November 4, 2025 • 23 mins
Halloween takes on wildly different forms around the world- from Japan’s massive Shibuya street party and Disney parades to Germany’s spooky costumes and expanding trick-or-treat scenes. In the U.S., the holiday walks a line between fun and safety, with teal pumpkins signaling allergy-friendly treats, dentist buy-backs, and a shift from crowded haunted houses to calmer fall festivals. While Japan’s celebrations skew adult and urban, and Germany sticks to strictly spooky vibes in October, each country brings its own twist. We also share our first Halloween memories and low-effort “Jimi Halloween” costume hacks to inspire your next party.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:00):
I gotta get you out of my system.
I gotta get you off of my mind.
But how do I move on when no onecompares?
They only keep me occupied.
I gotta break these chains thatfind me.
I try to shake them off so dead,really.
(00:23):
Would you pull them tighter?
String me along.
It's sad, but I'm so gone.
SPEAKER_02 (00:31):
Hi guys.
I was wondering, you know, sinceit's Halloween season and
everything, is it like a popularthing in Germany and in Japan?
Because I heard in Japan that alot of people are dressing up
these days for Halloween.
I don't know if they actually dotrick-or-trading or anything,
but obviously here in the US,it's a huge thing.
People are starting to decoratetheir houses, and you know, the
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stores turned Halloween like amonth ago.
SPEAKER_04 (00:57):
Which is September.
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
September.
Yeah.
So, you know, we do it big inthe US.
And again, I was curious becauseI know that I heard it's picking
up a lot more in Japan.
I don't know about Germany, butI wanted to hear your take.
SPEAKER_03 (01:10):
So in Japan, I think it became a huge deal maybe in
the past I want to say 10 years,maybe.
Oh.
Okay, so in Japan, if you asksomeone what they think of when
they think of Halloween, I thinkthat most people would say the
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo.
And the reason for that isbecause I want to say again, the
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last 10 years maybe, I don'tknow.
People actually adults dress upin costumes and they just walk
around the Shibuya Crossing.
Yeah, like dressed up.
Like dressing.
SPEAKER_02 (01:42):
They don't carry like baskets.
SPEAKER_03 (01:43):
No, they don't go to a training.
No.
They just all gather, they willdrink alcohol, because you know
that's allowed in Japan.
You can drink alcohol in publicand they just all get together.
SPEAKER_02 (01:53):
Okay.
So that's the that's like a bigspot people go to in Japan.
SPEAKER_03 (01:57):
Yeah, and but then I think they banned it, I believe,
last year, because it just gotout of hand.
It was just too crowded.
There were too many people.
People were getting into fights,and you know, the police were
always out there trying to calmpeople down, and people were
getting arrested.
SPEAKER_02 (02:14):
Oh wow.
So it's more popular for adultsover there, and they don't
necessarily gotrick-or-treating.
You don't see it in yourneighborhood.
SPEAKER_03 (02:20):
I don't see it in my neighborhood.
I think that somewhere in Japan,I don't know where exactly,
definitely not in Tokyo, butthere is a custom where kids go
trick-or-treating.
I don't I don't remember whichpart of Japan.
SPEAKER_02 (02:33):
Because I know in Japan, isn't there a town that's
like anime town where peopledress up anyway all the time
year-round?
SPEAKER_03 (02:40):
Oh, Akihabara.
SPEAKER_02 (02:41):
Yes, right?
So it's more like, yeah.
There's like a town, I thinkAkihabara, like Simi says, where
it's like literally everyone isjust walking around in anime,
like cosplay.
But yeah.
Oh, but it's like pretty big,right?
And the stores are like allcosplay stuff, and that's what I
hear.
SPEAKER_03 (03:00):
But then for little kids, they don't go
trick-or-treating, but they havelike I think more and more
people have Halloween parties,they just get together, kids
wear costumes, and you know,just decorate with Halloween
stuff.
SPEAKER_04 (03:12):
Do you think that it's definitely the Western
influence that these peoplehaving party in the middle of
the street kind of thing startedhappening?
Because how would people knowthat Halloween exists?
Do you think that it was startedby foreigners, like you know,
Americans or Canadians or Ithink so?
SPEAKER_03 (03:28):
I don't know.
But another big Halloween event,I guess, in Japan is Disneyland
and Disney City.
We have Disney and Disney Sea inTokyo, actually in Chipa, but
they say Tokyo, Disneyland,Tokyo, Disney had an influence.
This big, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:42):
And guests do they do parades or something?
SPEAKER_03 (03:45):
They do, and it's during the Halloween pine
period.
Uh, you're allowed to dress upand cosplay and go to these
theme parks.
Yeah.
Apparently it's a huge deal.
Like it's the I think they makethe most money out of all the
other you know.
SPEAKER_02 (03:58):
I heard the Disney here in the US, at least Disney
World in Orlando, also doesreally big Halloween, but I've
never been.
So yeah, maybe that's what itis.
Maybe that's what maybe piquedeveryone's interest over there.
I don't know.
Hmm.
Interesting, but then like atstores, you don't see oh, here's
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Halloween stuff you can decorateat your house.
SPEAKER_03 (04:21):
Actually, no, yeah, you you do see it now, even at
grocery stores and Dyson, likeDollar Tree places.
SPEAKER_02 (04:26):
You know what?
When your baby is old enough towalk around, you should start in
your neighborhoodtrick-or-treating, get him a
basket, and then just have himstart knocking on doors and you
go with him and start in yourneighborhood.
SPEAKER_03 (04:40):
Well, I can tell them beforehand, like he will be
coming, so please give himcandy.
SPEAKER_04 (04:45):
Yeah, maybe by that time it'll be, you know, well
known enough, and everybodywants to do something like that.
SPEAKER_03 (04:51):
I don't think trick-or-treating will ever be a
thing in Japan because I don'tknow, just because of I think
people will be too scared forlike I don't know, crimes
happening.
But they're cute kids going tobe a good thing.
Yeah, but like interesting, Idon't think it'll ever happen.
Like, it won't probably be acommon thing in Japan.
It's very common, especially inTokyo, where you don't even know
who your neighbors are becauseyou just don't say hello.
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Yeah.
Greet each other.
So it's a very common thing.
SPEAKER_02 (05:15):
Just to keep to yourself in Japan.
Yeah, that's true.
People respect each other'sprivacy and they keep to
themselves.
SPEAKER_04 (05:23):
Interesting.
SPEAKER_02 (05:24):
What about Germany, Cody?
SPEAKER_04 (05:26):
I can say that when we first moved here back in
2015, there wasn't anythinggoing on, really.
Lucas started kindergarten rightwhen we moved, and from
kindergarten to grade four,basically like grade school, he
went to an international school.
It's a bilingual school, so theteachers were speaking in German
and English simultaneously perclass.
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Because it was surrounded bykids from all over the place uh
in the world, they did haveHalloween, just like in the
States.
But what I realized is a lot ofthe costumes that you can buy
and such, they're all spookystuff.
Nothing like in the US where youknow you can dress up as
anything, like princess and uhMinecraft.
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Right.
And I wondered if it's becausethere's also a carnival season
here in Europe.
It's usually takes place duringthe weeks leading up to Lent.
So the main celebration happenssometime in February or early
March.
It depends on the year.
That's when like kids dress up,adults dress up.
SPEAKER_02 (06:32):
So it's not Halloween season.
SPEAKER_04 (06:33):
No, it's not.
Oh.
I'm wondering because of that,the Halloween's more spooky
stuff, dressed up as a witch oryou know, black cat or a
skeleton or creepy, Halloweenrelated.
Yeah.
But during carnival season,which is in February, March,
that's when they dress up asanything.
SPEAKER_02 (06:50):
Yeah, not so much creepy stuff then.
SPEAKER_04 (06:52):
Right.
So I'm wondering if that's whythey because in the States it's
different.
Like you can dress up asanything, you can make up
anything, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (07:00):
Yeah, you can be creepy, you can be cute, you can
be inflated.
Like those inflatable costumesare so funny.
SPEAKER_04 (07:06):
Yeah.
Okay.
So I wonder if that's why.
The last couple years, therecertainly have been kids who
have come by our house fortrick-or-treating, and we live
in a residential complex withinour building.
There are eight residents.
We've seen a couple kids fromour building, and then who knows
where other kids came from.
But last year we had quite a lotof kids, which we were
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surprised.
I was not prepared.
I think we had about 20 kidstotal.
You know, we live on the topfloor because it's an apartment
building, so the kids have tocome up the steps or use the
elevator.
SPEAKER_02 (07:38):
So last year was the first year you actually had kids
come to your door.
That many kids, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:43):
And I think the year before that, we probably had one
or two.
It didn't even dawn on me thatwe needed to buy candies or
anything.
So we had nothing.
We ended up handing out expiredpopcorn.
Oh my god.
I think we asked the kids toshare so bad.
Yeah, we didn't have anything.
Like I felt really bad.
So we kind of like scrambledstuff that we had or we didn't
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have, and then some kids had tokind of share.
And I was like, oh my god, thisis terrible.
Yeah.
So definitely in the last coupleyears, kids have started to go
trigger trading.
You can also see merchandise atthe stores.
It shows up similarly in the US.
Like in September, a lot ofpeople make Jack-O-Lantern, you
can purchase pumpkins in thefields, even similar activities,
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not as big as the states,obviously.
SPEAKER_02 (08:29):
Do adults dress up?
SPEAKER_04 (08:31):
Yeah.
So there are parties.
Uh, and Munich is filled withexpats.
There is a website that someonecreated, I want to say like
during COVID times or maybeafter COVID, recent, where if
you're interested in openingyour doors to give out candies,
then you can mark your address.
It was created by another expat.
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So, you know, I think it must bean American or something.
If you mark them, you can kindof see if anyone else is doing
trick-or-treating around in yourneighborhood and you can go to
their houses specifically.
So it's a cool thing.
People started.
SPEAKER_02 (09:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (09:04):
I don't think anyone used that to come to our house
because we didn't even put it onthere.
And the kids that came by, theywere all local kids.
Yeah.
And I'm assuming they all livehere.
Yeah.
In this complex.
SPEAKER_02 (09:14):
That kind of reminded me when you said
something about like puttingsomething out for people to see.
Uh, I don't know if you knowthis in the US, and I don't know
if it's a new thing because inthe past, like when we were
growing up in trick or trading,I don't remember this at all
seeing this, but I feel likeit's a newer thing.
If people have teal pumpkin ontheir windows, then it means
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like they will either give outfood, allergy-friendly treats,
or they'll give out liketrinkets instead of treats so
that you know kids withallergies can enjoy it too.
And you see them a lot, likeeverywhere.
I don't remember that growingup.
No, I don't think we had that.
But I also feel like foodallergies are a lot more common
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these days than back then, or atleast we hear about it now.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:03):
Do you guys remember our first Halloween or trick or
treating?
SPEAKER_02 (10:07):
Yeah, it snowed.
Yes.
That was our first.
What how old were you?
Your first one.
I think I was 12.
SPEAKER_03 (10:16):
I think I was seven or eight.
SPEAKER_02 (10:18):
Oh, so the first year we actually participated,
like first year we came to theUS.
SPEAKER_03 (10:23):
I remember I dressed up as a pumpkin, which is very
creative.
SPEAKER_04 (10:27):
Yeah.
I was a witch.
You must have been like clown orsomething tomorrow.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_02 (10:34):
You don't really have a costume.
You were just I think I rememberthe picture, but I don't
remember the experience.
SPEAKER_03 (10:39):
You had a black beanie on that had a ghost on
it.
SPEAKER_02 (10:43):
Yeah.
And then I had like a sweatshirtthat had like ghost characters
or something.
I think we went with my friend.
Yeah, my dad.
She was a witch, right?
Again, I only remember thatbecause of pictures.
I don't remember the actualexperience.
Do you guys actually rememberthe experience?
Yes.
You do?
I don't remember that.
SPEAKER_04 (11:01):
We walked around our neighborhood.
I mean, she didn't live anywhereclose to us.
Maybe I would say 15-minute carride.
She came to our place and wewent around in our neighborhood.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (11:12):
Oh my gosh.
I thought it was the best thingever.
SPEAKER_02 (11:14):
So wait, like what did we do actually?
We actually knocked on the doorand said trick-or-treat.
Mm-hmm.
So we learned the wordtrick-or-treat.
Yeah.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (11:25):
And it snowed, which was very unusual at the time.
That was what?
1994?
SPEAKER_03 (11:31):
I'm thinking four.
SPEAKER_04 (11:32):
And that was really unusual at the time.
Like nowadays, I feel like ifsomebody says, Oh, it's snowing
during Halloween, here at leastin the surrounding Munich area,
I would not be surprised.
SPEAKER_02 (11:43):
But I I feel like I've been living in Florida for
way too long now that I don'tremember what's normal, what's
not normal when it snows.
But it does sound kind of earlyfor Halloween.
October 31st.
Yeah.
So wait, did we get a lot ofcandy?
SPEAKER_03 (11:57):
Mm-hmm.
I remember the candy.
It was the best experience ever.
Because you know, I lovecandies.
I love sweets.
So it was so fun.
We came back home.
I think Oka-san took them awaybecause she didn't want us to
eat them all at once.
So she took them away.
And for the next couple months,I was so excited to go home, you
know, from school because youknow, we get to eat candies from
there.
SPEAKER_02 (12:17):
Yeah, a little at a time.
That's what I do too.
And then eventually I just throwthem out because I'm like, this
is too much candy.
But you can actually hear, like,you can donate the candy or
leftover candy or whatever toyour dentist, and you can get
something back, I think,depending on your dental office.
Like kids can turn in theircandy for I want to say money,
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very little, I think.
I could be wrong on that, butthat you get something back.
It's kind of their incentive totell kids you shouldn't be
eating candy because it's notgood for your teeth.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I mean, clearly we've never doneit.
We I just end up throwing themout.
SPEAKER_04 (12:56):
My friend I have here in Munich sent me this
link.
Okay, she's hosting a Halloweenparty, and she asked me, she
said, Is this uh how theJapanese people dress up for
Halloween?
And it's a link to this website.
It says that Japan celebratesJimmy Halloween festival.
SPEAKER_02 (13:15):
Jimmy Halloween?
SPEAKER_04 (13:16):
Yeah, just doing mundane relatable things, like
it's basically people aredressed in like these costumes
as examples.
Person standing in line at thesecurity checkpoint of an
airport.
SPEAKER_02 (13:30):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are you talking about?
Do you mean like dress up asTSA?
SPEAKER_04 (13:36):
No, not TSA, but people who are lined up to go
through.
SPEAKER_02 (13:39):
What does that mean?
How do you dress up as somebodythat's traveling and waiting in
line at the airport?
SPEAKER_03 (13:44):
It is Jimmy, but it's like how creative can you
get?
SPEAKER_04 (13:48):
Yeah.
They're mundane, like it'snothing outrageous.
So, person whose cardigan gotcaught on a doorknob.
Wait, do they carry around adoorknob?
I don't know how they made itlook like your jacket was
caught, but it looks like maybewires or something inside.
SPEAKER_02 (14:05):
That's pretty funny.
SPEAKER_04 (14:06):
A man who keeps getting mistaken for a store
employee.
SPEAKER_02 (14:10):
That's mad.
Everywhere he goes, people arelike, excuse me.
Like, because he'll, for somereason, dress up as a target
worker, kind of like he'll wearred and khaki pants or whatever.
He's been stubborn a coupletimes, like wherever we go.
And then sometimes he likeloves, like if we go to like
Best Buy or something, he lovesto not argue but negotiate and
go back and forth withsalesperson.
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He a lot of times knows morethan the salesperson.
So then you know, he looks likehe works there all the time, or
like he'll start talking tocustomers that come and he'll be
like, Oh no, I wouldn't get thatif I were you because you know
this one has this kind of thingand these features.
And I'm like, You don't workhere.
That's funny.
So he he could be that forHalloween, I guess, if he can't.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
He can just be himself.
unknown (14:49):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (14:50):
Are you ready to hear other ones?
Yes.
Person who foolishly orderedcare udon, curry udon, which is
oodle noodles with curry whilewearing a white clothes.
SPEAKER_02 (15:00):
Oh foolishly, and then they get stains on it.
SPEAKER_04 (15:05):
Yeah, that's a guy who takes pride in never holding
on to anything on the subway.
Yeah, I've heard about theseactor in an airline safety
video.
Okay, that could be something.
SPEAKER_02 (15:18):
How do you do that?
How do you do that though?
Which one?
Uh a person that's on the video.
In the video?
SPEAKER_04 (15:25):
Yeah.
Like you just wear a vest andyou know, pretend like you're
giving instructions.
SPEAKER_02 (15:30):
Oh, okay.
Well, that's flight attendant.
SPEAKER_04 (15:32):
Guy who just got back from the swimming pool.
SPEAKER_02 (15:36):
So he's just constantly so.
SPEAKER_04 (15:38):
Oh my gosh, this is funny.
Makeup guru whose camera can'tfocus on the product.
You know, a lot of times on someYouTube and TikTok, I'm
assuming.
SPEAKER_02 (15:46):
Yeah, dude.
I was gonna do that.
I was gonna do that.
Like the hand.
Yeah, you block the yeah, wherethey try to focus on the
product.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
SPEAKER_04 (15:55):
Students who went to the cafe to study but ended up
spending the whole time readingmanga and looking at their
phones.
SPEAKER_02 (16:00):
Okay, so I guess if I don't have anything,
absolutely anything, and I'mwalking around, they ask me why
I didn't dress up.
I'll just come up withsomething.
Yeah, for sure.
No, I'm a mom that's trying todrop off my child that soccer
practice.
Can't you tell?
SPEAKER_04 (16:15):
My friend said that she's inspired from this website
by these Jimmy Halloween.
Yeah, so I said, I'll have toask Samia.
SPEAKER_02 (16:21):
Yeah, I've heard about these Jimmy Halloween
things.
That's so funny.
Actually, that would be a funparty to attend and try to
figure out what everyone is.
That's true, right?
That would be so funny.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04 (16:33):
But I guess it has to be something that everyone
would understand, perhaps.
Like wherever you're in, ifyou're on the train, like that
guy is standing without tryingto hold on to anything on the
subway or something.
Like you can't do that in thestates.
Well, I guess you could, but notall the cities have public
transportation that people yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:50):
I sometimes see those kind of people, like they
don't hold on to anything.
SPEAKER_02 (16:54):
Yeah, actually, I get it that you don't want to
touch it, right?
Well, not only that, but you'rekind of just yeah, I think
you're cool testing your balanceand your fitness level, right?
Like you're like, Oh yeah, I gotthis.
My abs are like good.
I can, you know, I don't need tohold on to anything.
I do that sometimes, actually.
So I totally get it.
SPEAKER_04 (17:15):
I would do it more from like how gross it might be
to touch these things.
So I wouldn't touch it, you knowwhat I mean?
I will try to balance it withouttouching anything because
there's germs and stuff,especially like public
transportation outside of Nihon.
Like you don't know when it wascleaned last.
SPEAKER_02 (17:30):
Yeah, no, I don't like to touch.
Even when I go to like the ATMand stuff, I use my knuckles to
punch buttons or like gasstation.
SPEAKER_04 (17:36):
Yeah, same.
Yeah, we have an elevator toohere in the building.
Yeah, I don't I don't usefingertips.
Yeah, but that will be a coolparty to go to.
SPEAKER_02 (17:44):
Like everybody just that would be so funny.
Yeah, that is so funny.
SPEAKER_04 (17:49):
Come on, you should host it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:50):
I was wondering if I should.
And then I would give themideas.
Like, here are some ideas.
You know, people will come upwith some really creative stuff,
I think.
That would be more fun thanactual Halloween costume party
for me anyway.
I think you should totally doit.
You still have a couple weeks.
Well, I don't know about thisyear, but we got a lot going on
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this month.
But yeah, we still haven'tgotten candy now that my kids
are getting older because welive in a gated community where
it's like basically a largecircle.
You can walk around in athree-mile circle, and then
there's thousands of homes inthe community, so it's safer.
But now that my kids are alittle bit older, Keiko, the
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older one in high school, willusually go walk around with
friends, and obviously she hasher phone on her, so I know
where she is at all times.
And then, you know, I just staywith my younger one with uh her
friends usually.
Didn't something happen lastyear?
Yeah, in our community, becauseword got out that there was
haunted house.
Haunted house is another thingthat will happen everywhere
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during Halloween in the US.
It's a huge thing.
I don't know about you know,Germany and Japan during
Halloween season if they havepop-up haunted houses, but
they're everywhere here.
Anyway, but in our community, wealways had pretty baller haunted
house with some paid actors,some volunteers that, you know,
would just scare people and thenthey would really deck it out,
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right?
And last year, word got out thatour community was the place to
go, and too many outsiders snuckin, mostly teenagers on foot
were dropped off right outsideof the community, snuck in
because it's gated.
Yeah, there were thousands ofteenage kids, and I remember at
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one point looking around,thinking something's not right.
I mean, it was insane amount ofteenage kids.
And I started feeling veryunsafe for Kiko because she was
walking around with her friend.
When I noticed like somethingwas a little off, I ended up
calling her and I said, you knowwhat, I'm gonna pick you up now
because it's not looking right.
(20:02):
It's I feel like this is kind ofcrazy.
I'm gonna pick you up and yourfriend.
I don't feel this is safe foryou.
So I went and picked her up, herand her friend, dropped off her
friend at her house, and thenbrought Kiko back.
We tried to end it, I'm equal tomy younger one.
We tried to end it, but then wecame back in our neighborhood.
Uh, there were people outsidejust hanging out.
So we decided to hang out withthem, and suddenly we heard
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gunshots, and then uh my kidswere freaking out, and I was
like, I don't think that'sgunshots, that's probably
fireworks or something.
But then shortly after that, ahelicopter was just circling
above us, and we're like, Okay,it's time to end the night.
So we ended it, but no one wasshot, but it was shots fired, I
guess, in the air because therewere fights or something going
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on at the clubhouse in ourcommunity.
So now this year, they're notdoing the haunted house anymore.
Every year they did it, and itwas so cool, but they're not
doing it this year.
So was haunted house at theclubhouse outside or something?
Clubhouse in our community.
Okay.
Inside that led to outside, kindof.
They used the clubhouse inside,they would do like two different
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courses, one like more amateur,little kids, less scary, and
then one that was like superscary for older kids.
But yeah, they're not doing thatthis year.
It's kind of a shame, but at thesame time, I don't want a repeat
of last year.
It was really unsafe, and I wasglad that I got cake when I did
because she would have freakedout.
Yeah, that's probably whythey're not doing that anymore,
(21:29):
I'm sure.
No, no, no, yeah, that's whythey're not doing it for sure.
But they are gonna do like afall festival, like daytime fall
festival thing at the clubhouseinstead.
But you do have to be careful.
You read about all kinds of likecrazy people handing out candy
that's been tainted, and youknow, there's some sick people
like that.
I'm always happier when the kidsreceive poise, like small
(21:54):
squishmallows or somethinginstead of candy.
Yeah, and you get so much thatit's kind of out of control.
Yeah, who needs that much candy?
Yeah, crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (22:03):
Yeah, just give it to Sunia.
SPEAKER_02 (22:05):
Are you trying to do a little bit better now that you
uh have a baby or are you stilleating tons of candy?
SPEAKER_03 (22:10):
I never used to eat tons of candy, I just used to
eat candy frequently.
Not as much as before.
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SPEAKER_01 (22:25):
Until next time, John with yourself and all of
these games you play.
I should have seen through itright from the start, but I
chose to give it all away.
SPEAKER_00 (22:41):
Now I said it would give her one to come and give me
a pray.
I gotta get you out of my system.
I gotta get you off of my mind.
But how do I move on when no onecompares?
They only keep me occupied.
I gotta break these chains thatfind me.
I try to shake them off so dead,really.
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Would you pull them tighter?
String me along.
It's sad, but I'm so gone.
SPEAKER_02 (00:31):
Hi guys.
I was wondering, you know, sinceit's Halloween season and
everything, is it like a popularthing in Germany and in Japan?
Because I heard in Japan that alot of people are dressing up
these days for Halloween.
I don't know if they actually dotrick-or-trading or anything,
but obviously here in the US,it's a huge thing.
People are starting to decoratetheir houses, and you know, the
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stores turned Halloween like amonth ago.
SPEAKER_04 (00:57):
Which is September.
SPEAKER_02 (00:58):
September.
Yeah.
So, you know, we do it big inthe US.
And again, I was curious becauseI know that I heard it's picking
up a lot more in Japan.
I don't know about Germany, butI wanted to hear your take.
SPEAKER_03 (01:10):
So in Japan, I think it became a huge deal maybe in
the past I want to say 10 years,maybe.
Oh.
Okay, so in Japan, if you asksomeone what they think of when
they think of Halloween, I thinkthat most people would say the
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo.
And the reason for that isbecause I want to say again, the
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last 10 years maybe, I don'tknow.
People actually adults dress upin costumes and they just walk
around the Shibuya Crossing.
Yeah, like dressed up.
Like dressing.
SPEAKER_02 (01:42):
They don't carry like baskets.
SPEAKER_03 (01:43):
No, they don't go to a training.
No.
They just all gather, they willdrink alcohol, because you know
that's allowed in Japan.
You can drink alcohol in publicand they just all get together.
SPEAKER_02 (01:53):
Okay.
So that's the that's like a bigspot people go to in Japan.
SPEAKER_03 (01:57):
Yeah, and but then I think they banned it, I believe,
last year, because it just gotout of hand.
It was just too crowded.
There were too many people.
People were getting into fights,and you know, the police were
always out there trying to calmpeople down, and people were
getting arrested.
SPEAKER_02 (02:14):
Oh wow.
So it's more popular for adultsover there, and they don't
necessarily gotrick-or-treating.
You don't see it in yourneighborhood.
SPEAKER_03 (02:20):
I don't see it in my neighborhood.
I think that somewhere in Japan,I don't know where exactly,
definitely not in Tokyo, butthere is a custom where kids go
trick-or-treating.
I don't I don't remember whichpart of Japan.
SPEAKER_02 (02:33):
Because I know in Japan, isn't there a town that's
like anime town where peopledress up anyway all the time
year-round?
SPEAKER_03 (02:40):
Oh, Akihabara.
SPEAKER_02 (02:41):
Yes, right?
So it's more like, yeah.
There's like a town, I thinkAkihabara, like Simi says, where
it's like literally everyone isjust walking around in anime,
like cosplay.
But yeah.
Oh, but it's like pretty big,right?
And the stores are like allcosplay stuff, and that's what I
hear.
SPEAKER_03 (03:00):
But then for little kids, they don't go
trick-or-treating, but they havelike I think more and more
people have Halloween parties,they just get together, kids
wear costumes, and you know,just decorate with Halloween
stuff.
SPEAKER_04 (03:12):
Do you think that it's definitely the Western
influence that these peoplehaving party in the middle of
the street kind of thing startedhappening?
Because how would people knowthat Halloween exists?
Do you think that it was startedby foreigners, like you know,
Americans or Canadians or Ithink so?
SPEAKER_03 (03:28):
I don't know.
But another big Halloween event,I guess, in Japan is Disneyland
and Disney City.
We have Disney and Disney Sea inTokyo, actually in Chipa, but
they say Tokyo, Disneyland,Tokyo, Disney had an influence.
This big, yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (03:42):
And guests do they do parades or something?
SPEAKER_03 (03:45):
They do, and it's during the Halloween pine
period.
Uh, you're allowed to dress upand cosplay and go to these
theme parks.
Yeah.
Apparently it's a huge deal.
Like it's the I think they makethe most money out of all the
other you know.
SPEAKER_02 (03:58):
I heard the Disney here in the US, at least Disney
World in Orlando, also doesreally big Halloween, but I've
never been.
So yeah, maybe that's what itis.
Maybe that's what maybe piquedeveryone's interest over there.
I don't know.
Hmm.
Interesting, but then like atstores, you don't see oh, here's
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Halloween stuff you can decorateat your house.
SPEAKER_03 (04:21):
Actually, no, yeah, you you do see it now, even at
grocery stores and Dyson, likeDollar Tree places.
SPEAKER_02 (04:26):
You know what?
When your baby is old enough towalk around, you should start in
your neighborhoodtrick-or-treating, get him a
basket, and then just have himstart knocking on doors and you
go with him and start in yourneighborhood.
SPEAKER_03 (04:40):
Well, I can tell them beforehand, like he will be
coming, so please give himcandy.
SPEAKER_04 (04:45):
Yeah, maybe by that time it'll be, you know, well
known enough, and everybodywants to do something like that.
SPEAKER_03 (04:51):
I don't think trick-or-treating will ever be a
thing in Japan because I don'tknow, just because of I think
people will be too scared forlike I don't know, crimes
happening.
But they're cute kids going tobe a good thing.
Yeah, but like interesting, Idon't think it'll ever happen.
Like, it won't probably be acommon thing in Japan.
It's very common, especially inTokyo, where you don't even know
who your neighbors are becauseyou just don't say hello.
(05:12):
Yeah.
Greet each other.
So it's a very common thing.
SPEAKER_02 (05:15):
Just to keep to yourself in Japan.
Yeah, that's true.
People respect each other'sprivacy and they keep to
themselves.
SPEAKER_04 (05:23):
Interesting.
SPEAKER_02 (05:24):
What about Germany, Cody?
SPEAKER_04 (05:26):
I can say that when we first moved here back in
2015, there wasn't anythinggoing on, really.
Lucas started kindergarten rightwhen we moved, and from
kindergarten to grade four,basically like grade school, he
went to an international school.
It's a bilingual school, so theteachers were speaking in German
and English simultaneously perclass.
(05:49):
Because it was surrounded bykids from all over the place uh
in the world, they did haveHalloween, just like in the
States.
But what I realized is a lot ofthe costumes that you can buy
and such, they're all spookystuff.
Nothing like in the US where youknow you can dress up as
anything, like princess and uhMinecraft.
(06:11):
Right.
And I wondered if it's becausethere's also a carnival season
here in Europe.
It's usually takes place duringthe weeks leading up to Lent.
So the main celebration happenssometime in February or early
March.
It depends on the year.
That's when like kids dress up,adults dress up.
SPEAKER_02 (06:32):
So it's not Halloween season.
SPEAKER_04 (06:33):
No, it's not.
Oh.
I'm wondering because of that,the Halloween's more spooky
stuff, dressed up as a witch oryou know, black cat or a
skeleton or creepy, Halloweenrelated.
Yeah.
But during carnival season,which is in February, March,
that's when they dress up asanything.
SPEAKER_02 (06:50):
Yeah, not so much creepy stuff then.
SPEAKER_04 (06:52):
Right.
So I'm wondering if that's whythey because in the States it's
different.
Like you can dress up asanything, you can make up
anything, you know.
SPEAKER_02 (07:00):
Yeah, you can be creepy, you can be cute, you can
be inflated.
Like those inflatable costumesare so funny.
SPEAKER_04 (07:06):
Yeah.
Okay.
So I wonder if that's why.
The last couple years, therecertainly have been kids who
have come by our house fortrick-or-treating, and we live
in a residential complex withinour building.
There are eight residents.
We've seen a couple kids fromour building, and then who knows
where other kids came from.
But last year we had quite a lotof kids, which we were
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surprised.
I was not prepared.
I think we had about 20 kidstotal.
You know, we live on the topfloor because it's an apartment
building, so the kids have tocome up the steps or use the
elevator.
SPEAKER_02 (07:38):
So last year was the first year you actually had kids
come to your door.
That many kids, yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (07:43):
And I think the year before that, we probably had one
or two.
It didn't even dawn on me thatwe needed to buy candies or
anything.
So we had nothing.
We ended up handing out expiredpopcorn.
Oh my god.
I think we asked the kids toshare so bad.
Yeah, we didn't have anything.
Like I felt really bad.
So we kind of like scrambledstuff that we had or we didn't
(08:04):
have, and then some kids had tokind of share.
And I was like, oh my god, thisis terrible.
Yeah.
So definitely in the last coupleyears, kids have started to go
trigger trading.
You can also see merchandise atthe stores.
It shows up similarly in the US.
Like in September, a lot ofpeople make Jack-O-Lantern, you
can purchase pumpkins in thefields, even similar activities,
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not as big as the states,obviously.
SPEAKER_02 (08:29):
Do adults dress up?
SPEAKER_04 (08:31):
Yeah.
So there are parties.
Uh, and Munich is filled withexpats.
There is a website that someonecreated, I want to say like
during COVID times or maybeafter COVID, recent, where if
you're interested in openingyour doors to give out candies,
then you can mark your address.
It was created by another expat.
(08:51):
So, you know, I think it must bean American or something.
If you mark them, you can kindof see if anyone else is doing
trick-or-treating around in yourneighborhood and you can go to
their houses specifically.
So it's a cool thing.
People started.
SPEAKER_02 (09:04):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (09:04):
I don't think anyone used that to come to our house
because we didn't even put it onthere.
And the kids that came by, theywere all local kids.
Yeah.
And I'm assuming they all livehere.
Yeah.
In this complex.
SPEAKER_02 (09:14):
That kind of reminded me when you said
something about like puttingsomething out for people to see.
Uh, I don't know if you knowthis in the US, and I don't know
if it's a new thing because inthe past, like when we were
growing up in trick or trading,I don't remember this at all
seeing this, but I feel likeit's a newer thing.
If people have teal pumpkin ontheir windows, then it means
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like they will either give outfood, allergy-friendly treats,
or they'll give out liketrinkets instead of treats so
that you know kids withallergies can enjoy it too.
And you see them a lot, likeeverywhere.
I don't remember that growingup.
No, I don't think we had that.
But I also feel like foodallergies are a lot more common
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these days than back then, or atleast we hear about it now.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (10:03):
Do you guys remember our first Halloween or trick or
treating?
SPEAKER_02 (10:07):
Yeah, it snowed.
Yes.
That was our first.
What how old were you?
Your first one.
I think I was 12.
SPEAKER_03 (10:16):
I think I was seven or eight.
SPEAKER_02 (10:18):
Oh, so the first year we actually participated,
like first year we came to theUS.
SPEAKER_03 (10:23):
I remember I dressed up as a pumpkin, which is very
creative.
SPEAKER_04 (10:27):
Yeah.
I was a witch.
You must have been like clown orsomething tomorrow.
No, no, no.
SPEAKER_02 (10:34):
You don't really have a costume.
You were just I think I rememberthe picture, but I don't
remember the experience.
SPEAKER_03 (10:39):
You had a black beanie on that had a ghost on
it.
SPEAKER_02 (10:43):
Yeah.
And then I had like a sweatshirtthat had like ghost characters
or something.
I think we went with my friend.
Yeah, my dad.
She was a witch, right?
Again, I only remember thatbecause of pictures.
I don't remember the actualexperience.
Do you guys actually rememberthe experience?
Yes.
You do?
I don't remember that.
SPEAKER_04 (11:01):
We walked around our neighborhood.
I mean, she didn't live anywhereclose to us.
Maybe I would say 15-minute carride.
She came to our place and wewent around in our neighborhood.
Yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (11:12):
Oh my gosh.
I thought it was the best thingever.
SPEAKER_02 (11:14):
So wait, like what did we do actually?
We actually knocked on the doorand said trick-or-treat.
Mm-hmm.
So we learned the wordtrick-or-treat.
Yeah.
Okay.
SPEAKER_04 (11:25):
And it snowed, which was very unusual at the time.
That was what?
1994?
SPEAKER_03 (11:31):
I'm thinking four.
SPEAKER_04 (11:32):
And that was really unusual at the time.
Like nowadays, I feel like ifsomebody says, Oh, it's snowing
during Halloween, here at leastin the surrounding Munich area,
I would not be surprised.
SPEAKER_02 (11:43):
But I I feel like I've been living in Florida for
way too long now that I don'tremember what's normal, what's
not normal when it snows.
But it does sound kind of earlyfor Halloween.
October 31st.
Yeah.
So wait, did we get a lot ofcandy?
SPEAKER_03 (11:57):
Mm-hmm.
I remember the candy.
It was the best experience ever.
Because you know, I lovecandies.
I love sweets.
So it was so fun.
We came back home.
I think Oka-san took them awaybecause she didn't want us to
eat them all at once.
So she took them away.
And for the next couple months,I was so excited to go home, you
know, from school because youknow, we get to eat candies from
there.
SPEAKER_02 (12:17):
Yeah, a little at a time.
That's what I do too.
And then eventually I just throwthem out because I'm like, this
is too much candy.
But you can actually hear, like,you can donate the candy or
leftover candy or whatever toyour dentist, and you can get
something back, I think,depending on your dental office.
Like kids can turn in theircandy for I want to say money,
(12:39):
very little, I think.
I could be wrong on that, butthat you get something back.
It's kind of their incentive totell kids you shouldn't be
eating candy because it's notgood for your teeth.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
I mean, clearly we've never doneit.
We I just end up throwing themout.
SPEAKER_04 (12:56):
My friend I have here in Munich sent me this
link.
Okay, she's hosting a Halloweenparty, and she asked me, she
said, Is this uh how theJapanese people dress up for
Halloween?
And it's a link to this website.
It says that Japan celebratesJimmy Halloween festival.
SPEAKER_02 (13:15):
Jimmy Halloween?
SPEAKER_04 (13:16):
Yeah, just doing mundane relatable things, like
it's basically people aredressed in like these costumes
as examples.
Person standing in line at thesecurity checkpoint of an
airport.
SPEAKER_02 (13:30):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
What are you talking about?
Do you mean like dress up asTSA?
SPEAKER_04 (13:36):
No, not TSA, but people who are lined up to go
through.
SPEAKER_02 (13:39):
What does that mean?
How do you dress up as somebodythat's traveling and waiting in
line at the airport?
SPEAKER_03 (13:44):
It is Jimmy, but it's like how creative can you
get?
SPEAKER_04 (13:48):
Yeah.
They're mundane, like it'snothing outrageous.
So, person whose cardigan gotcaught on a doorknob.
Wait, do they carry around adoorknob?
I don't know how they made itlook like your jacket was
caught, but it looks like maybewires or something inside.
SPEAKER_02 (14:05):
That's pretty funny.
SPEAKER_04 (14:06):
A man who keeps getting mistaken for a store
employee.
SPEAKER_02 (14:10):
That's mad.
Everywhere he goes, people arelike, excuse me.
Like, because he'll, for somereason, dress up as a target
worker, kind of like he'll wearred and khaki pants or whatever.
He's been stubborn a coupletimes, like wherever we go.
And then sometimes he likeloves, like if we go to like
Best Buy or something, he lovesto not argue but negotiate and
go back and forth withsalesperson.
(14:31):
He a lot of times knows morethan the salesperson.
So then you know, he looks likehe works there all the time, or
like he'll start talking tocustomers that come and he'll be
like, Oh no, I wouldn't get thatif I were you because you know
this one has this kind of thingand these features.
And I'm like, You don't workhere.
That's funny.
So he he could be that forHalloween, I guess, if he can't.
SPEAKER_03 (14:48):
He can just be himself.
unknown (14:49):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_04 (14:50):
Are you ready to hear other ones?
Yes.
Person who foolishly orderedcare udon, curry udon, which is
oodle noodles with curry whilewearing a white clothes.
SPEAKER_02 (15:00):
Oh foolishly, and then they get stains on it.
SPEAKER_04 (15:05):
Yeah, that's a guy who takes pride in never holding
on to anything on the subway.
Yeah, I've heard about theseactor in an airline safety
video.
Okay, that could be something.
SPEAKER_02 (15:18):
How do you do that?
How do you do that though?
Which one?
Uh a person that's on the video.
In the video?
SPEAKER_04 (15:25):
Yeah.
Like you just wear a vest andyou know, pretend like you're
giving instructions.
SPEAKER_02 (15:30):
Oh, okay.
Well, that's flight attendant.
SPEAKER_04 (15:32):
Guy who just got back from the swimming pool.
SPEAKER_02 (15:36):
So he's just constantly so.
SPEAKER_04 (15:38):
Oh my gosh, this is funny.
Makeup guru whose camera can'tfocus on the product.
You know, a lot of times on someYouTube and TikTok, I'm
assuming.
SPEAKER_02 (15:46):
Yeah, dude.
I was gonna do that.
I was gonna do that.
Like the hand.
Yeah, you block the yeah, wherethey try to focus on the
product.
Yeah, that's hilarious.
SPEAKER_04 (15:55):
Students who went to the cafe to study but ended up
spending the whole time readingmanga and looking at their
phones.
SPEAKER_02 (16:00):
Okay, so I guess if I don't have anything,
absolutely anything, and I'mwalking around, they ask me why
I didn't dress up.
I'll just come up withsomething.
Yeah, for sure.
No, I'm a mom that's trying todrop off my child that soccer
practice.
Can't you tell?
SPEAKER_04 (16:15):
My friend said that she's inspired from this website
by these Jimmy Halloween.
Yeah, so I said, I'll have toask Samia.
SPEAKER_02 (16:21):
Yeah, I've heard about these Jimmy Halloween
things.
That's so funny.
Actually, that would be a funparty to attend and try to
figure out what everyone is.
That's true, right?
That would be so funny.
Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_04 (16:33):
But I guess it has to be something that everyone
would understand, perhaps.
Like wherever you're in, ifyou're on the train, like that
guy is standing without tryingto hold on to anything on the
subway or something.
Like you can't do that in thestates.
Well, I guess you could, but notall the cities have public
transportation that people yeah.
SPEAKER_03 (16:50):
I sometimes see those kind of people, like they
don't hold on to anything.
SPEAKER_02 (16:54):
Yeah, actually, I get it that you don't want to
touch it, right?
Well, not only that, but you'rekind of just yeah, I think
you're cool testing your balanceand your fitness level, right?
Like you're like, Oh yeah, I gotthis.
My abs are like good.
I can, you know, I don't need tohold on to anything.
I do that sometimes, actually.
So I totally get it.
SPEAKER_04 (17:15):
I would do it more from like how gross it might be
to touch these things.
So I wouldn't touch it, you knowwhat I mean?
I will try to balance it withouttouching anything because
there's germs and stuff,especially like public
transportation outside of Nihon.
Like you don't know when it wascleaned last.
SPEAKER_02 (17:30):
Yeah, no, I don't like to touch.
Even when I go to like the ATMand stuff, I use my knuckles to
punch buttons or like gasstation.
SPEAKER_04 (17:36):
Yeah, same.
Yeah, we have an elevator toohere in the building.
Yeah, I don't I don't usefingertips.
Yeah, but that will be a coolparty to go to.
SPEAKER_02 (17:44):
Like everybody just that would be so funny.
Yeah, that is so funny.
SPEAKER_04 (17:49):
Come on, you should host it.
SPEAKER_02 (17:50):
I was wondering if I should.
And then I would give themideas.
Like, here are some ideas.
You know, people will come upwith some really creative stuff,
I think.
That would be more fun thanactual Halloween costume party
for me anyway.
I think you should totally doit.
You still have a couple weeks.
Well, I don't know about thisyear, but we got a lot going on
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this month.
But yeah, we still haven'tgotten candy now that my kids
are getting older because welive in a gated community where
it's like basically a largecircle.
You can walk around in athree-mile circle, and then
there's thousands of homes inthe community, so it's safer.
But now that my kids are alittle bit older, Keiko, the
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older one in high school, willusually go walk around with
friends, and obviously she hasher phone on her, so I know
where she is at all times.
And then, you know, I just staywith my younger one with uh her
friends usually.
Didn't something happen lastyear?
Yeah, in our community, becauseword got out that there was
haunted house.
Haunted house is another thingthat will happen everywhere
(18:57):
during Halloween in the US.
It's a huge thing.
I don't know about you know,Germany and Japan during
Halloween season if they havepop-up haunted houses, but
they're everywhere here.
Anyway, but in our community, wealways had pretty baller haunted
house with some paid actors,some volunteers that, you know,
would just scare people and thenthey would really deck it out,
(19:20):
right?
And last year, word got out thatour community was the place to
go, and too many outsiders snuckin, mostly teenagers on foot
were dropped off right outsideof the community, snuck in
because it's gated.
Yeah, there were thousands ofteenage kids, and I remember at
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one point looking around,thinking something's not right.
I mean, it was insane amount ofteenage kids.
And I started feeling veryunsafe for Kiko because she was
walking around with her friend.
When I noticed like somethingwas a little off, I ended up
calling her and I said, you knowwhat, I'm gonna pick you up now
because it's not looking right.
(20:02):
It's I feel like this is kind ofcrazy.
I'm gonna pick you up and yourfriend.
I don't feel this is safe foryou.
So I went and picked her up, herand her friend, dropped off her
friend at her house, and thenbrought Kiko back.
We tried to end it, I'm equal tomy younger one.
We tried to end it, but then wecame back in our neighborhood.
Uh, there were people outsidejust hanging out.
So we decided to hang out withthem, and suddenly we heard
(20:24):
gunshots, and then uh my kidswere freaking out, and I was
like, I don't think that'sgunshots, that's probably
fireworks or something.
But then shortly after that, ahelicopter was just circling
above us, and we're like, Okay,it's time to end the night.
So we ended it, but no one wasshot, but it was shots fired, I
guess, in the air because therewere fights or something going
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on at the clubhouse in ourcommunity.
So now this year, they're notdoing the haunted house anymore.
Every year they did it, and itwas so cool, but they're not
doing it this year.
So was haunted house at theclubhouse outside or something?
Clubhouse in our community.
Okay.
Inside that led to outside, kindof.
They used the clubhouse inside,they would do like two different
(21:09):
courses, one like more amateur,little kids, less scary, and
then one that was like superscary for older kids.
But yeah, they're not doing thatthis year.
It's kind of a shame, but at thesame time, I don't want a repeat
of last year.
It was really unsafe, and I wasglad that I got cake when I did
because she would have freakedout.
Yeah, that's probably whythey're not doing that anymore,
(21:29):
I'm sure.
No, no, no, yeah, that's whythey're not doing it for sure.
But they are gonna do like afall festival, like daytime fall
festival thing at the clubhouseinstead.
But you do have to be careful.
You read about all kinds of likecrazy people handing out candy
that's been tainted, and youknow, there's some sick people
like that.
I'm always happier when the kidsreceive poise, like small
(21:54):
squishmallows or somethinginstead of candy.
Yeah, and you get so much thatit's kind of out of control.
Yeah, who needs that much candy?
Yeah, crazy.
SPEAKER_04 (22:03):
Yeah, just give it to Sunia.
SPEAKER_02 (22:05):
Are you trying to do a little bit better now that you
uh have a baby or are you stilleating tons of candy?
SPEAKER_03 (22:10):
I never used to eat tons of candy, I just used to
eat candy frequently.
Not as much as before.
SPEAKER_02 (22:18):
Thanks for joining us today.
Don't forget to review SisterVibes and make sure to subscribe
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episodes.
SPEAKER_01 (22:25):
Until next time, John with yourself and all of
these games you play.
I should have seen through itright from the start, but I
chose to give it all away.
SPEAKER_00 (22:41):
Now I said it would give her one to come and give me
a pray.
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