It’s been called “Satan’s Earwax.”  Every year at Halloween it reappears like some great plague - CANDY CORN. Where did it come from, and is it really so divisive?

 They were the most popular attraction in Las Vegas until the magic and the act ended in a way that, sadly, wasn’t a surprise. We discuss the undoing of Siegfried and Roy.

If you played video games in the 1990s, chances are you did it - blew into your video game cartridge to somehow make it work again. Did that really accomplish anything, and what did Nintendo have to say about the idea?

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Episode Sources/Go Deeper:
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/29/9633560/candy-corn-explained
https://www.today.com/food/scientific-reason-why-candy-corn-so-polarizing-t235104
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/11/siegfried-roy-fame-rise-and-fall/671528/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/12589/did-blowing-nintendo-cartridges-really-help

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