October 31, 2025 • 32 mins
Tonight is Devil’s Night, and Halloween decorations may be getting too scary for the young’uns. Michael doesn’t like Halloween but he love, love, loves Thanksgiving! The most popular costume this year is Rumi from K Pop Demon Hunters! Today’s edibles purchased from cannabis dispensaries look exactly like the candy you buy in stores, so pay attention when trick or treating! There are plenty of Halloween happenings going on for the spooky season in Southern California, Tiffany gives us the lengthy lowdown. For more on what’s going on, head to ABC7. Update on Hurricane Melissa, which has left a path of destruction and 44 people dead so far in Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All hallows, Eve, Eve, I think is what this is?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Or is this all?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Because? Is it is November first? All hollows.
Speaker 5 (00:10):
I don't fully know. That's a good question. I really
don't know, and I don't think we have time to
look it up. So we'll get back to that.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're gonna look it up.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You're just Oh, I saw I saw a graphic about
what people call what is this tonight? Devil's night is
a night where people get out back home. They called
it cabbage night. Is that not a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What kind of Midwestern need?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
There was a cabbage night where you would go out,
maybe throw some eggs, put some toilet paper in the trees.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh oh, you little bit screen, But you call it.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Devil's night, Tony Sorrentino, Devil's night, that's what I think,
he said, Yeah, that's what I've usually heard this called
the night before Halloween's. Yeah, we called it cabbage night.
Devil's night too, real, Devil's night.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Actually, like when I saw Danzig, it was on it
this like this night like this name was the thirtieth
and they called it Devil's Night.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So Devil's night.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, given the traffic, I was cursing like one and
like I was surrounded by many.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, maybe after the show we'll go out and get
them do some mischief. There's plenty whole foods.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
You know, what is that thing that you said that
you guys called it? What was your cabbage night? We'll
get some cabbage. We'll keep it literally.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, there really wasn't any cabbage involved. I don't know
where that came from.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Midwestern people with your traditions. Okay, so traditions. Speaking about Halloween,
one of the things that has been discussed a lot
most recently is just how realistic Halloween decorations have become.
And that's because there's pushback against whether or not Halloween
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has become too scary. So there's a story, it's actually
from the New York Times, and it starts with this woman,
her name is Melanie Parker, who took her two year
old son to a little area of Brooklyn to see
a house known for its elaborate Halloween displays. You might
have that house in your neighborhood, the quintessential haunted house,
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or the house that has all those wonderful decorations.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
You have one of those near I look it down
in La. It's a NonStop, year round haunted head exactly,
so you see it year round.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What you're saying, well, she says her son loves the
classic Halloween imagery, you know, pumpkins, witches, gohst spiders, skeletons,
things like that. But Melanie says that her son is
not a fan of things that are more realistic or
more gory. And she says there's a house in her
neighborhood that has a ton of blood all around it
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and dismembered bodies, including that of a child without a head.
She says that these all are animatronic, that they're moving
and speaking and gesturing and making different noises, and that
they are illuminated in a way that make them look real.
They even have wounds that seem to be real. Her
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son is terrified. Remember he's two, and he keeps talking,
according to Melanie, about the guy who broke his head
and the.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
People who were hurt.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So her son is really fixating on some of these decorations.
And so what Melanie has started doing, like many parents,
is avoiding this specific neighborhood. It's too scary, they say.
But what's been found is that the scarier the decorations,
the more they sell.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Michael, Yeah, so wait, wait wait, wait, so you're saying
if a decoration isn't just a basic pumpkin or some leads,
those aren't as big as these new jump at you
witches and zombies.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
People want, according to the metrics anyway, the National Retail
Federation being one such metric. People want the most scary
thing they can find. And it started possibly they back
in twenty twenty when Home Depot released this twelve foot skeleton.
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I've seen the skeleton all around. This thing is gigantic,
it's a skeleton, and it quickly became one of their
best sellers. It's three hundred dollars and it sells out
every year. And they say that that was the start
of the more realistic, horrific decor kind of chapter of
what Halloween has become, and that as it has progressed,
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prices have gone up, and the more realistic, the more
people want it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So what our neighbors competing with each other to see
if they can make an even scarier.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, that's what's happening, And families and adults alike are saying,
hold on it's just it's going too far. We got
to slow down. We kind of got to get back
to what we were. But according to the National Retail Federation,
there's no sign of anything slowing down. In fact, decorations
alone this year are expected to be up to four
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point two two billion dollars, and that's up from one
point six billion and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I don't remember all of this decor from when we
were younger. I mean, maybe like a little pumpkin, we
all carving pumpkins, putting some pumpkins out in the yard,
maybe a decorative spider or something, but it has gotten
much more Christmas like in scale.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And earlier at that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I know there's a house not far from my day job,
and it's an attraction in the daytime, and I imagine
at night it's probably flocked with people. But at night,
if you were to walk by, you would think that
these figures in the yard were real people. So how
unsettling might that be if you're unsuspecting and you're walking by,
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especially if you have a child with you. And that's
what people are complaining about. There's a reporter named Cabot Phillips,
and he says he has started walking multiple blocks out
of his way to get to a playground with his son,
who's eighteen months, owed to avoid one particular house. This house,
he says, has an inflatable four foot long zombie baby
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with blood all over its face and creepy veins, and
that this baby looks possessed. He said, at first he
would walk kind of away from it, but now he's
avoiding it all together. So not just protesting on behalf
of children, but adults are saying they're rattle too, whether
driving walking by, that it's just too jumpy of a
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season now for their liking.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, you know, Halloween is I guess at its core,
it's supposed to scare you. Yeah, and so you know,
if it's for all of us, do we have to
make special considerations for the little ones? Even though the
actual Halloween event, the official one where folks go out
trigger treating, that is for little ones.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Talking thak it for yourself, Michael Monks, you go out
and trigger treating, I will, and I will be judged
for it. And I might may or may not move
some shows or out of the way to get to
the better kid.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
It depends on the candy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It depends on the candy.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, I don't like Halloween. I like trick or treating.
I remember that. I like the candy and all that,
but I don't like the scary stuff. The dress. I
think I don't like it because it takes a lot
of effort to really do it well. It does, and
there are folks who do it well. I think everybody
has a friend or maybe you are that friend that
is that just has the best costume. Yeah, right, And
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I've never been into that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Later in the show, we're actually going to talk about
some of the more popular Halloween costumes of twenty twenty
five and costumes that are breaking the bank, the more
expensive costumes ever or most expensive costumes ever purchased, ever created,
and they are getting into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
My My first one was like twelve bucks from Pick
and Save and I loved it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Pick and say, yeah, make something.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Plastic, plastic princess mask. That was wonderful. Sweating behind that thing,
perfect perfection.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do you think Halloween is too scary? Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button. We're taking your
comments about this and more throughout the evening.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Hi, this is Sarah Jad for the Empire.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Oh, two or if not three of you that are?
You are doing well? Is what you're reporting unfortunately, and
like I say, a lot of people don't really care
if we're there's money available for the Snap as well
as of course the other topic, the redistrict thing. Tin
of whats are doing in Texas too, But it doesn't
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help either state. It's not right.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Thanks for that call, Ed, and if you want to
join the conversation about Halloween or some of the news
year stuff we talked about in the previous hour related
to SNAP benefits going away on Saturday and the redistricting
ballot measure facing California voters on Tuesday. It's the iHeartRadio app.
Click on the talkback button. It's Tiffany Hobbs with Michael
(09:06):
Monks until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm Michael Monks alongside Tiffany Hobbs together with you till
ten o'clock tonight. Is Halloween and the associated decorations. Are
they getting too scary?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
They're getting very elaborate and very scary.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I walked into home depot with their displays there and
scared me to death.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's how it was my ex wife's family re union.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh, Robert, thank you for that. Ah, good times, good times.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we were talking about some of the decorations in
folks yards and how small children are kind of being
traumatized and terrorized by these displays, say the least. Nonetheless,
Halloween goes on Tiffany and even adults like us like
to dress up. What are the hot items that folks
are turning to this season?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
You know, before we get into the hot items and
spoiler alert, they have a lot to do with pop culture,
and that seems to be year after year. We'll get
into a list of the most popular costumes. In a moment,
let me ask you, Michael, No, I know this isn't
your favorite season, but do you have a costume that
sticks out in memory?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
You know this is why I love Autumn. Oh man,
do I love Autumn? And I love Thanksgiving? I think
Thanksgiving is an underrated holiday. I love a feast, a
little football, you know, it's just a great day of relax.
I love the day after shopping and all the sales.
It's great. Halloween and the costume I think is really
what throws me off because, as I said before we're
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going to break, we all have those friends who are
really good at Halloween, and I've just never had that
same level enthusiasm. And so if you go to their party,
there's that pressure of finding something that is at least
close to the vibe their setting. Yeah, and it's almost
impossible for somebody who's just not into it. So no,
as an adult, I think I did my The most
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recent effort I put in was probably ten years ago.
I dressed up like John Snow from Game of Thrones
WI capes, so I really went out.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Are their pictures there are? Oh where?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Probably on my Facebook? Oh I can look for those.
It wasn't a but I wear glasses and I can't
take this. So I was John Snow bespectacled. Oh bless
you blind, John completely blind? Oh that's just sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, Well Nikki produced through NICKI in there Australia. But
do you have you do you have a recent costume
memory or a memory from your childhood a favorite costume?
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Well, I love Halloween. It's the thing I embrace most
about your wonderful culture. So to Michael's point, one year
I dressed as Carl drogo oh, because I love dressing
in drag for Halloween. I've also dressed as Joey Butterfuco.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Love it, and I do.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
How does somebody dress like Joey Butterfuco. First of all,
it's like a forty year old reference.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
I made. My partner at the time, who's six foot two,
dresses Amy Fisher in hot pants.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Honestly, how how did anybody get this reference?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
They didn't get the rev that is a.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Tabloid story from like ninety one.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
But this year, I'm not dressing in drag. This year,
I'm dressing up as Share. And if I could turn
back time.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
She showed me a picture of this earlier. It was outstanding.
She looks totally If you know the video of Share
on the Navy boat, yeah, she she did a good
job with that.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
And I'm kind of cheating because I don't even need
to wear a wig.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know you got share hair?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Do?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
I love Halloween?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You sing?
Speaker 9 (12:38):
I cannot carry a tune in a bucket. I'm tone deaf.
It's delightful.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
We'll just stand there and smile.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I'm just gonna do the lip thing and just like
shut out my booty. I've even got fake rose tattoos
for my tookis cheeks and that note, they'll be out
and proud as well.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
On that note, Nikki Share Share Hair.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Nikki her the most popular Halloween costumes by year, according
to Google, start with this year K Pop Demon Hunters,
that anime that is all the rage on Netflix. Roomy
from that particular show is the number one selling Halloween costume.
Roomy from K Pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I know, I.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Don't know what that is. I hate that I don't
know what it is because that's obviously very current, and
yet I didn't miss a beat in knowing the Amy
Fisher Joey buttafuco reference. I'm not that all.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's showing your right age.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
It completely is the Barbie movie of twenty twenty three.
It wasn't Barbie, it was Weird Barbie. That was the
more popular costume at the time. Twenty twenty gave us
the star the infamous star known as Joe Exotic, that
person who ran that Big Cat sanctuary. People dressed up
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as Joe Exotic in twenty twenty more than any other costume.
To eighteen people were Skull Troopers from Fortnite and then
it just continues with these pop culture references. But I
will tell you that celebrities continue to put us all
to shame with their costuming because they have just this
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pallethora of money. Elon Musk transformed himself into a devil
and it cost him nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
See, that's one of the things.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Even if you have the money, why why Harry Styles
became Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz to the tune
of five thousand, two hundred dollars in costuming. M model
Gigi Hadid became the Mask and hers cost her four thousand,
one hundred dollars. Kylie Jenner became a Mighty morphin Power
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Ranger three thousand dollars. Kim Kardashian became Mystique from X
Men three thousand dollars, just shy of four thousand and dollars.
And it just again shows that these celebrities are bored.
They're bored, and they have a lot of money to spend,
and they will do it in ways that is extremely
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temporary and uh wasteful, many would say, But they have
a good time. I love a good Halloween costume. I
like to see the kids dressed up.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You know, I never I've never lived in a place
where I, as a grown up, have been able to
pass out candy. I has always chosen the poor, bad
parts of town to live in because I'm fashionable and
hip and cool. You know, but don't I don't want
to go. I don't invite me to the parties. I'm
not coming, gotcha. But you are going to be on
tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I will.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I will be on tomorrow I will be in costume,
so I'll make sure to post those pictures on my Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Last year I was Steph Steph Fusche. I was himself
last year.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So I got to keep the tradition going with making
sure listeners see what I am, but tell us who
it is or is it going to be. It's not
a who. It's more or less a thing. It is
a noun.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It's the thing that most teenagers fear. That is the
hint I'll give you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Okay, we'll leave it there. It'd be great, all right.
If you have anything to say about Halloween or the
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that talkback button good.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Even one of your favorite listeners here.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Indeed, will you all talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The voting centers?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Could you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Emphasize that they are open on Saturday and Sunday. And
if you live in Ramto, Pallace Birthdays or Roland Hills
or whatever, they can come to fred Hesse Park because
that's where I'm working.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Have a good evening. What's her name, Galen?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Galen? Go out and see Galen at fred Hesse Park.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
It may be Galon, but we appreciate you and you
are one of our favorite listeners. Things for that, and again,
there are more vote centers opening this weekend across La
County as Californians gear up to vote.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
If you haven't already, Hey, Michael back, can we talk
about some Halloween events around southern California?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yea, we're going to finish up this hour of Halloween.
Tell you where to go to be seen.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Tiffany Hobbes, Michael Monks here until ten pm. And do
not miss Michael Monks and Chris Merrill next Tuesday as
they provide around the clock election night coverage for the
California Special election, and any other election news that will
be coming out. They'll be right here giving you everything
as it happens, so do not miss it. That's Tuesday
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from seven to ten pm.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It will be a busy night as we await the
results of Prop fifty, as well as election results from
across the country, the race for New York City mayor.
There's a couple of governor's races of interest. Will it
be a bell weather as we head into twenty twenty
six to see if Republicans or Democrats have the edge
as the congressional elections get underway in the midterms next year. Hey, Tiff,
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you wanna hear something scary?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I do.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Today's candies that come from dispensaries looks exactly like the
candy that you would buy in a grocery store.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Oh no, Apparently these cannabis edibles are starting to look
a lot like candies that kids would like, and so
we're being told that you need to pay extra close attention.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Authorities in Arkansas showing examples of illegal candy like products
still sold in convenience stores. Police say the branch are
not behind the counterfeit products. A spokesperson for the National
Confectioners Association saying the theft of intellectual property by cannabis
companies is egregious. With consumer safety as our top priority,
we advocate for common sense regulations to ensure cannabis containing
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edibles are viewed as distinct from confectionery products.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it's not just cannabis, Apparently there are other illicit
substances that may be making the rounds.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
We thought for ourselves, wow, if a group of trained
investigators looked at this and didn't pay any attention, what's
your average chicken to do on Halloween? And we just
felt we wanted to get this message out there to
parents and children to be a vigilant this Halloween season.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's a police lieutenant in Warren, Michigan, who is saying,
in addition to weed candy, there could be counterfeit candy
containing silos, cybin mushrooms, mushroom candy. Yeah. Yeah, for the kids.
But I think even as children ourselves tiff back in
the day, we had fears of the kid. They were
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always telling us you got to be on the lookout.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Pack your candy, don't open it. You don't accept an apple,
don't accept an apple. There's a razor blade in it,
gate goods, everything had something hidden in it. And I'm
here to tell you in most cases, drugs are expensive.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No one's putting real.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Drugs in your kid's chocolate bar, but you are at
risk of sadly ingesting cannabis candy.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, you got to be on the lookout, although I
wouldn't be mad about it. You see, that's the type
of adult trick or treating that should exist, maybe a
little bit later in the night where we could go
out and get at a ball.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So many bottle of jack and my chops, get a.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Cocktail, have a have a nice legal drug and consume
it responsibly. But you know that would be fun. One
more thing, if you are going out trick or treating
in your kids are going to be loading up on
this sweet stuff. There's actually some pretty decent tips about
how not to overindulge.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Before they go to free cor trading. You want to
make sure they have a full meal so they're not
hungry before they go free treading. Also, they want to
brush your teeth before using a two street that has
nanohydrots your appetite. It's a particular ingredient can buffer and
shield enamel against cavities. Then during when they're eating candy,
they should drink a lot of water after candy. One
of the biggest mistakes I see is that people want
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to brush their teeth right away. You should actually avoid
brushing for up to.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
About an hour. And that guy's an oral surgeon and
help exported a dentist, so you gotta believe what he says.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's a buzzkill is what he is.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Drink water?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Rall hopped up on candy? Don't want to say drink water?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Are you getting?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Hey, what's going on on Halloween around southern gul Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If you want to go out and avoid the cannabis,
candy and more family friendly ways, there are quite a
few different things that you can do around southern California.
If you're in Calabasas, you can go to something called
Knights of the Jack fantastic name. Knights of the Jacket's
at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas six thirty pm to
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ten pm nightly through November three. They have a huge
SpongeBob SquarePants installation if that's your thing, and lots and
lots of fun activities for the entire family. You can
go on knights Offthjack dot com. That's in Calibassus. If
you are closer to the city, West Hollywood is having
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their annual Halloween Carnival. This is on Halloween Tomorrow from
six to ten thirty pm. It's free and it's known
as the world's largest Halloween party.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Has a half a million people who attend. I won't
be going. That's way too crowded for me.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You'll be there if is that the.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
One your share dancing up?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Yeah, that's why my ilb pretty naked.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay amongst others.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I imagine that that's always a fun party. That's the
Visit weshollywood dot com site for more information on the
West Hollywood Carnival. If you are a Willy Wonka and
a chocolate factory fan like i am, there's a costume
ball that is Willy Wonka themed. It's taking place at
the La Theater six fifteen South Broadway.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's downtown, one of my favorite building right by you,
beautiful building.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And that is tomorrow. The movie starts at nine pm.
Doors open at seven pm. You can go on Sinespia
dot org from information.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
If you want to go to the La Zoo area.
The La or.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Los Angeles Haunted Hey Ride a time old tradition that's
held at the Griffith Park Old Zoo and it's selected
nights through tomorrow, but it is absolutely going on tomorrow.
It's a twenty five minute night time tractor ride where
you can see tons of scary creatures and hopefully they're
not too realistic. We don't want to terrify you any further.
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There are quite a few different things. There's Dark Harbor
at the Queen Mary Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I've done.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
That's fine fun.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
That is a ball, that is a ball and a half.
It's a lot of fun. Get tickets at Queenmary dot com.
It is somewhat family friendly. You can kind of negotiate
where you want to go within the attraction. But Dark
Harbor at the Queen Mary in Long Beach is a
lot of fun and that's going through November. Tewod we
have the benefit of the weekend ending on Sunday, or
it always ends on Sunday, but this season ending on Sunday,
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so things are usually going through noon through November fourth.
If you're at the Pomona Fairplex, they have Pumpkin Nights
at the Pomona Fairplex outdoor Family Friendly Halloween Experience, multisensory
Halloween displays, three thousand hand carved and foam pumpkins, and
kids three and under get in free.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If you're interested in any of these events.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
If you're trying to find more events, you can actually
go to abcseven dot com where you can find out
all about what's happening in your area.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We are talking about Halloween, but we were talking earlier
about what tonight is called the night before Halloween, and
I think the consensus here was Devil's Night, and I
mentioned that I grew up knowing it as Cabbage Night,
and everyone looked at me like I was some sort
of alien from outer space. But I made a little
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search here and Psychology Today reports that there are regional
and subregional variations on what we call today. They say
the array of terms for Mischief Night across the US
shows that there are robust examples. Roughly speaking, Mischief Night
is found in the mid Atlantic, Devil's Night in the
(25:11):
Great Lakes area, Cabbage Night in New England I'm from
Northern Kentucky, and Gate Night in the Upper Midwest and Canada.
But there's also areas in the northeastern corner of Wish State,
New Jersey. That call it goosey night.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I know what a goosey is. I don't know if
I want to give it a whole night.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Yeah, and then cabbage Night in Jersey as well. A
couple states away Baltimore, Maryland, we find moving night and
if you go west of the Appalachian Mountains you might
encounter corn night pranks.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
If you're lucky, after some moving you'll get a goosey.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How about that? There you go, Maybe a little cabbage
on the side, trick or tree.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
You're listening to KFI A six on demand.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Here from one of our listeners.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I'm listening from Sarah Sota, Florida and enjoying your show.
Thank you, and I miss my native southern California, but
been here ten years and love I heard so I
can tune into all of your great shows.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Thank you, Cafi, and thank you Daniel. And happy Halloween
down there in Florida. Very very nice.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Florida is known for the occasional hurricane, that's for sure,
but looks like they missed this or I should say
Hurricane Melissa missed them this time. That really battered Caribbean
islands like Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. It was just a rough,
rough spell down there.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Hurricane Melissa came in this week and has left at
count last count, at least dozens dead across Cuba, Haiti,
and Jamaica, including a wave of destruction to homes and infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's a category five.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
It was unclear just how much damage it's been has
been done, as these things are still being parsed out,
but we do know that it made landfall in Tuesday
in Jamaica with top wins of one hundred and eighty
five miles per hour, and at least nineteen people were killed,
including one child in Jamaica. Dozens of US Search and
(27:21):
Rescue are in Jamaica to support in the rescue and
recovery mission, and as of today, seventy two percent of
the island is without power. I have an aunt actually
who was visiting Jamaica. She goes pretty regularly from New York,
quick trip right, and she was there. She was there,
and she was posting on social media that she was there.
(27:43):
I didn't know that she was there, and so I
saw these videos and then you just tense up and
you get nervous for your loved one, and she's like,
we're going to ride it out there in the hotel
and we'll get back to you. And it's all social
media and you're waiting, and the next post was We're okay,
thank goodness. But their whole hell lobby. It was like
a three story, four story lobby. It's decimated, like all
(28:05):
the windows were blown out, water everywhere, but they made
it through.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I always wonder about the islands that are prone to hurricanes,
because we mentioned Florida. If you're in Florida and you've
got a good forecast that hey the storm is coming,
you know, board up your place and you can leave. Yeah,
you can reach the vastness of America in your vehicle.
It maybe a little traffic heavy, but you can get
out of dodge.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
That's not true in places like Jamaica.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And they'll say evacuate the island. Where are people supposed
to go? So I don't know how one hunker's down there.
One of the things that came out of this hurricane,
which is I think a precursor for a lot more
of what will be expecting in the future, are the
use of AI generated videos and images to scare people
(28:53):
speaking about Halloween. There's this proliferation of viral videos all
over social media showing Jamaica, mainly in the other islands
as well, in various states of destruction devastation. One video
specifically that went viral showed four sharks swimming in a
(29:13):
hotel pool as floodwaters were allegedly coming in from Hurricane
Melissa and swamping the area. This one was completely fake,
but people bought it and shared it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Four sharks in a hotel pool.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
The videos are getting really believable. I try like, look,
I'm not a pat Paul, you're not a Mamma. I'm not,
but I know you've probably scrolled TikTok or something and
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Far from my face when I do it.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I've seen a video of a pig jumping on a trampoline. Yes,
that tricked me for a minute.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
A kangaroo boarding an airplane, holding its boarding pass while
the owner argued with a flight attendant.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Also fake.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, but they're get They're getting really good.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Really really good and hard to detect. And photos that
are hoaxes, videos that are hoaxes. These things are not new,
but the elaborate nature just how realistic. These videos do
look and photos is something that's new, and they're not
able to be debunked nearly as quickly as with things
(30:22):
in the past. And this content is showing up and
people again are feeding into it and sharing it, which
is not helping with the rescue and recovery because people
are taking these images and photos and going to law
enforcement and saying, hey, go over here because this is happening,
or they're calling and reporting things that aren't actually true,
(30:44):
and it's just complicating things further.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times. That is where we find ourselves because I mean,
with that technology, it's really intriguing. I've loved some of
the stuff that artificial intelligence can do. The boy does
it put all a lot of dangerous weapons and a
lot of hands.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And another thing besides creating these videos using artificial intelligence,
people are taking videos and footage of old of these
old disasters, previous hurricanes, anything that might look similar and
can possibly dupe someone, and they're parading these images and
videos as if they are current and related to Melissa,
(31:23):
of which they're not. So experts are cautioning all of us,
of course, to look for insignia from these AI companies
to look for watermarks, to look for clues, because you
don't want to be duped. It's just it does not
work for any of us to continue to fall for
these hoaxes.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
What if this entire show has been artificial intelligence? What
if there is no Michael Monks, What if there is
no Tiffany Hobbs. What if we were just a prompt
entered into chat GPT.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I don't like the way you're staring into my soul
right now, feel really uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, that's just it. Tiffany AI doesn't have a.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Soung Okay, I'm gonna go. You can do the rest
of this by yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs on your thigh.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
AM sixty kf I AM six forty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All hallows, Eve, Eve, I think is what this is?
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Or is this all?
Speaker 4 (00:08):
Because? Is it is November first? All hollows.
Speaker 5 (00:10):
I don't fully know. That's a good question. I really
don't know, and I don't think we have time to
look it up. So we'll get back to that.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You're gonna look it up.
Speaker 4 (00:20):
You're just Oh, I saw I saw a graphic about
what people call what is this tonight? Devil's night is
a night where people get out back home. They called
it cabbage night. Is that not a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
What kind of Midwestern need?
Speaker 4 (00:32):
There was a cabbage night where you would go out,
maybe throw some eggs, put some toilet paper in the trees.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Oh oh, you little bit screen, But you call it.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Devil's night, Tony Sorrentino, Devil's night, that's what I think,
he said, Yeah, that's what I've usually heard this called
the night before Halloween's. Yeah, we called it cabbage night.
Devil's night too, real, Devil's night.
Speaker 6 (00:53):
Actually, like when I saw Danzig, it was on it
this like this night like this name was the thirtieth
and they called it Devil's Night.
Speaker 4 (00:58):
So Devil's night.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Yeah, given the traffic, I was cursing like one and
like I was surrounded by many.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
So that makes sense.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Well, maybe after the show we'll go out and get
them do some mischief. There's plenty whole foods.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
You know, what is that thing that you said that
you guys called it? What was your cabbage night? We'll
get some cabbage. We'll keep it literally.
Speaker 4 (01:18):
Yeah, there really wasn't any cabbage involved. I don't know
where that came from.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Midwestern people with your traditions. Okay, so traditions. Speaking about Halloween,
one of the things that has been discussed a lot
most recently is just how realistic Halloween decorations have become.
And that's because there's pushback against whether or not Halloween
(01:42):
has become too scary. So there's a story, it's actually
from the New York Times, and it starts with this woman,
her name is Melanie Parker, who took her two year
old son to a little area of Brooklyn to see
a house known for its elaborate Halloween displays. You might
have that house in your neighborhood, the quintessential haunted house,
(02:05):
or the house that has all those wonderful decorations.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
You have one of those near I look it down
in La. It's a NonStop, year round haunted head exactly,
so you see it year round.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
What you're saying, well, she says her son loves the
classic Halloween imagery, you know, pumpkins, witches, gohst spiders, skeletons,
things like that. But Melanie says that her son is
not a fan of things that are more realistic or
more gory. And she says there's a house in her
neighborhood that has a ton of blood all around it
(02:37):
and dismembered bodies, including that of a child without a head.
She says that these all are animatronic, that they're moving
and speaking and gesturing and making different noises, and that
they are illuminated in a way that make them look real.
They even have wounds that seem to be real. Her
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son is terrified. Remember he's two, and he keeps talking,
according to Melanie, about the guy who broke his head
and the.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
People who were hurt.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
So her son is really fixating on some of these decorations.
And so what Melanie has started doing, like many parents,
is avoiding this specific neighborhood. It's too scary, they say.
But what's been found is that the scarier the decorations,
the more they sell.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Michael, Yeah, so wait, wait wait, wait, so you're saying
if a decoration isn't just a basic pumpkin or some leads,
those aren't as big as these new jump at you
witches and zombies.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
People want, according to the metrics anyway, the National Retail
Federation being one such metric. People want the most scary
thing they can find. And it started possibly they back
in twenty twenty when Home Depot released this twelve foot skeleton.
(04:06):
I've seen the skeleton all around. This thing is gigantic,
it's a skeleton, and it quickly became one of their
best sellers. It's three hundred dollars and it sells out
every year. And they say that that was the start
of the more realistic, horrific decor kind of chapter of
what Halloween has become, and that as it has progressed,
(04:28):
prices have gone up, and the more realistic, the more
people want it.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
So what our neighbors competing with each other to see
if they can make an even scarier.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
Yes, that's what's happening, And families and adults alike are saying,
hold on it's just it's going too far. We got
to slow down. We kind of got to get back
to what we were. But according to the National Retail Federation,
there's no sign of anything slowing down. In fact, decorations
alone this year are expected to be up to four
(04:59):
point two two billion dollars, and that's up from one
point six billion and twenty nineteen.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I don't remember all of this decor from when we
were younger. I mean, maybe like a little pumpkin, we
all carving pumpkins, putting some pumpkins out in the yard,
maybe a decorative spider or something, but it has gotten
much more Christmas like in scale.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And earlier at that.
Speaker 5 (05:22):
I know there's a house not far from my day job,
and it's an attraction in the daytime, and I imagine
at night it's probably flocked with people. But at night,
if you were to walk by, you would think that
these figures in the yard were real people. So how
unsettling might that be if you're unsuspecting and you're walking by,
(05:44):
especially if you have a child with you. And that's
what people are complaining about. There's a reporter named Cabot Phillips,
and he says he has started walking multiple blocks out
of his way to get to a playground with his son,
who's eighteen months, owed to avoid one particular house. This house,
he says, has an inflatable four foot long zombie baby
(06:06):
with blood all over its face and creepy veins, and
that this baby looks possessed. He said, at first he
would walk kind of away from it, but now he's
avoiding it all together. So not just protesting on behalf
of children, but adults are saying they're rattle too, whether
driving walking by, that it's just too jumpy of a
(06:31):
season now for their liking.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, you know, Halloween is I guess at its core,
it's supposed to scare you. Yeah, and so you know,
if it's for all of us, do we have to
make special considerations for the little ones? Even though the
actual Halloween event, the official one where folks go out
trigger treating, that is for little ones.
Speaker 5 (06:54):
Talking thak it for yourself, Michael Monks, you go out
and trigger treating, I will, and I will be judged
for it. And I might may or may not move
some shows or out of the way to get to
the better kid.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
It depends on the candy.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It depends on the candy.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Yeah, I don't like Halloween. I like trick or treating.
I remember that. I like the candy and all that,
but I don't like the scary stuff. The dress. I
think I don't like it because it takes a lot
of effort to really do it well. It does, and
there are folks who do it well. I think everybody
has a friend or maybe you are that friend that
is that just has the best costume. Yeah, right, And
(07:30):
I've never been into that.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Later in the show, we're actually going to talk about
some of the more popular Halloween costumes of twenty twenty
five and costumes that are breaking the bank, the more
expensive costumes ever or most expensive costumes ever purchased, ever created,
and they are getting into the tens of thousands of dollars.
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Oh stop it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
My My first one was like twelve bucks from Pick
and Save and I loved it.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Pick and say, yeah, make something.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Plastic, plastic princess mask. That was wonderful. Sweating behind that thing,
perfect perfection.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
Do you think Halloween is too scary? Open up the
iHeartRadio app, click on that talkback button. We're taking your
comments about this and more throughout the evening.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Hi, this is Sarah Jad for the Empire.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:21):
Oh, two or if not three of you that are?
You are doing well? Is what you're reporting unfortunately, and
like I say, a lot of people don't really care
if we're there's money available for the Snap as well
as of course the other topic, the redistrict thing. Tin
of whats are doing in Texas too, But it doesn't
(08:42):
help either state. It's not right.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
Thanks for that call, Ed, and if you want to
join the conversation about Halloween or some of the news
year stuff we talked about in the previous hour related
to SNAP benefits going away on Saturday and the redistricting
ballot measure facing California voters on Tuesday. It's the iHeartRadio app.
Click on the talkback button. It's Tiffany Hobbs with Michael
(09:06):
Monks until ten o'clock tonight.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
I'm Michael Monks alongside Tiffany Hobbs together with you till
ten o'clock tonight. Is Halloween and the associated decorations. Are
they getting too scary?
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
They're getting very elaborate and very scary.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
I walked into home depot with their displays there and
scared me to death.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
That's how it was my ex wife's family re union.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Oh, Robert, thank you for that. Ah, good times, good times.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we were talking about some of the decorations in
folks yards and how small children are kind of being
traumatized and terrorized by these displays, say the least. Nonetheless,
Halloween goes on Tiffany and even adults like us like
to dress up. What are the hot items that folks
are turning to this season?
Speaker 5 (10:02):
You know, before we get into the hot items and
spoiler alert, they have a lot to do with pop culture,
and that seems to be year after year. We'll get
into a list of the most popular costumes. In a moment,
let me ask you, Michael, No, I know this isn't
your favorite season, but do you have a costume that
sticks out in memory?
Speaker 2 (10:20):
No?
Speaker 4 (10:21):
You know this is why I love Autumn. Oh man,
do I love Autumn? And I love Thanksgiving? I think
Thanksgiving is an underrated holiday. I love a feast, a
little football, you know, it's just a great day of relax.
I love the day after shopping and all the sales.
It's great. Halloween and the costume I think is really
what throws me off because, as I said before we're
(10:42):
going to break, we all have those friends who are
really good at Halloween, and I've just never had that
same level enthusiasm. And so if you go to their party,
there's that pressure of finding something that is at least
close to the vibe their setting. Yeah, and it's almost
impossible for somebody who's just not into it. So no,
as an adult, I think I did my The most
(11:05):
recent effort I put in was probably ten years ago.
I dressed up like John Snow from Game of Thrones
WI capes, so I really went out.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Are their pictures there are? Oh where?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Probably on my Facebook? Oh I can look for those.
It wasn't a but I wear glasses and I can't
take this. So I was John Snow bespectacled. Oh bless
you blind, John completely blind? Oh that's just sweet. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Okay, Well Nikki produced through NICKI in there Australia. But
do you have you do you have a recent costume
memory or a memory from your childhood a favorite costume?
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Well, I love Halloween. It's the thing I embrace most
about your wonderful culture. So to Michael's point, one year
I dressed as Carl drogo oh, because I love dressing
in drag for Halloween. I've also dressed as Joey Butterfuco.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Love it, and I do.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
How does somebody dress like Joey Butterfuco. First of all,
it's like a forty year old reference.
Speaker 9 (12:02):
I made. My partner at the time, who's six foot two,
dresses Amy Fisher in hot pants.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Honestly, how how did anybody get this reference?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
They didn't get the rev that is a.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Tabloid story from like ninety one.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Yeah, that's what I do.
Speaker 9 (12:15):
But this year, I'm not dressing in drag. This year,
I'm dressing up as Share. And if I could turn
back time.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
She showed me a picture of this earlier. It was outstanding.
She looks totally If you know the video of Share
on the Navy boat, yeah, she she did a good
job with that.
Speaker 9 (12:30):
And I'm kind of cheating because I don't even need
to wear a wig.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
You know you got share hair?
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Do?
Speaker 10 (12:36):
I love Halloween?
Speaker 6 (12:37):
You sing?
Speaker 9 (12:38):
I cannot carry a tune in a bucket. I'm tone deaf.
It's delightful.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
We'll just stand there and smile.
Speaker 9 (12:44):
I'm just gonna do the lip thing and just like
shut out my booty. I've even got fake rose tattoos
for my tookis cheeks and that note, they'll be out
and proud as well.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
On that note, Nikki Share Share Hair.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
Nikki her the most popular Halloween costumes by year, according
to Google, start with this year K Pop Demon Hunters,
that anime that is all the rage on Netflix. Roomy
from that particular show is the number one selling Halloween costume.
Roomy from K Pop Demon Hunters.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
I know, I.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Don't know what that is. I hate that I don't
know what it is because that's obviously very current, and
yet I didn't miss a beat in knowing the Amy
Fisher Joey buttafuco reference. I'm not that all.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It's showing your right age.
Speaker 5 (13:33):
It completely is the Barbie movie of twenty twenty three.
It wasn't Barbie, it was Weird Barbie. That was the
more popular costume at the time. Twenty twenty gave us
the star the infamous star known as Joe Exotic, that
person who ran that Big Cat sanctuary. People dressed up
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as Joe Exotic in twenty twenty more than any other costume.
To eighteen people were Skull Troopers from Fortnite and then
it just continues with these pop culture references. But I
will tell you that celebrities continue to put us all
to shame with their costuming because they have just this
(14:15):
pallethora of money. Elon Musk transformed himself into a devil
and it cost him nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety
five dollars.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
See, that's one of the things.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Even if you have the money, why why Harry Styles
became Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz to the tune
of five thousand, two hundred dollars in costuming. M model
Gigi Hadid became the Mask and hers cost her four thousand,
one hundred dollars. Kylie Jenner became a Mighty morphin Power
(14:49):
Ranger three thousand dollars. Kim Kardashian became Mystique from X
Men three thousand dollars, just shy of four thousand and dollars.
And it just again shows that these celebrities are bored.
They're bored, and they have a lot of money to spend,
and they will do it in ways that is extremely
(15:11):
temporary and uh wasteful, many would say, But they have
a good time. I love a good Halloween costume. I
like to see the kids dressed up.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
You know, I never I've never lived in a place
where I, as a grown up, have been able to
pass out candy. I has always chosen the poor, bad
parts of town to live in because I'm fashionable and
hip and cool. You know, but don't I don't want
to go. I don't invite me to the parties. I'm
not coming, gotcha. But you are going to be on
tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
I will.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
I will be on tomorrow I will be in costume,
so I'll make sure to post those pictures on my Instagram.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Last year I was Steph Steph Fusche. I was himself
last year.
Speaker 5 (15:50):
So I got to keep the tradition going with making
sure listeners see what I am, but tell us who
it is or is it going to be. It's not
a who. It's more or less a thing. It is
a noun.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
It's a thing.
Speaker 5 (15:59):
It's the thing that most teenagers fear. That is the
hint I'll give you.
Speaker 4 (16:04):
Okay, we'll leave it there. It'd be great, all right.
If you have anything to say about Halloween or the
other topics we've talked about tonight, iHeartRadio app Click on
that talkback button good.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Even one of your favorite listeners here.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Indeed, will you all talk about.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
The voting centers?
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Could you.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Emphasize that they are open on Saturday and Sunday. And
if you live in Ramto, Pallace Birthdays or Roland Hills
or whatever, they can come to fred Hesse Park because
that's where I'm working.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Have a good evening. What's her name, Galen?
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Galen? Go out and see Galen at fred Hesse Park.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
It may be Galon, but we appreciate you and you
are one of our favorite listeners. Things for that, and again,
there are more vote centers opening this weekend across La
County as Californians gear up to vote.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
If you haven't already, Hey, Michael back, can we talk
about some Halloween events around southern California?
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Yea, we're going to finish up this hour of Halloween.
Tell you where to go to be seen.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 5 (17:13):
Tiffany Hobbes, Michael Monks here until ten pm. And do
not miss Michael Monks and Chris Merrill next Tuesday as
they provide around the clock election night coverage for the
California Special election, and any other election news that will
be coming out. They'll be right here giving you everything
as it happens, so do not miss it. That's Tuesday
(17:36):
from seven to ten pm.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It will be a busy night as we await the
results of Prop fifty, as well as election results from
across the country, the race for New York City mayor.
There's a couple of governor's races of interest. Will it
be a bell weather as we head into twenty twenty
six to see if Republicans or Democrats have the edge
as the congressional elections get underway in the midterms next year. Hey, Tiff,
(18:01):
you wanna hear something scary?
Speaker 1 (18:02):
I do.
Speaker 11 (18:03):
Today's candies that come from dispensaries looks exactly like the
candy that you would buy in a grocery store.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Oh no, Apparently these cannabis edibles are starting to look
a lot like candies that kids would like, and so
we're being told that you need to pay extra close attention.
Speaker 11 (18:27):
Authorities in Arkansas showing examples of illegal candy like products
still sold in convenience stores. Police say the branch are
not behind the counterfeit products. A spokesperson for the National
Confectioners Association saying the theft of intellectual property by cannabis
companies is egregious. With consumer safety as our top priority,
we advocate for common sense regulations to ensure cannabis containing
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edibles are viewed as distinct from confectionery products.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
And it's not just cannabis, Apparently there are other illicit
substances that may be making the rounds.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
We thought for ourselves, wow, if a group of trained
investigators looked at this and didn't pay any attention, what's
your average chicken to do on Halloween? And we just
felt we wanted to get this message out there to
parents and children to be a vigilant this Halloween season.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
That's a police lieutenant in Warren, Michigan, who is saying,
in addition to weed candy, there could be counterfeit candy
containing silos, cybin mushrooms, mushroom candy. Yeah. Yeah, for the kids.
But I think even as children ourselves tiff back in
the day, we had fears of the kid. They were
(19:36):
always telling us you got to be on the lookout.
Speaker 5 (19:38):
Pack your candy, don't open it. You don't accept an apple,
don't accept an apple. There's a razor blade in it,
gate goods, everything had something hidden in it. And I'm
here to tell you in most cases, drugs are expensive.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
No one's putting real.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Drugs in your kid's chocolate bar, but you are at
risk of sadly ingesting cannabis candy.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
Yeah, you got to be on the lookout, although I
wouldn't be mad about it. You see, that's the type
of adult trick or treating that should exist, maybe a
little bit later in the night where we could go
out and get at a ball.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
So many bottle of jack and my chops, get a.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
Cocktail, have a have a nice legal drug and consume
it responsibly. But you know that would be fun. One
more thing, if you are going out trick or treating
in your kids are going to be loading up on
this sweet stuff. There's actually some pretty decent tips about
how not to overindulge.
Speaker 10 (20:29):
Before they go to free cor trading. You want to
make sure they have a full meal so they're not
hungry before they go free treading. Also, they want to
brush your teeth before using a two street that has
nanohydrots your appetite. It's a particular ingredient can buffer and
shield enamel against cavities. Then during when they're eating candy,
they should drink a lot of water after candy. One
of the biggest mistakes I see is that people want
(20:50):
to brush their teeth right away. You should actually avoid
brushing for up to.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
About an hour. And that guy's an oral surgeon and
help exported a dentist, so you gotta believe what he says.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
He's a buzzkill is what he is.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Drink water?
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Rall hopped up on candy? Don't want to say drink water?
Speaker 9 (21:07):
Are you getting?
Speaker 4 (21:08):
Hey, what's going on on Halloween around southern gul Oh?
Speaker 5 (21:10):
If you want to go out and avoid the cannabis,
candy and more family friendly ways, there are quite a
few different things that you can do around southern California.
If you're in Calabasas, you can go to something called
Knights of the Jack fantastic name. Knights of the Jacket's
at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas six thirty pm to
(21:31):
ten pm nightly through November three. They have a huge
SpongeBob SquarePants installation if that's your thing, and lots and
lots of fun activities for the entire family. You can
go on knights Offthjack dot com. That's in Calibassus. If
you are closer to the city, West Hollywood is having
(21:53):
their annual Halloween Carnival. This is on Halloween Tomorrow from
six to ten thirty pm. It's free and it's known
as the world's largest Halloween party.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Has a half a million people who attend. I won't
be going. That's way too crowded for me.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
I'll be there.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
You'll be there if is that the.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
One your share dancing up?
Speaker 9 (22:16):
Yeah, that's why my ilb pretty naked.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Okay amongst others.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
I imagine that that's always a fun party. That's the
Visit weshollywood dot com site for more information on the
West Hollywood Carnival. If you are a Willy Wonka and
a chocolate factory fan like i am, there's a costume
ball that is Willy Wonka themed. It's taking place at
the La Theater six fifteen South Broadway.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
That's downtown, one of my favorite building right by you,
beautiful building.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
And that is tomorrow. The movie starts at nine pm.
Doors open at seven pm. You can go on Sinespia
dot org from information.
Speaker 2 (23:01):
If you want to go to the La Zoo area.
The La or.
Speaker 5 (23:04):
Los Angeles Haunted Hey Ride a time old tradition that's
held at the Griffith Park Old Zoo and it's selected
nights through tomorrow, but it is absolutely going on tomorrow.
It's a twenty five minute night time tractor ride where
you can see tons of scary creatures and hopefully they're
not too realistic. We don't want to terrify you any further.
(23:28):
There are quite a few different things. There's Dark Harbor
at the Queen Mary Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
I've done.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
That's fine fun.
Speaker 5 (23:35):
That is a ball, that is a ball and a half.
It's a lot of fun. Get tickets at Queenmary dot com.
It is somewhat family friendly. You can kind of negotiate
where you want to go within the attraction. But Dark
Harbor at the Queen Mary in Long Beach is a
lot of fun and that's going through November. Tewod we
have the benefit of the weekend ending on Sunday, or
it always ends on Sunday, but this season ending on Sunday,
(23:57):
so things are usually going through noon through November fourth.
If you're at the Pomona Fairplex, they have Pumpkin Nights
at the Pomona Fairplex outdoor Family Friendly Halloween Experience, multisensory
Halloween displays, three thousand hand carved and foam pumpkins, and
kids three and under get in free.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
If you're interested in any of these events.
Speaker 5 (24:22):
If you're trying to find more events, you can actually
go to abcseven dot com where you can find out
all about what's happening in your area.
Speaker 4 (24:30):
We are talking about Halloween, but we were talking earlier
about what tonight is called the night before Halloween, and
I think the consensus here was Devil's Night, and I
mentioned that I grew up knowing it as Cabbage Night,
and everyone looked at me like I was some sort
of alien from outer space. But I made a little
(24:51):
search here and Psychology Today reports that there are regional
and subregional variations on what we call today. They say
the array of terms for Mischief Night across the US
shows that there are robust examples. Roughly speaking, Mischief Night
is found in the mid Atlantic, Devil's Night in the
(25:11):
Great Lakes area, Cabbage Night in New England I'm from
Northern Kentucky, and Gate Night in the Upper Midwest and Canada.
But there's also areas in the northeastern corner of Wish State,
New Jersey. That call it goosey night.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
I know what a goosey is. I don't know if
I want to give it a whole night.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Yeah, and then cabbage Night in Jersey as well. A
couple states away Baltimore, Maryland, we find moving night and
if you go west of the Appalachian Mountains you might
encounter corn night pranks.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
If you're lucky, after some moving you'll get a goosey.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
How about that? There you go, Maybe a little cabbage
on the side, trick or tree.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
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Speaker 4 (26:00):
Here from one of our listeners.
Speaker 12 (26:03):
I'm listening from Sarah Sota, Florida and enjoying your show.
Thank you, and I miss my native southern California, but
been here ten years and love I heard so I
can tune into all of your great shows.
Speaker 4 (26:19):
Thank you, Cafi, and thank you Daniel. And happy Halloween
down there in Florida. Very very nice.
Speaker 10 (26:25):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
Florida is known for the occasional hurricane, that's for sure,
but looks like they missed this or I should say
Hurricane Melissa missed them this time. That really battered Caribbean
islands like Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba. It was just a rough,
rough spell down there.
Speaker 8 (26:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
Hurricane Melissa came in this week and has left at
count last count, at least dozens dead across Cuba, Haiti,
and Jamaica, including a wave of destruction to homes and infrastructure.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
It's a category five.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
It was unclear just how much damage it's been has
been done, as these things are still being parsed out,
but we do know that it made landfall in Tuesday
in Jamaica with top wins of one hundred and eighty
five miles per hour, and at least nineteen people were killed,
including one child in Jamaica. Dozens of US Search and
(27:21):
Rescue are in Jamaica to support in the rescue and
recovery mission, and as of today, seventy two percent of
the island is without power. I have an aunt actually
who was visiting Jamaica. She goes pretty regularly from New York,
quick trip right, and she was there. She was there,
and she was posting on social media that she was there.
(27:43):
I didn't know that she was there, and so I
saw these videos and then you just tense up and
you get nervous for your loved one, and she's like,
we're going to ride it out there in the hotel
and we'll get back to you. And it's all social
media and you're waiting, and the next post was We're okay,
thank goodness. But their whole hell lobby. It was like
a three story, four story lobby. It's decimated, like all
(28:05):
the windows were blown out, water everywhere, but they made
it through.
Speaker 4 (28:09):
I always wonder about the islands that are prone to hurricanes,
because we mentioned Florida. If you're in Florida and you've
got a good forecast that hey the storm is coming,
you know, board up your place and you can leave. Yeah,
you can reach the vastness of America in your vehicle.
It maybe a little traffic heavy, but you can get
out of dodge.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
That's not true in places like Jamaica.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
And they'll say evacuate the island. Where are people supposed
to go? So I don't know how one hunker's down there.
One of the things that came out of this hurricane,
which is I think a precursor for a lot more
of what will be expecting in the future, are the
use of AI generated videos and images to scare people
(28:53):
speaking about Halloween. There's this proliferation of viral videos all
over social media showing Jamaica, mainly in the other islands
as well, in various states of destruction devastation. One video
specifically that went viral showed four sharks swimming in a
(29:13):
hotel pool as floodwaters were allegedly coming in from Hurricane
Melissa and swamping the area. This one was completely fake,
but people bought it and shared it.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Four sharks in a hotel pool.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
The videos are getting really believable. I try like, look,
I'm not a pat Paul, you're not a Mamma. I'm not,
but I know you've probably scrolled TikTok or something and
maybe not.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Far from my face when I do it.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
I've seen a video of a pig jumping on a trampoline. Yes,
that tricked me for a minute.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
A kangaroo boarding an airplane, holding its boarding pass while
the owner argued with a flight attendant.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
Also fake.
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Yeah, but they're get They're getting really good.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Really really good and hard to detect. And photos that
are hoaxes, videos that are hoaxes. These things are not new,
but the elaborate nature just how realistic. These videos do
look and photos is something that's new, and they're not
able to be debunked nearly as quickly as with things
(30:22):
in the past. And this content is showing up and
people again are feeding into it and sharing it, which
is not helping with the rescue and recovery because people
are taking these images and photos and going to law
enforcement and saying, hey, go over here because this is happening,
or they're calling and reporting things that aren't actually true,
(30:44):
and it's just complicating things further.
Speaker 4 (30:47):
It was the best of times, it was the worst
of times. That is where we find ourselves because I mean,
with that technology, it's really intriguing. I've loved some of
the stuff that artificial intelligence can do. The boy does
it put all a lot of dangerous weapons and a
lot of hands.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Absolutely.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
And another thing besides creating these videos using artificial intelligence,
people are taking videos and footage of old of these
old disasters, previous hurricanes, anything that might look similar and
can possibly dupe someone, and they're parading these images and
videos as if they are current and related to Melissa,
(31:23):
of which they're not. So experts are cautioning all of us,
of course, to look for insignia from these AI companies
to look for watermarks, to look for clues, because you
don't want to be duped. It's just it does not
work for any of us to continue to fall for
these hoaxes.
Speaker 4 (31:40):
What if this entire show has been artificial intelligence? What
if there is no Michael Monks, What if there is
no Tiffany Hobbs. What if we were just a prompt
entered into chat GPT.
Speaker 5 (31:57):
I don't like the way you're staring into my soul
right now, feel really uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Well, that's just it. Tiffany AI doesn't have a.
Speaker 5 (32:04):
Soung Okay, I'm gonna go. You can do the rest
of this by yourself.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's Michael Monks and Tiffany Hobbs on your thigh.
Speaker 1 (32:13):
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