In this nontraditional min-episode, Garret organizes a storytelling monologue coinciding with the occasion twin holiday of his birthday and election day in the U.S.A. Garret recounts his own election day adventures before celebrating the BIG 4-0 with an overview of key films and horror texts that communicated fear to and through each of his first four decades alive.

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