Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: The last man left on the earth sat in an empty room and then he heard a knock at the door.
[00:00:15] Speaker B: Oh, of course, we had to start with the spooky intro, because it's the spookiest episode of the year. It's Halloween. Welcome to the show.
[00:00:50] Speaker A: Sam episode.
[00:01:14] Speaker B: Yes, indeed. It is that time of year again where slightly annoying kids from your neighborhood that you only see once a year come knocking on your door dressed as something from the local supermarket, begging you for candy or money.
[00:01:30] Speaker A: We're creeping it real today.
[00:01:31] Speaker B: Oh, my God. Of course, at a crafty pun, we're creeping it real, dear.
[00:01:40] Speaker A: Anyway, I just really enjoyed that. But no, I wasn't allowed to trick or treat when I was little.
[00:01:44] Speaker B: Was that a religious thing?
[00:01:46] Speaker A: No, my dad thought it was blackmail. Which, according to you and the money situation, it absolutely was.
[00:01:52] Speaker B: Yeah, it is.
[00:01:53] Speaker A: It is, I should say. Yeah, it is.
[00:01:55] Speaker B: But thankfully, I mean, things have changed now, though. There's going to be people out there who will disagree with me, but thankfully, there is no trick, is there? I mean, it's trick or treat.
[00:02:06] Speaker A: And if people ever got anything, you have just, what do they say? Tempted fate?
[00:02:11] Speaker B: Well, sometimes they lob an egg at your window, which is just really annoying, isn't it?
[00:02:15] Speaker A: I've never had an egg be lobbed at my window as of yet.
[00:02:19] Speaker B: I think living in America has really opened our eyes to the celebration that is Halloween, because they are bloody hell, don't they go for it.
[00:02:28] Speaker A: Wonderful. Yeah, absolutely wonderful.
[00:02:30] Speaker B: It's like something out of an 80s movie, halloween in America. It's wonderful.
[00:02:37] Speaker A: Mind you, living in Los Angeles is a little bit like living in an 80s movie, isn't it?
[00:02:41] Speaker B: Yeah. Especially the neighborhood that we go round, which is full of the Hollywood elite, lighting directors, houses and set producers and all that kind of thing, set decorators from all the major studios.
The people that work for those studios all have to live somewhere and they live in this bloody neighborhood. So it looks like a theme park.
[00:03:11] Speaker A: Theme park, isn't it? Full on haunted houses and everything. So that's been a joy over the.
[00:03:17] Speaker B: Last few years, but over here in England, it's not so much, is it?
[00:03:22] Speaker A: What did you say to Freddie the other day? It's a bit of a damp squib.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: It is a bit of a damp squib over here. I think every household in England has the same kind of thought process, which is, oh, my God, it's bloody Halloween. I better go and get a family size pack of Heroes or Celebrations or Mars bars or something like that.
[00:03:45] Speaker A: Other chocolates are available, not favoring Mars in any way, shape or form.
[00:03:50] Speaker B: Other Mediocre chocolate bars are available, so you end up going home with pretty much two family sized bags of your own chocolate.
[00:03:59] Speaker A: Anyway, this is true. You're basically just exchanging chocolate because then your child comes home with all the stuff you gave away.
[00:04:05] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly.
[00:04:07] Speaker A: It's basically the same lot, isn't it?
[00:04:09] Speaker B: It's the costumes. The difference on this show we like, talking about the fact what makes us unique from other shows is that we live in two different countries, so we spend our time in two different cultures.
[00:04:23] Speaker A: Experiencing two different celebrations for the same event. That's what you mean.
[00:04:27] Speaker B: That's what I mean.
[00:04:28] Speaker A: Yes. You found the words. Yeah.
[00:04:29] Speaker B: Brilliant. Thank you. In America, it's a whole world of costumes and music and ceremony. In England, it's like, has anyone got a cloth that I can put over my head? So I'm a ghost.
[00:04:44] Speaker A: I think it has progressed a bit more now. We've taken on a lot more of America now, haven't we? I noticed this time, know Tk Maxx and Homesense, which is home goods, and TJ Max in America is full now of all that Halloween stuff, almost as much as Christmas, if not more.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: I am a traditionalist in the fact that I think children should wear clothing that is spooky or Halloween themed. When you go down the streets on Halloween and there's people dressed as Superman, you're like, oh, that's an interesting one.
[00:05:20] Speaker A: I agree. Why do people go as like, Look, I understand going something scary, and I understand going something eerie. I-E-A clown. Something that sort of induces that kind of feeling of, oh, you look so spooky, or a subtle eeriness, but you don't Halloween or whatever.
[00:05:40] Speaker B: Look at this, Halloween Spider Man.
[00:05:42] Speaker A: Yeah. Or look at this halloween Victorian. Man in a top hat. Although I suppose he could be a ghost. Or look at this. Alice in Wonderland. Yeah, it's not Halloween themed, is it? I know what you mean. Unless she's got a massive cut down her cheek or something.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: Usually you can be Spider Man bleeding.
[00:06:00] Speaker A: From her eyes and all that jazz.
[00:06:02] Speaker B: Just be superman. But if you put a little cut on your cheek, it's Halloween.
So what have we got on the show today, Jen Stall?
[00:06:10] Speaker A: Well, I've prepared two sections. What have you prepared?
[00:06:13] Speaker B: Not so much.
Same, same.
[00:06:17] Speaker A: It's up to you. What would you prefer to do first? I've got a Halloween quiz for you and I've got a scary story for all of you at home as well.
[00:06:26] Speaker B: Well, first of all, I am going to find the International Day for Halloween.
[00:06:33] Speaker A: What falls on the 31 October exactly.
[00:06:37] Speaker B: If you haven't listened to the show before, where have you been? If you have listened to the show before, then you'll know that International Day is a committee of people who have decided that we must celebrate something completely and utterly random every single day of the year, despite whether it's a National Bank holiday or not. So today is Halloween, but it is also random.
[00:07:02] Speaker A: International Day.
[00:07:04] Speaker B: Roll the jingle.
[00:07:05] Speaker A: What shall we celebrate today?
Alligators, astronauts or hay?
Start the day with dancing with a peppermint crab and making table merch.
[00:07:18] Speaker B: It's a random International Day of any old random shit.
[00:07:24] Speaker A: So tell me, Chris, what's the random International Day? Or is it reserved specifically just for Halloween?
[00:07:30] Speaker B: Ha. A laugh in the face of specifics. Why would it be to celebrate Halloween on its own when it's also National Doorbell Day?
Oh, yes, it is.
[00:07:43] Speaker A: That's perfect. There's going to be so many doorbells being rung, isn't there?
[00:07:48] Speaker B: On this website that we refer to, there's a little kind of blurb afterwards just to talk about the International Day and the blurb with National Doorbell Day. Is this Halloween? Spare a thought for your doorbell as it chimes throughout the day. Brilliant. So I'll tell you what, because it's trick or treating, people, let's give a little thought to the doorbells out there.
[00:08:12] Speaker A: What about knocking? If you give it a good hard knock? What about the door? Well, think about your door.
[00:08:17] Speaker B: How funny that you should say that, because, yeah, it is also National Knock Knock Joke Day.
[00:08:27] Speaker A: What?
[00:08:28] Speaker B: Get ready to open the door to Fun Punchlines on National Knock Knock Joke Day. Have you got any knock knock jokes?
[00:08:35] Speaker A: I've only got one and I've told it twice on this podcast.
[00:08:37] Speaker B: Is it the interrupting cow?
[00:08:39] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:08:43] Speaker B: Spooky cow.
[00:08:44] Speaker A: Hang on. Knock knock.
[00:08:45] Speaker B: Who's there?
[00:08:46] Speaker A: Cook.
[00:08:47] Speaker B: Cuckoo.
[00:08:48] Speaker A: That's the first one I've heard this spring. This is not a Halloween joke. Have you got a Halloween joke?
[00:08:52] Speaker B: Do you hear Cuckoos that much? I don't think I've ever heard in my life.
[00:08:56] Speaker A: Well, I've heard one come out of a clock on a film, but that's.
[00:09:01] Speaker B: The first one I've heard this spring.
Ridiculous punchline.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Well, don't ask me. That's just the joke.
[00:09:08] Speaker B: You're implying that you listen to Cuckoos every spring and that's the first one.
[00:09:12] Speaker A: Don't hold me to a knock knock joke. Jesus. Right. Have you got any knock knock jokes? We need a Halloween knock knock joke.
[00:09:19] Speaker B: Okay, I've got one.
[00:09:21] Speaker A: Don't have to be so loud.
[00:09:23] Speaker B: You don't have to be so loud. That's not part of the joke anyway. Knock knock.
[00:09:29] Speaker A: Who's there?
[00:09:30] Speaker B: Boo. Boo who? Don't cry.
I'm just a Halloween trick or treater.
So you enjoyed that, didn't you?
[00:09:39] Speaker A: I loved that.
[00:09:40] Speaker B: You know, when I first met Jen, I absolutely loved we were on date two or three, right back when was it? In 2007? And I remember running out of conversation or something, or trying to find a little bit more about each other's humorous side, and I said, what's your favorite joke? And you told me prawn cocktail one. Yeah.
[00:10:03] Speaker A: Was it?
[00:10:03] Speaker B: No.
Did you hear about the man that got hit over the head with a lettuce? Yeah, that was just the tip of the iceberg. And do you know what the funniest thing was? It wasn't the joke. It was the fact that you absolutely lost your shit over your own joke.
[00:10:21] Speaker A: Because I just find those sorts of jokes because they're so bad, they're so funny. I just find it really funny.
[00:10:26] Speaker B: I find that very adorable, actually, I have to say.
[00:10:29] Speaker A: Simplicity, keep it simple. Comedy needs keep it simple.
[00:10:33] Speaker B: It's like an anti grind for me when it comes to you, when you laugh at your own jokes. And I love it when people laugh at themselves or their own jokes. It's just hilarious. But occasionally, and I think we all have friends out there who absolutely lose their shit over their own jokes. I mean, they are howling.
[00:10:53] Speaker A: It's probably me.
[00:10:54] Speaker B: You're like that, your dad's like that.
I've got a couple of mates who do it as well. Just they find themselves incredibly funny.
[00:11:03] Speaker A: But this isn't very Halloweeny, so what else is?
[00:11:06] Speaker B: Oh my God. Sorry. Do we have to keep it do I have to go after every single segment?
[00:11:15] Speaker A: So going back to national doorbell day? Yeah, somebody's decided, let's have a national doorbell day to feel sorry for. Doorbells getting pressed too much on Halloween.
[00:11:24] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:11:25] Speaker A: Why aren't there other things to do in the world?
[00:11:28] Speaker B: Well, obviously being Halloween, there's quite a few of them. So there's the classic haunted refrigerator night.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: What?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. There's national Mischief Night. Okay, well, that is Halloween, national Checklist day. Make sure that all your to do lists are up to date on this specific day, okay?
[00:11:51] Speaker A: So during trying to get all your children dressed in Halloween outfits and do school homework and take them all out and collect all the chocolate and deal with children that are full of sugar at the end of the night, make sure that you've checked everything off your list as well.
[00:12:04] Speaker B: Also, do not spend anything on Halloween. Do you know why? Because it's World Savings Day.
I mean, who on earth comes up with this stuff? I do not know. Anyway, that was a creepy section for you.
Is that better?
[00:12:22] Speaker A: Hello.
[00:12:25] Speaker B: We'Re back. After that little section, we're sounding more and more like breakfast radio DJs from a really annoying 80s radio station every day. What I was going for I do love this time of year. You and I went for a little walk today. It was blustery, it was cold, but the blue sky and the sun in the sky and I'm still so hungry from a training. It's insane.
[00:12:50] Speaker A: We're so hungry. We're actually getting really AG with each other, aren't we?
[00:12:53] Speaker B: No, you didn't have a massive go at me about potentially losing a light or anything just now.
[00:12:58] Speaker A: I was like, where is the bulb?
[00:13:00] Speaker B: Right, so in our household we have this thing, okay? Jen apparently puts everything ever in a specific place, and if it's not in that specific place, then it's either me or a ghost.
[00:13:12] Speaker A: Right? Listen, you and Fredie aren't allowed to touch anything of mine. If we put anything in the car, I pack it. No one's allowed to take it in or out. And I'll tell you why. Because the other night I found the Apollo twin down the back of the bookshelf because you just dropped it down there one night.
[00:13:28] Speaker B: I take full responsibility of that. But I'm not talking about those things. I'm talking about things that and everyone must experience this. Things that randomly just go missing, disappear.
[00:13:38] Speaker A: They just go missing in your house.
I cannot understand it, and there's no one to blame. So it's the most frustrating thing in the world.
[00:13:46] Speaker B: What do you do?
[00:13:47] Speaker A: I blame you.
[00:13:48] Speaker B: Exactly. Because I'm the nearest thing to an answer to the situation, and you have all this kind of pent up energy about how could this thing possibly disappear that your mind goes straight to. Well, it's probably Chris.
[00:14:03] Speaker A: Yeah, but you are more careless than I am in terms of property.
[00:14:07] Speaker B: On paper.
[00:14:08] Speaker A: What do you mean on paper?
[00:14:10] Speaker B: But that doesn't mean that it was me when you lost your wedding ring. I got all the blame for that.
[00:14:14] Speaker A: No, you didn't. You didn't get the blame for that. Magpie got the blame for that.
[00:14:18] Speaker B: Yeah. So once you finished blaming me and realized that I hadn't taken your wedding.
[00:14:23] Speaker A: Ring I never blamed you for the wedding ring. I blamed you for my necklace.
[00:14:27] Speaker B: Where was that, mate?
[00:14:28] Speaker A: In the tumble dryer.
[00:14:29] Speaker B: Brilliant. So not me again.
[00:14:31] Speaker A: Not you.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: I'll tell you another thing, though. Do I get an apology after she finds it? Eventually, yes.
Absolutely not.
[00:14:40] Speaker A: Yes, you do.
[00:14:41] Speaker B: You lost your bracelet for a whole week.
[00:14:42] Speaker A: Big kiss as well. Do you remember? Because I was so happy that you found it in the tumble dryer in that little mulchy bit where all this love collects.
[00:14:50] Speaker B: Yeah, and I very clean. I presented it to her in a really cool way as well. Did the old what's that behind your ear?
[00:14:59] Speaker A: A little bit eerie. Back to Halloween. Do you want the scary quiz or do you want the scary story?
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Come on, give me the quiz.
[00:15:05] Speaker A: Okay, roll the quiz music. I mean, play the music, do the quiz music.
[00:15:10] Speaker B: Play whatever the music with the quiz is.
[00:15:12] Speaker A: Why do we never get this right?
[00:15:14] Speaker B: Quiz, quiz music.
[00:15:15] Speaker A: Roll the music.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Roll it.
[00:15:17] Speaker A: Oh, no, we're not rolling it. We're not rolling it yet, are we? I've just realized I've got to tell you what the quiz is about first. Hang on.
[00:15:23] Speaker B: Sorry. Just having a bit of spooky coffee.
[00:15:30] Speaker A: It's not even funny. But you just make me laugh.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Well, you've asked me to make everything Halloween.
[00:15:36] Speaker A: I know. Well, if you had to pick one I know you're not a big fan of horror movies or scary stories or anything like that, but if you had to pick one, what is your favorite horror movie of all time?
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Favorite horror movie of all time? I would have to say favorite because it's terrifying.
[00:15:53] Speaker A: Go on.
[00:15:54] Speaker B: Is it?
[00:15:57] Speaker A: It's a good one, isn't it?
[00:15:58] Speaker B: It is a good one.
[00:15:59] Speaker A: It's a good one.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Yeah. I just don't like clowns. Who likes clowns? No one likes clowns. Apart from if you were born in 1981 and it was your 8th birthday, so 1989. And your parents go, well, of course we're going to get him a clown. Brilliant.
[00:16:15] Speaker A: Can I just ask something? Yes. When did clowns become scary? Because at some point, a clown must have been just funny and great. Do you know what I mean? When did it become like a clown was always scary or became a serial killer or had drippy blood mouth or whatever? Because if you were born in 1840 and a clown came to your birthday party, or a jester or whatever they called them, presumably that was well, that.
[00:16:41] Speaker B: Goes all the way back to Shakespearean times, doesn't it? Having a court jester.
[00:16:47] Speaker A: Well, exactly. So did children in Shakespeare's time find clowns funny or terrifying?
[00:16:53] Speaker B: Let's go back and ask them.
[00:16:55] Speaker A: So, Christopher famous quotes from horror movies. Roll the music.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Roll the jingly music.
[00:17:02] Speaker A: Play the music for the quiz.
[00:17:03] Speaker B: The thing that we play in the background of the quiz.
[00:17:05] Speaker A: Play the quiz music.
Number one, we all go a little mad sometimes.
[00:17:13] Speaker B: That is from Beetlejuice.
[00:17:16] Speaker A: It isn't. And also, I forgot to say, if you give me the who said it in the film as well, you'll get another point. It is from Psycho. I haven't seen ah, and it's Norman Bates.
[00:17:27] Speaker B: I haven't seen it.
[00:17:28] Speaker A: You see, I'm not sure you're going to get a lot of these right, because you haven't seen very many horror.
[00:17:32] Speaker B: Movies, but we do have a lot of horror loving fans out there. This is mostly for you. I will just be here to facilitate the wrong answers.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: I see dead people.
[00:17:44] Speaker B: Ah, that's the 6th sense. And that was said by Hayley. Joel Osmond.
[00:17:48] Speaker A: It wasn't. It was said by Cole. Seer, that's the character. But I'll give you the so getting the actor.
That's excellent.
[00:17:57] Speaker B: That's an added bonus.
[00:17:59] Speaker A: Number three.
[00:18:00] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: We came, we saw, we kicked ass.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: We came, we saw, we kicked Ass is from Ghostbusters.
[00:18:11] Speaker A: Yes. Well done. And who said it?
[00:18:14] Speaker B: Dan Ackroyd.
[00:18:16] Speaker A: No, the other one.
[00:18:17] Speaker B: Bill Murray.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Yes. What's his name?
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Character name, his character name. Oh, God.
What's the initials?
[00:18:26] Speaker A: Dr PV.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: Peter Venkman.
[00:18:29] Speaker A: Yes.
Oh, that is awesome.
That was brilliant.
[00:18:34] Speaker B: Car came back from the dead there, didn't I?
[00:18:37] Speaker A: Good one.
[00:18:38] Speaker B: Halloween reference number four.
[00:18:41] Speaker A: I'm scared to close my eyes. I'm scared to open them. We're going to die out here.
[00:18:46] Speaker B: Me on a Friday night.
[00:18:50] Speaker A: Blair Witch.
[00:18:51] Speaker B: Oh, very good.
[00:18:52] Speaker A: Said by Heather, the character. I wouldn't get these, by the way.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Blair Witch was made for, like, $20,000 or something like that.
[00:18:59] Speaker A: Yeah, I do.
[00:19:00] Speaker B: I remember watching that. And that was and then as soon as anyone did the spoof, it was just of the girl running with the camera right up in her face. And she had a really runny nose.
[00:19:10] Speaker A: Yes, naughty nose. I remember that too. Okay, how about this one? You should get this one, I would think, by the pricking of my thumbs. Something wicked this way.
[00:19:21] Speaker B: Uh, that is from the wizard of Oz.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: No.
Macabeth shakespeare.
[00:19:30] Speaker B: You can't say that. You can't say, oh, no, you can't say it in a theatre.
[00:19:33] Speaker A: You can't say it in a theatre. Or before you go on stage, what.
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Can you say instead?
[00:19:37] Speaker A: You can say that. Scottish play.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: That Scottish play. Very good luck, apparently.
[00:19:42] Speaker A: And if you say Macbeth three times and twiddle in a circle, you undo the bad luck. Go on, then.
[00:19:48] Speaker B: You ever broken a mirror?
[00:19:49] Speaker A: All the time.
[00:19:50] Speaker B: Do you ever tread on it seven times?
[00:19:53] Speaker A: No.
[00:19:54] Speaker B: Apparently, if you tread in a mirror seven times, it undoes the fact that you're getting seven years bad luck.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: Oh, good. Superstition reference for Halloween. Well done.
[00:20:03] Speaker B: Spooky number six.
[00:20:06] Speaker A: It's Halloween. Everyone is entitled to one good scare.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Is it from Scream?
[00:20:13] Speaker A: No, it's from Halloween.
I feel like that should have been more exciting.
But what you've got to remember is the people listening will perhaps know the answers.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: Yes, they will.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: Right.
[00:20:26] Speaker B: I'll give that one to them.
[00:20:28] Speaker A: You might get this one.
[00:20:29] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:20:30] Speaker A: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
[00:20:32] Speaker B: Well, that's obviously Jaws. No, it no, the Friday night. That no, don't know.
[00:20:46] Speaker A: The Fly, 1986.
[00:20:48] Speaker B: Is that a horror movie? Well, I suppose it is.
[00:20:50] Speaker A: Oh, yeah.
[00:20:51] Speaker B: Man gets into a room with a fly, turns into a fly. Gina Davis is I always fancied her a little bit.
[00:21:00] Speaker A: Yeah, the Fly gets in the old Transporter with him.
[00:21:03] Speaker B: Yeah. Jeff Goldblum like, giving it all The Fly now, that was crazy. If you look back at that now, and there's a couple of instagram things that I follow, like that 80s movie reference or stuff like that, and they show what movies were like. The horror movies were like in the special effects that we had, and we were terrified of all these look. They looked like something that Freddie's made at school.
[00:21:32] Speaker A: Bit of tomato ketchup.
[00:21:35] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
[00:21:39] Speaker B: Silence of the Lambio.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Who said it?
[00:21:42] Speaker B: Hannibal Lectarios.
[00:21:45] Speaker A: I didn't know that his Lecter was Spelt Lechter.
[00:21:51] Speaker B: Like he's a little bit German lecter. Or. He's from Liverpool. Lechter.
[00:21:55] Speaker A: Lechter. That's what he said on the website. Anyway, could be wrong. Anyway, good quiz. Well done.
[00:22:01] Speaker B: Oh, thank you very much.
[00:22:02] Speaker A: How many did you get? Three. I think you got three. Well done.
[00:22:05] Speaker B: I guarantee that people at home got more than me.
Okay, we'll take a little bit of a break from the Halloween episode to tell you that this sounds like an ad, doesn't it? It's not an ad not doing an ad. Or if it is an ad, it's an ad for don't invite me and Jen to go and do an escape room hungover on a Saturday.
[00:22:28] Speaker A: And it's an ad for don't try and rely on your eleven year old to come and record a podcast with you because they don't stick to their word.
[00:22:37] Speaker B: Yeah, exactly. So we'll tell you about the escape room because, in a word, we were terrible. You went for shit. I went for terrible. That's fine.
[00:22:46] Speaker A: Rubbish.
[00:22:47] Speaker B: We were so bad.
[00:22:49] Speaker A: There were numerous reasons why we were so bad.
[00:22:52] Speaker B: So this escape room is kind of kitted out like a pirate ship, right? And Freddie wanted to do this for his birthday, for his actual birthday. So we went there. It was 02:00 in the afternoon. And we went to this it was like a barn at the end of someone's house, really.
[00:23:07] Speaker A: OD. I was expecting some kind of big structure, like a warehouse or where you might go trampolining or something like that. But it wasn't. It was like someone's house.
[00:23:16] Speaker B: So it was someone's house. And we got in and I was thinking, right, we got 90 minutes to escape this room and find the buried treasure and all that jazz.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: But we were at a disadvantage to start with because Freddie had had a sleepover for his birthday. Everyone was asleep at 02:00 a.m. And up at seven. So we're all knackered. Chris and I broke the diet, had a couple of wines, so we're already.
[00:23:38] Speaker B: On the back foot.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: Yeah, completely.
[00:23:40] Speaker B: And there were, in hindsight, a couple of fairly easy quiz questions and kind of solving puzzles and things like that, that if I think about it now, I think we went about it completely the wrong way.
[00:23:53] Speaker A: Well, yeah, completely distracted by trying to solve every clue at once rather than concentrating on one. There's definitely a technique to these things.
[00:24:00] Speaker B: The lady that set it up said, if you get in trouble and I see you getting in trouble, then just listen out for Ahoy Mimetis.
[00:24:08] Speaker A: No. Ahoy. Mahartis.
[00:24:09] Speaker B: Ahoy Mihartis.
[00:24:11] Speaker A: That'll be me trying to get your attention. So look at the TV screen.
[00:24:15] Speaker B: So after about, I don't know, a minute, we hear, Ahoy Mihartis, as if like, you are terrible. Look at the screen. So she gives us a few hints and tips that aren't giving anything away so that we can try and solve this puzzle. Now, as it progressed an hour later, when we were still struggling, struggling all over the place, basically struggling, trying to help.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: Zach Barrow.
[00:24:40] Speaker B: Zack Barrow. Sounds nothing like Jack Sparrow, does it?
[00:24:44] Speaker A: Proper name can't be used for legal reasons.
[00:24:48] Speaker B: And, yeah, it got to the point where we were hearing ahoy, mehartis every two minutes, looking to the screen. And then it progressed from her giving us hints and tips of how to do it, to actually just giving us the answer.
Giving us the answer. And each time we solved the puzle, we would get like, this dagger. And we'd get a dagger and we're like, what do we do with the daggers? Then we got to the end and we're looking at these daggers, trying to think, oh, they've all got little different colored gems and inscriptions on them. Maybe we need to put them in specific holes. And, ahoy, Miharati came up again, looked at the screen, she said, Just put the daggers in the holes. She was annoyed with us, she'd lost all patience with us.
[00:25:32] Speaker A: You're overthinking it. I mean, thinking it.
[00:25:34] Speaker B: She kept typing everything.
[00:25:35] Speaker A: She kept typing everything wrong. What was the one you've got the code ring? We were like, oh. And then you'd see the little cursor going backwards and then she'd restart wrong.
We were awful, weren't we?
[00:25:50] Speaker B: So we find the code and we'd be like, yes, we got the code. And then, ahoy, Maharatis, that's the rang code. Oh, no. Okay.
But in a word, we were horrendous. But we would like to say we.
[00:26:03] Speaker A: Did get out, but with a lot of help.
[00:26:06] Speaker B: So much help. But we would like to say a huge happy birthday to Freddie, who turned eleven that day. And we will endeavor to get him on the podcast at some point, we will. But for now, let's get back to the Halloween episode.
Right now I'm back from the toilet because I had a nice Halloween.
[00:26:25] Speaker A: See?
[00:26:26] Speaker B: What did that?
[00:26:26] Speaker A: Oh, very good. We've left the scary story till the end.
[00:26:29] Speaker B: Yeah, fantastic.
I love that, because we want people to be leaving this going, OOH.
But I tell you what, though, I tell you what, I do miss being a kid. Do you remember your most favourite Halloween ever? And I'll tell you mine.
[00:26:48] Speaker A: I do, because I was about eight and my sister was five, and my friend Mary came over with her parents, and Mum and dad dressed me and Katie up. Katie was a cat.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: Spooky cat.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Classic spooky cat. And Mum put me in a white petticoat, big old fashioned petticoat.
[00:27:10] Speaker B: We'll have to get the picture up on the show notes.
[00:27:12] Speaker A: Yeah, a white bodice and talcum powdered. All my face and hair.
[00:27:16] Speaker B: What were you, then?
[00:27:17] Speaker A: So I was a ghost. I was like a ghost of the white lady ghost.
And I just felt so special. And we weren't allowed to go trick or treating.
[00:27:28] Speaker B: So you're just dressing up for it inside the house?
[00:27:30] Speaker A: We just dressed up, but I don't know why. It was so exciting. I can't even remember what Mary was. But we had pictures taken and I remember we had little mini cauldrons and we thought we were making spells and it was just so magical.
I do remember you're kind of wistful.
[00:27:47] Speaker B: For those days, aren't you? Because wistful, I think parents, in the olden days, they didn't have supermarkets filled with generic costumes.
[00:27:56] Speaker A: Mum made everything, make everything. Mum sewed on, like pompoms for Katie's cattail and ears and all the rest.
[00:28:02] Speaker B: And they didn't Amazon some white face makeup, they got some bloody flour out. That's so true.
Whack some flour on your face. Done. Ghost.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Exactly. So, anyway, I think it's appropriate now to end with a little spooky story to see you off.
[00:28:20] Speaker B: Very good. Right, have we got a jingle for this. I think I'm setting you a little challenge.
[00:28:25] Speaker A: No, we have got a jingle for this.
[00:28:27] Speaker B: Have we?
[00:28:27] Speaker A: Yeah, we've got a jingle story. Jingle for scary stories. I've had it for ages.
[00:28:32] Speaker B: All right. Don't lose your shit.
[00:28:33] Speaker A: Well, I'm not losing my shit. It's just that you never want me to do a scary story. So it's bloody Halloween and you're having a scary story, mate. Roll the jingle now. This is quite an incredible tale. I hope it's not too scary. I still want you to be sleep at night and in the morning.
Okay, so this story, I've actually pilfered it from Reddit, which is a great source of interesting facts. This is a scary story submitted by somebody called Scoop, whoop. Enjoy.
When my sister Betsy and I were kids, our family lived for a while in a charming old farmhouse. We loved exploring its dusty corners and climbing the apple tree in the backyard. But our favorite thing was the ghost.
[00:29:32] Speaker B: Sorry, favorite thing?
[00:29:34] Speaker A: Apparently.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: Oh, God.
[00:29:37] Speaker A: We called her Mother because she seemed so kind and nurturing. I wouldn't call her mother. I'd call her mother.
[00:29:47] Speaker B: There's our ghost mother.
[00:29:51] Speaker A: Some mornings, Betsy and I would wake up and on each of our nightstands, we'd find a cup that hadn't been there the night before.
What?
Mother had left them there? Mother worried that we'd get thirsty during the night. She just wanted to take care of us. Sure about that? Among the home's original furnishings was an antique wooden chair which we kept against the back wall of the living room. Whenever we were preoccupied watching TV or playing a game, mother would inch that chair forward across the room towards us. Sometimes she'd managed to move it all the way to the center of the room. We always felt kind of sad putting it back against the wall. Mother just wanted to be near us. Years later, long after we'd moved out, I found an old newspaper article about the farmhouse's original.
[00:30:42] Speaker B: Occupant, was it?
[00:30:43] Speaker A: Here we go.
Here we go. A widow, she'd murdered her two children by giving them each a cup of poisoned milk before bed. And then she hung herself. The article included a photograph of the farmhouse's living room with a woman's body hanging from a beam beneath her. Knocked over was that old wooden chair placed exactly in the center of the room.
My God.
[00:31:11] Speaker B: I could tell straight away when you said, oh, we were friends with this character called the Mother at the end, she wasn't going to be very nice.
[00:31:19] Speaker A: Well, I don't know whether she was nice. I mean, she might have been nice. We don't know the situation in why she felt she had to hang herself.
[00:31:26] Speaker B: But poisony milky People are very nice. Are they?
[00:31:29] Speaker A: Poisony milky people.
Anyway, so that's our spooky episode for you this week.
[00:31:38] Speaker B: I liked it. It was a good one.
[00:31:39] Speaker A: I think we've done quite well there.
[00:31:40] Speaker B: It's very good. So enjoy yourself. Get as much candy as you can, and if you can't, then just stay carb free, like us.
[00:31:48] Speaker A: Look after your doorbells and we'll see you next week.
[00:31:50] Speaker B: We shall see you soon.
[00:31:51] Speaker A: Bye bye.
[00:31:58] Speaker B: That was a good episode, wasn't it?
[00:31:59] Speaker A: I loved it.
[00:32:00] Speaker B: And I think both between us, we have every trick or treat in the book.
[00:32:05] Speaker A: Very good.
[00:32:05] Speaker B: But you do look very nice.
[00:32:06] Speaker A: Thanks.
[00:32:07] Speaker B: You do look very nice.
[00:32:08] Speaker A: I tried to be a bit sexy.
[00:32:09] Speaker B: Even though I couldn't scare less about your costume.
Oh, I'm so hungry. I'm going to go grab some fruit. My favorite fruit, blood orange.
[00:32:19] Speaker A: Oh, a bit weak, that one.
[00:32:21] Speaker B: You could say right at the end. Anyway, creep, it real.
[00:32:23] Speaker A: Okay, but I said that at the beginning.
[00:32:25] Speaker B: Okay. All right. Don't do that. What are you scorpio? Yeah, because I must go and see what my horror scope is.
[00:32:32] Speaker A: I'm going to kick you in the goolies.
