Halloween Free for All!

Halloween Free for All!

Mark, Pam, and Jess

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:07):
Have you ever wondered what was out there in the
night sky, stared up at the stars in the hopes
of seeing something out of the ordinary. Have you heard
unexplainable noises coming from a vacant room or watched the
shadow across the wall in front of you. Have you
asked yourself if there is life after this one, or
if you had life before? What about strange creatures that

(00:28):
are mythical and elusive? Have you experienced dejeuvu or felt
a prompting to leave because you felt you were in danger.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
If you have, you were on the fringe.

Speaker 3 (00:59):
And welcome them to another wonderful episode of On the Fringe.
I'm Mark, I'm.

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Pa, and I'm Essay, and I'm slightly damp because I
just got out of the shower. I apologize.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Pama's very festive.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
I have on what's that name here? Fine?

Speaker 5 (01:23):
Too funny.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
I go to bed immediately after the show, so I
wear my jammies. Well, tonight, we're just gonna have a
fun show. We're gonna talk all things Halloween. I called
it a Halloween free for all. We're just gonna have
fun with it. We're gonna answer some questions from from

(01:47):
folks on the chat. So those of you who are
on the chat, if you have questions, you want to
pick our brain or stump us or whatever, just go
right on ahead, and we're gonna be talking to Jess
about this year's nightmaron Bradley. I believe am has a

(02:09):
slideshow of some of the past years. So it'll be fun.
It'll be fun. So, uh, you know a lot of people,
you know, they look at Halloween and it's just a
kid's holiday, and that's what it's evolved to here in

(02:31):
the United States, and it is. The kids love it.
I love it, the girls love it, and we hope
all of you love it. If you want to really
see a lot of the the deep, the deep beginnings
of Halloween, check out last week's uh border Town Strange

(02:56):
and the ladies have it all up there. We're not
going to go all that deep. We'll talk about some
some of the traditions that we enjoy and we enjoyed
when we were kids. And see what all of you
got to add to it? And said, so about that

(03:19):
popping pooping on cardboard? All right, I got nothing. I
am stumped. So there you go.

Speaker 5 (03:34):
On cardboard. I don't know, thank you INZA.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
So what what are your favorite UH traditions from times
long past? Yeah, I like either one of you.

Speaker 4 (03:56):
I love the Yeah, I love the trigger treating. In fact,
Mike and I were talking, my husband and I were
talking the other day about all of our favorite treats
we used to get in our least favorite treats. I
don't know if anybody at home remembers, but back in
the eighties, there used to be these little plastic coffins
that had skeletons in them, the little bone pieces. They

(04:17):
were like they were tart and you could put together
a whole skeleton. Yes, yeah, and it didn't matter. Every
year I would end up with either the wax lips
or the wax vampire teeth. And I knew that they
were wax and they were gross, but they looked so good,

(04:38):
and usually by the end of the night I would
go ahead and try a bye it just because it
looks so fantastic. It was never good, it.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Was it was never good.

Speaker 3 (04:48):
I remember when I was a kid, a lot of
times I would end up with both in my bag.
I'm not sure why people thought that was a good idea.
I love sticking on the tea in my mouth and
just going around.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
It's great. I always like the whistle pops. Yeah you
could drive your parents.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yeah, absolutely, and one of them.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
I'm gonna say, I'm one of those evil people who
enjoyed candy corn. I know, I love it. It's good stuff.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Like when I would get home, the first thing I
would do was throw away those nasty it was like
what like saltwater taffy or something that came in those
orange and black wrappers.

Speaker 5 (05:38):
Oh yeah, I remember that.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
They take off my teeth.

Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yeah, I was just like, you know, you'd sit down
on the floor and pour your your bag or you're
pumpkin out and that was the first thing you were doing.
You were like, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Sure, And and the bit of honeys. They were not
the only anymore now is Halloween.

Speaker 4 (06:06):
Yeah, the little hard Brocks do you remember? Brocks used
to put out, you know, like those big bags of
like varieties, but none of it was good. It was
all old Lady candy, the.

Speaker 5 (06:19):
New good stuff. And yeah, the caramels were good. That
was about it.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
I remember caramels were good. I always liked their butterscotches.

Speaker 5 (06:30):
Yeah, those were good. Yes, Ian is correct. Licorice was
the first stuff in the.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ben disgusting black licorice. My dad loved it, so I
never had to throw that out. Any black licorice I got,
I set aside for my dad and he just thought
that was the greatest. I earned brownie points every year
for donating my black liquorice to my dad.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
So gross that my favorite. Yeah, some of my favorites
were like the homemade stuff. We had particular houses we
went to for popcorn balls. I love the best ones.
And this is a little weird, but if you're from
the area you might know. So in a little tiny
town near US called Havanah, my grandmother lived there and.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
Oh oh she froze.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
It's an action shot back, you're you're back.

Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now she's gone again. Oh no, I love popcorn balls,
but you had to know the people giving them out though. Yeah,
my grandma made them every year until she couldn't.

Speaker 5 (07:50):
Oh man, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
We're trying to swipe them.

Speaker 5 (07:55):
My mom has started this thing where she takes instead
of popping for popcorn balls, she takes the puffcorn that
you can get that butterflavor. Yeah, and she makes all
the caramel for them and then covers that she doesn't
make them into balls. She just kind of leaves them
loose and you bake them in the oven after you've
covered them for a while and keep stirring them until

(08:16):
they're nice and crunchy, and those are the bomb and
the kids absolutely love them. Nice. Yeah, that's something super good.
But that's more recent than it wasn't when I was
a kid, for sure.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
But now for the last few years to the last
few years, you've been able to buy prepackaged popcorn balls
and they're just not the same. No, I mean, they
are traditioned. It's one of those traditions you just don't
see anymore. But how many people trust the people who

(08:51):
who would you know, put homemade treats out in the
bags anymore?

Speaker 5 (08:56):
That's true.

Speaker 3 (08:57):
We're just going to toss it.

Speaker 5 (08:59):
That is true.

Speaker 3 (09:00):
So unless your grandma is gonna make you real popcorn balls,
your only choice is the pre made one.

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
So who remembers the cheap plastic, vacuum formed masks with
the crappy rubber band I do, In fact.

Speaker 5 (09:22):
Let me share something here.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
She's got her photo. Yes, I never had a mask.
My mom made all of my costumes for me, so
I was never prone to wear those ben Cooper masks
with the little plastic bibs.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
Oh yeah, I never had to do that. I remember
several of them over the years. I mean I was
Darth Vader, I was an astronaut, a Gemini astronaut. That
was cool.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
That's kind of fun.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
I remember my brother was a slee stack one time.

Speaker 5 (10:03):
That's that's pretty great too.

Speaker 3 (10:05):
I even found a picture of that of a classroom.
One of the kids is wearing that same sleeve stack outfit.

Speaker 5 (10:13):
Really. Oh, that's super cool. That's me and my brother was.
I think I was three, and that was my absolute favorite.
Still to this day. One of my favorite costumes was
my kiddy Cat costume. Yeah, but those are definitely the
old plastic outfits with the cheap rubber band things that
went around your head.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
I think I did too at one point. That's the
eighth But those were great. They were fun for the kids.
Parents hated them, and they never made it through the night. No,
if you wanted to wear them more than once, you
had to have a stapler so you can staple a
new rubber band in it.

Speaker 5 (10:53):
Oh for sure. And I'm looking at that. I think
you can. I think I have. It's like I have
or piggy tails.

Speaker 3 (11:02):
Probably, And the visibility was terrible.

Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah right there.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
It's a wonder we all didn't get run over.

Speaker 5 (11:13):
Right, that's the truth.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Uh. And my aunt had the and I guess you
can buy reproductions now. My aunt had the old uh
paper mache ornaments she always put up every year, the pumpkins,
the black cats, and the bats. Uh and they were
real cute. See, Uh, those are the past.

Speaker 5 (11:45):
Yeah, she still had all of those.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Right, Well, they make reproductions now, so you can decorate
your house nineteen sixties, I mean tomorrow, nineteen fifties, sixties, tomorrow.

Speaker 5 (11:57):
Yeah, that would be so cool. And so said. There
was always a tiny slot for the mouth that you
would always stick your tongue through it until it bled.

Speaker 3 (12:05):
Yeah. Yeah, everybody did that. At least.

Speaker 5 (12:09):
We were all more wounded the next day at.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
School and high on sugar.

Speaker 5 (12:15):
Yes, our little town we are. That's one thing I
really like about Katie is we are crazy about our
Halloween and we always have been. And it's always fun.
At two o'clock on Halloween Day if it's during the
school week, the kids all bring their costumes to school

(12:35):
in the grade school and then they all like dress
up or is that when they leave the school maybe,
and then they dressed up in their costumes and then
they walk downtown and then all the parents and grandparents
and everybody come down to see you walk through a
little parade.

Speaker 6 (12:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:52):
I always love that. That was great.

Speaker 5 (12:54):
It's the best.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
I'm a transplant, but I thought that was just freaking amazing.

Speaker 5 (13:00):
We were trying to figure out how long the parade
has been going on, and one of the yearbooks that
we have, I want, I can't remember what year. I
want to say it was like nineteen twelve, does that
sound right?

Speaker 4 (13:11):
Or nineteen suwhere run there.

Speaker 5 (13:14):
Yeah, there's mention of a Halloween parade that they were
one year they talked about having it and that they
had it, and then the next year that they talked
again about the Halloween parade. So we're kind of thinking
that's when it started.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
So, I mean, well, over one hundred years now, Katie
has had a Halloween kiddie. Yeah, that's pretty amazing. I
mean there's not a lot of places that still do
stuff like that.

Speaker 4 (13:45):
Yeah, and then they all get school parties afterwards. Do
you know how many they still do that, they don't.

Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah, I remember doing it when I was a kid,
and I know most of them don't do it anymore.

Speaker 4 (13:56):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if they still do stuff
like that, But when I had so much fun when
my daughter was in elementary school because the room mothers
would throw the parties for the teachers, right, and it
was so much fun. I remember her second grade year,
we had a mummy wrapping competition. When they got back

(14:19):
from the parade. We broke them up into teams and
brought in huge rolls of toilet paper and they had
to pick a kid that was the mummy, and then
we timed them to see how fast they could wrap
their mummies. And then we brought in the principal to
judge the best mummy and they won. Yeah, they won.
Like caramel apples or something like that, but so much fun.

(14:42):
I wish schools still did that, Like across the.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Boarder, carmel apples. That's something that I remember having as
a kid, but you don't see very often anymore.

Speaker 4 (14:51):
I love normal apples.

Speaker 3 (14:53):
Now. That's a tradition that goes clear back to the
beginning of sewing. Because fruit, our syrup covered fruit was
a way to preserve fruit, and the apples were kind
of a Roman tradition, so cool. So some things have

(15:17):
still hung on for all these years.

Speaker 5 (15:23):
I think it's fun because of the you know, the
house that my son and his wife and kids live
in now was my grandparents' home, and it's the house
that my mom grew up in, and you know, I
lived there for a while with my family and then
we sold it to my son. So it's really kind
of passed down the family for since the fifties. And

(15:45):
so that neighborhood is the one that I remember trick
or treating when I was a little kid. And it's
so cool to see my grandkids trick or treating, and
you know, it's my mom. She's still here, so it's
her great grandkids that are trick or treating the same neighborhoods.

Speaker 3 (16:00):
Right right. I remember trick or treating in Rock, Kansas,
which for those of you who've ever driven through there, uh,
there's about six seven houses, and but back when I
was kid, most mostly they were elderly folks or young families,

(16:20):
and every house that had their porch line on they
just give you like jumping. Nothing wrong with that, and
a lot of people were treated through there because it
was on the highway between several cities. So, oh the
lights are on, where will just stop here? And so
my grandparents always got quite a few kids. There wasn't

(16:44):
that many kids in town, I mean. And it's sad
to see I was through there the other day that
there's just not very many houses there anymore that people
are living in. It's just one of those little towns.
They still have a cafe, but it's really busy all
the time. So that's good, that's good. But yeah, I

(17:05):
remember when it had a grocery store and a gas station,
all kinds of stuff.

Speaker 5 (17:10):
So you and I agree. You said toffee apples are
great until you run out of toffee and it's just
an apple on a stick.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yes, that's true. And they've got to be good apples
because you can get you know, a lot of these
apples you get there soft and mushy on the inside.
That's no fun.

Speaker 5 (17:31):
And so from earlier, Neco wafers were the worst candy. Yeah,
those were bad.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, I don't mind the Neco waivers. They're not bad.

Speaker 4 (17:43):
I think the only good that Neco wafers are are
for making roofs on gingerbread houses.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yes, you remember the little bottles of like wax that
had cocaine or were supposed to have cocine them and stuff.

Speaker 4 (17:56):
Yeah, like like you're like a.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Sh squeeze it out.

Speaker 5 (18:03):
Yeah, Fundip fundip was always good to get.

Speaker 4 (18:08):
Yeah, we'd go to arc City sometimes.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
My aunts would take me around to all their friends' house. Halloween,
I left town. Remember the big brown grocery bags. Yeah,
I had three of those full.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Whoa dang, that's as I remember that year.

Speaker 3 (18:34):
I was dressed as an astronaut. I did great, nice.

Speaker 4 (18:39):
Yeah, I was a connoisseur of the uh you know,
dump out most of your bags so you looked all
sad with just a few candies in the bottom. Look
all sad. When you hold your bag up, you know,
they tend to give you just a little bit more,
you know, like, oh you've got a little empty bag.

Speaker 3 (18:56):
Guys, you were working on and.

Speaker 4 (18:58):
Then you got back in the car, you know, after
you made it down the block, and then hold back
in the car again and dump out most of it
and leave some crap candy at the bottom.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
You know.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yep, did you guys ever get like spazy stuff like
somebody was just empty in their junk drawer because they
forgot Nichols.

Speaker 5 (19:18):
We got Nichols. That's usually what we ended up with
when they ran.

Speaker 3 (19:20):
Out of Yeah.

Speaker 4 (19:23):
So there was a lady who lived in Havana and
we loved to go to her house because her she
had a big, huge jar full of change. Like her
husband would come home every day and you know, just
dump his pocket change in this jar. And at Halloween
instead of giving out candy, she would just scoop out
a handful of change and dump it in your bucket.

(19:45):
And it was like you never know what you were
going to get. You could end up with a lot
of pennies, or you could get some like quarters in there,
and nice when we were little, quarters could buy you
some stuff.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, I mean you could. And I remember getting hal
dollars at some of these houses. And you can still
occasionally find a silver half dollar back then. Wow, you know,
back in the Sauri they were still quite a few
in circulation.

Speaker 5 (20:14):
I just want to see something really exciting that came
in today, Sure you any drum roll, I'm so excited PAM.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Is officially a published offer. We're so proud of our PAM.

Speaker 5 (20:44):
I'm super excited. When year I was putting candy in
a kid's bag and it clunked. One of my neighbors
just passing out cans of soda because I forgot what
night it was.

Speaker 4 (20:53):
Oh no, Actually, if you come trick or treating a candy,
you'll get soda. There's a house here in town that
hands out weird sodas.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:05):
Yeah, they put out like a huge they they like
put two big long tables out and they just fill
it full of weird soda. So you get like pickle
soda and bacon flavored soda and yeah, and they just
let the kids pick whichever soda they want. So it's
like the weird Soda House.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Yeah. When I was a kid, a lot of places
would give out cans of soda or full sized candy bars.
Those were always great.

Speaker 5 (21:29):
Yeah, there are they're used to. I don't know if
they still do. There was a couple of houses that
did full sized candy bars.

Speaker 4 (21:36):
And the fire station does.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
I think Yeah, I think they do.

Speaker 5 (21:40):
Thanks Ian look out, Stephen King. If I do.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
That, you're gonna have to get busy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
You write six pages a day regardless.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Yeah, that's a lot.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
It doesn't sound like a lot, but that's a lot.
Used to be in our town that the very best
place to go was the Cotton Candy House, and the
Busters did that, and they did it for years and years,
even before I was born. They were doing it. And
as they got older, they sold their house to their

(22:15):
kids and passed it on the tradition onto them. So
they've been doing it and it's pretty cool. And they
do the full size great thing.

Speaker 4 (22:25):
Yeah yeah, cotton can who excuse me. It's an experience
because they live in a it's a very old, beautiful
Victorian with a big wrap around wide porch and you
get to stand in line and go up onto that
porch and they make it right in front of you.
So and they have they always put all the neat

(22:45):
decorations up, all in the windows and it's all lit up.
It's it's an experience.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
It is. It always was lines for days of the
Cotton Candy House. But worth it, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah. Yeah, Well, and now Jess has her own Halloween tradition.
It is popular popular county wide. How many kids did
we have last year?

Speaker 4 (23:12):
I had one and sixty six.

Speaker 5 (23:17):
May not sound like a lot, but our population in
our town is about seventeen hundred total.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
That was not just the kids from here. There was
the kids from Atlanta, kids from Copyville, kids from India.
Yeah it's from Bartlesville.

Speaker 4 (23:32):
Yeah, we get. We had kids come in from like Neota,
Shee for Donia. And it's not just for for us.
It's because Knie still holds those old traditions. It's you
can still go trick or treating door to door.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
It's safe.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
It's safe.

Speaker 5 (23:51):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (23:51):
We have a tiny little police station. We don't have
very many policemen because we're a small town, but almost
all of them are out that night making sure that
traffic's running okay and the kids are safe. It's just
it's just an old fashioned Halloween. It's so much fun.

Speaker 3 (24:08):
I like this town. I mean it's not my home,
well it is my hometown now, but it reminds me
of the way my town was when I was a kid. Yes,
and this time of year makes me really miss those
days because they still do those things. They still have
the same traditions. You know, it used to be every

(24:29):
town in the country, you know, you didn't worry about
your kids being out doing these things. Now it's hard
to find a place where you know, it's safe.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
So it reminds me of the kid running the cotton
candy machine in Geneseeo. Mark was well stocked, Yes he was.
He kept bringing cotton candy.

Speaker 3 (24:51):
Well, he kept how many people haven't. I said, I'll
tell you what, how much? And he shot me a deal,
and so I bought cotton can for the entire crew.
Not everybody wanted it, so I ended up eating some
of it. It was so hot, it was very hard,
but it was going to a good cost. They weren't

(25:13):
trying to make money that I forget what charity it was,
but it was a good one and I had no problem.
I would have just given him money. But you know,
it made that kid just was He had a great
day because he was selling the heck out of that
cotton can.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
It was thrilled you made him. I'm sure he still
talks about that.

Speaker 4 (25:37):
So, Yeah, our little town is excited this year because
they got rid of the trunk or treat. Yes, yep, yeah,
which I thought was ridiculous. Anyway that they did the
trunk or treat, they ended up having it earlier and
earlier every year because the kids were complaining because they
wanted to go door to door too, right, and it

(26:00):
got to the point it's gotten so popular to go
door to door again that they didn't have enough people
to participate giving out candy at the trunk retreat to
even have it. So they were like, where are we
doing this, Let's just shut it down, and I was like.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
Yes, so now there's going to be kind of little
goblins and which is out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:19):
I love it. The kids have so much fun, and
that's that's what that's what it's about today. Yes, it's
for the kids. Everything is about the kids and a
few parents living vicariously through their kids. If you're lucky,
you have kids that like candy that you don't like,

(26:40):
and vice.

Speaker 4 (26:40):
Versa the parent.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Yeah, the par tx Like I said, my dad got
all of my brother and I's black licorice and he
was thrilled. And we're going like, God, I'm gros.

Speaker 5 (26:59):
That's fun.

Speaker 4 (27:00):
It's gonna be a big year this year. It falls
on a Friday. This year, Fridays it was huge.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
I think the weather is supposed to be good this weekend.

Speaker 5 (27:08):
It is.

Speaker 4 (27:08):
It's gonna be a little chili, but it's gonna be
as dry.

Speaker 5 (27:12):
As long as it's dry, I will be at the
library passing out candy. If it rains, I'm.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Not gonna be forty one partly cloudy, no rain, so yeah,
that's gonna be it's gonna be good. Now we'll get.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
So we dodged and rain right now. I've been. My
house is full right now because everything we should be
painting outside is inside. So it's kind of a war
zone right now.

Speaker 5 (27:42):
We lucked out. Sean and I left for the Arkansas
Expo Thursday night and it didn't rain at all, but
the ones that came over from Bartlesville the next day,
it's just report on. I'm the whole way there, so
we're really glad we left when we did. And then
we've on the way back it had just stopped raining,

(28:02):
because it rained the whole time we've been there, and
it just stopped on our way back, so yea, yeah
that worked out.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yeah, it was. I drove through that too. So on
Friday afternoon, Mike and I drove up to Kansas City
to go watch my niece march on her senior night.
Oh cool, and it just poured the whole time we
were there. We were soaked and cold, but it was
worth it. It was really cool. I don't know if

(28:31):
anybody at home loves marching bands as much as I do.
But they did a glow in the dark night. Oh n,
they did their field show in the dark. They shut
off all the stadium lights and they were all lit
up with lights and glowsticks and stuff, and they handed
out glow sticks and stuff to all the parents in
the stands so you could support them and their entire show.

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I was joking with my my cousin was there watch
him too, And I was like, man, it looks like
a grandma couldn't figure out which lawn ornament she wanted
to put out for Christmas, so she just put them
all out. Because all the kids had made their own
costumes with like the glow, so some of them had
like Christmas lights or like glow sticks or I was like,

(29:20):
it looks like Grandma hit QVC a little too hard.

Speaker 3 (29:28):
Cool though it came out my my grandma was still
uh buying stuff and she hit the QVC hard. Yeah,
Oh my gosh. She she always did all of her
Christmas shopping and Birthday shopping. It was almost always through

(29:48):
catalogs and QVC came along. You never know what you
were going to get.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Oh, yeah, funny, too cool, very impulsive stuff. I don't
like buying big presents for all of them, but I
do stockings for everybody. And so it sounds like they're
they wouldn't they would be cheaper. They're really not.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
They're really not. But it's so much fun all the
you get all the time gifts especially, I mean, there's
so many little things that you can buy. You can
be really thoughtful in those stockings.

Speaker 5 (30:23):
Yes, I always get up phone chargers and you know,
the bricks to go with them and and stuff like that,
and then I go find stuff that I think they'll like,
you know, and just little kitchen gifts. And I usually
get to trade and load up on like the all
the cool spices and stuff like that for the girls.

(30:44):
And I don't know if I'm gonna be able to
do that this year.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
Yeah, I understand. I do understand.

Speaker 5 (30:52):
I can't drive myself pissing me off, Kipam, I know,
dang it.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
Yeah, she doesn't fall for anything. She falls for nothing,
thank you, no reason, no reason.

Speaker 4 (31:11):
Necessary, no no reason at all.

Speaker 3 (31:14):
We love you, Pam.

Speaker 5 (31:16):
Impact apparently.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
So dumb, poor thing, so dumb.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
He'll be all right. I'll be back up and running
or walking quickly or walking. I don't know if there's
quickly about that.

Speaker 3 (31:37):
I've been thinking about getting slow moving vehicle signs for
the back of all my overall so I don't get
run over at work. Oh well, let's talk about the
new tradition here in town. Let's talk about nightmare. You've
got a lot of new stuff this year. Huh.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
We've got a bed so so we're in the process
of building a lot right now. Every year we put
together a new front so that there's something new for
the kids. Every year. We don't redo the entire thing.
We recycle everything, but we make a like a new
We call it the front feature. And we're right now

(32:20):
hurriedly trying to build and paint as fast as we can.
And unfortunately, like we were talking about, it has been
super rainy here off and on, and even when it's
not raining, the humidity is just so hot.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Oh yeah, it was damp all day long. It didn't
rain a bit.

Speaker 4 (32:37):
Yeah. I was literally outside with stand ups with a
hair dryer trying to get layers of paint to dry. Yeah.
So I can't tell you what the front feature is.
We always leave it as a surprise you'll find out
Halloween night what our front feature is, but it is
something tim Burton related. It'll be a Tim Burton movie

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or a scene from the movies.

Speaker 5 (33:02):
This is a perfect place to start. This was like
your first year, wasn't it? Or close to the first year.

Speaker 4 (33:07):
No, this was like maybe like the third year in
was it? Yeah? Our first year was literally like one
path to my mom and I at a table with
some candy and there was like some pumpkins and a
scarecrow and maybe a blow up Jack skeleton. I think
that's it. Yeah, I had no idea it was going

(33:30):
to grow into what it did.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
It is. People talk about it all the time. I
heard people talking about it at work today.

Speaker 5 (33:40):
Cool.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
So, I mean it's great and people love it.

Speaker 4 (33:48):
Yeah, so what it is if you've never heard of
it before, heard we talk about it. We themed it
after all things tim Burton. It was my daughter loves
Tim Burton, and we we wanted to put on something
big for Halloween. But we didn't want it to be scary.
We didn't want it to be the you know, gross

(34:09):
out Halloween stuff. We wanted something that like kids of
all ages would just love. So Tim Burton's perfect because
it's whimsical, you know, spooky stuff rather than gory spooky stuff.
And it started out small and we built it year
after year. And what it is is it's a full walkthrough.
So we create these paths that go through all these

(34:29):
different Tim Burton scenes. We've got tons of inflatables and
hand painted stand ups that I make of the different
characters from the different movies, tons of jack O lanterns
that we collected over the years, and different colored spotlights
and projectors, and you can just walk through it. And
in the middle of it we PLoP down a big

(34:50):
tent where we make miniature funnel cakes that you can
take with you.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, the funnel cakes. Everybody loves.

Speaker 4 (35:00):
Yeah, And so we got into the Mews magazine and
into the paper a couple of times. This is some
of the static props that we've made. These are spooky candles.
In fact, I just got done regluing those together again.
They fell apart in storage this year.

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Oh no, because of the humanity.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
Probably it's there. Yeah, they're made a PVC so the
glue only holds for so long before they pop apart.
But the glued them right back together again.

Speaker 5 (35:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
Hey, there they are.

Speaker 4 (35:41):
Yeah. And actually the reason why I'm all, like, you know,
my hair's not dry or anything. I just got out
of the shower because I've been just working on the
spider tunnel all day long to day. Usually the spider
tunnel sits underneath one of our trees. Uh, And so
said I had explained about the personal funnel cakes on
Karen Show last night. Interest was I.

Speaker 3 (36:02):
People from from overseas.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
Okay, we had to make them small. I can't imagine
trying to make a full sized funnel cake for each
one of those kids.

Speaker 5 (36:17):
Yeah, you could do it.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
Yeah, Mike ended up finding my husband ended up finding
these huge metal rings. There's three rings attached to a sinner,
and they PLoP them down into the oil and then
squirt the funnel cake into each of the rings, so
it makes some kind of like French fry bag size.
And then we slide them down into one of those
bags and put the powdered sugar in so you can

(36:39):
kind of like hold it, you know.

Speaker 5 (36:41):
Like a burger. That's cool, so it's not.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
Quite so messy. Yeah, but I was saying, I was
working on the spider tunnel. We couldn't have it under
the tree. This year. The tree, the poor tree can't
do it anymore. It was like I can't support it anymore. Yeah,
we ended up. I found two old like pop up

(37:04):
tints that didn't have their canopies anymore, just the skeletons.
So I've kind of lashed those together and I'm really
I'm creating a new type of spider tunnel over that.
But man, it is it's a lot of work. It's
trying to figure out like a whole new beast is
basically what I'm doing. And I had to replace a
lot of my spider netting this year. It was getting
to be I think it was like six or seven

(37:26):
years old this year, and some of it's just too
old to use, so I get to recut. So but
it's worth it because the kids love the spider tunnel.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
Yeah, it's pretty popular.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
The kids love your Your Your event. I mean everybody
talks about it. I've been there. Oh we're going to
the Nightmare next.

Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, it's it's so much fun to put on. It's
it's a lot of work, but it's fun work. So
like it was a long day to day with that
spider webbing, but it's so much fun to like step
back and look at it and go ooh, I could
make it even creepier if I do this.

Speaker 5 (38:05):
So that's cool.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
Yeah, And what you're seeing right here are our collection.
We've been collecting foam pumpkins, the old foam pumpkins from
back in the like the Some of these are from
the seventies. We're so old in fact, that that's one
of the things we get to do. I did it.
I think it was a week ago. I was running

(38:29):
late on it. We call it pumpkin triage. We store
these in big plastic bags in my mother's grain bin.
She's got a grain room, and the reason why we
store it in that we've ran out of space here.
But it's mice proof. The entire room has been like
covered in sheet metal so that mice can't get in

(38:52):
to get the grain. She doesn't keep grain in there
anymore because we don't keep cattle on the property. But
it's perfect for the pumpkins because then I don't have
to worry about micekitt in there. But it gets hot
in there and the glue gives out on those seams
on that foam.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
So usually when we pop a bag open, there'll be one, two,
maybe even three pumpkins that have popped apart. So we
do pumpkin triage. We start like an assembly line. We
pull pumpkins out and check them if they've come apart,
they get cleaned, they get glued, they get little staples
or tapes, and then we use painter's tape to wrap

(39:28):
around them to hold them still while they're drying, and
then you know, check all their bulbs and everything. It
takes about a day and a half to get through
all of the pumpkins.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
And you're buying more every year.

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Yeah, one or two. Sometimes we have to replace one
because it just gets so old. A lot of people
are really nice. I've been gifted people's old ones. You know,
they've got them hanging out in their garage and they
don't use them anymore. So they're like, hey, would you
like a pumpkin? And I'm like, zoins, that's mine.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
Ian said, tell me you're from Kansas without telling me
you're from Kansas.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
Wow, wow. In vehicle vehicle vehicle vehicle.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
He makes it a drinking game. He's toasted.

Speaker 5 (40:24):
Yeah that's good.

Speaker 4 (40:31):
Yeah. So there's all the jack O lanterns. There's some
of the stand ups that we do, Like I said,
I'm painting. I'm painting one, two, three, four, five five
this year.

Speaker 5 (40:47):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (40:49):
Yeah, in fact, I can show you one if I
can get away from here for a second a little.

Speaker 5 (40:56):
I love you.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Hold it on that one and I will go. I
have a stand up that I just finished that I
can actually show you. Yeah, you get like a sneak peep,
like a sneak preview.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
Yay.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
I know. When Jess first started out, she was making
some of these with leftover plywood, but plywood's gotten so expensive.
She does a lot of them with the film board now.
But they are just I mean, look at them. They're amazing.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
Yeah, she's a hell of an artist. She always has it.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
She's an incredible artist. And these things when you walk in,
they look there's they don't look homemade at all.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
They look absolutely they look commercial. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (41:38):
Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
They're better than a lot of the commercial stuff, way better.

Speaker 5 (41:41):
Than a lot of the commercial stuff. And it's unique.
And I'm a huge jet or I'm said Jack Skillington.
Well it is Jack skilling to but Tim Burton fan too,
so I I love it.

Speaker 3 (41:58):
Okay, can I tell you something with out getting hung.

Speaker 5 (42:02):
Maybe I reserve the right to make that decision after I.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
Have never watched any of them.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
Oh my god, Mark, we've never watched one, never watched Okay,
so I brought.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
To you I'm a bad man.

Speaker 6 (42:20):
Oh he's cute, right, Yep, that's cute.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
Wind my art Lance Art Lange. Oh, I love him.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
That is cool.

Speaker 6 (42:41):
Beetle Juice, Yes, Bob from Beetle Juice side so cute.

Speaker 4 (42:53):
That's the stand ups that I do. And yeah, Pam's right,
there are mostly out of plywood. But plywood is holy
heck expensive right now, So if I do, these happen
to be on plywood because I actually I made those,
didn't have them painted though, made those like four years ago,

(43:14):
oh wow, but never got them painted like they just
I probably ran out of time and then they got
pushed to the side, and I just year after year
was like, oh, I'll get to those later. But I do.
I use the phone board if it's small enough that
I can use that, and then eventually, if I find
a good scrap piece that's the right size, I'll recreate

(43:36):
it and made it into the wood. And I usually
sell the phone board ones because they're really popular, especially
if you let everybody know the garage sale that it's
from the Nightmare on Bradley. They scoop them right up.
I just sold last year a Beetlejuice from the cartoon

(43:58):
on a piece of phone board. It was hilariou yes,
it's like I believe people want to buy these.

Speaker 5 (44:04):
But I'm sure you made somebody's absolute day.

Speaker 3 (44:07):
Oh I'm sure it's actually in somebody's somebody's kids's wall.

Speaker 5 (44:11):
Probably probably that's funny, and so said Hi Julian tune
driving Cat. Do you remember that Saturday night line?

Speaker 3 (44:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (44:24):
Funny nice.

Speaker 3 (44:28):
All right, Well, let's see what else we get here.
I don't know how many slides we've got. Here's some.

Speaker 4 (44:35):
There's some more of the stand ups.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
I have watched Beetle Juice, so I guess I have
watched some.

Speaker 5 (44:41):
Timber there you go.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
But I'm not watching any of the any of like
the Corpse Bride or any of that stuff. Ever.

Speaker 5 (44:49):
Yeah, there's still quite a few slides. Mark, there's like
you see how many total, yeah for slides, So you're good,
you're got a.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
While seventy two slides, thirty two, thirty two.

Speaker 4 (45:04):
Okay, Yeah, there's the spider tunnel. Uh. Trittonmills dot Com
it's beef netting. In fact, that's what I was doing today.
I was cutting new beef netting. The stuff that you're
seeing here is the stuff I'm getting ready to throw
away part of it's about six or seven years old
now and it's finally just now starting to give out.

Speaker 5 (45:27):
That's incredible. That long.

Speaker 4 (45:29):
Yeah, totally worth your money. Zip ties and steaks in
the ground, and you've got yourself a spider web. I
think this entire tunnel will cost me thirty dollars.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, that's cool.

Speaker 5 (45:39):
Makes a huge impact.

Speaker 4 (45:40):
Too, it is does the kids love running through it?
So much fun?

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Now we just need to buy some triangulas and turn loose.

Speaker 4 (45:51):
Ew I'm good. I have a gigantic inflatable spider, so
she's a She's a lot better than a real spider.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
No, no, no, teas are the bombed Doug. I hate spiders,
but I actually like trangelas. I guess because they're free.
It's like a mouse with too many legs.

Speaker 4 (46:14):
Yeah, there it is. At night, we uplight it with
different colored spots.

Speaker 3 (46:21):
Yep, it's cool. I love driving by and seeing what
you've done every year. Yeah, the spider, that's Lydia Lydia.

Speaker 5 (46:33):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
Yeah. We had a competition. We got her like two
or three years ago, and I asked all the kids
on Facebook to uh like put forth their favorite like
Tim Burton name to name her after. And uh I
got the most hits on Lydia, so nice her.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, bye Lydia. Oh here's some the.

Speaker 4 (47:00):
Little Yeah, these are the little smalls. These actually stemmed
from COVID. During COVID, you couldn't really get out to
buy the materials that we needed to make Halloween with.
And if you if you think plywood's expensive now, you
should have seen it during COVID. It was like triple

(47:21):
the price. It was like thirty plus dollars for one
little sheet of plywood. So these are all made of
paper foam, and it was paper foam that I actually
already had. I tend to buy it in bulk when
I find a good deal on it because it comes
in handy for so many different projects. Because I'm an
artist and I do crafts too, so you know, I

(47:43):
always have this in the house. And I was trying
to figure out a way to add something new to
the walk without having to you know, like sell a
kidney to get some plywood. So I went with Little's
And the really fun thing about this there's a couple
of them that are actual like movie characters, like the
little worm guy is the corpse Bride's maggot, and then

(48:08):
the little wrapped up mummy thing in the first picture
is from Frank and Weenie. He was a pet hamster.
And the cat in the middle is the Tim Burton
Easter egg that's in every Tim Burton movie basically. But
the rest of them are the little creatures from the
hat the carousel hat from Beetlejuice when he turns into

(48:31):
the big I guess the carousel game or whatever, or
the yeah that goes around his little head. That's what
these are. Yeah, yeah, the little carnival. Yeah, and we
still have these. The kids like them. I just kind
of stick them here and there to fill in little

(48:51):
spots or maybe if you're coming around the corner and
there's a little area that I need to fill, I'll
stick one of them in there. Because they're hilarious and
the kids think they're so much fun. They're like, what's that, mom,
And she's their Mom's like, I have no idea, but
it's funny.

Speaker 3 (49:09):
Yeah, too fun Oh that one is amazing. Both of
those are.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
Yeah. Yeah, Beetlejuice and I did the cartoon because I
thought it was a little bit more kid friendly, made
the little Beetlejuice line and all of that, and I'll
be adding to Beetlejuice this year with Bob, so that
would be fun. Yeah. And then the other ones our
little pet cemetery and Sparky's in there with the hamster

(49:40):
and and all of that. The fun thing this year
because we're moving the Spider. The spider tunnel is going
to be the two tents, so we have a lot
of space inside, so you're gonna go into the Spider
tunnel and that's where the cemetery is.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (49:56):
Yeah, nice, should be fun. Oh I'm wind around.

Speaker 3 (50:03):
Everybody loves it. Like I said, it's just it's amazing.
Mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (50:08):
This is some of the walkway. The loops you see
are pool pool noodles. We don't use that for the
walkways anymore. We've actually got a fencing system now that
we use that's strung with lights so you can see
it a little bit better. But they did their job
for a while. Actually this year, little sneak preview kind

(50:29):
of thing we have so many pool noodles left that
we don't really use much anymore. I ended up taking
a whole bunch of them and I created an archway
out of PVC and all those a whole bunch of
pool noodles are on strings, so you have to walk
through them. That's fun along the pathway.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Yeah, that is cool.

Speaker 4 (50:51):
There's Zero in his Little House. Yeah, and more of
the characters. We try to We've tried to incorporate a
lot of the movies. We're still working on some. So
we've got of course Night Mirror before Christmas, and The
Corpse Bride and now forgetting the names of things.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Oh, I don't know why.

Speaker 4 (51:25):
Yeah, Frank and Weenie's in there, Alice in Wonderland, Beetlejuice,
We're working on Sleepy Hollow. I really want to do
some Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Uh A little known fact
that's a Tim Burton movie.

Speaker 5 (51:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:45):
I'm also trying to figure out how to incorporate misperegrins
without it being scary.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:55):
Yeah, And I actually one of the things I really
want to do, and I've just got to I've got
to save up a little bit of money and get
enough plywood to do it, but I want to do
some cutouts from Dark Shadows.

Speaker 5 (52:09):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
It's really fun. So Tim Burton does a lot of
his own artwork. He's he's a sketcher. He likes to
kind of sketch out some of the characters he's developing,
and even characters that aren't truly his. Of course, Dark
Shadows came long before Tim Burton did, but he, you know,
he kind of puts his own spin on these remakes
that he does, and he will do character sketches as

(52:34):
he's kind of envisioning how he's gonna flesh them out.
And the character drawings he has for the Dark Shadows
people are fantastic him. They're so funny nice. I can't
wait to do it. The one he did of Johnny
Depp's character is dead on and just he captures how

(52:55):
funny Johnny Depp can be when he's playing those rediculously
dark characters. So I can't wait to get those times.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
The original Dark Shadows was in the sixties and seventies,
and my grandfather always blamed my mother watching letting me
watch Dark Shadows with her when I was a baby,
on the reason I was weird.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
That's funny, oh, I think there was a whole lot
more at play than that.

Speaker 3 (53:24):
I might have been dropped on my head a few
times I had confirm or deny, and so I.

Speaker 5 (53:32):
Was asking if they'll ever be a Tim Burton's Batman
series setting.

Speaker 4 (53:36):
I that is one of the things that we kind
of have planned. He has character sketches of Batman and
the Joker and stuff that I think are truly Tim
burdeny and hilarious and not at all scary. So that
is that's something that's in the works. I think we
except for maybe like Mars Attacks, because I've really don't

(54:01):
I don't really enjoy the characters from that movie and
kids won't know ye who that is. We even it's uh,
it's a little stand up and we'll probably add more eventually.
But we actually have something from James and the Giant
Peach too.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Yeah, Coreline, you have Coraline in there too.

Speaker 4 (54:25):
No, we don't actually have Coraline in there because it's
not actually a Tim Burton he just no, it's not
a Tim Burton movie. He just assisted on it.

Speaker 5 (54:36):
Yeah, that's character. I thought, that's the first one I
thought of when I saw the black Cat that shows
up everywhere.

Speaker 4 (54:42):
See the black Cat is in it, and I think
that was his nod to I. I dibbled, I dabbled
my toes in this. But it's not his at all. Yeah,
he's not even in the if you watch the credits,
he's not even the He's like an un uncredited helper.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Yeah, he didn't do Coraline. He just helped the dude
that did it. You know, I think he was probably
giving him tips. You know, if you're going to do this,
you might want to do this kind of a situation.
And here's some more. We have a lot of inflatables.
I think right now we have thirty six thirty six inflatables.

(55:26):
We have a couple new this year. We have a big,
huge pumpkin art that's going to be our front walk
in this year. And my husband, he's so awesome. He
bought me a gigantic Mayor's car from Nightmare before Christmas.
It's huge.

Speaker 5 (55:44):
When you see it, it's.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
So Coad's huge.

Speaker 5 (55:49):
Love it, It's so cool.

Speaker 4 (55:53):
Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 3 (55:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
And here's some more. There's a little area with our
skeleton fish. We couldn't put it in last year. Last
year was terrible, the weather leading up to Halloween was atrocious.
Huge storms would rip through and then the wind. It
took us two days just yeah, we were having to

(56:19):
do it one at a time, me and my husband
and my daughter. We would two of us would have
to hold it while somebody else inflated it, and then
we would take turns holding it while it got pinned
to the ground, and then we would deflate it and
have to hold onto it while it deflated, and then
we would scramble around and find like loose bricks and
cinder blocks and stuff to sit on top because if

(56:40):
you didn't, the wind would just rip it to pieces.
And we did it one at a time, and it
took us a day and a half just to get
the inflatables ready to go. It was terrible. So if
you go back and look at last year's pictures, you're
going to realize that if you really look at it,
about half of that is missing. The stand ups went

(57:02):
up and the inflatables went up, but all the little
like static props and little do dads, the candles and
stuff like that, they didn't go out because we just
didn't have the time. And the green pond didn't go
out like it usually did. Because it takes me a while.
I get down on the ground and like hand pushing
steaks to stretch that rope light out and get into

(57:24):
some kind of a pattern. It didn't go in, and
I didn't realize it until then. But apparently it's a
big favorite of some of the ladies in town that
bring their kids in. They're like, we love the pond.
It's so romantic with Jack and Sally in the window.
And I'm like, the skeleton fish is romantic. Okay, that's awesome,

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it's true. And we have a yeah, we have a
smoke machine that exits right there, you know, at the pond.
So I guess it's romance in some way. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (58:02):
But they were like, no pond, but it will be
there this year.

Speaker 4 (58:09):
It will. It'll be back this year.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
The return of the pond.

Speaker 4 (58:15):
Some more headstones and stuff. That's something else. I never
ever talked about the amount of headstones we have. Man,
they are expensive. You see the price of those cheap
o foam headstones.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
At the store.

Speaker 5 (58:27):
They are.

Speaker 4 (58:28):
For a piece of foam. So I just buy almost
all of mine secondhand or sales after Halloween's over with.
It's the only way I can afford them. But We've
got tons and like garage sales. Holy cow, you can
find them at garage sales that crazy people buy them up,
use them once and then.

Speaker 5 (58:46):
Don't do it again, realize how much work it actually is,
and then don't do it again.

Speaker 4 (58:51):
Yeah, and they chuck them or and then Brian knew
the next year. You know, I'm just like, give them over.
I don't even care if they're in bad shape. It's
really easy to paint foam.

Speaker 5 (59:01):
Oh for sure.

Speaker 3 (59:02):
True, that's true.

Speaker 5 (59:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
Oh, there's some of my kids, not my kids personally,
I call them my kids wood that comes to.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
The pretty much all the kids in town are your
kids on Halloween.

Speaker 4 (59:21):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
And every other town.

Speaker 4 (59:27):
Yeah. Like I said, we're in the middle of this
right now, getting it ready. I've already made my phone calls.
We've got to go pick up hay baiales on Thursday. Uh,
hay bales for the front feature and hay bales for
the kids to set on at the photo op area.

Speaker 3 (59:45):
Yeah. And look at the smiles on these faces. That's
what it's about, right there.

Speaker 5 (59:53):
It is.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
Yeah, And I had to my husband and I were
talking about that. I getting it well. Pam and Mark
know how I am. I get detail oriented sometimes and
I just can't see beyond it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:08):
She's focused.

Speaker 4 (01:00:11):
Yeah, And every year I get frustrated because there's a
handful of things that didn't get done the way I
wanted them to, or didn't get done at all. And
I'm like, oh, man, you know, I'm scrambling at the
last second. And Mike's like, you stop and breathe. It's
gonna be fine. And he reminds me every year. He's like,
these kids wouldn't know if you just threw out all

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the inflatables willy nilly and all of the stand ups
willy nilly, lit them all up and put a path
through them, the kids would still be like.

Speaker 3 (01:00:42):
Wow, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:00:48):
Yeah, you know. And he was like, don't drive yourself nuts,
and I'm like, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:00:52):
You're rights. How can you say no to those smiles?
You can't little smiles.

Speaker 4 (01:01:03):
Yeah, that's some of our that's all of our friends
and pans in there, and the Dentons are in there,
and uh Dana Lyle.

Speaker 5 (01:01:13):
Yeah, yeah, so fun.

Speaker 4 (01:01:17):
Yeah, there's the photo op area. I'm going to try
to change it up this year, make it a little difference.
Although I think it's funny I made this photo op area,
but they make every section into some kind of a
photo op area. I see photos afterwards from.

Speaker 3 (01:01:34):
All Oh yeah, they're all over Facebook for days.

Speaker 4 (01:01:38):
Yeah, and this is like the fun This is our
funnel cake candy tent. The girl there in the black
dress and white top is my daughter Raven, And sadly,
this will be the first year she's not there.

Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
It's gonna be weird.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
You'll have to.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
I have to do something. I'm really excited though. So
every year, if you follow the Nightmare on Bradley page
on Facebook, you'll see that we do the Holman Pumpkin
Carving Spectacular every year. We take photos every year of
our pumpkin carving. And she's in Denver. This year it'll
be the very first time that we aren't together to

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do it. So we're gonna FaceTime and she's got her
pumpkins ready and we've got our pumpkins ready, and we're
gonna still do it, but do it over FaceTime.

Speaker 5 (01:02:25):
So that's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:02:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:28):
So when do you open up on Friday?

Speaker 4 (01:02:32):
So we open at five and we end at nine,
and I will I'll make a suggestion if you've never
been here before, usually what most people like to do.
They like to get here early and get through just
to get the funnel cake. Because the yard looks great
during the day, but it looks the best at night

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with the projections running and all the lights, and it's
just it's something. It's a differ beast at night. So
what a lot of people do is they come and
they show up early, so then they get the funnel
cake and before we run out, because we've run out
every year, I'm hoping not this year. We got sixty
pounds of dry mix.

Speaker 5 (01:03:12):
That's what I was gonna ask, Keviny you got I
knew it was a ton.

Speaker 4 (01:03:16):
Yeah, we had forty five last year and we ran
out somewhere around the nine hundred and fifty mark. And
then everybody else that came in after that, the one
hundred and sixty six they got candy because we ran
out of the funnel cake. So hopefully this sixty will
cover it. We'll see. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:03:38):
Me.

Speaker 4 (01:03:41):
Yeah, this is my husband and one of the kids
and uh Jason Moore. The Moores always come in and
give us a huge hand with all the cooking and yeah,
but as I was saying, come in early and get
your funnel cake, go head out and go do some

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more trick or treating or get your dinner, and then
come back at night and go back through it again.

Speaker 5 (01:04:07):
This is the only one I managed to grab from
last year because I was running late too.

Speaker 4 (01:04:12):
Yeah that's fine. Yeah. Last year's front feature was Beetlejuice,
of course, because the movie was fresh out and everybody
was really excited about it. And my husband found this inflatable.
For me, I had wanted it so badly, was really
disappointed in it. This is a party City one. Now
I know why Party City went under. The inflatable itself

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was great, like the carnival thing on top actually turned
the air blower wasn't strong enough for it. Oh good grief,
so it would just collapse. It wouldn't even hold itself up.

Speaker 3 (01:04:49):
So uh.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
One of the things you learn how to do when
you do big haunted yards like this is you learn
how to take apart stuff and rebuild. And I getted
an old inflatable, pulled the big motor out of it
and attached it to this one. So the Beetlejuice now
has two full motors running it. But it was more.
It was actually too much. I then had too much

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air running through it, and it was threatening to pop it.
So I pulled all the zippers partially open to allow
that air to escape, and there you go.

Speaker 3 (01:05:24):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (01:05:26):
And so it's nice to create a little bit of
magic for young people. Totally inspires their imagination. Yes, yes,
that's the best part.

Speaker 4 (01:05:33):
I always tell people. I'm like, the best part is
just watching the kids' faces as they walk through, because
they are just it's like they're walking into Disney, even
though I know it's not even close to that, but
they're like wow, and it's the same kids year after year.
They've seen all of this before. I just try to,
you know, like change the way they see it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:05:56):
But yeah, and I'm almost a contest to see what
watch you've had it that too.

Speaker 4 (01:06:02):
And like I said, I try to rearrange it every year.
It's a different walk through every year, and I rearrange
how the setups are in the little scenes and who's
and what, and just just to kind of keep it
a little fresh for me too. I would get so
bored if we put on the same exact one year
after year. Oh and this is like Pam's favorite, it is. Yeah,

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So this is a one night only situation. We don't
put this up and it sits through the whole month
or anything. We put it up the week of we
open formally the night of Halloween, we run it. We
close down at the end of the night at nine
and we drop everything to the ground, and then we
get up early in the morning, usually before the sun

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comes up, and we start disassembling it so that it's
completely gone by the end of November first.

Speaker 5 (01:06:55):
Which is incredible. But that makes it so special too.
You know, it's not up for a long period of time.

Speaker 4 (01:07:04):
And yeah, and I.

Speaker 5 (01:07:07):
Moved that into a PowerPoint and it really messed with
the fonts.

Speaker 3 (01:07:12):
Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 4 (01:07:16):
Yeah, but it's fun. We have that countdown sign the kids.
Their school bus route is right in front of our
house for both the elementary school and the high school,
and they have great fun watching the countdown happen, and
then they have a lot of fun watching it go
up as they drive by. Every morning they see it
a little bit more and a little bit more. And
then if school day falls on November first, we get

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to hear them groan and whine as they drive past
on the bus. The morning when it's all on the ground,
they're like, no, yeah, yeah, but I've already had kids today.
I had kids when the school let out. I was
working on the spider tunnel and I had kids show
up and ask if they could walk through the tunnel. Ah.

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I was like, you absolutely have to to let me
know if it's working okay, and then they think they
have a job.

Speaker 5 (01:08:05):
So cool.

Speaker 4 (01:08:08):
No, the neighbors grandkids the roles as grandkids. You know,
Robin Robin Rolls. She's kind of an institution in our
little town. She's she's taught like three or four generations
to swim and to play dodgeball, yep. And she she

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comes over and grabs the grandkids and walks them around,
and she always takes them over to our house and
I task them with making sure that the walkthrough is
working correctly. I'm like, you have to go run through
it like three or four times and make sure that
all the turns and stuff are right, and then if
you do good, I'll pay you off in candy.

Speaker 5 (01:08:52):
And they're like, yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:08:56):
Yeah, that is awesome too.

Speaker 5 (01:08:58):
Fun.

Speaker 4 (01:08:59):
So it's fun.

Speaker 5 (01:09:01):
So if you're anywhere in the area, definitely make this
a priority to hit.

Speaker 3 (01:09:06):
Oh you know what, I mean, I need to get
my go pro hat set up and do a run through.
You can post that up for next year.

Speaker 5 (01:09:18):
Yeah, that would be really cool.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
That's my idea of a sport. There's there's food involved, cakes.

Speaker 5 (01:09:34):
Too awesome.

Speaker 3 (01:09:36):
All right, if I don't have to work Saturday, I
will probably do that. Or I'll set it up and
let you put it on somebody, make them run it through.

Speaker 4 (01:09:46):
You should come over, like I said, for a little
short on help. We need people just to kind of
stand around and make sure kids aren't walking off into
the cords and stuff. You'd be more than welcome to
come over and hang out with us for a while.

Speaker 5 (01:09:57):
And boy do they sure try to cut right through it.
It's like.

Speaker 4 (01:10:03):
And they're not even they're not even like being honree,
They're not even like, oh, I'm purposely doing this. They
get so excited they just want to make a straight
shot to whatever it is they're looking at. And it
doesn't matter if there's a walkway or bars up in
their path. They'll plow right through.

Speaker 3 (01:10:20):
Yep, Yep, I bet they do. I bet they do well.
That is I mean, you do an amazing job every year.
Thank you and every everybody, everybody loves it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:33):
They do. It's really become a big thing for Cannie.
So it's really really awesome. And how many years have
you done it now, do you know?

Speaker 4 (01:10:44):
I think around the maybe ten or eleven. Yeah, And
it wasn't always the Nightmare on Bradley. For the first
few years, it was just I was just handing out candy.
I didn't name it until maybe the fourth or fifth
year when it got big enough.

Speaker 5 (01:11:06):
I know one year I was there in a wheelchair,
shock up and hand out candy. So that would have
been twenty fifteen. Yeah, so that's at least ten years.

Speaker 3 (01:11:20):
Yeah, yeah, yep, pretty amazing stuff. Like I said, all
the kids in town know about it, love it. Yeah,
they can't stop talking about it.

Speaker 4 (01:11:35):
Funnel Cake and.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
Candy Man, Yeah, can't beat that, and Tim.

Speaker 4 (01:11:39):
Burton and Timberton.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
The only thing that would make it better is if
you were handing out like joke colas or something.

Speaker 5 (01:11:47):
Oh we see the part is yeah, her neighbors get
in on the fund now too, So yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:11:55):
The rules is hand out sodas and bags of candy
or bags of chips. Excuse me, they get in big
old plats of it and then you can walk across
their porch and pick out whatever you want.

Speaker 3 (01:12:08):
Nice.

Speaker 4 (01:12:09):
Yeah, it's crazy. And the neighbors that are caddy corner
to us, they've started a war trying to get more
inflatables than us, and we encourage it and they. Yeah,
we have neighbors a couple of blocks down that that

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do up Halloween really big. Two They've got like the
gigantic Werewolf and stuff like that. You can go down
and see them and it's just a lot of fun.
We've we finally build up some Halloween on our little
side of town here.

Speaker 3 (01:12:44):
Yep, it's pretty amazing. All right, guys, Well we are
not quite at one and a half hours, but I
don't really have a lot to add tonight. Pardon me, guys.

Speaker 4 (01:13:02):
Super happy Halloween.

Speaker 3 (01:13:04):
Yes, for sure, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking
forward to it.

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
So all right, if you guys, uh, if anybody is
listening in the area and they.

Speaker 3 (01:13:20):
Want to come to Nightmare and Bradley, where do they go?

Speaker 4 (01:13:24):
They go to four h six North Bradley in Kney, Kansas.
It's literally one block over east of the Pizza Hut
on Highway seventy five. It's one block over from that.
It's actually the road that'll take you straight up to
the high school. If you're coming from like the third
Street area, if you're coming into Kanye that way, you
can't miss it. It's the brightest point in Caney that night.

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And if you get close enough, you'll see our eighteen
foot vampire Jack that sits up above our tree line.
He kind of welcomes everybody in.

Speaker 3 (01:13:57):
That's fun, all right, all right, well, uh, if you
guys don't have anything else, Uh, we'll say good night.
Sounds good, all right, all right, good night everybody stopping
by and listen to us all reminisce about the good
old days. And like I said, if you're interested in

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some of the origins of how Halloween, uh, check out
our back catalog and on the Fringe and what if
tomorrow We've got some of that, and check out Border
Towns Strange. Wednesday's episode has a lot of the origin
stories and stuff. So check it out, uh, and have

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have a great Halloween, guys. All right, good night nine everybody,
good night.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
But here's the