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Hi, listeners, It's e J. Miller. I'm the writer and creator

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here at Fast Food Horror. Before
we go any further, I want to

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thank you for again joining us for
another installment in our anthology. Now that

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spooky season is quickly upon us,
we'd like to, over the next few

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weeks, take different aspects of our
favorite holiday and explain why they are.

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But we'll be doing that in a
Fast Food Horror kind of way, in

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a creepy kind of way. We
hope you enjoy it. Now, if

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I could find Igor, we can
actually Igor Igor. Where is that sack

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of bones? We can't start the
show without him. He's got to do

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the intro. Without Igor, there
is no show. Where could he be?

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He's probably done in the dungeon,
that sack of bones? I what

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do you? I go? Or
what are you doing? We have to

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start the show. The listeners are
waiting. I'm sorry, e J.

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I had my scare pods and I
barely heard you even come in your scare

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pods? What okay, I'll give
What are you even listening to? I'm

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binge listening my new favorite podcast.
It's Two Crows. It's these delightful women

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that talk about paranormal, scary things
that have happened through history, and it's

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so devastatingly creepy and chock full of
information. I just can't get enough.

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There are so many episodes. Well, I'm glad you found something to listen

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to. I found. I'm glad
you found something educational and something you seem

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so excited by. But we have
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do our show without you. So
if you could please hit pause and whatever

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episode you're listening to of Two Crows
and at least do the intro and hit

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the button with the music so our
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both of us can get some lunch, put our chairs back in the cemetery,

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watch the werewolves play in the moors, and listen to Two Crows together.

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It's everywhere and anywhere podcasts are found, right. Oh is it on

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YouTube? Oh yes, e Jay, it is. It's on YouTube,

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It's on Apple, it's on Spotify, It's everywhere. It's wonderful. But

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let me let me start the show
and then we can entertain our guests.

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I'll just hit this button. Welcome
listeners to our latest episode entitled The Tale

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of the jack O lantern. We
hope you find it insightful yet creepy.

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Welcome, weary traveler, Come join
me by the fire and warm up a

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bit, and I'll tell you a
tale of the Jack o lantern. Yes,

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the punk can we carve up with
the face. There is a story

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behind it, a story that goes
back many, many a generation. The

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Irish tell of a man named Jack
Stingy Jack to the exact. Oh,

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He's known by other names too,
Jack, the Smith, Jack, the

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drunk, drunk Jack, blakey Jack. He was a miserly old man,

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a drunkard who ran about town telling
lies, telling tales, deceiving, manipulating,

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and tricking people. And not the
ha ha kind of tricks either.

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Many of the tricks who did were
mean spirited, and many of the tricks

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and lies he told were to cheat
those out of money or just to be

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plain hurtful. Now, Jack's forked
tongue, lies and antics got the at

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tension of those in heaven and Hell, mostly those in Hell, specifically the

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Devil himself. He was unconvinced and
envious of Jack's ways. So the devil

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went to find out for himself whether
or not Jack lived up to his vile

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reputation. So on one cold autumn's
eve, close to the witching hour,

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Jack found himself walking in the wood
and came upon the devil. Now,

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there are two stories about this encounter
with old Scratch, both very similar and

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both having the same outcome. I
will tell you the most common tale the

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weary travelers of the Emerald Isle that
passed on to me Jack. The devil

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had come to finally collect his soul, but Jack, being Jack, asked

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for one request before going off to
Hell, that he might have one more

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drink of ale before going. The
devil acquiesced to the simple request, and

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they made their way to a local
tavern. Jack being the drunkard, he

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was down many a pint. When
his throat was finally quenched, he asked

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the devil to pay his tab,
which shocked the devil because he did not

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carry any money. Jack convinced him
to turn himself into a silver coin with

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which to pay the bartender, and
then changed back. When the bartender wasn't

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looking, the devil did so,
impressed by Jack's shrewd tactus Jack, quick

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as a whip duck, the now
transmorgified devil coin into his pocket, which

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also contained a crucifix. The crucifix's
presence kept the devil from escaping his form.

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Jack then did a bargain with the
devil. In exchange for his freedom,

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he agreed not to collect Jack's soul. Now, eventually, the drinking

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took its toll on Jack and he
did die. Stingy. Jack prepared to

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enter heaven through the gates of Saint
Peter, but he was stopped. Jack

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was told by God that because of
his sinful lifestyle and deceitfulness and drinking,

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he was not allowed into heaven.
Jack then went down to the gates of

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Hell and begged for admission into the
underworld. The devil, fulfilling his obligation

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and promised to Jack, could not
take his soul. He gave Jack a

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glowing ember from the fires of hell
to light his way, which Jack in

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turn placed inside a hollowed out turnip, and is doomed to roam between the

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flames of good and evil with only
an ember inside the hollow'd out turnip to

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light his way, thus becoming Jack
of the Lantern or Jack o lanterns.

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Roaming the earth ever since now,
over the generation peoples have carved out their

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own lanterns out of turnips or potatoes
to ward off evil spirits on all hollow's

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eve. As the traditions spread,
pumpkins have become the preferred choice for carving,

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which is how we have the jack
o' lanterns you see to day.

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So should you see in your travels
a light moving aimlessly throughout the wood on

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some cold autumn's eve, beware it
might be stingy Jack, and he might

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be in the mood to play some
mischievous trick on some poor unsuspecting traveler.

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Happy travels,