Just a quick heads up, this episode contains explicit language.

The end of the year brings holiday music, Valentine's Day brings love songs,

but the approach of Halloween and Dia de Muertos means it is time for spooky music.

So we asked our pals at Alt Latino to help us out with some seasonal song selections.

I'm Stephen Thompson, today we are talking about spooky season songs on

pop culture happy hour from NPR.

Joining me today are two of our friends from the podcast Alt Latino from NPR Music,

hosts Anamaria Sair and Felix Contreras, Hey Anamaria and Hey Felix!

Hey how's it going? What's happening Stephen?

It is great to have you both, so it is October, which means we are firmly in the grip of spooky

season. Maybe you've changed your Twitter name to something scary, maybe you've

flopped down hundreds of dollars for those giant 12-foot skeletons,

or maybe you like me have gotten a jumpstart on Halloween by buying and eating a giant bag of

Kit Kat bars. There are so many ways to celebrate. We thought we would focus this episode on

songs. Anamaria, let's start with you. Give me a song for spooky season.

Don't you mean spooky season, Stephen?

I'm like, cut the tape, let's just celebrate with Stephen's style and we can all go eat a

big bag of Kit Kat's together. Felix and I are notorious for bringing ghosts into a lot of

conversations. Anytime we talk to a different show or different people, we're like, wouldn't

it be cool to do ghost stories? That would be awesome, right? We're all about the scary spooky

songs. First pick, we went so classic. For those of you out there who, I'm sure many of you know

it, love it, La Yorona. It is just one of the most classic spooky songs you can have. It's like

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