It's the dearly departed podcast, featuring your host, historian Scott Michaels, and filmmaker Mike Dorsey.

All right, it's a dearly departed podcast episode 35. Can you believe it?

Happy Halloween.

Yeah, happy Halloween. I got my candy corn hat on.

Dress for the occasion, the candy that people love to hate.

I love candy corn. I'm one of the lovers.

Do you like circus peanuts, too?

I don't.

I'm not, well, I mean, not like I go out and run out and buy them, but they're all right.

But candy corn, especially if you get them with the pumpkins, oh, man, those are the best.

My teeth hurt, just thinking about it.

I wonder if it's like a cilantro thing where like some people think cilantro tastes like soap.

There's like something about candy corn that some people, just their taste buds, reject it for some

reason.

Well, there is a time.

I mean, I was, I mean, I'm a sugarhead.

That's for sure.

But there was a time when I could just eat that stuff by the handful. But then I just,

you know, it's like circus peanuts. You know, I even look at when I want to pupe. But, and the candy

corn, I can, you know, it's sort of like, it's sort of like, well, if it's there, I have that.

Right, right, right. It's not, you're not going to buy it if to buy it if you're in line at the store.

Right. And it's classic and I like the way it looks. I like getting it when I was

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