October 31, 2025 • 13 mins
Just some Halloween fun, and a little bit of diabetes.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trick or treat smell my feet. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm strong andy, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Tomorrow, Trumble returned to the US and host the annual
White House Halloween party.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Exciting for trig or treatise because this year everyone gets
a little piece of the East Wing.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I think that's cool. There you are, hey, yell. Actually
somebody Joanah Goldberg of Dispatch had that idea the other day.
Like he said, he didn't really have a strong position
on the tearing down the White House thing, but that's
you know, you couldn't like take a wall of that
and put it in the Trump Presidential Library, or like
(00:42):
take chunks of it and sell it for charity, because
a lot of people would think it'd be cool to
have a chunk of the the East King. I would,
h that's a pretty good idea, yeah, as opposed to
just knock it down and cart it off to the dump.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
They tore the hospital I was born in down, and
I went up there and took a little piece of
it and gave it to my mom.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, that's a good story. Yeah. So I was gonna
talk Halloween because we don't record a podcast on Friday
out of pure laziness and wanting to leave work. So
Halloween is tomorrow as the recording of this podcast occurs.
My kids have past the age of like knock an
(01:23):
ondoorse trick or treating. But as Halloween has evolved over
the years and now bigger kids do different things. And
then when you get into your twenties and thirties, especially
if you're single, it's a full on It's the biggest
party night of the year. I actually just read that
the other day. It is now officially the biggest party
night of the year. Is Halloween, surpassing New Year's Eve obviously. Yeah,
(01:44):
the long time champagne. Yeah. I just remembered an embarrassing
adult costume I war one time with a girlfriend. I
wonder why she signed on to this, but I was
going to have everybody if you can reminisce, do you
remember any of the the costumes you awore at any
point in your life?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
For how wow, I was a hobo year after a
year after year. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I
was never I was never excited by or stimulated by
the idea of coming up with a great Halloween, even kid.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh well, i'd have.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
God, when I was a little kid, I don't remember
much about that, Like you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Were't a baseball player or something some year and you're
really excited to go.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
How was that all the time? I don't, honestly, let
me think about it. Maybe something will click in my memory.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Did you not like candy?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I was pro candy, staunchly pro candy.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, I just I can think of like my adolescent years,
in high school years. Part of it was I was
too damn busy, just spend a lot of time. Like
I had a good friend who snubbed me not too
many years ago, who uh, spent an enormous amount of
time and effort creating one of the creature from one.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Of the Star Wars movies.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
This was when we were in high school and the
Star Wars thing was huge in the late seventies, I guess,
and I admired it in all, but I thought, I'm
never gonna spend hour after hour, day after day crafting
that to trot it out and impress people on Halloween.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just you are a curmudgeon, man. My kids were
so into it when they were little. God, they really
really got a thrill.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh yeah, my god, I can picture my little kids.
The excitement of being in a Batman costume. Yeah, was
like an hour's long electric charge that ran through my son.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's something to watch, the picking it out, the wearing
it for a couple of days ahead of time, and
then that night, I da when you go out door
to door and they got the cosum on.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's just it's showtime.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, it's some time and they are so thrilled. The
only Well, go ahead, Michael, what do you remember?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I had an unfortunate incident. This is a true story.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
As a kid, I wanted to make my own costume.
I thought, you know, I'm gonna be cool. I'm gonna
make my own costume. I decaid I was gonna be
a ghost. So I took a white sheet and cut
out eyes, and it didn't look like I was a ghost.
It looked like I was a clan member.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
People were taking pictures and my mom was showing pictures up.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You know, Hey, this was you know what the kids
did for Halloween, And everybody was horrified thinking that I
dressed up like a KKK.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Wow, Michael True Colors, Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, It's just I wasn't good at crafts.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm not a racistem poor with crafts, Katie.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Okay, Well, the movie Pocahontas, the Disney movie came out
in nineteen ninety five, and so I.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Was, my god, you are not going to admit to
cultural appropriation right now?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Are no? Wait? Wait for this.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
My mother is the is the punchline of this story.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You dressed in brown face, no no, I.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
White and my hair was like bleached blonde when I
was younger. So I dressed up as Pocahontas, and my
mom proceeded to tell everyone that year that I was
Poka honky.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Wow h.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I know. My neighbor kids are got a classic going.
The boy. They're like five and seven. The boy is
gonna be Darth Vader and the girl is gonna be
snow White, and it's.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Just so awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
My only kid memory that I like.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Now, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Was she gonna be the old timey sweet snow White
or the snarking latinx woke snow White of the recent
attempt at a movie?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I would assume this family, it's the snow White classic,
the only one I actually remember from my childhood. Before
I get to some of the adult Halloween the uh.
For some reason, only one memory sticks out, and it's
from South Dakota. So I must have been four because
we moved then. So I was four years old marching
(05:49):
in a parade. It was freezing freaking cold outside, as
it would be in South Dakota, basically November. But I
was dressed as a hobo, and and I marched in
this parade. My parents let me march in, and I
remember my dad was like walking along on the sidewalk.
I was in the parade, and he was like keeping
track of me. I guess because I was three years
(06:10):
old in my home outfit and the pitch dark the Midwest,
so it's pitch dark outside.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What bad devisions had you made from birthtage three and
a half that to her becoming a homeless vagabond.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Made a lot of bad decisions, just endless bad decisions.
Got on the meth, got on the pipe, and that's
what happens. I remember I had this pillow under my
shirt and everything like that, So I was like a
fat hobo and I'd stop.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Almost are crazy skinny. Now they don't have the valet,
But back in the day.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Your kid would dress as a homeless person for Halloween
to get Yeah, it's kind of hilarious. Then I remember
once when I was older, when I was like thirteen,
too old a trick or treat, but I still wanted
to participate in Halloween. I tried to dress as an
old woman, and then when kids would come to the door,
I would try to come to the door as a
(07:01):
kind of old woman, but then fall and have a
major fall of the old They're supposed to be horrified
that an elderly person fell. I guess was my whole routine.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Great comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm not sure I fooled anybody. But as I got
into later an adult, because Joe got married when he
was seventeen, but I was, I was out in single
for quite a while and I had a number of girlfriends.
Were the super hot slutty Halloween costumes, which I was
all for. That's fantastic, you know, slutty witch, sludy snow white,
slutty whatever, bloody nurse, slutty nurse. But one year, for
(07:32):
some reason, I don't know how I got convinced in this,
because it's not me. I was a French maid. I
wore a French maid costume. What yeah, I know why
I got convinced of that. Someone convinced you too well.
I find it hard to believe it was my idea.
I just remember that I did.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was that the girlfriend who turned out to be
a lesbian. I don't actually remember again because it's taken
shape here, it's all starting to do in the math.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It got a lot of laughs because I was not
an attractive French maid and I had the feather duster
that could.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Go on, that's funny and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, I didn't wear any sort of girlish shoes.
I think that was a step two farm.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I was Sandy from Greece one year.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Yeah, but slutty, but slutty Sandy, Sandy one at the
end of the movie.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Because the whole point of that movie is you couldn't
get the guy until she, you know, started smoking cigarettes,
wearing heels and leather and became slutty.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That was the one I was, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
When she was her authentic self, sweet and innocent, she
was undeserving of the love.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Of a man, right, sure, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I don't want my kids eating a bunch of candy
at this age. I don't want candy in the house.
My son, who my oldest son, has got like a
party to go to a high school party. My thirteen
year old wants to stay home and watch scary movies.
I haven't decided what.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
We're gonna watch yet.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm thinking poulter Geist. He hasn't seen that. That's a
pretty scary movie. I love poulter Geist.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't remember that one at all. I've never been
into horror movies. But which one's that? What's the broad
outlines of that? Is that the little girl with the TV.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Or they're back, Yeah, the TV? And uh yeah, it's
it's more paranormal than horror movie. I'm not really a
slasher sneaks into your house and kills you in your sleep.
I know, I don't really dig that. I know.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
This is a new, uh new neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Do you guys all for you, Jack?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Do you get trigger treaders? You guys?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm gonna call the sex so I'll get a few.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Okay, not very many though not for years. Yeah, any,
it's kind of a trage.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I lived in a neighborhood for a while where we
got lots of trigger treaters, and it was great. It
was really fun. And uh that those couple of years
was great because my neighbor he had kids, but they
would go out with his wife and we would sit
on the porch and get hammered. We did that like
four years in a row, good times when I was
still drinking. I didn't have kids, and we would just
sit on the porch and drink for hours. Kids can look,
(10:05):
We're gonna have evil spirits, just spirits, and I'd be
seen by the end of the night.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We lived in a neighborhood a number of years ago
that had a rep for being a great trick or
treating neighborhood, and car loads and car loads of kids
from like all over the Metro area would descend on
our neighborhood and I couldn't decide what I thought of that.
I mean, you saw a hell of a lot of
you know, cute kids and all, but it was it
was like the adults getting free candy for themselves, putting
(10:34):
their kids to work in the candy mines.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And sometimes you get the parents themselves walk up trick
or treat and the kid would be like back on
the sidewalk. It's just a complicated EBT program, right, exactly, Yeah, experience.
I can't remember what costumes that were as a kid,
but I can feel like my hot breath condensed on
(10:58):
the plastic mask with the tiny.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Little mouth hole.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I can't remember what mask it would have been.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, back then, this is I don't know, this might
be before your times, Katie, butit but like the costumes
Joe and I would get going to sears or whatever,
every costume was exactly the same. Is just a different
print on the plastic sheeting you wore that looked like
Aquaman or Superman or Count Dracula or whatever. You're with
your plastic mask that were all the same with the
(11:26):
tiny little mouth hole and the tiny little eye holes
to make it easier to get hit by a car.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
The plastic masks had no breathing hole and you couldn't see,
so you'd get hit by a car. And if God forbid,
you got anywhere close to a flame, the plastic that
it was made out of would just go kerbluey, And.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
If none of that happened, you'd suffocate.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, and the painful strap around the mask behind your
head that wasn't good if you were big headed, yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Plus they would smell. I don't know if you remember to
have that plasticy smell if you had a really bad.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
One, fumes were great for you. Yeah, how you got
cancer from?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The reason I got cancer is probably all the plastic
masks here after a year. I was at the Halloween
store the other day. It's interesting, the whole macabre. And
I know there's a psychological reason why we play out
these fears to help deal with them or whatever that is.
But gosh, all kinds of like, here's a guy who's
gonna come up behind you and stab you to death.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's just ah, why is that entertaining a little close
to home?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
No kid out in a world with all the crazy
junkies running around. Okay, is this a Halloween movie or
is this a clip from the news this evening.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Quick thing even now? Or as a kid, if you
put out your pumpkin, what candy would you most like
them to put in your pumpkin?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Uh? Back in the day, Snickers was a big win.
That good candy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Snickers is pretty good. I like a peanut butter cup.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Okay, see, I was just gonna say, mine's tied between
a Reese's Peanut butter cup and a Snickers.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Peanut butter cup is damn good. I'm old enough that
like Grandma's were making popcorn balls or maybe actual caramel apples,
like they'd make homemade treats.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Dude, there was a dentist down the street from me
to get out toothbrushes.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I hated going to that guy's.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh jeez, screw you, dick, there's a half dozen eggs
for your trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Run run well.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Back in the day, I'd eat a whole bag at
kit Cat bars, but these days it cost me a
toe or two.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Good diabetes joke there to end with, Well, I guess
that's it.
Trick or treat smell my feet. It's one more thing.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm strong andy, one more thing.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
Well.
Speaker 4 (00:10):
Tomorrow, Trumble returned to the US and host the annual
White House Halloween party.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Oh yeah, it's.
Speaker 5 (00:16):
Exciting for trig or treatise because this year everyone gets
a little piece of the East Wing.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
I think that's cool. There you are, hey, yell. Actually
somebody Joanah Goldberg of Dispatch had that idea the other day.
Like he said, he didn't really have a strong position
on the tearing down the White House thing, but that's
you know, you couldn't like take a wall of that
and put it in the Trump Presidential Library, or like
(00:42):
take chunks of it and sell it for charity, because
a lot of people would think it'd be cool to
have a chunk of the the East King. I would,
h that's a pretty good idea, yeah, as opposed to
just knock it down and cart it off to the dump.
Speaker 6 (00:55):
They tore the hospital I was born in down, and
I went up there and took a little piece of
it and gave it to my mom.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Oh that's cool.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Yeah, that's a good story. Yeah. So I was gonna
talk Halloween because we don't record a podcast on Friday
out of pure laziness and wanting to leave work. So
Halloween is tomorrow as the recording of this podcast occurs.
My kids have past the age of like knock an
(01:23):
ondoorse trick or treating. But as Halloween has evolved over
the years and now bigger kids do different things. And
then when you get into your twenties and thirties, especially
if you're single, it's a full on It's the biggest
party night of the year. I actually just read that
the other day. It is now officially the biggest party
night of the year. Is Halloween, surpassing New Year's Eve obviously. Yeah,
(01:44):
the long time champagne. Yeah. I just remembered an embarrassing
adult costume I war one time with a girlfriend. I
wonder why she signed on to this, but I was
going to have everybody if you can reminisce, do you
remember any of the the costumes you awore at any
point in your life?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
For how wow, I was a hobo year after a
year after year. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I just I
was never I was never excited by or stimulated by
the idea of coming up with a great Halloween, even kid.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Oh well, i'd have.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
God, when I was a little kid, I don't remember
much about that, Like you.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Were't a baseball player or something some year and you're
really excited to go.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
How was that all the time? I don't, honestly, let
me think about it. Maybe something will click in my memory.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Did you not like candy?
Speaker 6 (02:38):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I was pro candy, staunchly pro candy.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yeah, I just I can think of like my adolescent years,
in high school years. Part of it was I was
too damn busy, just spend a lot of time. Like
I had a good friend who snubbed me not too
many years ago, who uh, spent an enormous amount of
time and effort creating one of the creature from one.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Of the Star Wars movies.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
This was when we were in high school and the
Star Wars thing was huge in the late seventies, I guess,
and I admired it in all, but I thought, I'm
never gonna spend hour after hour, day after day crafting
that to trot it out and impress people on Halloween.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
I just you are a curmudgeon, man. My kids were
so into it when they were little. God, they really
really got a thrill.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Oh yeah, my god, I can picture my little kids.
The excitement of being in a Batman costume. Yeah, was
like an hour's long electric charge that ran through my son.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's something to watch, the picking it out, the wearing
it for a couple of days ahead of time, and
then that night, I da when you go out door
to door and they got the cosum on.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
It's just it's showtime.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah, it's some time and they are so thrilled. The
only Well, go ahead, Michael, what do you remember?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Well, I had an unfortunate incident. This is a true story.
Speaker 5 (03:51):
As a kid, I wanted to make my own costume.
I thought, you know, I'm gonna be cool. I'm gonna
make my own costume. I decaid I was gonna be
a ghost. So I took a white sheet and cut
out eyes, and it didn't look like I was a ghost.
It looked like I was a clan member.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
People were taking pictures and my mom was showing pictures up.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
You know, Hey, this was you know what the kids
did for Halloween, And everybody was horrified thinking that I
dressed up like a KKK.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Wow, Michael True Colors, Huh.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
No, It's just I wasn't good at crafts.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
I'm not a racistem poor with crafts, Katie.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Okay, Well, the movie Pocahontas, the Disney movie came out
in nineteen ninety five, and so I.
Speaker 4 (04:34):
Was, my god, you are not going to admit to
cultural appropriation right now?
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Are no? Wait? Wait for this.
Speaker 6 (04:40):
My mother is the is the punchline of this story.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
You dressed in brown face, no no, I.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
White and my hair was like bleached blonde when I
was younger. So I dressed up as Pocahontas, and my
mom proceeded to tell everyone that year that I was
Poka honky.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Wow h.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
I know. My neighbor kids are got a classic going.
The boy. They're like five and seven. The boy is
gonna be Darth Vader and the girl is gonna be
snow White, and it's.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Just so awesome.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
My only kid memory that I like.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Now, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Was she gonna be the old timey sweet snow White
or the snarking latinx woke snow White of the recent
attempt at a movie?
Speaker 1 (05:28):
I would assume this family, it's the snow White classic,
the only one I actually remember from my childhood. Before
I get to some of the adult Halloween the uh.
For some reason, only one memory sticks out, and it's
from South Dakota. So I must have been four because
we moved then. So I was four years old marching
(05:49):
in a parade. It was freezing freaking cold outside, as
it would be in South Dakota, basically November. But I
was dressed as a hobo, and and I marched in
this parade. My parents let me march in, and I
remember my dad was like walking along on the sidewalk.
I was in the parade, and he was like keeping
track of me. I guess because I was three years
(06:10):
old in my home outfit and the pitch dark the Midwest,
so it's pitch dark outside.
Speaker 4 (06:16):
What bad devisions had you made from birthtage three and
a half that to her becoming a homeless vagabond.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Made a lot of bad decisions, just endless bad decisions.
Got on the meth, got on the pipe, and that's
what happens. I remember I had this pillow under my
shirt and everything like that, So I was like a
fat hobo and I'd stop.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
Almost are crazy skinny. Now they don't have the valet,
But back in the day.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Your kid would dress as a homeless person for Halloween
to get Yeah, it's kind of hilarious. Then I remember
once when I was older, when I was like thirteen,
too old a trick or treat, but I still wanted
to participate in Halloween. I tried to dress as an
old woman, and then when kids would come to the door,
I would try to come to the door as a
(07:01):
kind of old woman, but then fall and have a
major fall of the old They're supposed to be horrified
that an elderly person fell. I guess was my whole routine.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Great comedy.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I'm not sure I fooled anybody. But as I got
into later an adult, because Joe got married when he
was seventeen, but I was, I was out in single
for quite a while and I had a number of girlfriends.
Were the super hot slutty Halloween costumes, which I was
all for. That's fantastic, you know, slutty witch, sludy snow white,
slutty whatever, bloody nurse, slutty nurse. But one year, for
(07:32):
some reason, I don't know how I got convinced in this,
because it's not me. I was a French maid. I
wore a French maid costume. What yeah, I know why
I got convinced of that. Someone convinced you too well.
I find it hard to believe it was my idea.
I just remember that I did.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
It was that the girlfriend who turned out to be
a lesbian. I don't actually remember again because it's taken
shape here, it's all starting to do in the math.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
It got a lot of laughs because I was not
an attractive French maid and I had the feather duster
that could.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Go on, that's funny and everything.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Oh yeah, yeah, I didn't wear any sort of girlish shoes.
I think that was a step two farm.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
I was Sandy from Greece one year.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Yeah, but slutty, but slutty Sandy, Sandy one at the
end of the movie.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
Because the whole point of that movie is you couldn't
get the guy until she, you know, started smoking cigarettes,
wearing heels and leather and became slutty.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
That was the one I was, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
When she was her authentic self, sweet and innocent, she
was undeserving of the love.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Of a man, right, sure, right, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
I don't want my kids eating a bunch of candy
at this age. I don't want candy in the house.
My son, who my oldest son, has got like a
party to go to a high school party. My thirteen
year old wants to stay home and watch scary movies.
I haven't decided what.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
We're gonna watch yet.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'm thinking poulter Geist. He hasn't seen that. That's a
pretty scary movie. I love poulter Geist.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
I don't remember that one at all. I've never been
into horror movies. But which one's that? What's the broad
outlines of that? Is that the little girl with the TV.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Or they're back, Yeah, the TV? And uh yeah, it's
it's more paranormal than horror movie. I'm not really a
slasher sneaks into your house and kills you in your sleep.
I know, I don't really dig that. I know.
Speaker 6 (09:29):
This is a new, uh new neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Do you guys all for you, Jack?
Speaker 6 (09:33):
Do you get trigger treaders? You guys?
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Yeah, I'm gonna call the sex so I'll get a few.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Okay, not very many though not for years. Yeah, any,
it's kind of a trage.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
I lived in a neighborhood for a while where we
got lots of trigger treaters, and it was great. It
was really fun. And uh that those couple of years
was great because my neighbor he had kids, but they
would go out with his wife and we would sit
on the porch and get hammered. We did that like
four years in a row, good times when I was
still drinking. I didn't have kids, and we would just
sit on the porch and drink for hours. Kids can look,
(10:05):
We're gonna have evil spirits, just spirits, and I'd be
seen by the end of the night.
Speaker 4 (10:12):
We lived in a neighborhood a number of years ago
that had a rep for being a great trick or
treating neighborhood, and car loads and car loads of kids
from like all over the Metro area would descend on
our neighborhood and I couldn't decide what I thought of that.
I mean, you saw a hell of a lot of
you know, cute kids and all, but it was it
was like the adults getting free candy for themselves, putting
(10:34):
their kids to work in the candy mines.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That's what it felt like.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And sometimes you get the parents themselves walk up trick
or treat and the kid would be like back on
the sidewalk. It's just a complicated EBT program, right, exactly, Yeah, experience.
I can't remember what costumes that were as a kid,
but I can feel like my hot breath condensed on
(10:58):
the plastic mask with the tiny.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Little mouth hole.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
I can't remember what mask it would have been.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
Yeah, back then, this is I don't know, this might
be before your times, Katie, butit but like the costumes
Joe and I would get going to sears or whatever,
every costume was exactly the same. Is just a different
print on the plastic sheeting you wore that looked like
Aquaman or Superman or Count Dracula or whatever. You're with
your plastic mask that were all the same with the
(11:26):
tiny little mouth hole and the tiny little eye holes
to make it easier to get hit by a car.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Exactly.
Speaker 4 (11:31):
The plastic masks had no breathing hole and you couldn't see,
so you'd get hit by a car. And if God forbid,
you got anywhere close to a flame, the plastic that
it was made out of would just go kerbluey, And.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
If none of that happened, you'd suffocate.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yes, and the painful strap around the mask behind your
head that wasn't good if you were big headed, yes, Michael.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Plus they would smell. I don't know if you remember to
have that plasticy smell if you had a really bad.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
One, fumes were great for you. Yeah, how you got
cancer from?
Speaker 1 (11:57):
The reason I got cancer is probably all the plastic
masks here after a year. I was at the Halloween
store the other day. It's interesting, the whole macabre. And
I know there's a psychological reason why we play out
these fears to help deal with them or whatever that is.
But gosh, all kinds of like, here's a guy who's
gonna come up behind you and stab you to death.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
It's just ah, why is that entertaining a little close
to home?
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
No kid out in a world with all the crazy
junkies running around. Okay, is this a Halloween movie or
is this a clip from the news this evening.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Quick thing even now? Or as a kid, if you
put out your pumpkin, what candy would you most like
them to put in your pumpkin?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Uh? Back in the day, Snickers was a big win.
That good candy.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Snickers is pretty good. I like a peanut butter cup.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Okay, see, I was just gonna say, mine's tied between
a Reese's Peanut butter cup and a Snickers.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Peanut butter cup is damn good. I'm old enough that
like Grandma's were making popcorn balls or maybe actual caramel apples,
like they'd make homemade treats.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Dude, there was a dentist down the street from me
to get out toothbrushes.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
I hated going to that guy's.
Speaker 4 (13:06):
Oh jeez, screw you, dick, there's a half dozen eggs
for your trouble.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Run run well.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
Back in the day, I'd eat a whole bag at
kit Cat bars, but these days it cost me a
toe or two.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Good diabetes joke there to end with, Well, I guess
that's it.
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