Hi everyone, I'm Joanna.

And I'm Jenny.

And this is hyphenated, the podcast about living in the hyphen.

And we are in spooky season.

I feel like spooky season is your favorite season. No shit. You're wearing a literal ghost

sweater right now. You know, I do appreciate how on brand you are and continue to be.

Mehta. Again, I got married on Halloween. My birthday is the day before Halloween.

Love this. I do. I've always loved Halloween in the sense that I like dressing up, but I was a very,

very easily frightened child, and I was incredibly gullible. And I believed absolutely every ghost story

anyone ever told me, even like terribly told ones like

i had i had an older friend that was like yeah there's definitely a monster in my closet and i

100% believed it for like five years and there was like not even it's really funny it's not even a

story involved it was just like these are facts of There's a, there's a horrific thing in

this closet, and if you enter, you will die. And I'm like, that makes sense. That's, that makes

sense to me. I, I, I, I, I believe it. Like, I was, I had no discerning qualities. Could not discern

whether something was believable or not. So, spooky season was an incredibly scary season for me.

Like literally scary.

There was no, there was more tricks than treats.

There was more tricks than treats.

And I think I have a theory about this of myself

because I feel like growing up,

I lived obviously sometime in the States,

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