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Do you search your kids Halloween candy for suspicious things? · Podcast - Big 98.7

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You heard it for decades from your parents and their parents before them. You've
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seen it most recently shared on social media. You have to check your kid's
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candy because there's a pretty good chance. Nobody says there's a pretty good chance.
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Now you're just adding some wild comedy, some illicit drugs or razor blades
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in there. Crazy people out there. And I already told you my mom
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said there was a razor in my apple when I was a little girl.
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I was trying to stare you. So, Amanda, I know you don't
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believe me when I say that this is all fiction. It's all just urban
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legend. So I actually found some evidence, some research, some data,
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if you will, I can't wait. Thanks for presenting it to our audience
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today. This is a report from NPR. Now they've consulted with Joel Best,
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who is a professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Delaware
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and Amanda since the nineteen eighties, has studied contaminated candy. Is not from
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Havid, I don't care. It's literally this man's life's work study the sort
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of thing he did. He go through my candy as a kid. I
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don't remember John Best Joel Best, Joel Best at my house with some respect
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on his name. Best, mister Best wasn't at my house, all right,
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Well, he says that quote. This is absolutely a legend, and
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not a particularly great legend at that. He says, I have data going
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back to nineteen fifty eight, and I have yet to find a report of
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a child that's been killed or seriously hurt by a contaminated treat picked up in
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the course of trick or treating. That's actual information, Amanda. So I
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don't know what we would do without your data. All I'm trying to do
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is put parents mind at ease. Yeah, but we still go through the
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candy. That's just what you do. Well, he says, you don't
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need to. He does say there is one case of a man in Texas
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murdering his own son with poison candy. However, it was only because he
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thought it would be the perfect crime, because he thought children constantly got poisoned
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like that, not the case that was the only one. Seapike right now,
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with all these papers flailing as though you were doing a research report for
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us, and that we care, literally, I mean not we care.
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I'm just in general, we're gonna go through a kid's candy no matter what.
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There was one case of a girl in Los Angeles who died from a
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congenital heart problem. The media originally reported as a candy contamination, but the
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autopsy revealed otherwise. We've stopped believing in ghosts and goblins, said Joel Best,
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but we believe in criminals. Okay, Pike. There's a lot of
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creepy people out there. You don't know what they're gonna do yet. I
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mean, just in general, do you even eat the candy that you can
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untwist? Usually not outside of the fruit is, of course, at a
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parade, wet tutsi rolls, You literally don't eat tutti rolls because of the
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now Twisty's just in general, if they look like they might have been tampered
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with, I'm gonna toss them. Well, just garbage. That's just a
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good general rule of thumb. You don't eat suspicious looking food. Oh really,
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Pike. So basically what you're saying right now is mister Best is garbage.
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Mister Best is not garbage. He didn't go through all the suspicious.
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It's a man who's doing the Lord's work for decades now, Amanda. He
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said he's never inspected his children's Halloween candy and doesn't think it's necessary for parents
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to do so. You know what, he dressed up for Halloween as a
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bad dad. Really, I'm sure you'd love to hear that. Now,
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are you literally going through every piece? I'm talking like a little box of
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dots, which, by the way, we were talking candy earlier, you
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got to mention dots. No, I go nuts for dots. Nobody else
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likes dots. They're so sticky. Yeah, they're sticky, they get stuck
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in your teeth. You save it for later. Yeah, No, I'm
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not a fan of those. Uh yeah, I'm gonna go through every box,
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and I'm not gonna open the box. If they're not open, then
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I'm not gonna do anything. If they're a little damage, probably toss it.
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Not that I need any more evidence, because obviously I don't want to
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uncrinkle this report. I had plenty. But if you would like to weigh
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in on whether or not you're checking your kids candy for drugs, razors knives
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all right, angry bear, it's active handgrend Aids seven seven, Good morning.
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I got a side with Pike in the same age I think it's pretty
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common to check your kid's candy when you first start trick or treating. But
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the only time I check it now is to collect my candy tax. Think
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out what I want to eat. Of course, the state issued candy tacks.
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What was your name, Cindy? All right, Cindy, Well,
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thank you for being wise beyond your years of sounds a Manda will learn one
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of these years. She's just it's futile, the copter mom. At least
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it's not the homemade candy popcorn balls anymore. So it's we should be good.
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Oh gross, I almost always had knives in them, like in the
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morning, Big Naty eight point seven. Some people just really get into Halloween.
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Yes, you know, with the costumes. We just had our our
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guy James from the Afternoon shall walk in dresses who rip rip ripped, Tamlin
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rip who rip? But from Yellowstone. You're the only one on the planet
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that hasn't gotten into Yellowstone yet if it wasn't you know Yahoo, Plus it's
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whatever actually currently on CBS. Never heard of I don't. Okay, guys,
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Well, there's people that get into Halloween, and then there's people like
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this guy who despise the holiday, Amanda, this man has been arrested after
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a string of arson. He's an arsonist. He was literally going around setting
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Halloween decorations on fire. Ba humbug whatever the Halloween version of that is.
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Goblin, I don't know. He was goblin, all right, goblin prison
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sentences anyway. This guy's thirty four years old. Not only was he setting
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Halloween decorations on fire, he was also caught on a ring camera decapitating inflatable
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Halloween decoration. Oh my gosh, I was decapitating. What. Yeah,
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he's a murder He's a crazy murderer. No, it's just Halloween. You
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know. It's just so ridiculous that people even just even this mashing of the
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pumpkins, any of that stuff. Just stop. It's funny bring that up,
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because I was going to sort of use this as an opportunity to apologize
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for your youth, apologize for my transgressions as a youngster, you know,
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running around the town of Dilworth. My friends and I would just cause mischief,
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get into any little thing we could, you know, for example,
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throwing pumpkins. I remember doing that really, and there was one particular moment
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that I'm not proud of I hate to even share this, and I'm going
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to have to do so tastefully. But there was in Dilworth a decoration on
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the porch of a house and it was like it was like a scarecrow,
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like a stuffed scarecrow yep. And so I thought it would be funny because
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I was a guy just trying to get a laugh. All my friends were
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standing in the street watching as I approached his house knocked on the door on
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Halloween night. So you were acting as though you were trick or treating?
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Or were you trick? I'm wearing a full costume, by the way,
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mask. What age are you of? Sophomore in high school? Okay,
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sixteen years old? And so when the poor couple opened the door expecting to
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see some young older and that, you know, trick or treat, I
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was defiling the scarecrow. Wow, okay, gotcha. You were just you
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were such a punk. The worst we did. We used to have a
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contests would be the guys versus the girls on Halloween when we were sayd sophomores,
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and so we had the wild idea we were going to get the guys.
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So I did get the guys. My girlfriends and I are over at
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my girlfriend's house and we are stuffing water balloons full of sour krout. I
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mean just disgusting. That's a lot of work. Well and you know how
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hard it is to get sourkrout in a balloon? Yeah, I mean,
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just ridiculous idea. So we were going to try to get them because that's
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what we would do in Halloween. The older we got just we'd run around
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Withdina and just cause our own mischief. But not at houses. It's not
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we weren't throwing sour crowd at homes. Yeah, you guys, we didn't
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do that either. We did throw some other you know, toilet paper,
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some of the classics. Kids. Just we're just really bad. Absolutely don't
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tell what you threw the sour crowd balloons yep, at the guys and they
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actually explode. Yeah, oh that's horrific. That's horrid balloons. Okay,
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why they didn't just bounce because sour crowd, I don't know. This is
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this is just the waters for me. I've never thrown sour crowd Okay,
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guilty as charge, but never thrown the sour crouch Taken a mana in the
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And speaking of Halloween, everybody wants to go through their kids Halloween and you're
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their treats and you're going, Okay, I want this one, this one.
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If you were to have kids, bike what's the first thing you're grabbing.
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What's your favorite Halloween candy? Why wouldn't steal from my own children?
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Oh of course not no, not you. But if I are you asking
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my favorite candy, because that's Reese's it is recent ay Reese's product. Also
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always been a big fan of the sh snicker Bar. In fact, I
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think it is close to the perfect candy. When I was a kid and
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I was struggling with my weight, you know, my mom would go to
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the gas station, you know, like moms do, and every time she'd
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say, I'd get the snicker bar. They had a big one and it
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was literally called the big one. The big one. Yes, so I'd
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get a big one every time. Anyway, you had me a little thrown
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off. I thought you were gonna say the Big Hunk. Do you remember
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the Big come It used to get stuck and graduated with them. But that
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was one of my favorite candies. Like that's way throwback. But the experts
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of weight in the top five candy bars of all time, kit Cat at
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number five, Reese's Take five. What is that? It's like a pretz
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Ley thing, right, there's a pretzel in there, all right, Reese's
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Peanut butter Cups coming at number three, Wicks at number two. See now
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that's incorrect. Really, Oh I love twigs. I mean they're fine.
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I guess I'm gonna be carmel guy. Okay, well that's weird because you
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said Snickers is your favorite, and that is number one in there's caramel,
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but it's a perfect amount. It makes the gooey nugget. I need a
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nut, you know, give me that nut? Got it? Well?
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Like, do you like the salty nut roll? In fact, go get
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me one right now? Now, let you bring it up. What is
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your favorite? I'm not hun the Big Hug. I love that. I
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actually I like the salted nut roll. I like the hundred grand bar.
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Oh yeah, what am I gonna call it. So that was another one
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of my favorites. What that is not a thing? Okay, but what
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am I gonna call it? Oh? Yeah, sorry, I always add
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words. What you thinking about? What you want? Tell me what you
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want? All right? Happy Halloween you guys. Wow, we've got a
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day. First of all, I haven't even looked at the weather because it's
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a little slippery. Why would I know? Driving in this morning, I'm
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like, okay, this is a bit aggressive already, so take a little
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extra time driving in. Some of the roads are still a little dice.
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It is only going to be twenty eight today, Amanda in the morning on
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sign and speaking of treats tomorrow, When you found yourself with an abundance of
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candy laying around the house and kids who want to eat said candy non stop,
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and you're thinking, wow, that's not very healthy, well yeah,
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I mean you got to put an end to it at some point. Well,
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I got a few different options for you. Okay, I got a
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few different of your options. Here's what you can do with this candy.
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Of course, you know. Number one, you can just do what my
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parents did when I was a kid and let the meat all of it at
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their own pace. Sometimes not happening. No, well I turned out fine.
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Are you squeshing my parents parenting? I'm not. I'm just just telling
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you my kids go crazy after having candy, don't want to go to raise.
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Is this sugar high? I think that's like a myth. It's not,
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and they just really are you a scientist? I am? Okay,
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well, sometimes you know they're on one. Today I'm just saying, like,
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you know, make it not as far as I could. Wait,
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Well, I would like to record this and then when you have kids,
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but bike just give your kids all the candy, sun up, just sundown,
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sugar them up all day, hurry day. Okay, Well, I
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mean, well, here's another option. Since you didn't like the first one.
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You can do the trade in. Do a candy trade in where they
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can each trade increments of ten pieces of candy for something of their to like.
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You could do new books, so you could say, hey, kids,
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here's the deal. Ten pieces of candy gets you a new book.
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Now they're learning ten pieces of candy. No, give me all your candy
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and you might get a book. Okay, Well, you can decide what
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the currency is in your aushold. You talked about Yeah, similar, got
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it. There's the ten minute timer. Another interesting method you could use.
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This is where tell me more about the ten minute timer. After dinner every
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night post Halloween, you put a timer on the table and then you give
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them the bag of candy, set it for ten minutes, ten minutes,
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and they get to do whatever they'd like with the candy for ten minutes.
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As soon as the timer's up, you grab that candy and take it away
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till the next night. Sydney, No, because she knows how to open
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candy. Now she's getting thirty seconds. Briggsy had give ten minutes because he
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might get into a piece of candy. But otherwise, oh yeah, no,
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guy struggles with some of the rappers. Yeah, that's probably better that
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way, because you know, if you're otherwise going Joey Chestnut on the candy,
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Yeah, you might end up with a little choking trying to do that.
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Also another option to do with your Halloween candy, Amanda, consider donating
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it. Yeah, a lot of people do, like the Halloween buybacks or
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trade ins and yeah, or even like a you know, there's college campus
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pantries. You know a lot of the kids struggle with money at college and
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nice way to give him a little treat. Yeah, candy helps the learning
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is that, No, it keeps him up at night helps, It helps
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him study. And the older you get than you want to stay up at
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night. Got it? These kids taking all these pills. Now, just
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grab yourself a kit cat. You'll be ready for finals in no time.
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Is that? Do you know what usually happens? Popa snickers you'll be at
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the library all I think I like it. I think that's great. Pike,
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you should put some signs around campus. Now here's another option for the
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candy, the family jar. It's a family jar system. We've got ourselves
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a family jar. We had a family jar too, Okay, so what
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this jar? In particular? This jar system. Everyone gets a jar for
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themselves that they can put in all the candy they don't want to share,
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long as it fits in the jar. All the other candy gets put into
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jars that anyone can eat out of. You can have a chocolate jar,
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a fruity jar, a sour jar. This is too many jars. You
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know what ends up happening Tonight. I'll let them those little rascals have some
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fun, do their thing, and then tomorrow they're gonna beg for it.
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They're gonna get maybe a couple of pieces, and then what ends up happening
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is they start forgetting real quick because Mom hides it. Yeah, usually up
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in the top cupboard or somewhere, and then Mom forgets about it, and
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I'm like, yeah, and then it just smells. It was like nasty
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Halloween candy one day, and then I decided to throw it away, probably
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around Easter when I'm looking forward. Yeah, right, And we always did.
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My dad put it like on the fridge or whatever, and then you
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try to climb up there as a kid, but it would all eventually if
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you let it sit there long enough. Gross, it just all starts to
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taste the same. Yeah, just snakers taste like Skittles. The Skittles taste
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like, you know, yeah, candy. You know what I should have
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done, What I should have kept that parade candy I just threw away.
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That's what I could have given the kids that came to our house. You
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cheap skate like a minute in the morning on Big Nutty eight point seven.
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Ready, let's see it is typing hot today is let's see, let's see.
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The cast of Friends released a joint statement yesterday reacting to the news of
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Matthew Perry's death. Just so sad, This said, We're so utterly devastated
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by the loss of Matthew. We were more than just castmates or a family.
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There is so much to say right now. Right now, we're just
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going to take a moment to grieve and process the unfathomable loss. Uh went
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on to say that in a time in time, maybe we'll say more,
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but it's just it's so so sad. Yeah, it's hard because you know,
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they've had a weird relationship with him since the show, obviously, as
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he was battling addiction everything, and they were going off on their careers.
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You know, probably not as close as they would have wanted to have been.
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But he did say though during their reunion that Jennifer Anderson was one of
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the only ones that always reached out to him. He did make a point
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to say that, and it almost felt like there was a little bit of
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not not like a you know, a jab everybody else like yeah, like
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geez, guys, where have you been? Like, yeah, it's nice
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to get together, but where the heck you been the last fifteen years?
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Well, I'm sure, as you know, you you just think of just
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in regular life, when you're not spending every single day together with somebody like
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they were, those relationships fade and it does take a lot of work to
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you know, continue on with a relationship. But then also if somebody is
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going through a really hard time and you don't know how to deal with it,
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or maybe you're uncomfortable. I mean, there's just a lot of things
19:03
that they saw. After hearing what he had to say about his book,
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I can't even imagine being around that. Yeah, well he even said during
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that reunion, he said something about you know, I want to say,
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even being maybe suicidal on during the show. Oh, And it was just
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one of the more awkward, like sad moments of them going like how we
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didn't know, Like he didn't, you didn't say anything. We didn't we
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had no idea you were going through that. But it's all sad, it
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really is. And just to see the tributes of everybody who's been touched by
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him, and the fact that I heard that he was just getting ready to
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open a substance abuse facility, I mean, he's been really working hard towards
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all of that. Yeah, I felt like he was kind of now finding
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his place in the world. We played the clip yesterday of him saying that's
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how he wants to be remembered right. Not is his character from Friends,
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but because of the way he was helping people, so sad and he guys
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believe this or not. Selena Gomez is worrying that her bff Taylor Swift is
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moving too fast with Travis Kelsey. She is not a fan of him or
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her I guess I should say, going to the games, gallivanting around New
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York, being spotted already with his mom. I mean, it seems pretty
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ridiculous. Clear this is total fiction. That's what I'm asking. Do you
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think it's real or not? Because they're also saying that Taylor Swift invited her
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to go to a couple Chiefs games and she said she didn't want to be
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a part of the quote media frenzy. There's also some reports right now that
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the Kelsey family, I know Jason Kelsey has made a comment or too,
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just saying it's really a lot for them because Taylor Swift fans in turn Grazie
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are crazy and they're following them everywhere. The paparazzis all of it. They
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were famous, but nothing on this level Yeah, Jason Kelsey, you can
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probably go to the grocery store and be fine, you know what I mean.
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But he saint even the way that they're treating him just as the brother
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of Travis. That's so what I'm saying now, Like now he probably can't
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just go to the grocery store without some Yahoo swifties. Yeah, oh my
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god. You you you hung out with Taylor one time and you met Can
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I get a picture with you? I just hope that doesn't detur their relationship.
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You know, she is in Kansas City right now, so who knows
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if they're gonna be out and about for Halloween. I wonder what their costumes
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are going to be, Probably like a ghost what do you think ghosts?
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I don't know a couple ghosts. I'm trying to think about Ken and Barbie.
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That'd be kind of cute, Like if everybody's going, you know,
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my kids are going as Travis and Taylor. If they win as Ken and
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Barbie, or maybe like a Salt and Pepper ketchup and mustard Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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So good by thinking of the worst comes, I can think of Miss
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Piggy and Kermit, Like I'm thinking of all of them. Oh my gosh,
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would that be great if they just trolled everything funny and Patty Mannis,
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I forgot all about Doug. Would be a treasure, that would be all
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right. Speaking to Halloween, Goldie Han is reflecting on an encounter she had
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with aliens back in her twenties. She was in California. She was a
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dancer at the time, and she asked one of the dances was asleep in
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their car for the night. She said, she got this high pitch sound
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in her ear. It was a high, high frequency. She looked up
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my window, she said she saw two or three triangular shaped heads. She
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described the aliens as silver in color, with a slash for a mouth and
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a tiny little nose. She said they were pointing at me like they were
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discussing me. I couldn't move. I woke up and thought, am I
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dreaming this? Well, then it turns out people were starting to talk about
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things like this. She actually met with an astrophysicist and talked about the encounter,
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and that's when she remembered that they touched her face on the second was
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like a finger from God. An astrophysicists, how does he even take that?
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Meeting it's Goldie Han. Okay, Goldie Han, let me hear about
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your alien experience. Really, She had me at triangular shaped, silver colored
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with a slash for a mouth and a tiny little nose. Yeah right, yeah,