HAPPY HALLOWEEN BESTIES!!!

It’s our spooky Halloween special for episode eight, and Allison takes the hosting throne with high hopes for a dark, deeply psychological round of a homemade Would You Rather game. Naturally, it immediately devolves into absolute nonsense.

Before we can even look at the questions, we drown in heavy small talk covering the absolute war zone of busy photography and hair salon seasons, plus a passionate rant about rising gas prices being completely unhinged.

Once the game finally kicks off, it miraculously resurrects the Great Zombie Argument from episode two, before taking a terrifying dark turn when Charly casually mentions the daily struggle of "having to actively not kill people." Toss in some completely skewed scoring and aggressive rounding errors, and Charly somehow claws her way to a narrow victory.

Topics derailed include: peak season burnout, apocalyptic gas prices, undead strategy round two, intrusive thoughts, and a Halloween special that forgot to be scary.

Charly brings it on with a high-stakes, deeply questionable game from Walmart called How Well Do You Know Your Family, immediately putting the friendship on trial as we grill each other with trivia. But before we even open that box, Allison derails the timeline with a brand-new, all-consuming crochet obsession she woke up with one morning "just because." We dive into a passionate rant against the absolute scam that is female fashion - from shoe sizing to fake pockets.

As the trivia questions get worse, we spiral into an existential crisis over the multiverse, seriously debating whether we could actually be friends in every alternate dimension.

We wrap it up in what will arguably be Charly's favourite thing to ever come out of the podcast: Allison abandoning all dignity to perform a series of unhinged impressions to score a bunch of bonus points.

Fresh off her historic back-to-back victory, Allison takes the hosting reins for movie week, and the cinematic deep-dive instantly goes completely off the rails. Before we can even look at a script, Charly casually announces her bulletproof survival plan to move into the woods, live with the Blair Witch, and "see what she can learn."

From there, we tear into overhyped movie flops, compare our favorite book-to-screen adaptations, and spiral hard into the psychological trap of ADHD compulsory media consumption. We also lose our minds over the accidental discovery of The Karate Kid musical and get deeply hung up on a cinematic injustice: why women on screen can't just be absolute smoke-shows and brutally beat people up. Plus, Allison attempts a dramatic live recreation of the ending of Lisa Frankenstein.

Topics derailed include: woodland ghost roommates, hyperfixation media loops, Broadway martial arts, cinematic double standards, and dramatic goth teen monologues.