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When Did Fun Get An Expiration Date · Aging ain't for Sissies

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Well, hello.
• 0:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, we have Halloween music again because this is actually Halloween music.
• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: But I love Halloween music for my podcast, so I thought I'd do it twice last week and this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, my name is Marcy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I am your host, and this is Aging Aim for Sissies.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today we're going to talk about something that is so important.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_00: And specific specifically why anybody thinks Halloween should be reserved for kids.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because I have news for you.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_00: I still like Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the decorations.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the costumes.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love seeing kids get dressed up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I especially like the candy.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: And you know what candy's my favorite?
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: Candy corn.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, indeedy Bob.
• 0:55
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, I do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love me some candy corn.
• 0:58
  SPEAKER_00: And my mother loved candy corn too.
• 1:01
  SPEAKER_00: I also love the little pumpkins in the candy corn.
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  SPEAKER_00: They now sell a whole bag of just the pumpkins.
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  SPEAKER_00: Did you know that?
• 1:08
  SPEAKER_00: They do.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I didn't buy those.
• 1:11
  SPEAKER_00: I did get a bag of candy corn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Super cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I was in the hospital, my sister-in-law Muff brought me a balloon and it was tied around a bag of candy corn to weight the balloon down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that cute?
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  SPEAKER_00: Thanks, Muff, because that candy corn was the only bag of candy corn I got this Halloween.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: And I went to order, I ordered my groceries today.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: Why do I order my groceries?
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Because I'm not allowed to drive.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: I cannot drive for six months.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: So we do have grocery stores we can walk to, but sometimes I need more than what I can carry in a walk, and I needed that today.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: So I ordered from the Jewel.
• 1:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, that is a Chicago thing, the Jewel.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: And I did order from the Jewel, but I tried to order some candy corn and they didn't have any.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: So somebody else likes candy corn too.
• 2:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I love it all.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I love the candy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm not pretending that every piece of Halloween candy I buy is intended for the neighborhood children.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this year I did not, because as I've told you before, it is a lie the candy companies tell us that we need all this candy ahead of time and then we eat it all.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: And they're not going to fool me this year.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I will not be taking questions about my candy consumption.
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: I do have a sweet tooth.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Sober alcoholics usually do have a sweet tooth.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a known thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: But today I want to take a little trip down memory lane because Halloween when we were kids was very different from Halloween today.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think we need to discuss it.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_00: So, but but before we get into Halloween, let me catch you up on what's been happening around here.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: My life has gone back to normal.
• 2:55
  SPEAKER_00: I have gone to a symphony luncheon with a friend.
• 3:00
  SPEAKER_00: I went to, oh, last night, I went to a sound bath in a pool.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: You lay in these beanbag chairs and you float around the pool and they do a sound bath.
• 3:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was wonderful.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: Craig and I last Sunday night drove up north and we went to dinner at uh a steakhouse.
• 3:22
  SPEAKER_00: I can't think of the name.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: It starts with a M.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: It was a steakhouse.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: I got onion soup and a wedge salad.
• 3:29
  SPEAKER_00: And then we went to the Chicago Botanical Gardens, and they had a night of a thousand jack-o'-lanterns.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: And some of these were amazing.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was just really fun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've had beautiful weather here in Chicago.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: Although it's supposed to, we've had Chicago, Marie, Illinois.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have had lovely weather, and now you're going to rain on the trick-or-treaters.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: Shame on you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, we have had beautiful weather.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's been a delight.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I am healing tomorrow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to go take a stress test.
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  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that exciting?
• 4:04
  SPEAKER_00: It's at 7:30 in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just have to walk two blocks over and I'll get that done bright and early tomorrow.
• 4:12
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not to see if I'm going to have a heart attack and that my pack works.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_00: They already checked that when I was asleep.
• 4:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um it is to see if medicine that I'm on is working well.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's new generations of this particular medicine, but he doesn't want, I love this doctor, because he doesn't want to change me just to change me.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_00: He wants to make sure when I need this medicine to work, it does.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: If it doesn't, we will put me on some of the new and updated medicines.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_00: So there's that.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_00: I apparently have a leaking washing machine.
• 4:49
  SPEAKER_00: Even though we don't see the water, it's warping our floors.
• 4:53
  SPEAKER_00: Gotta love that one.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: I constantly am neurotic about having a washing machine in my unit.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: We do have wood floors.
• 5:00
  SPEAKER_00: I constantly look for water leaks.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: I am Joel Farm's daughter, but uh apparently there's one that we can't see, and my floors are starting to warp.
• 5:09
  SPEAKER_00: So, and you know what comes with warping floors?
• 5:14
  SPEAKER_00: You can't open your front door so great.
• 5:16
  SPEAKER_00: So this is what we're working on around here.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Nothing horrible, nothing awful.
• 5:22
  SPEAKER_00: Next week I am going to uh Connecticut, to Connecticut, Madison with Connecticut for a conference on um religious institutions and earning money, getting money, fundraising basically.
• 5:41
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm looking forward to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That'll be three days leaving Tuesday, coming back Thursday.
• 5:48
  SPEAKER_00: What a little getaway anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: Looking forward to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, and I think it'll be really helpful in the work that I do for our cathedral as the head of stewardship.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm again looking forward, looking forward to learning, right?
• 6:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like we get to a point in life where we want to learn more.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: I know there was a point in life where I'm like, I don't need to learn.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: That is a car outside that is very loud.
• 6:12
  SPEAKER_00: I'm 36 floors up and I can hear it with my windows closed.
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  SPEAKER_00: You might even be able to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can you hear that?
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  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, um, so that's what's been my little catch-up on what's been going on with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I hope life is good with you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, I hope you have some plans for the weekend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And let's get back to that Halloween.
• 6:37
  SPEAKER_00: Let's start with the costumes because Halloween costumes when I was a kid were something else.
• 6:42
  SPEAKER_00: Remember those plastic masks where you'd stick your tongue through the breathing hole and it would like cut your tongue.
• 6:52
  SPEAKER_00: They had those elastic strings that would get all caught up in your hair.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
• 6:57
  SPEAKER_00: And you'd wear your costumes at school and you'd do a Halloween parade.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they were the most flammable, itchiest costumes on the planet.
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  SPEAKER_00: You couldn't see anything, you couldn't breathe.
• 7:10
  SPEAKER_00: And within approximately 10 minutes, the elastic either broke or was your hair wasn't a knot.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we didn't care.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were superheroes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other costume that you would have is something your mom made.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_00: I think my mom made me a tiger costume once.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was super cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, my mom made Kyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: Kyle one year wanted to be, listen to this.
• 7:31
  SPEAKER_00: Kyle wanted to be a Kiwi bird.
• 7:34
  SPEAKER_00: Who wants to be a Kiwi bird?
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  SPEAKER_00: Kyle.
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  SPEAKER_00: So my mom made her the cutest Kiwi bird costume.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, we were superheroes, princesses, witches.
• 7:45
  SPEAKER_00: I was a witch, we were ghosts, we were Frankenstein, we were Dracula.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then sometimes we were a character nobody could identify, but we were thrilled.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those masks with that tiny slit for your mouth, that whole thing, your eyes, honestly.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_00: And the inside would get all damp from breathing, and it would stick to your face, and you'd lift it up every five minutes because you were suffocating.
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  SPEAKER_00: But we thought we were wonderful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today's parents would take one look at those things and call the consumer safety hotline.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they have a good point.
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  SPEAKER_00: There were homemade costumes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Some mothers were incredibly talented.
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  SPEAKER_00: They could sew, others would take a pillowcase and make something out of that.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: You never knew, you know, you had a sheet with two holes cut in it.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know what I watched yesterday?
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: I forgot to say this is a great pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_00: And I love that one.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: They're all putting on their coast costumes, and Charlie Brown's looks like Swiss cheese.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he says, I had a little trouble with my scissors.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_00: And Lucy tried to convince him he wasn't allowed to go.
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  SPEAKER_00: She was so mean, that Lucy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyways, I watched that yesterday.
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  SPEAKER_00: But sometimes we had an old shirt and we did some makeup and we were a hobo, a cardboard box, we were a robot.
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  SPEAKER_00: And somehow we were perfectly happy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody expected special effects.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nobody needed professional makeup.
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  SPEAKER_00: We used whatever was around the house.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if the costume didn't make sense, we just explained it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm a princess who is also a witch.
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  SPEAKER_00: Fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: Happy Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, let's talk about the pillowcase era.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: This is the trick-or-treating bags because I don't remember anybody carrying those cute little decorative buckets when I was a kid.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a pillowcase, an actual pillowcase.
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  SPEAKER_00: And sometimes you took it right off your bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: It wasn't mom's extra.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: And we were prepared to fill them.
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  SPEAKER_00: The goal was not to collect a reasonable amount of candy, the goal was to collect all the candy.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_00: We were tiny entrepreneurs operating in a very competitive marketplace.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was always somebody who knew which house gave out the good stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't go to that house.
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  SPEAKER_00: They give out apples, or your local dentist gave out toothbrushes.
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  SPEAKER_00: The worst.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, go to the house on the corner.
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  SPEAKER_00: They give out full-size bars.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: Now, when we were a kid, full-size candy bars, that was the whole holy grail of trick-or-treating.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'd practically run to that house.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then there were the houses that gave out pennies.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: Pennies?
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_00: Now I realize those people met well, but we were not collecting donations.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_00: We wanted candy.
• 10:35
  SPEAKER_00: And don't get me started on the raisin people.
• 10:39
  SPEAKER_00: Raisins are not Halloween candy.
• 10:42
  SPEAKER_00: They're what happens when grapes just give up on living.
• 10:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then after, now when I trick-or-treated in my neighborhood, there were hundreds of kids running willy-nilly every which way, crisscrossing the streets, up and down the blocks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a sight.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was something movies were made of, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But then we got home and the real work began.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: You dumped your entire pillowcase onto the floor, and then you sorted chocolate in one pile, hard candy, gum, things you liked, things you didn't like, things you were willing to trade.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Now I didn't have anybody to trade with because my siblings were eight, 10, and 12 years older than me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So nobody was trick-or-treating but me.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I got to keep all my candy.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: You'd trade three pieces of something terrible for one Reese.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_00: And there was always one sibling.
• 11:39
  SPEAKER_00: Now I didn't have this, but I know from my friends there was always some sibling who got more candy than everyone else.
• 11:45
  SPEAKER_00: How?
• 11:46
  SPEAKER_00: We went to the same houses.
• 11:48
  SPEAKER_00: Were they negotiating better negotiators?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Were they getting preferred treatment?
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: Was there corruption in the Halloween candy candy distribution system?
• 11:57
  SPEAKER_00: Who knows?
• 11:58
  SPEAKER_00: I still have questions.
• 12:00
  SPEAKER_00: So do my friends.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, there's always the parent who said, Don't eat all that candy tonight.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: The dad joke, right?
• 12:09
  SPEAKER_00: Excuse me, I've worked hard for this candy.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_00: I've walked approximately 47 miles in a plastic mask.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: I couldn't breathe in.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: I believe I've earned a few chocolate bars.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: What do you think, huh?
• 12:22
  SPEAKER_00: Oh.
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: So that was the Halloween of the past.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halloween of today does look different.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here in the Midwest, I know the neighborhoods still do a big trick-or-treating thing, but on the West Coast, it really has taken a turn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, in our area, Coto de Casa, we got very few trick-or-treaters.
• 12:43
  SPEAKER_00: And mainly was because um of the other things that were going on.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: So now Halloween today is a different production.
• 12:52
  SPEAKER_00: There are the streets just like the Candy Cane lanes, they're Halloween lane.
• 12:56
  SPEAKER_00: People decorate their houses like movie sets.
• 12:59
  SPEAKER_00: There's enormous skeletons everywhere, inflatable ghosts, fog machines, elaborate lighting, entire front yards transformed into haunted graveyards.
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  SPEAKER_00: And some of those decorations are incredible.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I have to wonder, when did Halloween become a home improvement project?
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_00: There are people who spend weeks setting everything up.
• 13:20
  SPEAKER_00: They have extension cords running willy-nilly, timer, special effects, sound systems.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: And I just want to put a pumpkin on the porch and call it a day.
• 13:31
  SPEAKER_00: Is that still allowed?
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  SPEAKER_00: Can I have just a pumpkin?
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  SPEAKER_00: Or do I need a 12-foot skeleton in a fog machine?
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 13:38
  SPEAKER_00: But the decorating is a different thing.
• 13:40
  SPEAKER_00: And the funny thing is, decorating's at its height when door-to-door trick-or-treating is at its lowest.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to figure that one out.
• 13:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now there's adult Halloween.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's something else that changed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Halloween is not just for kids anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Jack's Jack-o'-lantern patch here that's a bar place that's all decked out, and it's like a bunch of different bars, and I restaurants have Halloween events.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: Adults have costume parties, they're haunted tours, costume contests, Halloween-themed cocktails.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Now, don't get me uh started on dressing up your pet.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a whole nother thing.
• 14:26
  SPEAKER_00: Dressing up your pet.
• 14:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I love that adults are having fun with Halloween.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: Because why shouldn't we?
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_00: That's the whole point of this episode, anyways.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: Halloween just isn't for kids.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: Why not a Halloween cocktail and a Halloween bar crawl and dressing up your dogs and doing Halloween dog parades and you name it?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's fabulous.
• 14:49
  SPEAKER_00: I am sorry I have the hiccups.
• 14:51
  SPEAKER_00: I ate too many of these little puffed corn cinnamon bun things I love, and they've given me the hiccups.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you one thing I'm not doing anymore.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not buying candy pretending it's Halloween candy.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: If I want candy, I'm I'm getting candy, right?
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: We don't need to make up excuses.
• 15:12
  SPEAKER_00: We're old enough to buy our own candy now.
• 15:15
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's talk about the next part of Halloween, Halloween after 60.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's where I really want to go with this.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: Why do we sometimes act as though the fun has an expiration date?
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about being too old for things, too old to dress up, too old to be silly.
• 15:30
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I'm not, and my friends all know it.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: I have Halloween shirts galore.
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: I have one that looks like a mommy, one that's a skeleton, I have my Disney um jersey that's got candy corn Disney letters on it.
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: I have let yesterday I went to um our Wednesday church service, which is put on by our youth choir, our kids, and it's a it's a church, it's a choir school, so they're very good.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: But I know every Wednesday before Halloween they dress up.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: And so I wore my bat headband and uh was part of the fun.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'm yeah, I may be 65, but guess what?
• 16:11
  SPEAKER_00: I can dress up too.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: We talk about being too old for things, and I just think that's ridiculous.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: Are we too old to dance?
• 16:18
  SPEAKER_00: Too old to go to a theme park?
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: I think not.
• 16:21
  SPEAKER_00: Too old to enjoy something that's supposed to be meant for children.
• 16:24
  SPEAKER_00: Disneyland was made for kids.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's full of adults every day.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: I love it.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: I guess I'm an adult that's never gonna grow up, and you know what?
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: I'm fine with that.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's not you, but I'm gonna ask you to find a small part of yourself to find some enjoyment in these seasons.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: I go to Disneyland and I don't need a grandchild to do it.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: I go because I love it.
• 16:50
  SPEAKER_00: Imagine that an adult doing something simply because it's fun.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: What a concept! And I think Halloween is a perfect example.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to dress up, dress up.
• 17:00
  SPEAKER_00: If you want to decorate, my house is decorated.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: Now you know I live in a condo on the 36th floor, so I don't have any outdoor decorations because they're not allowed.
• 17:09
  SPEAKER_00: But my inside looks like Halloween threw up all over the place.
• 17:14
  SPEAKER_00: And if your idea of celebrating is sitting home in comfortable clothes, watching a funny Halloween movie and eating chocolate, do it.
• 17:20
  SPEAKER_00: It sounds pretty good.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_00: There's no correct way to enjoy the holiday.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: Now I think here's an opportunity here.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: What if we had Halloween costume party, especially for people over 60?
• 17:34
  SPEAKER_00: What would we dress as?
• 17:36
  SPEAKER_00: I have a few ideas.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: How about a person that can't find their reading glasses?
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: That's a fantasy costume.
• 17:43
  SPEAKER_00: Or something whose phone battery lasts or somebody whose phone battery lasts all day.
• 17:47
  SPEAKER_00: There's a great costume, a mythical creature, I think.
• 17:51
  SPEAKER_00: Or somebody who understands every new television remote.
• 17:54
  SPEAKER_00: Now that would be an impressive costume.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: But seriously, I think we have an app we would have an absolute blast.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Although some of those fashions probably should remain in the past that we would wear.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of polyester in that.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_00: The best part of Halloween, here's what I I love most about Halloween.
• 18:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's a holiday that doesn't have to be serious.
• 18:20
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to have the perfect meal, expensive gifts, we don't have to travel across the country.
• 18:25
  SPEAKER_00: We don't have to create magical family memories.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: All the other holidays have so much attached to it.
• 18:33
  SPEAKER_00: Halloween doesn't.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: You can watch a movie, you can wear a silly headband that has a bat on it, you can give candy to children, you can keep your house dark and just sit inside and watch movies.
• 18:45
  SPEAKER_00: You can sit on your porch and enjoy the neighborhood and watch it go by.
• 18:48
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe remember what it felt like to be that kid running from house to house with that pillowcase full of candy.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_00: There's something really lovely about that.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_00: And there's absolutely no reason we have to give it up.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: So here's your my question of the week.
• 19:04
  SPEAKER_00: What's your favorite memory from Halloween memory from childhood?
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you feel like dropping me a line, go ahead and do that.
• 19:11
  SPEAKER_00: Marcy Bacchus Media at gmail.com.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'd love to hear from you.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: Here's a survival challenge for the week.
• 19:21
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to do just one thing because it's fun.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Not because it's healthy or productive, not because somebody expects you to do it, because you want to.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's putting on a costume or watching the great pumpkin Charlie Brown or eating your favorite candy.
• 19:41
  SPEAKER_00: Just do it.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_00: Before we go, let me tell you about my other two podcasts.
• 19:46
  SPEAKER_00: Inside Marcy's Mind this week, we're talking about the grocery store Olympics, shopping carts, self-checkout machines, and the strange behavior of perfectly normal people in a grocery store.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: And on in on and on unbottled, we're talking about the five o'clock witching hour, when old drinking habits come calling and how to build new routines and sobriety.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can find all three podcasts wherever you listen to this podcast.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_00: Well, that's it for this week's Aging A for Sissies.
• 20:18
  SPEAKER_00: And I hope I've convinced you of something.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Halloween isn't just for kids.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_00: Fun isn't just for kids.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: Being silly isn't just for kids.
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: And chocolate definitely is not for kids.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: So whether you're dressing up, handing out candy, watching a movie, or simply enjoying a quiet evening at home, I hope you have a wonderful Halloween.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: You're never too old to have fun.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: You're just old enough to buy your own candy.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Marcy, this has been aging me for Christmas.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Happy Halloween to everyone.