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Episode title: Wake Up Classy 97 with Josh and Chantel - Friday, October 31st, 2025
Episode summary introduction:
It’s a spooky, sweet, and slightly chaotic Halloween on Wake Up Classy 97 the Podcast! Josh and Chantel kick off the morning talking about the leaked Stranger Things Season 5 trailer, Halloween candy stats that’ll make your dentist cry, and a fraternity’s inspiring run for mental health awareness. Plus, Chantel’s hilarious costume reveal, a debate over the best candy trades from the ‘90s, and why “6 7” somehow became Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year. Grab your Reese’s, settle in for some laughs, and get ready to fall back an hour this weekend!!
Timestamps:
(0:00) - Bonus: Stranger Things Season 5 trailer
(2:08) - Happy Halloween
(4:40) - Good News
(6:15) - Halloween costume reveal
(12:53) - Broken overpass
(18:21) - 67
(23:07) - Josh's Ted Talk
(29:16) - Cruel Intentions TikTok trend
(33:47) - Trick-or-treaters
(38:55) - Costume contest
(41:57) - Best costumes
(48:04) - Trading candy
(57:09) - Would You Rather
(1:00:14) - Fall back this weekend
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Full show transcript:
Something big hit the internet yesterday. What is it? It was the official trailer for Stranger Things Season 5. Oh yeah! Apparently it got leaked online and then Netflix hurried and pulled it, but a bunch of people had already downloaded it and shared it and so they just fully released it. We watched it last night.
Yeah, it's good. It looks good. It's pretty intense.
Yeah, I'm really super excited for what is the final season and they're doing it in several parts. Right, it's a two-part. Yeah, I think it's three. Oh! So you get the first one, then you get some, so I'm trying to remember the dates. You get some in November, you get some around Christmas, and then you get some at New Year, which is kind of exciting and fun. So, season five, how's this work? November 26th will be the first four episodes, then on Christmas Day you get three more episodes and you get the finale on New Year's Eve. So your holidays are booked if you're a Stranger Things fan. Your Thanksgiving, your Christmas, and your New Year's are like taken care of.
Then that's our daughter. Our daughter's obsessed with Stranger Things, so that's what she's going to be doing on those days.
Exactly. And I know that they had done like a thing where if you were going to re-watch the entire series up to the premiere, like you had to start like somewhere in mid-October, watching an episode a day until you got to the thing, but you might have to do some catch-up if you plan on watching it all, but I'm excited for it. Yeah, that'd be fun. The trailer looks really good if you haven't seen it. Vecna looks crazy. All the kids are old now, which is weird because they're just still high school kids. But it's cool.
I'm excited. It looks really good.
And our daughter is absolutely obsessed.
She really is. Yeah. I told her the trailer came out and she went, what? Like the real one? And I said, yeah. She was very, very excited. So all right, shall we start the Halloween show? Here we go.
It's spooky.
Whoa. Uh, good morning. Good morning. It's Josh and Chantel.
It is Josh and Chantel.
It is Halloween.
Yes. The scariest of the days. Spookyest time of the year.
That's right. Have you eaten your 3.4 pounds of candy?
Today? Yeah. Or over the course of the week?
Uh, today.
No, not yet today.
All right. Well, get started because you got a quota to meet.
I certainly have been eating some candy over this week.
3.4 pounds of candy on Halloween. Is that what's- The average American will consume.
Not even, kind of. Yes. That's 3.5 pounds. 3.4.
Just under 3.5. What? Yes. That's unhealthy. Kids will eat today 7,000 calories. Ooh, scary. Which equals three cups of sugar.
Oh my gosh. That's insane. We got a knot. We got a knot.
But why?
This is space it out. Let's just space it out a bit, everybody.
You know what I'm looking forward to? What's that? Those big bags, $25, $25 bags of candy going on clearance.
You're looking forward to that? I don't really care. Because you're a big candy eater.
I'm not. I guess how much Halloween candy I've had.
Zero. That is correct. Because you're so much better than everyone.
I've had zero Halloween candy.
Yeah. You get a little bit hoity. Why am I hoity? Step off your chair. Whoa. You're high horse. No, you wow. You start, hmm, guess how much I've eaten. Zero. I'm so much better than everybody.
When did I say that makes me better than anybody? Just now. It's just a fact. You had an attitude. That I've had zero. And so you actually need to eat 6.8 pounds to keep up the average. For both of us? Well, somebody's got to eat my 3.4.
I mean, I'm up for the challenge. But I don't think twice. It's a lot of candy. I'm not getting any younger. These hips aren't getting any smaller.
Happy Halloween. It's Josh and Chantel. Let's get some good news. This is at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, where the brothers of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, they took on a physical challenge to raise awareness and honor a brother lost to mental health struggles.
Yeah, it's really kind of a sad deal. The brothers spent the day taking turns running a one mile loop around campus from sunrise to sunset. And in total, they ran 60 miles as a group. So they would take turns like, hey, I'm going to do a lap.
You do a lap, whatever. Okay. The goal was to get students talking, talking to counselors, talking to each other, talking to anyone who'll listen. The invent and encourage students to talk openly and seek support while the fraternity now starts every chapter meeting with a mental health check-in. I love it. Yeah, very, very cool. The whole point is to bring awareness to mental health.
One of the runners said there is a strong stigma among college students, men especially, having openness has been great for us as a whole. So that's really cool. I like that they're trying to get people to talk.
I like that too. Because I think you get stuck in your head. And if you're stuck in your head all the time, you can start talking yourself into and out of things that would be good for you.
So anyway, well done to the fraternity Sigma Tau Gamma at University of North Carolina Charlotte doing good work out there. And it's good news. Very nice. All right. Let me set the room up here.
Because here's what's going on. I've got my screens on my side of the room. Right. You have put up a jacket so that I cannot see past my monitors to where you are. Yeah. Because of your costume reveal. Right, right, right. So I've got my video rolling. I'm filming in your direction. And I suppose you're supposed to be filming me, right?
Yeah. Oh, I am. Should I? I guess.
Okay, I'm filming now. I'm filming so that I can, hey, what's up? I can see your phone. All right. That's the first I've seen of you in, I don't know, close to 20 minutes, I think. Right. But here we are in the studio. You have dressed in your costume.
I have not seen it. I have no idea what you were dressed at as. And I am dressed on my side. You can clearly see my costume. You were there when I bought it. You know all about it. I am Charlie Brown.
Charlie Brown. That's right.
I love it. What I like about it is it's full head to toe Charlie Brown. You did help me draw my hair on, which I appreciate. Look, this is ridiculous. I just see a phone. Okay. Are you, are you ready?
I'm ready. Let's do the reveal. There we go. The thing comes down.
There's all my stuff. Wait a minute. Do you have my yellow shoes? Yeah. I've been looking for those.
This is facial hair. It's so gross. It won't stay on. It's so sick.
You dressed as me. You have a bald cap on under there. I do. My hat, which I wasn't looking for the hat. This morning I was looking for my yellow shoes. I'm like, I know I took them off. They're kicking around. Look it. It's falling off on us. You got to get some more glue.
But look, look, look, look. I'm afraid of putting more glue on because I am allergic to.
The adhesive. Yeah. Did you put the gray in it? Is that what I'm seeing? Yeah. Yeah. It's really kind of gross. I'm not really.
It's gross looking at yourself.
It's, it's really off-putting. It's not great.
Come on, Josh. Come on. Come on. Look at this mustache.
Yeah. Well, let me stand up. Let me see what else you got. Cause you got on my yellow hoodie. You got on my fly fish food hat. Yes. You have a bald cap. You have some horrifying facial hair. Why is it horrifying? Oh, it's just, it's just gross. Well, step over here where I can see you.
What's, what's happening down there? Blue pants. Blue pants and my yellow shoes. And your socks. Oh, you're wearing my socks too. That's a detail that I don't think was necessary, but okay. I don't want those back. Why?
I'm just kidding. Let me tell you that I, my mustache keeps falling off.
Yeah. I have that problem sometimes.
Let me tell you that I threw in your shoes, threw your shoes in my bag last night. Yeah. You kept saying that you needed to take a shower. Yeah. And I said, go take a shower so I can grow all your stuff in my bag. And you finally went to the shower, threw your shoes in my bag. Your shoes stunk up my whole bag. Yeah. Gross. Clean your shoes. So now my feet are going to be stinky all day.
I'm sorry about that.
I'm not even talking this mustache. I feel like it's floundering about.
Do you have some kind of spirit gum or something to keep it on?
I don't know what it is. It was just the adhesive that came in the package. Yeah. It's like a double-sided tape. Uh-huh. It only has to last temporarily. I see.
But I feel good. So you've got some drawn on on the sides. Is that what I'm seeing? Yeah. And then a little bit of, wow.
Because I ordered this beard. I didn't think it was just a goatee. Yeah. And I went, ah, crud.
And then I went. Oh, it was just a goatee. You didn't have the mustache with it?
No, the mustache came with it, but it didn't have like the beard part.
I see. So. I see. Wow. Well, way to be me.
This is my favorite part is the bald cap. Yeah. Won't stay down flat.
Because you have too much hair underneath. I see. If you take the hat off, you got a good bald head under there. Look at you. It's a little wrinkly, but it'll do. This is what you do all the time. Yep. Because itches my head.
And then you put it backwards. That's right. And that's a different look. Yes. Wow. Also, I also bought because you're not full bald. You have hair around the sides of your head. So I bought a bald cap with hair around the sides, but it came and it's like clownish almost. And so I was like, well, I'll give it a trim. And then you shaved your head. Yeah. Well, now I got to go get a bald, bald cap. Well, you can wear whatever you want.
Your eye makeup really sells it. Yeah. I usually have eye makeup.
Well, I also have to look presentable. I see. I have to, you know, make myself look decent. I can't just look like you all day.
Well, I'm glad you did it. Look at you. How about it? How about it? Yep. Yep. I don't know what else to say. I've never had anyone dress up fully like me like this.
This is something else. Here it is, man.
Here it is. Here it is. This is what you do. You get say, here it is. I've never said that.
Here it is. There it is. And you do this. I've never done that.
You're just making stuff up now. Here it is.
I'm also kind of sad how well I fit into your pants. Well, too much candy, I suppose. I'm a small guy. That's the real thing. Well, happy Halloween. Same, Charlie Brown. You're wearing that all day? Just until I go to my other job. And then you'll be wearing it there? No, no. You should. No one's going to know.
Who are you? Who are you?
I'm Josh Tyler. That's right. Look at me. Baby.
That's the thing he says. He says, I'm Josh Tyler, baby. Josh Tyler, baby.
I've never said that either. Well, for a second there, I thought I was going to get to tell you a story about free milk, but I'm not going to be able to tell you that. I am going to be able to tell you that I-15 was closed for a little bit last night. Oh, no. There was a Jerome man who was flown to the hospital last night after crashing a truck, a big semi truck, into a bridge pillar on I-15 by Blackfoot.
Oh, no. Around 8.45 PM last night, the Southbound lanes near Mayo Post 92 is where this bridge is at. It is the Riverton Bridge overpass right there. The 46-year-old driver was driving an empty milk tanker, so there's no free milk.
Oh, no free milk. Yeah. That would have been, what a mess. That would have been. Yeah. Free milk everywhere. Yeah. Homogenized freeway. Is that what they call it? You can't make me laugh because then my beard falls apart.
Anyway, the condition of the driver is not currently known. Hopefully he's doing okay. But they did have, for a while, I-15 was closed and they were rerouting traffic. The structural integrity of the Riverton overpass was compromised during the collision, and it will be closed to all traffic at all.
So if you ever travel over the Riverton overpass, you don't need more. It's closed forever? Well, so they're doing the widening project on I-15. I don't imagine they're going to fix this one until they rebuild it as part of that widening project. Yeah, yeah. So that overpass is probably done.
Oh, no. Until it gets rebuilt. That would be my hot take on it. And they're not going to start a big construction project like that.
They may do some stuff to ensure its structural integrity in the meantime, but it'll be closed until they rebuild that part of I-15. I would assume, anyway. I don't have that information in front of me.
That's just what I would do if I were the project planner. You're spreading misinformation.
No, I'm telling you it's closed. I know that because one of the pillars is broken. The giant concrete pillar is gone. That's crazy. The whole platform that the actual overpass sits on is corked out.
It's skiwampus. So, yeah, no, you're not driving on that. And I don't suspect they'll repair it when they already have a plan to replace it. I get what you're saying. If I was the project manager, I wouldn't go, yeah, let's fix it and then tear it down as we get to the widening project.
I see what you're saying. Yeah. Why do it twice? I see what you're saying. Yeah.
Anyway, hopefully he's doing okay. No free milk on the freeway for you.
That's fine. Freeway milk is not good. It's not good milk. Don't grab your bucket and go get some freeway milk. There is none to have. That's fine.
What freeway food would you eat?
Okay. So something spilled. Yeah. And you could just go pick it up.
Because this is what happens. Somebody spills grapes, a truckload of grapes and you go free grapes. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So what is it? What would spill that you'd be like, no, I'd go get some of that.
I think it would have to be something where the inside was still intact. So it would have to have something with like a shell. Kinder egg. I was thinking like produce. Pomegranate. Like, oh yeah, I would go get a pomegranate. I'd be like, yeah. Yeah. What about you?
It wouldn't be fruits and vegetables. I mean, that's fine. If like a truck of corn fell over and there was years of corn laying there. You'd go get some corn. If they were like the, not the ones they use for cows.
Here's the thing. It's not free. That still belongs to someone. So you're still freeway.
This is your joke. You can't debunk your own joke. The free food on the road thing has been your joke for at least a year and a half. And now you're like, listen, it's
morally, you can't just go take stuff. That's a minor felony, my guy. Maybe.
It might just be petty theft. They're writing it off on insurance anyway.
Well, that doesn't mean it's a free for all. They're just going to throw it away. Listen, I don't know the rules.
Clearly. There's none. There's none to worry about anyway.
There was no milk. Don't go get it. Cause there is none. I would not go get free milk.
No. Watch out for that overpass. It's a little dangerous. It's a doozy. Okay. What? I said that. I did it. Right before we get ready to talk, you just start yelling stuff. I'm like, I got headphones on. I have no idea what you're saying. I said, what?
I don't know what's happening today.
So what's up? What's going on? What were you so yelling about?
Dictionary.com. Yes. Unveiled their word of the year.
Do you know what it is? This happened yesterday. Six seven. Yeah. Which is, they've defined it as a word. It's two numbers, but that's fine. Right. But they, I like how they put the pronunciation of it. Six seven. Like it doesn't have the sing-songy thing to it.
I try to see the pronunciation. Do you have, have you seen the definition of it?
No. What did they put as the definition?
A viral ambiguous sling term that's largely nonsensical, but it can mean so-so or maybe this, maybe that.
I've never heard anyone use it like that. The dictionary doesn't know what they're talking about.
Meaning, okay. So in general, they say it's an example of brain rot slang. Meaning a term intended to be playfully absurd. All right. People describe me that way. Playfully absurd. Yeah, but you have to say playfully absurd.
The only time you say that is when you're hanging out at a gala. Oh, playfully absurd. That's, that's gala speak.
Cause we hang out at gala.
No. And that's why we never speak like that.
She is playfully absurd. Right. It's very. I've met her. Yeah. I want to start referring to people like that.
Oh, do you? That in and of itself is playfully absurd.
Agreed. All right. Okay. So I don't know. I don't know why dictionary.com decided this was going to be the word of the year. It's not even a word. It's two numbers. It doesn't even have a real definition.
Right. Other than at some dude's height. Yeah.
Is that where, like, Yeah. Yeah. A lot of people are saying it came from a song.
By a rapper. Well, yeah. Here's the deal. But he's talking about a height. So. Uh, Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's the lyric in the song doot, doot by Skrilla. Um, which is the hip hop hop song that came out in December of 24. Uh, that month, the song and its six, seven lyric became the subject of a variety of videos, notably including edits of the basketball player. La Mello ball.
La Mello ball. Who is six foot seven inches in height. So it was, it was basically let's this dude's talking about how tall he is. And then they put the song to it. And then a bunch of kids went six, seven and thought it was hilarious.
Okay. But now maybe since dictionary.com is made it the word of the year. Maybe kids are like, Oh, it's, it's dead now. Okay. Maybe it'll lose its popularity. I hope so too. Because this is not a word dictionary.com. What are we doing?
What are we doing? I mean, they add a word every year. They had several words, but they add their word of the year is like the most used word.
They also, they're not wrong. It's just that it is two numbers. It's not necessarily a word. Yeah, they added said all the time.
Ten other terms. Yeah. Ten other words. Aura farming. Aura. Okay. Aura what?
That was your, that was your setup.
Brolegarchy.
I've never heard anyone say brolegarchy.
Genzysstair and tradwife.
Genzysstair we talked about because you were the recipient of that. Anyway, okay. Well, cool. Okay. There you go.
Dictionary.com add in brain rot to the, to the dictionary. It's official now.
It's real. You can use it in Scrabble. Oh, you can. If nothing else, Scrabble the game full of letters. You can use a six and a seven.
You had an assembly the other day. Yeah.
I got to be the guest speaker at a high school. It's American heritage. They're high school. So it was the ninth, they have two ninth grade classes at 10th and 11th in the seniors. So there was probably a hundred or so students. And you had asked if I was like nervous about it or anything and I wasn't. And then it was fun because I got some family and stuff that worked there. So my sister was there and she's like, are you, are you ready?
I said, no. And she goes, what? Ready for what? Like I'm going to walk up there and talk. Like, what do you mean? Like, should I have prepared a speech?
What, what's this like? You didn't prepare anything? I knew the purpose of my being there. So I said, I will talk about that. And then I just did. Here's what I did find. I can be long-winded.
I could have told you that. What? I could have told you that.
Well, so I, I feel like I told my story of kind of how I got into radio. It was all about career stuff. It was about setting goals, perseverance, working through hard times, like those kinds of things, staying focused, like all, so it was sort of a quasi motivational TED talk. Okay. And with a question and answer at the end, which was kind of cool. Yeah. So it really, I mean, I had a great time. It was, it was fun to be there. And I saw a bunch of like youths that I know, which was fun through scouts and different other things. And so I was like, Hey, familiar faces, which was cool.
Yeah. It was pretty fun. It was cool. I really enjoyed it. And no, I wasn't nervous. And then I, I got up there and started talking and off I went. It was like, here we go.
How many people in the crowd looked bored to tears? Okay.
Let's be fair. We're talking about ninth to 12th graders. So a few. Yeah, I know. A good chunk of kids were like, Okay, this guy's still talking.
This guy, who brought this guy?
And it was fun because, you know, I talk for a living. So to get up and hold a microphone and do some more talking at one point in my career, I did get fired. So it was kind of fun to, to be like all of these, like here was my, my dream. Here's, you know, I've established a foundation and I'm doing this stuff and I've, I've done this. I've been in radio for two years. I got an opportunity to take a step up. Now I'm making big bucks. And now it's all really exciting. And then I got fired and they went, Oh, there was a couple of those.
There was audible gas.
Not, not like, Oh, but like, like a, like, Oh no.
It's kind of fun.
Well, good deal.
Yeah.
And it was one kept their attention raptured.
Oh, 100%.
100% all day.
No, but thanks for having me. That was, that was really cool. They do that every month. They have a different speaker come in, I guess, and they, they're kind of learning about how to get through stuff. And then they have to write a paper about me. Oh, I'm homework.
I'd like to see some of the papers that were written about you.
That's fair. This guy. Yeah. I think it would be interesting as well. Do I know what they have to write about? Like, is it just what I'm trying to see if I, if I know that information?
Hmm. Does it have to be a certain length that they write about?
Yeah. I don't know the assignment. I kind of wish I knew the assignment, but I don't
tell what you liked and disliked about this.
Yeah. No, it's probably, you know, how book reports work where like you would have had to have paid attention and then they would ask you specific things about like, you know, when, when he said this was, you know, the dream of his and what were some of the challenges that he faced or what was, you know, what I mean, like they probably pull some of the things they recorded it. So there's a video of it because kids that weren't there, if they were absent can go back and watch it and do the assignment. So imagine watching me on video for however long I just ramble. They're going to too ex speed me for sure. Like I can't listen to this guy. I'm going to half time this thing. Ugh.
But a speaker of the month. Big day, bro. I know. Big day. It was a big day, bro.
I still, you look like me, but you aren't saying things I say.
What do you say? I don't say big day, bro. Big day, bro. What do you say? I'm trying to think of some things that you say. Yeah. I know that this bald cap is ill fitting and it keeps like messing with my ear a little bit. So like, my ear is like all red and irritated. Oh. It's hard being bald. Well, you're pulling it off. I should probably take my earrings out.
That would help. That would help. I told you, I make up.
I could not wear eye makeup. Ew. Ew.
Yeah. My face. I don't wear eye makeup.
I know, but I can't. I keep having to take off my mustache too.
All right. Put it back on. Get it together. Maybe I'll just mustache it.
All right. It's so crooked. It's so bad.
There is a trend on TikTok where if you've seen the movie Cruel Intentions at the very end of the movie. How old is that movie? It's from the 90s, but Reese Witherspoon is on an escalator going up and when she gets to the top of the escalator, there's the boy that she likes. Ryan Felipe. Top of the escalator. And there's a TikTok trend going around right now where women are asking their husbands to do this.
They're just, but they aren't giving full context. They're just saying, stand here while I ride this escalator up. Yeah.
Just wait for me at the top looking all cute.
Here's the, can I talk about a little pet peeve of mine? Okay. Go. When people don't know the word escalator and so they say, I'm riding the elevator and I go, go away. It is not an elevator. Okay.
So I sent it to you because I was like, oh, I kind of like this trend. And I sent it to you and you go, yeah, I'll do that.
Yeah. Sure. I'll stand at the top of an escalator. That's easy. Great.
Let's do it. Okay. Then I saw one, this one made me laugh. It was a woman who is single and she said, I don't have a man to do this with her husband or a boyfriend. So I did it with my dog. Yeah.
And she just walked up stairs.
She just walked up the stairs. But her dog is like, when she gets to the top, her dog is like, hey, you made it.
That movie came out in 1999.
1999. The same year I graduated. How about that? How about it? Anyway, I want to do that trend. Okay. Great. And then what happens? Oh, and then we hug. Oh, okay. All right. And then that's it. And then it's over. But my teenage girl heart is like, huh?
Do you want me dressed as Charlie Brown when you get up there? Yes. Because we can film this today. Hey, I am in character. I can stand at the top.
Yes. And then you'll get there and I'll go, good grief and that, you know?
Good grief and that. That's what Charlie Brown says.
Good grief and that.
Come on.
Yeah, you get it. Come on. It would be hilarious to have like, you know the trend, you see the top of the bald head and then you see the little curly Q and then it just gets worse and worse as it goes. And then you got those shoes. I got on those Charlie Brown shoes. Brown loafers. The short toes.
Is there a equal counter match to that for boys? I'm trying to think of a movie that would have like a woman waiting.
I don't think it's the woman waiting. What is it? It's got to be that like pool scene with the like coming out of the pool with the wet hair thing. That's probably the comparable movie scene. If we're going like stereotypical, you know, like, oh, there she is getting out of the pool. Cause everybody looks good, like drowned wet.
Yeah. My hair coming out of the pool never looks like that. It's all ratted.
No, I know. No one looks like that getting out of the pool. You're worried about where your swimsuits positioned. No one's like, I'm just out. No.
Makeup is all smeared. Right. Right. Come on. Exactly.
You got to get that waterproof makeup before you get in there and even start that game. And a swim cap. That's a good look. Sort of like what's going on under that hat today.
My bald cap? Yeah. It's kind of hot. I got to take a break.
It looks like you might be sweating a little bit. It's
kind of sweaty. I got to.
You got like an hour and a half till you got to be full ready for the costume contest.
I know. Look at it. It made a whole line in my head.
That is something else. It's cut off my circulation. I got to. Let's take a break. All right. Sounds good.
I was reading the types of trick or treaters that you'll encounter tonight. Oh, okay. Some of these made me laugh. All right. The trick or treater who still keeps their bag open after you put candy in it.
Okay. All right. Trick or treat. And then you drop some in and they just stand there with it still open. Right. And that's when I go, bye now. Happy Halloween. Shut the door.
Or the trick or treaters that come and they look in your candy jar like, can I have that one?
Look, I don't particularly care for that. Oh, no whoppers.
Can I have that one? What if they reach into your bowl and start rooting around? What if instead of pointing, they
go, I'm going to, I'm going to aggressively bark at them. Like that. And they're going to go, whoa. I'm going to go, no.
How about the adult using their baby as an excuse?
I've seen that a lot, a lot. Did a lot of those community trick or treat events where you, you know, you're in like one business, a trunk or treat, like that kind of style thing. A lot of people carry in a baby with the bucket full of candy. And I go, that baby's not eating any of that candy. Like the two kids who came through, like that was cute. But look, and then I go, you know what? It saves the other two kids from having to pay as much parent candy tax.
That's true. That's true. So solid.
Yeah. I mean, I don't love it, but also, eh, it's Halloween.
It's just candy. It's just candy.
Why am I going to get worked up about it?
What about the trick or treater that knocks on your door even though your lights are turned off? And you're like, go home. Yeah, no. No. They just don't know the rules, right? Like they don't know. Bahambug.
They're like, cool Scrooge costume. And I'm like, I'm not Scrooge.
Go away. Or the trick or treaters that come long after. That happens. Like 10 o'clock, you still get knocks on your door.
And it's usually the, the teenagers that show up that late. And, and I've seen a lot of people talking about, look, teenagers out trick or treating, at least they're not doing something nefarious. And I go, there, you know, they're hanging on to some childhood. I think all that is very positive. I think that's good, good stuff. And if I still have candy or a potato, go crazy.
If you don't have either, what are you giving out? I have nothing to give you. Chips. I got chips. I mean, I'll scour my house.
We got chips. Nobody wants. You can have those. Exactly. Here's a bag of chips. Nobody wants.
You like barbecue or you like sour cream?
You like plain lays, do you? Cause they came in the multi-pack.
Listen, as long as it's packaged, it's fair game.
Yeah, that's true. It's into, here's a can of Vienna sausages. I got them 10 for 10.
10 for 10. What a deal. Box of hamburger, helper.
Oh, buck 50 a box or whatever it is.
I think I've got some old sour patch kids.
Old, meaning from last year's Halloween? Yeah, they might be a little bit
hard, but listen, just throw them in the microwave for a minute. What? Keep them in your mouth for a minute. Let them soften up. Oh. I got some cheese and crackers.
I got a whole new bag of candy for this year. Why are you trying to give away gross stuff at our house?
I should say, if you run out is what I'm saying.
If you run out, turn the light off and call it a night. And if somebody comes to your house, don't answer. That's how you handle that. No, I'll be like, what do you want?
What do you, let's see. Let's see what I got. I'm going to give them options.
I like the reverse trick or treaters. Those are the fun ones. Like where the college kids, they showed up with the door. Yeah, that was fun. And it said knock. And then they opened the door as old ladies and they go, oh, look at your costumes. And they gave candy back. Yeah, that was cute. Yeah. I like that. That's a way fun idea.
We did that. I did that a couple of years ago. Well, kind of to the neighbors. They didn't have any kids yet. And they were just new to the neighborhood and I knew they had dogs. Oh, that's right. I took them dog treats and said, trick or treat for your dogs. Yeah.
Bark or treat. No. You don't like that one? No. That one really aired out for a minute. Really? I wanted you to. There was a big hang time before you said anything.
Yeah. Cause I wanted you to sit in it for a minute.
You didn't like bark or treat?
No. It's not your best word. Bark for treat. Bark for treat.
It's like, like speak command. It's going to air ball it. It's just going to keep on missing free throws from back here. Trying real hard. Not hard enough. I guess. I guess so. Missed both of them. Well, well. Happy Halloween.
We have a work costume contest today. Yeah. Coming up in about an hour. Right. And we have seen some of the costumes around the office.
This is true. I haven't seen everybody. I'm excited to see the rest. I am impressed with the amount of people who have dressed up. Yeah. Like I've only seen one not dressed up. Yeah.
And we all knew he wouldn't. Oh, wow. Sales guy. Oh man. Have a little fun in your life, bro.
Where's your fun?
I just found out I was curious who the judges were going to be. I just found out that everyone is going to be judging. Yeah.
So you'll pick your top three favorites or something.
And then it'll all get added up. There's some legit prizes.
I know. There's some good stuff up for grabs.
Who do you think you're going to vote for first? I haven't seen everybody. How can I even do that? Are you going to vote for yourself? I don't think you should.
Right. Like that feels weird. Yeah.
But if you think that you're one of the best, then vote for yourself. If you don't believe in yourself, who will? Okay.
I can't write my name three times.
Well, you can't write it three times, but you can write it once.
Top three. Me, me, and me.
No, you're not going to write yourself three times.
Are you planning on writing yourself?
Maybe. Depends on who's else is out there.
I see. I feel weird about that. We've seen. I feel like they should say, and you can't vote for yourself. Maybe if they don't. If they don't say it, do what you want.
Exactly. But if they say you can't vote for yourself, then I won't. Are you going to vote for me?
I don't know. I haven't seen everybody. Me slash you. Yeah. I haven't seen everybody. It's hard to know.
I know. We've seen Buddy the elf. Buddy the elf is here. We've seen Russell from up.
I have not seen Russell. I heard rumor. I've seen Feter on fire guy. I've seen Victoria Rose is here. I've, who else? That's it. That's all I've seen. Yeah.
That's it.
Oh, so I've not seen. We've got to take a walk. I've seen you and I've seen me. I don't know if I want to want to be surprised.
You want to be surprised by it all? Okay. Well, best of luck to you, sir.
And to you. Maybe if you win, you'll share your prize. No. Okay.
Well, if you win, will you share your prize? I was thinking about it. Oh, well, then I will. Since you are my muse. Since I borrowed all of your clothes.
Yeah. Since I am your costume.
Fine. I'll share if I win. Cool.
I won't, but that's cool. I'm just messing with you. What's, what's mine is yours. You know? Yeah. Right. That's how it works. In costume contest. Here's the thing I won. Well, good luck to you. Same to you, pal.
What was one of the best costumes you ever wore? One of your favorites.
I really put a lot of labor into my gesture costume that I still have. I've only worn it that one Halloween though. I've never even seen you. I know. But I, like I sewed the whole thing. Like it's, it's, and it's all, what's that fabric called? That shiny stuff? Is that satin? What, that phrase really bad? Is that the stuff you know what I'm talking about?
Are you sure? I don't know what it is. I think that's what it is.
Anyway, it's really difficult. What is this? It's really difficult to sew because it frays so much. Okay. And that's what it's made of. And anyway, so I'm proud of that one.
I've only worn it the one time though. But it was cool. And then I really liked when I did the Dread Pirate Roberts. I thought that was a good costume.
I was thinking about that one. That one was super fun. I loved that one. I was Buttercup, Princess Buttercup, and you were Dread Pirate Roberts. That was a good one.
In preparation of your costume, I thought that maybe you were going to be the six-fingered man today. Today? I did. What made you? I was trying to figure out what could it be? What would be something that would be fun and that she'd be really super into? And so I thought maybe that would be the angle that we were going to go.
I might do that next year, actually. And at one point... Count Ruegen? You had said something about looking at facial hair at the Halloween store. Yeah. And so I thought, who's got really distinct, weird facial hair? I think I mostly just wanted to wear facial hair. Yeah.
Well, that was kind of the vibe I was picking up. So then I was like, who's got really distinct facial hair? So that was kind of one of the directions I went. But I did like when you were Peter Pan and I was Peter Pan Shadow. That was fun. I thought that was creative. I liked last year the Monterey Jack and Gadget Hack Wrench. I thought those were great. Chip and Dale? Yeah. Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers.
I liked it when we went as Mary Poppins and the Chimney Sweet.
Yeah. That was a fun year. Yep. That one was good. I'm trying to think of some of the other ones that I have in there.
I think the rest have just been kind of like... Some thrown together. Flapper or poodle skirt.
Oh, there were two others that I really enjoyed. I was a really elaborate zombie for one year. Yeah. And I actually had our friend Wendy did my makeup for it. Yeah, she did a great job.
For a couple of different things. It was so cool. So cool. And then the other one was when I was the bear attack victim. I thought that was pretty fun. I was... I one year made the little Sim Diamond to hang above you. Oh, yeah. When the kids were little, little, little.
And I was Charlie Pace from Lost that year. Yeah. So I had the eyeliner. Yeah. And that was pretty fun. I'm trying to think of some others. There were some really cool ones.
I was a fox one year. Uh-huh. And I had some makeup on my nose, but I was allergic to the makeup. And so then my whole nose blew up, got really infected. That was fun. Yeah.
Yeah. These are the things you find out. And then one year I thought I would be really clever. And I dressed up like a bee. And then I put Yonsei.
On your shirt. On my shirt. Yeah. And you had a big blonde wig. And you went as Beyonce.
Beyonce. Yeah, I still like that costume.
I think we still have parts of it in the Halloween bin.
I do. Because you can reuse bee costumes over and over and over. Sure. Yeah. One year back when he wanted to be a zombie. And I...
Turned it into a pun.
Yep, I did. I said, everyone's going to go as a zombie. Let's go as like a zombie. And like make you a dead bee. It was cool. That costume actually was really cool. And...
But it takes one kid. One kid on the bus. To spoil everything. What, are you like a dead bug or something? Done. Over. And then he was like, this isn't cool.
I know. I ruined Halloween for him that year. I should have just let him go as a zombie.
But we turned it around because we didn't have zombie stuff. Because you had gotten like all the bee stuff. But that jacket was awesome. I know it was. Like the striped yellow and black jacket that was all zombie looking.
Yeah. Was really cool. I know. And he had bent Antana.
It was a cool costume. It was really cool. It was really really rad. But that one kid ruined it. But then we dressed him up as like a hobo. And he had a sign that said, will trick for treats. And I thought that was fun.
It was cute. But that's not what he wanted to be. I know it wasn't. But it was a good... I felt like that was a good recovery. But everyone just Halloween that year. Just let him go as a zombie mom. What are you doing? It's true. What are you doing? Stop messing with him. Oh, Chantel. Just ruining kids Halloween. It's everywhere she goes.
I mean, now he doesn't even want to dress up. So, you know, there's that. Trauma. Now you go like, hey, what do you want to dress up as Halloween? He's like, I'm never dressing up again.
Halloween's ruined forever.
I'll never do it again. No. He's done other stuff. But I mean, he gets like cool masks and then just wants to like walk the neighborhood with his like foam baseball bat thing.
Well, not anymore. I know. But that was like, he was like, that's what we're going to do. We're going to go walk around. Wow.
You guys are cool. You're cool masks walking around. Anyway, happy Halloween.
Okay. Imagine it's 1995. Okay. And you just get back to your house with a bag full of candy. Nice. You and your sister dump all your candy on the floor. This has happened. What are you trading?
What am I getting rid of? Yes. I would be willing to get rid of, this is the 90s. So this is going to be a little different candy, but I'm 100% getting rid of those growth gross, not saltwater taffy, orange and black wrapper, whatever those things are. Bleh.
Let's see. I'm trying to accumulate as many Mr. Goodbars, Baby Ruth, Snickers and Twix as possible. So good. I didn't hate and I honestly still don't hate. The small little foil wrapped Reese's cups. I do not like the big ones.
Interesting, Joshua. But I just don't, I don't mind them as much, the little ones, the ones you can just, it's one bite, you know?
So I probably would have collected a few of those because they were wrapped in like a gold foil. They were very, very cool.
I like the pumpkins. I like the Reese's pumpkins.
Do you? Yeah. I think my dad's a Christmas tree guy, the Reese's trees. He says those are the best ones. I don't know. I don't do the peanut butter cups though. I know you don't.
But I don't, I don't hate those, the little ones. I love a licorice. So I would, I will gather the licorice. Even as a kid? I've always loved licorice. Yeah. It's good. Licorice is good.
But specifically black licorice.
Yeah. Peanut M &Ms are the best of the M &Ms. So I would be willing to trade out the regular M &Ms. See, and here's the deal. You've got to put, you've got to be willing to sacrifice some good stuff or some really bad stuff mixed with a few pretty decent ones to get one or two really top tiers.
Yeah, it's got to be a good negotiation. That's right. Are you keeping any of your almond joy? I don't care for those. I will take them all.
I know. But see, those have value to you. And I know that. So in a trade, I want equal good value back because they have a low, a low value to me doesn't mean they're worth less.
Right, right. I do see. Okay. What about Snickers?
Oh, those never trade away. Your snickers, your twigs, your baby Ruth's Mr. Goodbar was the best of the, the gold pack, whatever they call that, that had like the Hershey bars and the Heath bar. Whatever. Agreed. If you got the Mr. Goodbar, you won.
I didn't mind the crackle. Those are pretty good too. You can have all of those. I don't care for those.
Three Musketeers were kind of mid. They're not the best, but they're okay. What about Butterfinger? I love Milky Way. Butterfinger is a solid one. Is it? I like a good Butterfinger.
That's just mid for me.
Yeah, but see, I like Butterfinger now as an older person. Back then, I would have been like whatever. Like that one, that's one the parents would have taken. And I would have been like fine, have the Butterfingers. I don't care. Okay. But there was something about that yellow and blue wrapper. It's a cool look. They did a good job with that logo. I do like the Butterfinger logo. Their color scheme and logo pleases me greatly. Good job, Butterfinger.
I'll be sure to tell them. What about Starburst and Skittles? Those are very bottom for me.
Yeah, those nerds aren't very high. My sixlets were fine. You'd get the little straw wrapper of sixlets. Those were okay.
It's all chocolate for me. Those are my top ones. If there's coconut in it, even better. If there's peanuts in coconut, top.
Milky Way and Milky Way Dark, top tier. For you? Absolutely. Those ones are non-tradables.
Oh. The almond joys and the Snickers, those are my non-tradables. No.
You can't have those. No.
And the baby Ruth. Baby Ruth is a prime.
100 grams are good too.
No, you can have those. They got pretzels in them. Don't need it. Take it. Have it. Cream of the crop, baby. Take my pretzel. Gross. Oh, yeah. Cream of the crop. What if you got a toothbrush? What's that for? I was saying, what if at a house you got a toothbrush? As a treat. I don't go back to that house. Are you training that? Are you throwing that away? What's it for?
Don't need it. I'm a kid. What is this? This is not food. This is not candy treats. This is a trick. You've given me a trick.
How dare you, dentist? I did not ask for this. No, in my grandma's neighborhood, when we would go trick or treat, there was a dentist who had a very nice place and he would do that. You'd go get your toothbrush and he'd go, okay, thanks.
I'm trying to think, what else? What else is really good? I feel like I might be forgetting something.
There's a million candies.
You know what I always hated was those little strawberries, those foil-wrapped strawberry hard candies.
Emery loved those when she was little.
Keep those away from me. Get that out of here. I don't like those either, but Emery loved those. Sometimes you'd get atomic fireballs. Those were a good one. Oh, yeah. Those weren't like a, those were like, I'll eat those. Those would go in my bag, I take to school. Like those, those are okay.
And you might find somebody at school is like, oh, I love atomic fireballs. I didn't get any of those. And you'd go, what you got?
Because you're not, I don't need it. Like those were, they were pretty hot too. And lemon heads, those were good too. I like that. You know what else is great? Good and Plenies. Good and Plenies are awesome. What is that? Nobody puts good and Plenies in their Halloween candy anymore.
Because they know good taste. Good and Plenies are awful.
No way. So good. Get out of here. That chalky, whatever outside is so good. And then what's inside? Black licorice.
It tastes like cable wire. It does taste like cable wire.
Somebody cut up their TV cord and put it in a candy box.
That's what good and Plenies are. That's, that's great. That's great.
I like that you said the Butterfinger logo pleases you.
Oh yeah. Have you seen it? Look it up. What a great job they did. Like I'm just looking at a picture of it right now. You're so weird. It's so good. The blue and yellow combo is great. The font they chose is so good. And they did a little gradient on there. What a great logo.
I feel like you should absolutely contact their graphic designer and let them know just how much you love it. Yeah.
Whoever came up with that originally did a bang up job.
It's not that exciting, honestly. It's so good. It's kind of basic.
It's the best candy logo, I think. Baby Ruth is strong. The Baby Ruth logo is real good. I'm just looking at like candy bar logos. Like, you know, as you do on a Halloween day at 9.30. Like Snickers is okay. They've done a good job.
I think the Twix one is pleasing. Do you? Oh, Kit Kat. We didn't even talk about Kit Kat.
Watch them call it was real good too. And Rolos, what about a Rolo?
Oh, you know, it's gotten into you right now.
Candy, you brought up candy. I don't even like candy, but here I am going crazy about it. Yeah.
Watch them call it. No, thanks.
You didn't like the Watch them call it? No, because it's hard pass. Why not? It's kind of like a Rice Krispy treat kind of.
But a Charleston chew.
I never care for it.
All day. I didn't care for Charleston chew until you introduced me to it. It's okay. It's mostly marshmallow, you know? Nuget. Mm. Marshmallow.
Mm. It's more marshmallow than Nuget. Are you talking about? Twix is a good logo. And I thought Kit Kat was hyphenated, but no. It's not. No, it's not. Hmm. How about it? You know who else did a good logo is Toblerone. Time out.
Toblerone. Oh, yeah. Charleston chew is chewy marshmallow flavored Nuget center. So it's a Nuget marshmallow. Yeah. It's marshmallow flavored Nuget. Okay.
So we're both right. We're both right. Yeah. All right. Good deal. Would you rather this or that? Is this the last Halloween one?
This is the last Halloween one. Oh, man. I mean, it's scary. Sad. Would you rather spend a night in a graveyard or in a clown filled circus?
Here's the thing. I'll either be alone or surrounded by a whole lot of fun. Because there's a clown filled circus or an empty graveyard.
Is it empty though? Yeah, it is. Is it? Yep.
Hmm. I want to go to the clown filled circus. Do you? I think it's a not it'll be an all night party with a bunch of a bunch of that. I kind of want to do like a legit clown costume.
Do you?
I really kind of do. Like, I mean, not this year, maybe next year, maybe I'll write that down. Like a real, like legit, like, like real clown makeup, like not like a like a creepy clown or anything. I don't want to create a clown facade, you know? Okay. I think that could be really fun. Well, they do it. Yeah.
I'm going to pick a graveyard because I think that sounds better than a clown circus. Yeah. Okay.
Do you know about the clown eggs? Do you know about this? I do not. So every professional clown that that ever has been has their face archived on an egg. They call it the clown egg register and it is ceramic eggs that are painted to record the clown's personal makeup designs. Because every clown is unique.
So there are hundreds and hundreds of these in the clown egg register. It's fascinating. That's crazy. It's really, really interesting because every clown is unique.
But if you go look at it, it's really fascinating. Like all the way back to the beginning of, you know, like forever and ever and ever. It started in 1946.
They've been doing this forever. Really? Painting ceramic eggs with clown makeup.
That's insane. I think it'd be fun to have a clown persona. They'd go do it. Don't you? No. Like do I have to go to clown school to do it? Probably.
You think? Or YouTube. I don't know. I don't know. No, no.
I don't know this. Certificate. To get a real like I'm a clown now.
I don't know what the certification process is. I mean, look it up. Doesn't that sound kind of fun though? No.
I'm going to hang out with the clowns. They'll know. Okay. Where are you going?
To a graveyard. By yourself. Because it's quiet and no one's bugging me.
This is true. Would you rather this or that? All right. We're getting ready to wrap up the show here. We got a big costume contest coming up here in a few minutes. So we got to kind of.
We got to go win some prizes. Because you got to get yourself together. I do. I got to put on my mustache. You took your facial hair off. Guys, it's scratchy.
I get it. I know. I have it for real. How do you eat in that stuff? Yeah, well. It gets all over. It does. It gets it away. Yeah, it does. I know that about it. But I do want to remind you that we do have time change this weekend. So on Sunday morning, we get to fall back an hour.
Oh, yay. Yeah, it's the good one. Fall back is great. It's the good one.
So Sunday, remember to set your clocks back an hour. And then, you know, enjoy it. What are you going to do with your extra hour?
Oh, probably waste it. Yeah. Sleeping? Yeah, probably.
Yeah, something like that. Because it happens at like two in the morning. I know. So anyway. And then we'll be back on Monday in November. Oh, no. Yeah. Today's the last day of October. It's November now. Goodbye, my love. After today. Goodbye, my fall. But yeah, we're heading into a new month. What does it say tonight? Because I was curious about the weather for tonight. Let's see.
I have to watch an ad to get the weather. That's ridiculous. Just give me the weather. All right. Not bad. Cold, 27, but in some clouds. That's not terrible. 27 in some clouds.
That's not terrible. Yeah. It's not snowing. Right. You might need a light jacket.
Great looking weekend. Highs are in the 60s this weekend. That's awesome. It's fishing. Sounds good. All right.
Have a great Halloween.
Have a great Friday. Be safe. Stay warm. Get out of candy.
And we'll see you on Monday.
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