October 24, 2022 • 56 mins
Join us for this week's deep dive into the world of trick or treating! We go back centuries to talk about the tradition's interesting origins and how it evolved in the United States through the 20th century. We'll also be talking about the most ridiculous items people have received whilst trick or treating and tons more fun stories! PLUS we're joined by the amazing comedian, Sam Gordon!
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and Halloween it's my favorite holiday, so funny day mark.
I love it because the costumes are fun. Pretending is fun.
I mean, it's like you get to be a kid
for a day and you're allowed to be silly and goofy,
and it's really fun for me to do it and
to see other people that aren't normally that way, you know,
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get goofy uh and you know Hale Satan it's always
good to Hal's sake, just getting just kidding, but I
do love it. Yeah, hey everyone, uh Mark Kendall, I'm
Atlanta based comedian, And you know I didn't trick or
treat much as a kid, but I do remember going
to a haunted house like this was like a probably
around like kindergarten preschool age h and I got freaked
out because I did my hand into a bowl and
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I was told it was like brains, but I guess
it was really like grapes or spaghetti or something, and
I didn't like that. And I remember back then I
was like, I know, I have the capacity to know
that it was like fake, not real, but I think
I remember one of my parents being like, see, it's
just spaghetti, it's all good. But I remember that. So
all right, Also today today, wait, say affected you today
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at all? This? Still scared about bullo spaghetti? No? Like
I love pasta actually a lot, but I guess but
to be good, to be fair, as an adult, I've
not gone to an house. I don't think. I don't
think so. And it's not like I wouldn't say that
I have scared particularly easily. But for whatever reason. I
got that memory lodging in there pretty good. So I
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don't know, I don't know. We're gonna have to check
out another world. Maybe i'd go all right, so I
just think about another world, y'all. I haven't been, so
this is taking from place not of experience, but just
of like curiosity. I'm like, I wouldn't want, like I
think about like the actors that work at another world,
and I wouldn't want to scare someone because I just
be afraid again, punched in the face every night, you
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know what I'm saying, Like, because people don't know what
you're gonna do if you scare them. Like, so that's
my thing. Yeah, another world for those who don't know,
it's a huge haunted house here in Atlanta, Georgia. A
lot of like film production people. That's super cool and
they put a lot of work and effort to it
and they're very scary and people are terrified. And maybe
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the Mark Kendall finally touched spaghetti brains and not Trump well, y'all.
Today is a deep dive episode about trick or treating, Yes,
the well known Halloween tradition. UH. It has some interesting
facts behind its history UH and its origins, and so
we're gonna be exploring that today. And if that's not enough,
we are joined by the brilliant Sam Gordon. So uh.
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Sam is an amazing stand up originally from Chicago and
traditionally raised on a steady diet of hot dogs. Most
of Sam's youth was spent performing in local theater, usually
in the role of someone's evil step. She cut Teeth,
the Second City feature for comedians such as Michael Ian Black,
and produced secret comedy shows for Don't Tell Comedy in Atlanta.
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Sam has written amazing original scripts and as a member
of Writer's Guild of America w g A, which is
super impressive. She currently produces shows, offers creative consulting, and
teaches comedy writing through her business, Wendy Peach Comedy. Y'all
welcome Sam Gordon to the show. Yeah, Oh my goodness,
Sam Gordon so excited to be awesome. Uh. She told me,
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here's the whole show. I've been a third person. I'd
be like a little confused, but I'd be like, I
respect it. I mean, i'd she hit her head before
we started. It's a writer's skilled thing, right, the deputy
I get bored you know, uh well, Sam, we're so
happy to have you back on the podcast to talk
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about trick or treating with us. But before we get
into like the news stories and all that, we're gonna
do a segment we enjoy doing with all of our guests,
which is called giving them their flowers. And so this
is the part of the show where we give you
a couple of compliments. You can't come back, but we're
gonna give you some compliments, all right, So so so
uh Sam, you know so many things to choose from.
But when I was thinking about, like what specific compliment
(04:43):
do I want to give, I think you are a
great builder of community. So aside from being like very
talented comedian artists, you are all those things. But um,
you know, I've seen you host so many shows. I've
seen you teach so many classes, and something that I
feel like people don't really realize that goes into that
as it is so much energy and work that you're
setting up other people to succeed. And I think it
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takes like a very selfless person to want to do that.
But I see you when you host and when you teach,
you get is clear to me anyway that you get
a lot of enjoyment from setting those people up for
success and through those shows, through those classes, people get
to meet other folks with similar interests trying to do
other things. The people that you've had in your classes
have gone on to great success. And anyway, when I
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look at that, and it's totality is someone that's building
community and you are really great at that, and I
think that's something that's awesome about you. It's so nice.
Put that on my headstone and it'll be so tall
you can't go horse on. It's got to be vertical.
It's kind and I don't really like next to my
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tall headstone. Oh man, I think Mark, you know, nailed
it and all that. Sam. You know, I'm a huge fan.
I think, you know, part of the thing about like
knowing comedians is like, not only are you super funny
and all the things that Mark said, but you are
you also tackle really challenging topics and do it in
a super hilarious way. And I always appreciate that is
(06:15):
that when I see you, I know, not only am
I gonna laugh, but you're probably gonna challenge something or
some form of thinking or toxic masculinity or talk about
you know, the importance of taking care of dogs and
like in a fun, hilarious way, and I I'm better
for it, as are the people that are in the audience.
So thanks, oh my goodness, I appreciate that so much,
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particularly just from someone you know, both of you, all
from people I've known for so long who've seen me
in so many different uh seasons and phases of this.
You know, it's it's cool that you still like me.
Thank you. We're gonna put our venmo on there from
sorry for who I was now, thank you so much.
Well we'll jump into our ridiculous news nibbles. So these
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are just some worries that relate to Halloween for this
deep dive episode. For so this one was fun. It
was about a dad who passed out candy on a
flight so that his three year old daughter can trick
or treat. He felt bad having his young daughter on
this Halloween flight. Um, so he found a way to
make it super special for the little girl, who I
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love this tidbit which she was dressed like a doughnut. Um.
According to fellow passenger Stephen Kahan, he passed out candy
to all the passengers on a flight from Boston's Logan
Airport to San Francisco International Airports and not a short
flight either. And his note that he handed said, my
three old daughter Molly was bummed she couldn't be able
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to go to trick or treating this year do this flight,
So I decided to bring trick or treating to her.
If you are willing, when my little doughnut comes down
the aisle, please drop this in her basket. You'll be
making her Halloween. If you're unwilling, no worries. Just passed
the tree back to me, Thanks so much, um, and
then he brought her down the ill for trick or treating.
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I'm sure that note was much cuter to read in
one's own mind than he read out loud, because whoa.
I read this before we recorded, and I went, oh,
this is a really sweet story. And I said out loud,
I'm like wow, because like what if you turned around
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and the little girl was the man, or like what
there or like what if it was a dog or
like a stuff dand like you're really trusting that there's
gonna be a human child coming down that they really
could yet it really could chack it on a very
dark Oh but how nice. What a nice story. Well,
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I wondered about this too because it wandn't sweep alsome.
What do you why why can't she be home on Halloween?
This that's so important? Dang, it's sorry the Cardinals were playing.
I don't know. I don't think that's even the season.
But daddy had to go. I don't even know where
was the same Daddy had to go to Vegas, but
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he was in San Francisco. Maybe I don't know. Uh, yeah,
I don't know. Well, so she was a doughnut. My question,
I'm wondering, like what kind of doughnut? Because you know,
if she's a long John, no problem getting up and
down that aisle, But a regular donut, this little kid
is gonna be just like a ping pong ball, bopping
off arm rusts trying to get a kit kat. It's
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so true. Yeah, you have this good starts out okay
in first class, but by the time she gets by
the bathrooms, she just stuck. Did you ever have to
misstrick or treating when you were a kid, would you
ever have, like, is anyone feeling related to this story?
I never missed it. I would have burned my house
down if I had missed it. So I don't remember
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missing it, no, because I loved it as a kid.
I can't think of a ton because that might have
been a little traumatic. Yeah, something had of happened that
they're on this flight. Yeah, Mark, you didn't trick or treat.
We didn't trick or treat much growing up I but
I did get my tricker treat fixed at school. So
like the elementary school that I went to, we would
do like a costume parade, and I remember there being
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plenty of candy. Like I was never lacking for candy
around Halloween. So what we do is like the whole school,
you'd come in costume or not, and then you just
kind of like walk around the block. It was a
big deal. It was. It was. It was really fun.
But that was kind of like my trick or treating it.
But I didn't go house to house, but I always
got plenty of candy. Yeah, but I trick or treated
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probably too long, and I am proud of that fact.
The one shread of my childhood. I clung to it.
Let's say, how long did you? Yeah? Um, long enough
that the last cost in my war just made it
look like I was trying to rob houses, you know
what I mean, Like, I just look like a troubled youth.
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My and and I I think we were. I think
we were thirteen was our last year, possibly fourteen. It
was definitely about seventh eighth grade. And we we wore
these you know, those in hindsight, very scary by the time,
We're like, these are fine. They're like those clear masks,
but they have like I make up and lips, you know,
the translucent pace. And we were those with like hoods up.
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And I've been six ft one since that age, so
it was honestly very upsetting for the neighbors. I think
we didn't we didn't go again after that. But I
loved I love to tricker treating. I thought it was great.
I love a good walk, I love a costume. But
it's not to like brisk fall weather get out, you know,
take a laugher on the neighborhood. Alright, So this headline,
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I feel like it could be a movie. I really
do feel this way. All Right, So this from ABC News. Okay,
and the headline is hogs gone wild in Florida County
threatened Halloween festivities. Uh so the story is okay, So
they're these Ferrell hogs and it can be an issue
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in certain communities. Right. So one Halloween and Breb County, Florida,
which is near Orlando. Uh, they had this situation where
these Ferrell hogs were ripping up a lot of grass
and land and descraating sidewalks with their feces. All right,
so it's just a lot. Okay, So this town is
being is being, you know, having the spar hogs and
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a good situation. Right, can you do you do you
desecrate a sidewalk? Because I feel desecrate it has to
be something fancy to be desecrated. I don't know, Like
I don't know. I mean I feel like it makes
sense because to me, desiccated it's just a step away
from desiccated, you know what I mean, Like they devestated that.
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So this is where it kind of gets to be
like a movie. To me. It's like, so I got
this neighborhood in Florida, these hogs they're running amuck. So
the neighborhood hires a licensed tracker. This tracker's name is
James Dean, and they're like, listen, James, you need to save.
His name is James Dean, And they hire him listen,
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Dean Comma James, and so they hire him to try
to solve this hog problem so that the kids can
enjoy Halloween. And like at the time of the story,
he had already caught like eleven of these hogs, right,
and it's like this this dude's race against time to
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save Halloween from this pack of barrel hoggs. Okay, and
but it's like comes into question whether or not he'll
be able to like do it. I feel like that'd
be a great, great movie. Yeah, And if he doesn't
round up all the hogs, he turns back into a
scarecrow on November one because he's it's been cursed. He's
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got completed raised so many steaks. And but just to
be clear on hogs, just in general, if you're like,
what are hogs like? So, according to the article, hogs
don't commonly attack, but they can be provoked if they
are confronted or if they feel like someone may purpose harm.
So a bunch of kids in costumes, I feel like
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that would be enough to do just that, you know,
yeah exactly. Yeah, could you imagine like and you know,
they you know not to so you be that you
should be super afraid of hawks, but they can really,
I mean, they can kill people like they're They're no joke,
they're big. Will underestimate how big. This is gonna sound
like such a dumb sentence, but people underestimate how big
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animals are. People don't know, yeah, and how strong they are. Yeah,
because you know, not everything is that far evolved from
what it once was. Some things are like this, I'll
stay this, you know, So you guys go ahead and
get smaller. I'm gonna stay big, oh Sam. To your point.
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To your point, that leads to a quote from James
Dean that I thought was amazing in this article, he
says I'm gonna do this in the way I imagine
he sounds all right, that's one of the reasons why
I want to bring in the dogs. Being said, so
the kids can have their Halloween. So it's just like
he wants to take a team of dogs and pit
them against these hogs to save Halloween. And to me,
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I feel like that's that's awesome. That's pretty awesome. I
like the idea that James Dean has his own back
of like I don't know, like stray dogs. He's adopted
and now he's been training them. He's been training him
for years in the woods to herd hogs. And now
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all right, boys, it's your chance. We got called up.
We got caught up to the big loop. I knew
this day would come. Time to leave the farm and
go to the city, go into God's Country or Florida.
Trick or treat or dog, you know, trick or time
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to hit the road. Time to hit the road, jack
o lantern. Yeah, we're gonna take a quick break to
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So we're back, and you want to talk a little
bit about the origins of Halloween. And I didn't know
much about this, and some of these facts I found
really interesting. Okay, so it might be wondering, So like,
all right, we know about Halloween and things like that,
but how to trick or treating specifically become this tradition?
So according to history dot com are amazing researcher Casey,
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we came across some of these facts here. So Halloween
has its roots in the ancient pre Christian Celtic festival
of Sound, which was celebrated on the night of October one.
The Celts, who lived two thousand years ago in the
area that is now Ireland, the UK and morthern France,
believed that the dead returned to earth on sound. On
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the sacred night, people gathered to like bonfires, other sacrifices
and pay homage to the dead. All right, so the
first tricker treaters apparently, Uh, we're poor children in medieval
Europe who would go door to door begging for food
and money during the Celtic holiday celebration, which was celebrated
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on October one, and so in exchange, they would offer
to pray for the souls of their neighbors recently departed
loved ones. I think we could get back to that,
you know. I think maybe let's bring it back. The
kids need to learn about life and death a little
bit earlier, you know. I mean, there's there's some there's
some ritual since it's like that day of uh. Yeah,
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you know, I think as Americans, maybe we're too far
removed from that stuff. Yeah. I think it's kind of
funny when you think about it. Well, we could dress up.
We have kids dress up in a costume of like
a zombie but really don't. This is too dark, This
is too dark for them, right. Yeah. Well, also I
like the idea these kids got to earn that candy.
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Hey man, you want these treats and coins, you better
pray for my grandma, you know, thank you. Praying for
someone soul after they're dead is interesting too, because it's like,
what are you what are you doing? Because you know,
now you think of it, well, you know, it's actually
interesting that you mentioned that, Bill, because I'm not claiming
to be an expert on this at all, but it's
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just like I've been reading some stuff about different like
theatrical traditions and different spaces outside of like the basic
like Aristotle structure, and in different cultures, you know, like
the living and the dead, it's more of like you're
just like in communion with them at all times. So
it's less of like they're dead and gone, and it's
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more like so so like dead characters for example, in
other types of plays outside of like maybe a traditional
American play, it's like they're dead, but they're also like here,
you know what I'm saying. And so I wonder then
if like praying for someone who is dead as part
of that, like communing with them or I don't know.
These are just just guesses, you know, because isn't there
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some there's something I'm not sure about the specifics and
the culture, but I feel like in some of that
afterlife belief. Throughout humans, we have this notion of like
you go on it's really there's like levels right where
it's like planes of universe you go through and so
you've exited this world and now you're in this world
and you have to get passage. That's white people be
buriers certain things so they could pay their passage they
get to the next thing, and then if they don't,
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then they get stuck somewhere. And I feel like in
some it's like you have to continue to be remember
birden honored. Otherwise it's like it's almost like someone has
to pay rent on your soul spot and if like
your people on Earth, don't pay your rent, you get
like booted to the other other realm. That's how I'm
picturing it right where it's like you have to like
maintain relevancy. Um. But it's just an interesting thing. I
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like the idea of of not being fully gone and
just being like in like parallels right where it's like
we can interact on this level, but not that level
because now we're in these other planes. I think that
part of human thinking is much more interesting than some
of the more cut and dry religious beliefs we've got
on death right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would hope that
maybe that's from the synchronicity we experience in life. Is like,
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you know, there's someone from another and I like the
idea too. You know, it's like I miss my grandparents.
I don't think about them as often as maybe I should.
I do think about them, but it's like if I
had a day or a ritual something to think about
to send some good vibes. Air Way also sending good
vibes their way right now, maybe I'll get her in
the mail check for seven dollars. Where did this come from?
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What I like? So? So in later centuries, you know,
this goes on to talk about that people began dressing
as ghosts, demons, and other other creatures, performing antics and
exchange for food and drink. So went from praying for
food and drink to performing for food and drink. And
this custom was known as mumming uh and also dates
back to the Middle Ages, and it's thought to be
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you know, the precursor to trick or trink interesting, especially
that like you're like, oh, go do this interesting thing,
or go do this like maybe mischievous thing and I'll
get you this meal. That's a really interesting tradition. And
picturing people in the Middle Ages, like having someone dress
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as a ghost pulling a prank on their neighbor who
keeps infringing on their fields. Yeah, is it a burlap sack.
That's the only thing I can chase a demon to
steal their their cousins. Luke hides it. He sucks. I'm
tired of hearing him play it. Yeah. See that feels
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because like depending on how serious the person takes it,
do you get maybe I mean yeah, yeah, some people
they're like I should not have played that trick. This
was this is not a treat, but my arm got
cut off. Yeah it was a joke. We thought you
were a witch. Well. Although it's unknown precisely where and
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when the phrase trick or treat was coined, the custom
was firmly established in popular culture in America by one
when trick or treating was depicted in the Peanuts comic strip.
Uh so, I guess maybe that's historical factors the Peanuts.
You guys are looking for places to like, yeah, when
they covered Kennedy, that was crazy when Peanuts did Kennedy
(23:05):
l Brown Um. Disney also produced a cartoon called Tricker
Treat featuring Donald Duck back in fifty two. So of
course another very great place to Huey, Dewey and Louie
cartoon is such a core memory in my soul for Halloween.
I will never not think of that cartoon. Oh it's
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I'm pretty sure it's the one that I'm thinking of
because my grandma was one of those grandma's that just
bought every VHS tape ever at Sam's Club, and you
know how they put all those collections where they'd be
like the classics, Like she had this like, um all
these different like classic Disney animations that were like themed out. Um.
So there's one that was about like Goofy, there was
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one that was Mickey, and then there was like Huey, Dewey,
Louie and Donald and stuff like that. But yeah, this
Halloween one and it has like these like dancing skeletons
and stuff, and it's it's got music. It's really it's
kind of spooky Honestly, I remember as a kid some
of it was like, oh too scary, um, but it's
mostly really cute and so funny. Honestly, Wow, trick or
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treating is not that old. I really was picturing, like,
genuinely was picturing people doing that, like as far back
as like the early nine hundreds. But I guess people
were just having like Halloween parties because like you would
see those, you know, and like you see like vintage
masks and costumes from like that era of the like
nineteen odds to the fifth before the fifties, right like
(24:34):
nineteen tens to forties. But wow, I'm fascinated. Well, it
seems like, you know, there were definitely things similar to
trick or treating earlier in twenties century in America and elsewhere.
You know. However, it seems like it evolved over time.
So for example, um, this other article for from Business
Insiders seems to say that, like, you know, by the
(24:56):
twentieth century, you know, uh, Halloween and Halloween celebrations were
a thing that you'd find in America. However, it sounds
like earlier around like the time of the Great Depression, Uh,
it also included things like full blown vandalism and crime
on those nights. And apparently there's one theory out there
that says that, uh, the modern day trick or treating
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emerged as a way to bring order to the chaos
and keep citizens safe on October one. So I love
that it's the articles. It's full blown vandalism, not the
half hearted. No one's using pencils and chalk here. We're
talking buckets of facies being let loose. That is interesting.
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So it's funny to imagine this notion of it going
from like hey, we'll, we'll pray for your loved ones
and then saying hey, we'll we'll do some little mischievous
things to saying like, whoa, you guys are chaos. What
if we gave you candy to stop paralyzing the town?
And speaking of candy, Sam, so apparently as the sugar
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rations of the Great Depression were lifted, candy companies started
cashing in on this new Hallow queen tradition. And so
now you know, people spend an estimated two point six
billion on candy for Halloween. And that's according to the
National Retail Federation. So whoa yeah, So it's whoa. I
guess I think about it. Yeah, I bet you know,
(26:31):
a lot of that Halloween candy isn't even trick or treaters. Like,
think about the month of October and how many like
doctor's offices you go into and there's just like Halloween
pumpkin full of milky ways. Yeah, that is so interesting. Wow.
So do you think that maybe our interests in Halloween
and trick or treating and all of that is a
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reaction to World War Two from the ration ng and
like having that sense of not having all of these indulgences,
and now we really lean into it. I mean, I
feel like that's American culture in a nutshell. Well, I
think that's that's business to taking advantage. I think there's
so many The more deep ties we do, the more
it's like, you know, who's behind this Herschey's and marketing
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campaigns that make, you know, kind of normalize these behaviors
and then they become quote unquote traditions. I remember even
thinking as a kid, you know, like I was a
lot of candy at the end of Halloween. I would
have so much candy and I would couldn't eat it all.
I remember my jaw hurting trying to eat so much
(27:34):
candy and we haven't. Yeah, we'd have candy until like
December January, easy, like no doubt. It's so funny because yeah,
I can I confidently say now that I've I've worked
in advertising a little bit, that yes, all of the
brands and all of the agencies are just looking at
how to manipulate cultural experiences. So this tracks, this track
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is hard. Um, I this blew my mind. I had
no idea that we didn't really lean into it until
that that late in our in our air. But all
of that makes so much sense now. I'm curious, um
about like the evolution of our candy over time, because
if you think about like when I think of like
nineteen fifties candy, I'm thinking about like those Mary Jane's,
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you know, or like those Circus peanuts. I don't know
when those came out. But and then I think about
some people who, you know, like the people in the
neighborhood who hand out like raisins are the things that
aren't Is that is that because they want you to
be healthy or is that just a holdover of the
sugar rash? Understand the raisin giver much more. Yeah, the
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person handing out actual apples and they're probably not razor
blades and folks that was They're totally fine, They're totally safe.
Eat some eat some apps. It's actually a lot of
sugar that fruit as well, you know, lots of sugar. Well,
you know, speaking of sugar and speaking of those different
treats and candies. Um, there's an interesting article that Casey
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pulled about the most popular candies, which I thought was, yeah,
super interesting. So if you're trying to make trick or
treaters the happiest, uh, here is the five top most
like candies. You can't go wrong if you're handing out Skittles, starbursts,
Reese's peanut butter cups, my personal favorite, kit cats, and twigs, um,
(29:27):
which yeah, I don't know about y'all. Yeah, I'm gonna say,
like I'm holding my hands so serious, like yes, like
I'm waiting for the results of American Idol. That's so
funny that, yeah, I love all that, you know, it's funny.
(29:47):
Have you ever noticed, um my girlfriend, I were talking
about this the other day, have you ever noticed, like
Reese's peanut butter cups, they are so much better when
they're in the seasonal shape, like when you get an Easter.
During Easter they have the eggs, and Halloween they've got
those little pumpkins, and Christmas they got the tree. Why
is it so much better than the cup? There's like
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there is much better, like peanut butter to chocolate ratio,
Like I know why it's better. I'm saying, why do
they make it better? Why don't they make it this
good all year? Is what I'm saying. Um, because I
love Esist, but yeah, there's something about that, like bite
on that little Halloween pumpkin, get yourself some. This is
paid by for just kidding Resists holler hit us up.
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You know. Actually, Reesis, actually they really do support their
fans because, um, I feel like you keep bringing her up.
But uh my girlfriend once tweeted that she wouldn't wanted to,
um have a Reese's Egg wedding cake, and then Reesis
was like, Wow, you're such an outrageous fan. We're gonna
send you a whole like I don't know, like so
(30:52):
many months supply of some promotional candy they're doing. I
forget with whether they're like nutrageous or something like that. Um,
but they like said she was gonna marry they've made
her a wedding, Like, they sent her all the things
so she could actually marry a Reese's Egg and then
she got like a several months supply of nutrageous bars.
So what I'm saying is, if you love the candy bill,
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you too could become a promotional item in the advertising
world's corporate web. I'm gonna I'm gonna add some candy.
You better add some candy companies. That is so funny, Mark,
what's your favorite candy being outside of this, you know,
Tricker Treating bubble of favorites, what would you say yours are?
I think that the candies that they listed, I agree,
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I enjoy all those very much. Um. I think more
recently my favorites have been Snickers, Like I really enjoy
Snickers bars. Yeah, so like Snickers bar, but Reese's Peanut
butter Cup is very close to the top. Uh. And
I actually enjoyed Twigs a lot for a number of years.
That was definitely like to So I say those are
my top three, like Reese's Twigs, Snickers. Yeah. I recently
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learned that there actually is a difference between the left
twicks and the right twicks. You know how they package them.
And this is really just with someone. This is just
what a Twigs leftist told me. Okay, some some Twigs leftist.
I don't know how the Twigs far right feels, but uh,
(32:24):
someone told me that one has more cookie and one
has more caramelt. I don't know if that's true, but
I love that as a marketing thing, because what an
annoying product to manufacture. I should be the guy the factory.
He's like, you're telling me, I gotta adjust this one
to this, but I gotta adjust this one. But they're
in this same Okay, okay, that's so funny. I'm quite
(32:49):
quit in this place. Ridiculous. This is twix he list.
Oh that's silly. Even noticed factory workers whenever we bring
them up, tend to have some sort of a quickness.
Please to the Twigs and the Bronx. Yeah, my grand
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dad made all the twicks back before the fire. It's
always a fire. Yeah yeah. We will be right back
with more ridiculous news after this short break. Yeah yeah, yeah,
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don't get confused. Ridiculous news, all right, shall So we're
back and uh, Bill, Sam, I'm excited to share this
article with y'all. From Huffington Post. So you'll remember the
show Dirty Rock where Steve BUSHEMI there was like one
of those kind away scenes where he was pretending to
be a teenage high schooler and he's like, hello, fellow teens,
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and that went on to become a popular meme. Uh. Well,
apparently Steve Busmy uh dressed up as his own meme
for Halloween and handed out candy and I feel like
that's a great skirt. Uh. So the article goes on
to say the quirky actor, which is it's I mean, like, yes,
Steve A. Chevy's quirky what we like? Anyway, the quirky
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actor was dressed up as a character he played on
thirty Rock that became a hit meme. So he was
decked out in a red hoodie, backwards baseball cap and
a skateboard and uh yeah, so he recreated his clueless
undercover cop character who tried to blend in with high schoolers.
And this was from a twelve episode of the sitcom
thirty Rock, and uh the character's name was Lenny Wosniac
(34:50):
or private Detective Lenny Wosniac and uh and so yeah,
so he recreated this moment and uh, and there was
a quote from a thirteen year old that was there
when he was dressed up in this way named Stella
Wexler Rush, which is an awesome name, and their quote
was we weren't sure if it was him at first,
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so so I thought that was pretty funny. I mean,
a thirteen year old, I'm surprised that even no Steve
Bush is oh, I can almost a guarantee that Stella
Wexler Rush. I thought that was just an old man
that wore those clothes. And that became a meme because
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having spent many years babysitting, I can tell you if
you are over thirty, children will will not believe that
you are important. There's no way that's a famous person.
You're in a meme. You're just an old man that
we made famous, you know what I mean. Meanwhile, is
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like reservoir dogs. Yeah, And I did you know until
I was looking at this article, and I just never
noticed in the meme that his shirt just as musician
band with a little lightning bolt. It's like a takeoff
of a C d C. But it's just this music
band is so good at that like very dry, very
(36:19):
silly kind of humor. I will say as a show
what not everything has held up in time because hey,
you know, we weren't great back then, but but ban
are there some good little bits like that. That is
such a funny, funny moment. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I
was just always so astounded by how many jokes they
could pack into every scene. It was to the point
where it was just like it's like overwhelming, you know,
(36:42):
like in a good way, but it's just like no,
it's yeah, it's something you can go back to. And
we watched over and over and catch something that you missed,
like subtle. There's always background things go when people are
saying stuff. I mean, it's a busy, busy show. It's
so funny, well done. Go that's great. Have you guys
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ever spotted a celebrity anywhere like that? Uh? At the
movie theater I used to work at in Atlanta was
like when my first I think it was my first
job I worked in a movie theater, and so they'd
play like a lot of our house films. So at
the time, like for example, like a Little Miss Sunshine
came out, pretty much the only place to see it
in Atlanta would be that theater, and so it would
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just attract people from all over the city that I
wanted to see those kind of movies. So I remember
Chris Tucker came in to see the Last King of Scotland,
and he came in late in his life. Y'all gonna
hold the movie for me. We're like, oh man, that's
Chris Tucker, and no we can't, we don't sorry, and
then uh and then uh. Andrea through thousand would come
in to watch stuff too, and so like too that
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I remember passing through but nothing where they were like
dressing up as a character, handing out candy right where
you feel double checker, like, hold on, is this really
happening right right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah that When I worked
at an improv theater in Chicago, I won't name, but
when I worked there, um, I forget his name, but
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the actor that played the janitor on Scrubs, Neil something.
He was performing, um the weekend, his team was performing
beer Schark Mice, and he wanted to go outside to
the beer garden to smoke, but there's no smoking aloud,
and he was walking. He'd got he'd done it twice already,
and none of the other staff wanted to tell him now.
But I was like, he's not supposed to know, and
(38:29):
so because my people are trying to enjoy their time outside.
And so then he finally came and I was by
myself and I was brave, and I was like, um,
you can't. You can't smoke outside, and he kind of
like looked at me. He's like, do you know who
I am? And I was like yes, And then he
turned around and went to smoke by the dumpsters and
it was a very powerful moment or was it like
a great scene and he was improving and actually went
(38:49):
to the beer garden behind my back. Maybe, But I
think it's I think it's funny that my only celebrity interaction.
I was like, I'm so sorry, but I've been given
a job to do. I'm like, I work dog. Sorry,
I'm like a drug sniffing dog meeting a celebrity. I
cannot be cool. That's great, Yeah, I mean I have
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never so Bradley Whitford was one time? Was that a
Dad show? I remember he was in the audience and
there was another actor there too, Mark, were you at
that show? I remember? I vaguely remember what you're talking about. No,
I wasn't there that night. Yeah, yeah, and then my
favorite running into, although it's not the same thing at all,
was running into and I was working behind the scenes,
was seen in at a boaro hanging out ended up,
(39:34):
you know. I think they were doing an interview with
like Pearl Jam or something in a tent behind the stage,
and I was talking to these other ladies as we
were hanging out and talked to him for like fifteen minutes,
just they're worried from Atlanta. Was really fun. And then
finally I was like, so, are you all in a
band or something? And the lady was like, oh, I'm
Lizzo and I'm playing at the tent. I'm Liza. Yeah. Yeah,
(39:56):
by the way, yeah yeah. She was so nice and
so cool and before she was before you were not. Yeah, yeah,
because she was. That's the thing. People act like she
has an overnight success, but she was working in the
industry and touring and doing festivals for many many years.
That's amazing. Nice, what a lovely person to be like,
Oh yeah, I'm just a person too, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah.
(40:19):
And I realized if I had run into her now
because I'm such a huge fan of hers now, I
don't know. I don't know that I would have played
it so cool. You know, she was so kind. So
whenever I see any celebrities, I tried to just ignore them.
In Atlanta, you see people a lot at comedy shows.
People you know you, and that's why. That's why the
(40:39):
janitor from Scrubs is the only one I've ever talked to.
We saw how that went, so I try to know,
I genuinely, I'm just like, they don't want me to
let them know. I like them. They don't care, but
they do. Okay. Anyway, Well, several things pulled from an
article of twenty seven ridiculously weird things kids actually got
(41:01):
while trick or treating, and the first one, which is
a quote, my neighbor gave out period starter kits to
the girls and condoms to the older kids. Honestly, slam dunk. Neighbor.
Love this neighbor, right, And it's like, I don't know,
like what age is the cut off and does there
need to be a cut off? I don't know, My gosh,
(41:24):
that's interesting. Yeah, the condoms, I could see how that's
a little bit more divisive. I just feel I mean,
I feel like the period started kid. I mean, hey man,
things could happen at any time. It's a bomb. No,
it's no, it's smart. It's smart. It should be normal.
It shouldn't be like a weird secret because normally the
way a girl gets her first tampon is another girl
hands it to her from her sleeve and too the
(41:45):
other girl's sleeve in a classroom, so no one sees
it like it's like a secret. It's like a really
twisted handshake. Um. So yeah, I think the transparency is wonderful.
The communs someone might get math um, not me, I'm cool,
you're hip. Uh. Well. Another woman gave out small potted plants. Again,
(42:09):
seems like a throw that in the bucket. Some parents
so pissed they're just holding four plants walking behind their kids.
It's the first house, the first house they went to.
What's the next goldfish in a bag? Come on, um, practical.
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One person got a pack of cigarettes, but it was
they noted for their dad, who was trick or treating score,
you know, to win this year with you Ryan. See
if they got red. Uh. I can picture a kid
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going door to door saying that they need cigarettes for
their dad who's not with that. So maybe that's not
a great move. It's a trick and a treat a cigarette.
For some reason, I picture this being a step dad too.
It's so it's like, hey, Carl, they got cigarettes for
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you again here I don't know. Another one was a
baby turtle and a can of orange soda was the
next one was the soda small enough for the turtle?
Or was it was the turtles presented atop the can?
(43:40):
I mean, talk about cute. Baby turtles are definitely up
there in terms of cuteness. So I can see how
a kid would never say no, but a parent's going
to be like, what the hell? Yeah, it's so funny.
So what do they do? I mean, was it? I
gotta know they buy a little terrarium? I have to
write loose turtles? Do you do you tennis racket back
(44:01):
in the woods? You know, just kind of send it
on its way. Um, it doesn't give doing. That's Carl,
the step dad. That's what he's doing. Okay, that's that's
a big Carl move. Um, it doesn't. It doesn't give
details on it. Um what happened to the baby turtle?
But that in the final one that we pull was
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um pamphlets about why Halloween is actually a celebration of Satan.
Uh you know which, depending on the kind of neighborhood
you're in, I can see some disgruntled people. Well, you know,
depending on the type of pamphlet, you know, the pamphlet,
it might be like, Halloween's bad because it's Satan, or
(44:44):
it might be like, hey, Halloween sick because it's Satan.
You know what. It could be like, oh my god,
we're so glad you're into this. We also love Satan.
We too are friends of Lucifer. Uh. Wh It feels
like you would give out something cooler, like, you know,
(45:06):
just a pampling that is so funny. Yeah, like some
incantations or like a yeah and some base CD and
the sleeve is the pamphlet. I guess the question I
have for y'all is, you know, if you got a
trick or treater and you weren't able to give them candy,
(45:26):
but you're like, I'm going to give them something that
makes them remember me, So like something that maybe either
have around your house or like something that you would
that you would like that you would be like, oh,
this would be a cool thing to give. I guess
this is what I'm asking that's not that's not candy.
It's a reflection of who you are as a person
in some way, whether whether it be your random interests
or things around your house. What what what might that be?
(45:49):
Oh man, Mark, Um, I'm so glad you asked because this, this,
this is something I have actually done to I've lived
in my house two years, but I've never known if
trigger treaters are going to come and are not, and
it's like embarrassing to be overprepared and then they don't come.
So I'm like, so I've had twice two years in
(46:13):
a row, I've had kids come to my house and
I didn't technically have candy for them, but I still
gave them stuff. I mean, the good news is that
I'm an adult who always has candy in my house.
It's just that like it's like ridiculous. Like one year, Um,
(46:36):
like what like one year, I ended up giving them
all I had bought in bulk because I do this.
I buy bulk candy and Amazon because I'm a grown
up and I can't and so I'll buy bulk candy
of stuff I like, and like I gave all these
kids those like terries, chocolate, oranges nice. You know, let's
be like whack and they're breaking up. Yeah, but I
(47:00):
have also I have also fully just given kids a
bunch of windy peach stickers because I'm like, their butts.
There you go, they're they're fun. Here they are um.
And then there there was one kid. I wish I
could remember what his costumes. You might have been like
it might have been like a pirate or something. I
don't know, but I had like you know, those like
led candles that you like you turn at the battery.
(47:21):
I like a really tall one. I was like, your buddy,
like turn it out, like if you go, and he's like,
walk around like epitis are screwed with the big stupid
Why did I give him that? But I just like
I didn't have anything. But if I were to do
it for real, if I could pick something genuine, I
think I would be I would want to be able
to give kids, like, you know, a coloring book or
(47:44):
something like an activity that would be reminiscent of the
thing I would want, and like what would be representive
of me, Like hey, kid, here's this cool puzzle. But
then and then their parents would be like, why are
you giving my child toys? Go away from it? So fair?
But Bill, what would be yours. I think it's nothing
as cool as we said, but probably like a like
a little Man to Land or something like that like
(48:07):
I had, or or ukulele probably would be cheaper and
more efficient. Uh. I had a friend who got married,
my good friend Graham, and he for his gift for
all of us that we're in the wedding party, give
us ukuleles. And that was fun. Although these poor parents
would be like, you give my kid. I know, it's
so funny because I just when you said that, I
was like, you know, a fun like alternative to Halloween
(48:27):
candy would be like little egg shakers or like a
little like Moroccy. But I'm like, all the parents would
be so mad. I remember getting kazoos as a kid,
when I would try like a kazoo sometimes just whistles,
just handing out whistles. Yeah, exactly. It's because a lot
of ch Well, this brings us to our our final
um segment here, which is the spring of inspiring inspirations.
(48:50):
We always want to leave y'all with a quote to
think about, UH, to carry you through the rest of
your day. And this one is from the fabulous Vincent
Price Um and he said it's as much fun to
scare as to be scared. That's inside. Yeah, that's cool.
(49:11):
And Mark, by the way, Mark, what was I realized
I've moved forward? What was your thing that you would
hand out? Oh? Yeah, that I think I'd give out books,
you know, like like I got some kind of intense
books that I don't know if i'd necessarily give out,
but like or might give up, like really specific stuff
like this book like y'all know these thirty three and
the third book series where they like write about different albums.
(49:33):
It's kind of cool. So it's like it's like this
book about like Stevie Wonders songs in the Key of
Life for like other kind of classic albums which i'd
give or maybe i'd give, like I don't know, a
really intense book about identity, politics and kids. It's like
I found what I love, you know, like I want
to go into the study of people you know or
whatever it is. Mark's just handing out copies of the
(49:56):
Communist kids started questioning it right off the bat, like
expand your mind, you know, I ask a questions. It's
so funny, Mom, we don't want to skip martin Mr
Marks House this year. Start you know, start calling him
(50:17):
Mr Marxist. Do you do you guys like being scared?
Do you like you know, my said you haven't been
to a haunted house in a while. Does that mean
that you don't like scary things? I think it depends
on what it is. It's not that I don't, um,
what is it. I don't know if I necessarily like
seek it out all the time. So there's definitely like
(50:38):
horror movies that I've watched that I'm like, that was
freaky and I don't dislike it, but it's just like, oh,
this is something that I don't want to do all
the time. Like for example, like I think like Vertigo
is just like the super creepy movie, you know, and
I like the movie a lot, but I'm like, it
also creeps me out, So I don't necessarily like seek
(50:58):
it out all the time. I'm out like, oh, you
know it would be fun is if I flip myself
out with this movie. It's more like, oh, here's an
experience where I am being scared and I can appreciate it.
That's kind of that's kind of I just I get
what about about um, you know, i I've always I
don't like like violent movies. I'm not interested in like
(51:21):
a slash or horror horror for the sake of it
being a horror in the genre. But I do really
enjoy like the psychological thriller. I do love like a
really artistically made spooky story. You know, there's sometimes a
scary movie can be so interesting because to me, I
think the scariest things are the things that are more
about like human psyche and relationships versus like there's a
(51:43):
demon in my kid, this house is haunted, oh exactly.
Like there's a really like a really awesome example of that. Um.
There's this movie called Uma that I just watch um
with Sandra, and it's technically a ghost story. It's set
up like a ghost story, but it's actually about like
(52:04):
generational trauma and and like immigrant stories and like it's
it's beautiful. Same thing with like his house. Um, it's
a horror film. It's set up a lot like a
ghost kind of demon film, but it's actually this much
deeper psychological story about people escaping a war torn country
and all these things. And I like that part because
it's I kind of relate to the sentiment of not
seeking out being scared, because I kind of think being
(52:26):
alive is scary enough, and like thinking about things is
already scary. Like I'm already scared all the time, so
I don't need to watch like Scream. But I do
like seeing other people expressing that through film in that way.
So I do love scary movies for that um, and
I like being scared because it's like we're all scared together. Yeah.
(52:48):
The funny there's a demon that my kid was actually
the all title for The Exorcist. Rejected title would have
been a very different movie. There's it's a whole line
from toy story. Oh, like, girl, what about yourself? Going
(53:10):
to be scared? Like? You know, you know, when people
ask my favorite movie, I usually either say Pocolas Now
or the movie Alien. The movie Alien is still one
of my favorite movies of all time, and it is terrifying.
It's a very scary film. I still every time I
watch it. That end scene with Sigourney we were, you know,
just trying to get off that chip um is so terrifying.
(53:31):
And I don't, you know, but it's not I don't
really like the gore, like the sal kind of stuff.
That stuff just now. But to your point, Sam, that's
psychological thriller, which in a sense, Alien does have some gore,
but it's more about this, you know, uh and gosh,
some really interesting um metaphors even for today's society, you
(53:51):
know where you know, what's it like when a man
gets implanted with something in a spilly that you know
he can't stop. So it's a great film overall, good film. Uh,
definitely worth a rewatch if you haven't seen it recently. Uh.
But yeah, I do like being scared. Yeah I don't.
I enjoy it. That's what you're saying, is that we're
all going to go to a haunted house, and we're
(54:13):
going to all were pro, go pro, and we'll see
who really likes being scared, because I bet you I
will cry, but it'd be fine, do it. I'm there
and and I hope audience that you'll will join us
for that next episode when we're live live from a
(54:35):
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and Halloween it's my favorite holiday, so funny day mark.
I love it because the costumes are fun. Pretending is fun.
I mean, it's like you get to be a kid
for a day and you're allowed to be silly and goofy,
and it's really fun for me to do it and
to see other people that aren't normally that way, you know,
(01:02):
get goofy uh and you know Hale Satan it's always
good to Hal's sake, just getting just kidding, but I
do love it. Yeah, hey everyone, uh Mark Kendall, I'm
Atlanta based comedian, And you know I didn't trick or
treat much as a kid, but I do remember going
to a haunted house like this was like a probably
around like kindergarten preschool age h and I got freaked
out because I did my hand into a bowl and
(01:24):
I was told it was like brains, but I guess
it was really like grapes or spaghetti or something, and
I didn't like that. And I remember back then I
was like, I know, I have the capacity to know
that it was like fake, not real, but I think
I remember one of my parents being like, see, it's
just spaghetti, it's all good. But I remember that. So
all right, Also today today, wait, say affected you today
(01:49):
at all? This? Still scared about bullo spaghetti? No? Like
I love pasta actually a lot, but I guess but
to be good, to be fair, as an adult, I've
not gone to an house. I don't think. I don't
think so. And it's not like I wouldn't say that
I have scared particularly easily. But for whatever reason. I
got that memory lodging in there pretty good. So I
(02:10):
don't know, I don't know. We're gonna have to check
out another world. Maybe i'd go all right, so I
just think about another world, y'all. I haven't been, so
this is taking from place not of experience, but just
of like curiosity. I'm like, I wouldn't want, like I
think about like the actors that work at another world,
and I wouldn't want to scare someone because I just
be afraid again, punched in the face every night, you
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know what I'm saying, Like, because people don't know what
you're gonna do if you scare them. Like, so that's
my thing. Yeah, another world for those who don't know,
it's a huge haunted house here in Atlanta, Georgia. A
lot of like film production people. That's super cool and
they put a lot of work and effort to it
and they're very scary and people are terrified. And maybe
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the Mark Kendall finally touched spaghetti brains and not Trump well, y'all.
Today is a deep dive episode about trick or treating, Yes,
the well known Halloween tradition. UH. It has some interesting
facts behind its history UH and its origins, and so
we're gonna be exploring that today. And if that's not enough,
we are joined by the brilliant Sam Gordon. So uh.
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Sam is an amazing stand up originally from Chicago and
traditionally raised on a steady diet of hot dogs. Most
of Sam's youth was spent performing in local theater, usually
in the role of someone's evil step. She cut Teeth,
the Second City feature for comedians such as Michael Ian Black,
and produced secret comedy shows for Don't Tell Comedy in Atlanta.
(03:35):
Sam has written amazing original scripts and as a member
of Writer's Guild of America w g A, which is
super impressive. She currently produces shows, offers creative consulting, and
teaches comedy writing through her business, Wendy Peach Comedy. Y'all
welcome Sam Gordon to the show. Yeah, Oh my goodness,
Sam Gordon so excited to be awesome. Uh. She told me,
(03:59):
here's the whole show. I've been a third person. I'd
be like a little confused, but I'd be like, I
respect it. I mean, i'd she hit her head before
we started. It's a writer's skilled thing, right, the deputy
I get bored you know, uh well, Sam, we're so
happy to have you back on the podcast to talk
(04:21):
about trick or treating with us. But before we get
into like the news stories and all that, we're gonna
do a segment we enjoy doing with all of our guests,
which is called giving them their flowers. And so this
is the part of the show where we give you
a couple of compliments. You can't come back, but we're
gonna give you some compliments, all right, So so so
uh Sam, you know so many things to choose from.
But when I was thinking about, like what specific compliment
(04:43):
do I want to give, I think you are a
great builder of community. So aside from being like very
talented comedian artists, you are all those things. But um,
you know, I've seen you host so many shows. I've
seen you teach so many classes, and something that I
feel like people don't really realize that goes into that
as it is so much energy and work that you're
setting up other people to succeed. And I think it
(05:04):
takes like a very selfless person to want to do that.
But I see you when you host and when you teach,
you get is clear to me anyway that you get
a lot of enjoyment from setting those people up for
success and through those shows, through those classes, people get
to meet other folks with similar interests trying to do
other things. The people that you've had in your classes
have gone on to great success. And anyway, when I
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look at that, and it's totality is someone that's building
community and you are really great at that, and I
think that's something that's awesome about you. It's so nice.
Put that on my headstone and it'll be so tall
you can't go horse on. It's got to be vertical.
It's kind and I don't really like next to my
(05:54):
tall headstone. Oh man, I think Mark, you know, nailed
it and all that. Sam. You know, I'm a huge fan.
I think, you know, part of the thing about like
knowing comedians is like, not only are you super funny
and all the things that Mark said, but you are
you also tackle really challenging topics and do it in
a super hilarious way. And I always appreciate that is
(06:15):
that when I see you, I know, not only am
I gonna laugh, but you're probably gonna challenge something or
some form of thinking or toxic masculinity or talk about
you know, the importance of taking care of dogs and
like in a fun, hilarious way, and I I'm better
for it, as are the people that are in the audience.
So thanks, oh my goodness, I appreciate that so much,
(06:37):
particularly just from someone you know, both of you, all
from people I've known for so long who've seen me
in so many different uh seasons and phases of this.
You know, it's it's cool that you still like me.
Thank you. We're gonna put our venmo on there from
sorry for who I was now, thank you so much.
Well we'll jump into our ridiculous news nibbles. So these
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are just some worries that relate to Halloween for this
deep dive episode. For so this one was fun. It
was about a dad who passed out candy on a
flight so that his three year old daughter can trick
or treat. He felt bad having his young daughter on
this Halloween flight. Um, so he found a way to
make it super special for the little girl, who I
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love this tidbit which she was dressed like a doughnut. Um.
According to fellow passenger Stephen Kahan, he passed out candy
to all the passengers on a flight from Boston's Logan
Airport to San Francisco International Airports and not a short
flight either. And his note that he handed said, my
three old daughter Molly was bummed she couldn't be able
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to go to trick or treating this year do this flight,
So I decided to bring trick or treating to her.
If you are willing, when my little doughnut comes down
the aisle, please drop this in her basket. You'll be
making her Halloween. If you're unwilling, no worries. Just passed
the tree back to me, Thanks so much, um, and
then he brought her down the ill for trick or treating.
(08:02):
I'm sure that note was much cuter to read in
one's own mind than he read out loud, because whoa.
I read this before we recorded, and I went, oh,
this is a really sweet story. And I said out loud,
I'm like wow, because like what if you turned around
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and the little girl was the man, or like what
there or like what if it was a dog or
like a stuff dand like you're really trusting that there's
gonna be a human child coming down that they really
could yet it really could chack it on a very
dark Oh but how nice. What a nice story. Well,
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I wondered about this too because it wandn't sweep alsome.
What do you why why can't she be home on Halloween?
This that's so important? Dang, it's sorry the Cardinals were playing.
I don't know. I don't think that's even the season.
But daddy had to go. I don't even know where
was the same Daddy had to go to Vegas, but
(09:05):
he was in San Francisco. Maybe I don't know. Uh, yeah,
I don't know. Well, so she was a doughnut. My question,
I'm wondering, like what kind of doughnut? Because you know,
if she's a long John, no problem getting up and
down that aisle, But a regular donut, this little kid
is gonna be just like a ping pong ball, bopping
off arm rusts trying to get a kit kat. It's
(09:29):
so true. Yeah, you have this good starts out okay
in first class, but by the time she gets by
the bathrooms, she just stuck. Did you ever have to
misstrick or treating when you were a kid, would you
ever have, like, is anyone feeling related to this story?
I never missed it. I would have burned my house
down if I had missed it. So I don't remember
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missing it, no, because I loved it as a kid.
I can't think of a ton because that might have
been a little traumatic. Yeah, something had of happened that
they're on this flight. Yeah, Mark, you didn't trick or treat.
We didn't trick or treat much growing up I but
I did get my tricker treat fixed at school. So
like the elementary school that I went to, we would
do like a costume parade, and I remember there being
(10:15):
plenty of candy. Like I was never lacking for candy
around Halloween. So what we do is like the whole school,
you'd come in costume or not, and then you just
kind of like walk around the block. It was a
big deal. It was. It was. It was really fun.
But that was kind of like my trick or treating it.
But I didn't go house to house, but I always
got plenty of candy. Yeah, but I trick or treated
(10:35):
probably too long, and I am proud of that fact.
The one shread of my childhood. I clung to it.
Let's say, how long did you? Yeah? Um, long enough
that the last cost in my war just made it
look like I was trying to rob houses, you know
what I mean, Like, I just look like a troubled youth.
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My and and I I think we were. I think
we were thirteen was our last year, possibly fourteen. It
was definitely about seventh eighth grade. And we we wore
these you know, those in hindsight, very scary by the time,
We're like, these are fine. They're like those clear masks,
but they have like I make up and lips, you know,
the translucent pace. And we were those with like hoods up.
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And I've been six ft one since that age, so
it was honestly very upsetting for the neighbors. I think
we didn't we didn't go again after that. But I
loved I love to tricker treating. I thought it was great.
I love a good walk, I love a costume. But
it's not to like brisk fall weather get out, you know,
take a laugher on the neighborhood. Alright, So this headline,
(11:47):
I feel like it could be a movie. I really
do feel this way. All Right, So this from ABC News. Okay,
and the headline is hogs gone wild in Florida County
threatened Halloween festivities. Uh so the story is okay, So
they're these Ferrell hogs and it can be an issue
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in certain communities. Right. So one Halloween and Breb County, Florida,
which is near Orlando. Uh, they had this situation where
these Ferrell hogs were ripping up a lot of grass
and land and descraating sidewalks with their feces. All right,
so it's just a lot. Okay, So this town is
being is being, you know, having the spar hogs and
(12:32):
a good situation. Right, can you do you do you
desecrate a sidewalk? Because I feel desecrate it has to
be something fancy to be desecrated. I don't know, Like
I don't know. I mean I feel like it makes
sense because to me, desiccated it's just a step away
from desiccated, you know what I mean, Like they devestated that.
(12:54):
So this is where it kind of gets to be
like a movie. To me. It's like, so I got
this neighborhood in Florida, these hogs they're running amuck. So
the neighborhood hires a licensed tracker. This tracker's name is
James Dean, and they're like, listen, James, you need to save.
His name is James Dean, And they hire him listen,
(13:16):
Dean Comma James, and so they hire him to try
to solve this hog problem so that the kids can
enjoy Halloween. And like at the time of the story,
he had already caught like eleven of these hogs, right,
and it's like this this dude's race against time to
(13:36):
save Halloween from this pack of barrel hoggs. Okay, and
but it's like comes into question whether or not he'll
be able to like do it. I feel like that'd
be a great, great movie. Yeah, And if he doesn't
round up all the hogs, he turns back into a
scarecrow on November one because he's it's been cursed. He's
(13:56):
got completed raised so many steaks. And but just to
be clear on hogs, just in general, if you're like,
what are hogs like? So, according to the article, hogs
don't commonly attack, but they can be provoked if they
are confronted or if they feel like someone may purpose harm.
So a bunch of kids in costumes, I feel like
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that would be enough to do just that, you know,
yeah exactly. Yeah, could you imagine like and you know,
they you know not to so you be that you
should be super afraid of hawks, but they can really,
I mean, they can kill people like they're They're no joke,
they're big. Will underestimate how big. This is gonna sound
like such a dumb sentence, but people underestimate how big
(14:41):
animals are. People don't know, yeah, and how strong they are. Yeah,
because you know, not everything is that far evolved from
what it once was. Some things are like this, I'll
stay this, you know, So you guys go ahead and
get smaller. I'm gonna stay big, oh Sam. To your point.
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To your point, that leads to a quote from James
Dean that I thought was amazing in this article, he
says I'm gonna do this in the way I imagine
he sounds all right, that's one of the reasons why
I want to bring in the dogs. Being said, so
the kids can have their Halloween. So it's just like
he wants to take a team of dogs and pit
them against these hogs to save Halloween. And to me,
(15:24):
I feel like that's that's awesome. That's pretty awesome. I
like the idea that James Dean has his own back
of like I don't know, like stray dogs. He's adopted
and now he's been training them. He's been training him
for years in the woods to herd hogs. And now
(15:47):
all right, boys, it's your chance. We got called up.
We got caught up to the big loop. I knew
this day would come. Time to leave the farm and
go to the city, go into God's Country or Florida.
Trick or treat or dog, you know, trick or time
(16:08):
to hit the road. Time to hit the road, jack
o lantern. Yeah, we're gonna take a quick break to
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So we're back, and you want to talk a little
bit about the origins of Halloween. And I didn't know
much about this, and some of these facts I found
really interesting. Okay, so it might be wondering, So like,
all right, we know about Halloween and things like that,
but how to trick or treating specifically become this tradition?
So according to history dot com are amazing researcher Casey,
(16:55):
we came across some of these facts here. So Halloween
has its roots in the ancient pre Christian Celtic festival
of Sound, which was celebrated on the night of October one.
The Celts, who lived two thousand years ago in the
area that is now Ireland, the UK and morthern France,
believed that the dead returned to earth on sound. On
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the sacred night, people gathered to like bonfires, other sacrifices
and pay homage to the dead. All right, so the
first tricker treaters apparently, Uh, we're poor children in medieval
Europe who would go door to door begging for food
and money during the Celtic holiday celebration, which was celebrated
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on October one, and so in exchange, they would offer
to pray for the souls of their neighbors recently departed
loved ones. I think we could get back to that,
you know. I think maybe let's bring it back. The
kids need to learn about life and death a little
bit earlier, you know. I mean, there's there's some there's
some ritual since it's like that day of uh. Yeah,
(18:06):
you know, I think as Americans, maybe we're too far
removed from that stuff. Yeah. I think it's kind of
funny when you think about it. Well, we could dress up.
We have kids dress up in a costume of like
a zombie but really don't. This is too dark, This
is too dark for them, right. Yeah. Well, also I
like the idea these kids got to earn that candy.
(18:28):
Hey man, you want these treats and coins, you better
pray for my grandma, you know, thank you. Praying for
someone soul after they're dead is interesting too, because it's like,
what are you what are you doing? Because you know,
now you think of it, well, you know, it's actually
interesting that you mentioned that, Bill, because I'm not claiming
to be an expert on this at all, but it's
(18:49):
just like I've been reading some stuff about different like
theatrical traditions and different spaces outside of like the basic
like Aristotle structure, and in different cultures, you know, like
the living and the dead, it's more of like you're
just like in communion with them at all times. So
it's less of like they're dead and gone, and it's
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more like so so like dead characters for example, in
other types of plays outside of like maybe a traditional
American play, it's like they're dead, but they're also like here,
you know what I'm saying. And so I wonder then
if like praying for someone who is dead as part
of that, like communing with them or I don't know.
These are just just guesses, you know, because isn't there
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some there's something I'm not sure about the specifics and
the culture, but I feel like in some of that
afterlife belief. Throughout humans, we have this notion of like
you go on it's really there's like levels right where
it's like planes of universe you go through and so
you've exited this world and now you're in this world
and you have to get passage. That's white people be
buriers certain things so they could pay their passage they
get to the next thing, and then if they don't,
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then they get stuck somewhere. And I feel like in
some it's like you have to continue to be remember
birden honored. Otherwise it's like it's almost like someone has
to pay rent on your soul spot and if like
your people on Earth, don't pay your rent, you get
like booted to the other other realm. That's how I'm
picturing it right where it's like you have to like
maintain relevancy. Um. But it's just an interesting thing. I
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like the idea of of not being fully gone and
just being like in like parallels right where it's like
we can interact on this level, but not that level
because now we're in these other planes. I think that
part of human thinking is much more interesting than some
of the more cut and dry religious beliefs we've got
on death right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would hope that
maybe that's from the synchronicity we experience in life. Is like,
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you know, there's someone from another and I like the
idea too. You know, it's like I miss my grandparents.
I don't think about them as often as maybe I should.
I do think about them, but it's like if I
had a day or a ritual something to think about
to send some good vibes. Air Way also sending good
vibes their way right now, maybe I'll get her in
the mail check for seven dollars. Where did this come from?
(21:11):
What I like? So? So in later centuries, you know,
this goes on to talk about that people began dressing
as ghosts, demons, and other other creatures, performing antics and
exchange for food and drink. So went from praying for
food and drink to performing for food and drink. And
this custom was known as mumming uh and also dates
back to the Middle Ages, and it's thought to be
(21:32):
you know, the precursor to trick or trink interesting, especially
that like you're like, oh, go do this interesting thing,
or go do this like maybe mischievous thing and I'll
get you this meal. That's a really interesting tradition. And
picturing people in the Middle Ages, like having someone dress
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as a ghost pulling a prank on their neighbor who
keeps infringing on their fields. Yeah, is it a burlap sack.
That's the only thing I can chase a demon to
steal their their cousins. Luke hides it. He sucks. I'm
tired of hearing him play it. Yeah. See that feels
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because like depending on how serious the person takes it,
do you get maybe I mean yeah, yeah, some people
they're like I should not have played that trick. This
was this is not a treat, but my arm got
cut off. Yeah it was a joke. We thought you
were a witch. Well. Although it's unknown precisely where and
(22:39):
when the phrase trick or treat was coined, the custom
was firmly established in popular culture in America by one
when trick or treating was depicted in the Peanuts comic strip.
Uh so, I guess maybe that's historical factors the Peanuts.
You guys are looking for places to like, yeah, when
they covered Kennedy, that was crazy when Peanuts did Kennedy
(23:05):
l Brown Um. Disney also produced a cartoon called Tricker
Treat featuring Donald Duck back in fifty two. So of
course another very great place to Huey, Dewey and Louie
cartoon is such a core memory in my soul for Halloween.
I will never not think of that cartoon. Oh it's
(23:31):
I'm pretty sure it's the one that I'm thinking of
because my grandma was one of those grandma's that just
bought every VHS tape ever at Sam's Club, and you
know how they put all those collections where they'd be
like the classics, Like she had this like, um all
these different like classic Disney animations that were like themed out. Um.
So there's one that was about like Goofy, there was
(23:52):
one that was Mickey, and then there was like Huey, Dewey,
Louie and Donald and stuff like that. But yeah, this
Halloween one and it has like these like dancing skeletons
and stuff, and it's it's got music. It's really it's
kind of spooky Honestly, I remember as a kid some
of it was like, oh too scary, um, but it's
mostly really cute and so funny. Honestly, Wow, trick or
(24:13):
treating is not that old. I really was picturing, like,
genuinely was picturing people doing that, like as far back
as like the early nine hundreds. But I guess people
were just having like Halloween parties because like you would
see those, you know, and like you see like vintage
masks and costumes from like that era of the like
nineteen odds to the fifth before the fifties, right like
(24:34):
nineteen tens to forties. But wow, I'm fascinated. Well, it
seems like, you know, there were definitely things similar to
trick or treating earlier in twenties century in America and elsewhere.
You know. However, it seems like it evolved over time.
So for example, um, this other article for from Business
Insiders seems to say that, like, you know, by the
(24:56):
twentieth century, you know, uh, Halloween and Halloween celebrations were
a thing that you'd find in America. However, it sounds
like earlier around like the time of the Great Depression, Uh,
it also included things like full blown vandalism and crime
on those nights. And apparently there's one theory out there
that says that, uh, the modern day trick or treating
(25:19):
emerged as a way to bring order to the chaos
and keep citizens safe on October one. So I love
that it's the articles. It's full blown vandalism, not the
half hearted. No one's using pencils and chalk here. We're
talking buckets of facies being let loose. That is interesting.
(25:48):
So it's funny to imagine this notion of it going
from like hey, we'll, we'll pray for your loved ones
and then saying hey, we'll we'll do some little mischievous
things to saying like, whoa, you guys are chaos. What
if we gave you candy to stop paralyzing the town?
And speaking of candy, Sam, so apparently as the sugar
(26:09):
rations of the Great Depression were lifted, candy companies started
cashing in on this new Hallow queen tradition. And so
now you know, people spend an estimated two point six
billion on candy for Halloween. And that's according to the
National Retail Federation. So whoa yeah, So it's whoa. I
guess I think about it. Yeah, I bet you know,
(26:31):
a lot of that Halloween candy isn't even trick or treaters. Like,
think about the month of October and how many like
doctor's offices you go into and there's just like Halloween
pumpkin full of milky ways. Yeah, that is so interesting. Wow.
So do you think that maybe our interests in Halloween
and trick or treating and all of that is a
(26:51):
reaction to World War Two from the ration ng and
like having that sense of not having all of these indulgences,
and now we really lean into it. I mean, I
feel like that's American culture in a nutshell. Well, I
think that's that's business to taking advantage. I think there's
so many The more deep ties we do, the more
it's like, you know, who's behind this Herschey's and marketing
(27:14):
campaigns that make, you know, kind of normalize these behaviors
and then they become quote unquote traditions. I remember even
thinking as a kid, you know, like I was a
lot of candy at the end of Halloween. I would
have so much candy and I would couldn't eat it all.
I remember my jaw hurting trying to eat so much
(27:34):
candy and we haven't. Yeah, we'd have candy until like
December January, easy, like no doubt. It's so funny because yeah,
I can I confidently say now that I've I've worked
in advertising a little bit, that yes, all of the
brands and all of the agencies are just looking at
how to manipulate cultural experiences. So this tracks, this track
(27:57):
is hard. Um, I this blew my mind. I had
no idea that we didn't really lean into it until
that that late in our in our air. But all
of that makes so much sense now. I'm curious, um
about like the evolution of our candy over time, because
if you think about like when I think of like
nineteen fifties candy, I'm thinking about like those Mary Jane's,
(28:18):
you know, or like those Circus peanuts. I don't know
when those came out. But and then I think about
some people who, you know, like the people in the
neighborhood who hand out like raisins are the things that
aren't Is that is that because they want you to
be healthy or is that just a holdover of the
sugar rash? Understand the raisin giver much more. Yeah, the
(28:41):
person handing out actual apples and they're probably not razor
blades and folks that was They're totally fine, They're totally safe.
Eat some eat some apps. It's actually a lot of
sugar that fruit as well, you know, lots of sugar. Well,
you know, speaking of sugar and speaking of those different
treats and candies. Um, there's an interesting article that Casey
(29:02):
pulled about the most popular candies, which I thought was, yeah,
super interesting. So if you're trying to make trick or
treaters the happiest, uh, here is the five top most
like candies. You can't go wrong if you're handing out Skittles, starbursts,
Reese's peanut butter cups, my personal favorite, kit cats, and twigs, um,
(29:27):
which yeah, I don't know about y'all. Yeah, I'm gonna say,
like I'm holding my hands so serious, like yes, like
I'm waiting for the results of American Idol. That's so
funny that, yeah, I love all that, you know, it's funny.
(29:47):
Have you ever noticed, um my girlfriend, I were talking
about this the other day, have you ever noticed, like
Reese's peanut butter cups, they are so much better when
they're in the seasonal shape, like when you get an Easter.
During Easter they have the eggs, and Halloween they've got
those little pumpkins, and Christmas they got the tree. Why
is it so much better than the cup? There's like
(30:08):
there is much better, like peanut butter to chocolate ratio,
Like I know why it's better. I'm saying, why do
they make it better? Why don't they make it this
good all year? Is what I'm saying. Um, because I
love Esist, but yeah, there's something about that, like bite
on that little Halloween pumpkin, get yourself some. This is
paid by for just kidding Resists holler hit us up.
(30:31):
You know. Actually, Reesis, actually they really do support their
fans because, um, I feel like you keep bringing her up.
But uh my girlfriend once tweeted that she wouldn't wanted to,
um have a Reese's Egg wedding cake, and then Reesis
was like, Wow, you're such an outrageous fan. We're gonna
send you a whole like I don't know, like so
(30:52):
many months supply of some promotional candy they're doing. I
forget with whether they're like nutrageous or something like that. Um,
but they like said she was gonna marry they've made
her a wedding, Like, they sent her all the things
so she could actually marry a Reese's Egg and then
she got like a several months supply of nutrageous bars.
So what I'm saying is, if you love the candy bill,
(31:15):
you too could become a promotional item in the advertising
world's corporate web. I'm gonna I'm gonna add some candy.
You better add some candy companies. That is so funny, Mark,
what's your favorite candy being outside of this, you know,
Tricker Treating bubble of favorites, what would you say yours are?
I think that the candies that they listed, I agree,
(31:38):
I enjoy all those very much. Um. I think more
recently my favorites have been Snickers, Like I really enjoy
Snickers bars. Yeah, so like Snickers bar, but Reese's Peanut
butter Cup is very close to the top. Uh. And
I actually enjoyed Twigs a lot for a number of years.
That was definitely like to So I say those are
my top three, like Reese's Twigs, Snickers. Yeah. I recently
(32:03):
learned that there actually is a difference between the left
twicks and the right twicks. You know how they package them.
And this is really just with someone. This is just
what a Twigs leftist told me. Okay, some some Twigs leftist.
I don't know how the Twigs far right feels, but uh,
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someone told me that one has more cookie and one
has more caramelt. I don't know if that's true, but
I love that as a marketing thing, because what an
annoying product to manufacture. I should be the guy the factory.
He's like, you're telling me, I gotta adjust this one
to this, but I gotta adjust this one. But they're
in this same Okay, okay, that's so funny. I'm quite
(32:49):
quit in this place. Ridiculous. This is twix he list.
Oh that's silly. Even noticed factory workers whenever we bring
them up, tend to have some sort of a quickness.
Please to the Twigs and the Bronx. Yeah, my grand
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dad made all the twicks back before the fire. It's
always a fire. Yeah yeah. We will be right back
with more ridiculous news after this short break. Yeah yeah, yeah,
(33:42):
don't get confused. Ridiculous news, all right, shall So we're
back and uh, Bill, Sam, I'm excited to share this
article with y'all. From Huffington Post. So you'll remember the
show Dirty Rock where Steve BUSHEMI there was like one
of those kind away scenes where he was pretending to
be a teenage high schooler and he's like, hello, fellow teens,
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and that went on to become a popular meme. Uh. Well,
apparently Steve Busmy uh dressed up as his own meme
for Halloween and handed out candy and I feel like
that's a great skirt. Uh. So the article goes on
to say the quirky actor, which is it's I mean, like, yes,
Steve A. Chevy's quirky what we like? Anyway, the quirky
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actor was dressed up as a character he played on
thirty Rock that became a hit meme. So he was
decked out in a red hoodie, backwards baseball cap and
a skateboard and uh yeah, so he recreated his clueless
undercover cop character who tried to blend in with high schoolers.
And this was from a twelve episode of the sitcom
thirty Rock, and uh the character's name was Lenny Wosniac
(34:50):
or private Detective Lenny Wosniac and uh and so yeah,
so he recreated this moment and uh, and there was
a quote from a thirteen year old that was there
when he was dressed up in this way named Stella
Wexler Rush, which is an awesome name, and their quote
was we weren't sure if it was him at first,
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so so I thought that was pretty funny. I mean,
a thirteen year old, I'm surprised that even no Steve
Bush is oh, I can almost a guarantee that Stella
Wexler Rush. I thought that was just an old man
that wore those clothes. And that became a meme because
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having spent many years babysitting, I can tell you if
you are over thirty, children will will not believe that
you are important. There's no way that's a famous person.
You're in a meme. You're just an old man that
we made famous, you know what I mean. Meanwhile, is
(35:57):
like reservoir dogs. Yeah, And I did you know until
I was looking at this article, and I just never
noticed in the meme that his shirt just as musician
band with a little lightning bolt. It's like a takeoff
of a C d C. But it's just this music
band is so good at that like very dry, very
(36:19):
silly kind of humor. I will say as a show
what not everything has held up in time because hey,
you know, we weren't great back then, but but ban
are there some good little bits like that. That is
such a funny, funny moment. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I
was just always so astounded by how many jokes they
could pack into every scene. It was to the point
where it was just like it's like overwhelming, you know,
(36:42):
like in a good way, but it's just like no,
it's yeah, it's something you can go back to. And
we watched over and over and catch something that you missed,
like subtle. There's always background things go when people are
saying stuff. I mean, it's a busy, busy show. It's
so funny, well done. Go that's great. Have you guys
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ever spotted a celebrity anywhere like that? Uh? At the
movie theater I used to work at in Atlanta was
like when my first I think it was my first
job I worked in a movie theater, and so they'd
play like a lot of our house films. So at
the time, like for example, like a Little Miss Sunshine
came out, pretty much the only place to see it
in Atlanta would be that theater, and so it would
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just attract people from all over the city that I
wanted to see those kind of movies. So I remember
Chris Tucker came in to see the Last King of Scotland,
and he came in late in his life. Y'all gonna
hold the movie for me. We're like, oh man, that's
Chris Tucker, and no we can't, we don't sorry, and
then uh and then uh. Andrea through thousand would come
in to watch stuff too, and so like too that
(37:48):
I remember passing through but nothing where they were like
dressing up as a character, handing out candy right where
you feel double checker, like, hold on, is this really
happening right right? Yeah? Yeah, yeah that When I worked
at an improv theater in Chicago, I won't name, but
when I worked there, um, I forget his name, but
(38:09):
the actor that played the janitor on Scrubs, Neil something.
He was performing, um the weekend, his team was performing
beer Schark Mice, and he wanted to go outside to
the beer garden to smoke, but there's no smoking aloud,
and he was walking. He'd got he'd done it twice already,
and none of the other staff wanted to tell him now.
But I was like, he's not supposed to know, and
(38:29):
so because my people are trying to enjoy their time outside.
And so then he finally came and I was by
myself and I was brave, and I was like, um,
you can't. You can't smoke outside, and he kind of
like looked at me. He's like, do you know who
I am? And I was like yes, And then he
turned around and went to smoke by the dumpsters and
it was a very powerful moment or was it like
a great scene and he was improving and actually went
(38:49):
to the beer garden behind my back. Maybe, But I
think it's I think it's funny that my only celebrity interaction.
I was like, I'm so sorry, but I've been given
a job to do. I'm like, I work dog. Sorry,
I'm like a drug sniffing dog meeting a celebrity. I
cannot be cool. That's great, Yeah, I mean I have
(39:11):
never so Bradley Whitford was one time? Was that a
Dad show? I remember he was in the audience and
there was another actor there too, Mark, were you at
that show? I remember? I vaguely remember what you're talking about. No,
I wasn't there that night. Yeah, yeah, and then my
favorite running into, although it's not the same thing at all,
was running into and I was working behind the scenes,
was seen in at a boaro hanging out ended up,
(39:34):
you know. I think they were doing an interview with
like Pearl Jam or something in a tent behind the stage,
and I was talking to these other ladies as we
were hanging out and talked to him for like fifteen minutes,
just they're worried from Atlanta. Was really fun. And then
finally I was like, so, are you all in a
band or something? And the lady was like, oh, I'm
Lizzo and I'm playing at the tent. I'm Liza. Yeah. Yeah,
(39:56):
by the way, yeah yeah. She was so nice and
so cool and before she was before you were not. Yeah, yeah,
because she was. That's the thing. People act like she
has an overnight success, but she was working in the
industry and touring and doing festivals for many many years.
That's amazing. Nice, what a lovely person to be like,
Oh yeah, I'm just a person too, that's nice. Yeah. Yeah.
(40:19):
And I realized if I had run into her now
because I'm such a huge fan of hers now, I
don't know. I don't know that I would have played
it so cool. You know, she was so kind. So
whenever I see any celebrities, I tried to just ignore them.
In Atlanta, you see people a lot at comedy shows.
People you know you, and that's why. That's why the
(40:39):
janitor from Scrubs is the only one I've ever talked to.
We saw how that went, so I try to know,
I genuinely, I'm just like, they don't want me to
let them know. I like them. They don't care, but
they do. Okay. Anyway, Well, several things pulled from an
article of twenty seven ridiculously weird things kids actually got
(41:01):
while trick or treating, and the first one, which is
a quote, my neighbor gave out period starter kits to
the girls and condoms to the older kids. Honestly, slam dunk. Neighbor.
Love this neighbor, right, And it's like, I don't know,
like what age is the cut off and does there
need to be a cut off? I don't know, My gosh,
(41:24):
that's interesting. Yeah, the condoms, I could see how that's
a little bit more divisive. I just feel I mean,
I feel like the period started kid. I mean, hey man,
things could happen at any time. It's a bomb. No,
it's no, it's smart. It's smart. It should be normal.
It shouldn't be like a weird secret because normally the
way a girl gets her first tampon is another girl
hands it to her from her sleeve and too the
(41:45):
other girl's sleeve in a classroom, so no one sees
it like it's like a secret. It's like a really
twisted handshake. Um. So yeah, I think the transparency is wonderful.
The communs someone might get math um, not me, I'm cool,
you're hip. Uh. Well. Another woman gave out small potted plants. Again,
(42:09):
seems like a throw that in the bucket. Some parents
so pissed they're just holding four plants walking behind their kids.
It's the first house, the first house they went to.
What's the next goldfish in a bag? Come on, um, practical.
(42:31):
One person got a pack of cigarettes, but it was
they noted for their dad, who was trick or treating score,
you know, to win this year with you Ryan. See
if they got red. Uh. I can picture a kid
(42:53):
going door to door saying that they need cigarettes for
their dad who's not with that. So maybe that's not
a great move. It's a trick and a treat a cigarette.
For some reason, I picture this being a step dad too.
It's so it's like, hey, Carl, they got cigarettes for
(43:15):
you again here I don't know. Another one was a
baby turtle and a can of orange soda was the
next one was the soda small enough for the turtle?
Or was it was the turtles presented atop the can?
(43:40):
I mean, talk about cute. Baby turtles are definitely up
there in terms of cuteness. So I can see how
a kid would never say no, but a parent's going
to be like, what the hell? Yeah, it's so funny.
So what do they do? I mean, was it? I
gotta know they buy a little terrarium? I have to
write loose turtles? Do you do you tennis racket back
(44:01):
in the woods? You know, just kind of send it
on its way. Um, it doesn't give doing. That's Carl,
the step dad. That's what he's doing. Okay, that's that's
a big Carl move. Um, it doesn't. It doesn't give
details on it. Um what happened to the baby turtle?
But that in the final one that we pull was
(44:21):
um pamphlets about why Halloween is actually a celebration of Satan.
Uh you know which, depending on the kind of neighborhood
you're in, I can see some disgruntled people. Well, you know,
depending on the type of pamphlet, you know, the pamphlet,
it might be like, Halloween's bad because it's Satan, or
(44:44):
it might be like, hey, Halloween sick because it's Satan.
You know what. It could be like, oh my god,
we're so glad you're into this. We also love Satan.
We too are friends of Lucifer. Uh. Wh It feels
like you would give out something cooler, like, you know,
(45:06):
just a pampling that is so funny. Yeah, like some
incantations or like a yeah and some base CD and
the sleeve is the pamphlet. I guess the question I
have for y'all is, you know, if you got a
trick or treater and you weren't able to give them candy,
(45:26):
but you're like, I'm going to give them something that
makes them remember me, So like something that maybe either
have around your house or like something that you would
that you would like that you would be like, oh,
this would be a cool thing to give. I guess
this is what I'm asking that's not that's not candy.
It's a reflection of who you are as a person
in some way, whether whether it be your random interests
or things around your house. What what what might that be?
(45:49):
Oh man, Mark, Um, I'm so glad you asked because this, this,
this is something I have actually done to I've lived
in my house two years, but I've never known if
trigger treaters are going to come and are not, and
it's like embarrassing to be overprepared and then they don't come.
So I'm like, so I've had twice two years in
(46:13):
a row, I've had kids come to my house and
I didn't technically have candy for them, but I still
gave them stuff. I mean, the good news is that
I'm an adult who always has candy in my house.
It's just that like it's like ridiculous. Like one year, Um,
(46:36):
like what like one year, I ended up giving them
all I had bought in bulk because I do this.
I buy bulk candy and Amazon because I'm a grown
up and I can't and so I'll buy bulk candy
of stuff I like, and like I gave all these
kids those like terries, chocolate, oranges nice. You know, let's
be like whack and they're breaking up. Yeah, but I
(47:00):
have also I have also fully just given kids a
bunch of windy peach stickers because I'm like, their butts.
There you go, they're they're fun. Here they are um.
And then there there was one kid. I wish I
could remember what his costumes. You might have been like
it might have been like a pirate or something. I
don't know, but I had like you know, those like
led candles that you like you turn at the battery.
(47:21):
I like a really tall one. I was like, your buddy,
like turn it out, like if you go, and he's like,
walk around like epitis are screwed with the big stupid
Why did I give him that? But I just like
I didn't have anything. But if I were to do
it for real, if I could pick something genuine, I
think I would be I would want to be able
to give kids, like, you know, a coloring book or
(47:44):
something like an activity that would be reminiscent of the
thing I would want, and like what would be representive
of me, Like hey, kid, here's this cool puzzle. But
then and then their parents would be like, why are
you giving my child toys? Go away from it? So fair?
But Bill, what would be yours. I think it's nothing
as cool as we said, but probably like a like
a little Man to Land or something like that like
(48:07):
I had, or or ukulele probably would be cheaper and
more efficient. Uh. I had a friend who got married,
my good friend Graham, and he for his gift for
all of us that we're in the wedding party, give
us ukuleles. And that was fun. Although these poor parents
would be like, you give my kid. I know, it's
so funny because I just when you said that, I
was like, you know, a fun like alternative to Halloween
(48:27):
candy would be like little egg shakers or like a
little like Moroccy. But I'm like, all the parents would
be so mad. I remember getting kazoos as a kid,
when I would try like a kazoo sometimes just whistles,
just handing out whistles. Yeah, exactly. It's because a lot
of ch Well, this brings us to our our final
um segment here, which is the spring of inspiring inspirations.
(48:50):
We always want to leave y'all with a quote to
think about, UH, to carry you through the rest of
your day. And this one is from the fabulous Vincent
Price Um and he said it's as much fun to
scare as to be scared. That's inside. Yeah, that's cool.
(49:11):
And Mark, by the way, Mark, what was I realized
I've moved forward? What was your thing that you would
hand out? Oh? Yeah, that I think I'd give out books,
you know, like like I got some kind of intense
books that I don't know if i'd necessarily give out,
but like or might give up, like really specific stuff
like this book like y'all know these thirty three and
the third book series where they like write about different albums.
(49:33):
It's kind of cool. So it's like it's like this
book about like Stevie Wonders songs in the Key of
Life for like other kind of classic albums which i'd
give or maybe i'd give, like I don't know, a
really intense book about identity, politics and kids. It's like
I found what I love, you know, like I want
to go into the study of people you know or
whatever it is. Mark's just handing out copies of the
(49:56):
Communist kids started questioning it right off the bat, like
expand your mind, you know, I ask a questions. It's
so funny, Mom, we don't want to skip martin Mr
Marks House this year. Start you know, start calling him
(50:17):
Mr Marxist. Do you do you guys like being scared?
Do you like you know, my said you haven't been
to a haunted house in a while. Does that mean
that you don't like scary things? I think it depends
on what it is. It's not that I don't, um,
what is it. I don't know if I necessarily like
seek it out all the time. So there's definitely like
(50:38):
horror movies that I've watched that I'm like, that was
freaky and I don't dislike it, but it's just like, oh,
this is something that I don't want to do all
the time. Like for example, like I think like Vertigo
is just like the super creepy movie, you know, and
I like the movie a lot, but I'm like, it
also creeps me out, So I don't necessarily like seek
(50:58):
it out all the time. I'm out like, oh, you
know it would be fun is if I flip myself
out with this movie. It's more like, oh, here's an
experience where I am being scared and I can appreciate it.
That's kind of that's kind of I just I get
what about about um, you know, i I've always I
don't like like violent movies. I'm not interested in like
(51:21):
a slash or horror horror for the sake of it
being a horror in the genre. But I do really
enjoy like the psychological thriller. I do love like a
really artistically made spooky story. You know, there's sometimes a
scary movie can be so interesting because to me, I
think the scariest things are the things that are more
about like human psyche and relationships versus like there's a
(51:43):
demon in my kid, this house is haunted, oh exactly.
Like there's a really like a really awesome example of that. Um.
There's this movie called Uma that I just watch um
with Sandra, and it's technically a ghost story. It's set
up like a ghost story, but it's actually about like
(52:04):
generational trauma and and like immigrant stories and like it's
it's beautiful. Same thing with like his house. Um, it's
a horror film. It's set up a lot like a
ghost kind of demon film, but it's actually this much
deeper psychological story about people escaping a war torn country
and all these things. And I like that part because
it's I kind of relate to the sentiment of not
seeking out being scared, because I kind of think being
(52:26):
alive is scary enough, and like thinking about things is
already scary. Like I'm already scared all the time, so
I don't need to watch like Scream. But I do
like seeing other people expressing that through film in that way.
So I do love scary movies for that um, and
I like being scared because it's like we're all scared together. Yeah.
(52:48):
The funny there's a demon that my kid was actually
the all title for The Exorcist. Rejected title would have
been a very different movie. There's it's a whole line
from toy story. Oh, like, girl, what about yourself? Going
(53:10):
to be scared? Like? You know, you know, when people
ask my favorite movie, I usually either say Pocolas Now
or the movie Alien. The movie Alien is still one
of my favorite movies of all time, and it is terrifying.
It's a very scary film. I still every time I
watch it. That end scene with Sigourney we were, you know,
just trying to get off that chip um is so terrifying.
(53:31):
And I don't, you know, but it's not I don't
really like the gore, like the sal kind of stuff.
That stuff just now. But to your point, Sam, that's
psychological thriller, which in a sense, Alien does have some gore,
but it's more about this, you know, uh and gosh,
some really interesting um metaphors even for today's society, you
(53:51):
know where you know, what's it like when a man
gets implanted with something in a spilly that you know
he can't stop. So it's a great film overall, good film. Uh,
definitely worth a rewatch if you haven't seen it recently. Uh.
But yeah, I do like being scared. Yeah I don't.
I enjoy it. That's what you're saying, is that we're
all going to go to a haunted house, and we're
(54:13):
going to all were pro, go pro, and we'll see
who really likes being scared, because I bet you I
will cry, but it'd be fine, do it. I'm there
and and I hope audience that you'll will join us
for that next episode when we're live live from a
(54:35):
haunted house maybe another world. And as always, thank you'
all so so much for tuning into ridiculous news. We'd
love having you here. We'd love doing this for y'all,
so please come back. We appreciate you so much. Yes,
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(54:56):
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People can find me on pretty much every social media
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(55:19):
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