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[Applause] break out the candy corn you like candy corn now I hate it's awful it's you know
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it there's two kinds though there's one kind that I like and I don't know that I
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could tell you I don't know that I could point at one and tell you which one it is that I like I would have excelled by
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looking yeah you have to taste because I haven't had candy corn in years but I remember as a child I hated it I'm like
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a [ __ ] or candy corn when they give you the candy corn you go thank you very much and then at some point my parents
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had a like a bowl of it and I because there was nothing else to eat so just for survival I was gonna eat the candy
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corn and I was like I remember I remember like it was yesterday I was sitting in my family room I had a
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carpeted floor I was sitting are you starving right starving to death my stomach lining
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eating itself consuming itself and I used to sit on the floor and watch TV sometimes after school and I remember I
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think I was watching like growing pains well that was a show right growing pains
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yeah yeah I love her I can't remember the name of it but I loved that show I thought it was a great show I remember
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it like it was yesterday I was sitting there alyx starving to death Alan Thicke right yeah and I you know
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that he wrote the theme yes I did his wife was a famous singer and and because of they did two of them sing the theme
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song together they might of and and then they birth the artist says that we know
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as Robin Thicke so I I knew that when I was a kid when I watched growing pains I
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knew that Alan Thicke the father who played the father long as we got to each other so it was Mike Seaver what was
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what was his father's name mr. Seaver mr. Seaver remember boner Dickies to bone do that
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the best because boner is such a funny word wouldn't hurt kid I and the fact that they they got away with my family
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friendly show it was on network TV in the early 80s and they somehow I don't know if Mike Seaver gave Dickey stabbed
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own the nickname boner but everybody called him boner the but in it yeah yeah I ate the whole bowl that day just for
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survival and what else was oh that makes me think of the a cell Seaver dr. Jason
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Seaver yeah and but the nickname boner now makes me think of uh of boners oh it it it makes me think of remember uh The
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Cosby Show the the Buddy Theo had a buddy with a funny nickname he was cockroach yeah and at some point they
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just called him roach I think or called him Cochran I think cockroach is funnier
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than just roach yeah cockroach isn't definitely funnier yeah yeah so uh Halloween time
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trick-or-treat time favorite do you have a favorite candy um like that you remember remember as a kid like you'd
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get and you go oh yes I got Twix or whatever it was well I I will say this like my entire
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life Snickers has probably been my favorite candy like that's my go-to I do there's
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a lot of other candy bars that I do enjoy but Snickers is my number one go-to and always has been ever since I
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can remember now when I was a kid when I would go out trick-or-treating beggar's
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night always like oh I was like when people call it beggar's night because they didn't really call it that around
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here I was always trick-or-treat it should be it should be called stash as much candy because you might have to
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live off of it what yeah I always liked getting a nice assortment of candy bars like you don't want too many of the same
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I was never much of a Milky Way guy because I like like the I like a little crunch in my candy way
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but I like caramel so yeah so for me Milky Way was always just missing the peanuts or missing the crunch so milk
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Milky Way a lot of people loved him we used to trade candy at the end of the night so you would trade the away the
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stuff you didn't like as much to get things that you did like a Milky Way was like super trade bait for me because a
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lot of people wanted the Milky Way's I could part about every musketeer because it seemed it three musketeer was was
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big-time trade bait for me as well like I I'm searching for the Snickers Baby Ruth is a very underrated candy bar I
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love a Baby Ruth I agree and I would also go for the Nestle Crunch Bars that I was the thing
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lit many paydays we're good oh those are very good now the almond joys and I'm not a coconut guy so there are some
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people that like those and I could trade those away but I back then I don't know
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about nowadays but back then if you bought the almond joy bag to pass out as your candy to pass out to the
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trick-or-treaters you got mounds as well yeah but they were the bag itself was cheaper than the
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other candy bars and I think it was because it was a less desirable candy bar so more people pass them I did not
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like the almond joys or the mounds couldn't stand those now one one candy that I don't that I thought was awesome
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anytime I got it because I I don't remember like being able to purchase this candy anywhere but on
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trick-or-treat I would get some was the bottle caps do you remember bottle caps yeah yeah
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they were like some of them were like fruit flavors they were they're kind of like a sweetheart right like a but they
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would have root beer-flavored and they had a Cola flavored and great yeah that I loved get in the bottle caps because I
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for whatever reason couldn't figure out how to acquire them outside of Halloween
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yeah that's a that's interesting that you say that because there are probably some candies that are you know I more
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known for trick-or-treating like bottle caps right then then they are just like regular
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yeah every now and then you get like some weird ones like pop rocks I always liked those do you have like is there a
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candy that you associate with Halloween like candy corn well yeah but that's cuz
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it's terrible but or those pumpkins it's candy corn but the pumpkins I associate candy corn with survival
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with with surviving another day when I see knives and like cantinas and stuff like that I think of candy corn yeah
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dude no but I mean like for me bottle caps when I think of bottle caps I think of Halloween when I think of Halloween I
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think of the bottle cap candy yeah I think about knickers I don't associate it with with Halloween well I think it's
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the bite size yeah the bites are any like why is that fun sighs nobody likes it fun is a bigger candy bar yes the fun
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size like no no the fun size is the size of it's as big as your head you know what's not fun is I get the fun size and
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I eat five of them because they're so small and then I feel guilty for the rest of the night yeah but they're way
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she call it guilty size it's way better than the bite size though well but yeah eyes are like why it's so much work to
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get them out of there it's no it's no fun I think I remember because just not getting a lot of candy as a child right
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you know it just wasn't a thing but peanut butter cups just oh yeah I think because they you know Reese's Cups
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yeah the packaging was orange yeah you know they kind of have I don't know it's always you get like the well they do the
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pumpkin shaped ones sometimes yeah now they do yeah which which I feel like the chocolate
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tastes a little different to me only shaped them like something else yeah they do all this weird stuff where
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they'll go okay we got pumpkin ones we got ghost ones we have I like the ones that have the pieces inside of them have
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you had one of those yet no yeah get one of those yeah I can't remember what I might have done I might
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have got a bag of bite-size last year why did I do that that's just wrong listen to hand out to kids who knows I'm
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here you go here's a bunch of bite-size I enjoy unwrapping all these my old neighborhood you could not gauge how
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many trick you know how like you try to gauge how many you are expecting yeah and my old neighborhood I lived there
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for 11 years it was never the same year after year like like one year I would get like three kids then the next year I
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would get like 70 like it was there was no figuring that out I think that neighborhood had a lot of houses that
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were rentals it had some apartments so I think because of the the fluctuating neighborhood you couldn't really figure
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it out but like I only got a handful last year so but I was over prepared which I think it was good and then my
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mother is a chocolate chocoholic hmm so I basically just dropped off a bag of candy to her later and then I think I
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had two extra bags cuz they're really pretty inexpensive now yeah they're like four bucks yeah so I dropped off a bag
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to my mother and then I dropped off a bag to my sister that has some kids so they got like I probably gave them as
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much as they got going out all day they probably were thinking why why we go out
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all night trick-or-treating when we could just ask our uncle for candy I never experienced the limiting you know
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how some parents would be like they would take the candy at the end of the night yeah from the kids and they'd be
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like you get five pieces a day and you know what I mean like or or they would they would take the candy give the child
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some of the candy and be like okay you can eat that whenever you want and then the rest of this is going yeah I've got
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to keep my bag or whatever I used yeah in my room is that what you're saying yeah yeah I would never
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experience where where the candy was taken from me and I wasn't allowed to to consume all of it yeah I know I was that
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parent I would the boys would go out trick-or-treating it and then in fairness they sometimes went out
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trick-or-treating like multiple times right so they're getting gobs and gobs of candy cuz you know when when I was
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younger when you were younger that you'd go out one time and that was at one time
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and now it's like that well we'd go out and then maybe one of our you know one of our friends would go
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hey when's your trick-or-treat we'll go to your towns and so you know it would be group of parents and it was a lot
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more fun because you're hanging out with the parents and and drinking some hot chocolate or coffee or whatever walking
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around with the kids and they're just goofing off and having a good time you're not really paying attention
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you're just talking with the parents and then they go hey one of you guys come over to our place tomorrow and we'll go
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trick-or-treating in our area right okay sure and then like son Saturday that the town is doing a spooky
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village downtown and right you know so I would pull the candy back and then but these kids were freaks anyways because
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they weren't like snackers mmm you know so I just be like hey give me your bag or your your pumpkin or whatever your
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candies and if you want something let me know mmm-hmm and it would be like every few
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days I want to get some of my candy okay and then take a bunch of stuff and go the room but but maybe that's why I have
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a issue with it because when I get if I probably I don't like to buy candy and keep it in my house cuz I'll eat it yeah
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that's what I gave away all the extra I don't I mean I like to trick-or-treat as
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a kid I don't like it so much as an adult as an adult I prefer to stay home and pass out the candy rather than
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walking around and the kids that I'm walking around with they're quite little and they don't want to do the walking
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themselves so I'm carrying children the Holtz I'm which is a it's it's a [ __ ] and
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then I have to go up to the door I don't want to go to the door I'm now I'm old I
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you know I I'm past going it does help it will help you get your steps in for the day that's true but that's other
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than that mmm not no reason to go out and uh yeah and I just I I don't know why I enjoy passing out the candy
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me too and I really enjoyed like knowing like all it's it's beggar's night tonight call it what you want to call
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and I enjoyed that but it was the first time I I mean I lived in a house before I can't remember if I lived there during
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Halloween time but we were so far out in the middle of nowhere that we didn't do
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anything hmm so was the first time to like actually own a house and and yeah you take pride
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in your house and go okay I was trick-or-treating and there's not a lot of kids in my neighborhood but I are you
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I felt bad for him because it seemed like some people weren't passing out candy and and it was also sprinkling and
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then I think it like started raining pretty hard and I just thought what a crappy night for these kids well and the
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polite thing to do is if you're not going to participate and pass out candies turn all your lights off yeah
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and what I like to do is I'd I would bring my you know the little fire pit or outdoor fireplace yeah I would always
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bring that around to the front yard put it in the front yard and burn and a fire
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and then turn on a bunch of lights and then usually I put on a some music on it's loud enough inside that you can
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hear it outside yeah I sit on the front porch and drink pumpkin beer and pass out candy that's that's a fantastic well
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if you have enough lights on and you got like a little fire and you got like some
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festive festive things going on it's inviting to the kids because some of the kids are a little weary which they
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should be of approaching a stranger's home yeah so I like to put on some things and
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make it a little more fun a little more inviting for especially for the little ones that are some of the little kids
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are terrified remember the I can't remember what Kramer was doing but Kramer would do a thing where he's like
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getting food ready and he's like gonna watch a show or something at Jerry's apartment cuz Jerry's gone mm-hmm he's
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kind of like dancing around like a idiot mm-hmm he's all excited that's how I was
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last year before trick-or-treat was getting out my big skull it's a big skull bowl and I was getting that out
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and putting the candy in and setting it up right outside my garage and then I had the Monster Mash on right which you
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know amongst amongst dance song is good enough you can play it any time of year I love that song you know can I give you
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a suggestion here's what I would suggest you were talking about full-size candy bars at one time yeah I've been thinking
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about that it's that's kind of cool the only issue I take with that is if you get a kid that that doesn't like the
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full-size that you chose I was doing a sort man yeah cuz I used to do I did full size one year but then what I've
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gone back to is I go back to the fun size but I get a whole bunch of different kinds and put them in the put
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them in a bucket or in something and I and I just tell the kid take a handful oh yeah yeah that's what I was doing
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after like the once I realized like there's probably 15 20 minutes of no kids mm-hmm and it's only like a
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two-hour window so then I was going I got all this candy so when they come up I just say take a handful and if they
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wanted I'd take a handful myself and then put it in their bags I felt I feel like we went longer when
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we were kids oh yeah I think but I also secretly yeah but I also think we didn't
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like wait for the real start time like I feel I feel like we because I remember half of my trick-or-treat being in the
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it was still light out like I feel like you get home from school and half hour later you're putting on your costume and
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you're going out yeah you know maybe by 4:30 5:00 o'clock you're already out and rolling
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and I fit nowadays it's what like six to eight yeah probably six to seven thirty
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I'm like yeah yes yeah I think it's at least two hours I'm sure it's different in every county and and all that stuff
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do you but do you remember the last time you went trick-or-treating we as a kid yes so this is kind of weird because
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some people are gonna be like wow you were you know how some people do it way too way too old and other people stop
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way too early the last time I went trick-or-treating I would have been in seventh grade and I can remember that
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because I remember the the people I went around with now I didn't go trick-or-treating in sixth grade I
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thought I was too old so I didn't go and it was actually I probably wouldn't have
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gone in seventh grade based off of my age but a buddy of mine had like this brilliant idea and I was always one of
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those kids that either you know like my mom was super involved in a good way but
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many years she chose what I was for Halloween she just didn't feed you right and then there was a couple times that I
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chose what I was gonna be for Halloween but didn't like didn't really have mom's
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backing so it wasn't like she didn't really help out with the costume really well right so my friend in seventh grade
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said and I believe it was his idea it's funny when you look back on these things and then you talk to these people
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and they're like no that was your idea right right but I'm gonna give him credit for this and I thought it was a
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brilliant idea and I only went trick-or-treating because of I wanted to dress up he suggested to be Hans and
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Franz from Saturday Night Live yeah and it was a super easy costume to do all we
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each purchased or maybe we already had them was just a gray sweat suit you know pants and shirt sweat suit and the
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weightlifter belt and the weightlifting gloves and then we stuffed the we stuffed some stuff underneath our shirts
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to make us look big and strong and we both had Buzz cuts you know I remember like every boy
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in our grown up had a buzz haircut brain and Hans and Franz have the the buzz cut
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so it was so easy to do and it was funny because we would do the voice and we would do the clap and the point when we
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get to people's doors and the the parents thought it was freakin hilarious right because they're big into surgeon
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right the kids most the kids didn't know who the hell we were parents do it the Hans and Franz kill me now and believe
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me later we should go bump you up oh I love when they're he's doing yoga all you girly
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man yeah what do you was your last trick or treat I'm not really for sure but I I
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think it was a time probably middle school feels like that's the cutoff right yeah I want to say it was like I
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want to say it was sixth grade and and I could be wrong I could have I could here's what I can't remember is there
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was a picture that was taking my mother took a picture like oh your friends came
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over and you're you're gonna go trick-or-treating but it was one of those times where like your mother also
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thinks that you're too old to go right the they're not saying that you can't go they're just saying we're not gonna
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we're not gonna put the effort into helping you go Ryan so there's this picture and but the weird thing about
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the pictures there's four people in the picture but two of them are have passed on now
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which is kind of strange to think of two kids your age I'm passing on but I can't
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remember if it was that time that there was my last time or if there was another
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time because both times it was like don't really have an idea for costume let's just put on a mask with a hoodie
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that's what I was gonna say and you're doing no effort I might have gone yeah I I may have gone in sixth grade and
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because I know for certain in fifth grade and maybe in sixth grade as well I thought I was too old or my parents
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thought I was too old something like that but then there other neighborhood kids my age are older
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and they're like yeah I just wear the same mask every year right and I put on a hoodie and while I walk around with a
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pillowcase and fill it up and in yeah and a bunch of the kids did that they had one mask that they kept in a closet
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somewhere and wore year after year and just they were just in it for the candy I forgot about that that was the big
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thing like I was noticing that like the grocery stores how when we were younger there would be just orange pumpkin
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bucket now there's orange walking around with and fill it up with candy yeah but
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you know there's I go now they'll sell a go orange pumpkin a purple pumpkin they'll sell Frankenstein head same yeah
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they they make special tea bags we were walking around with pillowcases I mean there was like one kid that was I don't
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know maybe his parents were billionaires or something but they had a he had like
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a glow-in-the-dark bucket that was Halloween like it like a Frankenstein green head the gluon that would glow in
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the dark when he walked around it some of the kids would carry flashlights you remember that yeah well I do remember
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that our thought was well we're older now and trees kind of stupid and we didn't go to the old neighborhood we
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went to the newer section because the houses were closer and we thought we'd get more candy well let's just go
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it's almost like before we went nobody wanted to go and then we started going and we got like three blocks in and we
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kind of talked like jokingly you know how kids do you act like you're really tough well here's what we should do we
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should go three blocks and after three blocks that's just still a couple kids bags in the end not that I was an angel
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but I never stole any of the candy from anybody well it was so funny because I want to say that our group started off
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bigger and then got smaller cuz you know sometimes you run into your other friends and then you go oh let's all go
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yeah but like I said we're probably out for about 15 minutes it was still light out outside but then I think one of my
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friend said yeah well we could always grab a kid's bag or something and we all kind of you know we've been joking about
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it all day like yeah we're gonna go true treating and once we get bored we'll just steal couple bags right I then take
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and then somebody brought it up well I guess we could steal somebody's bag and then we were just we felt we kind of
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looked at each other like that is so stupid right and why would we do that and so the next the funny thing was like
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there was no there was no speaking there was no it was just the next kid that came up like the next group of kids we
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we all there was like maybe three of us now and three of them and we said do you
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guys want our candy and these three kids were like what and we dumped all our candy in their bags so we went from
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talking trash all day about stealing kids bags to just giving up art candy well and you know I feel like the
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Halloween trick-or-treat shenanigans really went on late at night and I don't like I said I didn't partake in any of
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that and it's not because I was an angel I used to love my favorite thing about Halloween back then in still to this day
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they don't do it as much it used to be overboard back then every freaking TV show had a Halloween special back then
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like they had a Halloween themed they would do their regular show regular sitcom but it would either be they would
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either make it scary or they would make it Halloween themed some great ones with the Simpsons yeah
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and I loved that as a kid so like after after it started to get dark you know all the good shows came on at like eight
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o'clock and later I wanted to be home by 8:00 so I could see the Halloween themed
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sitcoms and TV Roseanne used to do a good one I remember that well like you said the Simpsons is probably the best
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well I always like to watch the Great Pumpkin or sometimes they put on a scary movie
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you know Halloween would be on or you hit bumps the TV version of Nightmare on Elm Street something like
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that I always wanted that that that was my favorite part of Halloween I hope they start doing kind of what they do at
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Christmas time where like TBS will like play the Christmas story all day mm-hm it would be kind of cool why gets
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trick-or-treat is different night for everybody but it would be kind of cool if they had just different Halloween
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shows that were like looped as you pick yeah as you passed out the candy to all the kids
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oh I will say and this is going to be very late but I a couple weeks ago I saw hallow Halloween I saw it chapter 2 yeah
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I haven't seen it yeah so here's woods my thoughts it the first you know the first one yeah
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chapter one was very good chapter two blue chapter one out of the water man chapter two is so good
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see I heard it was just they liked I heard a lot of people like chapter one better because it was the kids yeah
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there was some cheesy stuff because they are adults I thought chapter two was scarier from a
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from a jump standpoint alright you know where they where there's just like boom pop you know you I I thought people were
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I solved it I like to see some of the scary movies in a theater because I like to see the people's reactions or hear
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their reactions throughout the movie I thought people were reacting more to chapter two than they did chapter one
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mm-hmm I thought the story portion was better the acting was great what's that one dude that we like so
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much though hater he was fantastic he's fantastic in it I didn't know that he was going to fit in that well but yeah
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so but but but by now it's the movies been out for a month or so oh but back to this you know like I said it
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it felt like my last Halloween or the last beggar's night last retreat it felt like was a show called The Wonder Years
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that's what it felt like in the moment if they like that like like you were aware this is something that's over like
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after tonight it was like you know we went and we got bored and the you know and then the scene would have been you
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know he would have said and and then Kevin said we should still these kids trick-or-treat bags and without it
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without even talking we hand it over our but our candy to the next little kids right and we realized that this time has
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passed and we're we're now too old for this and we're approaching adulthood or whatever or work closer to to the people
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that are or closer to becoming the the people that pass out the candy then the people that go around and get it but it
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was just one of those moments where in that moment it's nostalgic right and in it but it's happening it's happening so
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yeah I need to see it too though I I probably wait so it comes out is it rental yeah I don't think so because I
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just saw it in the theater in the ice well I can tell you what I saw I saw it like September 7th I believe mmm
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was when I saw it in the theater and that's wrong I can believe the lie to you yeah I'm a liar pants on fire
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solid yes I saw it mid-september that's what we know I'm looking up because I looked it up I want to make sure that
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was called the Great Pumpkin and not the Great Pumpkin show because where I used
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to teach guitar lessons that Circleville Ohio has a pumpkin festival that is a week-long pumpkin show it's called the
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pumpkin show and they shut down the whole city and I remember like the first year of teaching there
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when okay well how long was this event oh it's all week okay well we should still have lessons right no they don't
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even go to school now which is crazy can you imagine like if that would be great
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if you're a kid there because you get out of school for a whole week my where I live they shut down the schools for
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two days on a Thursday Friday for a horse race and I didn't I didn't go down there but I've heard that it's just a
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kind of a real [ __ ] show down there that everybody's that everybody's just kind
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of drinking in the streets and drunk for two days straight I I don't know why I've never been able to go down there
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and experience it because I always have some conflicting thing going on at the same time but one of these days captain
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you're gonna get drunk with the kids well not with children I'm gonna but I'll be out in the streets are they're
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not gonna have schools so they're gonna be it's true the problem they're probably drunk too well I I had to play
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a gig one time during the pumpkin show and they have these parades with marching bands and stuff every day
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and uh so I was playing this gig and I had to park really far away and I was wheeling my my gear and I just asked
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somebody wears such-and-such bar and they go it's right over there and the parade was happening but I was
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running late so I had to like marching band way and I'm pushing my haste through the parade and these kids
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probably went oh god what a loser by to candy [Applause] you