Hello, everybody. Welcome to another episode with a crime and coffee couple. My name's Allison.

And my name's Mike. Hi, Mike. Hey, Al, how are you? I'm doing pretty good. How are you?

Oh, great, great. I'm just excited. The spooky season is officially over. I am not a huge fan, as I've probably told you a million times by now.

Oh, you have. You've hammered it into all of our heads.

You don't like Halloween.

I just don't know why people would want to feel scared.

Like we were walking our dog, this little dog right here, if you're watching on YouTube,

a little poppy over here.

And we're walking by some skeletons and somebody has like a dismembered body

hanging from their ceiling or their roof. And I was like, this is like celebrating like horrible

things. Like what this is like if we had a holiday like celebrating cancer. Like why would

were car crashes. Like why would we do that? We're all going to die. We're all going to die. We're

doing a true crime podcast. It's fun to be spooked. It's fun to be scared.

It's, I do, yeah, different. Embrace it. I'm not against it. If people love it, go for it. I'm just saying it's not my thing. And that's okay. What is your thing, Mike? My thing is Christmas. folks yesterday was November 1st we're recording this a day early and um Mike's like so I think we should

use this weekend to decorate for Christmas I was like is that crazy it would be the earliest we've

ever done yeah it's going earlier every year and I was just like we have that one of the projectors

outside for our you know the Halloween decorations Halloween decorations. It had like little,

um,

ghosts going all over our house and stuff.

And I wanted to switch out the slide with like,

uh,

well,

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