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It’s the Hardly Working Podcast Halloween Special! 🎃
SP and Kellie are diving headfirst into spooky season with a Trader Joe’s Fall Taste Test, hot takes on Halloween traditions, and a look back at the weirdest, wildest moments from Halloween throughout history.

💀 Halloween Unpopular Opinions:
From pumpkin spice slander to the tragedy of sexy Shrek — SP and Kellie share and debate the most controversial takes of spooky season:

1. Pumpkin spice doesn’t actually taste good — we just like the nostalgia.
2. Trick-or-treating should be for all ages — adults deserve candy too.
3. Haunted houses aren’t scary, they’re just loud and sweaty.
4. Candy corn is better than people admit (especially with peanuts).
5. Hocus Pocus 2 wasn’t that bad — childhood nostalgia just hits different.
6. Horror movie fans forgive anything if the kills are creative.
7. Costume contests? More popularity than creativity.
8. Halloween should always fall on the last Saturday of October.
9. Apple bobbing is one of the worst party games ever invented.
10. “Sexy” versions of literally everything have gone too far.

🧠 Rapid-Fire Round:
– Is carving pumpkins actually fun or just a huge mess?
– Do adults ruin Halloween or make it better?

🦇 That Happened Today?! (October 31 Through History)
From the Protestant Reformation to record-breaking zombies, here are the spookiest and strangest events ever to fall on Halloween:
📜 1517 – Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to a church door.
🧙 1926 – Harry Houdini dies after a stomach punch in Detroit.
⛰️ 1941 – Mount Rushmore is completed.
🪦 1961 – Stalin’s body removed from Lenin’s Mausoleum.
🏄 2003 – Bethany Hamilton survives her famous shark attack.

🍔 Fast Food History:
– 2018: Burger King’s “Nightmare King” green bun burger debuts.
– 2021: McDonald’s brings back the McRib for Halloween week.
– 2022: Chipotle’s “Boorito” $6 promo crashes the app.

🌍 World Records & Weird History:
– 1999: World’s largest pumpkin pie (3,699 lbs).
– 2004: Most Jack-O’-Lanterns carved in 24 hours (109).
– 2011: Largest gathering of zombies (15,458 in New Jersey).
– 2022: World’s largest inflatable pumpkin (118 ft tall).

📺 Pop Culture & TV Moments:
– 1993: The Nightmare Before Christmas releases.
– 2001: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone premieres in London.
– 2007: Saw IV hits theaters.
– 2010: The Walking Dead debuts on AMC.
– 2016: Stranger Things cast’s viral Ghostbusters costumes.

🎂 Born on October 31:
Vanilla Ice (1967) | Peter Jackson (1961) | Piper Perabo (1976) | Rob Schneider (1963) | Willow Smith (2000)

⚰️ Celebrity Deaths:
1926 – Harry Houdini
2020 – Sean Connery

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