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Ryan Bridge: Halloween is the new fireworks · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Halloween is the new fireworks for kids in New Zealand,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a hell of a lot less controversial, let's
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  Speaker 1: be honest. New Zealand First wants, of course, the selection
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  Speaker 1: a ban on backyard fireworks. Winston loves his horses, and
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  Speaker 1: they get a bit spooked. The Greens want a ban
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  Speaker 1: as well. They love adopted greyhounds and cats. When I
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  Speaker 1: was young, this time of year was all about shooting
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  Speaker 1: each other with the Godzillas and trying to injure one another.
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  Speaker 1: It was the game we played. It was the fun.
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  Speaker 1: Smoke bombs. You put smoke bombs in the toilet or
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  Speaker 1: you put smoke bombs in your neighbor's letterbox. We used
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  Speaker 1: to scrape all the powder off 50 sparklers and make
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  Speaker 1: a sparkler bomb. That was always fun. These days, Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: That's where it is at. The old English tradition has
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  Speaker 1: been overtaken by its American competitor. although it's not really American,
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  Speaker 1: but the Americans have certainly made it quite popular, haven't they?
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  Speaker 1: That means it is a growth industry. If you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get the Dracula teeth, you might as well get
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  Speaker 1: the Dracula blood. If you're going to get the blood,
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  Speaker 1: why not get the whole costume? Australians, I read this
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  Speaker 1: stat yesterday, expected to spend half a billion dollars on
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  Speaker 1: Halloween this year, and that is up on last year.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about the cost of living, but you can
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  Speaker 1: do this on the cheap. We used to cut holes
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  Speaker 1: in a white sheet and call it a day. If
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  Speaker 1: this trend continues, there'll probably be no point in banning fireworks.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just fizzle out on their own. And on the whole,
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  Speaker 1: that's probably not a bad thing, is it? Better for
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  Speaker 1: the kids to be scared witless than the horses and
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  Speaker 1: the dogs.