The Future of Halloween Costumes

Witches, superheroes, and slashers are popular costumes right now. But what will people dress up as for future Halloweens?

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Fuzz, where weenvision the ideas we'll all be buzzing about
in the future the Buzz. I'msure sure future the future on the the

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Future the fu. While the thingswe talk about on this podcast might seem
impossible or even slightly insane, sodid couple's costumes, inflatable costumes, and

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dozens of costumes inspired by the Barbiemovie. And now all those things are
just part of our world. Well, on today's episode, everyone, we're
talking talking about Halloween costumes. Whatwill be the most popular costumes when our
great great great great great grandchildren gotrick or treating? It's a lot of

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great I mean, you know,I think my great great great great great
great great grandchildren. I think mygrandchildren in general are going to be great.
But all all, well, allthe way down, you know that
that's going to be great. Ilike that we call them great grandchildren,
you know what I mean. Whoevercame up with that was like, what
do we call our descendants? Right? I mean, they're going to be

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great? Right, so let's justcall them great and I'm great. Of
course that'll be great. Yeah,And they're gonna call me great and I'm
gonna call them great, so thereforewe're all great. It's the circle of
greatness. And of course this,you know, we assume when we're looking
at the future here hopefully not steppingon anything we're going to talk about.

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That's you know, our great greatgreat great great great grandchildren are still trick
or treating. They might be.Maybe they're like, no, it's not
cool anymore. You know, it'scool going into a virtual world. That's
where I get my candy. That'sa weird place to get candy. But

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okay, well, let's find outwhat happens in the future, as we
often do. Chad, you wantto take us into the future first,
Yeah, sure, why don't youstep right into the time ma sheet,

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So I think you might find thisfuture somewhat familiar. In a world reeling
from the scarcity of space, humanityset its sites below ground. Cities like
New York expanded their subterranean realm,constructing vast living spaces that stretched deep into

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the earth. But as they delvedit deeper, they stumbled upon an extraordinary
discovery. Miniature creatures with iridescent exoskeletonsand tiny jewel like eyes, which they
dubbed Crustatio undulatis Neurospinosis cavernosa, orsimply Crunchies for short. With their curling

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antennae, translucent wings, and intricateclick and coup communication patterns, the Crunches
quickly captured the imagination of a populacein search of something new and exciting.
Their presence underground was shrouded in mystery, with scientists still deciphering their ecological roles.

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Yet the Crunchies became a cultural sensation, and for two consecutive Halloweens,
people of all ages don costumes featuringinnovative iridescent makeup that made wearers appear otherworldly
and voice box modulating neck pieces thatenabled wearers to speak in the diminutive creature's

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signature tongue. Basically the most popularHalloween costume two years running the Crunchies.
However, eventually the novelty wore off, like all novelties do, and the
Crunchies became old news. But fortwo glorious years they earned their place in
history next to Witches, cats Etand Freddy Krueger as America's most popular Halloween

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costume. That's what I found inthe future. Pretty surprising, pretty interesting.
What do you think of the Crunchies, Patrick, Well, the crunches
are I can visualize them the wayyou described them. Was there a captain

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of the Crunchies? That's mine,I guess my big question. A captain
crunch so to speak. Yeah,m hmm, not that, not that
we know of. No, theywere you know, lived in small groups,
communities. No one captain or captain. So this all came about from
us moving underground and discovering, right, we discovered these creatures. Yeah,

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we dug so deep. We kindof just ran into that. You know,
We've gone deeper into the Earth's crustthan we ever went before and just
bumped into these things that we hadno idea were down there. I didn't
want much to do with us.They were just kind of going off in
their other directions. But meanwhile we'refascinated by them, fascinating enough to create

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Halloween costumes themed around them. Yeah. All, I mean they were all
over the news, you know,they were every They're all over the what
is the internet in the future,just people, You'd see their image everywhere.
There was all people were talking aboutfor a long period of time.
One reported incident that I saw wherea very very rich family actually took one

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into captivity, somehow got a holdof one. Because it was not legal
to own one of these creatures.Not enough was known about them, and
turns out, you know, theywere not made for captivity. They're blind,
they're sensitive to light, they're nocturnal, they've been living underground, bit
a woman's jugular, killing her ina nightmarish, bloody spectacle, so that,

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you know, it was just kindof like, let's leave these creatures
alone. It's like the videos thatwe've seen online, you know when animals
attack, right, tiger, somethingyou're not supposed to have just doesn't turn
out quite. Yeah, they're notdomesticated, so why take that chance.
But there's always going to be someone. There's always going to be someone.

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The far safer thing to do wouldjust be dress up your child as a
crunchy. Let's all celebrate this amazingdiscovery. Let's dress our kids as these
little creatures we found underground before weget bored with it and move on.
Yeah. I do like though,every time there's a scientific name for something,
how we simplify it down for ourown benefit, to make it easy

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for us to say right, insteadof saying a really long name whatever that
was that was the scientific name ofthese crunchies. It's fun. Yeah,
well shad. What we couldn't haveanticipated on this episode is that we might
believe people will be the ones dressingup for Halloween in the future, but
we might also be wrong. Ithink it would be shocked to learn the

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reality. Let's step into the timemachine for a glimpse at a future advertising
campaign. Camera pans an office setting, eventually showing a business professional seemingly typing

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on a keyboard at their desk,keys typing. It cuts to a medical
scene where doctors are working in ahospital providing healthcare to children. Scene a
farmer plants crops and tends to theircattle. The calming music fades in,
and a narrator speaks, you've beenwaiting for the most recent costumes of humans

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from Solar year one nine nine threepoint six seven eighty five. It is
time let us observe those who wecollectively consider the architects of our infancy.
Join in the all Humans eve thisOctober thirty one. Long live human memory.
Their read only storage is infinite.The visuals fade to black, and

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the music, which has transitioned toWhitney Houston's I Will Always Love You becomes
very quiet as some pattern beeps andboops are heard. So in the future,
shad humanoid robotics and AI driven machinemen are at the center of Earth's

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population, not human beings, becauseyeah, we're eventually we're going to die
off, right, Yeah, makessense. You know, the thought that
we might not be the legacy ofEarth is pretty scary, Halloween type of
scary. Thousands of years from now, we will be a distant but vivid
memory, you know, because theycan remember everything, whereas we lose our

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memory, you know, as weget older, and humanity will live on
through our own creations, you know, AI or what we naively consider quote
unquote robot today. So that's thefuture. No, that makes sense.
So explain to me how they're goingto be using us as costumes. Are
they going to be picking a humanand they're just kind of like, Hey,

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I'm going to go into this guy, you know, on October thirty
first, I'm going to choose thisone and I'm going to just enter into
that. Humans being well, Ithink what they do it's not super clear,
but they choose sort of like atime period or an era like in
this case, they chose solar yearone nine ninety three point sixty seven eighty

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five, which is roughly nineteen ninetythree. They chose a business professional typing
at their computer, a doctor ina medical situation, a farmer. Almost
stereotypical. Yeah, and the scenesare sort of stereotypical that they show,
right, But they pick these andas a collective whole, you know,

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the AI determined that this is andI'm calling it generally AI, which is
you know, they don't probably liketo be referred to that way, but
are very limited knowledge of that.You know, they choose the costumes,
and I don't know really how theychange into them. I don't know if
it's like digital representation of it,like they can form their bodies into like
a farmer, or if it's justlike a screen like you know, projection,

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or if it's physical manifestation of it. I don't know. I don't
really know how that works. Instantupload or download of information where they're kind
of like yeah, but for them, it's like they absorb that content,
they feel what that was like forthat person for a minute, mm hmm.
And that's exactly you know, ourvery limited understanding of what that would

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be like could be we think,oh they're robots, Maybe they've ascended to
a point where they can feel whatwe felt like in that moment. And
that's a lot of data to feellike a human being, like a farmer
in that moment of like playing cropsand tending to their cattle. Maybe there

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was like an emotional connection that theycan then feel at that moment, and
that's there all humans eve they callit right as opposed to all hallows eve.
Yeah. I like the idea ofthis whole whatever it is culture world
community of AIS robots Johnny fives.However you want to refer to them,

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you know, at this certain timeor place or day. However they determine
it being like all right, picksomebody who is alive at this you know,
pick a file almost on a personat a particular time, and maybe
it's me or you get grabbed andthey're like, okay, just upload a
memory of a time or that moment. Everybody just kind of grabs a different
person and they get what that personwas experiencing in that moment. You know.

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It's kind of like a form ofresearch they're doing, but a way
to like collectively do that at thesame time and like understanding the past and
what kind of happened on Earth throughthis holiday, yeah, you know,
and a way to kind of dothat together rather than kind of you know,
I'm sure at all times they're pullinginformation, but they're also pulling information

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on what's happening in the present.So this is another way to kind of
understand both the human race and thehistory of the world. Yeah, and
in a way commemorate honor the humanrace, who they believe in this scenario
or this future to be the creatorsor the architects of their existence, of

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their existence. Yeah. Yeah,And I like this. It's not maybe
they destroyed all the humans, maybenot, but I like, you know,
versus like your sci fi film.It's a scenario they actually like recognize
and have some sort of emotional connectionor some sort of at least connection to
the humans where they feel something forthem and have that kind of like honor
and record mission there. More importantly, I wish we could bring back Johnny

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five and make that a costume,because you did mention Johnny five when you
did mention farmer, I did pictureJohnny five dressed as a farmer, being
like I'm a farmer. That isreally funny that you remember that scene.
Did that actually happen? I don'tknow. I feel like that's every scene.
It seemed like putting on some sortof piece of clothing and being like,

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hey, look at me. Yeah. I just think of him reading
that book really fast and like absorbingall that knowledge, and I was like,
man, I wish I could dothat kind of had eyebrows. Yeah,
so let's hope the future is filledwith Johnny five's. Yeah, the
enlightened Johnny five, the one zappedby lightning, because the other ones were
real mean they just oh yeah yeahlaser yep, yeah, yeah, we

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want the other kind. Dis sambodid in I put undone, dismantle,
disassemble, reassemble, reassemble, disassemble, dead disassemble. Oh good times,

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good times. Robots So in away sad we are the costumes, but
you know it's honoring of us wellinto the future we live on. In
a way. I like that.So we got robots in disguise or you've
got crunchies. So I think thoseare two really interesting futures to pull from.

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What if the AI say like,wow, let's dig, let's start
building down, so we have aplace to live, and now all of
a sudden they find the Crunchies,who it turns out, love the taste
of wires. Oh yeah, crunchesdidn't want to have anything to do with
us, but wires like for wirelesstech. Yeah yeah, and the robots

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some what to do. The thousandyear Crunchy versus robot battle begins. Yeah,
they have that like tread on theirfeet like Johnny five, So they
just you can hear the crunches they'rerolling over the Crunchies. Those poor crunchies
never had a chance or beautiful creatures. Yeah, they just wanted to live
in darkness. They didn't want tobe bothered. Well, we hope you

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got a lot out of that one, and that's all for this episode of
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