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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda jam Nation.

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Speaker 2: Today's the thirty first of October, an important day because

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Speaker 2: my bike runs out of Red Jo tomorrow and it's Halloween,

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Speaker 2: so it's birthday tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Well, Australia, this is interesting. And you and I aren't

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Speaker 1: in the drop zone of Halloween, Brendan, because we grew

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Speaker 1: up without it, and in a way our kids didn't

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Speaker 1: massively get into it. But I tell you what, in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, Australia is well and truly aboard the

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Speaker 1: ghost train. Families are expected to spend four hundred and

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Speaker 1: ninety million dollars on Halloween this year.

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Speaker 2: Four hundred and ninety million.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, probably in food, in costumes, in lights, all that

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Speaker 1: kind of stuff. That's up fourteen percent on last year. Wow, amazing,

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Speaker 1: isn't that. I guess we're progressed, at least to the

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Speaker 1: point because it used to then be horrifying that you'd

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Speaker 1: be terrified someone to knock at your door and you

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Speaker 1: have to provide them with lollies. But at least now

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Speaker 1: we're at the point where if you don't this is

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Speaker 1: how I think it works. If you don't decorate the

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Speaker 1: front of your house or put some kind of Halloween

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Speaker 1: emblem out the front. They know not to knock on

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Speaker 1: your door in the Just a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: it seemed that a whole street would be targeted. Remember

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Speaker 1: that time someone knocked at my door. Jack was a baby,

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Speaker 1: Lean was a toddler. I had a face mask on.

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Speaker 1: The dog was barking ferociously. I had to grab the

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Speaker 1: dog's collar. I had a gray face mask, and I said.

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Speaker 2: I've got children sleeping inside, so they No one came

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Speaker 2: for a couple of the house the old scary color

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Speaker 2: hair away from it speak speaky mansha.

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Speaker 1: And just a few years ago, I thought, look, I

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Speaker 1: better do the right thing just in case, and brought

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Speaker 1: all these bags of lollies and chocks and stuff. No

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Speaker 1: one came, so I ate them. I'm not sure what

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Speaker 1: to expect.

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Speaker 2: To night working out for you.

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Speaker 1: You're an old curmudgeon.

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Speaker 2: I'm not a curmudgeon. I'm just I missed the boat

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Speaker 2: on it. You know we didn't have it.

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Speaker 1: When it was Will you provide for tonight?

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Speaker 2: I want to provide, but if the kids want a

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Speaker 2: rice cake and a dishwasher tablet, then provide. I will.

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Speaker 2: And dish washing tablet's quite expensive or they don't eat

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Speaker 2: a mate, then why would you give them to the

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Speaker 2: well the little kid, I said, take it over to

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Speaker 2: your mom and dad, and he's foaming from the mouth.

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Speaker 2: It looked like Cujo costume.

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Speaker 1: Good costume. A couple of when the kids were very small,

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Speaker 1: a friend of mine had a Halloween party and the

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Speaker 1: both boys had My cute little sons had little bat

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Speaker 1: capes on. They were so cute. But this Halloween party

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Speaker 1: was a Halloween party for adults. It was terrifying. There

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Speaker 1: were slit throats, there was blood everywhere, full gore. And

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Speaker 1: Jack walked in. He was probably about three. He saw

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Speaker 1: the scene and he opened his mouth and just screamed.

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Speaker 1: So we lasted about five minutes, and I thought it

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Speaker 1: a bit better turn around and go home. So we

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Speaker 1: get to the car. I put Jack still screaming. I

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Speaker 1: put in his little car seat dressed as a little

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Speaker 1: bat in the back of the car and closed the

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Speaker 1: boot to put our things in there, and Lim's finger

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Speaker 1: got caught in the door, so I slammed his finger

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Speaker 1: in the door. He screamed. I drove home crying, and

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Speaker 1: that's how I remember Halloween.

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Speaker 2: You're a big fan, big fan, so you'd be hanging

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Speaker 2: out and dishwashed tablets as well.

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Speaker 1: I think I I eat one myself