Hi everybody and welcome to scary stories to tell on the pod, a podcast all about scary stories, urban legends, and spooky things you tell us about.

And while we don't have our beloved co-host Anna Dresden here today, we do have a special guest also named Anna.

She's a TV writer and dear friend. It's Anna Thorup. Hello. Thank you for having me.

Of course, I'm so thrilled to have you here today. And Anna, I want to be clear that when I asked you

to guest on the pod, you very quickly pointed out that spooky stuff is not your typical forte that you

immerse yourself.

Yes, I very quickly asked if you, like how scared should I plan to be with this?

And you assured me that I would not be scared.

Yeah.

The amount of internal scares in the pod are very minimal.

Yeah, we'll see. Yeah, the amount of scares we're putting out are very minimal. Yeah, we'll see.

Yeah, the amount of scares we're putting out are also pretty minimal as well.

But I feel like I should note that despite you saying that you're not so much into scary things,

you wrote on a show that just being in proximity to you, already my niece's nephews, you were

and made your street crib with them.

You were right around Monsters High.

It was.

Yeah, boarding school of Monsters.

I've always been, I feel like as a kid, if I was young when Monstrous High came out, it

would have really begun the conversation around

gender norms and like boys getting dolls. Because I, as a Dide in the Wool Universal Monsters fan,

having like cool teens embody them feels like so deeply up my alley. Yeah, they're hip. They're dating and they're monsters.

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