Oh hey, it's your friend who's at the mall and texts you photos of jeans that cannot possibly be the new thing.

Please tell me how I wasted a bit of no pockets, isn't it?

Please, Ali worked back with another episode of Ovalogies. We're just leaning into this season.

Crunchy leaves, wood smoke, scarves, glowy little lights in the darkness.

This episode, pumpkins. If pumpkins were a person, I'd be down to be the roommate.

They seem chill, they seem friendly, they seem down for a good time.

Like, they would come in clutch with a pep talk when you need it.

Pumpkins seem like totally not assholes.

But before we get into it, let me thank all the folks at Patreon.com slash allergies for supporting the podcast.

Thanks to everyone wearing allergies merch from allergiesmerch.com.

Thanks to all the folks, of course, who are just destroying that subscribe button and rating the show and

keeping it up in the charts. And of course, you brave souls who submit a review because you know I care and I pick out a new one each week, such as,

for example, Alchemist 1987, 2013, says,

Dad Ward is like your long-lost best friend from kindergarten.

You know the one you would sneak off to the playground with and turn over rocks by the pond.

I have rebelled against the podcast culture since it's very inception,

but it's just not possible to not enjoy this podcast. Alchemist, thank you so much.

Let's get into it. Let's turn over the rock that is Cucarpatology.

Okay, what in the David S. pumpkins is this word?

David pumpkins? I mean, are we supposed to know who that is?

I know you have questions. Okay, I looked it up. Cucarpatology comes from the Latin for Gord.

And yes, Cucarpatology looks like cucumbers because they're related.

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