EP 219: Deep in the Bowels of Halloween

Episode Summary

It’s the Live, Laugh, Larceny Halloween special, and we’re celebrating spooky season by getting down and dirty — deep in the bowels of October. This week, Trevin faces a full-blown Halloween dilemma after realizing spiders are the only creature he likes less when they have a...

No murders, just bad decisions.

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What This Episode Covers

• Halloween special, and we’re celebrating spooky season by getting down and dirty — deep in the bowels of October.
• This week, Trevin faces a full-blown Halloween dilemma after realizing spiders are the only creature he likes
• when they have a big butt.
• Because, really — anything that plump and poisonous can’t be trusted.
• Meanwhile, Amanda’s questioning her life choices after watching the
• Halloween special and realizing that hobbyists are somehow better at everything than she is.

Why Listen?

If you like true crime but think most true crime got a little too murdery, this episode brings petty crimes, dumb criminals, and dramatic storytelling without the heavy stuff.

Original Episode Description

It’s the

Live, Laugh, Larceny

Halloween special, and we’re celebrating spooky season by getting down and dirty — deep in the bowels of October.

This week, Trevin faces a full-blown Halloween dilemma after realizing spiders are the only creature he likes

less

when they have a big butt. Because, really — anything that plump and poisonous can’t be trusted. Meanwhile, Amanda’s questioning her life choices after watching the

Is It Cake?

Halloween special and realizing that hobbyists are somehow better at everything than she is.

Our game this week is a frightful

All Hallow’s Eve

edition of

This or That

, where Amanda forces Trevin to choose between the true terrors of October:

slasher films or psychological horror?

Cute or scary costumes?

Carve or paint your pumpkins?

Foggy nights or full moons?

Scream franchise or Halloween classics?

We’re tackling every haunted dilemma that defines the season.

For storytime, Amanda shares the eerie tale of

Shannon Dennis and Tina Jamarillo

of Barstow, California — two women who let the Halloween spirit

possess them a little too much.

After police receive reports of a dead body in the desert, these grown adults might just end up looking like

real dummies.

Trevin’s story opens with a nomination for the

scariest Halloween costume ever

: a suit. In a chillingly relatable tale of

corporate America

, capitalism, and existential dread, meet

Bo Whitener

, a Georgia man working for McKesson’s pharmaceutical distribution center. When a massive CEO pension check lands in the wrong hands, Bo decides to dress up as the big boss himself for the company Halloween party — a move that might earn him a police call, a suspension, or a long interrogation by a middle manager.

Beyond the usual Halloween tropes, today’s episode ties together

Spirit Halloween

,

candy corn

, and — most importantly —

bowels.

Put on your waterproof boots and light your jack-o’-lanterns, because this true petty crime and comedy podcast special dives deep —

uncomfortably deep

— into the bowels of spooky season.

Today's Stories:

Dummies and their Halloween Spirit

The Scariest Halloween Costume

Take a break from the heavy and get petty.