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Speaker 1: Did your mom, you're gonna go out at me? Go

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Speaker 1: I still don't sleep because of her. I still don't.

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Speaker 1: My dad swears she she's appeared to him, my dad swears,

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Speaker 1: It's fun that this episode's all about embracing the spooky.

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Speaker 2: I'm very excited and we're going to talk about stories

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Halloween. My name is Eva.

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Speaker 3: Longoria and I am Myra and welcome to Hungry for History,

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Speaker 3: a podcast that explores our past and present through food.

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Speaker 3: On every episode, we'll talk about the history of some

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Speaker 3: of our favorite dishes, ingredients, and beverages from our.

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Speaker 1: Culture, So make yourself at home. When I feel like

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Speaker 1: there's so much we know about the Salem Witch Trials,

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Speaker 1: but not a lot about Latin America, and I think

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Speaker 2: And food centric magic features prominently in the Lores of

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Speaker 2: Witches in the sixteen hundred, So like the Sale and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the women were responsible for all of this.

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Speaker 1: So the women were responsible mostly for food production. So

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Speaker 1: if anything went wrong with that or good, yes, they

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Speaker 2: A witch and a threat to social you know, hierarchy.

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Speaker 2: We talked about this a little bit during our beer

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Speaker 1: Yes, remind people of that. So it was where the

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Speaker 1: witches hat comes from.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the witches had it with women were brewers,

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Speaker 2: And it was still consumed with water, but it was

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Speaker 2: Our spooky episode continues with a special guest, a fellow

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Speaker 2: And I are from South Texas and you're from South Texas.

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Speaker 4: Susto itself for people who don't know, but I feel

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Speaker 2: So what is the story. I don't know the story

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Aiden. Well, I could talk about scary stories beforeever, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be doing that. Likes yeah, like with an eyeball. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I love those yeah, yeah, scary molds and brains, brains

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Speaker 1: and things like that about that stuff. It's gonna be fun.

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