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AHS season 13 finale...We made it to the end of American Horror Story: 13, and we have feelings. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan break down the finale, “Devil of a Good Time”: a deadly batch of cookies, a satanic midlife crisis, a very fast pregnancy, Mallory's trip to Salem, and a new face in the Last Supper. Then we get into what went wrong: the dug-up dictators who never mattered, the storylines left hanging, and how a season with this cast ended up like this.

Before all that, we share the worst series and season finales we've ever sat through

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American Horror Story 13: the penultimate episode. One episode left, and American Horror Story just went off the rails. Kristin takes us through episodes 11 and 12 of Season 13, “Madison’s Happy Ending” and “Sisters in Arms.” Ben switches sides and pulls Myrtle Snow out of her JCPenney hell. Madison narrates her own rom-com with the devil’s son. Fiona meets a sister she never knew she had, Queenie gets out of the chicken shack, and the coven tries a heist on Satan that goes about as well as you’d expect.

We also dig into why these episodes feel so off, and whether that’s the clue that this whole season is AI-made. Plus our favorite and least favorite Halloween candies (the candy corn hate is real), a night at a serial killer speakeasy, and a new show recommendation.

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Spoilers for AHS Season 13 through episode 12. Explicit language.

Join us next week for the finale. Happy Halloween from Fear & Wine!

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American Horror Story 13 continues. The two storylines finally collide. Kelli takes us through episodes 9 and 10 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Devil Is in the Details” and “The Prodigal Son.” Constance makes her demands of Satan, and he answers by unrolling a very long scroll of her sins. Ben finally learns what his 616 tattoo means. Papa Legba reveals the bet between God and the devil, Mallory confesses, and the coven gets an unexpected visitor at the door. We also get into Ben’s not-so-great plans for killing Satan, the many theories about the AI storyline, and the very real pope whose botched embalming went horribly wrong.

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We're back with American Horror Story 13 (AHS). Devil’s Night comes to Miss Robichaux’s. Kristin takes us through episodes 7 and 8 of American Horror Story Season 13, “The Baddest Witch of Them All” and “Hell No.” With Cordelia down and James March playing piano through the chaos, Madison, Queenie, Mallory, and Coco take on Jeffrey Dahmer, the Zodiac Killer, and Richard Ramirez. Then Fiona makes the entrance of the season. Papa Legba strikes a deal, Queenie goes back to Chubby’s, and Marie Laveau joins the coven against Satan.

Before the recap, everyone shares what they’re watching this fall, including Carrie, Widow’s Bay, Gilmore Girls, and a reality TV rewatch. Plus the great debate over bringing Gene Wilder back with AI.

Spoilers for AHS Season 13 through episode 8.

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Vampire Folklore, Rabies, and the Milwaukee Protocol...

In 1725, the Austrian government sent an official to watch a village dig up a corpse.

He wrote down what he saw: no decomposition. Hair and beard grown. New skin. New nails. Fresh blood in the mouth. They staked it. They burned it. His report ran in a Vienna newspaper, and Europe got a new word for it. Vampire.

This bonus episode is the real history of vampires. The 1725 panics. Mercy Brown, the nineteen-year-old in Rhode Island whose heart was burned in 1892 because her family had tuberculosis. The 1998 paper in Neurology arguing that rabies is where the whole legend came from — the biting, the foam, the fear of water, the sleeplessness.

And then the real vampire. The one with wings. And the fifteen-year-old girl in Wisconsin who picked up an injured bat in a church, got bitten on the finger, and became the first person in history to survive rabies after it had already reached her brain. The first person to survive using the Milwaukee Protocol

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American Horror Story: 13 is cramming its final season into October, and this week Kelli, Leah, and Alisan cover episodes 4–6. The Jezebel Ball goes down beneath the Apollyon: Elsa Mars MCs, Tate does the pushing, and thirteen of Mr. Nas's “favorite bad girls” head into a lava pit. It does not go to plan.

Constance comes clean about her deal with the devil. Ben has a date night with fellow crash survivor Ashley, and she brings a lot of red flags. Then James Patrick March gets the Devil's Night crew back together, with Jeffrey Dahmer on group-text duty, and they come for the Coven. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite AHS seasons.

Wine Pairing: 13 Celsius Sauvignon Blanc

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Part 1 of a 2-part episode...

It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what's billed as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story: 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. Nas who throws up in the worst possible way. Constance is back, and so are Twisty, Tate, Addie, Kai, Winter, and the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short. John Waters shows up with a medical bag full of coral snakes. We get into the Last Supper, the Fibonacci sequence, the Death card, and the German folk tradition of Rauhnacht, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Kristin has theories (deals with the devil, AI glitches, timeline slips), and Kelli is just along for the ride. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows, and share our thoughts on Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.

Wine Pairing: 13 Years Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

PART 1

00:00 Welcome, spooky-season bonus episodes

01:15 Question of the week: favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows

12:15 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

21:38 AHS 13 cast and Episode 1, “13”

58:43 Episode 2, “1:13 AM”

PART 2

1:27:00 Episode 3, “Rauhnacht”

1:44:00 Theories: deals with the devil, AI glitches and timelines

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Part 2 of a 2-part episode...

It's spooky season, and American Horror Story is back for what it bills as its final season. Kelli, Kristin, Leah, and Alisan dig into the first three episodes of American Horror Story 13. A birthday flight that goes very wrong, a hospice nurse with triskaidekaphobia, and a luxury high-rise with a thirteenth floor that shouldn't exist. Plus a very old man named Mr. Nas who throws up in the worst possible way. Constance is back, and so are Twisty, Tate, Addie, Kai, Winter, and the Black Dahlia, Elizabeth Short. John Waters shows up with a medical bag full of coral snakes. We get into the Last Supper, the Fibonacci sequence, the Death card, and the German folk tradition of Rauhnacht, when the veil between worlds is at its thinnest. Kristin has theories (deals with the devil, AI glitches, timeline slips), and Kelli is just along for the ride. Before all that, we rank our favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows, and share our thoughts on Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story.

Wine Pairing: 13 Years Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve

PART 1

00:00 Welcome, spooky-season bonus episodes

01:15 Question of the week: favorite and least favorite Ryan Murphy shows

12:15 Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story

21:38 AHS 13 cast and Episode 1, “13”

58:43 Episode 2, “1:13 AM”

PART 2

1:27:00 Episode 3, “Rauhnacht”

1:44:00 Theories: deals with the devil, AI glitches and timelines

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The Mothman didn't stay in Point Pleasant. In Part 2 of our deep dive, Kristin follows the winged humanoid known as The Mothman out of West Virginia and into the modern world. A 1948 sighting in Chehalis, Washington, that predates Point Pleasant by nearly two decades; a disputed 1957 case in Braidwood, Illinois, and then Chicago, where paranormal investigator Lon Strickler mapped over 160 reports between 2011 and 2020, from O'Hare Airport to Lincoln Park's Oz Park. We dig into the skeptical case from a University of Chicago memory researcher, cross the border into Mexico's El Hombre Pájaro and reports from Argentina and Brazil, and land somewhere much closer to home: recent winged-humanoid reports out of Zephyr Hills and Pasco County, Florida — just up the road from where we record. Is the internet manufacturing the Mothman, or just finally letting us compare notes?

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A spooky-season strange-phenomena episode of Fear & Wine. The Mothman of Point Pleasant. Before the movie, there was Point Pleasant, West Virginia: a small Appalachian town built on an abandoned WWII TNT plant, ancient burial mounds, and Cold War nerves. In Part 1 of our two-part Mothman deep dive, Kristin traces the seven-foot, red-eyed figure back through 48,000-year-old cave paintings, Mesopotamian demons, Welsh death omens, and Shawnee tradition, before landing on November 1966, when two young couples reported a winged creature outside the old North Power Plant. From there, the story widens: John Keel, the Men in Black, sewing-machine salesman Woodrow Derenberger and his telepathic visitor Indrid Cold, and the December 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge that ended the sightings and turned a cryptid into an omen.

(Part 2- the Mothman's return in Chicago...coming soon.)

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