Fri. 10/28 - Best Of: Candy Corn, Witches, & Spine-Tingling Music

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In our first-ever "Best Of" episode, we look back at the history of candy corn. How did this contentious candy come to be, why does it persist when so many people hate it, and does it really contain bug secretions? Plus, a segment from 2020, were witches back in the day really mixing tongues and eyeballs into their brews? Here’s what ingredients like “eye of newt” actually meant. And finally, from last year, a survey of witchy and chilling music—from psychedelic countercultural witch music in the 1960s to more recent tracks that have been scientifically proven to make your spine tingle. Sponsors: American Musical Supply, Use code COOL at https://ter.li/AmericanMusicalSupply-COOL for $20 off your next purchase of over $100 Indeed, Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Wed. 10/13 - Who's To Blame For Candy Corn? (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Why Is Candy Corn the Most Hated Halloween Candy? (Eater) Episode Three - Satan's Earwax (Preserve Halloween Podcast) Where Our Love/Hate Relationship With Candy Corn Comes From (The Atlantic) The Saccharine History of Candy Corn (National Geographic) Why Brach's Turkey Dinner Candy Corn Might Taste Different This Year (Mashed) All About Candy Corn (National Confectioners Association) What To Know About Confectioner's Glaze (Taste for Life) Why is there shellac in my chocolate mints? (McGill) How Candy Corn is Made | Unwrapped (Food Network, YouTube) Fri. 10/02 - Witchy Ingredients Aren't What They Seem (Cool Stuff Ride Home) Please Pass Me The Eye Of Newt; What's Really In That Witch's Cauldron (Dave’s Garden) Mon. 10/25 - Music That Gives You Chills, and Why It Does (Cool Stuff Ride Home) 13 Vintage Halloween Songs from the 1910's, 20's, & 30's (History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday, YouTube) A Look Back at America's Psychedelic Countercultural Witch Music (Atlas Obscura) The Munsters - At Home With The Munsters - Vinyl LP (Rough Trade) Researchers analyzed 700-plus songs known to give people chills. Here’s the playlist (Quartz) Songs To Give You Chills playlist (Quartz, Spotify) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	it's friday october 28th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, we're doing something a little different.
0:44.6	So, this show recently hit the very spooky milestone of 666 episodes. Apart from being a totally
0:54.0	gobsmacking indicator of the passage of time,
0:57.0	that means we've got a pretty enormous backlog. And I know from messages that I get from
1:02.9	some of you that you listen to old episodes every now and then or have started the show at the
1:07.6	very beginning and are working your way up. But for those of you who joined more recently, or have listened every day for years,
1:14.5	but like me tend to forget episodes pretty quickly after they air,
1:18.3	I thought that I would re-air some of my favorite segments from the vault.
1:23.9	The history of Halloween, if you haven't picked up on it, is one of my favorite topics.
1:29.1	So, of course, I have written a lot about it on this show.
1:32.7	And given that it is Halloween weekend, I wanted to share a few of my favorite segments that
1:37.9	I've done over the last two and a half years on Halloween history.
1:42.3	So first, from 2021, we've got the history of candy corn.
1:47.4	How did this contentious candy come to be?
1:50.7	Why does it persist when so many people hate it?
1:54.0	And does it really contain bug secretions?
1:56.8	Plus, a segment from 2020, were witches back in the day really mixing tongues and eyeballs into their bruise?
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