TGI Friday the 13th

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4.7 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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0:00.0	From WBEZ Chicago, this is Nerdette. I'm Greta Johnson. We did it. We made it to another
0:09.3	weekend. Coming up, Chuck Wendig is going to tell us about why he writes horror novels
0:14.4	that still have a dash of hope. I think having a little bit of hope and a little bit of
0:19.2	heart and a little bit of humor, which is all H words. But first, let's sit back and
0:23.7	online. For the week that was with two excellent humans with us this week, we have Patrick
0:28.6	Times. He co-hosts the True Crime Obsessed podcast and is the author of the new book Failure
0:32.8	is not not an option. Patrick, welcome to the show. Hi, thank you so much for having me. I'm
0:37.9	so excited to be here. Yeah, also here is Kristen Minzer. She co-hosts the Daily Fail podcast,
0:44.2	which does comedic close readings of tabloids. And she also co-hosts how to be fine, which looks
0:49.6	at the good and bad of the wellness industry. Kristen, hello. Greta, thanks so much for having me
0:54.9	back on the show. I'm so excited to be here with you and Patrick. Yeah. Okay. So today is Friday
0:59.8	the 13th. Are you superstitious people? Whenever I forget about Friday the 13th and then it will be
1:05.9	a random Friday the 13th. And I'll get really excited. I'm like, is today the day I meet a werewolf?
1:10.4	I'm always on the lookout. I'm a bigfoot person. I feel like werewolf is bigfoot adjacent.
1:15.7	I want to meet the whole clan. Oh my gosh. Amazing. What do you think, Kristen?
1:20.0	I like to think of myself as a super logical person. I like to think I am not superstitious.
1:26.7	I know a lot about the history of where superstitions come from. You know, for example, salt,
1:32.0	when we spill some, we put it over our shoulder, you know, toss them over the shoulder because
1:36.0	salt used to be very prized and expensive. But now I can get like a whole container of mortons for
1:40.5	one dollar. So, you know, like, who cares? But I do have a confession. How to be fine back when
1:46.6	we used to be called by the book. We lived by a self-help book that was about tarot cards.
1:53.9	And while we were living by the rules of that book, I was filled with dread every day because
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