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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia.

And this is the beginning of the spookiest 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 are culminating. It's like tomato season, which we just finished. Like,

spooky season, we are, we are nearing peak. Yeah, no, 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 palate kind of situation. And this one, this is the

full gravy, the Sunday sauce of the of the scary season. Love it. Amanda, if you, I know like October is the spookiest month by far.

Do you think there'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 and the darkness is endless at that point.

That is just the one thing that 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, oh, okay, March. Like, stuff is growing, even if they're still, you know,

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