Labor Door Pains. What a weird title. But there’s a reason. You see, it was originally going to be called “Labor Day Pains” as a poke at all you poor lot getting over your hangovers from the long Labor Day holiday here in America. But then we started recording, and, well, you’ll hear just exactly WHY we renamed this episode Labor Door Pains instead. All we can say is, “UGH teenagers…we love ’em to death but…amirite?!”
Anyhoo, the door clicks only last a short bit…just…muscle right on through them…like we did. Also know this. After we talked about the lady with the brown recluse spider in her ear (NOPE. NO LINKS. NONE. Google it yourself. We tried to do it for you but of course all the links have horrible photos and videos of spiders so you’re on your own pal) and the PB4WEGO license plate lady (from New Hampshire…ahahahaaahahhaaa Kris had it right!), we actually got down to the topic at hand: Labor Day.
Ok calm yourself. It’s difficult we know. Shuffle right on through the celebratory confetti and balloons and keep reading.
In good Mugly Truth fashion, we talk about the details of an event after it occurs. So. As you know if you live in the United States, we are just coming off a very hot, long weekend culminating in a Monday off from work (for most of the working population but definitely not all). If you’re like us, you’ll not know much about why most people get to celebrate this every year, but you’ll have heard your grandma couldn’t wear white after Labor Day. We talk about the riotous beginnings of Labor Day gatherings (think protests and brawling vs. barbecues and parades) some interesting facts related to Labor Day, and a smattering of fun events around the country. If you just Netflixed and chilled for three days, we are here to prepare you for LDW2020 (Labor Day Weekend 2020). From munchie fulfillment at the Taste of Colorado, to sand castles in Sand iego (that’s not a typo), jazz in Chicago, and throwing beads in New Orleans, not to mention the Orange International Street Fair (with the amazing American Wake band) right here in our hometown – there is a LOT you can plan for if you decide beer and barbecued brats with your buddies is so 2019. For links to the articles we cited:
And that Temecula Valley Wine and Balloon Festival which has nothing to do with Labor Day? Here you go.
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Happy All Hallow’s Eve Eve!!! Today marks our last episode of October 2018, extolling eerie, spooky, Halloweeny greatness. We help you ring in a spectacular Halloween with this simply lovely episode discussing cemeteries from all over the world with our good friend Paul Wilborn from the “Having Beers With” podcast. We chat about our personal visits to the local Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, Paul’s brush with Scottish ghosts (maybe…it could have happened) at Greyfriar’s Kirkyard in Edinburgh which is supposed to be so very haunted, and how both Paul and Kris visited St. Cuthbert’s Graveyard (also in Edinburgh). Just not at the same time. They even took the same damned Ghost Bus Tour. Again, two years apart. It is very highly recommended by both by the way.
Anyway, Paul also has an affinity for New Orleans (because family) cemeteries (because wicked cool) and knows way more than anyone else we know about the history of why people are buried the way they are in NOLA. Kris even pinpoints her “taphophile” beginnings from visiting a cemetery in Weaverville, CA, when she was a kid.
We also find out an ancestor of Kym’s actually started a cemetery for war veterans somewhere back east. That’s our Kym, always at the ready with a zinger story! We discuss some places we’d like to visit and wonder why more people don’t plan vacations around visiting cemeteries. C’mon. Why not? Kris ends the episode with some incredibly amazing (Oh…YES…INCREDIBLY AMAZING WE SAY!!!!…erm) facts about cemeteries. Ahem.
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Photos from Fairhaven Memorial Park, Santa Ana, CA
