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主持和编辑 STAT 的生物技术播客 “The Readout LOUD”,专注于生物技术新闻和行业分析。
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Jann Arden:本期节目是庆祝播客超过100集的特别节目,分享了三位主持人各自的万圣节计划和童年回忆,包括 trick-or-treating 的经历、收到的各种糖果、以及对恐怖电影的不同看法。Jann Arden 回忆了童年时期在乡下 trick-or-treating 的经历,以及对万圣节糖果安全问题的担忧;分享了以前万圣节装扮的趣事,并表达了对恐怖电影的恐惧,列举了一些让她感到害怕的电影,例如《午夜凶铃》、《仲夏夜惊魂》、《遗传厄运》等,同时也提到了一些她喜欢的电影,例如《逃出绝命镇》、《闪灵》等。 Caitlin:分享了今年万圣节的计划,包括装扮成电影《贱女孩》中的Damien,以及与朋友一起过万圣节的轻松计划。她还分享了以前万圣节装扮的趣事,包括穿着睡袋参加派对的经历。Caitlin 还分享了一个关于孩子万圣节服装的有趣故事,以及对万圣节服装实用性的看法。 Adam:分享了万圣节计划,包括和家人一起 trick-or-treating,以及对孩子们万圣节糖果分配方式的看法。Adam 还分享了童年时期 trick-or-treating 的经历,以及对万圣节糖果安全问题的看法。

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The hosts discuss their Halloween plans, including dressing up as memes at work, attending cozy gatherings, and reminiscing about past costumes.

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So this is a little bonus content for you guys because we are celebrating doing over 100 episodes of the Jan Arden podcast.

So Adam and Caitlin, as we anticipate on this hallowed pre-Eve celebration, what are your Halloween plans? Are you getting dressed up? Do you guys go to parties? Have you bought 70,000 pounds of candy from Costco for children? What's happening? I'm doing nothing. I'm shutting my lights off and I'm crawling around on the floor in my stomach to make sure nobody knows that I'm here.

I will be dressing up for mostly for work because that is something that we've already done. And we decided that this year on the station we were going to do, I thought of happy hallow meme, like memes. So we all dressed up as sort of recognizable memes. And I dressed up as for anyone who's a fan of the movie, mean girls, the character Damien, who's known for wearing the,

Oh, yeah. Purple sweatshirt. And it became this like iconic she doesn't even go here moment where he wears sunglasses. So I dress up as Damien from Mean Girls. But other than that, no, I think I've grown out of going to like a big boisterous Halloween party where I dress up and a bunch of people are dressed as, you know, the nurses. Yeah.

Yeah, like that stuff's kind of over for me. So my plan will be on Sunday on actual Halloween, go over to a friend's house. He has a really nice house and I'm sure some trick-or-treaters will come by. We'll do a bit of pumpkin carving. I think we might make a stew and watch a scary movie, but it's more of a cozy vibe than it is like party vibe because those days for me are over.

But I used to do Halloween out big and just get problematically intoxicated and dress up as Slash from Guns N' Roses. One year I got really lazy and this happened. It was a Halloween. I was going to a keg party in university and every other girl it felt like was dressed up as something very scandalous and attractive. And I mailed my costume in and got an old sleeping bag and cut arm and leg holes in it and I went as a sleeping bag.

I love that. I love that. You're my kind of Halloween person. I always was so envious of the women that took the opportunity to literally be a Playboy bunny or a sexy waitress or a nurse with, you know, just a hat with a red cross on it and a stethoscope around their bathing suit neck.

And, you know, I just could never have pulled that off, even if I wanted to. But, yeah, Adam, you've got small kids, so this is a perfect excuse for you to dress up. They're extra excited this year because last year, while we sort of semi-celebrated,

we didn't really do Halloween last year. We didn't do full on trick or treating. So the girls are very excited this year. I'm not a big dresser upper per se, but I'm happy to view Halloween through their eyes. So what we typically do, and we've done it for the last few years is we go to my sister-in-law's house, my wife's sister, and we order pizza and pasta from this great local place. And then we go trick or treating and then everyone comes back and dumps their candy on the floor and has at it. They have communal candy.

Like everyone dumps their stuff on the floor in their own piles. Oh, in their own piles. I'm thinking these children are very advanced. Oh no, no. In their own. There's no way I was going to be dumping. Yeah. My candy pile in with somebody else's candy pile. Oh no, no. Now is popcorn ball still a thing anywhere? Is there anybody on, on, on your street that does a popcorn ball? See that, that was a big thing for us as kids.

Like going down the street, if you got popcorn balls that were wrapped in wax paper and then twisted at the top. My God, I loved a popcorn ball. And then that's when the stuff came up about razor blades. I was just going to say. And my mom would always bust that. She'd cut them into little pieces. Yeah. But that was, I think that was such an urban myth that.

scared the crap out of all of us. I was going to say that to me was the moment when I went from being a naive child who thought that all adults were nice people who wanted to help you to know this is terrible. What's happening? Why would anyone want to put a razor blade in an apple and then give it to you at Halloween? And I don't know if Adam, did you ever have a safe, did you have like a safety meeting? We had like Elmer, the safety elephant that came around to our primary school. There was a whole, there was a whole, it was like an animatronic safety elephant that

that came around and we had to have a special session with Elmer one year about Halloween. And it was like, sometimes people want to put bad things in your treats. And I just thought, what is happening to the world? I know as a kid, as a kid, I thought like, okay, all my candy is going to have razor blades in it now. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, I mean, talk about your innocence being ripped away in a single moment when you have an animatronic elephant coming to your school in a foreboding voice telling you to, you know, cut your candy into very small pieces. I know. Yeah, I just, I think I've talked about it once before. I've had kids here once at my gate and

But generally nobody comes down these country roads. But when I was a kid, kid living out here, my pals Leonard and Dale and I, we had to walk like a good half mile in between houses to get stuff. And you'd stand there on their back stoop and eat a lemon tart because a woman would hand you a lemon tart. It's like, how in the F is this going to go into my bag?

I can't put a fucking tart into my bag. I have to stand here and eat it. This was my question. So you guys would do the like country road walk. Your parents didn't drive you into a city area and you went door to door. But I know people do that now. I know they go into the city. They find the fancy streets where there's lights everywhere. And it's, it's almost like Christmassy Halloween. Oh yeah. And you, you get, you get the stuff, but no, we just wandered around.

In the pitch black. Always in the pitch black, sometimes in the rain. And we made our way over to the rich part of our neighborhood. So you start at the mid range, you go on your way, you get the little candy, small candies, the regular size Halloween candies. And we would end the night off at the pocket of rich houses that went all out on Halloween. And they were giving out full size candy bars, full size pops. And at that, at that point you have a back injury as your candy bag is heavier than you are. And,

and you're dragging your princess cape home in the wet rain and you're just so thrilled that you have all these full-size candy bars. Didn't you guys do pillowcases? We took a king-size pillowcase. That's smart, but no we didn't. We had nothing in it. That made it even more pathetic. There'd be one little corner.

With like one of those kisses with the little black cat on it. Oh my gosh. Adam, can you add the sound of the world's saddest violin to this part? I'm just imagining you with a molasses candy eating a lemon tart on someone's back porch. And a rocket and a...

I don't know. I remember one year getting corn nuts, like a little bag of corn nuts. I'm like, I don't want a corn nut. That's not for kids. That's for barflies. I don't think people didn't understand Halloween out here. And I just, I don't know. And then sing something. What do you,

what do you mean? But just the three of you sing, sing something, you three. So if you stand there and we always sang old Canada or happy birthday, and then we'd get something. I left a few of those places. There was one year when I felt like a whole street decided they were going to really lean into the make a kid instead of treat. Yeah. So you get there. I didn't even,

know that it was an option and I remember the year that I went with friends and we knocked on the door trick or treat and then this whole street decided to be real Weisenheimers and they all decided to say oh trick I was like haha good one where's the Kit Kat and they were like no trick you said trick or treat now you have to give us a trick and some weird adult who's like poorly socialized is standing there expecting you to come up with a song and again anti-social me I was like I'm out

I'm going to go. Next house has Kit Kats. I'm out of here. The worst was on a cold, cold Halloween night.

If you had to wear a winter jacket, like one year, I remember I was all dressed up as Darth Vader. And my mom's like, you got to wear a winter coat. It's too cold. I'm like, Darth Vader doesn't wear a winter jacket. Like I was so upset. Yeah. Did you ever have to wear the winter jacket? And then the houses thought that you weren't actually dressed up and they'd be like, you didn't even put any effort into the costume. You had to take your winter jacket off and do a big song and dance. But well, I'm a this. And I was like, you know what? It's just no. I'm Darth Vader in a North face. Yeah. Yeah.

The neighbor kids, you know, after E.T. came out, they had they I don't know, the dad went to so much trouble to put a big box on the front of the handlebars and and to kind of put an E.T. thing in there. But the thing of it was, this kid had his mom had to walk up. I think his name was Brian, but he couldn't get off his bike.

So he was the kid riding the bike with the ET thing. And it was just too, too prohibitive to like park the bike, get off the bike, leave ET in the bike, walk up, get the candy. So his mom was going up ding dong. And she's like, my son's there. That's his costume. He just can't get off the bike. It's too hard. Oh my gosh. You know, there was a lot of, there was a lot of tears. Like I think,

It probably started out like, I'm just going to put the kickstand down, get off the bike, go get my stuff and go back. But there was a lot of upset tears and hysterics. And then the mom was like, I will go collect your candy. Yeah, that makes sense. And that's when you, you think that the, that's a costume that right now would really work for Instagram, but the logistics aren't actually complimentary to trick-or-treating itself. Yeah.

Yeah, you don't go as a washer, a stacking washer and dryer. I don't like candy. Did you guys have the UNICEF, the penny little boxes? Yeah. Yeah. I liked those as a kid. I got real competitive with that because I was like, you know what? I'm going to get all the pennies.

And I remember getting, I think I went home and emptied my penny box once and kind of went back out. And I would like, if someone gave only one penny, I was kind of like, okay, a couple more though. I wanted that full UNICEF box. It was, they did. They collected a lot of money. Kids, most kids did go around and collect that.

you know, just to get changed. That was a great idea. I liked it. Did you have any houses that scared the living crap out of you to go? We had a neighbor, like probably a block over that did dry ice and everything on their lawn. And I was literally too scared. They had tombstones, they had music going, and this would have been like the late, this would have been like the seventies. They went to so much trouble. I swear to God, those people spent 2,500 bucks to fix their yard up.

Probably would be 10 grand now, but I couldn't, I was, I could not walk up the step. They had things moving spider webs over everything. I'm like, I can't do it. I still, to this day, I can't do scary movies. Like leading up to Halloween, there's so many Halloweens and Annabelle's and the omens and the exorcist. And I'm like, I'm trying to find a channel. Like are the Waltons on anything? Cause I can't do it.

What's your scariest movie then? What's like you can't. I've never seen it, but I know the exorcist is supposed to be one of the scariest thing ever, but it's mine. No, I've never seen it. I will never watch it. And I've actually had friends that say, Jan, don't ever, ever watch it. You will never get it out of your mind. But my friend, Russ, my, my co-writer producer friend years ago took me to that.

grudge. The first grudge. And I was so upset about that. He said, I didn't know that this is what this was. And like when people are crawling on a ceiling and their jaws are ripped off and stuff like that, don't like it. So no,

No, don't like scary. Have you seen The Ring? Yeah. That's my favorite scary movie. Sort of. That's the TV thing, right? The ring comes up and you get sucked into the TV. Oh my God. In the theater, I was so, I went with a buddy. Like I saw it in the theater and I've watched it a few times since. I really liked that movie, but it's super scary. And I was watching, my friend looks over at me. I'm a grown man and I'm watching the movie with my hands over my eyes. He's like, what's wrong with you? I'm like, it's scary. I don't want to do this.

Scary. It's very scary, that movie. I know people who love scary stuff. I think it's a real art form, but I can't do it. The one thing I did watch this year just by mistake was Summer...

Midsommar? Midsommar. Midsommar's great. I love that. It's by the guy who did one of my favorite recent scary movies. He did Hereditary, the same director. Yes, I saw that too. And Hereditary is fantastic. Yes, it is. Hereditary includes, and I won't ruin it for everybody, but it includes a scene that involves a telephone pole that actually made me jump up

And yell. And I couldn't even stop myself. And it wasn't that I was scared. I was so shocked. Yes. That I just got up out of my seat and like launched into space. I know the scene you're talking about. Yeah. I've never, well, midsummer I watched, thank God my friends were here.

You know, you're going to this festival and you suddenly, you know, when the people, not spoiler alert folks, when people get to a certain age, they kill themselves. And it's just like, anyway, that was horrifying. And the other thing I watched by mistake that wasn't really a horror and I don't mind stuff like this was called Get Out. Yes. Love Get Out. Loved it. And it was a beautiful cast. Loved that movie. And that to me was more of a thriller movie

It was hypnotism. It was very clever, right? It was get out. It's very good, but there's no devils. There's no like evil. It's people stealing brains basically and putting old people inside young bodies. It's a very cutting social commentary. It's fantastic. And I love, I love Jordan Peele. Um,

And yeah, that was one of my favorites. I just enjoyed it. It did not scare me, really. I just watched it and thought this is a great piece of cinema, although the people in it were scary. But I kind of got the sense from the first time that it was on that I was like, oh, the lead guy who I'm rooting for is going to be okay.

which is kind of what I ultimately care about in the scary movie. I love the shining. I'm a sucker for the shining. I again, think it's just a great, that's a great movie. That's more, uh, that's a trip into, to being unhinged and being isolated. And, and is it, is it in his mind? Like it's, that was, that is a great, and you know what? It stands up extremely well. Some of the Stephen King stuff does not stand up. It's just completely wacky. It,

you know, Cujo, it's not going to scare me to have a frothing St. Bernard in a car. Sorry. You know what? Honestly, and I appreciate the fact that in The Shining, you see someone mentally unravel and that they, that's believable to me, that this is a person who's lost it and you can't get help there fast enough. And,

I their hallucinations or whatever, the fact that he then joins that photo of the party at the Overlook Hotel. I mean, at the end of it is so creepy. That to me is scary. Then things like it doesn't scare me because I'm like, how how is this clown? How does it exist? Like the ring visually stunning never scared me. I just thought, you know, this girl doesn't look like looks like I could take her. She does not look like she's had a decent meal. She's not showering.

the supernatural stuff doesn't scare me to the same extent, but like somebody losing their mind and the movie scream, that was my big teen scary. That was the first, that was the first movie I was really afraid of again. Cause it was like actual people just calling you at home to scare you. Real people are scarier than a supernatural thing. People who think up how to kill people. Like,

Like, you know, it's all been done. I mean, you see things and you're like, you see it coming. You're like, the garage door is going to come down in her head. That's going to happen. That's going to happen. Uh, this wasn't meant to be a horror, but dad took us to the drive-in to see Jaws in the seventies. And I was never, ever able to enjoy swimming again. Uh,

So as a young mind, obviously I think parents are more cognizant of what they let their kids watch. I don't know about you guys, but when I was growing up, it was a free for all. We were never told not to watch things. I was never said, well, you can't watch that. You go to bed. This isn't for you kids. Okay.

My parents never uttered a word. Yeah, I wasn't driving. The stuff we saw to drive in. We'd be sitting there. No one even turned around. Mom would occasionally say, you might want to put your hands over your face. That was the extent of it. But Jaws ruined my little swimming career. I think I could have been an Olympic athlete. Aw.

That's a sad story in the end. Well, I couldn't go swimming. I couldn't, I couldn't get back in the water. I wasn't allowed to see scary movies. And there was always one neighborhood house where you'd go for a sleepover and you knew their parents were going to let you watch it. And that happened to me with a movie arachnophobia. I've been perpetually afraid of spiders ever since because it was very scary. I'm not scared. I rescue spiders all the time around here. I'm not scared of them at all.

I'm not really that scared of snakes, although I don't want to dangle one around my neck or be Britney Spears in a video and, you know, have a large snake. But anyway, I just, I know we could go on forever, but I did want to touch base to see what you guys were doing for, for Halloween. And I wanted to be able to have people take us on an extra 15 minutes of their walk and

and reminiscing about childhood memories. Listen, you know, all that kind of stuff. It's been the, the, the unofficial and surprise Halloween special of the Jan Arden podcast. I really liked it. That was fun. We like to do surprise specials. If you're only going to have one season, you have to keep it interesting. So just keep that in mind, folks. We never go away. We,

We, we don't take a break because we are here for you all through COVID. We never stopped even in our own sorrow and our own disappointment. Even when we were searching for flour and yeast, we still came here to cheer you on and be in your homes. That's right. Thanks for listening. Don't forget to hit subscribe on Spotify and iTunes and, and thank you. I heart radio. And thank you to anyone that might want to sponsor us because we too could give you a bonus, you know, episode. Oh, oh,

We hope you've enjoyed the Jan Arden Halloween special with Caitlin Adam. Don't go into the woods. Okay, I'm going to stop. But thank you. This was all for you. This was an extra. We got together and we gave you this Halloween special. Enjoy. We'll see you soon. Tootie doo.

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