On this episode of This Is My Thing, we’re celebrating the spookiest month of the year with what is arguably the spookiest episode of the show – this one’s all about tales of the paranormal!

Our guests – let’s call them ‘Todd’ and ‘Carl’ because they’ve chosen to keep their paranormal hobby separate from their professional lives and prefer not to use their real names on the air – have been friends since high school. A shared fascination for the paranormal and a shared love of old-school community media (think GeoCities websites, AM radio, and community-access cable TV) led them to create the ATX Paranormal Hotline, where anyone can call and anonymously share ghost stories, UFO encounters, cryptid sightings… anything mysterious and/or unexplained.

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On this episode of This Is My Thing, we’re talking with Cecie Suknaic about her love for a pretty specific type of baking – she specializes in gluten-free sourdough, mostly breads and bagels. She started making sourdough during the early days of the pandemic which, yes, is kind of a cliché, but for Cecie it wasn’t about jumping onto everyone’s favorite lockdown bandwagon; she wanted to make gluten-free for her celiac-afflicted husband Mike.

Since then, it’s become a full-fledged hobby and a surprisingly great way for Cecie to connect with her in-laws.

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On this episode of This Is My Thing, we’re talking with Elizabeth Warren (not the senator from Massachusetts – a different one) about her love of trash collecting. We’re talking here about 'trash collecting' in the sense of picking up trash that’s lying around where it doesn’t belong, not about creating a collection of trash to keep at home. Although there is a bit of that involved, too, and we’ll get into that during the show.

Elizabeth has always been the type to pick up a stray piece of litter when she sees it, but in recent years she’s been a bit surprised to discover that trash collecting has actually become her favorite hobby. We’ll talk about how that happened, why she loves to pick up trash, what is trash and what is not, and lots more. Plus we'll go over a big bag of trash-but-maybe-not-trash that she brought with her to the studio.

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This is My Thing is a listener-supported production of KUT & KUTX Studios in Austin, Texas. You can support this podcast by making a donation at supportthispodcast.org