Hey, goblins and ghouls.

Happy Halloween from the Macquarie.

I'm a great podcast.

I'm here with Nick Houseman.

Nick, you and I were talking before we started recording this thing about big candy.

I dropped about $80 on candy yesterday.

I still don't think it's enough.

It's out of control.

We need to do something about it.

Well, I guess I'm going to be, you're getting me prepared. I have to go to this tour today. Maybe there won't be any candy left to buy that, no idea. Is that, was that a feeling for you? It looked, it looked like peak pandemic levels of empty shelves with candy. Big candy's out of control. I'm sorry, listen, I'm a candy fanatic. I love chocolate. I love fruit candy. I love it all. I'm an equal opportunity candy enthusiast, but even I have to admit that there's a problem. Well, it's just, this would be my chance to say that I think something like Skittles should be eradicated from the, I'm going to be honest with you. There are some things that you and I disagree on. and, and, you know, it's, it's coming to the forefront here and there when we're talking about current politics. But man, your candy takes are god awful. When you, it crunches and it becomes this little granular, like you're biting sand. I don't understand what's, Nick, I just want to bring the new muckrake podcast listeners up to speed in case they didn't know this.

Nick Housselman was the one who once said on a live show, I've never had a Reese's peanut

butter cup.

And then we made you eat a Reese's peanut butter cup and you said, ah, it's fine.

Your candy takes are garbage.

I'm sorry.

Well, um, what's a good candy to you? Oh, Snickers is the best candy. Snickers is that, it's a good candy. Leslie's Crunch. Nestle's Crunch is a decent candy. You know, I don't know. What else? I don't eat a ton of that stuff. So it's like, even growing up when I drank Coke for breakfast, I didn't do like, you know, much more than like Snickers, I suppose.

Now you're talking the song of my people, drinking, uh, drinking Coke and, and, and, and, and, and soda for breakfast. Out of a bottle, like the tall bottle. Yeah, absolutely. Um, well, I'll tell you what, I, I, I enjoy Halloween. I hope you're enjoying Halloween, starting it with us. I mean, why not? We scare the living shit out of you all the time.

Nick, I'll tell you somebody who isn't having a good Halloween. That's right. It's the former

vice president of the United States of America, the former governor of Indiana. Mike Pence has

suspended his campaign for the presidency. Let's hear it from the man himself.

I'm traveling across the country over the past six months.

I came here to say it's become clear to me.

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