BEST OF - The government shutdown reaches day 31, with SNAP benefits ending and air traffic controllers missing another paycheck. Our National Correspondent Rory O'Neill joins us with the latest and breaks down Halloween by the numbers. Google Trends Expert Isabelle Resnick shares this year’s top Halloween searches, while Florida earns the title of America’s most haunted state. Plus, President Trump announces new trade and technology deals with China involving soybeans and TikTok.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
These government shutdown is certainly continues to be in the news.
It is day thirty one. Nothing much has really changed.
The Republicans are still blaming the Democrats. The Democrats are
still blaming the Republicans. We're seeing the possibility probability of
SNAP benefits being suspended as of tomorrow, questions about air
traffic controllers getting their paycheck. We'll bring in our national correspondent,
(00:24):
Rory O'Neil to talk a little bit the little bit
about the shutdown. This report brought to you by Mark
Spain Real Estate. Rory, thank you as always for coming
on board. Is there any reason at all for any
optimism that they cooler heads might be prevailing and we
might see some sort of an.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
End to this thing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now, moving on to our next segment, I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The truth.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, they're going to have to do something soon though,
because with SNAP benefits running out, the air traffic control thing,
with the holidays coming, I mean, how long can they
really let this thing go on?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, right, there's a lot of talk now even among Democrats,
that next week something's going to happen. That because essentially
the federal workers have gone a month without getting paid. Tomorrow,
the rent is due for many hundreds of thousands of them,
or the mortgage payment is due, as you can now appreciate, Dan,
And that's one of the big issues right that it's
really hitting households. As we mentioned the snap benefits coming
(01:32):
to an end. That's like three million Florida households not
getting that support of what we used to call food
stamps starting this weekend.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
There is a.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Judge who might make some rulings that could shake a
money tree with some contingency funding, but that's a bit
of a wait and see.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You know, here's one thing that I've been wondering about
for really a couple of weeks now, Rory is the
fact that Republicans are saying that they will be happy
to negotiate the tax subsidies, the healthcare tax subsidies, wants
the Democrats vote to reobuild the government.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My question is do you trust him to do that?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Well, the Democrats don't.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And the Democrats will tell you that, yeah, look, we
had deals before, but then remember that when they cut
the funding for things like PBS and USAID, all that happened.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
They went back and cut.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Funding the Congress had approved and they tried to claw
back that money, and they did successfully.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The Democrats. Their argument is, you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Know, we need better guarantees because that you guys aren't
going to approve these clawbacks when they come in the future. Otherwise,
what's the point of any of this talk If you're
just going to let the president go back and reject
some of the spending on his own.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Somebody's got to give. Somebody's got a blink sooner or later,
do you agree?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, that's also, by the way, that's also how this
is all set up to work as supposed to treat right.
I mean, that's the other issue. The House has not
been in session for a month. I Speaker Johnson, this
is the tactic to say, look, we're just going to
keep spending as it is through November twenty.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
First, we did our job, we're out.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But the Democrats want to essentially reopen part of the
big beautiful bill here using the only card they have
to play in blocking anything from passing, and because they
stopped the Republicans from getting sixty votes. Look, you've got
three Democrats who switched sides, You've got one Republican who's
now siding with the Democrats.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
But there's really no.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Other talking going on to try to resolve this there
there are no negotiations.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, and speaking of having a card to play, President
Trump last night at ten thirty went off on truth
Socials saying it is now time for the Republicans to
play their Trump card and go for what is called
the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster, and get
rid of it now. And then he went on and
wrote a whole novel just going off on all these
different Democrats.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, all taps sometimes as usually does. Yah's frustrating.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, Look, Senator Thune, the Senate majority of leader, a Republican.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
He's a big institutionalist.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He and a lot of fellow Republicans want the filibuster
to stay in place. They think it's an important thing
that you know, you're gonna want the filibuster when you're
in the minority. And that's that's the thing is that
you you know, yes, the Republicans are in charge in
the House and Senate now, but when you're out, you're
gonna want that power of the filibuster when you're in
the minority. And that's why they don't want to give
(04:20):
it up. And you know, so the president wants this
nuclear option. I don't think he's going to find enough
support in the Senate to get rid of that rule.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, moving away from this dreary government shutdown, saying Rory,
You've got some Halloween numbers for us.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah. Look, this is a big, big holiday in terms
of spending. It's a second only to Christmas these days.
Fourteen billion dollars in projected Halloween spending this year. Nearly
four billion dollars just on candy that gets you about
eight pieces, four point three billion on if you want
chocolate anyway, four point three billion on Halloween costume spending alone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I spent a lot of money on my costume.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So I bought my my Donkey Junkie T shirt and
then I had to dump coffee on it to just
go along with it with the theme of the costume.
And I'm like, I just said twenty bucks on this
shirt and now I'm ruining it with coffee.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I left this wallet hup. Survey said half of
parents help themselves to some of their children's Halloween hall
I'm like yeah, and the other half are lying, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, who's not eating their kids Halloween candy? My son
knows three musketeers. Those are moms.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, So, so exactly when did Halloween actually start? This
goes back a couple of thousand years, and I don't
think people really realize that.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You can go back with the Celts and all my
people and all Hallows Eve and it all relates to,
you know, the moon phases and the time of year.
But I was fascinated to see they also were able
to go back and find out when the phrase trick
or treats started?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh okay, and when I, uh.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
God, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I couldn't tell if it was a thousand years ago,
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It's more modern than I thought. Okay, uh, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Really? So yeah, so when our grandparents.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Were kids, and they said it really became fashionable and
popular when it was picked up by cartoons like Mickey
Mouse and Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So chocolate candy corn, eh, candy corn gulmies are the
top three Halloween candies.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That's because they're cheap things, arab. Yeah, they're disgusting.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They are disgusting.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, I bought I bought one big bag. I think
it's got one hundred and sixty five pieces in it.
Of the good chocolate stuff, and I'm like, that's it.
I'm gonna I need to have more than that because
my neighborhood has a lot of kids in it. But
I'm not gonna I'm not getting any more expensive stuff.
There's gonna be one bucket that's got the good stuff,
and then if you want anything additional or when I
run out, it's going to be all the.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
You know, the the cheaper candy.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And I'm trying to lose that. I'm trying to lose
a few pounds. So my wife got some no sugar
and that's fun. Cityff, all right, what do you give up?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Rory O Naylar Nation, Little correspondent, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, if you're looking for something spooky to do for
Halloween today, there are no shortage of places here in Florida.
We've been named the most haunted state in the country
by duelbits dot com. There are two hundred and seven
known haunted locations in Florida. The most famous is the
Saint Augustine Lighthouse, which has long been known as the
(07:35):
most haunted site in Florida. It's also surrounded by seventeen
other haunted locations across Saint Augustine, which is the oldest
continuously inhabited European established town in the country. Other notable
haunted hotspots include Key West, where the lights turn on
and off mysteriously after hours, and sounds of a typewriter
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can be heard in Ernest Hemingway's former home, and the
Capitol Theater in clear Water is apparently haunted by a
ghost known as the Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Now, I visited the Hemingway House on numerous occasions, but
I usually just go there to kind of play with
the cats. Oh, I was so when I was growing up,
the biggest haunted attraction in my neck of the woods
was not a house.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It was a bridge. Oh geez. It's called the Screaming
Mimi Bridge. Okayary.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The legend has it that the woman there was a
woman who either was murdered or jumped into the river.
So what you did you would drive out into the
middle of the bridge and you'd honk your horn three times.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And she would appear.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Did it work? No, it never worked.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I could never get it to work.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But it's still there, and actually it's very It's kind
of well known because I had someone some years ago
when I was here in Tampa. Came up to me
and says, is there really a screaming MEMI bridge?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's at Acid, Yeah, it's it's there.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And that's in Ohio where he grew up.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, it's there in Seneca County, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I avoid haunted places, so I couldn't tell you if
any of these places are haunted because I just won't
go there.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You don't even like scary movies, No.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I don't, not at all. I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
All right, Well, in case you haven't noticed, people everywhere
have been getting into the Halloween spirits and we're spending
more to decorate the house. The costumes are more elaborate
and reflect the trends of the day, and boy a,
we're spending more money on everything. So what are the
big trends this year? Google trend expert Isabelle Resnik is
here to fill us in. Let's start with the costumes, Isabelle,
(09:36):
This year it's all K pop Demon Hunters, which I
have no idea whatsoever what that's all about. So what
are the K Pop demon Hunters? And why is that
the most popular costume right now?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well, that's a great question. In fact, the K Pop
Demon Hunters are holding the top five spots across the country.
So we've got Roomies, so we Mira Gino and Baby Saja.
Let me tell you, these K Pop Demon Hunters have
very catchy songs, so that could be a big reason
why they're dominating the music charts and also the Halloween
(10:13):
costume charts. They've also got really cool accessories and ways
that they style. So, for example, Roomy our most popular girl.
She has this purple dragon braid. So actually dragon braid
and purple hair are being searched more than ever, and
that's probably because of Roomy from K Pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm going to have to look google all of these
so that when kids come to my door I can say, oh,
you're Mira from K Pop Demon Hunters, because like read,
I really have no idea. My son is thirteen, so
he's a little bit older than the kids who are
into this K Pop Demon Hunters. So when it comes
to the top five trending pet Halloween looks, read here's
another one. You may not know what it is. Number
(10:51):
one is La Boo Boo. So what's La Booboo?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Well, I'll tell you, so that is you probably see
these funky monster looking key chains on people's bags around
your area. Actually, Labugo is funny enough in the Tampa area.
It's not just the top pet costume, it's actually number
three in general costumes for people. So people are dressing
themselves up, doing makeup, wearing interesting looking sort of bunny
(11:18):
pet ears to look like these key chains that have
really just taken a hold of the culture recently.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And then the other trending pet Halloween looks Derby the
tiger from K pop.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Demon Hunter is another one there.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And then people are dressing their pets up like an
ie hop worker and a chicken.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
What is that about you?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
That's a bit strange, you know, the ie hop worker
I can't speak to. I don't know what that's about. Listen,
people love their pancakes. But I will say, we think
that chicken could be chicken the Minecraft character Chicken Jockey.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
He just came out.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yep, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Right after that movie came out, my kids were Chicken
Jockey all the time. Well, let's talk about the candy.
The top five Halloween candies for this year.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Yes, so surprisingly enough, Swedish candy, not Swedish fish, but
Sweedish candy is really popular this year. There's this one
type of candy brand called Mom's. It's the Sweetened Sour
and it's probably trending because they have really cool shapes
like skull and crossbones and ghost shapes. So that's a
(12:26):
fun one. And then we've got our classics, I mean, KitKat, Sour, Patch,
Kids Candy, corn, and peanut butter kissen. There you go
around out the top five.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm wondering if that Sweedish candy is cheaper than the
chocolate bars that have gone way up in price. Maybe
that's why people want to give it out this year.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, but I'll just take Kitkats and recent
cups anytime, Isabelle. As we said at the outset at
the Outset, the homes are being more and more elaborately
decorated these days. So what are the top Halloween decor
that we're going to see on this Halloween.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Well, so this is fun. Newly trending is floating candles,
so people want it to look like in their house
there's candles floating as if by magic. So they're actually
searching up YouTube for tutorials on how to do this.
But I'll tell you you take a electric candle and
so that you know you don't burn down your house,
hang it by a string and it creates this really cool,
(13:19):
like eerie feeling in your home. Apart from that, we've
got scarecrows, both scarlands, potion bottles, and then your classic
cardboard haunted house.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And what about the top five trending Halloween recipes The
things that people are making when they're not eating candy
other treats they want to.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Eat, oh for sure. And let me tell you, Gemini
is a great place to get really elaborate and get
creative with these. Number one is dirt cupcakes. I haven't
heard about these. I mean people are making it with brownies.
They're putting gummy worms in them, you know, kind of
a silly thing. Taste looks like dirt, but tastes really good.
I will vouch for that. Then we've got pumpkin rolls,
(13:57):
vampire fudge, so of course, you know, using red frosting
to make it look like blood. That We've got monster cookies,
and what do you know, dirt pudding at number five.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
The dirt pudding cups.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I like, that's where you have is still like chocolate
pudding with cookie crumbles on top and then a worm.
I've definitely had that before. The dirt cupcakes is a
new one for me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm actually seeing a picture of the dirt cupcakes right now.
And yes, the gummy worms are right, very prominently featured.
Looks delicious, all right, Isabelle Resnik, thank you so much
for joining us today on this Halloween bringing us up
to dates on what the latest trends are. Isabelle, thanks again,
and happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping having their first
face to face meeting in quite some time, dealing with
really a laundry list of issues as they got together
in South Korea, and one of the most important issues
has to do, believe it or not, with soybeans. Now
China is and I didn't know this. China is the
(14:55):
world's largest buyer of soybeans, and they had pre obviously
stopped buying soybeans from the US because of Donald Trump's tariffs. Well,
now apparently China has agreed to purchase twelve million metric
tons of soybeans between now and January, then a minimum
of twenty five million metric tons over the next three years.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So that's the art of the deal. The art of
the deal.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Like I said, you know, you go to Ohio, there's
corn on one side of the road and there's soybeans
on the other, and so there you go.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now they're going to China.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well, even more important than soybeans and all that, the
TikTok deal. So Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen said yesterday that
the US and China have finalized an agreement on TikTok
that will allow the social media platform to remain available
in the US. He said that they finalized that deal
in terms of getting Chinese approval, and that he expects
(15:52):
they're going to move forward in the coming weeks and
months and see a resolution to it. So President Trump
approved the deal last month after he was the go
ahead from President g And then under the agreement, TikTok
is going to be spun off into a separate US
entity majority owned by American investors, and they're limiting the
role of TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance to comply with
(16:16):
that law requiring them to divest from TikTok or face
a ban on US networks and app stores.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
So this has been going on forever.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I mean, there was a deadline on it, and then
Trump just kept pushing the deadline.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And now it looks like it's finally all going to
get worked out.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But it sounds like China hasn't completely confirmed that deal,
so they're not coming out and saying yeah, it's worked out,
but the US reps are saying, yeah, we got a deal.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One of the most important things I think about that
deal is the fact that under well, I guess you
could call it the previous deal, when they first announced
that something was going to happen to keep TikTok going,
that bike Dance was actually going to continue to have
a role in TikTok I think getting some of the
profits perhaps. So this is very important in that regard,
(17:03):
and it's good to see it happen.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We'll see what And by the way, we're on TikTok
at Ryan Gorman Show.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
If you'd like to follow us, there you
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Go a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday
morning on news radio WFLA.
These government shutdown is certainly continues to be in the news.
It is day thirty one. Nothing much has really changed.
The Republicans are still blaming the Democrats. The Democrats are
still blaming the Republicans. We're seeing the possibility probability of
SNAP benefits being suspended as of tomorrow, questions about air
traffic controllers getting their paycheck. We'll bring in our national correspondent,
(00:24):
Rory O'Neil to talk a little bit the little bit
about the shutdown. This report brought to you by Mark
Spain Real Estate. Rory, thank you as always for coming
on board. Is there any reason at all for any
optimism that they cooler heads might be prevailing and we
might see some sort of an.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
End to this thing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Now, moving on to our next segment, I mean.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
The truth.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I mean, they're going to have to do something soon though,
because with SNAP benefits running out, the air traffic control thing,
with the holidays coming, I mean, how long can they
really let this thing go on?
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, right, there's a lot of talk now even among Democrats,
that next week something's going to happen. That because essentially
the federal workers have gone a month without getting paid. Tomorrow,
the rent is due for many hundreds of thousands of them,
or the mortgage payment is due, as you can now appreciate, Dan,
And that's one of the big issues right that it's
really hitting households. As we mentioned the snap benefits coming
(01:32):
to an end. That's like three million Florida households not
getting that support of what we used to call food
stamps starting this weekend.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
There is a.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Judge who might make some rulings that could shake a
money tree with some contingency funding, but that's a bit
of a wait and see.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
You know, here's one thing that I've been wondering about
for really a couple of weeks now, Rory is the
fact that Republicans are saying that they will be happy
to negotiate the tax subsidies, the healthcare tax subsidies, wants
the Democrats vote to reobuild the government.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My question is do you trust him to do that?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Well, the Democrats don't.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And the Democrats will tell you that, yeah, look, we
had deals before, but then remember that when they cut
the funding for things like PBS and USAID, all that happened.
Speaker 5 (02:24):
They went back and cut.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Funding the Congress had approved and they tried to claw
back that money, and they did successfully.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
The Democrats. Their argument is, you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
Know, we need better guarantees because that you guys aren't
going to approve these clawbacks when they come in the future. Otherwise,
what's the point of any of this talk If you're
just going to let the president go back and reject
some of the spending on his own.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Somebody's got to give. Somebody's got a blink sooner or later,
do you agree?
Speaker 4 (02:50):
Well, that's also, by the way, that's also how this
is all set up to work as supposed to treat right.
I mean, that's the other issue. The House has not
been in session for a month. I Speaker Johnson, this
is the tactic to say, look, we're just going to
keep spending as it is through November twenty.
Speaker 5 (03:05):
First, we did our job, we're out.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
But the Democrats want to essentially reopen part of the
big beautiful bill here using the only card they have
to play in blocking anything from passing, and because they
stopped the Republicans from getting sixty votes. Look, you've got
three Democrats who switched sides, You've got one Republican who's
now siding with the Democrats.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
But there's really no.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Other talking going on to try to resolve this there
there are no negotiations.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, and speaking of having a card to play, President
Trump last night at ten thirty went off on truth
Socials saying it is now time for the Republicans to
play their Trump card and go for what is called
the nuclear option. Get rid of the filibuster, and get
rid of it now. And then he went on and
wrote a whole novel just going off on all these
different Democrats.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Yeah, all taps sometimes as usually does. Yah's frustrating.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Yeah, Look, Senator Thune, the Senate majority of leader, a Republican.
Speaker 5 (03:57):
He's a big institutionalist.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
He and a lot of fellow Republicans want the filibuster
to stay in place. They think it's an important thing
that you know, you're gonna want the filibuster when you're
in the minority. And that's that's the thing is that
you you know, yes, the Republicans are in charge in
the House and Senate now, but when you're out, you're
gonna want that power of the filibuster when you're in
the minority. And that's why they don't want to give
(04:20):
it up. And you know, so the president wants this
nuclear option. I don't think he's going to find enough
support in the Senate to get rid of that rule.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, moving away from this dreary government shutdown, saying Rory,
You've got some Halloween numbers for us.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yeah. Look, this is a big, big holiday in terms
of spending. It's a second only to Christmas these days.
Fourteen billion dollars in projected Halloween spending this year. Nearly
four billion dollars just on candy that gets you about
eight pieces, four point three billion on if you want
chocolate anyway, four point three billion on Halloween costume spending alone.
Speaker 5 (04:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I spent a lot of money on my costume.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
So I bought my my Donkey Junkie T shirt and
then I had to dump coffee on it to just
go along with it with the theme of the costume.
And I'm like, I just said twenty bucks on this
shirt and now I'm ruining it with coffee.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, I left this wallet hup. Survey said half of
parents help themselves to some of their children's Halloween hall
I'm like yeah, and the other half are lying, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, who's not eating their kids Halloween candy? My son
knows three musketeers. Those are moms.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, So, so exactly when did Halloween actually start? This
goes back a couple of thousand years, and I don't
think people really realize that.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
You can go back with the Celts and all my
people and all Hallows Eve and it all relates to,
you know, the moon phases and the time of year.
But I was fascinated to see they also were able
to go back and find out when the phrase trick
or treats started?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Oh okay, and when I, uh.
Speaker 6 (05:55):
God, I have no idea.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I couldn't tell if it was a thousand years ago,
one hundred years ago.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
It's more modern than I thought. Okay, uh, nineteen twenty seven.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Oh wow?
Speaker 6 (06:06):
Really? So yeah, so when our grandparents.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Were kids, and they said it really became fashionable and
popular when it was picked up by cartoons like Mickey
Mouse and Charlie Brown.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So chocolate candy corn, eh, candy corn gulmies are the
top three Halloween candies.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
That's because they're cheap things, arab. Yeah, they're disgusting.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
They are disgusting.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, I bought I bought one big bag. I think
it's got one hundred and sixty five pieces in it.
Of the good chocolate stuff, and I'm like, that's it.
I'm gonna I need to have more than that because
my neighborhood has a lot of kids in it. But
I'm not gonna I'm not getting any more expensive stuff.
There's gonna be one bucket that's got the good stuff,
and then if you want anything additional or when I
run out, it's going to be all the.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
You know, the the cheaper candy.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And I'm trying to lose that. I'm trying to lose
a few pounds. So my wife got some no sugar
and that's fun. Cityff, all right, what do you give up?
Speaker 5 (07:07):
All right?
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Rory O Naylar Nation, Little correspondent, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Well, if you're looking for something spooky to do for
Halloween today, there are no shortage of places here in Florida.
We've been named the most haunted state in the country
by duelbits dot com. There are two hundred and seven
known haunted locations in Florida. The most famous is the
Saint Augustine Lighthouse, which has long been known as the
(07:35):
most haunted site in Florida. It's also surrounded by seventeen
other haunted locations across Saint Augustine, which is the oldest
continuously inhabited European established town in the country. Other notable
haunted hotspots include Key West, where the lights turn on
and off mysteriously after hours, and sounds of a typewriter
(07:56):
can be heard in Ernest Hemingway's former home, and the
Capitol Theater in clear Water is apparently haunted by a
ghost known as the Captain.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Huh.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Now, I visited the Hemingway House on numerous occasions, but
I usually just go there to kind of play with
the cats. Oh, I was so when I was growing up,
the biggest haunted attraction in my neck of the woods
was not a house.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
It was a bridge. Oh geez. It's called the Screaming
Mimi Bridge. Okayary.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
The legend has it that the woman there was a
woman who either was murdered or jumped into the river.
So what you did you would drive out into the
middle of the bridge and you'd honk your horn three times.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
And she would appear.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Did it work? No, it never worked.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
I could never get it to work.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
But it's still there, and actually it's very It's kind
of well known because I had someone some years ago
when I was here in Tampa. Came up to me
and says, is there really a screaming MEMI bridge?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
It's at Acid, Yeah, it's it's there.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
And that's in Ohio where he grew up.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Wow, it's there in Seneca County, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
I avoid haunted places, so I couldn't tell you if
any of these places are haunted because I just won't
go there.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
I don't want to know.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
You don't even like scary movies, No.
Speaker 6 (09:12):
I don't, not at all. I don't like any of it.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
All right, Well, in case you haven't noticed, people everywhere
have been getting into the Halloween spirits and we're spending
more to decorate the house. The costumes are more elaborate
and reflect the trends of the day, and boy a,
we're spending more money on everything. So what are the
big trends this year? Google trend expert Isabelle Resnik is
here to fill us in. Let's start with the costumes, Isabelle,
(09:36):
This year it's all K pop Demon Hunters, which I
have no idea whatsoever what that's all about. So what
are the K Pop demon Hunters? And why is that
the most popular costume right now?
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Well, that's a great question. In fact, the K Pop
Demon Hunters are holding the top five spots across the country.
So we've got Roomies, so we Mira Gino and Baby Saja.
Let me tell you, these K Pop Demon Hunters have
very catchy songs, so that could be a big reason
why they're dominating the music charts and also the Halloween
(10:13):
costume charts. They've also got really cool accessories and ways
that they style. So, for example, Roomy our most popular girl.
She has this purple dragon braid. So actually dragon braid
and purple hair are being searched more than ever, and
that's probably because of Roomy from K Pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
I'm going to have to look google all of these
so that when kids come to my door I can say, oh,
you're Mira from K Pop Demon Hunters, because like read,
I really have no idea. My son is thirteen, so
he's a little bit older than the kids who are
into this K Pop Demon Hunters. So when it comes
to the top five trending pet Halloween looks, read here's
another one. You may not know what it is. Number
(10:51):
one is La Boo Boo. So what's La Booboo?
Speaker 7 (10:54):
Well, I'll tell you, so that is you probably see
these funky monster looking key chains on people's bags around
your area. Actually, Labugo is funny enough in the Tampa area.
It's not just the top pet costume, it's actually number
three in general costumes for people. So people are dressing
themselves up, doing makeup, wearing interesting looking sort of bunny
(11:18):
pet ears to look like these key chains that have
really just taken a hold of the culture recently.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
And then the other trending pet Halloween looks Derby the
tiger from K pop.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
Demon Hunter is another one there.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
And then people are dressing their pets up like an
ie hop worker and a chicken.
Speaker 6 (11:36):
What is that about you?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
That's a bit strange, you know, the ie hop worker
I can't speak to. I don't know what that's about. Listen,
people love their pancakes. But I will say, we think
that chicken could be chicken the Minecraft character Chicken Jockey.
Speaker 6 (11:51):
Oh yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
He just came out.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Yep, that makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
Right after that movie came out, my kids were Chicken
Jockey all the time. Well, let's talk about the candy.
The top five Halloween candies for this year.
Speaker 7 (12:05):
Yes, so surprisingly enough, Swedish candy, not Swedish fish, but
Sweedish candy is really popular this year. There's this one
type of candy brand called Mom's. It's the Sweetened Sour
and it's probably trending because they have really cool shapes
like skull and crossbones and ghost shapes. So that's a
(12:26):
fun one. And then we've got our classics, I mean, KitKat, Sour, Patch,
Kids Candy, corn, and peanut butter kissen. There you go
around out the top five.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm wondering if that Sweedish candy is cheaper than the
chocolate bars that have gone way up in price. Maybe
that's why people want to give it out this year.
Speaker 1 (12:39):
I don't know, but I'll just take Kitkats and recent
cups anytime, Isabelle. As we said at the outset at
the Outset, the homes are being more and more elaborately
decorated these days. So what are the top Halloween decor
that we're going to see on this Halloween.
Speaker 7 (12:55):
Well, so this is fun. Newly trending is floating candles,
so people want it to look like in their house
there's candles floating as if by magic. So they're actually
searching up YouTube for tutorials on how to do this.
But I'll tell you you take a electric candle and
so that you know you don't burn down your house,
hang it by a string and it creates this really cool,
(13:19):
like eerie feeling in your home. Apart from that, we've
got scarecrows, both scarlands, potion bottles, and then your classic
cardboard haunted house.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
And what about the top five trending Halloween recipes The
things that people are making when they're not eating candy
other treats they want to.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
Eat, oh for sure. And let me tell you, Gemini
is a great place to get really elaborate and get
creative with these. Number one is dirt cupcakes. I haven't
heard about these. I mean people are making it with brownies.
They're putting gummy worms in them, you know, kind of
a silly thing. Taste looks like dirt, but tastes really good.
I will vouch for that. Then we've got pumpkin rolls,
(13:57):
vampire fudge, so of course, you know, using red frosting
to make it look like blood. That We've got monster cookies,
and what do you know, dirt pudding at number five.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
The dirt pudding cups.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I like, that's where you have is still like chocolate
pudding with cookie crumbles on top and then a worm.
I've definitely had that before. The dirt cupcakes is a
new one for me.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
I'm actually seeing a picture of the dirt cupcakes right now.
And yes, the gummy worms are right, very prominently featured.
Looks delicious, all right, Isabelle Resnik, thank you so much
for joining us today on this Halloween bringing us up
to dates on what the latest trends are. Isabelle, thanks again,
and happy Halloween to you.
Speaker 5 (14:34):
Well.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
President Trump and China's President Xi Jinping having their first
face to face meeting in quite some time, dealing with
really a laundry list of issues as they got together
in South Korea, and one of the most important issues
has to do, believe it or not, with soybeans. Now
China is and I didn't know this. China is the
(14:55):
world's largest buyer of soybeans, and they had pre obviously
stopped buying soybeans from the US because of Donald Trump's tariffs. Well,
now apparently China has agreed to purchase twelve million metric
tons of soybeans between now and January, then a minimum
of twenty five million metric tons over the next three years.
Speaker 2 (15:19):
So that's the art of the deal. The art of
the deal.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Like I said, you know, you go to Ohio, there's
corn on one side of the road and there's soybeans
on the other, and so there you go.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
Now they're going to China.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Well, even more important than soybeans and all that, the
TikTok deal. So Treasury Secretary Scott Bessen said yesterday that
the US and China have finalized an agreement on TikTok
that will allow the social media platform to remain available
in the US. He said that they finalized that deal
in terms of getting Chinese approval, and that he expects
(15:52):
they're going to move forward in the coming weeks and
months and see a resolution to it. So President Trump
approved the deal last month after he was the go
ahead from President g And then under the agreement, TikTok
is going to be spun off into a separate US
entity majority owned by American investors, and they're limiting the
role of TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance to comply with
(16:16):
that law requiring them to divest from TikTok or face
a ban on US networks and app stores.
Speaker 6 (16:22):
So this has been going on forever.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I mean, there was a deadline on it, and then
Trump just kept pushing the deadline.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
And now it looks like it's finally all going to
get worked out.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
But it sounds like China hasn't completely confirmed that deal,
so they're not coming out and saying yeah, it's worked out,
but the US reps are saying, yeah, we got a deal.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
One of the most important things I think about that
deal is the fact that under well, I guess you
could call it the previous deal, when they first announced
that something was going to happen to keep TikTok going,
that bike Dance was actually going to continue to have
a role in TikTok I think getting some of the
profits perhaps. So this is very important in that regard,
(17:03):
and it's good to see it happen.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
We'll see what And by the way, we're on TikTok
at Ryan Gorman Show.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
If you'd like to follow us, there you
Speaker 4 (17:09):
Go a Ryan Gorman Show five to nine every weekday
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