Happy Halloween, everyone! Kristy’s trapped in a haunted mansion due to underfunded local infrastructure! Also, there’s a lot of scrapbooking and a trip to a fabric shop, which makes Esther very happy.

On today’s agenda: making chaos work for you; reasonably sized haunted mansions; an important PSA about your old cassette tapes; we finally take an editorial position on Dan Quayle; the triumphant return of Kristy Noir; Jamie Newton confronts his own mortality; unrealistic expectations of archival research; Hurricane Ophelia or GTFO; pizza topping scapegoats; a criminal waste of Chekhovian servants’ bells; primary sources for DAYS; kisses vs burgers; dying of spleen; turns out the real ghost was the patriarchy all along.

Our theme song is "The Incredible Shrinking Larry" by Matt Oakley and "Big Band Jingle A" is by Lobo Loco, both on Free Music Archive.

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