Welcome to Spirits Podcast episode 62.2. What the fuck Eric is missing? It's a catchy title. Also, it's what's happening. It's an emergency episode.

So Conspirators, if you've been listening, you know that our lovely producer and editor Eric is missing. He kind of got stolen.

By a ghost? An apparition. The spirit.

I like the name of your podcast. Ha! I like it.

And that is our emergency guest for our emergency episode, Dr. Conway Halstrom,

doctor of ectoplasmology, specializing in interdimensional doors.

I think I said that all correctly.

Dr. Halstrom, it is a pleasure, I guess.

Happy to be here. Ordinarily, when we have a guest on, they bring their expertise or, like, their own

myths that they've experienced, their own urban legends.

And we would love if you could actually start out by telling us about your scholarship

and your research.

And please bring our bearded friend back.

We miss him.

We miss him so much.

Julia, come on, we still need to, like, run the show from entertainment, you know, listeners, stuff like that. A ghost stole our boy.

Stole.

Yes, that is a good way to phrase it.

Oh, okay.

Well, first things first, here is what we know, Doctor.

We were recording the show, like always.

We got a haunted Google Drive document, and then poof, he was just gone.

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