October 22, 2025 • 20 mins
Halloween’s supposed to be scary for the right reasons... adorable little ghosts, goblins, and that really cool house on the corner that goes all out with their decorations. But tripping over the cape on your costume or letting that candle or firepit get a littlee out of hand? That’s the wrong kind of scary.
In this episode, Jimmy and Megan swap horror stories and IRL safety tips for surviving Halloween night with your dignity (and your eyebrows!) intact. From the face paint vs. mask debate, to glow sticks and flashlights, they dig into the small choices that make a big difference once the sun goes down and the spooks come out.
And then there’s the story... Jimmy’s legendary “chainsaw birthday incident.” You’ll have to download and listen in to hear that one.
This episode is a smart, funny, and slightly spooky reminder that even on the most chaotic nights of the year the best Halloween memories don’t have to come with minor injuries or a visit to the ER.
Life Safety Associates specializes in emergency response training for corporate ERT Teams. We help businesses create competent and confident first responders who are ready to handle unexpected emergencies. For more information you find us @lifesafetyassoc or email@lifesafety.com.
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Jimmy (00:00):
What's happening is another Life and Safety podcast
with Jimmy and your girl, megs.
Megan (00:05):
Hello.
Jimmy (00:07):
We're going to be doing a Halloween October safety one
and yeah.
So I guess we'll just kind ofjump into some.
Uh, we'll do some safety tipsfirst and then kind of jump into
(00:29):
some.
Uh, we'll do some safety tipsfirst and then we'll I'm sure
we'll try to dribble a couple ofgood uh, halloween stories in
there for you, oh for sure forsure, all right, all right, um.
So one of the big things that umhas changed a lot over the
years, especially because I'mquite a bit older than Meg, it's
costumes.
Now, when I was growing up, weused to get these boxed costumes
(00:53):
and these really creepy masksand these plastic overlay things
that would catch on fire andthen you put these masks on and
you couldn't see through themand stuff like that.
And masks are still obviouslyaround.
You know you get the streetmask and you know what have you
out there and that's rad.
But remember, when you aregoing out trick-or-treating,
(01:16):
you're taking your little peopletrick-or-treating.
If they have a mask on, it'sharder for them to see depths,
darkness and you know, crossingthe street, the peripherals are
bad, so maybe a good one wouldbe the when you're crossing
streets, take those masks offyeah, yeah, it's definitely a
good one yeah, or now the moreas well.
(01:38):
With the generational thing, Iknow a lot of megan's age group
and some of the younger kidsdon't do a lot of masks.
They do a lot of face painting.
Now, right.
Megan (01:47):
Mm-hmm.
Jimmy (01:48):
Yeah, yeah, so face painting is a great alternative.
I saw like last year they had astencil, so I'm thinking
they're going to have stencilsthis year for face painting now.
Megan (01:58):
Yeah.
Jimmy (01:59):
So that's kind of cool.
Megan (02:02):
Definitely makes it easier and more accessible, I
think, for, like, non, like youknow fancy makeup artists to do
face paint yeah, I can't evendraw straight a line, so that
would help me.
Jimmy (02:13):
I don't know, I'd probably have to tape the
pattern, though one of the kidswas foreheads and chins and
stuff that still probably messthat up, um, but so that's a big
one.
You know there are face paintoptions.
Megan (02:28):
We can and and then one thing I will say with that,
though, is be careful, and Irecommend doing a patch test of
the makeup.
Um, just because, well, a forallergies, but b because some of
them stain like really bad, andI've seen some quite
unfortunate patterns left onpeople's faces from makeup
(02:51):
that's stained oh, that's a goodone.
Jimmy (02:54):
That's a good one.
I thought you were gonna sayskin clothes and oh, that too,
yeah, but no, like like.
Megan (02:59):
Their face was just like purple.
Their whole face was purple.
Jimmy (03:03):
Purple's so much better than other colors, though, yeah.
Megan (03:07):
After, like Minions, the people look like very yellow
and you know it's problematic,it's problematic.
Jimmy (03:15):
Yeah, yeah, I keep thinking of the Smurf characters
and that old Sandler, lilliangrown-up family.
It's pretty awesome.
I was actually going to say theAlan D thing too, that, and
last year I saw a kid whothought they would be cool with
(03:37):
latex over their nose and mostof their mouth.
Megan (03:40):
Oh no.
Jimmy (03:41):
And I was like it's probably pretty hard to breathe
in there, huh.
And they're like, yeah, weactually had to cut a hole in
our mouth so we could breathe.
Um, yeah, you gotta thinkthrough these things, friend.
Come on, team, we gotta thinkthrough this a little better,
yeah, uh now, I think last yearwe talked about people with um.
(04:05):
I think last year we talkedabout people with candles.
I couldn't get that word out ofmy face Candles and I actually
saw somebody walking around witha candle last year Interesting,
yeah, it was part of theircostume.
I could not tell you what thecostume was.
It saved my life right now.
Now the thing is, you know,it's great, really cool.
(04:30):
How do you drop that?
Or you burn yourself orsomething on fire?
Megan (04:36):
Yeah, or like a drippy or not drippy but droopy
Halloween decoration, likeaccidentally you graze it with
the flame.
Jimmy (04:44):
Yeah, absolutely so.
I mean candles and jitters.
Just be careful where you placethem and around decorations,
and you know a lot of the fallfoliage kind of a thing you
don't be careful with that.
Yeah.
Megan (05:01):
You know, like jack-o'-lanterns are a big
source of fires because peopleput like real candles in them.
Um, so the the nfpa uh nationalfire prevention protection I
was really confident in thatit's right there, okay, in my
(05:23):
defense.
I was looking here, I hadn'tscrolled that far yet.
Um and and it's not a great Icould have scrolled ever so
slightly further, faster, and itwould have worked out a lot
better for me.
Anyways, they recommend usinglike glow sticks or electric
candles.
Jimmy (05:38):
Uh, just because you know , if you leave their
jack-o'-lantern with a realcandle unattended, it can become
very bad, very quickly yeah,yeah, it would actually probably
be pretty cool with a reallycool like thing on the carving
and having a glow stick in therethat actually might look pretty
neat.
Yeah, like green or somethinglike that, like a blue little
stick or something fancy that'dbe kind of cool.
(06:01):
We changed our um on the frontporch the light out, so when we
turned the front porch on it wasa different color.
Megan (06:12):
So that helped make our things look a little differently
.
Very fancy yeah.
Jimmy (06:17):
But I put little tiny what do they call it?
Tea cup handles, tea light, tealight handles yeah, literally
small ones.
They're jack-o'-lanterns and wealways carve from the top down.
We kind of traditionally carveit, whereas a lot of people
carve from the bottom towardsthe top.
(06:37):
Now on the jack-o'-lantern toclean it, which I think is
actually a little easier toclean the seeds and stuff like
that out.
But I like the top part becausewhen you put that candle in
there, if it falls over, it'snot exposed, it's just inside
the pumpkin.
The pumpkin's not going toreally burn.
Megan (06:55):
Yeah.
Jimmy (06:56):
Versus.
If it's on the bottom and youknock it over, you might have
the part where the light isactually on, the candle is
actually on and that might fallinto something else.
Not a fire.
Not a fire.
Fair enough, I guess.
Megan (07:10):
If you got somebody, it could probably burn too yeah,
yeah, another big thingdecoration wise is like dried
flowers, corn stalks and crepepaper.
Um catch fire super, supereasily and those are, I know are
big.
Um like halloween decorationstyle things, like especially
fall decorations.
(07:30):
Um, so that's, that's anothertip from the the nfpa yeah, yeah
, I was talking about costumestoo.
Jimmy (07:39):
You know, be wary of um like big capes.
Not only are, could they be, Imean they're gonna be cool
looking, but be careful when youkind of spin them around.
They might catch on fire.
You might trip somebody or youmight trip on yourself.
Megan (07:59):
I've done that.
I've tripped on my own costumemany a time.
Jimmy (08:04):
I'm not surprised by that .
Megan (08:06):
Neither am I.
Jimmy (08:07):
No.
Megan (08:08):
I think it would be more surprising if I didn't trip.
Jimmy (08:10):
Fair?
No, I think it would be moresurprising if I didn't trip Fair
Fair.
Megan (08:14):
And if you know that about yourself, if you know
you're a clumsy person, keepthat in mind.
Jimmy (08:19):
Yeah.
Megan (08:20):
All of my Halloween costumes always include, like
sneakers or, like you know, noheels in my costumes, because I
know I will die.
Jimmy (08:30):
No heels in my costumes either, because I have weak
ankles.
Ah apparently, yeah, I do.
I have lots of sprained ankles,so um, and they don't usually
come as wide as my foot is, so,yeah, Fair enough.
Now, with that being said,another thing about thing about
(08:50):
costumes.
You know, if you are in thosereally cool big drape, you know,
uh, capes I almost said drapes,you know kind of a thing or
you're draped a lot of costumingon you, like mummies, like
mummies would be a good one.
I was thinking like draculawith the big cape, you know, um,
you gotta kind of be cautious,like when you're crossing the
(09:14):
street.
You know again, but just beingoutside in the dark, you're just
walking, you know people, it'shard for people to see you.
Yeah, I guess it was 2021,maybe 2019.
One of the last times, soprobably 2019, like five, six
(09:36):
years ago.
Yeah, james was only 13, thenwe'd last, probably last time I
actually went with him, uh,trick-or-treating.
He and his two buddies that hewent trick-or-treating with were
in those inflatable costumesand it's not great vision.
I think that's actuallyprobably why we went, because
they're crossing streets andstuff like that and fairly busy
(09:57):
streets.
So me and another guy went, wewere walking around and, um,
james's friend was one of thosebig t-reex suits and just plowed
like three little kids thatwere like just in super dark
costumes.
They just blended in, they werevery hard to see, until the dad
(10:19):
turned on his flashlight and,like, blinded everybody.
Which brings me to my next point.
If you have a flashlight, Ithink what you should have, it's
awesome.
Leave it on, point it at theground.
Don't walk up to people andpoint in their face and go hey,
how are you?
Yeah, um, it ruins everybody'snight vision.
It blinds the person.
(10:40):
You know they're not going towalk down the stairs or up the
porch or anywhere you do that,so you really mess them up yeah,
and I would consider likegetting a flashlight.
Megan (10:50):
that's not one of those like super, super bright ones,
the like you know, super highlumen count or whatever.
Is that a thing withflashlights?
Okay, but like, not one that'slike super, super bright, you
know.
Jimmy (11:13):
Just because, um, bright enough that it helps, you see,
but not so bright that if youaccidentally do shine it in
someone's eye, they're gonnalike die.
Yeah, yeah, years and years agowe were with the kids
trick-or-treating and a prettypopular neighborhood for
trick-or-treating and this carwas driving down the street and
it was definitely teenager kidsjust messing with the
trick-or-treaters and you know,just being kids, yeah, and one
of the dads had one of those onebillion candle lumen thing,
(11:37):
whatever it was, and shined itin their face and they almost
wrecked because they couldn'tsee it ruined their vision yeah
yeah.
So I mean, just be careful withall that kind of stuff.
You know things you don't thinkabout.
Um, yeah, we were talking about, you know, vampires and mummies
and stuff like that, and itcame up to a.
(12:00):
Uh, one of my favorite movies,the silliest movie in the world
monster squad came up.
So I just don't know why.
I wanted to share that with you.
I appreciate that.
That's like the best in my mind, one of the best movie scenes
in the world.
And fans of the podcast, leave a.
(12:21):
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If you know the kick Wolfman inthe nard, two of the characters
(12:42):
say you know, one of the maincharacters tells the other
character, kick Wolfman in thenard.
Like he says it doesn't havenards and he goes just do, do it
.
And he does it.
And you know they say wolfmanhas nards.
It's hilarious.
But in that movie, as far aslike the safety stuff goes, they
(13:03):
walk into a, an abandoned housewhich is seems fun and and
scary houses and things likethat.
And when you're in an abandonedhouse.
There's no way it's abandoned,there's things that could fall
on you and hurt you and thingslike that and come to find out
(13:26):
that that's kind of a big thingright now in kids I don't know
if it's necessarily yourgeneration or maybe it's just
like my kids' generation it'sfinding abandoned things and
hiking through them andexploring them.
Megan (13:39):
Yeah.
Jimmy (13:40):
Have you heard of this?
Megan (13:41):
I've heard of it.
Yeah, I haven't done it, butI've definitely heard of it.
Yeah, done it, but I'vedefinitely heard of it.
Jimmy (13:48):
Yeah, like seen videos of like people like you know,
going through abandoned housesor searching and like finding an
abandoned mall and goingthrough it yeah, I mean, to me
it makes sense on halloween todo something like that, to do
that.
Please don't do that,especially if it's fenced off
and things like that affect thatfor a reason.
(14:08):
Yeah, if you get hurt, it'sgonna be hard to find you in
there, probably.
Um, even if you do call on yourcell phone I know a lot of
people are over there.
I have a cell phone, well cool,do you know the address of the
place you just jumped the fenceinto?
You know?
Megan (14:25):
yeah, the call 911 exactly, and even if you're not
like actively injured whileyou're in there, you don't know
if it was like condemned becauselike asbestos or something, or
some other, like you know,dangerous thing, toxic thing you
might inhale while you're inthere.
Jimmy (14:41):
Yeah, absolutely, you know.
I mean, you walk in and youstep on a nail or something like
that, you roll your ankle andyou can't walk out or you're
hurt.
And you know there's lots ofthings that can happen.
Megan (14:58):
Yeah, just be real careful on that.
You found something else.
Oh no, I was just.
I want to move on to stories.
I'm sure you have some greatHalloween stories.
Mine is less of a story, moreof a cautionary tale.
I worked in a haunted house atmy middle school for all the
years I was in middle school andthen I also came back when I
was in high school and did itand it was so much fun.
(15:21):
It was one of, like, myfavorite Halloween experiences.
My favorite was like watchinglike the you know super big
jocks like come through and justscaring the living daylights
out of them and hearing them goyeah, I'm not scared of anything
.
And then I would like pop outthrough a wall and they go like
the highest pitch scream you'veever heard and like they jump
(15:41):
like just like nobody's business.
And it was my favorite part andbecause I always had like a
mask on or something so theycould never tell it was me after
.
But then I'd like see them inthe halls the next day and be
like hi, I scared you.
But part of that is that if youdo go through haunted houses,
please don't touch the scareactors or do anything towards
(16:02):
them.
I know some of it is just, like, you know, automatic reflex,
like I did almost get decked inthe face quite a few times just
because they really, you know,got scared and their automatic
response was to punch.
Um, but, uh, you know, pastthat, try not to touch them
because they're, you know, doingtheir job or having fun or
volunteering or whatever.
Um and uh, it's not fun to beon the receiving end of unwanted
(16:26):
touches just because they'reyou know they're scared yeah or
whatever it is, or like I alsothe if they, it was like an
automatic fear response.
I didn't really hold it againstthem, but there are people that
were like trying to be cool fortheir friends and be like, well,
I'm not scared of you, see,I'll come after you.
And they would like try tochase me back, or like try to
(16:47):
grab me and be like see, you'renot so scary now.
And I was like what?
No, you don't touch me, what iswrong with you?
It's like that's the part thatI have issues with yeah, I don't
have a lot of like responsestories.
Jimmy (17:02):
I like talking about um, halloween, halloween, but I'll
tell a Halloween birthday storythat I to this day it always
gets me.
I was at a birthday party andwe were actually watching Texas
(17:24):
Chainsaw Massacre birthday partyand I think I was like
definitely younger to youngerdrive.
So I don't know young team,maybe even a preteen, I don't
remember, but we're at mybuddy's house and we're watching
(17:44):
the movie and his step dad andhis step dad's best friend walk
outside and they had been.
They'd set up this trip prettygood.
They'd set up their motorcyclesoutside like they were working
on them.
So we've been hearing like theengine running, if you will, the
whole time.
And then the movie started.
So like it goes hard for us asthe kids to tell if it was the
(18:05):
chainsaw or like the motorbikegoing, yeah, so we just didn't
think anything of it and at onepoint the stepdad kicked the
door open and he came in theroom with a chainsaw oh my gosh,
and there was about 10 boyslike watching himself, like a
(18:27):
couple of the guys actually likejust sat there and squeezed
their hamburgers they're eatingat dinner.
Just like one guy actually wethimself.
Like four of us like actuallyjumped out the window like to
run away.
So like the first guy out likeruined the bleeds, like screams,
(18:48):
police, like screen.
But like the mom was laughingso hard I think she actually wet
herself a little bit like Ididn't like the dad and like the
friend, we were just doubledover and they the guy, that
first guy jumped out of thewindow but he was running
(19:09):
through the forest Remember, Igrew up in Tahoe, so we're in
the forest.
So like they had to chase afterhim and find him out in the
forest, hiding and stuff likethat.
It was so out of hand.
Oh no, yeah, outside of likedefinitely one of the top 10
that have never been scared.
(19:29):
It was pretty good.
It was pretty good.
Alright, thanks for joining usfor another life and safety
podcast.
Peace.
What's happening is another Life and Safety podcast
with Jimmy and your girl, megs.
Megan (00:05):
Hello.
Jimmy (00:07):
We're going to be doing a Halloween October safety one
and yeah.
So I guess we'll just kind ofjump into some.
Uh, we'll do some safety tipsfirst and then kind of jump into
(00:29):
some.
Uh, we'll do some safety tipsfirst and then we'll I'm sure
we'll try to dribble a couple ofgood uh, halloween stories in
there for you, oh for sure forsure, all right, all right, um.
So one of the big things that umhas changed a lot over the
years, especially because I'mquite a bit older than Meg, it's
costumes.
Now, when I was growing up, weused to get these boxed costumes
(00:53):
and these really creepy masksand these plastic overlay things
that would catch on fire andthen you put these masks on and
you couldn't see through themand stuff like that.
And masks are still obviouslyaround.
You know you get the streetmask and you know what have you
out there and that's rad.
But remember, when you aregoing out trick-or-treating,
(01:16):
you're taking your little peopletrick-or-treating.
If they have a mask on, it'sharder for them to see depths,
darkness and you know, crossingthe street, the peripherals are
bad, so maybe a good one wouldbe the when you're crossing
streets, take those masks offyeah, yeah, it's definitely a
good one yeah, or now the moreas well.
(01:38):
With the generational thing, Iknow a lot of megan's age group
and some of the younger kidsdon't do a lot of masks.
They do a lot of face painting.
Now, right.
Megan (01:47):
Mm-hmm.
Jimmy (01:48):
Yeah, yeah, so face painting is a great alternative.
I saw like last year they had astencil, so I'm thinking
they're going to have stencilsthis year for face painting now.
Megan (01:58):
Yeah.
Jimmy (01:59):
So that's kind of cool.
Megan (02:02):
Definitely makes it easier and more accessible, I
think, for, like, non, like youknow fancy makeup artists to do
face paint yeah, I can't evendraw straight a line, so that
would help me.
Jimmy (02:13):
I don't know, I'd probably have to tape the
pattern, though one of the kidswas foreheads and chins and
stuff that still probably messthat up, um, but so that's a big
one.
You know there are face paintoptions.
Megan (02:28):
We can and and then one thing I will say with that,
though, is be careful, and Irecommend doing a patch test of
the makeup.
Um, just because, well, a forallergies, but b because some of
them stain like really bad, andI've seen some quite
unfortunate patterns left onpeople's faces from makeup
(02:51):
that's stained oh, that's a goodone.
Jimmy (02:54):
That's a good one.
I thought you were gonna sayskin clothes and oh, that too,
yeah, but no, like like.
Megan (02:59):
Their face was just like purple.
Their whole face was purple.
Jimmy (03:03):
Purple's so much better than other colors, though, yeah.
Megan (03:07):
After, like Minions, the people look like very yellow
and you know it's problematic,it's problematic.
Jimmy (03:15):
Yeah, yeah, I keep thinking of the Smurf characters
and that old Sandler, lilliangrown-up family.
It's pretty awesome.
I was actually going to say theAlan D thing too, that, and
last year I saw a kid whothought they would be cool with
(03:37):
latex over their nose and mostof their mouth.
Megan (03:40):
Oh no.
Jimmy (03:41):
And I was like it's probably pretty hard to breathe
in there, huh.
And they're like, yeah, weactually had to cut a hole in
our mouth so we could breathe.
Um, yeah, you gotta thinkthrough these things, friend.
Come on, team, we gotta thinkthrough this a little better,
yeah, uh now, I think last yearwe talked about people with um.
(04:05):
I think last year we talkedabout people with candles.
I couldn't get that word out ofmy face Candles and I actually
saw somebody walking around witha candle last year Interesting,
yeah, it was part of theircostume.
I could not tell you what thecostume was.
It saved my life right now.
Now the thing is, you know,it's great, really cool.
(04:30):
How do you drop that?
Or you burn yourself orsomething on fire?
Megan (04:36):
Yeah, or like a drippy or not drippy but droopy
Halloween decoration, likeaccidentally you graze it with
the flame.
Jimmy (04:44):
Yeah, absolutely so.
I mean candles and jitters.
Just be careful where you placethem and around decorations,
and you know a lot of the fallfoliage kind of a thing you
don't be careful with that.
Yeah.
Megan (05:01):
You know, like jack-o'-lanterns are a big
source of fires because peopleput like real candles in them.
Um, so the the nfpa uh nationalfire prevention protection I
was really confident in thatit's right there, okay, in my
(05:23):
defense.
I was looking here, I hadn'tscrolled that far yet.
Um and and it's not a great Icould have scrolled ever so
slightly further, faster, and itwould have worked out a lot
better for me.
Anyways, they recommend usinglike glow sticks or electric
candles.
Jimmy (05:38):
Uh, just because you know , if you leave their
jack-o'-lantern with a realcandle unattended, it can become
very bad, very quickly yeah,yeah, it would actually probably
be pretty cool with a reallycool like thing on the carving
and having a glow stick in therethat actually might look pretty
neat.
Yeah, like green or somethinglike that, like a blue little
stick or something fancy that'dbe kind of cool.
(06:01):
We changed our um on the frontporch the light out, so when we
turned the front porch on it wasa different color.
Megan (06:12):
So that helped make our things look a little differently
.
Very fancy yeah.
Jimmy (06:17):
But I put little tiny what do they call it?
Tea cup handles, tea light, tealight handles yeah, literally
small ones.
They're jack-o'-lanterns and wealways carve from the top down.
We kind of traditionally carveit, whereas a lot of people
carve from the bottom towardsthe top.
(06:37):
Now on the jack-o'-lantern toclean it, which I think is
actually a little easier toclean the seeds and stuff like
that out.
But I like the top part becausewhen you put that candle in
there, if it falls over, it'snot exposed, it's just inside
the pumpkin.
The pumpkin's not going toreally burn.
Megan (06:55):
Yeah.
Jimmy (06:56):
Versus.
If it's on the bottom and youknock it over, you might have
the part where the light isactually on, the candle is
actually on and that might fallinto something else.
Not a fire.
Not a fire.
Fair enough, I guess.
Megan (07:10):
If you got somebody, it could probably burn too yeah,
yeah, another big thingdecoration wise is like dried
flowers, corn stalks and crepepaper.
Um catch fire super, supereasily and those are, I know are
big.
Um like halloween decorationstyle things, like especially
fall decorations.
(07:30):
Um, so that's, that's anothertip from the the nfpa yeah, yeah
, I was talking about costumestoo.
Jimmy (07:39):
You know, be wary of um like big capes.
Not only are, could they be, Imean they're gonna be cool
looking, but be careful when youkind of spin them around.
They might catch on fire.
You might trip somebody or youmight trip on yourself.
Megan (07:59):
I've done that.
I've tripped on my own costumemany a time.
Jimmy (08:04):
I'm not surprised by that .
Megan (08:06):
Neither am I.
Jimmy (08:07):
No.
Megan (08:08):
I think it would be more surprising if I didn't trip.
Jimmy (08:10):
Fair?
No, I think it would be moresurprising if I didn't trip Fair
Fair.
Megan (08:14):
And if you know that about yourself, if you know
you're a clumsy person, keepthat in mind.
Jimmy (08:19):
Yeah.
Megan (08:20):
All of my Halloween costumes always include, like
sneakers or, like you know, noheels in my costumes, because I
know I will die.
Jimmy (08:30):
No heels in my costumes either, because I have weak
ankles.
Ah apparently, yeah, I do.
I have lots of sprained ankles,so um, and they don't usually
come as wide as my foot is, so,yeah, Fair enough.
Now, with that being said,another thing about thing about
(08:50):
costumes.
You know, if you are in thosereally cool big drape, you know,
uh, capes I almost said drapes,you know kind of a thing or
you're draped a lot of costumingon you, like mummies, like
mummies would be a good one.
I was thinking like draculawith the big cape, you know, um,
you gotta kind of be cautious,like when you're crossing the
(09:14):
street.
You know again, but just beingoutside in the dark, you're just
walking, you know people, it'shard for people to see you.
Yeah, I guess it was 2021,maybe 2019.
One of the last times, soprobably 2019, like five, six
(09:36):
years ago.
Yeah, james was only 13, thenwe'd last, probably last time I
actually went with him, uh,trick-or-treating.
He and his two buddies that hewent trick-or-treating with were
in those inflatable costumesand it's not great vision.
I think that's actuallyprobably why we went, because
they're crossing streets andstuff like that and fairly busy
(09:57):
streets.
So me and another guy went, wewere walking around and, um,
james's friend was one of thosebig t-reex suits and just plowed
like three little kids thatwere like just in super dark
costumes.
They just blended in, they werevery hard to see, until the dad
(10:19):
turned on his flashlight and,like, blinded everybody.
Which brings me to my next point.
If you have a flashlight, Ithink what you should have, it's
awesome.
Leave it on, point it at theground.
Don't walk up to people andpoint in their face and go hey,
how are you?
Yeah, um, it ruins everybody'snight vision.
It blinds the person.
(10:40):
You know they're not going towalk down the stairs or up the
porch or anywhere you do that,so you really mess them up yeah,
and I would consider likegetting a flashlight.
Megan (10:50):
that's not one of those like super, super bright ones,
the like you know, super highlumen count or whatever.
Is that a thing withflashlights?
Okay, but like, not one that'slike super, super bright, you
know.
Jimmy (11:13):
Just because, um, bright enough that it helps, you see,
but not so bright that if youaccidentally do shine it in
someone's eye, they're gonnalike die.
Yeah, yeah, years and years agowe were with the kids
trick-or-treating and a prettypopular neighborhood for
trick-or-treating and this carwas driving down the street and
it was definitely teenager kidsjust messing with the
trick-or-treaters and you know,just being kids, yeah, and one
of the dads had one of those onebillion candle lumen thing,
(11:37):
whatever it was, and shined itin their face and they almost
wrecked because they couldn'tsee it ruined their vision yeah
yeah.
So I mean, just be careful withall that kind of stuff.
You know things you don't thinkabout.
Um, yeah, we were talking about, you know, vampires and mummies
and stuff like that, and itcame up to a.
(12:00):
Uh, one of my favorite movies,the silliest movie in the world
monster squad came up.
So I just don't know why.
I wanted to share that with you.
I appreciate that.
That's like the best in my mind, one of the best movie scenes
in the world.
And fans of the podcast, leave a.
(12:21):
Um, if you're on apple, leave a.
I guess on apple you can'tleave a comment, but on Spotify
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email.
Email at lifesafetycom.
If you know the kick Wolfman inthe nard, two of the characters
(12:42):
say you know, one of the maincharacters tells the other
character, kick Wolfman in thenard.
Like he says it doesn't havenards and he goes just do, do it
.
And he does it.
And you know they say wolfmanhas nards.
It's hilarious.
But in that movie, as far aslike the safety stuff goes, they
(13:03):
walk into a, an abandoned housewhich is seems fun and and
scary houses and things likethat.
And when you're in an abandonedhouse.
There's no way it's abandoned,there's things that could fall
on you and hurt you and thingslike that and come to find out
(13:26):
that that's kind of a big thingright now in kids I don't know
if it's necessarily yourgeneration or maybe it's just
like my kids' generation it'sfinding abandoned things and
hiking through them andexploring them.
Megan (13:39):
Yeah.
Jimmy (13:40):
Have you heard of this?
Megan (13:41):
I've heard of it.
Yeah, I haven't done it, butI've definitely heard of it.
Yeah, done it, but I'vedefinitely heard of it.
Jimmy (13:48):
Yeah, like seen videos of like people like you know,
going through abandoned housesor searching and like finding an
abandoned mall and goingthrough it yeah, I mean, to me
it makes sense on halloween todo something like that, to do
that.
Please don't do that,especially if it's fenced off
and things like that affect thatfor a reason.
(14:08):
Yeah, if you get hurt, it'sgonna be hard to find you in
there, probably.
Um, even if you do call on yourcell phone I know a lot of
people are over there.
I have a cell phone, well cool,do you know the address of the
place you just jumped the fenceinto?
You know?
Megan (14:25):
yeah, the call 911 exactly, and even if you're not
like actively injured whileyou're in there, you don't know
if it was like condemned becauselike asbestos or something, or
some other, like you know,dangerous thing, toxic thing you
might inhale while you're inthere.
Jimmy (14:41):
Yeah, absolutely, you know.
I mean, you walk in and youstep on a nail or something like
that, you roll your ankle andyou can't walk out or you're
hurt.
And you know there's lots ofthings that can happen.
Megan (14:58):
Yeah, just be real careful on that.
You found something else.
Oh no, I was just.
I want to move on to stories.
I'm sure you have some greatHalloween stories.
Mine is less of a story, moreof a cautionary tale.
I worked in a haunted house atmy middle school for all the
years I was in middle school andthen I also came back when I
was in high school and did itand it was so much fun.
(15:21):
It was one of, like, myfavorite Halloween experiences.
My favorite was like watchinglike the you know super big
jocks like come through and justscaring the living daylights
out of them and hearing them goyeah, I'm not scared of anything
.
And then I would like pop outthrough a wall and they go like
the highest pitch scream you'veever heard and like they jump
(15:41):
like just like nobody's business.
And it was my favorite part andbecause I always had like a
mask on or something so theycould never tell it was me after
.
But then I'd like see them inthe halls the next day and be
like hi, I scared you.
But part of that is that if youdo go through haunted houses,
please don't touch the scareactors or do anything towards
(16:02):
them.
I know some of it is just, like, you know, automatic reflex,
like I did almost get decked inthe face quite a few times just
because they really, you know,got scared and their automatic
response was to punch.
Um, but, uh, you know, pastthat, try not to touch them
because they're, you know, doingtheir job or having fun or
volunteering or whatever.
Um and uh, it's not fun to beon the receiving end of unwanted
(16:26):
touches just because they'reyou know they're scared yeah or
whatever it is, or like I alsothe if they, it was like an
automatic fear response.
I didn't really hold it againstthem, but there are people that
were like trying to be cool fortheir friends and be like, well,
I'm not scared of you, see,I'll come after you.
And they would like try tochase me back, or like try to
(16:47):
grab me and be like see, you'renot so scary now.
And I was like what?
No, you don't touch me, what iswrong with you?
It's like that's the part thatI have issues with yeah, I don't
have a lot of like responsestories.
Jimmy (17:02):
I like talking about um, halloween, halloween, but I'll
tell a Halloween birthday storythat I to this day it always
gets me.
I was at a birthday party andwe were actually watching Texas
(17:24):
Chainsaw Massacre birthday partyand I think I was like
definitely younger to youngerdrive.
So I don't know young team,maybe even a preteen, I don't
remember, but we're at mybuddy's house and we're watching
(17:44):
the movie and his step dad andhis step dad's best friend walk
outside and they had been.
They'd set up this trip prettygood.
They'd set up their motorcyclesoutside like they were working
on them.
So we've been hearing like theengine running, if you will, the
whole time.
And then the movie started.
So like it goes hard for us asthe kids to tell if it was the
(18:05):
chainsaw or like the motorbikegoing, yeah, so we just didn't
think anything of it and at onepoint the stepdad kicked the
door open and he came in theroom with a chainsaw oh my gosh,
and there was about 10 boyslike watching himself, like a
(18:27):
couple of the guys actually likejust sat there and squeezed
their hamburgers they're eatingat dinner.
Just like one guy actually wethimself.
Like four of us like actuallyjumped out the window like to
run away.
So like the first guy out likeruined the bleeds, like screams,
(18:48):
police, like screen.
But like the mom was laughingso hard I think she actually wet
herself a little bit like Ididn't like the dad and like the
friend, we were just doubledover and they the guy, that
first guy jumped out of thewindow but he was running
(19:09):
through the forest Remember, Igrew up in Tahoe, so we're in
the forest.
So like they had to chase afterhim and find him out in the
forest, hiding and stuff likethat.
It was so out of hand.
Oh no, yeah, outside of likedefinitely one of the top 10
that have never been scared.
(19:29):
It was pretty good.
It was pretty good.
Alright, thanks for joining usfor another life and safety
podcast.
Peace.
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