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Welcome to Spirits Podcast, a bluesy diamond to mythology, legends,

and folklore, every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world.

I'm Amanda, and I'm Julia, and this is the beginning of the spooky month of the year,

Julia. It's October. We are kicking off what is certainly my favorite month of the year,

and I know is yours. It's not just because it's your birthday, not just because it's Halloween.

I think it's just the general vibes. The vibes are culminating. It's like tomato season,

which we just finished. Like spooky season, we are we are nearing peak. Yeah, now I really love

spooky season. For me, spooky season, I think we've talked about this before, starts with the day

after Labor Day and kind of slow rolls into October. So I think that our hometown urban legends

episode that came out in September was like a nice little appetizer, a little like wet your palette

kind of situation, and this one, this is the full gravy, the the Sunday sauce of the of the scary

season. Love it. I mean, if you I know like October is the spookiest month by far, do you think

that's another month that really like competes with the spookiest month, or you think that it's just

like it's just October. There's no other attempts at it. You know, I would say for kind of like

seasonal depression reasons, it's February, at least here in the northern hemisphere, because you

know, it feels like the winter in the darkness is endless at that point. That is just the one thing

slightly concerns me. And I do have my birthday at the end of the month, three out of every four

years. It is the last day of February. So it's something I can look forward to. And even more than

it being my birthday, then it's like, okay, March, like stuff is growing, even if they're still, you

know, free snowstorms or cold snaps. But that that would be my guess. Like it's spooky in a in a

negative way. I don't love those kind of, you know, eight hours a day light type days. Yeah,

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