Hello everyone. Welcome back to another episode with the crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison. And my name, as always, is Mike. Hello, Mike. Actually, it's just Mike. Not that's always as Mike, but it's Mike. Just Mike. Yeah, we are a wife and husband. I'm the husband. She's a wife. Yeah. And we call ourselves Ma and Pa. I'm Pa. And I'm Ma. Yeah. We're just a little mom and pa podcast and we're independent. We don't have a huge network. You know, we're just trying to struggle through this life just like everybody else. And, you know, hopefully bring you some entertainment and some horrible, horrible stories every single week. Every single Sunday, a free episode, and then Wednesday bonus episodes. That's absolutely right. I have no idea about the story you're about telling me besides the name because I wanted to write it down beforehand.

And then I get into it and we ask some questions and we have a good time. So please join us. And you are right now. So thank you. Grab your cup of coffee. Join us. We've got our podcast studio set up for Halloween. If you're watching this on YouTube. This is our new co-host. We have a skeleton sitting behind us, and his name is Charles.

Look, if I jiggle him a little bit, it looks like he's waving.

He's like, hey.

I just want to make sure it's not like an inappropriate gesture. So he's definitely waving saying hello. That's what he's doing. He's saying, hi, guys. Yeah, he's like, hey, I'm Charles. And earlier this month, speaking of things that you're naming,

we're putting up our Halloween decorations,

and we put up a big spider in a web.

And if anybody could guess what the spider's name in the web is, then we will not give you any money whatsoever. It's a female. It's a female. It kind of sounds like Charles. Yes, it sure sounds like Charles. And it is. Charlotte. Yeah, it was very imaginative. I'm very priority for coming up with that name. Well, in my defense, when I named the spider, it was later

at night. The mosquitoes were absolutely devouring me. I was tired and I was just like, oh, hello, Charlotte. So you were knackered. I was knackered. I was shattered. Shattered as our UK folks would say. So I wasn't thinking on my, you know, best two feet. And I wasn't in any sort of mood to be putting up Halloween decorations when we did that. No. And so I guess the point is, if you think of a better name for our spider, you can tell me. I like to just make fun of things and not have any solutions. And when I'm at work, I do the same thing to my bosses, just like complain about everything. They love it. They absolutely love it.

I'm being completely sarcastic. That's not a good way to go about it. And the one time it makes me think of we got these, uh, photos for our bathroom just to decorate the wall because it was this big wide open space. And I got these pictures of this black cat that was like, wide open spaces. Sorry. Go ahead. room to make a big mess.

I didn't mean, I did mean to cut you off.

I had to get it out there.

Sorry.

So. cat that was like... Wide open spaces. Sorry, go ahead. Room to make a big mistake.

I didn't mean, I did mean to cut you off. I had to get it out there. Sorry. So I got the silly artwork from Marshalls. It was inexpensive. I put it up and Mike's like, I don't like that. I like something different. I'm like, okay, once you find that something different, you can put it up on the wall and take that off. And in the meantime, that was about five years ago.

Yeah, I looked for a good 30 to 40 seconds.

And I couldn't find anything I liked, so I decided that's fine.

In other news, we live with two teenagers.

One's a boy.

One's a girl.

And the boy oftentimes throws us for a loop.

And he came home from school the other day.

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