Pen Pals Podcast - Jason Sklar | RE: Halloween Costumes
The Midnight Air
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4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Dear Pennies and Pallers,
We got a brand new episode for you today with a new guest host and pal, Jason Sklar! In today’s Clifton asks us about our favorite portmanteau halloween costume ideas. We also go off topic and talk about brioche, Jason’s running joke with his kids, single parenting, and more!
We wish you well, sincerely,
Your Pen Pals,
Daniel Van Kirk and Jason Sklar
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to be my friend, you had better go and get our pen. |
| 0:05.0 | And maybe we could keep in touch like they did in the old days. |
| 0:10.0 | It wasn't so long ago. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, and I wish you well. |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, oh, sign your pen pal. |
| 0:25.7 | Hey, pen pals. |
| 0:26.9 | It's me, Daniel Van Kirk. |
| 0:28.6 | So glad that you are here, hoping that you're having a great fall. |
| 0:33.8 | I spent some time up at my cabin recently soaking up the last few drops of summer because it was like oddly warm up there. |
| 0:42.8 | But fall is one of my favorite times of year because Halloween is one of my favorite times of year. |
| 0:47.4 | I just love spooky season. |
| 0:49.6 | And that's going to have to do with the letter that we have today with the great Jason Sclarb. |
| 0:54.0 | And also I have just a letter for us, just for you guys. Thank you. that's going to have to do with the letter that we have today with the great Jason Sclarb. |
| 1:00.7 | And also, I have just a letter for us, just for you guys, that was given to me when I was doing a show up in Portland. I'll read that in a second. First, I want to tell you where you can find |
| 1:05.7 | me if you want to come out to a show, or maybe you're're already nearby and it's not that hard for you to |
| 1:11.2 | come out i will be in st louis for the flyover comedy festival i will be there the 13th 14th and |
| 1:19.1 | 15th doing stand-up and on the 16th a live dumb people town with our pen pal one of my best friends |
| 1:27.1 | rory schovel live dumb people People Town with Rory Scoval. |
| 1:31.3 | If you're a Dumb People Town listener, we have these crazy stories that we only do it live |
| 1:35.9 | episodes called Greenleys. It's an insane, dumb news story that is even made more dumb by the person |
| 1:42.1 | who writes it. If you get what I'm saying, you'll get it. |
| 1:44.7 | If you don't get what I'm saying, I promise it's fun. |
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