00:00Halloween's coming up. You guys ready?
00:02Ooh.
00:04Wow. Okay.
00:06Yeah. It's spooky season.
00:08It is spooky season, but a lot of Americans aren't feeling as festive as they usually do when it comes
00:13to costumes and stuff.
00:15I know, and that makes me a little sad.
00:16I was walking the dock this weekend, and I noticed that there are a couple houses that have littles that
00:21are all decked out.
00:23But I feel like a lot of the houses in my neighborhood that do decorate for Halloween haven't this year.
00:29And I don't know if they haven't yet, or if they're kind of feeling this lull that the rest of
00:35America seems to be feeling.
00:36A new survey shows only 76% of Americans, or up to 76% of Americans, say that they don't
00:43plan to dress up at all for Halloween this year.
00:4676%!
00:48I don't like it.
00:49I don't like it either.
00:50I usually, Leonard and I always dress up because our kids dress up.
00:54And we love Halloween.
00:56So while we don't decorate our house, we always decorate ourselves.
00:59Right.
01:01That makes a difference.
01:02I mean, dressing up yourself, most people will decorate their house and not decorate themselves.
01:06I think that's next mile.
01:08We just opened up all of our old costumes, and we're rifling through, like we're going to sell some online
01:15or donate some or whatever.
01:16Like adult costumes, mind you.
01:17Okay.
01:18But our daughter McKinley has told us seven different things she wants us to be with her.
01:23So we're trying to play catch up.
01:25I was a pumpkin, then I was a ghost, then I was Kristoff, then I was a million other things.
01:28So we're trying to get her to land on something.
01:31Well, this is a whole thing when it comes to kids, too, Jeff, just that they will change their mind
01:3614,000 times leading up to Halloween.
01:38So you make sure Emily does not buy the costumes too early.
01:43Right.
01:43It's got to be like almost the week before.
01:45Well, she wants to be a witch now, which I'm like, you don't even know any witches, but okay.
01:50Okay.
01:50So Emily bought her a leotard because she's in dance class that's black.
01:55Perfect.
01:55With like a tutu.
01:56And she's like, I already have a hat, so if anything, this will work for dance class.
02:03I'm like, smart, Emily.
02:04Yeah.
02:05Very smart.
02:06No, she's good.
02:07We'll play use.
02:07She's good.
02:08She's smart.
02:08I love her.
02:09And then once the kids get to be teenagers, everything turns into a zombie.
02:13Like, I remember Tori went through the phase of, I want to be this, I want to be that,
02:17and then we finally get her a costume, and she's like, oh, no, I really wanted to be a zombie.
02:21And I was like, well, now you can be a zombie police officer because when we were at the Halloween
02:26store,
02:27you wanted to be a police officer, and you loved that cute little costume.
02:30But one of the other trends that's going away is the sexy costume.
02:35Really?
02:35Yeah.
02:36Why?
02:37I know.
02:37Donnie's really upset about that.
02:38Come on.
02:39Yeah, people are saying that if they dress up, they just don't feel the need to show
02:43the skin, and, you know, they just want it, like, they want it to either be funny or scary
02:49and not sexy.
02:52Donnie is not too pleased.
02:54Yeah, why, man?
02:55Come on.
02:55I know.
02:56You have to be careful when, maybe I shouldn't have even brought that up in this climate.
03:01Yeah, no.
03:02Ban this.
03:03Right, exactly.
03:04Exactly.
03:05Donnie, what are you, I'm shocked you didn't go this far, though.
03:07I mean, I thought you were going to say something along the lines of every costume that you
03:11wear, Donnie, is sexy.
03:12No, some have not been.
03:14My parents, for some reason, they had to have wanted a girl, because my brother and I were
03:21dressed as females a lot when we were younger.
03:23I was dressed as a bride.
03:25No.
03:25I swear.
03:26I got somebody's communion, like a girl's communion dress.
03:29No way.
03:29I dressed up as a bride, and my brother dressed up as a cheerleader one year.
03:33Oh, my gosh.
03:33Our parents definitely wanted daughters.
03:35I love that.
03:36If I find a picture, I will try to find a picture of me as a bride.
03:40It actually explains a lot.
03:41Yes, it does.
03:42Yes, it does.
03:43My mom hated Halloween when I was growing up, so I remember first grade, we got to dress
03:48up and go to school, and we got to parade around, and the teachers gave us candy, and
03:53I dressed as Betsy Ross.
03:56Oh, my gosh.
03:57There are no first graders that know who Betsy Ross is.
04:00No, no.
04:00I wore literally my grandmother's wig.
04:03My grandmother was like an old Stati Baba with a wig, and a knitted crochet shawl that
04:11she had.
04:12And you brought a rocking chair with you to school, right?
04:14I know, right?
04:14So you could just be there with your knitting needles.
04:16And I carried a little flag, and I would have to explain to people that I was Betsy Ross,
04:20and that I was actually dressed in my grandmother's clothes, because she was very small, and I
04:25was still not.
04:25I was always very tall, even in first grade, and who Betsy Ross was.
04:29So it was like a learning experience, which was not fun for me or my friends.
04:33You're like, it's a history.
04:34It's like career day.
04:35Yeah.
04:36And everyone's like, and who are you?
04:38Well, in 1721, you know, like.
04:42My best friend was Strawberry Shortcake.
04:43How cute is that?
04:44That's adorable.
04:45That's adorable.
04:46And I'm Betsy Ross.
04:50I'm Betsy Ross.
