This week on Away From Desk, we bring you an episode that begins with a simple question—“Who would you suck?”—and somehow spirals into Halloween cynicism, Nathan’s hot dog slander, lactose-based identity crises, and a philosophical pitch for an event called Falafel & Philosophy (which is exactly what it sounds like, unfortunately).

We also examine the smell of Halloween (objectively bad), adulting (also bad), Churchill Downs Thanksgiving (somehow fine?), thrift stores full of spiders, and whether AI is capable of emotional depth or just really good at faking vibes.

Plus: wedding cake as workplace currency, trunk-or-treat fatigue, a hot dog costume that changes lives, and a brief moment where we consider whether one of us might secretly be a robot. A very normal episode.

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