We are leaning into Halloween this week! Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post columnist and author of Extremely Online, and Margaret Willison, culture writer and faculty at Not Sorry Productions, dared to join us to discuss the very tall, very viral Halloween decorations named Skelly and Lewis, along with more Halloween nonsense.

Then, comedian Sam Reece tells us about how she liberated herself from perfectionism and found community through crafting. Her new book is S****y Craft Club: A Club for Gluing Beads to Trash, Talking about Our Feelings, and Making Silly Things.

In our conversation, Sam objects to how crafts are often dismissed by the art world because they are historically made by women. One example she points to is Kitchen by Liza Lou, a full-scale kitchen encrusted with beads that took the artist five years to make, which is often labeled under craft instead of art. With her club, Sam aims to push against the boundary between art and craft, and encourage people to embrace trying new things.