Hello, my dear friends, and thank you for listening to the Dunkin' Trustle Family

Hour podcast on this spooky Halloween week, if that's when you happen to be listening

to it.

For those of you who are catching up in some point in the future, today is October 28th.

And we are only a few days away from all Hallows Eve when the veil that separates us from

the world of the spirits is the most thin, according to the ancient pagans who are burnt

at the cross and burnt at stakes by the patriarchal Europeans who were so terrified of planet

earth and anyone who was remotely connected to the ebbs and floats of the seasons was

beheaded, tortured, tormented, drowned, ignited, and generally treated like an old piece of pre-beef

jerky.

But now this holiday, like so many other holidays, has been transformed into a time when

we dress in weird costumes and go out and get drunk, not really understanding that Halloween

was supposed to symbolize the way our meat bodies are costumes for the eternal soul.

And that by wearing a costume of some other thing, it's an acknowledgement of the fact

that all we are is, as Rhonda says, God in drag, prading around in these stupid meaty,

bristle things and pretending to be a human being who is engaged in some long-running game

that we call our career.

If you notice any kind of sound difference in this podcast, it's because I'm using

an Alan and Heath, Z10, a soundboard that was given to me by Dr. Christopher Ryan, who

just mailed it to me, which is very sweet because it, I think the sound is probably a

million times better than what it was before.

But you guys let me know, and if you think it's better and you like it, send Dr. Chris

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