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Is that the new Opel? Yes, of course. Does it really look that good? Yes, of course. Is it fun to drive? Yes, of course it is a packed with smart tech. Yeah, this is such an eye test. Drive it right now. Yes, of course. The new Opel course and now available at your local Opel dealer hybrid and electric coming soon. See Opel Daddy for details. Have you ever canoe down a babbling brook? No, but I have cried at a Taco Bell. Oh, same thing. Listen up, campers. It's time to buckle up, pitch a tent and take a hike. Because Camp Counselors is a variety show, so prepare for a good old fashioned kumbayah weird news, hot gossip and scary stories around the campfire. So spooky. Is this podcast even about camping? No, but it is camp. This is camp counselors. Hey, happy campers. Welcome back to Camp Shady Birch. It is week 57 here at camp. And unlike 57, the temperature is like 97 literally. I know I like I hate this transition between summer and fall, like October means cold. October means Chris. That's it's in the Latin origins of the word. Yeah, it's the world. We don't make them up. But the Sun is blasting right now and I'm sweating in my shorts and my T-shirt recording that I know I'm going to crewneck sweatshirt. I know. Are you all right now wearing that? I don't want to talk about it. I feel like there's going to be sweat dripping down my arm, holding this mic. The things we do for the beer, if you're watching online, you might have noticed our outfits. They're like, literally, nobody's making you do that. We like a theme. We're gay. That's what it is. We're Hazari. See, if you're watching online, you can hardly tell if you're listening. Audio only we still love you, but we are currently wearing our Spirit Halloween merch. We've got spirit. Can you hear it? This is not a collab. It's just what we're wearing. They sell like they're literally they're like employee shirts they have on Iraq and they're just like 20 bucks. And we're like, Hey, we're suckers. We'll take it. Well, the reason why we purchased it is because the intro of our episode is going to be about a perfect fall date. We'll got there. But Jonathan, what are we doing next week that they'll hear on next week's podcast? Is it going to be next week? It will, yeah. So I have a work thing in my purse. I'm doing some work with St. Jude's and one of the nights that were there, they said, is going to be a costume party, a Halloween costume party. And I'm like, Well, I don't know how the hell I'm going to be, you know, putting an inflatable Garfield costume into my carry on. Also, there is a level of anxiety that comes with a Halloween party that you're not quite sure of the vibe because I was thinking, I'm like, Wait, what if we show up in? We're too in theme, and then everyone else is kind of wearing casual costumes or vice versa. Right? It's the mean girls conundrum. This is the mean girls conundrum. We show up as the bride of Frankenstein, and everybody else is like sexy animals. We don't know, and I don't want to be the one that's the oddball and not me thinking, you said sexy Annabel's. No, that's Annabel is inherently sexy. But the movie, not the real tall. The real doll is like, is nun's raggedy. And it's, yeah, let's call her which she has. She's a raggedy a*s in bed raggedy Annabel. Yeah, raggedy Annabel. But in the movie they gave her and they gave her like a bell and cheekbones four day wait not to derail this conversation. It's very real. It's it's derailed. This train is now it's it's free fall. It's giving Polar Express on the ice cream bras on the ice. And we got I was about to derail for a third time. OK, so the the Anabelle thing, I don't know if it was real or not, but somebody who was working at where the real Annabel is. I saw this made the TikToks of the Taylor Swift song holding their phone under their chin, like what people were doing with their pets and spinning them around, and they did it with the actual Annabel DA. Or at least I think it was. No, no, it was. That was the actual museum. It was the museum account. And that's how I found out that Annabel is a raggedy n and she's not actually like a porcelain doll. Yeah, she's she just looks normal. Well, I think the movie was like, Hey, like, what's going to sell more tickets here? We have to make her look a little spooky. Otherwise she's a normal ass, but we're really off track here. So back to the story here. So we're going to this kind of Halloween gala party. So we were like thinking, what's an appropriate costume that's like funny. Cheeky. Not too much. Not too little. Also that we can pack up his suitcase because I can't bedazzle angel wings and show up and then and then pack that in my carry on. So we saw these on the rack. So I'm if you're not, if you can't see online, I'm wearing a black T-shirt and it has the spirit Halloween kind of grim reaper that the employees where you're wearing another version, but it's crewneck and you're also wearing the hat. Yeah, I'm not looking. Recolor palettes are not exactly the same, which is OK. It's going to bother me for quite some time. Well, I've seen from a former employees of Spirit Halloween, they typically whatever doesn't sell, they just box up and put out the next year, which I'm OK with. Like, that's not that's not groundbreaking news for me. So I'm sure these are just printed different years. Yeah. So we're going to wear these with black jeans and pretend that we're employees of Spirit Halloween at the Halloween shop, and then we're going to walk around the party and just ask people, Do you need help with anything? And that's the that's actually a very clever and funny. I do think a way that we can elevate the bit a little bit is to get the ear pieces. We need the earpieces, we need the Bluetooth earpieces. Now, where can I get one in store like you do? They tell where we just got to order on Amazon? OK, we're have to do that rather quickly. We only have one day in between. I don't want to give any money to Jeff Bezos, but his business model is unmatched. It's actually pronounced Jeff Jeff Bezos. No, it's not. Yeah, like before you're making that up to have pathos, Jeff Bezos. So that's how we're wearing that. But the the theme of today's podcast for a little intro, we were thinking like, Hey, let's give the girls on the gates here in this. Rates. That's right. Oh my God. OK, yeah, we you're wrong. Let's be real for one second, let's correct that misinformation that we continue to spread. There are straight men here. There are lots of straight men here. They came out of the woodwork when we were calling them out the other week. Yeah. And they were like, Hey, we're literally being silent allies, and now you're making us stand up and identify ourselves. So one, I apologize. Oh, I apologize to and to thank you for your support. If Oprah was here and she said, were you silent or were you being silenced, they were being silenced. Yeah. So they stood up. They they rose from the ashes. Phoenix, they are. So you congratulate those men that really are here as straight up allies who literally like the minority. We've really flipped the script here. It's people could write a thesis about Campus 80 March. Here they are currently at Columbia University. We're going to be a course there. Mean, I can you imagine what not to do on a blog? So let's get into a date night for you in your significant other or your family or your friends. This is really honestly yourself. Yeah, this could be a nice this, honestly. Yeah, this would be a nice self-care day. Yeah, this is just the perfect fall outing for me because you can always do listen to a podcast or go on Pinterest and watch some, some b***h and some gorgeous jeans. Some like knee high leather boots, a gorgeous sweater and she's out there in the leaves, or she's at the pumpkin patch. Like, Yeah, you've seen that before. This is the Corporate America's Halloween date night. Right? We're going to take all of the nature out of this. Oh, they got out. Yeah, and that's OK for me because I'm an indoor cat, as are a lot of our campers. Yes, this is not how the fall holiday date for the indoor cats. OK, let's get into it. OK, so you're going to start off at Spirit Halloween, obviously. I think it really is just a fun walk through. You don't really have to purchase anything like we're going to get into our opinions about certain things at the store, but I do think I look forward to it every year. I haven't missed it in years. Yeah, I just have to go. It's ceremonial to me and I really enjoy the atmosphere and seeing what's there, what's new, what's should be retired and giving my opinions that nobody asked for. And that's why we started this podcast. Exactly. Because I'm no longer in therapy. You guys are my therapist now, so I have to kind of know you. So let me start off what? I don't like that I feel like I can speak about because I'm an expert, not an expert in wigs, but I'm well versed in wigs. Yeah, I don't believe that the wigs that spirit Halloween store are of quality for the price point. Amazon Oh my god, I wish my Amazon like. I really believe that Amazon has great quality wigs they can and I love the Amazon has the review feature, so you can always look at the stars make well, this is going to be bad people posting, but I'm telling you right now those motherf**kers are not real. They're not. They're giving you an illusion on the package. But when you take them out, it's not what you think it's going to be and they don't like them. There's always that weird crease, like where it was kind of folded up and there shaking goes, keep shaking, but you're not going anywhere. You're not going anywhere unless you can take him out of the package, which they don't allow. I wouldn't I wouldn't purchase one. You're not allowed to take him out of back. You're not allowed to take it anything on there. To be honest, that's probably a good idea. God, I'm OK with Darth Middle-schoolers. f**k that up for everybody. Wait till you hear my news article of the week and then you'll be thinking twice about opening the store, but we'll get back to that. So I just think the wigs are, they're not out all. Let's talk. Move on. Did you have anything to say about the wigs? No, that's OK. That's a wig talk. Now this is wig talk. The couple's costume. OK, let's talk about couples costume. We're going to talk about that because we were in search of a couples costume. I think if you're a couple and you're not doing couples costume like, that's OK, but you're really missing an opportunity because it's a sense of camaraderie, something to bond over. And I think they're fun. I think they're so fun to watch. Can we quickly review what we did last year or was that two years ago? Well, two years ago, we did a couple different Halloween costumes, right? Maybe we'll talk about that on our holiday episode. All right. We'll put a pin in that and we'll we'll take the panel in about two weeks. Well, let's talk about this week, this year's Halloween costume or talk about our first one. It's the spirit Halloween guys. You know what? I'm over. I'm just going to bet a lot on this segment because you didn't listen to us to for me not to because, you know, that's going to come up. I am really over the 1950s grease poodle skirt aesthetic. That aesthetic has been explored so much. And unless you're coming out with a homemade pinup version, I love it. But the holiday spirit Halloween stores been selling the same silhouette, same color palette for years, and I'm bored. But this year, to replace it, I did see this couples 1960s space ranger kind of vibe. Oh, OK. Was that where they both space rangers? Yeah, they it was like, I don't know. It's kind of Barbarella. It's giving Barbara. OK, you could do. You could. You could do Barbarella and an alien, wait. That is genius, we're giving you information, you guys start reading this tolerate break this down, Barbarella in the Alien. That's not so fun. And honestly, gender swap at have have the man be Barbarella. Yeah, and there won't be the earlier we can fight or do it cut down the middle. If you're a solo act, you're half your face is Barbarella. It's still it's a little difficult. You're going to do a lot of explaining. Yeah, but that's OK. OK. What do you think about the devil and angel vibe? Are you into that? I I don't hate her. I feel like it has been done many times before. I have been wanting to do it. I think it's a nice. It's always going to be there and everybody's going to get it. Yeah, I think I really, if you're energy that if you do more of a basic Halloween costume, I'm going to call it basic because it is. And if that's your costume, it's your look yourself in the mirror and be OK with that because it wasn't the most creative thing you could have come up with. And that's OK. But I do always commend somebody that goes out grassroots style boots on the ground reporting and they make it themselves. Yeah, I I could see the most heinous homemade Halloween costume. And you can always stand in your legs and say, I made it. And that is something to be applauded and enjoyed it. Yeah. You know what? Is there something on your list that you think you don't like in the Halloween store? Well, before we go it, I just want to say a couple of those costumes. So these are things that like they sell like separately that you can kind of get a little creative with. I'm just giving you guys some ideas. This is your date night. It's fun to like, get a little creative. You could be. Colonel Sanders and a chicken. Oh, I love that. They definitely have like a chef's costume there, and I'm sure you can figure out a little apron. Find yourself a mustache. It's beer all the way and they've got everything. And then a simple chicken costume. That's fine. You could do that sexy Wallace and Gromit. We're not seeing enough of the sexy was and Gromit, and I think that's a real hole in the market and a real hole in the market. And I know that they have the things to get creative. You just you have to broaden your mind. It's not going to be prepackaged for you, but that's the fun of it. Am I wrong? No, you're correct. And then my other one? Why not both be Guy Fieri? Is he problematic? I think he kind of is. OK, scratch that. But yeah, scratch that. Never mind. He just like, was a little overzealous shaking Trump's hand, and I was. That's what it was. That's what it was. He like was almost like barreling up to him, like, like, like a little TNT man and Crash Bandicoot, like a little too excited. And I was like, All right, I'm not the hero. I thought he was, you know? Well, listen, I don't know the man I can't speak about, speak about him. But I think a real smart way to approach Halloween is just to have a running list all year long of things that make you laugh. Think that make you smile. And then he can be revisit because there's nothing more stress inducing than October 21st and saying, f**k, I got to do it, I gotta pull it together. You got to to get, you know, who's really creative? What I who my father, really, my dad, when you're they went out as takeout and my mom was like, he made everything he was. My mom was a Chinese takeout box with like suspenders over her thing, and she had like the sticks coming out of it and like giant noodles. And this was after I moved out like I was. I was grown. This wasn't when I was a kid. Oh my god, it's so far. What was he? And then he was the guy on the pizza box. He made like a pizza box, and he was the guy with the the Illuminati fingers like, Hey, that's that's a meatball, right? That is. So these are photos of that. I love to yes, where I'll have to find them or I can. I'm sure there is a clever, clever man. Yeah, it's fun to get creative. Just, you know, think outside the box or inside the Chinese takeout box. I love that. But why or when you were asking things that I don't like the costume there that I don't like the aesthetic would be steampunk. I don't understand the origins of steampunk. Do you guys know what that is? It's leather. Yeah, old timey clocks, glasses like Weird Burning Man. It's very like burning burning like nuts and bolts and Tin Man. It's like it's Mad Max. Yes, it's it's people who want to f**k a locomotive. Yeah. If you've ever looked at the clock and beauty and the Beast and said, I want to f**k that b***h. Yeah, you like steampunk and I don't want to carry on, but it is not Miami. No, if I see a cloud of like a black cloud that's coming out of a locomotive that is coming from coal, I'm not getting a boner, but some people are, oh, train, train, train on a train on that train. Oh, so we're really we're really fighting for that in my head. I was like, Where are we going to go with this? And you really just went there, but you really hate steampunk. But steampunk is more it's got to be in the brown. It's so brown. It's literally soaked in brown copper. It's copper, you? OK. Anyway, moving off of the costumes, another fun area to explore on this date night with yourself or with somebody else is I love to look at the props. OK, what kind of props in particular? I love them all. I love the names of them. I've already talked about this on one of my videos, but there is this this prop of a girl on a swing and the the name of the prop on the box says Empty Soul Girl on swing. And that's what I love about spirit, guys. They're just going to let you know they're like, Hey, we're not gonna get creative here. Who is she? Empty soul girl on swing. But it's like half creative. It is. It sounds like they spent most of their time figuring out the first half because it could be like Spooky Girl, Scary Girl. They're like empty soul girl. And then they're like, Oh s**t, we got five minutes left. It's five o'clock. It's a Friday, and we needed it by EOD. Yeah, and that's how they came up with it. OK, I can. I can give them some props. How about this one little skelley bones? Who was that? It was like a little baby. The little baby he had. He was like, I'm little skelley bones. It's like, you've heard a little bow. Wow, yeah. Move over, though, Paul. Welcome Bill Skelley Bones. That's giving SoundCloud. Speaking of that category of babies, they do have this weird try shelf area of just babies under different ailments. Let's talk about it. We have zombie baby. We have baby covered in flies. Baby devil spider, eating baby. They're just scary, scary babies. And they're just all kind of crawling around these shelves. And I'm not really sure what you do with them. Do you think you buy one of these? Is it a door stopper? Honestly, I didn't really think much because they've been in the stores for. So long, I'm like, well, of course, there are the weird babies that there's a variety of, but I'm like, What are we doing with them? Who are buying these babies? And I need you to come out of the shadows? Yeah, because I want to talk to you. And what are you doing with these babies almost like a gargoyle? Maybe put up like a little manger. Put them in the manger. Oh, well, you know, manger, the spider baby bites. Yeah, I'm not really sure about them, but I do like to take a look. There you find the cute one. We should have got it. We were going to set it up right here on this very table. Oh, that one was cute. I already forgot what he looks like, but I remember thinking this one is cute. Speaking of names of things I do like when the costumes like, don't quite have the licensing. Yeah, and it's like castaway cutie. It's like, that's Pirates of the Caribbean. Like, let's call it what it is. Oh, I love that. Yeah, because it's like they have to, and that's how they get around it. And before we move on something, I have been seeing a lot of spirit. Halloween is the killer clowns from outer space. Are you guys familiar with the movie? I have never seen the movie, but I know that you love. I love the movie. I had it on VHS. I know way too many fun facts about it. If you've ever seen it. And you know, the opening soundtrack was actually made by somebody, the guy who made the score of it. I had never seen the movie like they didn't finish filming it, and they were like, We need the score before you do it. So he literally wrote the entire, like all of the songs for the movie, having no idea, like basically knowing what it was about and never seeing it. Wow. So they they usually put the music as they set the music after they see the movie as how that usually works. If I know anything from Dua Lipa and the Barbie movie, that's probably how they do it. Oh, you're right. She watched and she was like, Let me number the lines. Yeah. But anyway, they hate that movie was like kind of a cult classic because it was really corny. I'm sure you guys have seen the cover of it, but this year they're really going hard in your Halloween with that. Well, maybe they just got the licensing for it or or I think they might be playing the seeds for a remake. You think? Yeah, we see this time and time again where things start to gain a little popularity in the media right before we announce a sequel. I think it would be smart if it happens. I want it to be live here on this podcast that I called it. OK, OK, I love that we're getting the time stamp on this. Yeah. So I'm a marketing genius. I know what's up. I actually have a degree in advertising and public curation, public relations from a school that has no business teaching either of those courses. And but I do, but I have. I have not to Viola Davis on there now. Yeah, for acting. And she's an actress, but I'm an advertiser in my own right. Look, because right now I'm advertising myself and these are WaPo Yato. I was wearing spirit Halloween. We are OK. I think it's out of spirit. Halloween. Yeah, OK, so the next, where are we going on our date? We're getting in the car or we're getting on the bus. We're getting anywhere you can to move your body and we're going to head over to Michael's craft store. Love Michael's arts and crafts to a craft. Why are we doing more crafts on the dole? You know what? We're not going to go where we're not going to go. We're not going to Hobby Lobby. Yeah, if our Hobby Lobby, Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A have the same issue, where their business model is so fierce about their stances politically are so gross. It's like, I love that chicken sandwich and I love those little crafts, but they don't support the gays and therefore I can't support them. But Hobby Lobby can be easily duplicated. I feel like Chick-Fil-A. It's it's treading into strange territory where it's like, OK, there's they have the customer service, a smile on their face. They have that g*****n Polynesian sauce. f**k me. So God, we don't support. However, with Hobby Lobby, it's like, you know, who doesn't care that I like Weiner on the weekend, because will you look we every day? Yeah, yeah. So that's what we support, Michael. So you're going to Michaels or your local mom and pop? OK, yeah. Yeah, let's support local. Let's support local. But what's great about Michaels is they do have a lovely display of seasonal stuff. They certainly do. Their decor is quite fantastic. I would say their Halloween stuff, it's a little overpriced. They're always having a sale. OK. So I think that that's our thing. It's always everything that's in season is always on sale, like 40 percent off, but it's like, well, it was sixty dollars to be right. And I think that's how they got us. And they got they got me because I was really surprised by the markdown. What was the really exciting thing that you found in the store that you wanted to share with everybody? OK, this has nothing to do with Fall or Halloween, but I did find a bread box. Yes. And it's like we always talk about, is it bigger than a breadbox? And it was really great to hold the Redbox and say, Wait, what I'm thinking of is bigger than this bread box. Yeah. And I also nobody really has bread boxes anymore. Why don't we just say shoebox? Because there are approx. The same size, depending on the shoe size? Well, depending on the bread box is a child's crock. OK, let's talk. Adults shoeboxes doesn't work. Does its tomato tomato in this situation? Yeah, but if you guys are in the market for a bread box, may I suggest Michael's? They have a lovely craft section. That's the reason why we're here, you guys. We're going to do a couples craft for those craft for this date night, and I selected something that was a little bit more thanks. I count myself and that's OK, because it's Paul and Paul is hard. So they happy as like, paint your own turkeys that came. It was definitely made for ages six plus, but I am six plus with the plus. What do you mean? So we are going to be doing that tonight while we watch TV. We're going to paint these little turkeys. What going to turkey you? What did you got? I got a scarecrow, and we're going to circle back to the scarecrow after your time. Yeah. Well, I'm going to say that we're I picked the turkey. I thought it was cute. But the scarecrow, we're going to film that. I'm going to put that on the patron while we drink wine and paint these little these little trinkets. I think it's fun to have a little arts and crafts night at home after you get home for the night. Yeah, it's like you're planning on extending, like you're already having fun and you're planning for a later fight. Yeah. And these little kids, they're like six bucks and they include the paint in the paint brush. Is it going to be exquisite? You'll find out on Patron if you subscribe. Because the video is already up by the time this episode airs. I hope it goes really well. It's going to go viral. Just kidding. You know, it's crazy about Michael's where it's a little off track. Of course, come on. When we walked in, it was so we walked in on October 3rd. Girls die. The Christmas trees were already on his by the Christmas trees were already up, which isn't that shocking to me because in my opinion, the day Halloween ends November 1st, Christmas starts Thanksgiving. It's one day it's the 25th and that's all they got. But I like Christmas to extend over a two month period. We'll talk about it on a later Christmas episode, but I wasn't surprised, but I will say it was a little shocked. It was just my first time seeing a Christmas tree this year and the new season. And now it's kind of going to be a domino effect. It was the first one I had seen, so I have to cut it. Yeah, shocking. Yeah, it was like, you're reminded of the beauty of Christmas when you're not ready for it just yet. Yeah, they already had all the garland hanging up and they had disco ball garland, which I thought was so cute. Yeah, that was fun. I liked the the candy. Yeah, I liked the one that was a big string of pearls and like a drag queen, could find this. Make it a sickening look. Made of pearls. God, we are going to be in the market for a Christmas tree. Do we get rid of our Christmas tree? We did. I think I want to buy from the brand that Hallmark uses. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, my mom has a tree from them. They're really expensive. They're like five hundred dollars. But I'm in the market to invest in a really good fake Christmas tree. And I don't care if I spend $500 because I spent $90 at Target three years ago and the thing looks practically scalped. Bald, the b***h is dead over with. So I want to get one that's a little bit more expensive. That's going to last us. OK, well, let's we're getting ahead of ourselves. We're doing exactly what Michaels wanted us to do, and that's what happens when we tell people to go on a date night that is run by corporate America. Oh my God, the way they have already fed this podcast, we're sheep. We're nothing more than sheep leap year. It's clothing leave Michaels as fast as you can with your crafts because they've already sucked you at our next stop on this holiday. Date night is a place that's very near and dear to my heart, and I'm sure many of our campers join us ahead at the same time. One two three. Why did we panic or partial or oh my God, we on one to three Marshalls, I got so nervous I didn't know if we were on the same page. Well, it's because I really wanted to go to TJ Max. They're the same company. They sell the same bulls**t. But there wasn't a teacher, max where we were, so we had to go to Marshall. But I always prefer a TJ Max, but for the honesty and clarity of the story, we did go to Marshall's, but you could go either way and you're going here or we. I'm sorry, what's the other one? There's a third one, right? HomeGoods, that's not the same. Well, HomeGoods really is honestly probably the best for this activity because they don't sell clothing. They just focus on the home goods like their Halloween section would have been. Then it would have been everything. Yeah, but those are not as easy to find, especially when we were in Philly when we filmed this. But you're going there to buy something for the home to jazz up the space. So when you're doing the craft, you feel a little zesty. We can suggest a ceramic pumpkin. My personal favorite would be to buy a holiday scented candle. Yes, OK. Or you could get in like a little bit of a sexy mood and you could like be like, Close your eyes, baby. And guess what this is? And have they called up the candle and play a little game like that? Oh, guess the sun gas the smell? Yeah. Yeah, gas that smell. Yeah, you could do that. Yeah, I saw a couple great. I saw a pumpkin cream candle. That's a good play bath. Yeah, anything harvest. Yeah, I will. I do want to comment on one thing that I saw that was a little jarring is, yeah, there's this brand called D.W Home. D.W is also my favorite character from the hit show Arthur, the b***hy little sister, but D.W. Home. And then they had this sense that were food based, so they had one that was Pumpkin Pie Classic. The next one I see. It's called Thanksgiving Feast. Oh, my God. You sniff this candle, it smells like gravy. Stuff like this savory smells. Yeah. I don't need my candle to ever smell savory, masculine like patchouli, but that's not a savory smell. That's like a earthy. Yeah, that's that's close. All right. But she is so earthy and sour. I'm talking about savory smells. The other one, you guys? Macaroni and cheese. It smelled like taking your shoes off. It smell as if you open the Kraft Macaroni and cheese packet that they give in the box and you inhale the smell through your lungs and your nose like cocaine, powder, cheese. Let me bump a rail of the craft back and just powder. Yeah, that's what it smelled like it was. It was stinky and we hadn't even burned me. So what is this? What is this about? What do you think? Do you think like they genuinely were like, let's have this candle for people to make the house smell like they're cooking? Or was it a gimmick or was it a gimmick to make us talk about it? Which again, you when Big Corp. you win? We're doing what you want us to do. But did they win because they're on the mark down shelves of a marshals? That's kind of the place where products go to die. It wasn't. You don't. Nothing ever starts off in the marshals. It's kind of where they ended up. We saw a sweater from Zara. I'm sorry, I don't think Zara sent it from the warehouse right there. That was on a shelf and that got passed down. I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry. You're ending up at a max. Yeah, you love T.J. Max. Are you love? I think it's the New England to me. It's a place that you go to celebrate. Actually, it's it's the woman in me because a woman wants to go to TJ Maxx, so a woman wants to go to Marshall's. It's just a place where we can go and we can just peruse because I don't know if men peruse enough. I do. Men peruse. I think so, but I I really am in touch with the feminine side of me. Where does a man, a man peruse other than clothes to sporting goods? Oh, that's a that's a place of classic Parisian. Mm hmm. Is Peru's been a word it has now? Yeah. I don't know. I just think I feel like I like to peruse, and that's a place to peruse. And can I just say, you can say, OK, back back to our date that we're suggesting people lest we forget it about the pat? Is it such a crime to give your animal a little seasonal tree, grow up and do it? And if you're like on this day, this journey that we've been telling you about this evening, if you're there with somebody that you're like just fresh in dating, or maybe it's a first date, this is a little chaotic for a first year. I took an errand date is the perfect first day and I've had that before, and it's gone well. Keep going. Okay, so if somebody's looking at it and they know that you have a dog named Mississippi, lucky, I'm going to call Mississippi spot and they say, Oh, look at this like Bride of Frankenstein Halloween themed toy. Why don't we get this for Mississippi? Bag him. He is the one. Yeah, I feel like offering up a seasonal gift for your significant others, pat. It seems like a very specific thing to do, but write that down if you're in the market for a new man or woman or person. Yeah, or if you're trying to impress the person that you're dating, that is so specific and make sure you say the name of the pet when you're doing it, it's going to make a mark. Yeah, and don't be afraid to get a dog toy for a fish that thinking it waterlogged. Soak it in the coral like, hey, fish fish. Don't get enough treats. You know they don't. And I think that they know that too. Yes, some fish are smart. Listen, this has been quite a journey for you guys. We're really out here saving relationships, saving self care. Like, if this podcast isn't nominated for some sort of humanitarian award, it's because you're gay and the universe is homophobic. And I stand by that and it's a big hobby. Lobby is trying to bring us down. We are all led therapists by Big Hobby Lobby has been the demise of this podcast since day one. But we show up every single week. Hobby Lobby. Yeah, and then after this, wrap it up with a cute seasonal dinner and don't be afraid to buy something off of the seasonal menu. The specials a lot of you don't order off the specials, and what's up with that? You guys get a f**king winter vegetable in your body. Get order the acorn to get the harvest, mac and cheese. What's wrong with the Pumpkin Espresso Martini? You get a thousand espresso martinis a year, but you won't try the pumpkin cream one. Get live a little. Yeah, especially on this day. And also, hey, let's not turn away. We would get a little anaphylaxis get, well, clean and sexy. What are you talking about? The anaphylactic the shock when you choke aphrodisiac. Yeah, there's nothing seasonal fall about an oyster. Nothing says oyster is the least falsehood I've ever heard so far in this market that we have been, yes, ending each other and I feel really shot down inside. Oh, I'm sorry, you did it. Oh my God, there's nothing more fall than an oyster and a menu. OK, you tell me if you don't see a little oyster in the store that the shell is painted like a jack o' lantern, you're not going to geek out over it. There is nothing less fresh than an oyster that's been painted and then shocked, maybe in a landlocked state. Listen, we're going to agree to disagree on this. Fine, fine. Take it back. Let us know in the comments below. If you've had a similar day, if we've missed anything that you think would have been smart. We are. The category is corporate fall. Don't take those fun fall colors and strap a bar code on and put them under some some fluorescent lighting and you have a ball of fun badges. Oh God. Attention campers, please meet at the old flagpole under the tall pine for morning announcements. Welcome back to morning announcements. We have a little bit of housekeeping here, but this week I think two episodes ago we had talked about thrift stores. Or maybe it was like a Monday episode. At some point we talked about choices that could well have anchored well, yeah. So this comments coming from McKenna six, two to one and she says, Hey, my besties, I teach adults with disabilities. And Goodwill's mission is to hire and train adults with significant disabilities. It is much easier for them to sort items by color than category, so that's why they do the color sorting. We had no idea. I had no idea, and that's a fantastic mission, and I love that, so I've changed my opinion on that. Yeah, it makes sense to support the color coordination of the good. Well, that's awesome. And now we're we're educated and we do better. So thank you for letting us know that. And another thing you guys OK? There's a subreddit for us. We do not run it or we I don't know how to run a subreddit, so we do not create the page if anything, runs a mark on there. We are not responsible, but it's our slash camp counselors pod if you're a Redditor and you want to go on there. But somebody posted this picture of them with a bunch of like princess groomers. Oh, I know I saw off. And she says one of my best friends is getting married this weekend and we're big fans of camp counselors. This is the bachelorette design I created to celebrate the bride to be took me a solid seven hours in Procreate to whip up. Sarah is our princess. Girl, and I'm so excited for her mayor to wed her beautiful face and show her off to the whole town. These pictures, this is so cool how cute like she has all the little. Oh my god, it's so cute. She's around on T-shirts. She has it on quess. She has it on little. We go to make up bags. The cameras are so creative and I think this is so cool. And if you guys don't know who Princess Girl is, you can go back to episode forty four. I don't want anyone to feel left out of any inside jokes because we're all cameras. We are all on the inside. But I just think that's so cool. Like that was on. That was all right. I know I also think it's really cool that Princess Girl really took off the way that she did because I had no idea. Yeah. And I do believe that she is kind of the symbolism of the camp. A little baby alligator in the bridal gown. Yes, she's the Princess Diana. She's the Princess Diana of Camp Shady Birds. No, I love her. I love her so much and I love being tagged and things I have like little cute little gators, even though she's technically a caveman. But yeah, she's a gator to me. Yeah. And um, yeah, that's that's pretty much our housekeeping for now. Fantastic. Well, welcome back, everybody to morning announcements is the part of the show where we share articles with you that you might have missed that we feel like you need to be in the know about. I'll go first this week, so CBS News put an article out. It's called Paris is crawling with bedbugs. Uh, they're even riding the trains and a ferry by Elaine Cobia so that you may have already heard about this, but I do want to highlight it. So just 10 months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, the French capital is battling an invasion of bedbugs. The tiny pests were first reported in hotels and vacation rental apartments across the city during the summer. Then there were sightings in movie theaters, and in recent days they've even been reports of bedbugs crawling around the seats in both national high speed trains and the Paris Metro Ferry. Some even jumped ships to Morocco. So Tangier is that I think it's pronounced it in Morocco Tangier. So there was a ferry going from Paris to Tangier, and there was people reporting that there was like bedbugs. So Morocco is like, absolutely f**king not. So when they got to port in Morocco, they were like, Everyone, stay until we're going to have our crew go in there and inspect. And apparently everything was OK and they like, let them get off the ferry. But they were like, Oh my God, this could potentially travel to like an outbreak into a different country because Paris, the guardian ma*s. OK, and then the Olympics are getting there. It's smelling like sabotage. I don't know what it is, but the Paris Pest Control Department is totally overwhelmed. It's not easy to get rid of these little guys, and they're pretty gross. And that's why I said in the beginning of the episode about the wigs OK, hey, we don't need to be trying wigs on in stores because you don't know what people have, what's going on. And it's a stigma that bedbugs really are only carried by like dirty people. So not true. Anyone can get bedbugs, and it's like the scariest thing ever because it cost a lot of money and a lot of cleanup to get rid of. And Paris is just a mess, so. A report published over the summer by France's National Food and Environment and Work Hygiene Organization noted that there were two main culprits behind this recent increase in bedbugs. An increase in tourism number one in a greater resistance to insecticides sitting there growing stronger. This is why. Well, I read that differently. Maybe you're right, but I was reading it as like, there's this whole push right now in media and in people being like, I'm so anti a chemical. Like, Remember, you talked about this on clean talk? Yeah, baby, I'm not giving a homeopathic way to get rid of bedbugs. No, they don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear your lavender oil. You have to make. It smells great. I'm sticking around like they know what that bulls**t. Give me the hars**t. Give me the poison. I want the bleach to the skin. I'm not doing this. Yeah, give me the bleach scented candle from TJ Max. Yeah, I read that as something different, but maybe they're just getting stronger. Either way, it's really scary. France has had a really bad year in the PR and the PR world. Yeah, it's not looking good for our bag carrying France. Yeah, I have seen like for a long time, France has been known to be really mean to tourists, and I think this was the first time I saw on Tik Tok that Americans were going there and being like, in what about it? Because all y'all got is no A.C., no eyes, dirty streets and a bunch of fast food chain restaurants in your downtown. Like, why do you think you're so much better than everybody else? And now they have bedbugs? It's like, Hey, I'm going to be honest right now. Paris is nowhere near the top of my must list right now, and in my head, I'm like, Oh my God, but they have Ratatouille, and I'm like, Oh my God, that was a rat making food in a kitchen. Yeah, it's like, what is going on over there? You think deeply? And I would never like s**t on Paris, but the fact that they hate Americans so much. Like, that's kind of the stereotype. It's like, Well, you know what? No one's coming here and saying that we have no A.C., no ice and lots of bedbugs. Yeah, no, we just have diabetes and a lot of glucose and all the food anyways. Hey, I. Someone let you guys know that if you're training or planning a trip to Paris, it was really scary. One more thing there was a video on the train and they were just walking around in the seats. How big are they? I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh, so you can see it as more like a fleece. Yes, you can see it. I think you have to be kind of like looking for it for sure. Like they're not walking around here like big old ants or bumblebees. But when they're they're babies, they're really tiny, but they kind of get to the size of, like, maybe bigger than a pencil tip light brown. And there's a video I saw I was just walking around on this like, I don't know, train see? And I'm like, first of all, why are the trains its fabric? Because they live in fabric? Oh, that's true. They couldn't. They couldn't stand plaster. Obviously, they live in beds and like a lot of times and curtains. And if you like, well, hey, OK, I don't know about that. Hey, look, I don't know old dad's like back in the day. Oh, you're right. You're probably right where they came from. I just think the fabric, the fabric seats are not doing anyone any favors. It's not a good idea to for us. Just wanted to keep you guys abreast adrift on the bedbug incidents happening in Paris, and they better figure it out before the Olympics because it's only networks and magic. The next pandemic is a bedbug pandemic. Oh my God. OK, and then it's literally everywhere. Everywhere around the world is coming to one place putting all their luggage in their hotels. The bedbugs are taking traps. They're dispersing throughout the entire world and everyone's going to have, well, that's how they almost ended up in Morocco. That is so crazy. OK, what I will say, sometimes you do this and I only know this because my dad told me because he used to travel a lot for work. You're not supposed to ever put your suitcase on your bed. Yeah. And some people I refer, remember they had bedbugs from a hotel, and from now on, they only keep their suitcases in the bathroom. OK, that's valid. Yeah, because they don't have nothing of interest in the bathroom. Maybe a robe. Yeah, but that's not their main. That's not their club. No, it's their home base. The floor is too hard. Paris to defend themselves is basically like, Hey, guys, bedbugs have been around for centuries and they're going to continue to be around for centuries. This is a little bit of a problem right now. We will handle it, but let's not act like this is brand new information here and that they're right. Bedbugs have always been around. It was like, we can't really sit on them for that. Yeah, but I'll shut up Paris for anything. And it means that was my news article the week. What's yours? OK, mine is a little different, going a little bit back to Princess Girl. So this is coming from NPR, and it's an article by Rachel Triesman and the title is Wally. The emotional support alligator went to see the Phillies. Then he went viral. Oh, I did hear about this. OK, so I'm going to read a little bit at the top and then I'll just like start to summarize. We're just, you know, we're just going to get into it, OK? And emotional support alligator walks into a ballpark and then is asked to leave. That's the story that made headlines in recent days. So that's when I was doing this research. That's what kept coming up for me. And I'm like, Who is this guy trying to break an alligator into a blah blah blah blah blah? You know, you make your judgments based on a headline before you read it. So that's what's been making headlines in recent days, thanks to viral photos and videos showing Wally a six foot long, 55 pound alligator wearing a harness and a leash, and his human companion outside of Citizen Park during a Phillies game on Wednesday night. But that's not exactly the whole story. So while his owner is this 70 year old guy, his name is Joey Hemy Joe, i.e. Joey, OK, Joey, Joey. So and he lives in Harrisburg with the gator, which is like two hours away from Philly. And the gator is eight years old and Joey has had him for the past seven years. So Wally, he has got quite the following. He's got one hundred and fourteen thousand followers on TikTok, twenty seven thousand on Instagram, and he went viral last year for splashing around in Love Park like the fountain at the Love Park. I never saw it. No, but I like this idea. He also was used as the CGI reference for alligator Loki on the Disney Plus show Loki. Wow. I had no idea what that was, or I had to look it up. Still have no idea what it is. So while he he's he's had attention and he's been a little busy. So one of Wiley's followers had met Wally on a couple of different occasions. It's this woman who remains unnamed in this article, and she happened to be friends with some of the Phillies players and some of their wives. So she was like, Hey, I'm going to go tell the team about Hannah and Wally, Shelby and Wally and see if they have anything to say so. Allegedly, the Phillies, like the players and the actual team, had invited Wally and Annie to meet the players, not to watch the game. So the day of this game, Henry is running behind again. He's two hours away and he's got a gator like the the Gators doing things in the morning as crafts. It's got to do hashtag or two, you know, who knows what they're doing in the mornings. So by the time that they get to the stadium, the players are already like. Getting ready for the game and the meet and greet is over. Like they there's no the window of opportunity is gone. So the woman feels bad. So she's like, Oh, let me get tickets for you guys, and you can just like, come on. And so she buys them tickets, but they are not let in because he's an alligator. So then this guy goes on to say he's like, We're standing, waiting in line, and they won't let me take in Wally because they're very strict on their service animal policies. And he's like, OK, there was no arguing or whatever. He's just like whatever. And I think a lot of people, especially on Twitter, are getting up in arms being like, you have this domesticated alligator who doesn't belong in Pennsylvania. You're bringing him to a game and you're getting pissed off because they're not letting you into a game and you're doing it for a stunt. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like is he upset because you just can't take an alligator into a baseball game? That's how it my opinion on this. You just can't, right? But what he's saying is like, that's how things are being painted out to be when in actuality, he's like, the team invited me. I'm not into baseball. I wouldn't have come here with this alligator had they not told me to bring this alligator. Did someone leak the story? Is that how this all got out or did he like his own story? I think NPR wanted to talk to him, so he's setting the record straight now because the headlines originally were just pictures of Wally outside, like the handler with Wally outside and people patting him and stuff. And he seems like he's a very calm alligator because he's probably like, Hey, I'm fed well, I get to travel and just eat and chill like, OK, I just want a hot dog. If I met him, I would pet him. He said, I don't go anywhere that while he's not invited, which is cute. So NPR reached out to the Phillies for a comment, and they didn't comment. So I'm not really sure if all of this is true. If it was an official invite, which I feel like if the Phillies say yes, we invited him that we kind of like change things for him, but they haven't said anything anyway. So for 30 years, this handler has been rescuing and rehabilitating alligators to release into the wild. And while he was a rescue, but he was different from any of the other gators that this guy had. He said he was comparing him to a weighted blanket who loved to be held, hugged and especially partial to chin rubs. Oh, so he like he like, loved him. He bonded with him. Yeah, it's really cute. And Henry said that he actually did register him as an emotional support. Pat, after while he had been by his side during helping him navigate depression during several family member deaths and radiation treatment from his prostate cancer, he underwent. Like, he brought Wally to the hospital with him, which I think is like, Hey, you know what? I had my own opinions about this because I'm like, It's an alligator. It doesn't belong on a leash this time, and that's that. But I'm like, What kind of is helping this man? But at the same time, I don't know. I don't know if y'all I don't think we need to bring the alligator to the hospital appointments. I'm going to draw the line there because your hospital appointment will be over and then you can go back and then hang out with your alligator at home. Yeah, I think it's fine. I think there's exceptions to every rule. If the alligator seems happy, well-fed and he hasn't had any accidents, like with people being upset, like maybe he is just vibing with the people. I like that he got the chance set the record straight because that's not fair. He didn't bring the alligator there to be like annoying, like stunt move. He was invited there and like, if that's how they live their life and how they live their life, we need to interview Walt. We need to have Princess Girl and boots on the ground and have her interview. Allie, can you princess girl in her bridal dress and Wiley in his tuxedo? I know they're imagining. Have it ! Oh my god. I do think the more that I'm talking out loud about it and the more that I'm thinking about it, I, you know, I like it. He doesn't need to be. He doesn't need to be a service animal, you know? But then it's like he's domesticated. Can he survive in the wild? No. I think he's OK to be domesticated. I don't think he needs to be like doing rounds at the hospital. That's what I think. You don't even look like you have a sanctuary, your house. You want to bring him in. Make them watch married with children with a nice cold beer and scratch a little chain. Do you film some viewers at home? But don't I don't. With the alligator stress week in the Phillies game, I'm not sure this is a lot better story than the ball being trapped in the car. Yeah, that was to me animal abuse, and I love that story. But yeah, I don't know. It's I have to admit that myself. So we're going to get into a car after this. You guys with our bowl and we're going to drive in Harrisburg and check on this ourselves. Yeah, I mean, he could show up in Philly and he was he looks so cute when he walks and then when he stops, he just flops down and he loves literally to just be picked up, and he puts his hand over everybody's shoulder and he just lays. Fifty five pounds is not that big for an animal. That's yeah, that's huge. Yeah, you could. Definitely I could handle that for sure. And he doesn't have tape around his mouth like, unfortunately, Princess Girl Dad, but he's just like, he hasn't nipped at anybody. He doesn't move very fast at all. He's not a fat gator. I'm glad. So it scares me that he doesn't have tape around his mouth. But that makes me happy because I feel like then, obviously because it would be a real b***h to have him out in public and taping his mouth. I'm like, Well, that's not nice. Yeah, but he's. Clearly fine. Yeah, and he's eight years old, and he's been doing it for a little over seven years, like but he was higher. He was only 18 months old when he was like dressed, fully domesticated because he was being rehabilitated. Well, congratulations, have I'm glad that his owner got to set the record straight, like I said, and that's all I have to say. Grab your book Juice and bear spray campers. It's time to pack it up and take a hike. Welcome back to take a hike. The part of the show where we b***h a little and we tell something to take a hike. You wanna go first? I'll go first. This week, I encountered a broken escalator. So my take a hike this week is broken escalator and classic, and it's beyond the fact that it is annoying. Why are broken escalators so disorienting? They're eerie. It's I don't know how to approach. It is such a stressful experience like you. I should see me like, interact with these things. I walk up to it. I notice, and it's broken. I already start to panic. I don't know where to stop. I have to grab the hand railing. It just feels so foreign to me. And this happened when we were at the mall this week or yesterday, rather. And I had to write down for my like, take a hike. And as I was looking it up being like, Oh, like what? Other people have to say about this, this whole thing, this whole phenomenon has a name. Did you guys know that it's called the broken escalator phenomenon? And that's it's explaining like the feeling that you're. Yeah. Also known as the escalator effect and the walker effect is a sensation of losing balance, confusion or dizziness reported by someone when stepping onto an escalator which is not working. It is said that there is a brief, odd sensation of imbalance, despite full awareness that the escalator is not going to move. And that's exactly what happens to me, like for a split second. I'm just so like out of my element. I'm like, I don't know why. I don't know either. Maybe it's because the first few steps are like not a normal size of a stop. Well, I know why. Oh, so the scientific reasoning why it's so weird is the central nervous system enables us to adapt to the movement of the escalator. However, the locomotor adapt and whatever that is, is inappropriately expressed when walking onto a broken escalator. Aware that the escalator will not move, we still modify our gates and posture as if to adapt to movement. So it's like our bodies and our minds are not on the same. Synapses like our body is registering it as like, Oh, we're going to adjust to being moving while we're doing it. But our mind knows that we're not going to move. So it's like that split second of like weirdness is your body transition to be like. Although you recognize these things as a moving part, it's not moving. So just adjusting in that quick moment. Simple muscle memory confusion. Isn't that an interesting thing? Because my entire life? Because how many times you will find ask necessary? It's broken. First off, embarrassing, especially when the other side is working and everybody's like, Oh peasant boy, it is so mortifying to be truffle. Shuffle up this escalator heaving in sweat and or even down. It's just embarrassing. But yeah, I had no idea that there wasn't a whole study done on this, and the reasoning was behind it my entire life. I've always just felt like a fool. But now I feel like I'm I'm in good company with other fools. Yeah. So that was something just really quick that I learned this week. Yeah, it was embarrassing coming down at tailback. Thank you for sharing. I like that. Might take a hike. Turned into my take a treat. Oh yeah. And now we're all not so alone. Yeah. What is your take like this week? Um, I'm sorry if this is going to be insulting anybody out there, but I hate the fake ivy walls, girls days. What are we doing? I can't imagine a state without a zoom, but clearly I've been wrong about that before. Do we know what I'm talking about? It's like you've got a white wall, usually just a plain white wall. And instead of doing like an accent color, or maybe you're renting and you can't do that, people just put like the plastic ivy that you buy off of Amazon. What I know it smells like plastic. I know it smells like s**t into like, what are we doing with that? Like what? What is it? What are we emulating? Because for me, it's just comfort and distaste. Distrust, just loyalty. And I'm just I'm not here for it. It's giving. I'm 17 Gen Z on tech talk in the middle of COVID. It really looks super cheap and it's super tacky. And if you're going to do it, at least double up on the strain because there's like really bare plastic looking. I don't know. Sporadic leaves on the wall is not giving girl reminds me of Cody's hair from sister wives like those two front pieces that are just hanging down. Yeah. And it's like, All right, where's the value? My sister once told me that if you're over the age of twenty five and your posters aren't framed, that's a mistake. And it's stuck with me my entire life and grown adults. There is no excuse why you cannot go on Amazon and spend $6 on yourself and put that paper poster into a frame. I'm sorry. Don't tell. I can't afford it. OK, we'll figure it the f**k out. I don't have to tell you, OK, at some point you just got to figure. We just we have to get rid of the ivy walls. That's what it boils down to. They don't look good. They and if you look close it, it's tape. It's taped up. And if you look from afar, what am I looking at? Yeah, it was that. And those neon strips around the room that changed colors. Oh yea, I had on my wall growing up. What am I early? My late teens, early twenties. I went to Urban Outfitters and spent $70 on this Brooklyn Bridge tapestry, and it was huge and I would go over the back of like many. You have my bedrooms while I would move and it was so gorgeous and it was a tapestry, I had so many tapestries. I like tapestries. I think those are fine. Yeah, that's right. I would rather see a tapestry over the Ivy Wall. I'd rather see that the barb and barb we trust flag over that. You want me to see the plaque. I would rather see a bedbug over the fake. No, you would absolutely not. I'm saying it now. I'm saying it with my trust. I'm saying it with my bra. I used to sleep underneath a black and white tapestry of the Brooklyn Bridge every single night and look where we live now in Brooklyn and how crazy I find. And now you're going color blind. Yeah, exactly. Manifest your truth. You guys print out your manifestations on a tapestry and put it up over bed. It's gorgeous. Think the new counts likes the top on the bottom line over? Either way, I'm giving them my boondoggle. And welcome back to Camper Crush of the Week. This is the part of the show where we share what we're crushing on, what we're snogging, what we're loving, who deserves a little admiration support and cheers from us counselors to you campers. Jonathan, who is your camper of the week? Well, it's not a who, but it's more easily as a watch. I I really don't have crushes on people. Not. But anyway, you guys, I put you guys on to a hot sauce before, and some of you guys actually went out and bought it. It was the mule sauce, but I have got a new hot sauce not sponsored. They should sponsor, right? But this is not sponsored. This might be like my favorite hot sauce to put on any kind of like taco burrito chip. Like, I love it, I do Mexican category. Yeah, the Mexican category. It is from the chili traders and it's the Rio Grande de hot sauce. They have a bunch of different hot sauces named after places, but the Rio Grande to a hot sauce. When I do my dance to my little dancing to it is like a kiss from the devil himself. It's not too spicy. It is so, so g*****n flavorful. I had. I don't know how many ounces was in a bottle. Maybe eight, maybe nine, you know? My God, absolutely not. Maybe four in the bottle. We have no way that's not. You can't bring that onto an airplane, baby. OK, I don't know. Maybe like sex. We'll meet at sex. But basically, I add that you guys know I'm a saucy b***h. The entire bottle is gone in three settings three different meals. They were all burritos from down the street. The bottle is gone. I know, like my mouth is watering the other burgers from down the street. It is so good. You Yeah, I was a guy who was so funny and he was eating in the view of the other night. And I was watching like the level of the hot sauce go down and down because every single like row of the burrito bite, he pours like a thick layer and then like the corner, like a Pac-Man. Damn, for sure. Yeah, but that's the thing is, like the older I get, the lower my my hot sauce tolerance is like, I really can't. I love spicy, but I can't do space. Well, you don't. You like spicy. You don't like how you feel after you eat spicy. You about indigestion. Yeah, it gives me heartburn. It doesn't make me sick. Like it doesn't burn my whole life. For some people, it burns my whole. But I don't like when I eat something and my mouth is on fire and it's just watery for like five minutes. I really don't like that s**t. So this is like a flavorful hot sauce is into spicy, is how you describe it. Oh my God, it's like it's a little on the more spicy side. I got it in a PR package. What was the PR package? I got to do, and that's how we got it. Oh my god, you're so. That's literally how we got your sauce, too. So that marketing is working? Yeah. Hot sauce in the house. What did you do that? Oh, was that the the the pizza hot sauce or you did some? I don't know. They said, You like the pickle. Remember, it was like a pickle flavor. Look, that was Frank's hot. They wouldn't have sent a competitor. You're so right in your gut that someone sent me hot sauce as a part of something else. I don't even know it was so long. It was like two months ago, but I purchased it. That was I purchased two more bottles. My own accord. Yeah. So you've now you're on your third bottle? Yeah, yeah. So if you're as you're into it, that's yeah. Because people like them, your source. The meal sauce was a little sweeter. So this isn't sweet, though. No, this isn't sweet. It is so flavorful. But if you guys decide to order it, it is again the chili traders. So, you know, it's funny. The label is so boring. Like it doesn't. It doesn't. What's not exciting label? OK. With the marketing itself, like I wouldn't, because like hot sauce, it's such a demanding category. Like, have you ever seen these hot sauce gift shops? They have so many. And I think it's a really competitive space to be in for marketing. I think they don't stand out at all. So it's really great that you're on here giving your honest opinion because word of mouth is going to be necessary for them because they're like the trough hot sauce. Like, I hate that, but it looks so cool. Yeah. Let's talk about that for a second. The trough slander. You guys talked about this before we can talk. I don't think we did. Have you guys ever had the trough hot sauce? Well, they know what it is. Everyone knows that. An awful, disgusting. Well, I don't know if you like. I don't like it either, but we don't love truffle oil. I don't like people like things just because they're expensive. I love truffle butter. I don't love truffle. Truffle fries, either it's like not getting truffle butter is a sexual thing, OK? Is that what that is? Yes. Oh, you were talking about that? Yeah, don't Google it, guys. Don't clear your internet history, I'm telling you now. But anyway, back to the titles, they said they don't need the label to look great because the flavor does the talking OK, well enough. Talk about this. If you want it, you guys should go buy it, and I'm hoping to Christ that it's not like a problematic company. I feel bad. Like we're in that kind of. I just hope to God. You just never know. I already said Guy Fieri in this episode. Oh, but like Cod, I hope it's problematic. I know I should have Googled that, but I didn't find out. Let's just hope and good measure that you're OK because you can't live your life thinking that everyone, just because you just don't know. So you're OK now the amount of you everyone's allowed right now to Jonathan. Councillor Jonathan, you're OK. Thank you, everyone. I'm f**king fragile. Look at me. You, you're still sick, OK? I know my god, what's happening to me? I need healing. I need soup. I need hot sauce from the trailer. OK, so what's your crush of the week? My crush of the week is Louis, the Jack-O-Lantern from Targa. Come on now, Louis. We just shot on target so hard a couple of weeks ago, but guess you guess who came back and said, f**k you, councillors. This is so funny. If you guys heard about this so late. Last week, shoppers began sharing videos on Tik Tok that showed an eight foot figure with a pumpkin shaped head and a black cloak alpha on display in the department stores Halloween section. It was Louis. So while many thought the decoration was cute, most shoppers were particularly entranced by what the figure says. So if you hit this little button, he says, I am not a Jack-O-Lantern. My name is Louis. He said. It's so good. He's so gay. Having a gay old man, I'm obsessed with this guy. I haven't seen him in real life yet. Even for you, Page is covered in Louis Talk, and it just looks like really a funny, random Halloween decoration and alliance when I'm reading about is it an article that I took from the insider who did a whole like write up about it? Like, that's like, who's writing this stuff? But like, obviously, I've seen this on tech talk and he cost one hundred eighty dollars. Really expensive, you think? Yeah. Well, he's really big. I have to see him in real life, commonly seen on a phone screen. You have to really see me real life to determine if I think that's worth it. Halloween decorations are expensive, though the ones that spare are really expensive. Yeah, well, the ones that spirit are like crazy. This is like, this is a target. Find, let's be honest. Well, it's Target's hide and seek collection. They've had that for a long time. A little micro company. Yeah, so they're describing it as a light and sound. Pumpkin, how clean? I'm sorry. A light and sound pumpkin. Halloween ghoul. Not a jack o' lantern. And he does say some other things, but that is the viral clip of him saying, My name is Louis. But there was another one with where he says, Hello, hello, hello. I'm so happy you could carve out some time to correct, oh, to come out tonight. But the fact that he's like, Hello, hello, hello, know he's so OK, you either. The guy is like, he's so gay rights. The Babadook was gay. Louis is gay. The Babalu. I think it's funny. I think like they were. There's so many, like just scary bulls**t things that they were like, Hey, let's just create something so random that we know will go viral and it works. Do you think, OK, so then I have to think, is that what they were thinking to do? Because to me, it feels so weird and dumb. I guess they probably did think it was going to go viral. These people are like making six figure salaries they have to think about. We live in a viral digital age where clips matter. Everything matters. Can it be shared online? How can this be an experience for people to share on Tik Tok, which is like running marketing right now? Like, that's our whole job. Of course, that was the thing. That's why all they're like individual like soundbites are funny and people are like, Oh, that's a lot of like money to throw into this one product. It's really not that because they create an entire Halloween line if they dedicate one of their like outdoor animatronics to be kind of silly. It's not really that risky, especially if they're going to sell it. Yeah. You know, people are going to buy. You want to sell it. The thing is sold out across America. You can't buy it online. I saw it literally yesterday where when you drop me off a target, I sent you a picture. It was on display. Or do you see it in the box because they're not selling the displays? Because if you go online, you can't buy online and in stores, everyone's saying that the only ones in stores are just the display and they're not selling the display. Oh, I think they're because it's it would because they know it's doing so well that while digitally, it's it's doing more marketing for them to keep it up and not sell that one. You know what I mean? It's such good marketing because I took a picture of it in the store and hand it to you. Yeah, and now we're talking about it. Yeah, and that's why we crash the week. I think it's hysterical, especially since we just shot on target two weeks ago. Yeah, now we're like, Hey, guys, get so tight little a*****es down to target. Well, you know who's been winning the viral game in the Halloween space the last two years category up? No, that's such a weird thing to say. Home Depot and Lowe's with their 12 foot skeletons. Those have been so big, so viral. Everyone was getting those and I felt the hot chick online is f*ggy Lewis. Jack-O-Lantern, and we know he's not Jack-O-Lantern, he's just Lois. Oh, he's just my name is Lewis. I think he's so gay. He's so fine. And I had a yard and summer to display him. I would buy him, but not right now. I think it's fun. I hope we see more stupid stuff like this. Like, I just want to laugh. Yeah, there's enough spook going around. Make me laugh. And that's going to really. And that is kind of cute that he says, I'm so glad. Hello. Hello, hello. Thank you for carving out time. That's cute. The way he says hello is so funny, too. I'm obsessed with him, man. I can't. Because the week is Louis. What song's been stuck in your head all week? Welcome to camp songs. Welcome back to Camp Song Kingdom. So somebody commented, What song's been sucking your head all week? Stuck in your head? It's stuck. Yeah, I know. But somebody sucking your hat all week. We have some naughty campers out there. Oh, wow, yeah, go off creative. Anyway, this is the part of the show where we we give you a little song to listen to your homework assignment. If you, well, you can listen to it for free. We've got a playlist on Spotify linked in the show notes, as well as a YouTube playlist that you can listen to. You should listen, guys. I'm sure most you you do. It's now being listened to by over twenty one hundred campers. Wow. And those are just the people who have downloaded it, just like search. I imagine a world where campers just like search individually, like not the playlist. It's just there if you want it. But these are just song suggestions. Yeah, and I think it's great too, because it's like sometimes I don't know what I want to listen to, and I'm just like, I don't want to shuffle through my music. I want a little bit of new music. And hey, we know how to become. Yeah, they're mostly classic. Some people are now, you know, they're all over the place. But anyway, we're going to add to the list today. Do you want to go first? You want me to go first. Why don't you go first? OK, so I wanted a little bit of a fall song. What song feels like fall? Oh, I love that. Actually, it was your Halloween song from last year was the same artist. Do you want a guy? No, I don't remember. So your song last year? Sorry, Jojo Siwa. Oh, just oh, Jojo. The original candidate even said that I know the cranberries. Oh, your song last year with zombies? What's yours? Sorry. And my song right now is Dreams I. This is such a good song, so I want to read really. So we sing a little bit. Yeah, I don't really have it in me. We just started off for me. I'll take over my life changing every day and every possible way. Ha ha ha. So I never felt like this before. All right. I love that. It's actually a good song. So let me tell you about in 1982 is when it came out. So there was this guy. His name is Ian Geddes from Melody Maker, and he named Dreams the single of the week. And I, just the way he put this into words is magical because I cannot agree more. He said it's quote intoxicating, beguiling, a gossamer waltz across sacred ground. So enjoy the delicate but profound delights of dreams now. The cranberries may never be this good again, so it was like a little bit of a bad candidate at the end, but he was like back handed. It's just, hey, it was good. But he said he was pretty much saying that this is like you can't get any better than the. And to me, it's so inherently like 90s like love story. I literally have a video old vintage Zack Ryder on Tik Tok, where I did a whole week's get with that song playing. Yeah, such a good song. I remember it from the babysitter's club. However, it was also in the movie you hate, and it was your take a hike last week. You've got mail. Yeah. Hey, everyone makes a mistake. And something weird about it is that there are officially three different music videos by three different directors within the band. Yeah, that's so weird. Yeah, they did it over the course of a couple of years. But yeah, my song of the week is Dream's reminds me of Dawson's Creek. Yeah, I can see that very whole. Yeah. So Paul called Jason Mm. It's not real. That's not real. Yeah, unless no, no. Cranberries is not real. You can not put that in the category. We won't give it real. So what's your song of the week? Also, a not real song based in the fall. It is. I'll follow you into the dark by Death Cab for Cutie. Yes, so classic. We both were on the same kind of wavelength this year. I mean, this week about fall music, it's described as a stand out moving song about the trends transcendental power of love even when the boundary is down. I love that. Yeah. So to me, this song is just fall. It's love. It's crisp autumn, and it's the most streamed song on their Spotify. Definitely. The song came out in 2006, you guys, which just furthers my theory that 2006 was the best year for music. I will die on this hill. Look at all the music that came out that year, and you're going to tell me I'm wrong, OK? I was 11 when the song came out, but I probably was like 12 13 when I really became a fan of it. And this song made me so moody. I was just like, so obsessed with it. Chasing a little bit of the chorus, please tell me if heaven and hell decide that they both are satisfied. Illuminate the nose on the vacancy sign. If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks, then I'll follow you into the dark. First of all, Charles, I'm amazing. You were right on page. I like when he goes Argaman. Monaco's bruised by a lady in black. The song is you know what that is? Yeah. The nun. Yeah, yeah. The song is really like, it's really religious in certain ways. I think this whole course is about like, hey, like even if we get to the end of life together and there's no heaven and there's no hell as long as I'm with you. Like, that's how I want to end it all. It's kind of dark, like it's like, I don't want to live this unless I'm like it. When it's all done with you are done with me too. But I think it's a really a beautiful song. It's a little depressing. It's very twilight. Ask for, Oh, it's twilight, but I love Death Cab for Cutie. I think they're they're just a talented band. And what's really interesting about this song that I didn't know was when they were recording the album, this came out off of it was going to be on the album, but they were having issues with the microphones. So the sound people were like, OK, everybody stop for a minute. And then the singer, the lead singer, he grabbed his guitar and started strumming us and was like, Just kind of like, I don't see practicing it, but just like doing a run through of this, and the guy was like, Wait, caught us. And that's the song, the version that we hear now. I was off of like a s**tty microphone. It wasn't a s**tty microphone, but it was like not in the plan of the setup of the day it was. They had a very slick production schedule and this was like you just doing a little run through by himself, things like way. This is all sounding really good right now. It's just. And it was like the one take of it. And that's the one that we have. Oh, that's a fun fact. I don't think I'm going to listen to it the same way. Yeah. So it's a little it was kind of a little random in the way that it was recorded like it was going to be planned. But yeah, I don't know. I just I love this song and it probably changed my life. At 12 years old, I thought this was like the be all and all of music. I thought this was like it, like it didn't get any better than how like a motion on this? Always. But now I'm 28, 16 years later, and I still just absolutely adore it. So it's very fall to me, you know, as your song is, so Cranberries and Death Cab for Cutie are on this week's assignment. Campers to start stream in. We don't get any rights for it, but they certainly do. I know. God damn it. I think that's all we have for this week. Yeah, I think so, too. So if you have any art, please review the podcast Five Stars Wherever You Listen. Russell Review We Love to Read Them. Recommend to a friend if you've been here a long time or you've only been here a day. We really appreciate you and we love you so much. We have a lot of exciting things coming up this month, moving into the holidays, how fast this year has flown by. My God, my how the children grow. The children grow and the corn dies. But also, if you want to see some bonus content from us, go to CNN.com slash camp counselors and we're going to be doing. We haven't done yet, but tonight we're going to be sitting down with a glass of wine and doing our little crafts, a little excited for it and getting a little unfiltered on there because we're behind a paywall and we can. We love you so much. Thanks for sticking around with us. We'll see you next week. And with that being said, like our campers.