October 29, 2025 • 30 mins
From spooky legends to personal experiences, we’re diving into the mystery and magic of Halloween night. John can’t get enough of it… Joyce? Well, let’s just say she’s not a fan. Tune in for laughs, stories, and maybe a few chills!
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Oh, no. No.
Hello.
We've totally run off the rails here.
Yeah, it's our Halloween show.
And if you're listening to us,
tune us in on YouTubeso you could see this mad scientist.
She's got to be seen to be believed,right?
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But welcome to our Halloween editionof What's Good with John and Joyce.
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And Joyce has been laughing for the past20 minutes before show time looking at me.
What I'm looking at now, you saidI was a cross between the Muppets.
Back to the future. A mad scientist,
crazy man.
I don't like it.
You've got, like,green blood and red blood on the. And,
it's just those glasses.
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And I believe that you see me.
I can see everything.
And and I love your get up to.That. Looks great.
I got my little witchy thing on,But you woman.
But but it's also,yeah, a nod to the Eagles,
which are desert highway on a darkdesert are late.
We talk about wind in my hair.
I got Joyce.
You were saying before that,
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you're not really a big fan of Halloween,per se, but, yeah, this is fun.
Yeah, that would be putting itmildly. Yeah.
How come? How come?
What is it about Halloween? That really?
All right, so I'm going to call out myI believe,
this had to happen in fourth gradebecause it was my was my teacher
and the only teacherthat was really questionable
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about some of the stories she would tellwas Sister Romy world Sister Romulus.
So here's what she said.
And I really don't think she's wrongwith what she said,
but she said, all right,so Halloween is coming up.
Halloween is like tomorrow night.
And so your kids are going to go out.
You're going to ring doorbellsand just think about this.
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You ring the doorbell of someone.
She's an older woman.
She's upstairs.
Maybe she's not feeling so well.
And she comes downbecause she's a kind hearted woman.
But as she comes down the stairs,she trips
and falls, breaks her neck and dies.
Buzzkill here.
All because you want to go out
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on a pagan holiday and beg for candy.
But I sat there and I thought,wow, that's horrible.
I would never do that.
It was
so that was the beginning ofI Hate Halloween.
And the other reason, John, is the reason
you'reyou sitting there looking like that.
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Okay?
Because people look crazy.
And then when they dress up,they don't act like themselves.
They act like somebody else,and they scare me.
Well, that's one of the beautiful thingsabout dressing up like this.
You can be whatever you want to be you.
It brings out the silliness of you.
I've done so many costume partieswhere I've made and people
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that were normally reserved,
they get out there and they're crazywhen you find out who they are later on.
I can't believe that person,
you know, and then behave responsiblymost of the time.
Yeah, but to me, it's just just fine.
It's just goofy.
And in this world nowadays, we need goofy.
We need escapism. Right?
We need to look at you.
But but, you know, some people,I think Halloween,
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because you and I talk about being,you know, Christian this and that.
We shouldn't be celebrating how to me,it's just fun. No.
What turned into fun?
Let here, let me just give youlet's give us all a little info
about Halloween this yearand how it started.
So it really beganas an ancient Celtic festival.
Happy now I'm going to have a votein your butterfingers.
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Oh my, oh my favorite habit.
I eat it still fasting? Okay.
You're fast. Fasting. Okay, okay. Well.
So trick or treating?
Let's go. We're trickor treating originated.
And again,that's the ancient Celtic festival of Sam.
Hands in line. Yes.
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And and the medievalChristian practice of sewing.
When poor people begged for foodin exchange for prayers for the dead.
This evolved into gazing.
So in Scotland, in Ireland, where costumedpeople perform tricks for treats.
And they were.
And this tradition was brought to the,
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Americansby, to the Americas by the immigrants.
And what's so bad about that?
All this stuff is pretty good.
Wait, so the modern phrase trickor treat appeared in the 1920s,
leading to the widespread, communityfocused custom it children going door
to door begging for candy,
and bringing that olderlady down the stairs.
Dad, you know,
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this is just to get that just killed herbecause you wanted a Hershey bar.
Oh my goodness.
You know, when I was a kid, you know,one of the things I never like was
I would go up there
and they would give you somethingyou didn't want, like an apple.
So what would you do?
And I mean, if you just take it,you're polite, but you always are.
Good to know, Candy.
You know,I wanted the Reese's peanut butter cups.
I wanted to soak their windows, you know.
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Oh, well, we did have that.
What was that night before?
Mischief. Mischief night,I remember. Oh, hated that more than.
But we did it.We didn't really destroy anything.
We would just throw toilet paper,you know, up over the telephone wires
or we just soap somebody. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.So someone had a scraped out off the cars.
You know how difficult that is.But it was so much fun.
No even was it.
I was horrified to see people who wantsto see toilet paper all over their trees.
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That you have to take a broomstick?
You've got to take it.
Take it away. The fun of it all.I am that person.
Yeah, yeah, I'm your counterpart here,but we're not gonna.
We're not going to be slicing tiresor doing damage in somebody's house.
But I used to love the ring, the doorbell.
And then people would come out and everynow and then they'd be waiting for you,
to ring the doorbell, andthey would open it up and they scare you.
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Good.
And then we just run.
Well, but, yeah, so many great memoriesare in the neighborhood.
Like being scared. Now my brother.
My brother is what?
Not, like, nine years older than me,almost nine years older than me.
So if I'm, you know, eight years old
now, he's well into his teens, right?
My brother love to dress up in costumes.
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So he had one costume that was a skeleton,another that was the devil,
and another one that was this rubber maskthat looked like a man.
But it was really weirdbecause it looked like the strange head.
But this is how gullible I was.
So I would beI remember sitting coloring at the table,
my mom is talking on the phoneand he's tapping me on the back,
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and I'm doing I'm moving my it's like, no,leave me alone, leave me alone.
And he kept tapping meand I turned around.
He was like like full skeletontraumatized you.
I am screaming.
And then my motherhas to get off the phone and I let go.
Who's being chased?
And then another time he's in another roomand he says, you know, open the door.
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I want to show you something.
Now he's speaking like this.
Oh, do do do I tell you something?
I say, you've got a mask on.
No, no, I don't have a mask. God.
So it's a promise me you don't.
He's just,you know, again, I promise I don't.
Oh, my God, I open it upand there's a devil standing there.
He lied to you? Yes.
I don't like, like, three times.
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And I was, you know, very gullible.
And then it was like,all right, I don't like this.
But fast forwardnow, later in life, I'm in my 20s
and I go to a Halloween party,which you said are a lot of fun
and people are acting crazyand they've got crazy stuff going.
I watched people get so drunk
that they were ripping out the, the,the toilet.
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You know, they were ripping out plumbing.
They were doing the craziest things.
And I don't I don't like thiswhen people put costumes on.
They just feel like they
what how many people do thata football game,
you know, when people win a game,they tear down the goalpost.
Yeah, that's why I, I wouldn'tgo there. Right, right, right.
Well I'm not,but I just enjoyed so many great memories.
And I would always,you know, go with mom and dad.
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When I was a kid that I had a,
you know, my brother and sister,we go out, I would take them out.
Halloween.
I love the community aspect of itand a nice of course you did.
You're walking around the sound of leavesunderneath your feet, a cool, crisp night
hopefully wasn't too hotwhen you had a mask on
because there was some Halloweens whereit was like, so freaking hot out, right?
But so much fun.
And I would always
bring an extra bag for the sick siblingwho wasn't able to go out.
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Yeah, right. And that sick sibling was me.
So I would get caught,
double the amount, and then we get and goto another neighborhood for more candy.
And I remember getting homeand just we take the old bags of candy
and put them on the living room floor,
because dad would always checkand make sure that everything was safe.
Remember we went through that timewhere people were putting razor blades
and you know, applesand things of that nature.
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We went through thator people were giving,
you know, they were putting Tylenoland all this kind of stuff.
There was that little Halloween time, too.
I can't believepeople would do that to a kid.
But you got to be careful,be careful, be careful.
So all I remember going out withmy costume is being sweaty.
Hot. Always came home with a headache.
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Oh. We said to the people
that were with me, my other brothers,I don't know who was with me.
I want to go home now. I'm done.
Can I go home now?
And I knew my parents had the Hershey bars
and everything in the house,so I would just eat that, right?
You know, I just enjoyedgoing to different neighborhoods.
Being the social creature
I am, I wanted more and more candyand I got more social creature.
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Yeah, yeah, I was too,but not not looking crazy like you.
I would have let you in, you know?
Well, I was a little bitmore conventional back then.
It was more Batman. Spider-Man.
All right, all right, man,all the Marvel Comics pros.
This is more of a later,
evolution or devolution.
So what did you do?
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Did you go homeand then eat a lot of candy?
Oh, yeah.
Then I got sick, right?
I would eat so much candy and get sick.
I mean, I would still have been knownto do that in my adult life too.
Whenever I do
have my cheat days or whatever,because I, I mean, I'm such a candy freak.
My sugar freak.
I try to keep it to a minimum.
But I will splurge sometime between nowand Halloween and then I'll get sick
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and then I won't have candy againfor a year. Chris.
Yeah it's ridiculous.
It's a never ending cycle.
Well I guess it is good to get out of,
regular mundane clothingand everything and get and get dressed up.
But, when I leave the studio today,I'm going to
wear this up to the radio station,and I'm going to head up there
and, you know,you can you imagine all the business
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we're going to get to ourfor our new sponsor, Joe Perone,
over New England collision.
Yeah. New Haven. Yes.
I would turn my head to look at youand then I'd hit somebody.
Yeah.
Cause in maybe that case,I'll take this off before I go up.
I still can't believeyou could see out of those glasses.
I could see perfectly.
Yeah, there's, like, ten of you,but I can see it's really scary.
No, no.
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Oh, no way. Me because it looks like,
I just keep thinkingyou back to the future.
That mad scientist guy. Yes.
And I love those.
Back to the future 40th anniversary.
By the way, you killed people, though.What's that look like?
You might have killed people.I don't believe there have been moments.
There been moments, but I'm restrained.
I'm a lover, not a fighter.So what's it? What's.
Do you have a favorite Halloween movie?
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Something you.
Well, when I was growing up,I loved all the, the slashers.
I don't like those anymore.
I don't like that.
See, being,you know, planted to me, so to speak.
But back in the day, growing up,I mean, I do all the crazy stuff.
But as I've gotten older and more mellow,I like more of the fine family stuff.
Ghostbusters.
Yeah.
The Goonies, witches of Eastwick,
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hocus pocus.
Yeah, that was really good.
That remind you reminded me,about my favorite movie, and I.
And I hope you'll look for this and that.
You'll you'll find this.
It's called The Uninvited from 1944with Ray Milland.
Oh, Emily, this movie has everything,and it's considered
one of the classics of haunted housegenres.
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It's got, there's a mystery to it.
There's there's definitely a ghost in it,
and there's a love story,towards the end also.
So in fact, Francis, Martin Scorsese,
he says it's one of his favorite films,just like filmmaking wise.
So look for the Uninvited in 1944.
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I haven't been able to find it.
It used to be on the TurnerClassic or would be on PBS,
but I have to go looking for thatbecause that's a fabulous movie.
And I did watch that on Halloween.
I, I used to love that one.
And I mean, I like a good supernaturalthriller, but not with gore.
You know, you can use your imagination,like with The Twilight Zone and Alfred
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Hitchcock and those movies and even someof the movies like, you know,
I mean, I like, you
know, I like alien,you know, some of those movies are okay.
I like scream the first scream.
I never saw any of those.
Yeah. Screams or the or Mike Myers movies.
Yeah.
The Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I love those growing up Exorcist.
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But not not anymore.
No no no no, I know my son.
Once, Tim saw the ringand that really affected him.
So he just now stays away from that.
I don't even like to hear about itbecause I don't know
really what it's about,but I'll have a nightmare.
My eye. My brain is like a sponge.
I remember the old TexasChainsaw Massacre. No.
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Oh, no, I'm not going to see that.
No, Stephanie,
our producer in the background,is going, yes, I'd love that one.
Yeah.
Do youdream at night or do you have nightmares?
Like if you watch? I'm not really. No.
I'm able to put things in compartments.
No. Because they they say a lot of peopleare but I'm unable to do that.
So I've, I've watched something.
You're sleeping.You could do that. I could do that.
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I mean, every now and then, butit doesn't really have to have an effect.
They always say, oh, be carefulwhat you take in.
Spirits are transferableand whatever you and I
and I agree to a point,but I'm able to do that.
I've always been ableto put things in compartments.
So would you play with the Ouija board?
Oh, no. No, I'm not going.
Did you ever went?
No. No. Yeah, yeah.
Kind of stuff freaks me out. Yeah, yeah.
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Actually it's just like energyI think, you know, up on the board.
But I'm with you about that.
Like, I don't want to open the doorto any kind of low level.
I call them low level spirits. Right.
You know,that might be hanging around turn.
I know a lot of people still do that.
That's that's their thing,you know, and I'm not going to judge.
But that's something I never really got.
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Right.
Ouija boards and what else was it.
I don't know. Just something.
Did it Halloween.
What about favorite Halloween songs
like Monster Mash.
It's only oneI think of. Where the year of London.
Oh what what is that where.
Wolves of London. I don't know that song.
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We play that all the time on the radio.
Spiders and snakes.
Devil woman with evil on you.
Well done.
That's my shirt.Yeah. There you go. Yes, yes.
Roller Ghostbuster.
Oh, yeah.Yeah. No, it's roller. Freaked me out too.
I don't like when you go.
Oh, the Vincent laugh at the end.
God. Right.
You scare me, you know?
I mean, you know, make me laughand you scare me at the same time.
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Well, I mean, I love the Halloween musicand I just love the whole vibe of it.
I just it's the secondbiggest holiday of the year for adults.
Is it second only to Christmas?
What? Yep. Second, as far as money spent.
What? Adults? Oh, because of money?
Because you're buying cars,costumes, candy.
I'm thinking that way.
I think if it were rated about food,it would be Thanksgiving.
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Yeah. Does that.
Yeah. That crosses every religion.
Everything. It's just a yeah. Yeah.
And my favorite is probably Thanksgiving.You know if I had to pick.
But I mean I wouldbut I am thankful for Halloween.
You could just like that for Thanksgiving.
Yeah. That goes over real well.
This is what happenedwhen I cut the turkey I missed.
Yeah, that might be a good thingfor you to wear, right?
Slaughtering an alien next to methat bled green.
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You know? Geez.
My mom and the other Halloween memories.
I'm just trying to think of Halloweenmemories.
You know, the best part of Halloweenfor me
was because I went to Catholic school.
It's the next day.
You always set off from schoolbecause was All Saints Day.
And I love that, becausethen you could stay up late or whatever.
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Because there's no school the next day.
Yeah, unless Halloween fell on a Fridaynight like it is this year.
Well, I mean, I love the wholegoing out there and getting like I'm.
I used to go crazy with the Halloweendecorations in the house.
I had, you know, Draculahanging up in the corner
and really going to stuffthat the cobwebs.
This explains a lot of things.
Oh yeah.
So there's a therapy session heresomewhere.
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But we've pretty much dialedthat back a little bit.
But I love going out there and getting,you know, the pumpkins and the moms
and everything for the frontand some of the pumpkins, stuff like this.
No, not that throwing that up there.That's kind of cool.
Yeah. That's okay.
I go to crazy.
Yeah. Hey, you know something?
For those who aren't able to watch this,you may be listening to it,
but what are you, a shrink with?
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All right, so I want to tell you somethingabout this.
Before I got this hat that I'm wearing.
This was online with a a woman wearing it.
Honey,I shrunk the Kids was lace all over it.
And this is how it came.
Okay. All right,so I took the purple thing
that was on here,and I stuck in on this hat.
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I could hold this hat in the palm of myhand, know, to remind me of,
spinal, spinal tap, spinal tap.
The movie Spinal Tap, where they thinkthey ordered, Stonehenge like.
And it came to be this little miniaturemodel.
Yeah, well, this arrived.
I mean, this is like, it's a door.
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I thought it was going to be my hat.
I would have I would have been funnyif I just stuck this on my head like that.
Great.
Yeah. Thisthis could fit a Chihuahuas head.
No, my cats, my cats could wear that.
Yeah, you're welcome to it.
What about.What about Rocky Horror picture?
You remember that? Okay, now that was fun.
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Now I love me a Rocky Horror movie.
I love going to the movie theatersand throwing toast and and toilet paper.
That's when I did get into it. Okay?
But I was older then. I was a kid.
Yeah. The time where.
And then you'd scream out,where's your neck?
Every time the narrator showed up and oh,my God, that that is still so much fun.
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In fact, my sonJeffrey just got it on Blu ray.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's that's a good Halloween one.
I remember, you know, radio stations,we used to always
revolve promotions around that.
We just had a PR
when you and I were there together,I went to Toad's Place and watched it
a whole bunch of differentradio stations over the years.
It it's timeless, bright, timeless.It really is. Right.
Tim Curry was oh, I do the Bilas.
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Yeah, that was a cool tune to Janet.
They would yell out bad things.
Oh have you,you haven't seen Time Warp yet.
You're a little bit younger right there.Go rent it.
Yeah. Blu ray right now.
The Rocky the Rocky Horror Show meatloaf.
Yeah. Me loaf. Yeah.
I spent a lot of time here in Connecticut.
Two meat loaf was ahe lived in his Connecticut.
Just the coach softballand all that stuff when he was here.
Yeah, I always heard thathe was a really nice guy.
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Yeah, really, really nice guy.
Very nice.
Wow. So what do you do?
I know what you're doing Halloween night.
You're doing the same thing I'm doing.
You're going to be a whirlwind.
Spins in prep,
which is one of our sponsors, Tony Soupand the good folks that would win.
So we have a big show coming there.
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And we won't know who the murderer it is.
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It could be you, John.
No, you go and Halloween.
I'm doing a couple of Halloween parties.
You know what the DJ is?
To raise a whole bunch of moneyfor charities, which is awesome. Oh.
That's nice.
Yeah, we have, happy daysspending a dear friend of mine, Chris,
and Richie Falconefrom the Connecticut area.
They decorate the entire hall up,and it looks like a Hollywood set.
Oh, wow. So cool. People come out.
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We have costume contest.They have food. So where was that?
So over the Knights of ColumbusHall in Gilford.
Oh, that sounds great this month.
And, it's it's going to be a lot of fun.
You know, I'm like that.
They started switchingto Trunk or treat. Yes.
A lot of the police departmentsdo that too. Are they? Yes.
You know, and on various greensall throughout the, the country.
So in New England over the last,
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ten years,
we've had several severe stormshit around Halloween time.
So that really took off withthere was hurricane Sandy
and there was Irene,and then we had this freak snowstorm
that hit from the,I think, from Cheshire North
and on where they were without powerfor like two weeks.
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So it was almost like three Halloweensin a row,
where then they createdmore and more trunk or treat.
And I thought, is that safe?
Much safer.
Now go to a place where people open uptheir trunks and you just able to
to go and get candy from them,knocking like a, like an Italian green
with a lot of people outor like at a rec center.
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Yeah, we'll do that because people are,you know,
get a little bit,you know, wonky about sometimes
going in neighborhoodswhere it's dark and people's houses.
And I get that. I totally get that.
It's a whole different worldthan when we were growing up way back.
But, right, butbut that's kind of a cool community thing.
It is.
You know,I do even go to that dressed like this.
The please do take a video of this.
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I to see it. Give me candy.Get out of here.
Yeah.
Take whatever you want. Yes.
Oh, God.
She's really do. Look like a muppet to me.There's a muppet.
I forget his name.
Yeah, a muppet on steroids. Yeah,but you're right.
It's you.
It's so crazy looking.
Yeah, yeah, I might,I might not ever take this off.
I'm. I'm really digging this, you know,
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Just to get the reaction.
I want to see you meet, like,with a potential bride and groom.
Oh, yeah.
Start discussingwhat music you're going to be wearing.
This a wedding, receptions,you know, see how well that goes over.
Right. Number one on your list.
Why don't we begin with Monster Mash?
Oh, but we'll go right in the witchcraft.
You know, we're all good.Devil in disguise. Whatever. What?
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Let me tell you this.
This is this is,a nod to good witches in this sense.
Because during the Salem Witch trialsand and and other states, too,
you know, theythey were killing, quote, witches.
And to me, when you read about them,
they were really peoplethat would be called naturopaths today.
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That's right.
They were working with herbal, herbal
medicine and different things.
I sorry.
Yes, we just had Dave,your main man, just walked in the studios.
You know, it's his studio where we, wewe thought, hey, Dave, what do you think?
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Okay.
Sorry about that. Yeah.
We want to hear the sound of the doorclosing. Go ahead.
Yeah.
Here we go. Yeah.
Oh, there it is. Okay, well, there it is.
Tag team.
Okay.
Oh, my God.
But you're right.
I mean, that was kind of an embarrassing,real embarrassing time in our history.
Yeah, there's witch trials and, you know,
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I hadsomebody asked me to deejay a wedding.
Yeah, Halloween night
this year didn't go throughbecause I'm going to woodwinds that night.
But they wanted me to deejaya wedding and Salem, mass.
And they're going to do itHalloween night.
Well,I mean, I think that would be kind of fun.
Would that be fun for you?
Oh, yeah, it'd be fun for me.
Would you be afraid?
You be leaping with all kinds of spiritsand put everything in compartments?
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Yes, that's true, I've done so.
I've done so many Halloween weddingsover the year.
Yeah, I just I just love it.
Well, wow.
Do people dress up like they have?
They have even the bride and groom.
Do they groom? Sure. Yeah. Wow.
I did kind of a costume party.
Did a 90s wedding up at Mohegan Sun.
No Foxwoods two years ago this month.
And the bride and groom insistedthat everybody wear something
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from 90s TV shows or 90s movies.
Oh. That's fun.
So that was a lot of fun.
Yeah, again, people got outthere, had a lot of fun.
They were just totally, you know.
Yeah. Fun.
Yeah. So if I were to that,this is going to.
Well, it's a good time to sell morbid,but I don't mean it to sound morbid.
So, let's say it's my funeral and I pre.
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Right.
It was her friend Elton John.Remember that song?
No. Okay. No.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. Okay.
All right. Yeah. Well,that was one of my favorite albums.
Oh, great. On the road.
I love Elton John.
Wow. Okay, I'm saying wow a lot today.
I know why, just like it.
There must be this cost.
You know?
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But wouldn't it be funny
if people did dress up for a funeraland the person wanted it that way?
Right? You know, just to have fun?
I mean,
all right, but there is a time
where someone's olderand they know they're going to pass,
and maybe they want everyoneto dress like, whatever.
I want people to have fun.
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Remembernot remembering that right there life.
But you and I have talked about thatbefore.
I mean, if I'mand I've said if I pass away,
celebrate my life, don't be, like,all depressed or whatever.
Go out there.I've had a great life, right?
I've been very,very blessed in so many ways.
Yes. And, celebrate it. Don't be all sad.
You know where I'm going.
Yeah, I know I'm going.
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And it's going to be Paradise.
No, I think it's going to be peopledressed up just like this. No.
Maybe not.
So, yeah,I think if you guys look at downstairs
and, you know, coming up
here, you're just going to a special placehere, he's going to send him away.
Oh, I think everyone's going to greetyou looking like that.
Yeah.
Can you imagine if heaven look like this?
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Yeah. Oh, you'd be in heaven.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. No, maybe not like this.
I don't know, I doubt it, civil.
What have you done? Okay. Yes.
You know, I have a memory of what
wasn't that long agowhere I took my grandson.
He was three years old, maybe almost four.
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First time going out trick or treating.
Oh, I was so excited.
And I told you, you walk up to the door
and he had his little bag with him,and he was dressed like a policeman.
And he.
I saw him talking to the man at the door,and his little head is shaking. Yes.
And he walks away and no candy.
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And they said,why didn't you take the candy?
He said, I don't know that person.
I don't take candy from strangers.
And it's like, good job.
But in this case, aren'tthey exactly like me?
I mean, I would take it from anybodythat offers it, right?
But but think about the costumes.
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This year, in 2025, it's retro.
I mean, what I mean, any of the past sixare what is it, the Superman's and the,
you know, like Blue Princess.
I remember being dressed
like a prince princess, the Marvel Comicsand the princess and all that stuff.
I mean, that's still big,
you know, Pocahontas, whatever it may be,because the classics
are the classics and everything oldis new again to a whole new generation.
(27:50):
So it seems like the stuff, the costumeswe wore
back in the 1800s,they're still big here in 2025.
Good to know.
All right,so where do you get kids at your house.
No, no,because we're set so far back. Yeah.
You know and if people don't
want kids to come to their door,they can just turn the lights off, right?
That's what I do, right?
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We do. Really? Yeah, I do.I don't want kids coming to my door.
Oh, I used to love it back where we lived.
Another placebefore where there was a lot more traffic.
Oh, my kids was little, I, I did.
We live in a cul de sacand everyone knew everybody.
So I did it then.
But no, now it's like,get away from me. No.
Now the true choicesince she's wearing that costume.
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I thought she was the good way.
But you know what?
I always had dogsand, you know, until pretty recently.
So every time I open the door,the dogs would bark,
the dogs would get happy,and they'd want to get out.
They'd want to see people.And then I have to lock them in a room.
Oh yeah.
So it was all that stuff going onand it's like no lights off,
pizza in the bedroom.
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Pizza. That's. Yeah.
And that's it. But this.
But anyway, if you're in the areaand you're listening to this
call, would one see if there's still roomavailable for the,
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Halloween night with delicious food?
You don't have to do anything.
You don't haveto give candy out of the door
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if you want to dress up, dress upif you don't, don't dress up
and just have a good time.
On a previous episode,we had Don and Chris, on our show
that are therea couple of actors, director
you know, over there and I can'twait to see it, I really can't,
yeah, but, you know,we just want to wish you and your family
a happy Halloween,a happy and safe Halloween one. Yes.
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And we appreciate youputting up with this,
especially if you're watching on video.
Again, they say about three quartersof audience listens.
And the ones we're watchingare being tormented right now.
Yeah, they are.
And we apologize for that.
We'll come backlooking semi-normal next time, right?
Maybe, maybe we might not.
I don't know,I think I might continue with this
depending onwhat kind of response we're doing.
(29:55):
So right there.
Yeah, but Joyce, lots of love toyou and your family.
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween to you and your familya safe one.
Yeah. Many blessings. Check us out.
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But welcome to our Halloween editionof What's Good with John and Joyce.
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And Joyce has been laughing for the past20 minutes before show time looking at me.
What I'm looking at now, you saidI was a cross between the Muppets.
Back to the future. A mad scientist,
crazy man.
I don't like it.
You've got, like,green blood and red blood on the. And,
it's just those glasses.
(01:26):
And I believe that you see me.
I can see everything.
And and I love your get up to.That. Looks great.
I got my little witchy thing on,But you woman.
But but it's also,yeah, a nod to the Eagles,
which are desert highway on a darkdesert are late.
We talk about wind in my hair.
I got Joyce.
You were saying before that,
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you're not really a big fan of Halloween,per se, but, yeah, this is fun.
Yeah, that would be putting itmildly. Yeah.
How come? How come?
What is it about Halloween? That really?
All right, so I'm going to call out myI believe,
this had to happen in fourth gradebecause it was my was my teacher
and the only teacherthat was really questionable
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about some of the stories she would tellwas Sister Romy world Sister Romulus.
So here's what she said.
And I really don't think she's wrongwith what she said,
but she said, all right,so Halloween is coming up.
Halloween is like tomorrow night.
And so your kids are going to go out.
You're going to ring doorbellsand just think about this.
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You ring the doorbell of someone.
She's an older woman.
She's upstairs.
Maybe she's not feeling so well.
And she comes downbecause she's a kind hearted woman.
But as she comes down the stairs,she trips
and falls, breaks her neck and dies.
Buzzkill here.
All because you want to go out
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on a pagan holiday and beg for candy.
But I sat there and I thought,wow, that's horrible.
I would never do that.
It was
so that was the beginning ofI Hate Halloween.
And the other reason, John, is the reason
you'reyou sitting there looking like that.
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Okay?
Because people look crazy.
And then when they dress up,they don't act like themselves.
They act like somebody else,and they scare me.
Well, that's one of the beautiful thingsabout dressing up like this.
You can be whatever you want to be you.
It brings out the silliness of you.
I've done so many costume partieswhere I've made and people
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that were normally reserved,
they get out there and they're crazywhen you find out who they are later on.
I can't believe that person,
you know, and then behave responsiblymost of the time.
Yeah, but to me, it's just just fine.
It's just goofy.
And in this world nowadays, we need goofy.
We need escapism. Right?
We need to look at you.
But but, you know, some people,I think Halloween,
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because you and I talk about being,you know, Christian this and that.
We shouldn't be celebrating how to me,it's just fun. No.
What turned into fun?
Let here, let me just give youlet's give us all a little info
about Halloween this yearand how it started.
So it really beganas an ancient Celtic festival.
Happy now I'm going to have a votein your butterfingers.
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Oh my, oh my favorite habit.
I eat it still fasting? Okay.
You're fast. Fasting. Okay, okay. Well.
So trick or treating?
Let's go. We're trickor treating originated.
And again,that's the ancient Celtic festival of Sam.
Hands in line. Yes.
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And and the medievalChristian practice of sewing.
When poor people begged for foodin exchange for prayers for the dead.
This evolved into gazing.
So in Scotland, in Ireland, where costumedpeople perform tricks for treats.
And they were.
And this tradition was brought to the,
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Americansby, to the Americas by the immigrants.
And what's so bad about that?
All this stuff is pretty good.
Wait, so the modern phrase trickor treat appeared in the 1920s,
leading to the widespread, communityfocused custom it children going door
to door begging for candy,
and bringing that olderlady down the stairs.
Dad, you know,
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this is just to get that just killed herbecause you wanted a Hershey bar.
Oh my goodness.
You know, when I was a kid, you know,one of the things I never like was
I would go up there
and they would give you somethingyou didn't want, like an apple.
So what would you do?
And I mean, if you just take it,you're polite, but you always are.
Good to know, Candy.
You know,I wanted the Reese's peanut butter cups.
I wanted to soak their windows, you know.
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Oh, well, we did have that.
What was that night before?
Mischief. Mischief night,I remember. Oh, hated that more than.
But we did it.We didn't really destroy anything.
We would just throw toilet paper,you know, up over the telephone wires
or we just soap somebody. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.So someone had a scraped out off the cars.
You know how difficult that is.But it was so much fun.
No even was it.
I was horrified to see people who wantsto see toilet paper all over their trees.
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That you have to take a broomstick?
You've got to take it.
Take it away. The fun of it all.I am that person.
Yeah, yeah, I'm your counterpart here,but we're not gonna.
We're not going to be slicing tiresor doing damage in somebody's house.
But I used to love the ring, the doorbell.
And then people would come out and everynow and then they'd be waiting for you,
to ring the doorbell, andthey would open it up and they scare you.
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Good.
And then we just run.
Well, but, yeah, so many great memoriesare in the neighborhood.
Like being scared. Now my brother.
My brother is what?
Not, like, nine years older than me,almost nine years older than me.
So if I'm, you know, eight years old
now, he's well into his teens, right?
My brother love to dress up in costumes.
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So he had one costume that was a skeleton,another that was the devil,
and another one that was this rubber maskthat looked like a man.
But it was really weirdbecause it looked like the strange head.
But this is how gullible I was.
So I would beI remember sitting coloring at the table,
my mom is talking on the phoneand he's tapping me on the back,
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and I'm doing I'm moving my it's like, no,leave me alone, leave me alone.
And he kept tapping meand I turned around.
He was like like full skeletontraumatized you.
I am screaming.
And then my motherhas to get off the phone and I let go.
Who's being chased?
And then another time he's in another roomand he says, you know, open the door.
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I want to show you something.
Now he's speaking like this.
Oh, do do do I tell you something?
I say, you've got a mask on.
No, no, I don't have a mask. God.
So it's a promise me you don't.
He's just,you know, again, I promise I don't.
Oh, my God, I open it upand there's a devil standing there.
He lied to you? Yes.
I don't like, like, three times.
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And I was, you know, very gullible.
And then it was like,all right, I don't like this.
But fast forwardnow, later in life, I'm in my 20s
and I go to a Halloween party,which you said are a lot of fun
and people are acting crazyand they've got crazy stuff going.
I watched people get so drunk
that they were ripping out the, the,the toilet.
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You know, they were ripping out plumbing.
They were doing the craziest things.
And I don't I don't like thiswhen people put costumes on.
They just feel like they
what how many people do thata football game,
you know, when people win a game,they tear down the goalpost.
Yeah, that's why I, I wouldn'tgo there. Right, right, right.
Well I'm not,but I just enjoyed so many great memories.
And I would always,you know, go with mom and dad.
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When I was a kid that I had a,
you know, my brother and sister,we go out, I would take them out.
Halloween.
I love the community aspect of itand a nice of course you did.
You're walking around the sound of leavesunderneath your feet, a cool, crisp night
hopefully wasn't too hotwhen you had a mask on
because there was some Halloweens whereit was like, so freaking hot out, right?
But so much fun.
And I would always
bring an extra bag for the sick siblingwho wasn't able to go out.
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Yeah, right. And that sick sibling was me.
So I would get caught,
double the amount, and then we get and goto another neighborhood for more candy.
And I remember getting homeand just we take the old bags of candy
and put them on the living room floor,
because dad would always checkand make sure that everything was safe.
Remember we went through that timewhere people were putting razor blades
and you know, applesand things of that nature.
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We went through thator people were giving,
you know, they were putting Tylenoland all this kind of stuff.
There was that little Halloween time, too.
I can't believepeople would do that to a kid.
But you got to be careful,be careful, be careful.
So all I remember going out withmy costume is being sweaty.
Hot. Always came home with a headache.
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Oh. We said to the people
that were with me, my other brothers,I don't know who was with me.
I want to go home now. I'm done.
Can I go home now?
And I knew my parents had the Hershey bars
and everything in the house,so I would just eat that, right?
You know, I just enjoyedgoing to different neighborhoods.
Being the social creature
I am, I wanted more and more candyand I got more social creature.
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Yeah, yeah, I was too,but not not looking crazy like you.
I would have let you in, you know?
Well, I was a little bitmore conventional back then.
It was more Batman. Spider-Man.
All right, all right, man,all the Marvel Comics pros.
This is more of a later,
evolution or devolution.
So what did you do?
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Did you go homeand then eat a lot of candy?
Oh, yeah.
Then I got sick, right?
I would eat so much candy and get sick.
I mean, I would still have been knownto do that in my adult life too.
Whenever I do
have my cheat days or whatever,because I, I mean, I'm such a candy freak.
My sugar freak.
I try to keep it to a minimum.
But I will splurge sometime between nowand Halloween and then I'll get sick
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and then I won't have candy againfor a year. Chris.
Yeah it's ridiculous.
It's a never ending cycle.
Well I guess it is good to get out of,
regular mundane clothingand everything and get and get dressed up.
But, when I leave the studio today,I'm going to
wear this up to the radio station,and I'm going to head up there
and, you know,you can you imagine all the business
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we're going to get to ourfor our new sponsor, Joe Perone,
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Yeah. New Haven. Yes.
I would turn my head to look at youand then I'd hit somebody.
Yeah.
Cause in maybe that case,I'll take this off before I go up.
I still can't believeyou could see out of those glasses.
I could see perfectly.
Yeah, there's, like, ten of you,but I can see it's really scary.
No, no.
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Oh, no way. Me because it looks like,
I just keep thinkingyou back to the future.
That mad scientist guy. Yes.
And I love those.
Back to the future 40th anniversary.
By the way, you killed people, though.What's that look like?
You might have killed people.I don't believe there have been moments.
There been moments, but I'm restrained.
I'm a lover, not a fighter.So what's it? What's.
Do you have a favorite Halloween movie?
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Something you.
Well, when I was growing up,I loved all the, the slashers.
I don't like those anymore.
I don't like that.
See, being,you know, planted to me, so to speak.
But back in the day, growing up,I mean, I do all the crazy stuff.
But as I've gotten older and more mellow,I like more of the fine family stuff.
Ghostbusters.
Yeah.
The Goonies, witches of Eastwick,
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hocus pocus.
Yeah, that was really good.
That remind you reminded me,about my favorite movie, and I.
And I hope you'll look for this and that.
You'll you'll find this.
It's called The Uninvited from 1944with Ray Milland.
Oh, Emily, this movie has everything,and it's considered
one of the classics of haunted housegenres.
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It's got, there's a mystery to it.
There's there's definitely a ghost in it,
and there's a love story,towards the end also.
So in fact, Francis, Martin Scorsese,
he says it's one of his favorite films,just like filmmaking wise.
So look for the Uninvited in 1944.
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I haven't been able to find it.
It used to be on the TurnerClassic or would be on PBS,
but I have to go looking for thatbecause that's a fabulous movie.
And I did watch that on Halloween.
I, I used to love that one.
And I mean, I like a good supernaturalthriller, but not with gore.
You know, you can use your imagination,like with The Twilight Zone and Alfred
(13:24):
Hitchcock and those movies and even someof the movies like, you know,
I mean, I like, you
know, I like alien,you know, some of those movies are okay.
I like scream the first scream.
I never saw any of those.
Yeah. Screams or the or Mike Myers movies.
Yeah.
The Halloween, A Nightmare on Elm Street.
I love those growing up Exorcist.
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But not not anymore.
No no no no, I know my son.
Once, Tim saw the ringand that really affected him.
So he just now stays away from that.
I don't even like to hear about itbecause I don't know
really what it's about,but I'll have a nightmare.
My eye. My brain is like a sponge.
I remember the old TexasChainsaw Massacre. No.
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Oh, no, I'm not going to see that.
No, Stephanie,
our producer in the background,is going, yes, I'd love that one.
Yeah.
Do youdream at night or do you have nightmares?
Like if you watch? I'm not really. No.
I'm able to put things in compartments.
No. Because they they say a lot of peopleare but I'm unable to do that.
So I've, I've watched something.
You're sleeping.You could do that. I could do that.
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I mean, every now and then, butit doesn't really have to have an effect.
They always say, oh, be carefulwhat you take in.
Spirits are transferableand whatever you and I
and I agree to a point,but I'm able to do that.
I've always been ableto put things in compartments.
So would you play with the Ouija board?
Oh, no. No, I'm not going.
Did you ever went?
No. No. Yeah, yeah.
Kind of stuff freaks me out. Yeah, yeah.
(14:52):
Actually it's just like energyI think, you know, up on the board.
But I'm with you about that.
Like, I don't want to open the doorto any kind of low level.
I call them low level spirits. Right.
You know,that might be hanging around turn.
I know a lot of people still do that.
That's that's their thing,you know, and I'm not going to judge.
But that's something I never really got.
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Right.
Ouija boards and what else was it.
I don't know. Just something.
Did it Halloween.
What about favorite Halloween songs
like Monster Mash.
It's only oneI think of. Where the year of London.
Oh what what is that where.
Wolves of London. I don't know that song.
(15:34):
We play that all the time on the radio.
Spiders and snakes.
Devil woman with evil on you.
Well done.
That's my shirt.Yeah. There you go. Yes, yes.
Roller Ghostbuster.
Oh, yeah.Yeah. No, it's roller. Freaked me out too.
I don't like when you go.
Oh, the Vincent laugh at the end.
God. Right.
You scare me, you know?
I mean, you know, make me laughand you scare me at the same time.
(15:57):
Well, I mean, I love the Halloween musicand I just love the whole vibe of it.
I just it's the secondbiggest holiday of the year for adults.
Is it second only to Christmas?
What? Yep. Second, as far as money spent.
What? Adults? Oh, because of money?
Because you're buying cars,costumes, candy.
I'm thinking that way.
I think if it were rated about food,it would be Thanksgiving.
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Yeah. Does that.
Yeah. That crosses every religion.
Everything. It's just a yeah. Yeah.
And my favorite is probably Thanksgiving.You know if I had to pick.
But I mean I wouldbut I am thankful for Halloween.
You could just like that for Thanksgiving.
Yeah. That goes over real well.
This is what happenedwhen I cut the turkey I missed.
Yeah, that might be a good thingfor you to wear, right?
Slaughtering an alien next to methat bled green.
(16:43):
You know? Geez.
My mom and the other Halloween memories.
I'm just trying to think of Halloweenmemories.
You know, the best part of Halloweenfor me
was because I went to Catholic school.
It's the next day.
You always set off from schoolbecause was All Saints Day.
And I love that, becausethen you could stay up late or whatever.
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Because there's no school the next day.
Yeah, unless Halloween fell on a Fridaynight like it is this year.
Well, I mean, I love the wholegoing out there and getting like I'm.
I used to go crazy with the Halloweendecorations in the house.
I had, you know, Draculahanging up in the corner
and really going to stuffthat the cobwebs.
This explains a lot of things.
Oh yeah.
So there's a therapy session heresomewhere.
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But we've pretty much dialedthat back a little bit.
But I love going out there and getting,you know, the pumpkins and the moms
and everything for the frontand some of the pumpkins, stuff like this.
No, not that throwing that up there.That's kind of cool.
Yeah. That's okay.
I go to crazy.
Yeah. Hey, you know something?
For those who aren't able to watch this,you may be listening to it,
but what are you, a shrink with?
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All right, so I want to tell you somethingabout this.
Before I got this hat that I'm wearing.
This was online with a a woman wearing it.
Honey,I shrunk the Kids was lace all over it.
And this is how it came.
Okay. All right,so I took the purple thing
that was on here,and I stuck in on this hat.
(18:11):
I could hold this hat in the palm of myhand, know, to remind me of,
spinal, spinal tap, spinal tap.
The movie Spinal Tap, where they thinkthey ordered, Stonehenge like.
And it came to be this little miniaturemodel.
Yeah, well, this arrived.
I mean, this is like, it's a door.
(18:31):
I thought it was going to be my hat.
I would have I would have been funnyif I just stuck this on my head like that.
Great.
Yeah. Thisthis could fit a Chihuahuas head.
No, my cats, my cats could wear that.
Yeah, you're welcome to it.
What about.What about Rocky Horror picture?
You remember that? Okay, now that was fun.
(18:53):
Now I love me a Rocky Horror movie.
I love going to the movie theatersand throwing toast and and toilet paper.
That's when I did get into it. Okay?
But I was older then. I was a kid.
Yeah. The time where.
And then you'd scream out,where's your neck?
Every time the narrator showed up and oh,my God, that that is still so much fun.
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In fact, my sonJeffrey just got it on Blu ray.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, that's that's a good Halloween one.
I remember, you know, radio stations,we used to always
revolve promotions around that.
We just had a PR
when you and I were there together,I went to Toad's Place and watched it
a whole bunch of differentradio stations over the years.
It it's timeless, bright, timeless.It really is. Right.
Tim Curry was oh, I do the Bilas.
(19:39):
Yeah, that was a cool tune to Janet.
They would yell out bad things.
Oh have you,you haven't seen Time Warp yet.
You're a little bit younger right there.Go rent it.
Yeah. Blu ray right now.
The Rocky the Rocky Horror Show meatloaf.
Yeah. Me loaf. Yeah.
I spent a lot of time here in Connecticut.
Two meat loaf was ahe lived in his Connecticut.
Just the coach softballand all that stuff when he was here.
Yeah, I always heard thathe was a really nice guy.
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Yeah, really, really nice guy.
Very nice.
Wow. So what do you do?
I know what you're doing Halloween night.
You're doing the same thing I'm doing.
You're going to be a whirlwind.
Spins in prep,
which is one of our sponsors, Tony Soupand the good folks that would win.
So we have a big show coming there.
Big show a murder mystery,which I it's a murder mystery.
And we won't know who the murderer it is.
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It could be you, John.
No, you go and Halloween.
I'm doing a couple of Halloween parties.
You know what the DJ is?
To raise a whole bunch of moneyfor charities, which is awesome. Oh.
That's nice.
Yeah, we have, happy daysspending a dear friend of mine, Chris,
and Richie Falconefrom the Connecticut area.
They decorate the entire hall up,and it looks like a Hollywood set.
Oh, wow. So cool. People come out.
(20:42):
We have costume contest.They have food. So where was that?
So over the Knights of ColumbusHall in Gilford.
Oh, that sounds great this month.
And, it's it's going to be a lot of fun.
You know, I'm like that.
They started switchingto Trunk or treat. Yes.
A lot of the police departmentsdo that too. Are they? Yes.
You know, and on various greensall throughout the, the country.
So in New England over the last,
(21:05):
ten years,
we've had several severe stormshit around Halloween time.
So that really took off withthere was hurricane Sandy
and there was Irene,and then we had this freak snowstorm
that hit from the,I think, from Cheshire North
and on where they were without powerfor like two weeks.
(21:26):
So it was almost like three Halloweensin a row,
where then they createdmore and more trunk or treat.
And I thought, is that safe?
Much safer.
Now go to a place where people open uptheir trunks and you just able to
to go and get candy from them,knocking like a, like an Italian green
with a lot of people outor like at a rec center.
(21:48):
Yeah, we'll do that because people are,you know,
get a little bit,you know, wonky about sometimes
going in neighborhoodswhere it's dark and people's houses.
And I get that. I totally get that.
It's a whole different worldthan when we were growing up way back.
But, right, butbut that's kind of a cool community thing.
It is.
You know,I do even go to that dressed like this.
The please do take a video of this.
(22:09):
I to see it. Give me candy.Get out of here.
Yeah.
Take whatever you want. Yes.
Oh, God.
She's really do. Look like a muppet to me.There's a muppet.
I forget his name.
Yeah, a muppet on steroids. Yeah,but you're right.
It's you.
It's so crazy looking.
Yeah, yeah, I might,I might not ever take this off.
I'm. I'm really digging this, you know,
(22:33):
Just to get the reaction.
I want to see you meet, like,with a potential bride and groom.
Oh, yeah.
Start discussingwhat music you're going to be wearing.
This a wedding, receptions,you know, see how well that goes over.
Right. Number one on your list.
Why don't we begin with Monster Mash?
Oh, but we'll go right in the witchcraft.
You know, we're all good.Devil in disguise. Whatever. What?
(22:53):
Let me tell you this.
This is this is,a nod to good witches in this sense.
Because during the Salem Witch trialsand and and other states, too,
you know, theythey were killing, quote, witches.
And to me, when you read about them,
they were really peoplethat would be called naturopaths today.
(23:15):
That's right.
They were working with herbal, herbal
medicine and different things.
I sorry.
Yes, we just had Dave,your main man, just walked in the studios.
You know, it's his studio where we, wewe thought, hey, Dave, what do you think?
(23:36):
Okay.
Sorry about that. Yeah.
We want to hear the sound of the doorclosing. Go ahead.
Yeah.
Here we go. Yeah.
Oh, there it is. Okay, well, there it is.
Tag team.
Okay.
Oh, my God.
But you're right.
I mean, that was kind of an embarrassing,real embarrassing time in our history.
Yeah, there's witch trials and, you know,
(23:57):
I hadsomebody asked me to deejay a wedding.
Yeah, Halloween night
this year didn't go throughbecause I'm going to woodwinds that night.
But they wanted me to deejaya wedding and Salem, mass.
And they're going to do itHalloween night.
Well,I mean, I think that would be kind of fun.
Would that be fun for you?
Oh, yeah, it'd be fun for me.
Would you be afraid?
You be leaping with all kinds of spiritsand put everything in compartments?
(24:20):
Yes, that's true, I've done so.
I've done so many Halloween weddingsover the year.
Yeah, I just I just love it.
Well, wow.
Do people dress up like they have?
They have even the bride and groom.
Do they groom? Sure. Yeah. Wow.
I did kind of a costume party.
Did a 90s wedding up at Mohegan Sun.
No Foxwoods two years ago this month.
And the bride and groom insistedthat everybody wear something
(24:43):
from 90s TV shows or 90s movies.
Oh. That's fun.
So that was a lot of fun.
Yeah, again, people got outthere, had a lot of fun.
They were just totally, you know.
Yeah. Fun.
Yeah. So if I were to that,this is going to.
Well, it's a good time to sell morbid,but I don't mean it to sound morbid.
So, let's say it's my funeral and I pre.
(25:04):
Right.
It was her friend Elton John.Remember that song?
No. Okay. No.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album. Okay.
All right. Yeah. Well,that was one of my favorite albums.
Oh, great. On the road.
I love Elton John.
Wow. Okay, I'm saying wow a lot today.
I know why, just like it.
There must be this cost.
You know?
(25:24):
But wouldn't it be funny
if people did dress up for a funeraland the person wanted it that way?
Right? You know, just to have fun?
I mean,
all right, but there is a time
where someone's olderand they know they're going to pass,
and maybe they want everyoneto dress like, whatever.
I want people to have fun.
(25:45):
Remembernot remembering that right there life.
But you and I have talked about thatbefore.
I mean, if I'mand I've said if I pass away,
celebrate my life, don't be, like,all depressed or whatever.
Go out there.I've had a great life, right?
I've been very,very blessed in so many ways.
Yes. And, celebrate it. Don't be all sad.
You know where I'm going.
Yeah, I know I'm going.
(26:05):
And it's going to be Paradise.
No, I think it's going to be peopledressed up just like this. No.
Maybe not.
So, yeah,I think if you guys look at downstairs
and, you know, coming up
here, you're just going to a special placehere, he's going to send him away.
Oh, I think everyone's going to greetyou looking like that.
Yeah.
Can you imagine if heaven look like this?
(26:28):
Yeah. Oh, you'd be in heaven.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah. No, maybe not like this.
I don't know, I doubt it, civil.
What have you done? Okay. Yes.
You know, I have a memory of what
wasn't that long agowhere I took my grandson.
He was three years old, maybe almost four.
(26:48):
First time going out trick or treating.
Oh, I was so excited.
And I told you, you walk up to the door
and he had his little bag with him,and he was dressed like a policeman.
And he.
I saw him talking to the man at the door,and his little head is shaking. Yes.
And he walks away and no candy.
(27:09):
And they said,why didn't you take the candy?
He said, I don't know that person.
I don't take candy from strangers.
And it's like, good job.
But in this case, aren'tthey exactly like me?
I mean, I would take it from anybodythat offers it, right?
But but think about the costumes.
(27:30):
This year, in 2025, it's retro.
I mean, what I mean, any of the past sixare what is it, the Superman's and the,
you know, like Blue Princess.
I remember being dressed
like a prince princess, the Marvel Comicsand the princess and all that stuff.
I mean, that's still big,
you know, Pocahontas, whatever it may be,because the classics
are the classics and everything oldis new again to a whole new generation.
(27:50):
So it seems like the stuff, the costumeswe wore
back in the 1800s,they're still big here in 2025.
Good to know.
All right,so where do you get kids at your house.
No, no,because we're set so far back. Yeah.
You know and if people don't
want kids to come to their door,they can just turn the lights off, right?
That's what I do, right?
(28:11):
We do. Really? Yeah, I do.I don't want kids coming to my door.
Oh, I used to love it back where we lived.
Another placebefore where there was a lot more traffic.
Oh, my kids was little, I, I did.
We live in a cul de sacand everyone knew everybody.
So I did it then.
But no, now it's like,get away from me. No.
Now the true choicesince she's wearing that costume.
(28:32):
I thought she was the good way.
But you know what?
I always had dogsand, you know, until pretty recently.
So every time I open the door,the dogs would bark,
the dogs would get happy,and they'd want to get out.
They'd want to see people.And then I have to lock them in a room.
Oh yeah.
So it was all that stuff going onand it's like no lights off,
pizza in the bedroom.
(28:52):
Pizza. That's. Yeah.
And that's it. But this.
But anyway, if you're in the areaand you're listening to this
call, would one see if there's still roomavailable for the,
the Mystery Murder show
Halloween night with delicious food?
You don't have to do anything.
You don't haveto give candy out of the door
(29:12):
if you want to dress up, dress upif you don't, don't dress up
and just have a good time.
On a previous episode,we had Don and Chris, on our show
that are therea couple of actors, director
you know, over there and I can'twait to see it, I really can't,
yeah, but, you know,we just want to wish you and your family
a happy Halloween,a happy and safe Halloween one. Yes.
(29:35):
And we appreciate youputting up with this,
especially if you're watching on video.
Again, they say about three quartersof audience listens.
And the ones we're watchingare being tormented right now.
Yeah, they are.
And we apologize for that.
We'll come backlooking semi-normal next time, right?
Maybe, maybe we might not.
I don't know,I think I might continue with this
depending onwhat kind of response we're doing.
(29:55):
So right there.
Yeah, but Joyce, lots of love toyou and your family.
Happy Halloween.
Happy Halloween to you and your familya safe one.
Yeah. Many blessings. Check us out.
What's up with John and Joyceon all streaming platforms?
You're crazy.
Thank you. Bye.
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