It's a Halloween SpoOoOktacular! After the Lads try to solve the mystery of what's going on in Tom's creepy basement, they reminisce about what Halloween means to them. There's lots of talk about costumes, like Justin possibly dressing up as Meatloaf, Frank dressing up as a Japanese professional wrestler, and Tom figuring out how to pee with his clothes on backward. Then we power through the mail bombing shit because it's depressing. (Note: this was recorded before they caught the perp.) Then the boys talk about the crazy silent Swedish docu-horror film Häxan. We marvel at the technical achievements, and the way Christensen threads the needle on witchcraft and the patriarchy way back in 1922. Then the boys talk about Talking Heads Fear of Music, analyzing why it occupies a unique space in the band's history. Then it's on to Frasier S1E5 Here’s Looking At You, an ill-advised episode where Martin spies on a lady with a telescope, and it still makes Justin cry for some reason. We close out with a new segment where the boys recommend things they've been enjoying.
Next up is Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria, Mirror Traffic by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, and Frasier S1E6, The Crucible.
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