October 8, 2025 • 46 mins
A vacant storefront turns into a beacon, and our family calendar rearranges itself around one word: Spirit. We dig into how a pop-up chain became a full-blown culture—from saving up for animatronics to lining a driveway with jump-scares that make the neighborhood scream and cheer in the same breath. With our resident superfan (the NJ Kid) leading the charge, we trade stories about open-box steals, legendary props like Harvester of Souls and Buzz Saw, and the first time walking into a store that felt more like a ride queue than retail.
We get nerdy about the guts too. Zombie Squad support, recall fixes, and DIY repairs turn breakdowns into bonding time: jammed fans, stripped gears, and the satisfaction of swapping parts yourself. We tour Spirit’s evolving in-store experiences and Easter eggs—the lab era, the carnival with collectible tickets, this year’s subway set—and the nine-foot Young Hee from Squid Game calling red light, green light in two languages. Jack the Reaper steps off the logo with head-tracking that pushes the tech envelope, and the community documents what works, what fails, and which batches to hunt. Flagship trips in Egg Harbor have grown into pilgrimages with DJs, giveaways, and YouTubers like Nate Guy and Brick Thunder turning store aisles into meetup halls.
Back home, the season spills into our space: oil portraits that flip from calm to cursed, webbed shower curtains, and a hallway guarded by the Grady twins. We share how to stage outdoor scares without outdoor-rated props, rotate nightly features, and go all-in on Halloween night so every step up the driveway feels intentional. Along the way we weigh theme park haunts, talk budgeting, and admit that not every animatronic is a winner—and why that’s part of the fun. Subscribe for more of our Halloween series, share this episode with your favorite haunter, and drop a review with the Spirit prop you’d buy first. Stay spooky.
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SPEAKER_03 (00:08):
Hey everyone, welcome to CC and the NJ Guy
Podcast.
How's everyone doing today?
Ex Melanti.
Awesome.
So we are going to be doing thesecond part of our five-part
series, which is Halloween forthe whole month of October.
Five, five.
SPEAKER_04 (00:28):
You're doing it.
SPEAKER_03 (00:30):
There's gonna be five Wednesdays as we drop our
podcasts on.
Yes.
So this episode we are talkingabout Spirit Halloween.
And I have the number one fanhere, my son.
Hello.
So I'm the NJ guy.
He is the NJ kid.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
Yep.
SPEAKER_03 (00:46):
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
So let's talk about SpiritHalloween.
So Spirit Halloween opened up in1983.
We got 83.
And they're owned by who?
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
Oh, Spencer's.
SPEAKER_03 (00:57):
Spencers.
Everybody knows Spencer's.
SPEAKER_04 (00:59):
Everybody knows Spencer's yep.
SPEAKER_03 (01:00):
We all love Spencers.
It's a crazy store.
They got some crazy stuff inthere.
You're not allowed in the backof the store.
You got to stay in the firsthalf.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (01:07):
But uh yeah.
But you'll get there one day.
Yeah, yeah.
When you're 21.
SPEAKER_03 (01:14):
Yeah.
But, you know, anyway, so youknow, spirit has been like this
like thing that's, I feel likeit's kind of re-energized, like
Halloween, where like people arelike really excited about you.
They start seeing the spirithall.
I agree.
SPEAKER_05 (01:29):
Because I get excited when I know it's open or
it's around and it's in theneighborhood.
I'm like, what?
It opened up?
Oh, I gotta go there.
I gotta go.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
It's like it opens up and then like I'm like going
there right away, and then likeI save up a bunch of money like
for the year to like get a bunchof animatronics or something.
SPEAKER_03 (01:44):
So let me tell you, the audience here.
My son, he loves SpiritHalloween so much that he will
save all his money from hisbirthday, from allowance, from
Christmas to buy animatronics.
Oh, you want to show everybodyalready?
All right, all right, all right,all right, be careful.
Watch the chords.
So you're gonna show everybody.
(02:04):
Oh, you want to give a littledemo?
All right.
All right, all right.
Watch what you're doing, becareful.
Be careful.
SPEAKER_06 (02:11):
Yeah, watch the picture.
SPEAKER_04 (02:13):
You know, why don't you put it forward a little bit?
He could do it on his lap.
SPEAKER_05 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:17):
Do it on your lap forward.
Just do it on your lap.
SPEAKER_05 (02:19):
So turn it on.
That's the spider that jumps,right?
Yeah.
All right.
I've seen that one.
That's pretty cool.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (02:26):
Oh, and he jumps out and he scares you.
It's a nice That's prettycreepy.
So that's a jump scare prop.
So now who sets up the house.
SPEAKER_04 (02:36):
Watch your step.
Watch your step.
There you go.
Set it up or you set up thehouse.
SPEAKER_03 (02:40):
Uh we're both set up.
He's he's trust me.
No, no, no.
We'll do that one later.
We'll do that one later.
We'll show it a little bit.
Yeah, yeah.
Sit down so we can talk alittle.
Swing in.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll we'll show that later.
So, like, yeah, so this thiskid, he's he is like the
orchestrator amp right now, man.
It's like so like when we'resetting up Halloween, he is
giving all the orders.
He's kissing everybody around.
(03:01):
He's telling this is what getsset up.
This is what we're doing.
He's in charge.
Does he get that from Tara?
Maybe.
I have no idea.
SPEAKER_05 (03:10):
By the way, she's here sitting up at the end.
Yes, she's off camera.
We have an audience today,actually.
We got an audience today.
So we have to do it.
So like something you get anorder.
SPEAKER_00 (03:21):
So like uh we like went to a spear Halloween, like
that used to like be a partycity.
Right.
And like I saw an animatronicthat was like from 2021.
So like obviously I asked howmuch it was.
It's usually$300.
We got for such a good price.
$100.
SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
Yeah, so we did get an o nice open box deal
recently, Buzz Saw, which is heis the he's got like he's like a
big fat farmer guy withoveralls, but he's he's got an R
he's got like circular saw onone arm that actually spins.
Okay.
And he's got a mallet for hisother arm.
So he's got you know.
And then, you know, he saysgoofy things like Did you see
(03:58):
that?
SPEAKER_06 (04:00):
I saw that.
SPEAKER_03 (04:02):
You know I saw that.
SPEAKER_01 (04:04):
Oh, that's funny.
Let me cut you down.
SPEAKER_04 (04:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:07):
That's great, man.
But yeah, we got a good deal onhim.
So sometimes you get lucky, youget the open box deals.
You know, it was just it waslike the there was like a tear
in the box, and because it waslast year, it was like a third
of the years.
SPEAKER_05 (04:18):
So that's the other thing about Spirit Halloween,
too, because it has all theseExactly You know, you go back
and they have the ones from thefew the previous years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you get them for you know,they don't not bring them back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (04:28):
But at the same time, they just, you know, and
uh Wellduck.
SPEAKER_05 (04:32):
And then they you know, but that's the good thing
going, because you know, if youwant to get the same thing you
got the last time, you know.
So I I like Spirit Halloween.
I get excited when it comes,man.
And I think you're right.
I think it did vital, it justdefinitely rejuvenated, made
everybody want to just go.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
So what are we gonna say?
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (04:51):
Oh, I got forgot I forgot something.
I gotta go rob it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:54):
What are you gonna get?
SPEAKER_00 (04:55):
I just got today.
SPEAKER_03 (04:57):
No, no, no.
Watch the wire though.
Watch the wire.
Go nowhere.
Step and we're going, where'd hego?
Oh, it's all right.
You sit down.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, you're fine.
SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
Careful.
SPEAKER_03 (05:14):
All right, sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
This is great.
SPEAKER_03 (05:18):
This is great, man.
Oh my god.
Why don't you talk about why youlike Spear Halloween?
Why don't you tell us about yourfirst time going to Spirit
Halloween?
Tell us describe what yourfeeling was the first time you
walked in.
SPEAKER_00 (05:33):
Alright.
So I first went to what year wasit?
It was 2021.
I first went to Spirit Halloweenand I was like, oh, this place
is cool.
And I was like, I went insideand then like there's like a
bunch of animatronics that arelike they're like cheaper than
now, because like they're likethat happens.
SPEAKER_03 (05:51):
But what what what what what excited you about it?
Was it the animatronics?
Was it the spookiness?
What was it?
SPEAKER_00 (05:56):
I went in and like of course I loved the
animatronics, so I startedsetting off the step pad.
And like then a friend came thatand we didn't know that they
were gonna come, and then likewe started setting off every
single animatronic.
SPEAKER_04 (06:12):
That is great.
Which was your favorite?
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
From 2021?
SPEAKER_04 (06:15):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (06:16):
Probably still buzz off.
SPEAKER_03 (06:18):
Yeah, yeah.
So and we got him now, so that'sexciting.
SPEAKER_00 (06:22):
Yeah.
And then like I uh went in 2022and I started to get
animatronics.
SPEAKER_03 (06:30):
Alright.
So who so who is our firstanimatronic?
SPEAKER_00 (06:33):
Uh actually it was Sitting Scarecrow.
SPEAKER_03 (06:36):
Sitting Scarecing Scarecrow.
And can you describe to theaudience what Sitting Scarecrow
does?
What is he?
What is it?
SPEAKER_00 (06:43):
So like it has a candy bowl that like comes with
it.
SPEAKER_03 (06:46):
Okay.
And there's a sensor in thecandy bowl.
SPEAKER_00 (06:48):
Yeah, and like when you grab in to reach candy, like
like the head pops up and you'renever expecting it.
SPEAKER_03 (06:54):
Yeah, it's great.
It's a jump scare prop, too.
SPEAKER_00 (06:56):
Yeah.
And then we um went to anotherSpear Halloween and we got a new
anim shot called Mr.
Dark.
SPEAKER_02 (07:04):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (07:05):
Yes, we s I still like We didn't get Mr.
SPEAKER_02 (07:08):
Dark.
SPEAKER_00 (07:09):
When?
SPEAKER_03 (07:10):
We don't have Mr.
SPEAKER_04 (07:10):
Dark.
He just wants to happen lettingyou know that's what he wants
next.
Oh okay.
SPEAKER_03 (07:16):
Well they've reskinned that same prop several
times.
So we actually did this year bya reskinned Mr.
Dark, which what's he called?
SPEAKER_00 (07:26):
It's a uh no, I meant to say Harvester of Souls.
SPEAKER_03 (07:30):
Harvester of Souls.
Okay, so Harvester of Souls.
Can you describe to to theaudience what what is what does
Mr.
uh not Mr.
Dark, see I'm saying that.
Yeah.
Harvester of Souls does soulsdo.
SPEAKER_00 (07:43):
So like it's like this creepy, like Reaper guy,
and like he like is like holdinga little girl, and then like he
lifts up the girl, he says somestupid phrase or something, and
then like he's like, look at me.
SPEAKER_01 (07:58):
And then like Yeah, it goes just as all the others
have.
And then like now that I haveyou, your soul will be mine
forever.
SPEAKER_00 (08:08):
And also, you can like hook up a fog machine to
it, so it actually looks like hesucked your soul.
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
Yeah, so that's pulling that mist out of her
mouth, right?
So the fog machine comes out ofthe little girl's mouth, and
then he has a fan in him and itsucks in the looks like it is
super creepy, man.
SPEAKER_05 (08:28):
It's like this is wrong on all levels, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (08:31):
And then like uh last year we were going to call
it Zombie Squad, which actuallyimage is your animatronics.
Yes, right.
SPEAKER_03 (08:37):
Let's why don't you tell the audience about that?
What is Zombie Squad?
What is what is that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:42):
So Zombie Squad is um this like partner, like
collab with Spirit Halloween orsomething.
SPEAKER_03 (08:46):
No, it's owned by Spirit Halloween.
SPEAKER_00 (08:48):
Oh, it is?
Yeah, yeah.
And like they like, you likehave to like hit them up or
something to like if your likeanimatronic is like broken or
something, you have to like callthem and like you tell them you
have to like send a picture or avideo for proof.
SPEAKER_03 (09:00):
It's like their tech support.
Yeah, and they send you partslike and then like sell them the
part.
Oh, really?
So So you can fix youranimatronics and it's like.
So that's the great thing aboutSpirit Halloween.
That's right, is they have awhole tech support service.
They give you parts if thething's broken, and even if
there's recalls, sometimes Ithink they do recalls on stuff.
Like I think that one Mr.
Dark that you mentioned before,he had plastic gears, and I know
(09:23):
that like they redid him withmetal gears, so I don't know if
you the plastic gear breakswould descend you a couple of
years.
It possibly does, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (09:30):
After a while, we'd probably yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (09:32):
The thing is, we had to call Zombie Squad once
because we had um an animatroniccalled Mr.
Punchy.
SPEAKER_05 (09:37):
That's a cool name.
SPEAKER_00 (09:37):
Yeah, he's uh half animatronic and half inflatable.
Like the bottom of him isinflatable.
SPEAKER_03 (09:43):
He looks like a weeble, so he's a little bit.
SPEAKER_00 (09:46):
And like I like, I like touch like the motor and
like like it's like click andclick click click.
Yeah, I touched the motor andlike stuff got in my hand, like
grease that like told you guys,and then we like set him off,
and then it started doing likeclick, click, click.
It'd be cold zombie squad, andwe um actually like got a new
piece for that.
SPEAKER_05 (10:06):
Nice.
Nice.
And did you help your father putit in when he got it?
SPEAKER_00 (10:09):
Uh yeah, I actually did that by myself now.
SPEAKER_05 (10:12):
You did?
Oh, nice.
Excuse me.
That's what I'm talking about.
There you go.
Yeah, why not?
It's good to be good with yourheads.
SPEAKER_00 (10:21):
Yeah, and Harster of Souls, I'm like, so the thing is
there was like a like the fan,like, it like broke and we
didn't know what was causing it.
This year, like while we werebuilding it, we realized that
there was a like fabric insidethe fan.
SPEAKER_05 (10:36):
And so I was jammed up.
SPEAKER_00 (10:38):
So like we just pulled it out.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:40):
And it was like, so the fan wasn't working, we
didn't see there's a tiny littlething, and it was going right
through the fan.
And it was holding it up.
SPEAKER_00 (10:47):
And then like we just pull it out, because like
going through the fan, so likewe could actually see it.
We just pull it out.
We don't really have to use anytweez, we just use your hand.
SPEAKER_05 (10:56):
There you go.
SPEAKER_03 (10:57):
So maybe you can tell people.
SPEAKER_05 (10:58):
Well, hang out, hold on.
Real quick.
My wife has the blow-ups forChristmas and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
So one time she had she had ablow up that wasn't good
anymore, it ripped or whatever,but the snowman wasn't working.
I took the fan out of that oneand put it in that one, rewired
it and put it in, and then I gotit to work.
SPEAKER_03 (11:15):
So I was able to switch it over.
They do sell if you go onAmazon.
You get the replacement fans.
They do.
And some of them even have theLED lights attached to them so
you can reinstall the LEDlights.
Because let's want to share thatbecause you know he's talking
about fixing it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:28):
Yeah, so the thing is there's an animatronic this
year, like every year there'slike animatronic that like
something's wrong with them.
Oh, there's an animatronic thisyear, uh, two head case Harry.
SPEAKER_05 (11:38):
So like Headcase Harry.
SPEAKER_00 (11:41):
Like, he has like two heads that are like attached
to each other.
Oh, and it's probably head caseHarry floating around?
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (11:48):
He's doing jerky poison.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (11:51):
Head case Harry.
And the thing is He's like ahe's like a clown that's like a
Siamese twin, so he's got liketwo heads in one.
Oh that's cool.
But like they always mess,there's every year, I feel like
they're like.
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
But let me say it.
So like the thing is, like, hismouth moves, right?
Okay, the plastic inside of hismouth keeps ripping.
SPEAKER_05 (12:10):
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (12:11):
I found this out because like I was watching like
scrolling on YouTube, like doomscrolling or something.
Okay.
And then like that videorandomly comes up.
I was looking up like SpiritHalloween animatronic fails, and
that short comes up.
And like it says like head casehairy fail, and then like re it
(12:32):
sees the plastic ripping.
Like, that happens.
SPEAKER_05 (12:36):
And then it shows you how to fix it, right?
SPEAKER_00 (12:37):
It doesn't actually show you how to fix it.
No.
SPEAKER_03 (12:42):
And they do recall.
Like, what was the year?
Who was the one that got messedup with the one with the
balloon?
SPEAKER_00 (12:48):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (12:49):
Because you could talk about that, that one that
messed up and they recalled it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:52):
Totally forgot his name.
SPEAKER_03 (12:54):
Huh?
Like you Oh, headless Horseman?
Oh, heckles.
SPEAKER_00 (12:59):
Heckles, yeah.
So like, yeah, that happened toowith him.
SPEAKER_03 (13:04):
Yeah, he had like a what his like the latex was all
messed up and he was like, err.
His face looks all like messedup.
So they did a recall on him, andthey they they stopped
production and then theyrestarted production with the
new head.
And then if you had they calledZombie SWAT, they'd send you the
new head or the new latex.
But it's the same characterthough?
SPEAKER_06 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (13:23):
Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_00 (13:24):
We have to talk about how the they messed up the
mascot this year, animatronic.
SPEAKER_05 (13:30):
The what?
The mascot from who?
SPEAKER_00 (13:31):
Yeah, the mascot from the store.
SPEAKER_03 (13:32):
Oh, the mascot.
Oh, okay.
Unfortunately, so it's that wasWho was the original mascot?
So if you look at oh we're allwe're both wearing the special
theme shirts, but the actual thethe regular logo, that is what's
his name?
SPEAKER_00 (13:45):
Jack the Reaper.
Feet and there was like a signthat says, feel like you were
being watched.
Yeah, it is a cool.
SPEAKER_03 (13:58):
Maybe you can explain to them what he does.
SPEAKER_00 (14:00):
So basically he got a tracking motion, which makes
him like$330.
SPEAKER_03 (14:06):
That's genuine?
Yeah, so his head follows youalmost.
Is is like if you're standing infront of them and you move to
the side, his head follows you.
That's great.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00 (14:18):
The tracking is like It's breaking so easily.
SPEAKER_03 (14:21):
Oh yeah.
But the thing is, you gottafigure out they fit.
Is this the first time they'redoing that, too?
Second one.
Oh, so the first one they did onwhat was it called?
SPEAKER_00 (14:29):
A clow.
I forgot his name correctly.
SPEAKER_03 (14:31):
But yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:32):
So like yeah, nibble.
SPEAKER_05 (14:34):
Nibbles the clown.
They had it.
And then there's like a quickquestion.
Uh to get away from the wholethe break-in.
How about the way you set themup?
Do you set them up a certainway?
Is there a certain way that theyhave to be for you to when you
set it up for Halloween?
Like, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
Really?
We just bring them outside andlike we just set them up like
normal.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (14:53):
Well, do you set them up the same way every year,
every yeah, or do you change itup?
SPEAKER_00 (14:57):
Sometimes like we like they have instruction
manuals like that shows you likeinstructions to build the
animatronic.
They all have the same pieces,but like each year, sometimes we
put them in a different spot,which really doesn't really ch
like change the setup of theanimatronics.
SPEAKER_03 (15:14):
Yeah, but what we do is we um because the unfortunate
part is the Spirit Halloweenones aren't really designed for
outdoor use.
SPEAKER_02 (15:22):
They're either they're either it says indoor or
covered porch.
So we don't have a coveredporch.
SPEAKER_03 (15:29):
So what we end up doing is we do put them outside,
but because they're not good forrain, what we do is we bring
them inside every day.
So what we end up doing is weput like two, three, four of the
most uh out of day, and thenbring them outside, and then on
Halloween we put them all out.
Right.
So we he like them, you know?
Right.
Oh, that makes sense.
Because you do want them outsidefor a little bit, right?
(15:50):
And the way our drive our ourhouse is set up is you have to
walk up the driveway, and thenthere's a little small like
sidewalk that goes to the frontof our house.
Right.
So what we do is we'll line thewhole driveway up with the
animatronics on Halloween.
So if the trick-or-treaters arecoming, I got all these
animatronics coming up thedriveway.
And it's like a little cream.
SPEAKER_04 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very cool.
And then a couple on the lawn,you know.
SPEAKER_00 (16:13):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:14):
What was your favorite one this year?
SPEAKER_00 (16:15):
Oh, this year, like that they came out with?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:18):
Yeah.
Hmm.
Because I went to the SpiritHalloween here by my house in
Middletown.
Yeah.
I thought it was the coolestthing.
They had the uh subway train.
Oh, that was much more.
I fell in love with that.
I wanted to get it.
I was gonna put it down here,bro.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
And that Mutant Sewer Rat, too.
SPEAKER_04 (16:35):
That was great.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:36):
And also, if you like looked on the top of the
train, you if you saw like athing like missing person, Betty
Sharp, which was like ananimatronic from 2022.
SPEAKER_03 (16:47):
So this year the ISE is a in-store experience, they
call it.
Is is the subway system.
Okay.
But every year they do adifferent theme, and every year
they seem to get more wild withit.
Right.
Like it's like getting moreintense.
What was last year?
Can you buy that theme?
You can't buy it.
Yes, you can.
That's the thing.
SPEAKER_00 (17:02):
Like at the end of the year, like they sell the
setup.
SPEAKER_03 (17:05):
Yeah.
That's insane.
They sell the setups.
And what's a cool one this year?
They have they have Young YoungHeat.
SPEAKER_00 (17:11):
A Young Heat all, which I was just about to talk
about.
SPEAKER_03 (17:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (17:15):
So what is the Young Heat doll from?
So the Young Heat doll is fromSquid Game.
And like you.
SPEAKER_03 (17:19):
It's like what is Young Hee known for?
What is that?
SPEAKER_00 (17:22):
Uh the red light, green light doll.
SPEAKER_03 (17:25):
Yeah, that's crazy.
She's nine feet tall.
Yeah.
Not like 20 feet tall.
Like in the game.
In the show.
In the show.
Right.
But it's nine feet tall.
Still tall enough.
SPEAKER_00 (17:34):
It's still the setup, but the thing is it's$700
animatronic.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
It's an animatronic, but it's part of the in-store
experience.
Right.
So you can buy at the end of theyear, but they don't sell them
like online because apparentlythe thing comes in two huge
boxes.
Not one box, two enormous boxes.
So it's not like something thatthey can mass produce and ship.
Yeah.
But it's still cool if you canget that at the end of the year,
because that's cool.
(17:59):
Because that's the red light,green light girl from Squid
Games.
Like that's so cool.
And she does it.
SPEAKER_00 (18:03):
She goes, red light, green light.
And they do it in English andKorean.
But what I was thinking was coolif like it came with like a red
light, green light post thatactually like came with it if
you bought it.
So like you could like set it upon your driveway and like people
like have to play along becausethey think they might actually
die.
SPEAKER_04 (18:23):
That's awesome.
Yeah.
That would be great.
SPEAKER_00 (18:26):
I think you could actually like buy a like a like
a prop.
You probably could, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (18:32):
Yeah, probably.
A street light.
SPEAKER_00 (18:33):
Maybe you could like buy it or something.
Maybe that'd be like you couldactually buy like a real street
light.
Yeah, I think that's a goodthing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:40):
Yeah, I think they have them.
You could probably like a realstreet light.
Like the one, yeah, like atraffic light.
SPEAKER_03 (18:48):
They sell they sell them, they sell ones that are
realistic too.
SPEAKER_06 (18:51):
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:53):
And let's get back to Jack the Reaper.
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_06 (18:56):
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (18:57):
So like I wanted to get Jack the Reaper.
Like we were talking about likehow he's broken and stuff.
But the thing is, I think theyfixed that already.
Cause we went to our store.
It's been like a month now, andit's still working.
The motion tracking center isstill working.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (19:13):
I know because we were dead set on buying Jack the
Reaper.
We're like, if Spirit Halloweencomes out with a Jack the Reaper
and Michael, we're buying it.
And then we saw that like itkept breaking.
They're like, uh But it's notbreaking now.
Of course, now it's notbreaking.
But like we saw we because wewent to the flagship store.
Speaking of, do you want to talkabout the flagship store?
Oh yeah.
(19:33):
Talk about grand opening aflagship store because that is a
huge deal in Spirit Halloween.
So I but I'll let you explainit, but I just want to give the
preface.
So just listen.
So in Spirit Halloween, theyhave their flagship store in Egg
Harbor.
That is their main store.
And they do a grand openingbefore all the other stores they
do in August.
It's super early.
And it's like a big event.
(19:55):
They do door prizes, they have aDJ.
They have stuff in the parkinglot with vendors and stuff.
It's a major event.
So why don't you talk about sowhat was the first year we went
to the grand opening?
So yeah.
So what do we do?
(20:15):
Do we stayed over we we westayed overnight, right?
Jersey?
New Jersey, yeah.
Which is like which is like uh Iwould say like a half hour from
Atlantic City.
Oh wow, okay.
SPEAKER_05 (20:29):
So it's a nice little ride.
SPEAKER_03 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
The problem is, like, this year they didn't do a
grand opening.
SPEAKER_03 (20:36):
No.
Uh because they were having sometrouble with getting stuff
overseas because you knowthere's some laws now with
tower-ups and bullshit.
Yeah, so it complicated things.
Complicated things, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (20:47):
Yeah, unfortunately.
It happens.
Oh, that's crazy.
So did they end up doing anotherlike did they sort of do?
They didn't do the grandopening.
They didn't do the grandopening, but did they start did
they and when they goteverything, did they at least
set it up until it was all setup?
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (21:01):
Okay.
But why don't you talk to peopleabout the the flagship grand
opening?
So why don't you explain what wedid?
Like we got up early in themorning.
SPEAKER_00 (21:09):
Yeah, so we um so like the We stayed a hotel,
right?
Yeah, we stayed in a hotel, weget up in early in the morning,
and like in 2023, we oak up uh 3p.m.
We go there.
SPEAKER_03 (21:21):
No, no, that was that was 2023.
Talk about 2022 first.
We got up five or six, right?
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Yeah.
And then like we go, we s wenever like get the bag, like
those.
SPEAKER_03 (21:32):
Yeah, yeah, like so like the door prize is like two
the first two hundred get thisright, they get all kinds of
cool stuff.
Right.
And like we were like 300 andsomething, or no, we were like
250 or something like that.
We didn't make it.
So the next year we're like, oh,we're gonna get up at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_00 (21:47):
And we got like 400.
SPEAKER_03 (21:51):
400 alone at 3 a.m.
Because the hype grew up.
Because now everybody now, like,in order to get like the first
200, everybody was thinking thesame thing you were thinking.
SPEAKER_04 (21:59):
They're like, I'm going early next year.
Yeah, it's funny, bro.
When you messed up at the sametime, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:03):
It's so it's like so stupid.
Like, it's like so much.
SPEAKER_04 (22:08):
So have you guys gotten there early enough yet to
get a gift bag?
SPEAKER_00 (22:11):
No, we never You only went two times because we
knew we were.
SPEAKER_04 (22:15):
Could you order one from them?
SPEAKER_03 (22:16):
You don't think they it's a gift bag?
Well, they sell they sell stuff,I think, in a gift bag.
Maybe there might have been acouple exclusive things.
I don't know.
But yeah, it's just like, andthen last year we were like,
we're not going.
Like it's just like it's it'sjust it's like everybody's doing
it.
Crazy.
SPEAKER_05 (22:33):
Yeah, it probably gets nuts, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:37):
Like, it got to like 2,000 people, I think.
What?
SPEAKER_04 (22:41):
Yeah, it's crazy.
2,000 people that is raining.
That is crazy.
Yeah, I'll wait till the nextday.
Yeah.
Me too.
Yeah, because like that's justtoo much for me.
SPEAKER_03 (22:51):
It's become like a cultural thing, you know, now
like everybody can play.
SPEAKER_05 (22:55):
Yeah, it's fun.
Listen, spare Halloween is cool,man.
Yeah.
You go in there and it's like,oh man, I wish I had this when I
was a kid.
Because I did a video recently.
Tom and I were talking aboutdoing the videos for TikTok and
everything.
He said, You just gotta beyourself.
So I did I went down and did avideo and I talked about the
costumes that we had because youhad to wear your clothes
underneath them, you know, ajacket if it was really cold,
(23:16):
and it had to be, you know, butyou wanted to wear it on top,
and you know, if you didn't,it's a different time.
Yeah, exactly.
We had the hard masks that wouldcut into your face.
That rubber that were not safe.
And the rubber band in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that was cut off thecirculation on your head.
But it we couldn't wait to wearit though.
That was the thing.
We couldn't wait to wearwhatever it was we had, because
(23:37):
that's what it was for the time.
But now, you know, they have thereally cool ones where you know.
SPEAKER_00 (23:44):
What inflatable costume?
SPEAKER_05 (23:46):
Yeah, I've seen that.
Let's get into those.
You probably have inflatableones, right?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (23:51):
So you were probably when when Halloween first came
out, you were probably what,teenager 20?
Yeah, well, you kidding.
SPEAKER_04 (23:58):
In 1804.
Halloween what?
Halloween.
SPEAKER_03 (24:01):
The first Halloween, the Halloween movie.
Oh no, I was a kid.
SPEAKER_05 (24:06):
I thought you meant late teens, right?
No.
When did Halloween come out?
SPEAKER_03 (24:11):
Like 78.
SPEAKER_05 (24:12):
Okay, so I was I was born in 66.
So 14, 15.
So I was 10 and 6.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (24:18):
Yeah, yeah.
So I was about 12, 13?
Yeah.
So that mask, as a lot of peopledon't know, it's a William
Shatner.
It's a William Shatner maskbecause they used to make masks
back in the day, paint your ownmasks or something like that.
Right.
Or or or they painted away.
I don't remember what they did.
And they opened the holes up tomake it look crazy.
Oh, no.
What it was is that theycouldn't find a good enough
mask.
They didn't know what theywanted to do.
(24:38):
They just put that in.
SPEAKER_04 (24:40):
So they sent one of the guys, one of the techs, sent
him to the store, and all hecould find that was like any
kind of whatever that was leftwas the William Shatner mask.
So when they brought it back tothe set, they changed the
haircut and wiped off as much ofthe regular makeup that was on
it.
And then they opened up the eyesand stuff like that.
Yeah, to make that a littlecreepy shit.
SPEAKER_05 (24:58):
Yeah, they didn't think like that.
Nope.
Yeah, the William Shatner thingcame that way.
And they just did it up.
SPEAKER_04 (25:05):
Yeah, you Google that later.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:08):
If uh anybody if uh watching this, uh leave a
comment if uh, you know.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:13):
If your name is Peyton and you know who I am,
then oh, but if you're watchingthis right now on, yeah, you
know exactly who I am.
SPEAKER_03 (25:24):
Even better.
Let's talk about that.
Two times we were at theflagship store, and the first
time he didn't even know itbecause he hadn't started
kindergarten yet.
Okay.
Exactly.
You know, the uh the DJ is like,Where are you from?
And like, we're from Butler, NewJersey.
And like one of the dads and thekids walked up to us and like,
we're from Butler too.
And we find out it's a kid thathe's starting in kindergarten
(25:45):
with that year.
Really?
He's awesome.
The year he went tokindergarten, and that's Kid
Payton from his school.
And then this year we went toflagship, not for grand opening,
because they didn't have it thisyear, and we were like I said,
we're and we just went on like arandom day, and a kid that he
goes to aftercare with wasthere.
SPEAKER_00 (26:02):
His name's PJ.
SPEAKER_03 (26:06):
That's right.
This year, we this last weekendwe we built all our
animatronics.
We put so because it's a lot ofwork to build them.
We build them usually theweekend before we do our which
is this weekend.
We're doing our, you know, thefirst weekend of October.
SPEAKER_05 (26:18):
It's on Friday this year, Halloween.
So So, real quick, you guys wereright, of course.
What does it say here?
The story goes, the productionteam bought a generic mask made
from William Shatner mold fromStar Trek, altered it, cut the
eye holes, tampered down theeyebrows, painted it white, and
messed with the hair to createthe blank, haunting face.
(26:40):
And you know how long it wasuntil I actually found that out.
So I didn't we didn't know thatfrom that back then when it came
out and we would call thoseyears.
And then later on we found thatthat was what it was.
We're like, get the whole timeit was William Shatner.
And you know what's cool?
SPEAKER_03 (26:54):
You know what?
Also, a cool thing is they neveron the credits, they never call
him Michael Myers.
They call him the shape.
Really?
If you go to the credits, Idon't pin a go any of the uh
Halloween original Halloweenshapes, like I don't know if the
newer ones say that, but if yougo from like Halloween like one
through like six, I guess.
Is that the actor who playedhim?
(27:16):
No, that's instead of callinghim Michael Myers, they call him
the shape.
The shape?
SPEAKER_04 (27:20):
Why?
That's real.
That is what he's just the shapethat's standing there chasing
your head.
Yeah, it's all over the place.
Because he's always standing atthe head.
Then you look back, he's notthere anymore.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (27:33):
I didn't Halloween, Michael Myers is supposed to be
like the embodiment of just pureevil.
Right.
You know what I mean?
That's a good mask, too.
By the way, I'm evil.
You know, I bought that mask andthe jumpsuit.
SPEAKER_05 (27:47):
Yeah.
All right.
I was living in living inMiddletown on Brookline and the
backyard.
Ha Haley's Haley's uh friendsare from high school, right?
Hanging out and they were doingthe schmores and everything for
Halloween.
So I went out, I had a tree inthe middle of the yard.
And I hid behind the tree.
I had the mask on, the jumpsuit,and I had the knife.
Through a football team, bro.
(28:08):
Football team.
I jumped out and I would and Ijust I just walked out and stood
there.
Yeah.
And they were like, what the fYeah.
And they started falling down.
They knocked, almost knocked thefire down.
They locked Haley and her otherfriend out, and then all the
boys were in the house, theylocked the door and they knocked
the girls out.
It was so hysterical.
Dude, it was so funny.
(28:28):
It was funny.
And you know what's great aboutit is that I planned it too
because Tanya told me sheshouldn't have a friend, so and
I'm laying in bed thinking aboutit, and I'm laughing out loud
because I'm thinking, this isgonna be hysterical.
I know it.
And it worked out just the way Iwanted it to, man.
It was perfect.
These guys basically knockedthese girls down to get it to
the house, locked them out ofthe house.
(28:50):
It's funny as hell.
SPEAKER_00 (28:51):
Last yeah, Spirit Halloween 2023.
SPEAKER_05 (28:55):
What about 2025?
SPEAKER_00 (28:57):
We haven't gotten away.
SPEAKER_05 (28:59):
Okay.
I had to tell that story, youknow.
SPEAKER_00 (29:02):
So, like in 2023, we got all like biggest
animatronic.
It's still the biggest we havetoday.
SPEAKER_04 (29:10):
Which one?
So which one is it?
SPEAKER_00 (29:11):
Stilts.
SPEAKER_04 (29:12):
He's like, Oh, yes, I've seen that.
Yes, that's right.
SPEAKER_03 (29:15):
Now is skilled stilts a reskin of Cramp?
No, no, not really.
No, no, because his head spins.
No, I was thinking of a Crouchy.
No, he's not a Crouchy reskin.
SPEAKER_00 (29:26):
Crouchy reskin.
SPEAKER_03 (29:27):
Stilts, what is he again?
Stilts is a like he so he's he'sa clown who is on stilts.
He's got tall.
Oh right?
And then what does he do?
His head?
SPEAKER_00 (29:40):
So his head like spins dirty 360 degrees.
SPEAKER_05 (29:45):
Oh, I saw that one.
I know which one you're talkingabout.
I think I stamped on that onetoo.
And he's holding bowling pins.
And he's holding bowling phones.
Don't touch the mic.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
You'll be all right, then the mic.
He's holding bowling pins forwhatever reason.
Bowling pins?
Yeah, he's holding bowling pins.
Yeah, that's
SPEAKER_00 (30:00):
So we like go to that spear Halloween, we like
buy stilts, but there's alsoanother animatronic that we
want, and we buy it too.
It's actually right here.
SPEAKER_05 (30:09):
Okay.
Watch watch your step.
There you go.
Got it.
So that's the way you're goingto go.
SPEAKER_03 (30:17):
We brought two animatronics.
SPEAKER_04 (30:19):
Move them over.
SPEAKER_03 (30:20):
Yeah, move them over changing.
No, that's fine.
It's right perfect.
You can move it right in frontof me.
My face doesn't need to be inthe picture.
SPEAKER_05 (30:26):
You can block my channel.
Get right behind it and hook itup.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (30:32):
His name's Gordo.
SPEAKER_03 (30:33):
Gordo.
That's Gordo.
All right.
Put it in the back.
The mic will pick you up.
Believe it or not, it'll pickyou up.
Put your finger in front or putyour hand in front of the sensor
so it sets it off.
Is it plugged in?
Technical tilty.
Yeah.
Please stand by while we okay.
Now it goes.
You can't lean on him though.
Don't lean on it, it's not gonnapop up.
And then you see his eyes guts.
(30:57):
That is unplug them now.
Pretty cool.
Alright, away from the clothes,reset.
Alright, you can um we can resethim later.
It's fine.
Alright, now put him back sohe's off camera.
SPEAKER_05 (31:08):
Yeah.
Life is rough, man.
I got it.
There you go.
Just go, man.
Just leave it up to you.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry, no, no.
Just leave it.
Watch your take it easy.
Okay, take it easy.
Next time you come, we're gonnawrap you in bubble wrap.
SPEAKER_04 (31:22):
That was the other mo that was the other podcast.
SPEAKER_05 (31:24):
Yeah.
We'll wrap him in bubble wrapnext time he comes.
Yeah, that's our wait, whochase?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (31:30):
That is not great.
So that was 2023, right?
And what oh, you forgot to whatwas the in-store experience for
2023?
Do you remember?
Was that the J Reapers?
How do you guys remember that?
I'm serious, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (31:42):
Yeah, I s yeah, Jay Reaper.
SPEAKER_03 (31:44):
That was J Reaper's laboratory.
So it was supposed to be like aJack Reaper, J Reaper's
laboratory.
Jack Reaper the the the themascot for super holiday.
Okay, gotcha.
So that was supposed to be likea lab, you know, it was like the
whole la laboratory.
Right.
Like you know, like haunted, youknow, like Frankenstein type
theme.
And then and then 2024.
SPEAKER_00 (32:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (32:06):
That was last year.
What was so what was good aboutlast year?
Talk about talk about it.
SPEAKER_00 (32:10):
So last year uh it was like a carnival s scene.
Okay and like so on the setupthey like had these like tickets
that said like corn evil.
They were like three corn evil.
SPEAKER_04 (32:22):
Oh, carnival.
And then like very clevertickets.
SPEAKER_00 (32:28):
They weren't even sick there.
You you could like take them forfree.
SPEAKER_03 (32:32):
Yeah, it was kind of cool.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Did you take any?
SPEAKER_00 (32:35):
I only have like a couple of them.
You do?
SPEAKER_05 (32:37):
Oh, cool.
SPEAKER_03 (32:37):
I think it's collectible, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (32:40):
Yeah, you never know.
One day it might be worthsomething.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:42):
Yeah, so like uh so like we go there and then like I
see the stupidest idea of ananimatronic ever.
SPEAKER_05 (32:51):
What was that?
SPEAKER_00 (32:52):
The name's Bobby Strings, and then like Bobby
Strings?
SPEAKER_05 (32:55):
Bob Bobby Strings.
Bobby Strinks, hey.
SPEAKER_00 (32:58):
So stupid, though.
SPEAKER_05 (32:59):
Bobby Strings, how you throwing away.
SPEAKER_00 (33:02):
Shouldn't it?
You think it would be hanged ona tree, right?
SPEAKER_04 (33:05):
Okay, maybe.
SPEAKER_05 (33:06):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04 (33:07):
I'm you would think, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:09):
And then you have to actually set up like the thing
that holds him, and then there'slike actual wood, I think, that
needs to be like on the top.
SPEAKER_03 (33:17):
Well, maybe, maybe, maybe they did that because for
people like us who don't reallyhave a tree to hang him from.
Right, that's true.
So you can do it the other way,I guess.
SPEAKER_05 (33:26):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (33:26):
Yeah, but the thing is he and my mom literally, we
all agree that it's like Hebeing your dad, you mean, right?
SPEAKER_05 (33:35):
Yeah.
Okay, the judge.
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (33:38):
Mom, me, Mom, me, we all agree that like it's the
stupidest animatronic in theworld.
SPEAKER_05 (33:44):
Well, you know what?
Once in a while you're gonna getthat.
That happens in life.
SPEAKER_00 (33:47):
Yeah, it does.
SPEAKER_05 (33:48):
And they'll like But think of all the other ones that
are really cool, though, thatyou've been talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (33:52):
Yeah, that's true.
So, like, there's this um spideranimatronic.
I really wanted it, but I likedidn't get it.
I ended up getting something.
What did I even get last year?
SPEAKER_05 (34:02):
Can't even remember.
Last year.
Can you remember what year wellthat but you can't remember
which one it was?
SPEAKER_03 (34:08):
Tara, you know which one we got last year?
SPEAKER_05 (34:11):
Yeah, no, no.
So go through her data bank.
Yeah, yeah.
How many animatronics do youhave total?
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Uh I think I think 16.
Wow.
SPEAKER_05 (34:19):
Jeez.
You're gonna have to buildyou're gonna have to build the
shed out back to put them allaway.
SPEAKER_03 (34:27):
Okay.
Okay.
I think those are good too.
Those are pretty cool.
We ended up having we got a coolone from Lowe's, but end up
breaking.
We returned it.
It was it was a Chucky.
It was a roaming Chucky doll,right?
He like he would like movearound, right?
Is that what he did?
Yeah.
Which which those were popularat Spirit Halloween.
They stopped really making theroamers, but those were ones
that would like it's like aroomba, basically.
(34:47):
It was like on a roomba it wouldlike go around and you know?
SPEAKER_00 (34:51):
You know, you could just buy a chucky doll.
SPEAKER_03 (34:53):
The base was like a roomba, basically.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (34:55):
Basically, if you have like robot vacuum or
roomba, you could just buy achucky doll for like maybe like
$40 or something.
Really?
It was like on there.
And like, boom, you're done.
And like the Rome thing was likethe Roomba Chunky was like$80.
SPEAKER_05 (35:13):
Yeah, right.
That's craziness.
Yeah.
So maybe if you buy the right,but if you buy the vacuum and
then you buy it a doll, it mightcome out to more money, though.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (35:20):
But you know what, you know what we love about
Spirit Halloween also.
Besides, I mean, we've beentalking all about animatronics,
but we geek out at the homedecor section.
We actually start, we actuallyput up like some stuff
full-time.
Excuse me?
We we we like we have stuff fulltime up really around.
Nice.
SPEAKER_05 (35:38):
So you put like shower curtains up and stuff
like that?
SPEAKER_00 (35:40):
So like he has we bought a we bought like a a
zombie baby chair, and like wehave Yeah, we have Z he has the
zombie.
SPEAKER_03 (35:47):
That's another thing he collects, the zombie babies.
Tell them about the zombie.
Okay, go away.
Finish the stuff that you guysgot for the house.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, so we got somepaintings, like the oil, like
you have the same one you have,the the Michael Marsbudge.
Michael Marsbell.
Okay.
So we bought a bunch of those.
We put them all in our hallway.
Gotcha.
It's cool.
And then wait, the like theshower curtain is like, what is
that?
Like a skull shower curtain?
Oh, it's spiderwork.
SPEAKER_00 (36:09):
And then like when you walk out of the bathroom,
tell them about that.
That's in the world.
SPEAKER_03 (36:13):
So that's the coolest one is that we got that
oil painting, and it's the Gradysisters from The Shining.
Oh, when you will come out ofthe hallway with a painting of
them, they're like, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (36:26):
It's so creepy.
Like, I want to take it outbecause I'm creeped out.
SPEAKER_05 (36:30):
Have you ever seen the movie?
He hasn't seen the movie.
No.
Not yet.
SPEAKER_01 (36:34):
That is see, you're not just a Miss Young.
SPEAKER_03 (36:37):
Yeah.
It's not yet.
It's funny because I just made avideo recently about that.
Talking about that.
Is like The Shining is like oneof the scarier movies.
SPEAKER_05 (36:47):
And like you mentioned the last time we
talked about psychologicalbecause it's so it's all about
mind games and everything, youknow, and it messes with your
head.
SPEAKER_03 (36:55):
And just like that creepy, eerie feeling.
Yeah.
So when you see when you comeout of our bathroom every time,
it's the greatest and sloss.
And that's not just forHalloween, that's year around.
You get creeped up by theGreatest List.
Very cool.
SPEAKER_00 (37:07):
The thing is, Spear Halloween made two Terrifier
animatronics.
One left like the normalTerrifier for$200.
It's so stupid though.
The Santa one is$81.
Why don't you just buy the SantaClaus clothes and just pour fake
blood on it and just pull it onhim?
SPEAKER_04 (37:24):
Now, do you put the Santa Claus one up during
Christmas?
SPEAKER_00 (37:27):
What?
SPEAKER_04 (37:27):
Do you put the Santa Claus uh animatronic up during
Christmas?
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
I don't have the terrifier animatronic.
SPEAKER_04 (37:32):
Oh, I thought you did.
SPEAKER_00 (37:34):
This thing is, like, the terrifier, he won't let me
watch that.
SPEAKER_04 (37:38):
Yeah, no, that's away from that one.
Yeah, sorry, sorry.
SPEAKER_05 (37:42):
Like I said in the other episode, I can't even say
how gory.
No, that's it's no, just like.
SPEAKER_00 (37:48):
And like, so the thing is.
One of my friends, like, has alike one of my friends has an
older sister, right?
She was in the movie.
SPEAKER_05 (37:57):
Oh, no kidding.
Really?
SPEAKER_00 (37:59):
She was like, she's not even a while.
SPEAKER_05 (38:00):
Sure, all right, but she was in the movie though,
right?
SPEAKER_03 (38:02):
Because uh in one of the scenes when they got sent on
Santa Claus's lap.
Oh, really?
I didn't see why I haven't seenthe third one yet.
SPEAKER_05 (38:09):
So you can just I haven't seen any of them.
Oh.
No.
Yeah.
I'm not watching that, man.
Dude.
I'm not doing it.
SPEAKER_00 (38:14):
That's stuff.
Watch the first one.
SPEAKER_05 (38:16):
Yeah.
I can't.
It's too it's too gory.
SPEAKER_00 (38:18):
Exactly! That's why he won't let me watch it.
SPEAKER_05 (38:21):
Of course.
Well, you're yeah, well, he'sthe right he's doing the right
thing.
Supposedly.
And I want to damage you early.
SPEAKER_03 (38:28):
Supposedly, like people are throwing up in the
movie theater for screening.
Listen, I remember the firsttime I saw it.
I saw Jaws when I throw up.
SPEAKER_05 (38:34):
But I went to see Jaws and I was too young to see
that when it came out.
Right.
And I went to see it.
It scared the living hell out ofme.
The movie was scary, you know?
But so I'm thinking, yeah, no,you gotta wait till at least 35
to watch.
SPEAKER_03 (38:46):
35.
35.
Oh, shit.
SPEAKER_05 (38:48):
Yeah, you gotta have to wait till you're 30s to watch
that movie.
SPEAKER_00 (38:52):
But it sounds what?
SPEAKER_03 (38:52):
Years old.
SPEAKER_05 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah.
Now, okay, 22.
SPEAKER_00 (38:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (39:00):
22 years old.
I could work with that.
Yeah, 22 years old is when youcould see it.
That's it.
SPEAKER_00 (39:05):
I would say 22 years old.
I would say that's like not thatbad.
SPEAKER_03 (39:10):
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't worry.
SPEAKER_00 (39:14):
That's bad, so like 22 years old, but at the point
gets to like 30.
It's like it's like a littlebad, but not that bad.
Where it gets to 35, I'm like,oh, this is old.
And then it gets to 40, I'mlike, oh hell no.
SPEAKER_03 (39:28):
Yeah, guess what I mean?
Let's talk about another thingabout Spirit Halloween.
Talk about the YouTube thingwith Spirit Halloween.
There's YouTubers now who havewhole channels that like about
this point.
Pretty much it's they're likeHalloween centric, but like
their main stuff is like likeOkay.
Let's talk about Nate Guy onYouTube.
That's his name.
(39:49):
Nate Guy.
That's why you can get in thatroom that day.
That's why.
Again, if you're watching thisNate the Dog Man, I kept saying
Nate Guy because of that YouTubechannel.
That's point.
Anyway, so Nate Guy on YouTube,right?
SPEAKER_00 (40:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (40:02):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (40:02):
So he's like this dude who like he's like into
spirit.
SPEAKER_03 (40:06):
I mean so much like he travels around the country
and goes to different ones andhe spends like an hour in the
store talking about he has likenicknames for the animatronics.
No, of all the stores the sameor different though.
SPEAKER_00 (40:17):
Well, the same with harm.
SPEAKER_03 (40:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (40:22):
He used to call the No Little Girl Dangly Legs.
SPEAKER_03 (40:25):
Hello, Miss Dangly Legs.
Or like the cat.
Be careful.
Be careful.
There's secrets here.
He got to meet Nate Guy when hewent to the city.
And that's the other thing.
During the flagship, everybodygoes to this shit.
Like YouTubers go to it.
So we got to meet Nate Guy.
(40:45):
And who's your other BrickThunder?
SPEAKER_00 (40:47):
Yeah, Brick Thunder.
SPEAKER_03 (40:49):
Who he his name Brick Thunder is because he was
he started off as like aMinecraft channel and then he
got into the Halloween thing.
So that's what his Minecraft is.
Yes.
Yeah, and that's that was hisMinecraft handle.
SPEAKER_00 (40:59):
Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (40:59):
Brick Thunder.
SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
The thing is, also, I like was like it's flagship,
and like we found like thesepeople named Spook365, and like
we like got to meet them, and Iactually played with them.
SPEAKER_03 (41:12):
Yeah, there were two kids and they did they do the
same, they go over the theSpirit Halloween and they have
the Amazon.
SPEAKER_04 (41:17):
Don't you have a I thought Chase had a YouTube
channel?
SPEAKER_03 (41:19):
It's not really active anymore.
But he he did have a YouTubechannel for a while.
SPEAKER_05 (41:23):
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
SPEAKER_06 (41:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (41:24):
We said your dad showed us some of those videos.
They were really good.
They were cool.
Yeah, you gotta start doing itagain.
SPEAKER_03 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (41:29):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (41:30):
So what about the um we'll we're almost getting ready
to wrap up.
So we did mention the zombiebabies.
Do you want to talk about thezombie babies and what they are?
SPEAKER_00 (41:39):
So the zombie babies are like these like creepy like
babies, like with like randomstuff in their hands.
So like they came out with onewith like ice cream he's eating.
Like the ice cream is glass andthere's like grass on his face.
SPEAKER_04 (41:53):
Oh, get out of here.
SPEAKER_00 (41:54):
And then they also made horror babies.
Like and then the babies of likethe horror guys, they made it.
SPEAKER_03 (42:00):
Oh yeah, so now that we have like a little baby of
like of uh ghost face killer.
Like I got him, like a baby.
We don't have this yet.
Oh yeah, yeah, there's this thebaby Michael Myers.
He's got it.
What?
SPEAKER_00 (42:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (42:12):
So and then of course we had to get the burrito
baby because that was thenickname that that Nate guy gave
it.
Burrito baby, which is it waslike a swaddled zombie baby.
So the nickname was burritobaby.
SPEAKER_00 (42:26):
So we had to get the burrito baby.
unknown (42:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (42:28):
It doesn't work the other way.
SPEAKER_05 (42:29):
You gotta stay in front of it.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (42:31):
Oh, okay.
Burrito baby.
Burrito ba.
SPEAKER_05 (42:37):
That is good.
SPEAKER_00 (42:38):
Wait, hold on, wait.
I'm gonna try to sound like AI.
SPEAKER_05 (42:40):
Now, did you say for the scary stuff at Six Flags?
I don't mean to change thesubject, but real quick.
Yeah, we went to Six Flags.
So you went through the thingsand everything?
We didn't do any of the hauntedstuff.
SPEAKER_03 (42:47):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (42:48):
We didn't pay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:49):
Yeah, it's like because we didn't know if he's
gonna because he loves thespooky stuff, but he doesn't
like getting scared.
SPEAKER_01 (42:54):
So you train like spooky.
SPEAKER_00 (42:56):
They were like scaring me out of nowhere.
I was like freaked out.
SPEAKER_03 (42:59):
Yeah, because they walk around with the chainsaws
and stuff and the carriage andthe chit's the first year that
they charge extra now for theHalloween stuff.
What?
Yeah, now you have to pay anextra fee.
It's shit.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (43:11):
Like it actually is shit.
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (43:12):
Hey, some cursing.
SPEAKER_05 (43:14):
You can't curse in my house.
Yes, I can't.
No, no.
This is my house.
No, it's my house.
Oh, really?
Oh well, okay.
It's fine and worse.
All right, well, we're over withthe small cast now.
We see you outside of New York.
SPEAKER_03 (43:27):
No, but yeah, so they so we're like, I know.
So we just but but they stillhave like characters and stuff.
SPEAKER_04 (43:34):
It's boy.
Oh, it's crazy.
I didn't know they did that.
Wow.
You guys gotta go to the one inum in Florida at uh Universal
Studios.
That one was awesome.
I did that one time.
Yeah.
Oh huge.
SPEAKER_03 (43:46):
And I bet because they have licenses for Universal
movies, they must have whateverhard.
SPEAKER_04 (43:52):
What they do is that stuff.
Everybody, the regular touristsand stuff are running around to
the boat.
You went there already, so youknow.
So they everybody's in thereregular during the day, right?
From open until like fiveo'clock.
Right.
Then they kick out the regularpeople.
Uh and then you have the specialticket to go in there first.
SPEAKER_05 (44:05):
Yeah, you go in for everybody who was in there for
the day, they can't say unlessthey have a ticket.
SPEAKER_03 (44:10):
They do have the classic monsters there.
Because everybody used to do ashow where like they would sing.
It was like a musical.
They had some good stuff, man.
They did.
Tanya and I went to most of mostof them.
SPEAKER_00 (44:20):
When he hits like 15 six, yeah, then you gotta take
them down for that.
Yeah, that was true.
They had a bunch of Halloweenstuff.
SPEAKER_05 (44:25):
They all do.
I think all of them do it.
Really?
Tony Park does it, uh, Hersheydoes it.
Yeah, Lake Flags does it.
They all do it.
They all do the Halloweenbabies.
We better do that next year.
I'd like to go to Hershey andcheck that out.
Hershey is nice.
SPEAKER_03 (44:38):
They bought it in 2024, right?
SPEAKER_00 (44:40):
And then oh, we go there and they have a bunch of
Halloween stuff out.
And like, um, Mom, she wants togo on the Wild Mouse coaster
with me.
We win an hour long.
SPEAKER_05 (44:51):
That's a good roller coaster.
I like that one too, believe itor not.
SPEAKER_00 (44:53):
We go on an hour long.
SPEAKER_05 (44:55):
I love that.
I know, dude.
That's it.
Don't look on the side, don'tlook on the side.
SPEAKER_02 (45:02):
So this was an episode, Jay.
SPEAKER_05 (45:04):
Yes, this was good.
So thank you so much for comingon for us and hanging out and
telling us about it.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (45:09):
Yeah?
So actually, let's wrap it upwith this.
Uh so like today, they like dida giveaway.
Like, if you like bought like anitem at Spear, like it's like
it's like a one-time thing.
Like, it's like limited, butthey also do it other years.
Like, so like they give you likea butterfinger tote bag.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (45:29):
Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_00 (45:30):
Like they also give you a butterfinger in case
you've never had one.
SPEAKER_04 (45:33):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (45:34):
I I've never had one, so I tried it, and I love
it.
SPEAKER_04 (45:37):
Yeah, you heard it now, it's over.
That is all right.
Well, thank you for coming.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
Appreciate the time.
SPEAKER_05 (45:43):
We're gonna close it up.
Pencilcinder, get us in.
SPEAKER_04 (45:46):
Really?
Yeah.
So thank you all for listeningand watching.
Thank you all.
Peace and hair grease.
SPEAKER_05 (45:50):
Live long and prosper.
Stay spooky.
Hey everyone, welcome to CC and the NJ Guy
Podcast.
How's everyone doing today?
Ex Melanti.
Awesome.
So we are going to be doing thesecond part of our five-part
series, which is Halloween forthe whole month of October.
Five, five.
SPEAKER_04 (00:28):
You're doing it.
SPEAKER_03 (00:30):
There's gonna be five Wednesdays as we drop our
podcasts on.
Yes.
So this episode we are talkingabout Spirit Halloween.
And I have the number one fanhere, my son.
Hello.
So I'm the NJ guy.
He is the NJ kid.
SPEAKER_00 (00:44):
Yep.
SPEAKER_03 (00:46):
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
Awesome.
So let's talk about SpiritHalloween.
So Spirit Halloween opened up in1983.
We got 83.
And they're owned by who?
SPEAKER_00 (00:56):
Oh, Spencer's.
SPEAKER_03 (00:57):
Spencers.
Everybody knows Spencer's.
SPEAKER_04 (00:59):
Everybody knows Spencer's yep.
SPEAKER_03 (01:00):
We all love Spencers.
It's a crazy store.
They got some crazy stuff inthere.
You're not allowed in the backof the store.
You got to stay in the firsthalf.
Right.
SPEAKER_04 (01:07):
But uh yeah.
But you'll get there one day.
Yeah, yeah.
When you're 21.
SPEAKER_03 (01:14):
Yeah.
But, you know, anyway, so youknow, spirit has been like this
like thing that's, I feel likeit's kind of re-energized, like
Halloween, where like people arelike really excited about you.
They start seeing the spirithall.
I agree.
SPEAKER_05 (01:29):
Because I get excited when I know it's open or
it's around and it's in theneighborhood.
I'm like, what?
It opened up?
Oh, I gotta go there.
I gotta go.
SPEAKER_00 (01:35):
It's like it opens up and then like I'm like going
there right away, and then likeI save up a bunch of money like
for the year to like get a bunchof animatronics or something.
SPEAKER_03 (01:44):
So let me tell you, the audience here.
My son, he loves SpiritHalloween so much that he will
save all his money from hisbirthday, from allowance, from
Christmas to buy animatronics.
Oh, you want to show everybodyalready?
All right, all right, all right,all right, be careful.
Watch the chords.
So you're gonna show everybody.
(02:04):
Oh, you want to give a littledemo?
All right.
All right, all right.
Watch what you're doing, becareful.
Be careful.
SPEAKER_06 (02:11):
Yeah, watch the picture.
SPEAKER_04 (02:13):
You know, why don't you put it forward a little bit?
He could do it on his lap.
SPEAKER_05 (02:16):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (02:17):
Do it on your lap forward.
Just do it on your lap.
SPEAKER_05 (02:19):
So turn it on.
That's the spider that jumps,right?
Yeah.
All right.
I've seen that one.
That's pretty cool.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (02:26):
Oh, and he jumps out and he scares you.
It's a nice That's prettycreepy.
So that's a jump scare prop.
So now who sets up the house.
SPEAKER_04 (02:36):
Watch your step.
Watch your step.
There you go.
Set it up or you set up thehouse.
SPEAKER_03 (02:40):
Uh we're both set up.
He's he's trust me.
No, no, no.
We'll do that one later.
We'll do that one later.
We'll show it a little bit.
Yeah, yeah.
Sit down so we can talk alittle.
Swing in.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll we'll show that later.
So, like, yeah, so this thiskid, he's he is like the
orchestrator amp right now, man.
It's like so like when we'resetting up Halloween, he is
giving all the orders.
He's kissing everybody around.
(03:01):
He's telling this is what getsset up.
This is what we're doing.
He's in charge.
Does he get that from Tara?
Maybe.
I have no idea.
SPEAKER_05 (03:10):
By the way, she's here sitting up at the end.
Yes, she's off camera.
We have an audience today,actually.
We got an audience today.
So we have to do it.
So like something you get anorder.
SPEAKER_00 (03:21):
So like uh we like went to a spear Halloween, like
that used to like be a partycity.
Right.
And like I saw an animatronicthat was like from 2021.
So like obviously I asked howmuch it was.
It's usually$300.
We got for such a good price.
$100.
SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
Yeah, so we did get an o nice open box deal
recently, Buzz Saw, which is heis the he's got like he's like a
big fat farmer guy withoveralls, but he's he's got an R
he's got like circular saw onone arm that actually spins.
Okay.
And he's got a mallet for hisother arm.
So he's got you know.
And then, you know, he saysgoofy things like Did you see
(03:58):
that?
SPEAKER_06 (04:00):
I saw that.
SPEAKER_03 (04:02):
You know I saw that.
SPEAKER_01 (04:04):
Oh, that's funny.
Let me cut you down.
SPEAKER_04 (04:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (04:07):
That's great, man.
But yeah, we got a good deal onhim.
So sometimes you get lucky, youget the open box deals.
You know, it was just it waslike the there was like a tear
in the box, and because it waslast year, it was like a third
of the years.
SPEAKER_05 (04:18):
So that's the other thing about Spirit Halloween,
too, because it has all theseExactly You know, you go back
and they have the ones from thefew the previous years.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And you get them for you know,they don't not bring them back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (04:28):
But at the same time, they just, you know, and
uh Wellduck.
SPEAKER_05 (04:32):
And then they you know, but that's the good thing
going, because you know, if youwant to get the same thing you
got the last time, you know.
So I I like Spirit Halloween.
I get excited when it comes,man.
And I think you're right.
I think it did vital, it justdefinitely rejuvenated, made
everybody want to just go.
SPEAKER_03 (04:49):
So what are we gonna say?
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_00 (04:51):
Oh, I got forgot I forgot something.
I gotta go rob it.
SPEAKER_03 (04:54):
What are you gonna get?
SPEAKER_00 (04:55):
I just got today.
SPEAKER_03 (04:57):
No, no, no.
Watch the wire though.
Watch the wire.
Go nowhere.
Step and we're going, where'd hego?
Oh, it's all right.
You sit down.
Don't worry about it.
Oh, you're fine.
SPEAKER_01 (05:12):
Careful.
SPEAKER_03 (05:14):
All right, sorry.
SPEAKER_01 (05:16):
This is great.
SPEAKER_03 (05:18):
This is great, man.
Oh my god.
Why don't you talk about why youlike Spear Halloween?
Why don't you tell us about yourfirst time going to Spirit
Halloween?
Tell us describe what yourfeeling was the first time you
walked in.
SPEAKER_00 (05:33):
Alright.
So I first went to what year wasit?
It was 2021.
I first went to Spirit Halloweenand I was like, oh, this place
is cool.
And I was like, I went insideand then like there's like a
bunch of animatronics that arelike they're like cheaper than
now, because like they're likethat happens.
SPEAKER_03 (05:51):
But what what what what what excited you about it?
Was it the animatronics?
Was it the spookiness?
What was it?
SPEAKER_00 (05:56):
I went in and like of course I loved the
animatronics, so I startedsetting off the step pad.
And like then a friend came thatand we didn't know that they
were gonna come, and then likewe started setting off every
single animatronic.
SPEAKER_04 (06:12):
That is great.
Which was your favorite?
SPEAKER_00 (06:14):
From 2021?
SPEAKER_04 (06:15):
Yep.
SPEAKER_00 (06:16):
Probably still buzz off.
SPEAKER_03 (06:18):
Yeah, yeah.
So and we got him now, so that'sexciting.
SPEAKER_00 (06:22):
Yeah.
And then like I uh went in 2022and I started to get
animatronics.
SPEAKER_03 (06:30):
Alright.
So who so who is our firstanimatronic?
SPEAKER_00 (06:33):
Uh actually it was Sitting Scarecrow.
SPEAKER_03 (06:36):
Sitting Scarecing Scarecrow.
And can you describe to theaudience what Sitting Scarecrow
does?
What is he?
What is it?
SPEAKER_00 (06:43):
So like it has a candy bowl that like comes with
it.
SPEAKER_03 (06:46):
Okay.
And there's a sensor in thecandy bowl.
SPEAKER_00 (06:48):
Yeah, and like when you grab in to reach candy, like
like the head pops up and you'renever expecting it.
SPEAKER_03 (06:54):
Yeah, it's great.
It's a jump scare prop, too.
SPEAKER_00 (06:56):
Yeah.
And then we um went to anotherSpear Halloween and we got a new
anim shot called Mr.
Dark.
SPEAKER_02 (07:04):
Yes.
SPEAKER_00 (07:05):
Yes, we s I still like We didn't get Mr.
SPEAKER_02 (07:08):
Dark.
SPEAKER_00 (07:09):
When?
SPEAKER_03 (07:10):
We don't have Mr.
SPEAKER_04 (07:10):
Dark.
He just wants to happen lettingyou know that's what he wants
next.
Oh okay.
SPEAKER_03 (07:16):
Well they've reskinned that same prop several
times.
So we actually did this year bya reskinned Mr.
Dark, which what's he called?
SPEAKER_00 (07:26):
It's a uh no, I meant to say Harvester of Souls.
SPEAKER_03 (07:30):
Harvester of Souls.
Okay, so Harvester of Souls.
Can you describe to to theaudience what what is what does
Mr.
uh not Mr.
Dark, see I'm saying that.
Yeah.
Harvester of Souls does soulsdo.
SPEAKER_00 (07:43):
So like it's like this creepy, like Reaper guy,
and like he like is like holdinga little girl, and then like he
lifts up the girl, he says somestupid phrase or something, and
then like he's like, look at me.
SPEAKER_01 (07:58):
And then like Yeah, it goes just as all the others
have.
And then like now that I haveyou, your soul will be mine
forever.
SPEAKER_00 (08:08):
And also, you can like hook up a fog machine to
it, so it actually looks like hesucked your soul.
SPEAKER_03 (08:13):
Yeah, so that's pulling that mist out of her
mouth, right?
So the fog machine comes out ofthe little girl's mouth, and
then he has a fan in him and itsucks in the looks like it is
super creepy, man.
SPEAKER_05 (08:28):
It's like this is wrong on all levels, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (08:31):
And then like uh last year we were going to call
it Zombie Squad, which actuallyimage is your animatronics.
Yes, right.
SPEAKER_03 (08:37):
Let's why don't you tell the audience about that?
What is Zombie Squad?
What is what is that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:42):
So Zombie Squad is um this like partner, like
collab with Spirit Halloween orsomething.
SPEAKER_03 (08:46):
No, it's owned by Spirit Halloween.
SPEAKER_00 (08:48):
Oh, it is?
Yeah, yeah.
And like they like, you likehave to like hit them up or
something to like if your likeanimatronic is like broken or
something, you have to like callthem and like you tell them you
have to like send a picture or avideo for proof.
SPEAKER_03 (09:00):
It's like their tech support.
Yeah, and they send you partslike and then like sell them the
part.
Oh, really?
So So you can fix youranimatronics and it's like.
So that's the great thing aboutSpirit Halloween.
That's right, is they have awhole tech support service.
They give you parts if thething's broken, and even if
there's recalls, sometimes Ithink they do recalls on stuff.
Like I think that one Mr.
Dark that you mentioned before,he had plastic gears, and I know
(09:23):
that like they redid him withmetal gears, so I don't know if
you the plastic gear breakswould descend you a couple of
years.
It possibly does, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (09:30):
After a while, we'd probably yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (09:32):
The thing is, we had to call Zombie Squad once
because we had um an animatroniccalled Mr.
Punchy.
SPEAKER_05 (09:37):
That's a cool name.
SPEAKER_00 (09:37):
Yeah, he's uh half animatronic and half inflatable.
Like the bottom of him isinflatable.
SPEAKER_03 (09:43):
He looks like a weeble, so he's a little bit.
SPEAKER_00 (09:46):
And like I like, I like touch like the motor and
like like it's like click andclick click click.
Yeah, I touched the motor andlike stuff got in my hand, like
grease that like told you guys,and then we like set him off,
and then it started doing likeclick, click, click.
It'd be cold zombie squad, andwe um actually like got a new
piece for that.
SPEAKER_05 (10:06):
Nice.
Nice.
And did you help your father putit in when he got it?
SPEAKER_00 (10:09):
Uh yeah, I actually did that by myself now.
SPEAKER_05 (10:12):
You did?
Oh, nice.
Excuse me.
That's what I'm talking about.
There you go.
Yeah, why not?
It's good to be good with yourheads.
SPEAKER_00 (10:21):
Yeah, and Harster of Souls, I'm like, so the thing is
there was like a like the fan,like, it like broke and we
didn't know what was causing it.
This year, like while we werebuilding it, we realized that
there was a like fabric insidethe fan.
SPEAKER_05 (10:36):
And so I was jammed up.
SPEAKER_00 (10:38):
So like we just pulled it out.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:40):
And it was like, so the fan wasn't working, we
didn't see there's a tiny littlething, and it was going right
through the fan.
And it was holding it up.
SPEAKER_00 (10:47):
And then like we just pull it out, because like
going through the fan, so likewe could actually see it.
We just pull it out.
We don't really have to use anytweez, we just use your hand.
SPEAKER_05 (10:56):
There you go.
SPEAKER_03 (10:57):
So maybe you can tell people.
SPEAKER_05 (10:58):
Well, hang out, hold on.
Real quick.
My wife has the blow-ups forChristmas and stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
So one time she had she had ablow up that wasn't good
anymore, it ripped or whatever,but the snowman wasn't working.
I took the fan out of that oneand put it in that one, rewired
it and put it in, and then I gotit to work.
SPEAKER_03 (11:15):
So I was able to switch it over.
They do sell if you go onAmazon.
You get the replacement fans.
They do.
And some of them even have theLED lights attached to them so
you can reinstall the LEDlights.
Because let's want to share thatbecause you know he's talking
about fixing it.
SPEAKER_00 (11:28):
Yeah, so the thing is there's an animatronic this
year, like every year there'slike animatronic that like
something's wrong with them.
Oh, there's an animatronic thisyear, uh, two head case Harry.
SPEAKER_05 (11:38):
So like Headcase Harry.
SPEAKER_00 (11:41):
Like, he has like two heads that are like attached
to each other.
Oh, and it's probably head caseHarry floating around?
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (11:48):
He's doing jerky poison.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (11:51):
Head case Harry.
And the thing is He's like ahe's like a clown that's like a
Siamese twin, so he's got liketwo heads in one.
Oh that's cool.
But like they always mess,there's every year, I feel like
they're like.
SPEAKER_00 (12:02):
But let me say it.
So like the thing is, like, hismouth moves, right?
Okay, the plastic inside of hismouth keeps ripping.
SPEAKER_05 (12:10):
Oh.
SPEAKER_00 (12:11):
I found this out because like I was watching like
scrolling on YouTube, like doomscrolling or something.
Okay.
And then like that videorandomly comes up.
I was looking up like SpiritHalloween animatronic fails, and
that short comes up.
And like it says like head casehairy fail, and then like re it
(12:32):
sees the plastic ripping.
Like, that happens.
SPEAKER_05 (12:36):
And then it shows you how to fix it, right?
SPEAKER_00 (12:37):
It doesn't actually show you how to fix it.
No.
SPEAKER_03 (12:42):
And they do recall.
Like, what was the year?
Who was the one that got messedup with the one with the
balloon?
SPEAKER_00 (12:48):
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (12:49):
Because you could talk about that, that one that
messed up and they recalled it.
SPEAKER_00 (12:52):
Totally forgot his name.
SPEAKER_03 (12:54):
Huh?
Like you Oh, headless Horseman?
Oh, heckles.
SPEAKER_00 (12:59):
Heckles, yeah.
So like, yeah, that happened toowith him.
SPEAKER_03 (13:04):
Yeah, he had like a what his like the latex was all
messed up and he was like, err.
His face looks all like messedup.
So they did a recall on him, andthey they they stopped
production and then theyrestarted production with the
new head.
And then if you had they calledZombie SWAT, they'd send you the
new head or the new latex.
But it's the same characterthough?
SPEAKER_06 (13:22):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (13:23):
Okay, cool.
SPEAKER_00 (13:24):
We have to talk about how the they messed up the
mascot this year, animatronic.
SPEAKER_05 (13:30):
The what?
The mascot from who?
SPEAKER_00 (13:31):
Yeah, the mascot from the store.
SPEAKER_03 (13:32):
Oh, the mascot.
Oh, okay.
Unfortunately, so it's that wasWho was the original mascot?
So if you look at oh we're allwe're both wearing the special
theme shirts, but the actual thethe regular logo, that is what's
his name?
SPEAKER_00 (13:45):
Jack the Reaper.
Feet and there was like a signthat says, feel like you were
being watched.
Yeah, it is a cool.
SPEAKER_03 (13:58):
Maybe you can explain to them what he does.
SPEAKER_00 (14:00):
So basically he got a tracking motion, which makes
him like$330.
SPEAKER_03 (14:06):
That's genuine?
Yeah, so his head follows youalmost.
Is is like if you're standing infront of them and you move to
the side, his head follows you.
That's great.
That's awesome.
SPEAKER_00 (14:18):
The tracking is like It's breaking so easily.
SPEAKER_03 (14:21):
Oh yeah.
But the thing is, you gottafigure out they fit.
Is this the first time they'redoing that, too?
Second one.
Oh, so the first one they did onwhat was it called?
SPEAKER_00 (14:29):
A clow.
I forgot his name correctly.
SPEAKER_03 (14:31):
But yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (14:32):
So like yeah, nibble.
SPEAKER_05 (14:34):
Nibbles the clown.
They had it.
And then there's like a quickquestion.
Uh to get away from the wholethe break-in.
How about the way you set themup?
Do you set them up a certainway?
Is there a certain way that theyhave to be for you to when you
set it up for Halloween?
Like, you know?
SPEAKER_00 (14:48):
Really?
We just bring them outside andlike we just set them up like
normal.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (14:53):
Well, do you set them up the same way every year,
every yeah, or do you change itup?
SPEAKER_00 (14:57):
Sometimes like we like they have instruction
manuals like that shows you likeinstructions to build the
animatronic.
They all have the same pieces,but like each year, sometimes we
put them in a different spot,which really doesn't really ch
like change the setup of theanimatronics.
SPEAKER_03 (15:14):
Yeah, but what we do is we um because the unfortunate
part is the Spirit Halloweenones aren't really designed for
outdoor use.
SPEAKER_02 (15:22):
They're either they're either it says indoor or
covered porch.
So we don't have a coveredporch.
SPEAKER_03 (15:29):
So what we end up doing is we do put them outside,
but because they're not good forrain, what we do is we bring
them inside every day.
So what we end up doing is weput like two, three, four of the
most uh out of day, and thenbring them outside, and then on
Halloween we put them all out.
Right.
So we he like them, you know?
Right.
Oh, that makes sense.
Because you do want them outsidefor a little bit, right?
(15:50):
And the way our drive our ourhouse is set up is you have to
walk up the driveway, and thenthere's a little small like
sidewalk that goes to the frontof our house.
Right.
So what we do is we'll line thewhole driveway up with the
animatronics on Halloween.
So if the trick-or-treaters arecoming, I got all these
animatronics coming up thedriveway.
And it's like a little cream.
SPEAKER_04 (16:10):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very cool.
And then a couple on the lawn,you know.
SPEAKER_00 (16:13):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:14):
What was your favorite one this year?
SPEAKER_00 (16:15):
Oh, this year, like that they came out with?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (16:18):
Yeah.
Hmm.
Because I went to the SpiritHalloween here by my house in
Middletown.
Yeah.
I thought it was the coolestthing.
They had the uh subway train.
Oh, that was much more.
I fell in love with that.
I wanted to get it.
I was gonna put it down here,bro.
SPEAKER_00 (16:32):
And that Mutant Sewer Rat, too.
SPEAKER_04 (16:35):
That was great.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (16:36):
And also, if you like looked on the top of the
train, you if you saw like athing like missing person, Betty
Sharp, which was like ananimatronic from 2022.
SPEAKER_03 (16:47):
So this year the ISE is a in-store experience, they
call it.
Is is the subway system.
Okay.
But every year they do adifferent theme, and every year
they seem to get more wild withit.
Right.
Like it's like getting moreintense.
What was last year?
Can you buy that theme?
You can't buy it.
Yes, you can.
That's the thing.
SPEAKER_00 (17:02):
Like at the end of the year, like they sell the
setup.
SPEAKER_03 (17:05):
Yeah.
That's insane.
They sell the setups.
And what's a cool one this year?
They have they have Young YoungHeat.
SPEAKER_00 (17:11):
A Young Heat all, which I was just about to talk
about.
SPEAKER_03 (17:14):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (17:15):
So what is the Young Heat doll from?
So the Young Heat doll is fromSquid Game.
And like you.
SPEAKER_03 (17:19):
It's like what is Young Hee known for?
What is that?
SPEAKER_00 (17:22):
Uh the red light, green light doll.
SPEAKER_03 (17:25):
Yeah, that's crazy.
She's nine feet tall.
Yeah.
Not like 20 feet tall.
Like in the game.
In the show.
In the show.
Right.
But it's nine feet tall.
Still tall enough.
SPEAKER_00 (17:34):
It's still the setup, but the thing is it's$700
animatronic.
SPEAKER_03 (17:39):
It's an animatronic, but it's part of the in-store
experience.
Right.
So you can buy at the end of theyear, but they don't sell them
like online because apparentlythe thing comes in two huge
boxes.
Not one box, two enormous boxes.
So it's not like something thatthey can mass produce and ship.
Yeah.
But it's still cool if you canget that at the end of the year,
because that's cool.
(17:59):
Because that's the red light,green light girl from Squid
Games.
Like that's so cool.
And she does it.
SPEAKER_00 (18:03):
She goes, red light, green light.
And they do it in English andKorean.
But what I was thinking was coolif like it came with like a red
light, green light post thatactually like came with it if
you bought it.
So like you could like set it upon your driveway and like people
like have to play along becausethey think they might actually
die.
SPEAKER_04 (18:23):
That's awesome.
Yeah.
That would be great.
SPEAKER_00 (18:26):
I think you could actually like buy a like a like
a prop.
You probably could, yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (18:32):
Yeah, probably.
A street light.
SPEAKER_00 (18:33):
Maybe you could like buy it or something.
Maybe that'd be like you couldactually buy like a real street
light.
Yeah, I think that's a goodthing.
SPEAKER_04 (18:40):
Yeah, I think they have them.
You could probably like a realstreet light.
Like the one, yeah, like atraffic light.
SPEAKER_03 (18:48):
They sell they sell them, they sell ones that are
realistic too.
SPEAKER_06 (18:51):
Yeah.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:53):
And let's get back to Jack the Reaper.
Yes, sir.
SPEAKER_06 (18:56):
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (18:57):
So like I wanted to get Jack the Reaper.
Like we were talking about likehow he's broken and stuff.
But the thing is, I think theyfixed that already.
Cause we went to our store.
It's been like a month now, andit's still working.
The motion tracking center isstill working.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (19:13):
I know because we were dead set on buying Jack the
Reaper.
We're like, if Spirit Halloweencomes out with a Jack the Reaper
and Michael, we're buying it.
And then we saw that like itkept breaking.
They're like, uh But it's notbreaking now.
Of course, now it's notbreaking.
But like we saw we because wewent to the flagship store.
Speaking of, do you want to talkabout the flagship store?
Oh yeah.
(19:33):
Talk about grand opening aflagship store because that is a
huge deal in Spirit Halloween.
So I but I'll let you explainit, but I just want to give the
preface.
So just listen.
So in Spirit Halloween, theyhave their flagship store in Egg
Harbor.
That is their main store.
And they do a grand openingbefore all the other stores they
do in August.
It's super early.
And it's like a big event.
(19:55):
They do door prizes, they have aDJ.
They have stuff in the parkinglot with vendors and stuff.
It's a major event.
So why don't you talk about sowhat was the first year we went
to the grand opening?
So yeah.
So what do we do?
(20:15):
Do we stayed over we we westayed overnight, right?
Jersey?
New Jersey, yeah.
Which is like which is like uh Iwould say like a half hour from
Atlantic City.
Oh wow, okay.
SPEAKER_05 (20:29):
So it's a nice little ride.
SPEAKER_03 (20:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
The problem is, like, this year they didn't do a
grand opening.
SPEAKER_03 (20:36):
No.
Uh because they were having sometrouble with getting stuff
overseas because you knowthere's some laws now with
tower-ups and bullshit.
Yeah, so it complicated things.
Complicated things, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (20:47):
Yeah, unfortunately.
It happens.
Oh, that's crazy.
So did they end up doing anotherlike did they sort of do?
They didn't do the grandopening.
They didn't do the grandopening, but did they start did
they and when they goteverything, did they at least
set it up until it was all setup?
Yeah, that's good.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (21:01):
Okay.
But why don't you talk to peopleabout the the flagship grand
opening?
So why don't you explain what wedid?
Like we got up early in themorning.
SPEAKER_00 (21:09):
Yeah, so we um so like the We stayed a hotel,
right?
Yeah, we stayed in a hotel, weget up in early in the morning,
and like in 2023, we oak up uh 3p.m.
We go there.
SPEAKER_03 (21:21):
No, no, that was that was 2023.
Talk about 2022 first.
We got up five or six, right?
SPEAKER_00 (21:26):
Yeah.
And then like we go, we s wenever like get the bag, like
those.
SPEAKER_03 (21:32):
Yeah, yeah, like so like the door prize is like two
the first two hundred get thisright, they get all kinds of
cool stuff.
Right.
And like we were like 300 andsomething, or no, we were like
250 or something like that.
We didn't make it.
So the next year we're like, oh,we're gonna get up at 3 a.m.
SPEAKER_00 (21:47):
And we got like 400.
SPEAKER_03 (21:51):
400 alone at 3 a.m.
Because the hype grew up.
Because now everybody now, like,in order to get like the first
200, everybody was thinking thesame thing you were thinking.
SPEAKER_04 (21:59):
They're like, I'm going early next year.
Yeah, it's funny, bro.
When you messed up at the sametime, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:03):
It's so it's like so stupid.
Like, it's like so much.
SPEAKER_04 (22:08):
So have you guys gotten there early enough yet to
get a gift bag?
SPEAKER_00 (22:11):
No, we never You only went two times because we
knew we were.
SPEAKER_04 (22:15):
Could you order one from them?
SPEAKER_03 (22:16):
You don't think they it's a gift bag?
Well, they sell they sell stuff,I think, in a gift bag.
Maybe there might have been acouple exclusive things.
I don't know.
But yeah, it's just like, andthen last year we were like,
we're not going.
Like it's just like it's it'sjust it's like everybody's doing
it.
Crazy.
SPEAKER_05 (22:33):
Yeah, it probably gets nuts, you know?
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (22:37):
Like, it got to like 2,000 people, I think.
What?
SPEAKER_04 (22:41):
Yeah, it's crazy.
2,000 people that is raining.
That is crazy.
Yeah, I'll wait till the nextday.
Yeah.
Me too.
Yeah, because like that's justtoo much for me.
SPEAKER_03 (22:51):
It's become like a cultural thing, you know, now
like everybody can play.
SPEAKER_05 (22:55):
Yeah, it's fun.
Listen, spare Halloween is cool,man.
Yeah.
You go in there and it's like,oh man, I wish I had this when I
was a kid.
Because I did a video recently.
Tom and I were talking aboutdoing the videos for TikTok and
everything.
He said, You just gotta beyourself.
So I did I went down and did avideo and I talked about the
costumes that we had because youhad to wear your clothes
underneath them, you know, ajacket if it was really cold,
(23:16):
and it had to be, you know, butyou wanted to wear it on top,
and you know, if you didn't,it's a different time.
Yeah, exactly.
We had the hard masks that wouldcut into your face.
That rubber that were not safe.
And the rubber band in the back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, that was cut off thecirculation on your head.
But it we couldn't wait to wearit though.
That was the thing.
We couldn't wait to wearwhatever it was we had, because
(23:37):
that's what it was for the time.
But now, you know, they have thereally cool ones where you know.
SPEAKER_00 (23:44):
What inflatable costume?
SPEAKER_05 (23:46):
Yeah, I've seen that.
Let's get into those.
You probably have inflatableones, right?
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (23:51):
So you were probably when when Halloween first came
out, you were probably what,teenager 20?
Yeah, well, you kidding.
SPEAKER_04 (23:58):
In 1804.
Halloween what?
Halloween.
SPEAKER_03 (24:01):
The first Halloween, the Halloween movie.
Oh no, I was a kid.
SPEAKER_05 (24:06):
I thought you meant late teens, right?
No.
When did Halloween come out?
SPEAKER_03 (24:11):
Like 78.
SPEAKER_05 (24:12):
Okay, so I was I was born in 66.
So 14, 15.
So I was 10 and 6.
Right.
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (24:18):
Yeah, yeah.
So I was about 12, 13?
Yeah.
So that mask, as a lot of peopledon't know, it's a William
Shatner.
It's a William Shatner maskbecause they used to make masks
back in the day, paint your ownmasks or something like that.
Right.
Or or or they painted away.
I don't remember what they did.
And they opened the holes up tomake it look crazy.
Oh, no.
What it was is that theycouldn't find a good enough
mask.
They didn't know what theywanted to do.
(24:38):
They just put that in.
SPEAKER_04 (24:40):
So they sent one of the guys, one of the techs, sent
him to the store, and all hecould find that was like any
kind of whatever that was leftwas the William Shatner mask.
So when they brought it back tothe set, they changed the
haircut and wiped off as much ofthe regular makeup that was on
it.
And then they opened up the eyesand stuff like that.
Yeah, to make that a littlecreepy shit.
SPEAKER_05 (24:58):
Yeah, they didn't think like that.
Nope.
Yeah, the William Shatner thingcame that way.
And they just did it up.
SPEAKER_04 (25:05):
Yeah, you Google that later.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (25:08):
If uh anybody if uh watching this, uh leave a
comment if uh, you know.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (25:13):
If your name is Peyton and you know who I am,
then oh, but if you're watchingthis right now on, yeah, you
know exactly who I am.
SPEAKER_03 (25:24):
Even better.
Let's talk about that.
Two times we were at theflagship store, and the first
time he didn't even know itbecause he hadn't started
kindergarten yet.
Okay.
Exactly.
You know, the uh the DJ is like,Where are you from?
And like, we're from Butler, NewJersey.
And like one of the dads and thekids walked up to us and like,
we're from Butler too.
And we find out it's a kid thathe's starting in kindergarten
(25:45):
with that year.
Really?
He's awesome.
The year he went tokindergarten, and that's Kid
Payton from his school.
And then this year we went toflagship, not for grand opening,
because they didn't have it thisyear, and we were like I said,
we're and we just went on like arandom day, and a kid that he
goes to aftercare with wasthere.
SPEAKER_00 (26:02):
His name's PJ.
SPEAKER_03 (26:06):
That's right.
This year, we this last weekendwe we built all our
animatronics.
We put so because it's a lot ofwork to build them.
We build them usually theweekend before we do our which
is this weekend.
We're doing our, you know, thefirst weekend of October.
SPEAKER_05 (26:18):
It's on Friday this year, Halloween.
So So, real quick, you guys wereright, of course.
What does it say here?
The story goes, the productionteam bought a generic mask made
from William Shatner mold fromStar Trek, altered it, cut the
eye holes, tampered down theeyebrows, painted it white, and
messed with the hair to createthe blank, haunting face.
(26:40):
And you know how long it wasuntil I actually found that out.
So I didn't we didn't know thatfrom that back then when it came
out and we would call thoseyears.
And then later on we found thatthat was what it was.
We're like, get the whole timeit was William Shatner.
And you know what's cool?
SPEAKER_03 (26:54):
You know what?
Also, a cool thing is they neveron the credits, they never call
him Michael Myers.
They call him the shape.
Really?
If you go to the credits, Idon't pin a go any of the uh
Halloween original Halloweenshapes, like I don't know if the
newer ones say that, but if yougo from like Halloween like one
through like six, I guess.
Is that the actor who playedhim?
(27:16):
No, that's instead of callinghim Michael Myers, they call him
the shape.
The shape?
SPEAKER_04 (27:20):
Why?
That's real.
That is what he's just the shapethat's standing there chasing
your head.
Yeah, it's all over the place.
Because he's always standing atthe head.
Then you look back, he's notthere anymore.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (27:33):
I didn't Halloween, Michael Myers is supposed to be
like the embodiment of just pureevil.
Right.
You know what I mean?
That's a good mask, too.
By the way, I'm evil.
You know, I bought that mask andthe jumpsuit.
SPEAKER_05 (27:47):
Yeah.
All right.
I was living in living inMiddletown on Brookline and the
backyard.
Ha Haley's Haley's uh friendsare from high school, right?
Hanging out and they were doingthe schmores and everything for
Halloween.
So I went out, I had a tree inthe middle of the yard.
And I hid behind the tree.
I had the mask on, the jumpsuit,and I had the knife.
Through a football team, bro.
(28:08):
Football team.
I jumped out and I would and Ijust I just walked out and stood
there.
Yeah.
And they were like, what the fYeah.
And they started falling down.
They knocked, almost knocked thefire down.
They locked Haley and her otherfriend out, and then all the
boys were in the house, theylocked the door and they knocked
the girls out.
It was so hysterical.
Dude, it was so funny.
(28:28):
It was funny.
And you know what's great aboutit is that I planned it too
because Tanya told me sheshouldn't have a friend, so and
I'm laying in bed thinking aboutit, and I'm laughing out loud
because I'm thinking, this isgonna be hysterical.
I know it.
And it worked out just the way Iwanted it to, man.
It was perfect.
These guys basically knockedthese girls down to get it to
the house, locked them out ofthe house.
(28:50):
It's funny as hell.
SPEAKER_00 (28:51):
Last yeah, Spirit Halloween 2023.
SPEAKER_05 (28:55):
What about 2025?
SPEAKER_00 (28:57):
We haven't gotten away.
SPEAKER_05 (28:59):
Okay.
I had to tell that story, youknow.
SPEAKER_00 (29:02):
So, like in 2023, we got all like biggest
animatronic.
It's still the biggest we havetoday.
SPEAKER_04 (29:10):
Which one?
So which one is it?
SPEAKER_00 (29:11):
Stilts.
SPEAKER_04 (29:12):
He's like, Oh, yes, I've seen that.
Yes, that's right.
SPEAKER_03 (29:15):
Now is skilled stilts a reskin of Cramp?
No, no, not really.
No, no, because his head spins.
No, I was thinking of a Crouchy.
No, he's not a Crouchy reskin.
SPEAKER_00 (29:26):
Crouchy reskin.
SPEAKER_03 (29:27):
Stilts, what is he again?
Stilts is a like he so he's he'sa clown who is on stilts.
He's got tall.
Oh right?
And then what does he do?
His head?
SPEAKER_00 (29:40):
So his head like spins dirty 360 degrees.
SPEAKER_05 (29:45):
Oh, I saw that one.
I know which one you're talkingabout.
I think I stamped on that onetoo.
And he's holding bowling pins.
And he's holding bowling phones.
Don't touch the mic.
SPEAKER_03 (29:52):
You'll be all right, then the mic.
He's holding bowling pins forwhatever reason.
Bowling pins?
Yeah, he's holding bowling pins.
Yeah, that's
SPEAKER_00 (30:00):
So we like go to that spear Halloween, we like
buy stilts, but there's alsoanother animatronic that we
want, and we buy it too.
It's actually right here.
SPEAKER_05 (30:09):
Okay.
Watch watch your step.
There you go.
Got it.
So that's the way you're goingto go.
SPEAKER_03 (30:17):
We brought two animatronics.
SPEAKER_04 (30:19):
Move them over.
SPEAKER_03 (30:20):
Yeah, move them over changing.
No, that's fine.
It's right perfect.
You can move it right in frontof me.
My face doesn't need to be inthe picture.
SPEAKER_05 (30:26):
You can block my channel.
Get right behind it and hook itup.
All right.
SPEAKER_00 (30:32):
His name's Gordo.
SPEAKER_03 (30:33):
Gordo.
That's Gordo.
All right.
Put it in the back.
The mic will pick you up.
Believe it or not, it'll pickyou up.
Put your finger in front or putyour hand in front of the sensor
so it sets it off.
Is it plugged in?
Technical tilty.
Yeah.
Please stand by while we okay.
Now it goes.
You can't lean on him though.
Don't lean on it, it's not gonnapop up.
And then you see his eyes guts.
(30:57):
That is unplug them now.
Pretty cool.
Alright, away from the clothes,reset.
Alright, you can um we can resethim later.
It's fine.
Alright, now put him back sohe's off camera.
SPEAKER_05 (31:08):
Yeah.
Life is rough, man.
I got it.
There you go.
Just go, man.
Just leave it up to you.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry, no, no.
Just leave it.
Watch your take it easy.
Okay, take it easy.
Next time you come, we're gonnawrap you in bubble wrap.
SPEAKER_04 (31:22):
That was the other mo that was the other podcast.
SPEAKER_05 (31:24):
Yeah.
We'll wrap him in bubble wrapnext time he comes.
Yeah, that's our wait, whochase?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (31:30):
That is not great.
So that was 2023, right?
And what oh, you forgot to whatwas the in-store experience for
2023?
Do you remember?
Was that the J Reapers?
How do you guys remember that?
I'm serious, bro.
SPEAKER_00 (31:42):
Yeah, I s yeah, Jay Reaper.
SPEAKER_03 (31:44):
That was J Reaper's laboratory.
So it was supposed to be like aJack Reaper, J Reaper's
laboratory.
Jack Reaper the the the themascot for super holiday.
Okay, gotcha.
So that was supposed to be likea lab, you know, it was like the
whole la laboratory.
Right.
Like you know, like haunted, youknow, like Frankenstein type
theme.
And then and then 2024.
SPEAKER_00 (32:06):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (32:06):
That was last year.
What was so what was good aboutlast year?
Talk about talk about it.
SPEAKER_00 (32:10):
So last year uh it was like a carnival s scene.
Okay and like so on the setupthey like had these like tickets
that said like corn evil.
They were like three corn evil.
SPEAKER_04 (32:22):
Oh, carnival.
And then like very clevertickets.
SPEAKER_00 (32:28):
They weren't even sick there.
You you could like take them forfree.
SPEAKER_03 (32:32):
Yeah, it was kind of cool.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, cool.
Did you take any?
SPEAKER_00 (32:35):
I only have like a couple of them.
You do?
SPEAKER_05 (32:37):
Oh, cool.
SPEAKER_03 (32:37):
I think it's collectible, you know.
SPEAKER_05 (32:40):
Yeah, you never know.
One day it might be worthsomething.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (32:42):
Yeah, so like uh so like we go there and then like I
see the stupidest idea of ananimatronic ever.
SPEAKER_05 (32:51):
What was that?
SPEAKER_00 (32:52):
The name's Bobby Strings, and then like Bobby
Strings?
SPEAKER_05 (32:55):
Bob Bobby Strings.
Bobby Strinks, hey.
SPEAKER_00 (32:58):
So stupid, though.
SPEAKER_05 (32:59):
Bobby Strings, how you throwing away.
SPEAKER_00 (33:02):
Shouldn't it?
You think it would be hanged ona tree, right?
SPEAKER_04 (33:05):
Okay, maybe.
SPEAKER_05 (33:06):
Go ahead.
SPEAKER_04 (33:07):
I'm you would think, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (33:09):
And then you have to actually set up like the thing
that holds him, and then there'slike actual wood, I think, that
needs to be like on the top.
SPEAKER_03 (33:17):
Well, maybe, maybe, maybe they did that because for
people like us who don't reallyhave a tree to hang him from.
Right, that's true.
So you can do it the other way,I guess.
SPEAKER_05 (33:26):
Right.
SPEAKER_00 (33:26):
Yeah, but the thing is he and my mom literally, we
all agree that it's like Hebeing your dad, you mean, right?
SPEAKER_05 (33:35):
Yeah.
Okay, the judge.
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (33:38):
Mom, me, Mom, me, we all agree that like it's the
stupidest animatronic in theworld.
SPEAKER_05 (33:44):
Well, you know what?
Once in a while you're gonna getthat.
That happens in life.
SPEAKER_00 (33:47):
Yeah, it does.
SPEAKER_05 (33:48):
And they'll like But think of all the other ones that
are really cool, though, thatyou've been talking about.
SPEAKER_00 (33:52):
Yeah, that's true.
So, like, there's this um spideranimatronic.
I really wanted it, but I likedidn't get it.
I ended up getting something.
What did I even get last year?
SPEAKER_05 (34:02):
Can't even remember.
Last year.
Can you remember what year wellthat but you can't remember
which one it was?
SPEAKER_03 (34:08):
Tara, you know which one we got last year?
SPEAKER_05 (34:11):
Yeah, no, no.
So go through her data bank.
Yeah, yeah.
How many animatronics do youhave total?
SPEAKER_00 (34:15):
Uh I think I think 16.
Wow.
SPEAKER_05 (34:19):
Jeez.
You're gonna have to buildyou're gonna have to build the
shed out back to put them allaway.
SPEAKER_03 (34:27):
Okay.
Okay.
I think those are good too.
Those are pretty cool.
We ended up having we got a coolone from Lowe's, but end up
breaking.
We returned it.
It was it was a Chucky.
It was a roaming Chucky doll,right?
He like he would like movearound, right?
Is that what he did?
Yeah.
Which which those were popularat Spirit Halloween.
They stopped really making theroamers, but those were ones
that would like it's like aroomba, basically.
(34:47):
It was like on a roomba it wouldlike go around and you know?
SPEAKER_00 (34:51):
You know, you could just buy a chucky doll.
SPEAKER_03 (34:53):
The base was like a roomba, basically.
Gotcha.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (34:55):
Basically, if you have like robot vacuum or
roomba, you could just buy achucky doll for like maybe like
$40 or something.
Really?
It was like on there.
And like, boom, you're done.
And like the Rome thing was likethe Roomba Chunky was like$80.
SPEAKER_05 (35:13):
Yeah, right.
That's craziness.
Yeah.
So maybe if you buy the right,but if you buy the vacuum and
then you buy it a doll, it mightcome out to more money, though.
Right.
SPEAKER_03 (35:20):
But you know what, you know what we love about
Spirit Halloween also.
Besides, I mean, we've beentalking all about animatronics,
but we geek out at the homedecor section.
We actually start, we actuallyput up like some stuff
full-time.
Excuse me?
We we we like we have stuff fulltime up really around.
Nice.
SPEAKER_05 (35:38):
So you put like shower curtains up and stuff
like that?
SPEAKER_00 (35:40):
So like he has we bought a we bought like a a
zombie baby chair, and like wehave Yeah, we have Z he has the
zombie.
SPEAKER_03 (35:47):
That's another thing he collects, the zombie babies.
Tell them about the zombie.
Okay, go away.
Finish the stuff that you guysgot for the house.
Yeah, yeah.
So yeah, so we got somepaintings, like the oil, like
you have the same one you have,the the Michael Marsbudge.
Michael Marsbell.
Okay.
So we bought a bunch of those.
We put them all in our hallway.
Gotcha.
It's cool.
And then wait, the like theshower curtain is like, what is
that?
Like a skull shower curtain?
Oh, it's spiderwork.
SPEAKER_00 (36:09):
And then like when you walk out of the bathroom,
tell them about that.
That's in the world.
SPEAKER_03 (36:13):
So that's the coolest one is that we got that
oil painting, and it's the Gradysisters from The Shining.
Oh, when you will come out ofthe hallway with a painting of
them, they're like, dude.
SPEAKER_00 (36:26):
It's so creepy.
Like, I want to take it outbecause I'm creeped out.
SPEAKER_05 (36:30):
Have you ever seen the movie?
He hasn't seen the movie.
No.
Not yet.
SPEAKER_01 (36:34):
That is see, you're not just a Miss Young.
SPEAKER_03 (36:37):
Yeah.
It's not yet.
It's funny because I just made avideo recently about that.
Talking about that.
Is like The Shining is like oneof the scarier movies.
SPEAKER_05 (36:47):
And like you mentioned the last time we
talked about psychologicalbecause it's so it's all about
mind games and everything, youknow, and it messes with your
head.
SPEAKER_03 (36:55):
And just like that creepy, eerie feeling.
Yeah.
So when you see when you comeout of our bathroom every time,
it's the greatest and sloss.
And that's not just forHalloween, that's year around.
You get creeped up by theGreatest List.
Very cool.
SPEAKER_00 (37:07):
The thing is, Spear Halloween made two Terrifier
animatronics.
One left like the normalTerrifier for$200.
It's so stupid though.
The Santa one is$81.
Why don't you just buy the SantaClaus clothes and just pour fake
blood on it and just pull it onhim?
SPEAKER_04 (37:24):
Now, do you put the Santa Claus one up during
Christmas?
SPEAKER_00 (37:27):
What?
SPEAKER_04 (37:27):
Do you put the Santa Claus uh animatronic up during
Christmas?
SPEAKER_00 (37:30):
I don't have the terrifier animatronic.
SPEAKER_04 (37:32):
Oh, I thought you did.
SPEAKER_00 (37:34):
This thing is, like, the terrifier, he won't let me
watch that.
SPEAKER_04 (37:38):
Yeah, no, that's away from that one.
Yeah, sorry, sorry.
SPEAKER_05 (37:42):
Like I said in the other episode, I can't even say
how gory.
No, that's it's no, just like.
SPEAKER_00 (37:48):
And like, so the thing is.
One of my friends, like, has alike one of my friends has an
older sister, right?
She was in the movie.
SPEAKER_05 (37:57):
Oh, no kidding.
Really?
SPEAKER_00 (37:59):
She was like, she's not even a while.
SPEAKER_05 (38:00):
Sure, all right, but she was in the movie though,
right?
SPEAKER_03 (38:02):
Because uh in one of the scenes when they got sent on
Santa Claus's lap.
Oh, really?
I didn't see why I haven't seenthe third one yet.
SPEAKER_05 (38:09):
So you can just I haven't seen any of them.
Oh.
No.
Yeah.
I'm not watching that, man.
Dude.
I'm not doing it.
SPEAKER_00 (38:14):
That's stuff.
Watch the first one.
SPEAKER_05 (38:16):
Yeah.
I can't.
It's too it's too gory.
SPEAKER_00 (38:18):
Exactly! That's why he won't let me watch it.
SPEAKER_05 (38:21):
Of course.
Well, you're yeah, well, he'sthe right he's doing the right
thing.
Supposedly.
And I want to damage you early.
SPEAKER_03 (38:28):
Supposedly, like people are throwing up in the
movie theater for screening.
Listen, I remember the firsttime I saw it.
I saw Jaws when I throw up.
SPEAKER_05 (38:34):
But I went to see Jaws and I was too young to see
that when it came out.
Right.
And I went to see it.
It scared the living hell out ofme.
The movie was scary, you know?
But so I'm thinking, yeah, no,you gotta wait till at least 35
to watch.
SPEAKER_03 (38:46):
35.
35.
Oh, shit.
SPEAKER_05 (38:48):
Yeah, you gotta have to wait till you're 30s to watch
that movie.
SPEAKER_00 (38:52):
But it sounds what?
SPEAKER_03 (38:52):
Years old.
SPEAKER_05 (38:54):
Yeah, yeah.
Now, okay, 22.
SPEAKER_00 (38:59):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (39:00):
22 years old.
I could work with that.
Yeah, 22 years old is when youcould see it.
That's it.
SPEAKER_00 (39:05):
I would say 22 years old.
I would say that's like not thatbad.
SPEAKER_03 (39:10):
Don't worry.
Don't worry.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't worry.
SPEAKER_00 (39:14):
That's bad, so like 22 years old, but at the point
gets to like 30.
It's like it's like a littlebad, but not that bad.
Where it gets to 35, I'm like,oh, this is old.
And then it gets to 40, I'mlike, oh hell no.
SPEAKER_03 (39:28):
Yeah, guess what I mean?
Let's talk about another thingabout Spirit Halloween.
Talk about the YouTube thingwith Spirit Halloween.
There's YouTubers now who havewhole channels that like about
this point.
Pretty much it's they're likeHalloween centric, but like
their main stuff is like likeOkay.
Let's talk about Nate Guy onYouTube.
That's his name.
(39:49):
Nate Guy.
That's why you can get in thatroom that day.
That's why.
Again, if you're watching thisNate the Dog Man, I kept saying
Nate Guy because of that YouTubechannel.
That's point.
Anyway, so Nate Guy on YouTube,right?
SPEAKER_00 (40:01):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (40:02):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (40:02):
So he's like this dude who like he's like into
spirit.
SPEAKER_03 (40:06):
I mean so much like he travels around the country
and goes to different ones andhe spends like an hour in the
store talking about he has likenicknames for the animatronics.
No, of all the stores the sameor different though.
SPEAKER_00 (40:17):
Well, the same with harm.
SPEAKER_03 (40:20):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (40:22):
He used to call the No Little Girl Dangly Legs.
SPEAKER_03 (40:25):
Hello, Miss Dangly Legs.
Or like the cat.
Be careful.
Be careful.
There's secrets here.
He got to meet Nate Guy when hewent to the city.
And that's the other thing.
During the flagship, everybodygoes to this shit.
Like YouTubers go to it.
So we got to meet Nate Guy.
(40:45):
And who's your other BrickThunder?
SPEAKER_00 (40:47):
Yeah, Brick Thunder.
SPEAKER_03 (40:49):
Who he his name Brick Thunder is because he was
he started off as like aMinecraft channel and then he
got into the Halloween thing.
So that's what his Minecraft is.
Yes.
Yeah, and that's that was hisMinecraft handle.
SPEAKER_00 (40:59):
Oh.
SPEAKER_03 (40:59):
Brick Thunder.
SPEAKER_00 (41:00):
The thing is, also, I like was like it's flagship,
and like we found like thesepeople named Spook365, and like
we like got to meet them, and Iactually played with them.
SPEAKER_03 (41:12):
Yeah, there were two kids and they did they do the
same, they go over the theSpirit Halloween and they have
the Amazon.
SPEAKER_04 (41:17):
Don't you have a I thought Chase had a YouTube
channel?
SPEAKER_03 (41:19):
It's not really active anymore.
But he he did have a YouTubechannel for a while.
SPEAKER_05 (41:23):
Yeah.
Yeah, he did.
SPEAKER_06 (41:24):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_05 (41:24):
We said your dad showed us some of those videos.
They were really good.
They were cool.
Yeah, you gotta start doing itagain.
SPEAKER_03 (41:29):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (41:29):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (41:30):
So what about the um we'll we're almost getting ready
to wrap up.
So we did mention the zombiebabies.
Do you want to talk about thezombie babies and what they are?
SPEAKER_00 (41:39):
So the zombie babies are like these like creepy like
babies, like with like randomstuff in their hands.
So like they came out with onewith like ice cream he's eating.
Like the ice cream is glass andthere's like grass on his face.
SPEAKER_04 (41:53):
Oh, get out of here.
SPEAKER_00 (41:54):
And then they also made horror babies.
Like and then the babies of likethe horror guys, they made it.
SPEAKER_03 (42:00):
Oh yeah, so now that we have like a little baby of
like of uh ghost face killer.
Like I got him, like a baby.
We don't have this yet.
Oh yeah, yeah, there's this thebaby Michael Myers.
He's got it.
What?
SPEAKER_00 (42:11):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (42:12):
So and then of course we had to get the burrito
baby because that was thenickname that that Nate guy gave
it.
Burrito baby, which is it waslike a swaddled zombie baby.
So the nickname was burritobaby.
SPEAKER_00 (42:26):
So we had to get the burrito baby.
unknown (42:28):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (42:28):
It doesn't work the other way.
SPEAKER_05 (42:29):
You gotta stay in front of it.
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (42:31):
Oh, okay.
Burrito baby.
Burrito ba.
SPEAKER_05 (42:37):
That is good.
SPEAKER_00 (42:38):
Wait, hold on, wait.
I'm gonna try to sound like AI.
SPEAKER_05 (42:40):
Now, did you say for the scary stuff at Six Flags?
I don't mean to change thesubject, but real quick.
Yeah, we went to Six Flags.
So you went through the thingsand everything?
We didn't do any of the hauntedstuff.
SPEAKER_03 (42:47):
Okay.
SPEAKER_00 (42:48):
We didn't pay.
SPEAKER_03 (42:49):
Yeah, it's like because we didn't know if he's
gonna because he loves thespooky stuff, but he doesn't
like getting scared.
SPEAKER_01 (42:54):
So you train like spooky.
SPEAKER_00 (42:56):
They were like scaring me out of nowhere.
I was like freaked out.
SPEAKER_03 (42:59):
Yeah, because they walk around with the chainsaws
and stuff and the carriage andthe chit's the first year that
they charge extra now for theHalloween stuff.
What?
Yeah, now you have to pay anextra fee.
It's shit.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (43:11):
Like it actually is shit.
All right.
SPEAKER_03 (43:12):
Hey, some cursing.
SPEAKER_05 (43:14):
You can't curse in my house.
Yes, I can't.
No, no.
This is my house.
No, it's my house.
Oh, really?
Oh well, okay.
It's fine and worse.
All right, well, we're over withthe small cast now.
We see you outside of New York.
SPEAKER_03 (43:27):
No, but yeah, so they so we're like, I know.
So we just but but they stillhave like characters and stuff.
SPEAKER_04 (43:34):
It's boy.
Oh, it's crazy.
I didn't know they did that.
Wow.
You guys gotta go to the one inum in Florida at uh Universal
Studios.
That one was awesome.
I did that one time.
Yeah.
Oh huge.
SPEAKER_03 (43:46):
And I bet because they have licenses for Universal
movies, they must have whateverhard.
SPEAKER_04 (43:52):
What they do is that stuff.
Everybody, the regular touristsand stuff are running around to
the boat.
You went there already, so youknow.
So they everybody's in thereregular during the day, right?
From open until like fiveo'clock.
Right.
Then they kick out the regularpeople.
Uh and then you have the specialticket to go in there first.
SPEAKER_05 (44:05):
Yeah, you go in for everybody who was in there for
the day, they can't say unlessthey have a ticket.
SPEAKER_03 (44:10):
They do have the classic monsters there.
Because everybody used to do ashow where like they would sing.
It was like a musical.
They had some good stuff, man.
They did.
Tanya and I went to most of mostof them.
SPEAKER_00 (44:20):
When he hits like 15 six, yeah, then you gotta take
them down for that.
Yeah, that was true.
They had a bunch of Halloweenstuff.
SPEAKER_05 (44:25):
They all do.
I think all of them do it.
Really?
Tony Park does it, uh, Hersheydoes it.
Yeah, Lake Flags does it.
They all do it.
They all do the Halloweenbabies.
We better do that next year.
I'd like to go to Hershey andcheck that out.
Hershey is nice.
SPEAKER_03 (44:38):
They bought it in 2024, right?
SPEAKER_00 (44:40):
And then oh, we go there and they have a bunch of
Halloween stuff out.
And like, um, Mom, she wants togo on the Wild Mouse coaster
with me.
We win an hour long.
SPEAKER_05 (44:51):
That's a good roller coaster.
I like that one too, believe itor not.
SPEAKER_00 (44:53):
We go on an hour long.
SPEAKER_05 (44:55):
I love that.
I know, dude.
That's it.
Don't look on the side, don'tlook on the side.
SPEAKER_02 (45:02):
So this was an episode, Jay.
SPEAKER_05 (45:04):
Yes, this was good.
So thank you so much for comingon for us and hanging out and
telling us about it.
Thank you.
SPEAKER_00 (45:09):
Yeah?
So actually, let's wrap it upwith this.
Uh so like today, they like dida giveaway.
Like, if you like bought like anitem at Spear, like it's like
it's like a one-time thing.
Like, it's like limited, butthey also do it other years.
Like, so like they give you likea butterfinger tote bag.
Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06 (45:29):
Yeah, I guess.
SPEAKER_00 (45:30):
Like they also give you a butterfinger in case
you've never had one.
SPEAKER_04 (45:33):
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (45:34):
I I've never had one, so I tried it, and I love
it.
SPEAKER_04 (45:37):
Yeah, you heard it now, it's over.
That is all right.
Well, thank you for coming.
Yeah, thank you, sir.
Appreciate the time.
SPEAKER_05 (45:43):
We're gonna close it up.
Pencilcinder, get us in.
SPEAKER_04 (45:46):
Really?
Yeah.
So thank you all for listeningand watching.
Thank you all.
Peace and hair grease.
SPEAKER_05 (45:50):
Live long and prosper.
Stay spooky.
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