What Fresh Hell is Halloween?

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What Fresh Hell: Laughing in the Face of Motherhood

Kids & Family, Comedy, Parenting

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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How has Halloween become a days-long, massively involved and expensive holiday? What happened to the good old days of stumbling around the neighborhood in a Barbie mask you could barely breathe in with a pillowcase full of candy? Here's how Halloween went from just spooky to spooky consumerist. Amy and Margaret discuss: How Halloween has lost its truly spooky nature over the years The origins of the Switch Witch Their favorite Halloween costumes growing up Here are links to some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Paige Pickett for Kids Out and About: Mom Saves Halloween for her Son with the Switch Witch Primary Kids' Costumes Melissa Willets for Parents Magazine: Is the Switch Witch Brewing Up Some Controversy This Halloween? Maura Judkis for Boston.com: With huge skeletons, the yard-decorating arms race heats up Lori Ferraro for LikeTotally80s.com: The Mask Makes It - Halloween Costumes of the 1980s National Retail Federation: Halloween Spending to Reach Record $12.2 Billion as Participation Exceeds Pre-Pandemic Levels Kurt Andersen: FANTASYLAND - How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History Marianna Cerini for CNN Style: From pagan spirits to Wonder Woman: A brief history of the Halloween costume Charles Moss for Slate: How Ben Cooper Changed Halloween Forever We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on our website: https://www.whatfreshhellpodcast.com/p/promo-codes/ mom friends, funny moms, parenting advice, parenting experts, parenting tips, mothers, families, parenting skills, parenting strategies, parenting styles, busy moms, self-help for moms, manage kid’s behavior, teenager, tween, child development, family activities, family fun, parent child relationship, decluttering, kid-friendly, invisible workload, default parent, parental stress, kids stress, Halloween, Halloween costumes, kids Halloween costumes, Halloween costume ideas, kids Halloween costume ideas Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We are so into laughing while learning around here and if you love what fresh hell, then we know another
0:06.1	podcast you'll also love Stroller Coaster. Stroller Coaster is hosted by Lynn Smith, a mom and a former news anchor for NBC and co-hosted by an improv
0:16.2	comedian. It's a place to be entertained, laugh over crazy parenting moments, and learn something new.
0:22.0	This season, Stroller Coaster is tackling all kinds of topics from staying connected with our kids once they're in daycare in school to practicing patients to the process of making friends with other parents.
0:33.2	We really like Stroller Coaster because we think it nails the sweet spot between funny and informative
0:38.6	that makes in our opinion a great podcast. Lots of useful takeaways friends not to mention Stroller
0:44.2	Coaster was voted best branded podcast 2024 by Digi. Stroller Coaster is
0:49.6	created by Munchkin the most loved baby lifestyle brand in the world.
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1:05.0	It wasn't like six million dollar man was like a picture of a suit which feels like it would have made more sense.
1:11.0	What fresh hell? Laughing in the face of motherhood.
1:15.0	Teenagers have to step out and postage stamp, you know, hamburgler costumes, sexy
1:19.6	hamburgler. It's, I hate it. With Margaret Ables and Amy Wilson. Our cats would eat our faces off if we try to put them in a
1:26.5	costume so I don't have to worry about that. A podcast that solves today's parenting
1:31.2	dilemmas so you don't have to.
1:33.6	Pop a collar in your Dracula,
1:35.0	you know, if you had to work with what you had
1:37.0	and you had to be something spooky
1:38.6	and anonymous would be better. Hello everyone and welcome to what fresh hell laughing in the face of
1:49.5	motherhood this is Margaret and this is Amy and this week a very important episode. What fresh hell is Halloween? Oh
1:56.2	What the heck you guys? It's here. It's here and we have to do it.
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