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Well, it's Jackson Bird, it's YouTuber, author, and host of the podcast, Cool Stuff Ride Home. Thank you for having me. Hi, everyone. I feel like it's been a little literal years since we hung out. Literal years. Which to be fair is kind of, yeah, true, true of a lot of people hung out. What is everybody's favorite thing to get, trick-or-treating? I have a child, so I still get to get some candy.

Wait, it's when it's trick-or-treating time. Because he has to pay taxes. Oh. He ties to the green family. Yeah. I do also get the cast-offs, but they're not necessarily the best. Also, maybe now, but in previous years, he definitely had no idea of, like, day-to-day, what was left of what he had. Oh, he wasn't, like, I counted. And I had eight Snickers, no, yeah, no. A weak object permanence. Yeah, exactly. Those days are going to be limited.

Do we have any favorites? I do, like, a three-musketeers. I like a three-musketeers. I think it's underrated. And I feel like it's a good, like, trick-or-treat Halloween one, like, the little snack size, you know? That's, like, perfect bite of it. Yeah. Like, if I went a whole candy bar, I kind of want to Snickers, but a little one, I could do it with three-musketeers, and I would be very happy. When you're a kid, you're like, oh, fun-size, what a rip-off. Then when you're like, you're solely like, oh, I can't afford my own candy bars. But then now that we're grown-ups, fun-size is about

all I can handle of any candy bar, really. Yeah, like, yeah, I need a fun-size coke. I can't take into a full, full pool. I feel very uncomfortable. Even the little ones. Yeah, kind of just want one sip. Sarah, do you have a favorite? I always was really excited for a crunch bar. I think I never got them very often, but a little crisp rice and a little chocolate was just always so satisfying. Do you ever have those, like, knock-off crunch bars that are shaped, like, Halloween characters?

With the foil around them? Oh, absolutely. Yeah. I think I still love them, too. Just like, I think I really liked rice crispies, which is the core of this. I would love a bowl of rice crispies for Halloween, but with some chocolate in there. But they're not giving that out, so you have to do with what you got. Yeah. I'm a writer-dye Reese's peanut butter cup guy. You can't get it. I mean, that's a boring take, but I get it. All the different sizes, too, are just, like, delightful in their own way. The tiny ones have a great

ratio, the middle ones have a great ratio, the huge ones. And it's all different. You know what? I don't think that the ratio on the eggs is good. No, I love eggs. Yeah. There's not enough chocolate in the eggs. The eggs slash pumpkin. Like, does the pumpkin have a better ratio? It's the same way. No, it's the same way. It's too much peanut butter. I have a pumpkin one in my refrigerator. It also seems like maybe pumpkin things just sort of meander into your home. Yeah. It's a feeling I'm treating. It's a theme in my life.

I agree with all of you, but I want to pick one that's from the other category of candy. There's chocolate. Then there's sugar. Just sugar things. And the sugar thing that I loved growing up that I don't ever get anymore is the bottle caps that tastes like root beer and grape soda. Those were my jam. I don't even know where to get those. I can get it. You can get them right now. You can get a big box. You could subscribe to them on Amazon, which I want to talk to every day.

Every single person subscribed to candy bottle caps. Give me that. Jeff, I want to make a podcast. All I do is I interviewed those. They're going to be weird. I don't know anything about them, but I'm confident that they're going to be strange. I would listen to that.

We get together to try to under and discuss and horrify each other with science facts. Well, also trying to stay on topic. Our panelists are playing for gory and for candy, which we will be awarding as we play. And at the end of the episode, one of us will be crowned the king of Halloween.

And if the guest is the treat of trick-or-treat month, here's the trick. A regular panel will take turns presenting games this month and I will be playing along. Now as always, we introduced this week's topic with the traditional science poem this week from Jackson.

But pumpkin pumpkin with shell so round and bright pulpy guts, your wonders abound, whether spiced pie or jack-a-lantern, your costumes bewitch us as the leaves begin to turn from towering cucumber, but a maxima to tiny baby boo. Oh, glorious pumpkin. I love you.

It's just a, it's just a like a Shakespearean sonnet. Well, I don't know how sonnets work for polo.

Yeah, thank you. After I wrote that I was like, I might need to reevaluate my life priorities of my love of fair pumpkins. Absolutely not.

We're approaching the age in our lives where we need to pick something and be like obsessed with it for the rest of the time.

What are you picking? I think signs, like, like road signs.

Yeah, are you like this sort of like moms who buy all the signs for inside?

No, no, no.

A sign that was made to try love.

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