murph has hit 27 million. Amazing, amazing points here. Mallory Mallory has hit 35 million.
00:53:15
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Optimus Bartlederp, 7 million, going strong. Then we have another mill another new millionaire. ah Matthew C. is now at 1 million points, or or over now, but yeah, he's hit that.
00:53:30
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Another huge hitter, The Catman, is at 21 million. And then we have Radcon Officer moving on up at 2 million points. so So congratulations to everybody. That's really, really great.
00:53:43
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um I'm always ah happy for Halloween to be done because then once once Halloween is over, we get um and everything is focused on Thanksgiving and Christmas.
00:53:55
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you know I enjoy that time a year anyway, but it's so much fun in the forum. So we have a lot coming up. um In just a little over a month, we're going to have our annual Christmas caroling in the forum.
00:54:06
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So watch out for that. that's That is always a lot of fun. oh yeah So so that that that's what's been going on. Yeah, congratulations, everyone. That's really awesome. And man, I think, you know, Kuga, we've been in the forum now for many, many years and it's just great. There's so many new people joined.
00:54:26
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Unfortunately, I don't know all of these new people yet, but yeah, I remember back in the day, I think I was fortunate to be in sort of the top 10 in community score. And i I've just had a look now because I haven't checked it recently. I'm now 119. So I've been pushed to one side by all of these incredible ideas. ideas um But so yeah, it's great. And just a lot of people...
00:54:51
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It's testament to the fact that ah many people are very active on the forum and are enjoying the community and are getting involved. And a lot of these people get, especially i think for Murph, she's not just getting her points by posting headlines. It's just somebody who's always interacting and encouraging and ah posting really nice things and responding to people and sending. I always get a really nice GIF every time I post a headline and I get ah a Murph GIF. It always brings a smile to my face.
00:55:20
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Yeah, she she posts the nicest GIFs. She does. She somehow manages to find wholesome content on the internet. It's amazing. All right. Well, that that's all we have for today. we want to thank everyone again for listening. We had a lot of fun. Thank you for sending in your stories. Thank you for all your headlines.
00:55:38
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um Please post in the comments when this episode is is posted, and we'd love to hear more from you. ah So now, um probably before next time we meet, um we're We're going to have Thanksgiving, at least over here in the United States.
00:55:53
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um I'm really looking forward to it. So everyone listening, enjoy your day. Get full on turkey. um Have fun with your families. Go into a food coma and have a lot of fun with your Black Friday shopping.
00:56:09
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Yeah, it sounds good. But we were just chatting off the air a little bit. But um yeah, it's it's a shame because we don't have Thanksgiving over here. And obviously, ah Rightly so, because yeah the as as far as I understand it, and we learned about this when I was studying and we we had a whole thing America and it was really fascinating. I enjoyed it tremendously.
00:56:28
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Just learning about where Thanksgiving comes from and and what's what what's involved with it. i think it it sounds like such a... I'm kind of envious, if i'm honest, Kurgle. It sounds like a very special um and enjoyable a time of the year. So I do wish ah all of all of the the good people on the Headline Forum a very blessed and and peaceful Thanksgiving. Hope you are able to spend time together with the family and um and also post your best Thanksgiving headlines as well.
00:56:58
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Yep. We'll be watching. Yeah. Okay. Well, I think it was probably ah noticeable earlier. Prof had to disappear, but he'll be yeah hopefully joining us for another episode.
00:57:10
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Oh, my goodness. When do you think, Kurgle? Should we try and get another one out before the end of the year? We should probably do like a Christmas episode or something if if we can't get one. Yeah, definitely. I'd love to do that. That would be cool. Yeah, we'll try and we'll try and make it happen.
00:57:23
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ah So, yeah, lots ah I'm sure there'll be lots to tell before before the next time we, or by the time we record again. So keep those headlines coming. Send us any, if you've got any ideas for an episode. if We didn't feature a guest this time. we It was a little bit last minute, wasn't it, Kogel? We thought, hey, we need go down.
00:57:43
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um But yeah, we'd love to we'd love to have a guest on. So any suggestions, do feel free to email us or just drop a comment and the in the on the podcast page and we can interact with you that way or in one of our headlines.
00:57:57
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um So as always, we we hope you guys have enjoyed it here. and Thanks so much for tuning in. We hope you've enjoyed this episode and we hope you will have a very blessed Thanksgiving. And until the next time, God bless.
00:58:10
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See you next time. Goodbye. Goodbye. um
00:58:19
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Yeah, so as Prof said, I dropped a headline in the forum, what was it now, maybe a week or two ago, and I said, you know, send us your send us your best stories, but don't place anything in the comments because that will ruin it the surprise.
00:58:36
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But inevitably, people still did drop a few stories in the comments, so clearly not everyone was i was reading my headline. Do you mean that somebody didn't follow directions? That never happens to me in my classroom, ever. That never happens.
00:58:50
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See, my headphones just died despite having been plugged in, so I have to use my computer so the sound quality won't be quite as good. That's fine. While we're talking about that, is your microphone working?
00:59:02
Speaker
I think so. Okay, can you hear you hear me? Give it a tap.
00:59:07
Speaker
Yeah, I think you're recording on your computer audio. Oh, no. I thought the quality i thought the quality sounded different. So we'll change with Steve. Great.
00:59:18
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Well, don't worry. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Oh, let's We need that elevator music.
00:59:35
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Yeah, can hear it now. Okay, it looks better. Okay. Yeah, I can hear it. Okay, good. That's much better. And there's also there's a whole lot background noise, which I can't hear anymore. Oh, okay, good.
00:59:46
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Good. Yeah, it it it sounds better in my headphones too. That's much better. Yeah, okay. Okay. So Austin, i don't know if you can do anything about the sound quality up to now, but yeah, my mine's probably not fantastic. I've got a cheap crappy mic. so um Okay, let's continue. So where were we?
01:00:06
Speaker
Well, I'm going to take off, guys, but it's really good to see you. Okay. And I'll send you the email but with the ah link to the podcast. so Hopefully it won't. some Well, well'll just if it's all right, we'll just keep the segment rolling but without. Yeah.
01:00:17
Speaker
Okay. and I've got a couple more we can read. God bless. Okay. See you next time. Okay. Don't know why he's whispering. Because I don't know.
01:00:31
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why. And he's gone. And he's gone. Now we can talk about him. Just I think, um yeah, I'm pleased it's still recording anyway. I was kind of wondering if he logs off, is it going to be all right? But it's fine.
01:00:44
Speaker
I think the only other thing to do is um maybe mention Thanksgiving. Oh, yep. um But that, obviously, is's not really something I know too much about. Oh, yeah.
01:00:55
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didn't even think about that. We don't do that over here, yeah. ah we ah we We try to be grateful and thankful, but just we don't have – I love the idea of Thanksgiving, actually. I think it's lovely. Okay, so so I understand it now. So you celebrate a holiday honoring Satan, but you don't ah celebrate ah holiday giving thanks to the Lord.
01:01:20
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Yeah, but isn't it like specifically for and Americans and being- Well, yeah. Is it for the pilgrims, that first meal they shared after the Mayflower landed? Yeah, so so I guess it makes sense that it wouldn't be a big deal overseas.
01:01:35
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Yeah, but it's it's a lovely idea. And we're we're getting ah a whole load of other stuff from America. you know, Halloween's from you guys and um Black Friday and all that sort of stuff. um So, yeah, anyway.
01:01:48
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Yeah.
01:01:51
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So, okay, so how do we land the plane then?